A hardcore Naxal wanted in connection with firing on a police team was arrested from his home in the limits of Mardapal police station of Maoist stronghold Kondagaon district, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
A search operation for the insurgent was underway for the past 4 years and a permanent warrant was pending against him with Mardapal police station, Superintendent of Police Kondagaon Abhishek Meena informed. The arrested Naxal was identified as Jugdhar (45) resident of Patelpara, lakhapuri under Mardapal police station limits, he said.
Police had intelligence inputs that Jugdhar had reached his home. Accordingly, a police team raided his house and arrested him, SP said adding he was a member of Padeli Janmilitia, one of the offshoots of banned organisation— Communist Party of India (Maoists). In 2012, Jugdhar was involved in attack on police party at Dhoriguda hills between lakhapuri and Nahkanar. He was presented in a local court that sent him to Central Jail Jagdalpur on judicial remand, SP informed. Notably, on July 14 police had arrested two hardcore Naxals including a female cadre from separate places in the district.