A 19-year-old woman Naxalite, wanted in connection with a gun battle with security forces, was arrested from a forested patch along the Bijapur-Sukma border in Chhattisgarh, police said on Tuesday.
Padam Pisu, a Jan Militia member of Maoists, was apprehended near Mandimarka village in Sukma district when a joint team of security forces was on an anti-Naxalite operation from Basaguda in Bijapur on Monday, a police press release said.
Personnel from the Special Task Force (STF) and District Force were involved in the operation.
Pisu was wanted in connection with a gunfight between security forces and Maoists on February 27, 2020, the release said.