Sukma: According to police on Tuesday, security forces in the Sukma district of Bastar have arrested 19 Maoists in separate operations.
Sukma police said that five Maoists were arrested from the Bhejji police station area, which is under the Konta area committee of the CPI (Maoist), and fourteen Maoists were arrested from the Jagargunda police station area. Three gelatin rods, 300 grams of gunpowder, cordex wire, detonators, electric wire, and batteries were also taken from the 14 Maoists by security personnel.
“Joint teams of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), 219th and 150th battalions of the Central Reserve Police Force, and 201st battalion of CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action, an elite unit of CRPF) were out for anti-naxal operations in various parts of the district on Tuesday and arrested these Maoists from different places,” the statement said.
“Of the 14 men, aged between 18 to 40 years, held in Jagargunda, three carried a bounty of ₹1 lakh each. The trio included Barse Hadma (25), a militia commander, and Barse Nagesh (20) and Hemla Jitu (18), who were working with CNM (Chetna Natya Mandli, a frontal wing of Maoists),” the statement added.
The five Maoists arrested from Bhejji were allegedly involved in the killing of a villager in Bhandarpadar in September and the killing of an electrician who was laying power transmission lines in the same village in February this year.
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