India News | Naxal Commander Carrying Reward of Rs 1 Lakh Held in Sukma
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The Naxalite was allegedly involved in a number of crimes, including IED blast, murder, ambush to security personnel, encounter, murder of a sarpanch by branding him as a police informer, and other incidents, the official said
Sukma (Chhattisgarh) [India], June 6 (ANI): A joint team of security personnel has arrested a Naxalite, who had Rs 1 lakh bounty on his head, from insurgency-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on Monday, an official said.
A tiffin bomb, four detonators, four gelatin rods and other articles were also recovered from the ultra.
A joint team of police and CoBRA, an elite force of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), carrkied out the anti-naxal operations yesterday and intercepted the accused identified as Sodi Dewa alias Sunil, the official said.
Dewa was active in the banned organisation as militia platoon commander-in-chief of Surpanguda RPC, he said.
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The arrested Naxal was carrying a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, the official informed.
The Naxalite was allegedly involved in a number of crimes, including IED blast, murder, ambush to security personnel, encounter, murder of a sarpanch by branding him as a police informer, and other incidents, the official said.
He was active as a Naxal's LOS member between 2012 and 2018, militia member (2018-19), militia commander (2019-21) and militia commander-in-chief since 2021, the official said. (ANI)
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