Two cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Mannu alias Motu Barsa (24) and Sitaram Oyam (20) were arrested from the Barsoor Police Station area in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh on March 31, reports The Pioneer. Acting on a tip about their movement on the Saatdhar-Mangnar road in Barsoor, the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and local Police launched an operation at 3 a.m., Dantewada, Superintendent of Police (SP), Abhishek Pallava said. “The team spotted the two ultras when they were allegedly digging a road to plant explosives to target security forces and arrested them. Two IEDs, each weighing 2 kg, wire, batteries and an axe were recovered from them,” he said. Barsa was the head of Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangathan (DAKMS) in his Jhilli village in Bijapur District and carried a reward of INR 100,000 on his head, Pallava said. Oyam was a member of the same outfit.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and District Reserve Guard (DRG) arrested two cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Vetti Hunga (30) and Kunjam Hadma (29) from the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border area in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh on March 30, reports The Pioneer. Hunga, who had earlier worked in the Maoist military battalion, was currently active as a teacher in a Maoist ‘Janatana school’, meant to indoctrinate children in their ideology, in a village in Chintalnar area, and was also allegedly involved in killing a civilian in 2015 in Chintalnar. Hadma, a militia platoon member, was wanted for two attacks on Security Forces, one each in 2016 and 2017.