The Special Operations Group (SOG) and the Thunderbolt Squad of the Kerala Police arrested two cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Chandru and Unnimaya, following an encounter between the extremists and Security Forces (SFs) during combing operations in rural Kozhikode and the Periya Forest region in Wayanad District of Kerala on November 7, reports The Hindu. The arrestees were part of a group of Maoists that was collecting food from a house that belonged to a taxi driver. The SOG and the Thunderbolt had followed the Maoists to the house based on intelligence inputs from Thambi aka Anish Babu, a Maoist sympathizer who was earlier arrested from Koyilandy in Kozhikode. The two groups exchanged fire, and one of the two Maoists who escaped is suspected to have sustained injuries in the firing. The squad also confiscated two AK-47 rifles. The arrested Maoists are suspected to be part of Kabani Dalam (armed squad), a Maoist unit that functions in Wayanad and Kannur districts.