Maoist commander held in Kondagaon district of Chhattisgarh

A Maoist deputy commander was arrested from Kondagaon district of Chhattisgarh, the police said here today.
The Maoist cadre was nabbed by a local police team from the forest of Mardapal police station limits last night, Kondagaon Additional Superintendent of Police Surjit Atri told PTI.
During a combing operation in the Mardapal region, located around 300 kms away from the Chhattisgarh state capital Raipur, security personnel received a tip-off about the movement of a hardcore Maoist rebel near Hadeli and Nelwad forests.
After reaching the spot, security forces rounded him up, the ASP said.
The arrested Maoist was identified as Mandu alias Malesh, a member of the Hadeli Janmilitia group and a former deputy commander of Hadeli Local Operations Squad of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), he said.

He was involved in various incidents of crime, including attacks on police parties, looting of ballot boxes during panchayat polls, destruction of schools, murder and others, the ASP said.
Mandu was produced before a local Bastar court, which sent him to Jagdalpur Central Jail on judicial remand, the ASP said.
He is being interrogated, the ASP said.