District superintendent of police Baburam said acting on a tip-off police raided Kataiya village and caught two of them from a house.
With information provided by them another Maoist was arrested from Nimidih village, he said abd added that police seized two local made pistol and 315 bore six cartridges from the three.
Baburam said the arrested were involved in collection of 'levy' from businessmen by terrorising them and police was looking for them in connection with several cases.