A Naxal, who was carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, was today killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said.
The skirmish occurred in the forests of Gondiguda village under Golapalli police station limits between a joint team of security forces and rebels, Inspector General of Police Bastar Range SRP Kalluri told PTI.
A composite squad of Special Task Force (STF) and District Reserve Group (DRG), around 200 in number, led by Sukma Superintendent of Police D Shravan had launched an anti-Naxal operation to the interiors of Golapalli, located around 500 kms away from here, based on specific inputs about the movement of ultras, he said.
While they were cordoning off Gondiguda forest, a gun-fight broke out between security forces and the ultras.
However, Naxal soon fled to the deep forests on finding security forces zeroing on them, the official added.
Later during search, dead body of a cadre clad in 'uniform' besides two muzzle loading guns, couple of detonators, pitthu (bags), Insas rifle rounds and Naxal literature were recovered from the spot, the IG said.
The killed Maoist Madkam Rajulu, a native of Singaram village was active as the head of Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangthan (DAKMS)- a frontal outfit of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), he said.
According to the officer, he was also serving as Jan Militia section commander of Singaram Jantana Sarkar.
He was allegedly involved in several incidents of violence including an attack on police party in Maraiguda police station area in which a CRPF jawan was killed last year, Kalluri added.
In a separate incident, four 'suspected Maoists', including a woman, were arrested from Gadiras police station area of Sukma.
While carrying out a combing exercise, a joint team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and district force rounded up four suspects at Dhruwaras village who later admitted to their involvement with the outlawed movement, a police official said.
