Expert naxalite arrested in bomb plant, search party nabbed

Bijapur. On Monday, the police arrested 2 Naxalites who planted an IED with the intention of attacking the police team and were involved in the kidnapping of a villager. Both the arrested Naxalites have been sent to jail.

According to the information, the team of District Headquarters DRG and Thana Bijapur had gone on an anti-Maoist campaign on Monday. This team had left for Gorna, Mankeli, Peddakorma. During the operation the team caught 2 Maoists involved in Maoist crime between Kokra and Thana Bijapur. Maoist Sannu Korsa has been the president of the Janatana government and Naxalite Raju Korsa has been a member of the militia platoon. On October 11, 2019, both were involved in the incident of abducting a Kokra villager and assaulting him accusing him of being a police informer in Bijapur police station area. Apart from this, on 9 June 2022, he was also involved in the incident of IED plant and explosion on the police party engaged in the security of Gorna-Mankeli road construction. Two permanent warrants against Sannu Korsa and one against Raju Korsa are pending in Police Station Bijapur. Action was taken against both the arrested Maoists at Police Station Bijapur and presented in Bijapur Court, from where they were sent to jail.