CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member Sahadev Soren, carrying a Rs 1 crore bounty, was killed in Jharkhand along with two associates. His death comes five days after fellow CCM Modem Balakrishna was eliminated in Chhattisgarh, further depleting the Maoist top brass.
Aruna was the wife of slain Maoist Chalapathi, who played a key role in the bomb attack on AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in Alipiri forests in 2003
The arrested were identified as Varanasi Subramanyam aka Srikanth alias Aman alias Vimal, a former Central Committee member, and his wife Vijayalaxmi alias Sridhara, a district committee member of CPI (Maoist)