The attack was befitting reply to the recently launched ‘Operation Kagaar-Surya Shakti’ by the Brahmanical Hindutva fascist rulers to eradicate the Maoist movement and to the ongoing onslaught on adivasis, said Pratap
Superintendent of Police Rakesh Ranjan said a 'sub-zonal commander' was among the five people belonging to Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee, a splinter group, arrested from the Tandwa police station area on Saturday evening.
The incident occurred around 11 am in Aamdai Ghati iron ore mine area under Chhote Dongar police station limits when the security personnel were out on an area domination operation, a senior police official said.
The Maoists have planted the landmine on Bestha Kothur and Chinna Midiseleru main road in the mandal to disrupt the Assembly elections in the district.
Kerala Police teams had launched a combing operation in the area based on intelligence inputs received from a Maoist sympathiser apprehended earlier in the day in neighbouring Kozhikode district.
The arrested individuals have been identified as Durishetti Sailu (57), Bommana Kumar (32), Merugu Swamy, (50) Nimmrajula Shankar (55), and Mudu Shiva Kumar (25). All of them hail from Palakurthy Mandal in Peddapalli district.
A former BSF jawan was shot dead by suspected Maoists in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on the suspicion of being a police informer, an officer said on Friday
The clash between the two groups of the outlawed Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad broke out on Friday evening at Hutai village under the Lesliganj Police Station limits, around 160-km from capital Ranchi.