Sukma: In a major success for the Chhattisgarh Police in the anti-Naxal operations, the police on Friday arrested two top Naxalite leaders carrying Rs 2 lakh bounty on their heads, officials said. Police also recovered explosive material from the arrested Naxalites. SDPO Tomesh Verma said that the police had received inputs about the making of explosive material by Naxalites in the Kukanar forest after which a search operation was launched in the area.
Following the inputs, a joint party of District Force and DRG from Kukanar police station started searching the woods and hills of Kanvadpara and Pedapara area of Kunna border villages of Sukma and Dantewada, the police officer said. As the search operation was going on, some suspicious persons started trying to hide after seeing the police, SDPO said adding the jawans saw them and laid siege to the house where they hid and apprehended two suspicious persons.
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