Four Maoists held in Chhattisgarh

RAIPUR - Four Maoists were Tuesday held from the forests of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, police said.

A police contingent stormed the forested Mohlagaon village in Kanker district, some 220 km south from here, and picked up four Maoists who were busy in a meeting, Inspector General of Police (Bastar) T.J. Longkumer told IANS over phone from Jagdalpur, headquarters of Bastar region.

He said that the four were involved in the recent killings of four civilians in Kanker, included the murder of a village head, after they were accused of being police spies.

Longkumer said two guns and some documents were recovered from the Maoists.

Chhattisgarh has become the nerve centre of Maoists in recent years and in the past three years the state has witnessed 1,948 attacks by the rebels in which 418 civilians and 435 policemen, including 75 Special Police Officers, were killed.