IED event in Chhattisgarh, Mandanar village in Kanker District area, India on Tue 7th February 2023

Two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, identified as Bhima Podiyam and Hirdesh Kumeti, carrying a collective reward of INR 1 million on their heads, were arrested from forest of Mandanar village in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh on February 7, reports The Pioneer. Kanker, Superintendent of Police (SP), Shalabh Sinha said, Podiyam, who carried a bounty of INR 800,000, was the ÔcommanderÕ of Platoon 17 of the Kiskoda Area Committee, while, Kumeti was a member in the same platoon, carrying a reward of INR 200,000 on his head. The Police seized a walkie-talkie, a 5 kilograms Improvised Explosive Device (IED) bomb, an axe, Maoist literature and pamphlets from them.