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In a major breakthrough against Naxal insurgency, Chaibasa Police and the CRPF's elite 209 Cobra Battalion apprehended two senior CPI (Maoist) members during a high-intensity operation in the Saranda forest on Monday.
The arrested have been identified as Sandeep alias Hidima Padayam, a Sub-Zonal Committee member from Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, and Shiva Bodra, an Area Committee member from Jharkhand's Saraikela district.
According to officials, police received credible intelligence on August 30 that senior Maoist leaders and their cadres were planning large-scale violence in the region, including planting landmines, targeting secur...