NIA team in Koraput, to question Arun about the 2012 Maoist ambush
NIA team in Koraput, to question Arun about the 2012 Maoist ambush
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Koraput: In February 2012, a two-member team from the National Investigating Agency (NIA) arrived in Malkangiri's Balimela to question top Maoist leader Dubasi Sankar alias Arun in connection with the killing of four Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including a commandant, in an ambush by ultras near Malkangiri's Balimela.
On September 14, Arun, a member of the Andhra-Odisha Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBSZC), was apprehended in Petaguda forest in Koraput's Boipariguda.
According to sources, the NIA team has asked the Jeypore SDJM court for permission to question Arun. He is currently imprisoned at Koraput Central.
He was a native of Muttarasi Chetla village in Telangana's Medak district, and he had a bounty of Rs 20 lakh on his head. He was allegedly engaged in the 2009 Damanjodi incident, which killed nine CISF jawans, as well as a bomb blast in Govindapalli in 2010, which killed eleven Odisha police officers. Arun was also suspected of being involved in the Maoist attack in 2012.
