While the police continued combing operations in search of three of the five alleged members of the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist) who had escaped after an encounter with the police in the Chapparam tribal settlement at Periya in Wayanad on Tuesday night, a team of senior police officers visited the hamlet on Friday.
A three-member team comprising K. Sethuraman, Inspector General of police, North zone; Putta Vimaladithya, Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Anti-Terrorist Squad; and Thomsun Jose, DIG, Kannur Range, visited the site and assessed the situation.
Two of the five armed militants — Chandru and Unnimaya (two top cadres of the Bansura Dalam of the party) — were arrested on Tuesday. The police confiscated four arms from them including an AK47, an Indian small arms system, and two country-made guns.
