Top Maoist leader Kalidas, alias Sekhar Raja, was arrested from the Moolakombu tribal settlement on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border at Pudur, near Attappady, here on Thursday noon.
Kalidas, 44, who has been working underground for the past several years across southern India, was facing criminal cases in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. He hails from Pannaiyapuram, near Paramakudi, in Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu.
The police claimed that he belonged to the Bhavani dalam of the Maoist outfit working in and around the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve comprising the hill districts of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka.
Top police officers are interrogating him at the Agali police station.
10 cases
While he faces about ten cases in Kerala, Kalidas faces charges under the Arms Act in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu.
While police officers did not reveal details of the arrest, residents of the Moolakombu settlement told the media that four suspected Maoists reached their settlement on Wednesday evening and left Kalidas, who was unable to walk because of injuries on leg, there to facilitate his surrender. He was arrested after they informed the police.
