District Voluntary Force (DVF), a special constabulary unit of the Odisha Police, on Thursday arrested an Area Committee Member of the banned Maoist outfit during an exchange of fire with the red rebels, and seized a cache of arms and ammunition, including a sophisticated AK-47 rifle.
The raid was part of an investigation into anti-national activities carried out by a Maoist group led by Sanjay Deepak Rao in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
He has been on the run since 2012 after masterminding an ambush, where 4 BSF personnel died in the State more than a decade back.
Ramanna was instrumental in several killings and attacks on security forces, including the 2010 Tadmetla massacre that claimed lives of 76 troopers, police said.
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