Malkangiri: A Maoist with a bounty of Rs 2 lakh on her head was arrested in Odisha’s Malkangiri district Friday, police said.
Anti Madvi alias Lakey (29), a member of the Uday Protection Team, was wanted in a number of criminal cases, they said.
She is a native of Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, they added.
She was apprehended in the Kurti jungle in the MV-79 police station area, said DIG (South-Western Range) Niti Shekhar.
She was involved in nine incidents of gunfight with security forces in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh between 2018 and 2021, Shekhar said.
PTI