After arresting two suspected activists of the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist) following a gunbattle at Periya in Wayanad on Tuesday night, the Thunderbolt squad and the Special Operations Group (SOG) have widened the dragnet in their search for two women who escaped after the encounter and also for others operating in the tri-junction of the three States of Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.
Additional Director General of Police M.R. Ajith Kumar (Law and Order) said on Wednesday that the elite forces zeroed in on four suspected CPI(Maoist) activists, including three women, at Periya on Tuesday night as part of an ongoing routine exercise.
At least three groups were operating in the region and they had been regularly visiting tribal colonies in Palakkad, Kannur, Wayanad, and Kozhikode districts, he said.
