Nine cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were arrested from separate places in Bijapur District in the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh on June 21, reports indiatvnews.com. Five of them were arrested from the forest near the Pusbaka village under Basaguda Police Station limits during an anti-Maoist operation, an official said. “Among them, Raju Oyam, who carried a reward of Rs 1 lakh [INR 100,000] on his head, was a member of the Usur Local Organisation Squad (LOS) of the outlawed Maoist outfit, while Bhima Madvi was vice president of Gaganpalli RPC (Revolutionary Party Committee) Jantana Sarkar (the people's government of the Maoists),” the official said, adding that the other three were lower-rung cadres. A cache of explosives, a `tiffin' bomb, a battery, spikes, splinters, gelatin sticks, cordex, and electric wires, as well as anti-government Maoist pamphlets, were recovered from their possession. Three more lower-rung cadres were arrested from Usur and one person from Tarrem Police Station limits, the official said. The Maoists held from Tarrem were involved in an incident of firing on a police team at a newly set up security camp, he added.