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NIA probe in Maoist case: 31 locations in Telangana, Andhra searched Last Updated : 01 Apr 2021 11:53:49 PM IST The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out searches at 31 locations in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, including the premises of Advocate V Raghunath, K Padma and KS Chalam and several civil and tribal right activists in connection with its probe into the Munchingput maoist case and recovered cash to the tune of Rs 10 lakh and several other incriminating documents.
An NIA official related top probe told IANS, "The agency sleuths carried out searches at the premises of Raghunath, Padma, Chalam, revolutionary singer Dappu Ramesh, Pragatishil Women Organisation President Rajeshwari, premises of arrested accused Annapurna and Srinivasan."The official said that the agency sleuths also carried out searches at the premises of Civil Liberties Committee, Revolutionary Writers Association and PragatishilThe NIA team seized 40 mobile phones, 44 SIM cards, 70 storage devices like hard discs, micro SD cards and flash cards, 184 CDs or DVDs, 19 pen drives, tab, audio recorder, Rs 10 lakh in cash from one accused, sickles, axe, machetes besides CPI (Maoist) flags, as well as huge number of incriminating documents, handwritten letters of CPI(Maoist) party literature, CPI (Maoist) press notes etc, an NIA spokesperson here said.The searches were spread across eight districts of Andhra Pradesh -- Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Prakasam, Srikakulam, Kurnool, Krishna, East Godavari and Kadapa and four districts of Telangana -- Ranga Reddy, Hyderabad, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Medak.The case relates to furthering the activities of the proscribed organisation, CPI (Maoist) in Andhra Pradesh in the guise of frontal organisations. So far six people have been arrested in the case.The official said that the case was originally registered on November 23 last year by Visakhapatnam Police and was re-registered by NIA on March 7 this year.The NIA has named 64 people in the case. The prominent activists named in the NIA First Information Report are - Chilika Chandrasekhar, VS Krishna, Human Rights Forum (HRF) coordinator for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh - who have been speaking against Andhra's anti-Naxal force - the Greyhounds - for allegedly raping 11 tribal women in 2007 in the Vakapalli incident; and Duddu Prabhakar.The case pertains to seizure of revolutionary literature of CPI (Maoist) and explosives substances from accused Pangi Naganna, who worked as a journalist. Naganna was intercepted by Munchingput Police in Visakhapatnam Rural during vehicle checking.During probe it was revealed that Naganna was passing information about the police movements to the leaders of CPI (Maoist) and has also been involved in instigating the villagers to obstruct combing operations of police and prevent them from entering into the villages, besides motivating the villagers to revolt against the police parties and hold rallies against the government.The official said that besides Naganna five more persons have been arrested in the case. The NIA has arrested Anduluri Annapurna, Jangarla Koteswar Rao, Manukonda Srinivasa Rao, Rela Rajeswari and Boppudi Anjamma.This is NIA's second FIR against activists after the Bhima-Koregaon probe, in which several activists like have already been arrested for allegedly being part of Maoists' frontal networks to increase their influence.IANS New Delhi For Latest Updates Please-
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