4 Maoist couriers arrested

Kothagudem: Charla police have arrested four Maoist couriers and recovered explosives and other items from their possession. During vehicle checking at R Kothagudem crossroads of Charla mandal, the police came across four persons moving suspiciously. They were taken into custody, SP Sunil Dutt informed at a press conference in Kothagudem on Friday. 

The arrested persons were identified as Telangana Youth Forum (TYF) Mahabubabad district unit president, Bhukya Srinivas, TYF Nalgonda vice president, Siripangi Sanjeeva, former member of CPIML New Democracy (CP Bata) and  Janashakthi Macharla  Ganapathi and former member of CP Bata, Chennuri  Harish.

During questioning they confessed that they were working as couriers for the Maoist leaders Haribushan, Damodar, Azad, Sujatha, Sarada, Lachanna and Venkanna.s They were doing so under the guidance of Telangana Youth Forum  State president Panikera Mohan Raju and its general secretary PanduRanga Reddy and  Telangana Praja Front  State secretary Menchu Ramesh, the SP said.

The arrested persons revealed that Mohan Raju, Ranga Reddy and Ramesh have met them at  Khammam and told them to hand over gelatine sticks, silk wire and spectacles to the Maoist leaders.

The police further found that Ganapathi and Harish were prepared to join the Maoists while Srinivas facilitated a youth from Odithala village of Chityal mandal in Jayashanker Bhupalapally district, Bixapathi to join the CPI Maoist party this month.

50 gelatine sticks, four bundles of silk wire, 27 pairs of spectacles frames, eye testing kit and glasses, three cell phones and one motor bike seized from the arrested persons, Sunil Dutt revealed.