3 CPI (Maoist) Cadres Taken Into Police Custody In Mulugu District

Bhadradri Kothagudem District, August 2, 2024: Bhadradri Kothagudem district police have arrested three cadres of the CPI (Maoist) on Wednesday during a combing operation in the Damarathogu forest area of Gundala mandal in Telangana’s Mulugu district. A Maoist sympathizer has also been arrested, a police official announced to the press today.

The police official declared that the four persons were arrested during an ongoing combing operation in the forest area to capture the Maoists who escaped from the Damarathogu “exchange of fire” on July 25 of this year.

The police official stated that the arrested Maoists have been identified as Pottam Raju alias Joga, 25, an Area Committee member of the Maoist party, and Pandu alias Ramesh, 25, a Maoist dalam member, both based in south Bastar division of Chhattisgarh state, Punem Chukki alias Teja, 27, a dalam member of the CPI (Maoist) Eturunagaram-Mahadevpur area committee, and Maoist sympathizer S. Mukesh of Damarathogu village.

The police official added that an INSAS rifle with 29 live rounds, 12 rounds of .303 rifle ammunition, olive green uniforms, an axe and Maoist literature were seized from the detained Maoists.

Source : https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/three-maoists-one-sympathiser-arrested-insas-rifle-ammunition-seized/article68473992.ece