Alleged CPI (Maoist) Cadre Arrested By Police In Bhadradri Kothagudem District

Bhadradri Kothagudem District, November 14, 2024: A woman from Chhattisgarh whom police claim is a cadre of the CPI (Maoist) was arrested by the Dummugudem police during a joint vehicle-check operation at Seethanagaram in Dummugudem mandal of Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district on Wednesday evening, a police official announced to the press today.

The police have identified the detained woman as Nande alias Sammakka (40), a native of Basaguda in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, the police official remarked.

The police official alleged that Nande worked as a dalam member of a CPI (Maoist)-affiliated women’s organization called KAMS from 2002 to 2018 before getting promoted as an area committee member of the Maoist party in the Pamed area of Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar region in 2018.

She had purportedly been organizing the activities of the Maoist party in the remote tribal areas of Pamed along with other dalam members since then, the police official stated.

The police official said that a case under the Telangana Public Security Act and the relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered against Nande, adding that a further investigation is under way.

Source : https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/maoist-from-chhattisgarh-arrested-from-telanganas-dummugudem-mandal/article68868161.ece