Police seize booby traps from Maoist militia members
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A day after a joint group of the police and the CRPF personnel seized booby traps from three alleged Maoist militia members in Charla mandal, the police have scaled up anti-Maoist operations within the inside tribal pockets of Bhadrachalam Agency to chase away bother in the course of the CPI (Maoist)’s People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Week slated to start on December 2.
The Charla police claimed to have arrested three “Maoist militia members” — Bheemaraju alias Rakesh of Kistarampadu and Sunnam Nageswara Rao alias Muttaiah and Pentaiah of Battinapalli village — whereas checking autos on the Charla-Pedamidisileru highway on Sunday night.
Six booby traps and wall posters associated to the PLGA week had been seized from them, in keeping with police sources.
Police stated the three Maoist militia members had been nabbed after a quick chase in the course of the car checking drive. They had been allegedly attempting to plant booby traps concentrating on police when caught.
They had been needed in reference to two separate incidents — blasting BT highway at Pedamidisileru and planting of three stress activated mines at Kaliveru in October this yr, police added.
The trio belongs to 2 inside villages — Battinapalli and Kistarampadu — within the Agency mandal bordering Chhattisgarh.
As many as 33 “militia and village committee members” of the outlawed outfit hailing from the 2 distant villages surrendered earlier than the district police in Kothagudem per week in the past.
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