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The Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations (OCTOPUS) and constabulary unit arrested 51 Maoists successful respective districts of Andhra Pradesh connected Tuesday.
This is said to beryllium the archetypal specified large arrests from the municipality areas successful 1 azygous day.
The arrests were made during hunt operations connected the Maoist hideouts successful the districts of Krishna, Eluru, NTR, Kakinada, and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema.
The constabulary arrested 28 Maoists successful Krishna, 15 successful Eluru, 5 successful NTR, 2 successful Kakinada, and 1 successful Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema.
The OCTOPUS teams besides seized immense cache of ammunition, currency and different worldly from the arrested Maoists. “Search is connected for those who escaped,” said the police.
“We person kept a ticker connected the Maoist movements successful Andhra Pradesh. On accusation that apical leaders are entering the State, the constabulary teams cracked down connected the Maoists, successful which six were killed and much than 50 arrested,” said Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Mahesh Chandra Laddha.
“Due to continuous operations successful Chhattisgarh and different States, and successful the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) region, Maoists are trying to displacement their hideouts to cities and municipality areas. We person seized immoderate weapons from the arrested Maoists. Search is connected to find Maoist dumps,” Mr. Laddha told The Hindu.
Krishna territory Superintendent of Police V. Vidya Sagar Naidu addressing the media aft the apprehension of Maoists astatine New Auto Nagar connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI
Krishna territory Superintendent of Police V. Vidya Sagar Naidu said that 28 Maoists, including 21 women, were arrested successful a backstage location successful Penamaluru mandal.
“The arrested see nine-member information unit of CPI (Maoist) wide caput Thippiri Tirupati and Hidma’s dalam members,” the SP said.
Eluru territory SP K. Pratap Shiva Kishore said 15 Maoists hiding successful a backstage gathering successful Green City connected the outskirts of Eluru were arrested successful the aboriginal hours.
“We haven been observing their movements for the past fewer days and arrested 4 women Maoists and 11 members of the Hidma dalam,” Mr. Pratap Shiva Kishore said.
