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Rockets, mines found in Maoist dumps

Staff Reporter

Powerful rockets could have been used as missiles, says SP

ANANTAPUR: The district police have unearthed two dumps in the Bukkapatnam and Nallamala forest areas and recovered large quantity of explosives and other material.

Giving details to newspersons here on Tuesday, Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar Jain said the dumps contained two rockets, four claymore mines, 10 empty boxes of mines, 90 gelatine sticks, 10 tin bombs, three Bunsen burners, eight torch lights, 70 battery cells, two walkie-talkie chargers, 15 kg of splinters used in mines, gun powder, 60 steel boxes used for making tin bombs, five table watches, two remote calling bells, 65 hacksaw blades and sharpeners, cable and other material.

Naxal surrenders

A member of Ramagiri dalam K. Venkaiah alias Raghavendra (26) of Papireddypalli village in Ramagiri mandal also surrendered before the SP. He was allegedly involved in two murders and a couple of others. He had joined the dalam to settle a land dispute but had come out as the dalam failed to resolve the dispute, the SP stated.

The SP claimed the recovery of massive dumps as significant as the rockets found in one of the dumps were very powerful and could have been used as missiles too for massive destruction. Taking a dig at the CPI (Maoist) activities in the district, the SP said there was no control and coordination between different functionaries of the outfit.

The murder of a STD booth operator in Amidyala village last week had exposed the differences in the outfit as three functionaries had different claims on the dead that he was a police informer, involved in sale of illicit arrack and was working against the party. The SP stated that the police did not need to maintain informers, as the victims of Maoists would give information voluntarily.

He observed that Maoist dalams in the district were filled with disgruntled members who were giving information to the police. If the Maoists became police informers by contacting the police once, then there was a serious ideological problem in the outfit. In such an event, they should abandon the activities of the outfit, Mr. Jain suggested.

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