The district police claimed to have apprehended 48-year-old A. Narayana Swamy alias Madhu, State committee member of the CPI (ML New Democracy-I), during a combing operation by a police team at a hillock surrounding Gorrebanda Thanda, a tribal hamlet under the Komararam police station limits in Yellandu mandal, late on Wednesday afternoon.
A police team nabbed Madhu after a brief chase during a search operation near the tribal hamlet and seized a firearm, 15 rounds of live ammunition, three kit bags, ₹ 15,100 cash and party literature, police said. Four accomplices of Madhu, the leader of an “underground armed squad” associated with the outfit, have managed to flee, sources added.Police said Madhu was allegedly involved in as many as 23 cases including offences such as extortions and several incidents of exchange of fire with police under various police station limits in the undivided Khammam district during his underground life spanning nearly three decades.
After his arrest in July last year, he worked overground for about six months before going underground again with a specific task of strengthening underground squads in Yellandu, Palvancha and Pakhala-Kothagudem areas, police added.
Incidentally, Madhu’s wife A. Padma had filed a habeas corpus petition in the High Court in Hyderabad on Wednesday. claiming that the police had picked him up near LB Nagar in Hyderabad.
Published - July 05, 2018 11:22 pm IST
