Two alleged Maoist couriers were arrested and medicines, electronic gadgets, including mobile phones, besides materials used in the manufacture of weapons were seized from them in Charla mandal in the district, the police said.
The arrests were made by the Charla police on Saturday evening during a search operation at the remote Kaliveru village in Charla mandal of Bhadrachalam division, which shares a long border with the restive Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
The arrested were identified as P. Girinarayana, 30, a Bhadrachalam-based trader who sells Ayurvedic medicines, and R. Venkateshwarlu, 26, a private employee of Burgampadu mandal, police sources said.
Second arrest
The arrests comes less than a week after the Charla police arrested three persons, including two employees of a beedi factory, while allegedly carrying a consignment of cash to the ultras based in adjoining Chhattisgarh. Earlier this month, a joint squad of Charla police and CRPF jawans arrested two alleged Maoist militia members on charges of carrying medicines for Maoist cadre of the neighbouring State.
Medicines
Producing the arrested duo — Girinarayana and Venkateshwarlu — before the media in Kothagudem on Sunday, Superintendent of Police of Bhadradri-Kothagudem district Ambar Kishor Jha said the duo were apprehended while on their way to deliver a consignment of medicines, electronic gadgets, electric detonators and other material to Maoists based in Chhattisgarh.
They were acting on the directions of some Maoist leaders in Chhattisgarh who gave them ₹2 lakh cash for purchase of medicines, iron pipes and other material, he said, adding that tablets, injections, ORS packets, two tabs, three mobile phones and electric detonators and iron pipes, were seized from them.
