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The case was initially registered on July 28, 2019, under various sections of the Weapons Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. (representative image / ANI)
B Ch Padma alias ‘Modem’, alias ‘Lalita’ – a member of CPI (Maoist) – and postman Dubasi Devender were arrested on Sunday after extensive investigations
The National Investigation Agency said on Tuesday that two people, including a female member of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), have been arrested in connection with a 2019 attack on security forces near Teriya village in Chhattisgarh that left six Naxals and one civilian dead.
The federal agency said that PCH Padma, alias “Modem” alias “Lalita” – a female CPI (Maoist) member – and postman Dubasi Definder were arrested after extensive investigations, bringing the number of arrests in the case to four. .
Padma was previously active as a partition committee member of the CPI (Maoist) and was, until recently, acting as a coordinator between the frontline organizations and the banned group and propagating its ideology.
Devender, also closely associated with CPI (Maoist) cadres operating in the core area, was working as a CPI (Maoist) courier, secretly transmitting their contacts (both paper and digital) and facilitating their anti-nationalist activities, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said.
She said that the investigations revealed that both of the arrested suspects were closely involved with the supreme leadership of the Iraqi Communist Party (Maoist) in promoting their anti-nationalist activities.
The NIA took over the case in 2021, along with several others related to Maoist plots to carry out acts of terrorism and violence in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
The agency had earlier found several incriminating materials related to the activities of CPC (Maoist) cadres during searches conducted at the defendants’ premises.
The encounter took place in July 2019 when a joint team of Reserve Guards, Special Task Force and Central Reserve Police Force traveled to the forest area near Tiriya in the Nagarnar Police Station area of ​​Jagdalpur district of Chhattisgarh.
The NIA said that they went there after receiving information that a group of Maoist cadres had met with the intention of committing a major incident on July 28, which was deemed the “Shahid Diwas”.
Following the confrontation, the security forces seized weapons and ammunition, as well as a number of handwritten documents and publications condemning the site.
The case was initially registered on July 28, 2019, under various sections of the Weapons Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. NIA re-registered on March 18, 2021.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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