Mine event in Telangana, Mulugu District area, India on Thu 30th December 2021

Six Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) ‘Jan Militia’ members (people’s army of the Maoists) were arrested by the Police in Mulugu District of Telangana on December 30, reports Telangana Today. The arrestees were identified as Kursam Sarveshwar Rao, Kursam Ramakrishna, Kursam Venkatesh, Kursam Ganapathi, Mede Papa Rao and Kursam Lakshmaiah of Venkatapuram (Nugur) Mandal (administrative sub-division) and the neighbouring villages of Chhattisgarh State. Disclosing the details at a press conference at Eturunagaram in the district on December 31, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Shoban Kumar said that the arrested had been working as militia members of the CPI Maoists party since 2019. “The CRPF police and Venkatapuram police had nabbed the accused while they were planting the landmine on a path between Tippapuram and Pedd Utlapally villages in the forest areas to kill the security forces who have been combing the forests for the Maoists,” he added.