Other MoA event in Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Warangal area, India on Sun 9th October 2022

Two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, including a hardcore woman Maoist cadre and three sympathisers of the proscribed outfit from the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, were arrested by Police during a vehicle checking drive at Mulugu road in Warangal District of Telangana on October 9, reports The Hindu. As many as 50 gelatin sticks and an equal number of detonators, revolutionary literature, INR 74,000 cash, mobile phones and Aadhaar cards were seized from them, the Police said. Madakam Ungi alias Kamala (30), Dandakaranya south ‘sub-zonal committee member’, from Bijapur District in neighbouring State, was among those arrested. Ungi, wanted in four separate cases of attacks on Police personnel, including Burkapal Maoist ambush in 2017 in which 25 Police personnel were killed in Chhattisgarh, had been ailing for the past few months. She was travelling to some undisclosed location after undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Hanamkonda, when arrested by the Police. Another Maoist identified as Aasam Sohen (35), a Dalam (armed squad) member of National Park area, and three Maoist sympathisers also from Chhattisgarh, were accompanying her in the vehicle. Police said Sohen has been entrusted with the task of extorting money from the beedi leaf contractors and other wealthy people in the name of party funds and procure explosive materials from Warangal and Karimnagar Districts by some Chhattisgarh-based Maoist leaders.