Hyderabad:
Andhra Pradesh Police has arrested 18 Maoist sympathisers, including 11 minors belonging to Chhattisgarh, from a bus stand in the city.
"We have arrested 18 Maoist sympathisers belonging to Chhattisgarh last night," east zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Y Gangadhar said on Tuesday.
The arrested people were working for Chhattisgarh's Dandakaranya special zonal committee and were members of Chetan Manch cultural organisation, a police officer said, adding they belonged to Kasaram village in Chhattisgarh.
Acting on a tip-off that a cultural troupe having sympathy with Naxals were on their way from Khammam district, police nabbed them from a bus stand in Hyderabad, he said.
The troupe performed a cultural programme in Khammam recently and came here on the invitation of Dasari Hanumanth Rao of State Civil Liberties and N Narayana, a pharmacist working for a private company, police said.
A case was registered against those arrested and they are being produced in a court, the police officer said, adding that some Maoist literature and three CDs were recovered from their possession.
"We have arrested 18 Maoist sympathisers belonging to Chhattisgarh last night," east zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Y Gangadhar said on Tuesday.
The arrested people were working for Chhattisgarh's Dandakaranya special zonal committee and were members of Chetan Manch cultural organisation, a police officer said, adding they belonged to Kasaram village in Chhattisgarh.
Acting on a tip-off that a cultural troupe having sympathy with Naxals were on their way from Khammam district, police nabbed them from a bus stand in Hyderabad, he said.
The troupe performed a cultural programme in Khammam recently and came here on the invitation of Dasari Hanumanth Rao of State Civil Liberties and N Narayana, a pharmacist working for a private company, police said.
A case was registered against those arrested and they are being produced in a court, the police officer said, adding that some Maoist literature and three CDs were recovered from their possession.
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