Information About Incident 36468-69142-164544 in Adilabad India

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The Police arrested 73 Maoists during the year, including the CPI-Maoist Chhattisgarh Muded area divisional committee member Velpula Rajesh Kumra alias Tirupati, and his wife and dalam (squad) member Ramadevi, and Janashakti central committee member Kura Devanna alias Amar.

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• Meta Location: Chhattisgarh Muded Tirupati
• Matched District: Adilabad
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: The Police
• Subject: 73 Maoists

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In addition, the Karimnagar District Superintendent of Police, Y. Gangadhar, said the CPI-Maoist activities had considerably declined for the fourth consecutive year in Karimnagar due to the people friendly policies initiated by the Police. The extremists are reportedly on the run from the District to the neighbouring State of Chhattisgarh. In 2008, the extremists had killed four persons branding them as informers and damaged a bus and a private cellular phone tower in the Mahamutharam mandal. Three extremists were killed in encounters with the Police. The Police arrested 73 Maoists during the year, including the CPI-Maoist Chhattisgarh Muded area divisional committee member Velpula Rajesh Kumra alias Tirupati, and his wife and dalam (squad) member Ramadevi, and Janashakti central committee member Kura Devanna alias Amar. Around 15 extremists, including seven Maoists from Chhattisgarh region, had surrendered before the Police. In the first week of December, the Police had arrested some Maoists and thwarted their attempts to revive the party in the District. He also said Police had recovered 13 weapons including one Springfield rifle, two revolvers, four tapanchas, three pistols and one Self Loading Rifle and 150 live and empty rounds of ammunition of various weapons. The Police also recovered 27 soap bombs, six tiffin bombs, four clipping bombs during 2008.

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