A couple based in Andhra Pradesh were responsible for the spurt of naxal violence in Bihar and Jharkhand, a senior police officer claimed today.
A couple based in Andhra Pradesh were responsible for the spurt of naxal violence in Bihar and Jharkhand, a senior police officer claimed today.
Confirming the arrest of Agriculture scientist-cum-Maoist Central Committee member Ravi Sharma and his wife B Anuradha here on October 10, Hazaribagh Superintendent of Police Pankaj Kamboj produced them before a news conference and claimed that they were running the Maoist outfit in Bihar and Jharkhand.
"Ravi Sharma alias Arjun alias Mahesh alias Ashok and his wife B Anuradha alias Rajitha hail from Andhra and run the Maoist outfit in Bihar and Jharkhand since 1999," he said.
"The duo, arrested under Ichak police station in the district, are responsible for the sudden increase in Naxal violence in these two states. With their arrest, the Maoist movement is jolted," the SP said adding, "Police found the whole strategy of the movement recorded in a laptop seized from them."
Vital information would also be available in the diaries and letters recovered from them, he said. Police also found one 9 MM foreign-make revolver, cartridges and documents relating to the Maoist operation and its strategies in Bihar and Jharkhand, Kamboj said.
The husband and wife are members of the Bihar Jharkhand State Action Committee, having direct link with the top echelons of the CPI(Maoist), Kamboj claimed.
Sharma, who was doing PhD in Agriculture Science in Delhi and Hyderabad, was forced to give it up after he was assigned work for training naxalites in Jharkhand and Central Bihar in 1998 by the banned outfit to the movement more effective.
"They were assigned to target the police and paralyse developmental activities in the two states through terrorising innocent villagers," the police officer said. The SP said Sharma was chiefly assigned to provide military-like training to the Maoists while his wife used to train the women activists how to handle AK 47 assault rifle and other sophisticated weapons against the police.
Showing a book written in Telegu language showing use of sophisticated weapons, the police super said Sharma was first arrested by Andhra police way way back in 1985 when he was leading a radical students union against the landlords. The SP said Anuradha was the in-charge of the womens wing of the CPI(Maoist) in Bihar and Jharkhand.
Before joining the organization she was working as a clerk in the Syndicate Bank in Hyderabad before resigning from the post, the SP said. The couple was regarded as intellectuals in the Maoist ranks as they wrote for party journals, the SP adding they were behind the collection of extortion from developments programmes in Bihar and Jharkhand.
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