In a joint operation on Tuesday, officers of the Andhra Pradesh police and the state Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested suspected Naxalite KD Rao from Colaba.
In a joint operation on Tuesday, officers of the Andhra Pradesh police and the state Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested suspected Naxalite KD Rao from Colaba. The AP police team has applied for a transit remand to take Rao to Hyderabad for questioning. Rao, wanted by the AP police in connection with the murder of a security official, is allegedly a senior ultra-Left cadre. He is also a practising lawyer in AP.
On Monday, the ATS arrested Sridhar Srinivasan alias Vishnu, an alleged Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), and his aide Vernon Gonsalves alias Vikram. The two, booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Arms Act, have been remanded in police custody till August 22.
Additional DGP and ATS chief KP Raghuvanshi said, “We are trying to find out if Rao has any links with Srinivasan and Gonsalves. We have enough incriminating evidence against the two; so the arrests are significant.”
Another ATS officer said an analysis of the laptop and the literature seized from Srinivasan and Gonsalves might help the police find the extent of ultra-Left penetration in Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik. DGP PS Pasricha had said on Monday that Srinivasan’s arrest would weaken the ultra-Left movement in the state.
Mahrukh Adenwala, the lawyer representing Srinivasan and Gonsalves, said, “The loopholes in the case will be brought before the court in due course. But it is for the families of the accused to decide the next course of action.”
Gonsalves’ brother-in-law Thomas Abraham, however, refuted the police claims. “He was pretty much in the open in and around Mumbai. So, to say that he was living in Govandi with a Politburo member of a banned Naxal outfit and moving around freely strains credible logic,” he said.
Abraham even said that Gonsalves was arrested on Sunday at 1.30 pm when he had gone to buy some medicines near his house in Andheri (east). The police have said that Gonsalves had been arrested from Govandi on Monday.
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