Police in Andhra Pradesh Friday moved two top Maoist leaders and four sympathizers they had arrested from one town to another without producing them in court.
Police had Thursday announced they had arrested Communist Party of India (CPI)-Maoist leaders Ganti Prasadam alias Prabhakar (56) and Yamasani Surender alias Venkanna (42) and four Viplava Rachayitala Sangham (Virasam) or Revolutionary Writers' Association members at Arsapally on the outskirts of Nizamabad town.
Police was to produce the arrested men in a court Thursday evening. They later said they would be produced in court Friday morning.
As reporters were waiting at the district court, police took the men to Bodhan town, a distance of 50 km from Nizamabad.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Anjani Kumar said the men were arrested when they were moving about in a suspicious manner at Arspally village in Nizamabad after returning from Aurangabad in Maharashtra, where they had held a meeting.
"They deliberated on a conspiracy to act against the state and were returning to proceed on this to Nallamala forest area," Director General of Police Swaranjit Sen said here.
CPI-Maoist leaders Prasadam and Surender held senior positions in the party. Police said both were involved in several Maoist-related violent incidents in Guntur, Prakasam, Kurnool, Cuddapah and Chittoor districts.
The other four arrested men are Virasam members Nelletla Venugopal, a senior journalist, Vannam Chennaiah, a lecturer in Jawahar Bharati Degree College at Kavali, Gottimukkala Pinakapani, editor of Telugu magazine "Arunatara" and Soma Ravikumar.
Venugopal is the brother-in-law of Virasam leader and former CPI-Maoist emissary Varavara Rao.
Varavara Rao, who rushed to Nizamabad, alleged the police had tortured the arrested men. He said there was no ground for the police action as they were holding a meeting to decide the future course of action of Virasam.
"Even CPI-Maoist is not banned. The government still says it will hold talks with the party. Then how can police arrest them?" asked Varavara Rao.
Harvard students condemn Oxford University
Publish Date : 3/5/2007 7:11:00 AM
Two Harvard students, including an NRI, have condemned Oxford University, where they are Rhodes scholars, as "outdated" and "frustrating" and dismissed its world famous Bodleian library as "less than inspiring".
Indian embassy to outsource jobs to American firm
Publish Date : 3/5/2007 7:10:00 AM
After taking thousands of American jobs through outsourcing, India is planning to give a few back. The Indian embassy in the US capital is planning to outsource processing of visas to a US-based company.
Badal heads 18-member coalition ministry in Punjab(Final lead: Badal)
Publish Date : 3/3/2007 7:29:00 AM
Octogenarian leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Parkash Singh Badal, on Friday took oath as Punjab's new Chief Minister and will lead an 18-member SAD-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition ministry.
Bareilly eunuch adopts a girl child
Publish Date : 3/3/2007 7:22:00 AM
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Kalam offers prayer at Fatehpuri Masjid
Publish Date : 3/3/2007 7:16:00 AM
Keeping a promise made two years ago, President A P J Abdul Kalam today offered prayers at the historic Fatehpuri Masjid in Chandni Chowk here along with thousands of Muslims.
Union Budget directionless, says Modi
Publish Date : 3/1/2007 8:41:00 AM
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Centre allocates over Rs 100 crore for minority zones
Publish Date : 3/1/2007 8:38:00 AM
Unfazed by the BJP's criticism over its welfare schemes for Muslims, the Congress-led Central Government has allocated over Rs 100 crore for development programmes in select districts with a sizeable population of minorities.
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Publish Date : 3/1/2007 8:27:00 AM
The assembly polls in Punjab turned out to be unkind for several kins of political bigwigs as voters rejected most of them barring some of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) supremo Parkash Singh Badal's near and dear ones.
High Court order on age of nursery admission tomorrow
Publish Date : 3/1/2007 8:24:00 AM
The Delhi High Court today observed that the city Government's submission that a child should be four-years-old to get admission in nursery class was contrary to the law.
Parliament session may be stormy tomorrow on Quattrocchi issue
Publish Date : 3/1/2007 8:18:00 AM
After the lull, it is going to be storm again in Parliament tomorrow.
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