Two arms dumps unearthed

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JULY 7. In one of the biggest seizure of weapons in the recent times, a team of Medak police officers unearthed two arms dumps being maintained by the Jana Shakti group of naxalites and seized 12 custommade weapons which included two carbines and a sten gun. The weapons seized included four 8 mm rifles, three Springfield rifles, two Carbines, one sten gun, one Mauser pistol, one .38 revolver and 700 rounds of live ammunition.

The seizure was effected following information that the naxalites of the Jana Shakti group were likely to hold a meeting in a forest area near Pothamshetti pally village of Kulcharam mandal. Police teams led by sub-inspectors N. Murali. Shankar Reddy, Parthasarathy and Venugopal Reddy took up combing operations.

The police teams noticed that two persons waited near a hut for over an hour and apparently, as their leader Degala Subhash did not turn up, they were about to leave, when the police teams closed in and nabbed them. They were subsequently identified as Karre Chandram alias Seenu and Chakali Sailu alias Venkanna, both working in the Manjira Squad Area Committee. The police also recovered two short weapons from their possession.

Based on the information provided by the duo, the police teams raided a place on the outskirts of Appajipalli village and another house belonging to one Laxmaiah in Kukutlapalli village. The two naxalites arrested were involved in several criminal cases.

Later producing the weapons at a press conference, the Hyderabad Range DIG, Mr. N. Sambasiva Rao, asserted that such a seizure was possible only because the police teams were following every bit of information about movement of naxalites.

The DIG appreciated the efforts of the police teams in immediately acting upon the information and seizing the weapons. The Medak SP, Mr. V.Venugopala Krishna, and the officers involved in the raids were also present at the press conference.

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