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Huge haul of Janashakti arms from forest area

Staff Reporter

12 Janshakti cadre held

BIG CACHE: The seized weapons being displayed in Karimnagar on Monday.

WARANGAL: The district police arrested 12 Janashakti cadre and recovered arms and ammunition in large scale.

The Superintendent of Police, M.S. Ravindra said the arrested included one State committee member, one District Committee Secretary, five district committee members, one zonal committee member, two Plain Area Organisers and two couriers.

According to the SP, the police attached to Atmakur mandal arrested one Vatti Venkata Reddy alias Venu of Kurnool district, State Committee member of Janashakti while checking the vehicles on Sunday night. During the course of interrogation, he confessed to the police of belonging to the Janashakti and following the information revealed by him, the police arrested the rest of the cadre and seized the arms and ammunition from the forest area located on the Karimnagar district border.

The police recovered one 9 mm carbine, one 9mm stengun, two pistols, two .38 revolvers, two tapancha, two Air guns and 50 grenades and 30 rounds of 9 mm carbine, 25 rounds of 8mm, nine rounds of .38 revolver, six rounds of . 25 revolver and 20 rounds of 12 bore gun.

The arrested were: Vatti Venkat Reddy alias Venu ; Jalagam Komuraiah ; Dubba Ramaswamy ; Jalagam Venkatadri ; Ghanapuram Narasaiah alias Sambaiah, among others.

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