Andhra Pradesh - Guntur   

17 activists of CPI(M) remanded

Staff Reporter

GUNTUR: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Guntur unit activists were shocked on Thursday when 17 of their leaders were arrested for trespassing Wakf Board lands at Reddypalem abutting Saradanagar Colony extension and charged under non-bailable sections of the IPC. They were produced at a local court, which remanded them to 14 days judicial custody. They were sent to district jail in the afternoon.

Some 120 persons, including party activists, were arrested by the Guntur police and brought to Nagarampalem police station, when they tried to forcibly "occupy" the lands.

Later, the police separated 17 of the party leaders - Pasyam Rama Rao, Bandla Kantha Rao, B. Aneela, Y. Nethaji, B. Bhavanarayana, Sheik Saleema, Kakumanu Nageswara Rao - and brought them to Taluka police station and filed non-bailable cases against them. The remaining were let off.

The poor people, in association with party leaders, took out a rally in the evening from Brodipet party office to Dr. Ambedkar statue to protest against the arrests.

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