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5 naxals from TN handed over to Koraput police

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The five were wanted in connection with the attack on armoury in Koraput

KORAPUT: Five hardcore naxalites were handed over to the Koraput police by the Tamil Nadu police to further strengthen the case of investigation in connection with the attack on the Koraput police armoury by naxalites in 2004. The naxalites -- Velu Murugan, Pala Nivel, Gobi Kannan, Muttu Selvam and Sunder Murty -- were produced before the SDJM court at Koraput on Tuesday and later forwarded to the Koraput district jail, Deepak Kumar, SP of Koraput said.

The process of transferring these naxalites began in August 2006 when the Tamil Nadu police recovered 10 guns from these naxalites while conducting a raid on their camp in the State. While the source of eight of them were not known, two guns had carried the mark of Koraput armoury and hence suspecting them to be the ones that had been stolen by naxalites from the district armoury and other police stations in the district in 2006, Koraput district police were informed. The five naxalites would be interrogated, he said.

However, security in the district jail at Koraput was tightened by deploying an additional platoon of police force in and around the jail premises. Patrolling in the town and other areas was also intensified to prevent any untoward incident.

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