Coimbatore: Officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Kochi conducted a search in 12 places owned by Maois in all states on Tuesday in connection with the Edakkara training camp case.
According to intelligence input, the camp held in connection with the CPI (Maois) formation day in September 2016 in the forest near Nilambur Mundakadavu Colony in Kerala reportedly displays weapons training, the study standings and study classes.
According to the Q-branch official in Tamil Nadu, Kerala police have identified 19 participants from a photo taken during the camp.
Kerala police have posted them in 2017 because they pamper themselves in anti-national activities below 121 and 122 of Indian criminal codes, section 18 A, 20 and 38 of the Act Actual Activity (Prevention), and part 3 arms acting.
The official said the Kerala Thunderbolt police have killed more than five Maoists in a separate meeting in Manjakanandi in Palakkad and Wayanad.
In August this year, the Ministry of the UNI home had ordered Nia, Kochi, to take over the case from a special task force Kerala.
Nia re-registered the first information report on August 20 and R S Sreekanth, Inspector, Nia Branch Office, Kochi, was appointed as Head of Investigative Officer.
On Tuesday, G Dharmarajan, police supervisor, Nia, Kochi, had sent a team to Coimbatore, Chennai, Salem, Theni, Sivaganga, Kanyakumari and Pudukkottai to do a search in Maois and their sympathizers.
In Coimbatore, a team led by Deputy Supervisor of Rajesh Police, combed Dr.
Dinesh’s house, 30, a dentist from Puliakulam.
City police, meanwhile, extend their support for Nia officials.
While Dinesh was not among 19 accused of training camps, Kerala’s anti-terrorist forces (ATS) had arrested him in February this year.
“We have collected several burdensome documents, SIM cards, pen drives, book passes and bank pamphlets from several associations from the House of Dinesh,” said a senior Nia official.
Nia also searched Maois S Denmark’s homes aka Krishna, 32, from Kamarajar Street in Ramanathapuram and Santhosh Kumar, 28, from Angalakurichi near the Pollachi.
Raid at the House of Denmark, which lodged in a prison in Thiruvanathapuram, lasted for more than five hours.
The official said Santhosh Kumar was involved in a weapons training camp.
“He had left his house in 2014 and joined CPI (Maois).” Tamil Nadu Q-Branch and the Kerala team had tried to arrest him, but in vain.
He hasn’t contacted his parents since 2014.
We didn’t take anything from his house.
“Meanwhile, the other Nia team, combing the residence of the age of 50 years, Murugesan, Maoist’s brother who was killed by Karthik, aka Kannan, at Rice Mill Road in a person in the Pudukkottai district.
Karthik was killed at a police meeting at the Attapadi in Kerala on October 28 2019.
The team has confiscated two books about Maoism, photocopy of Karthik Death Certificate and Murugesan voter identity card, a farm worker, from the house , in Ramamoorthi Nagar.
The team also interrogated them.
In Sivagangai Regency, Nia carried out an attack on the House of Singaram, brother Maois a Kalidoss, in Annamalai Nagar.
Kalidoss was submitted in prison in Kerala.
“We have confiscated cellphones, SIM cards, drives pens, Manifesto, pamphlets and other ingredients that are burdensome from the house, “said an official.
Nia also searched five locations in Karnataka and three places in Kerala on that day.
(With input from Gokul, Suksha and Kumaran Senthil)
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