NEW DELHI: The murder of the Leader of Naxal Top Milind Teltumde is a “big setback” with the Maois movement which is prohibited in the Zone of Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC), Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gadchiroli, Sandip Patil said on Sunday.
Teltumde is a key person in the past 20 years giving momentum for the naxal movement and building it in Maharashtra, he told PTI.
“He is the only future of that movement and no other leader in Maharashtra,” the official said.
“Considering his contribution to Naxal movements and its influence among several parts of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra and urban areas, he is a very important cadre and key and we are looking for it for a long time,” he said.
On Saturday, 26 ultras were killed in the corpachi in the Mardintola forest area in Gadchiroli, located more than 900 km from the capital of the state of Mumbai, when the Elite C-60 police command team was conducting a search operation.
Teltumde, the desired one was accused of the Elggar Parishad-Maoist case, among the dead cadres, a senior police official said earlier that day.
Milind Teltumde, Aktivist and Bachelor of Anand Teltumdde, brought Rs 50 Lakh’s prize on his head because of his alleged involvement in the state of violence against the country.
Anand Teltumde has been captured earlier in the case of Elgar Parishad-Maoist Links and is currently nested in Taloja Prison in neighboring Navi Mumbai.
According to a senior police officer Gadchiroli, Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC) is a very important zone and the Maoist project.
Milind Teltumde, Secretary of the MMC zone and the only member of Maharashtra in the Maois Central Committee, was assigned to divert the central government’s attention from hilly regions to the MMC zone, he said.
Since eight to 10 years, Maois works in a big way to expand Naxal’s movements in North Chhattisgarh and South Madhya Pradesh, he said.
“That (Milind Teltumde’s Killing) is a big setback for them in the MMC zone because he is a responsible chairman,” he said.
For requests at the Deep Link Milind Teltumde with the ‘Urban Naxal’ movement, the official said he was a cadre who had a strong connection in urban and forest movements.
Milind Teltumde along with his wife Angela Sontakke was used to run “urban networks” (from rebels) in Maharashtra, he said.
He also has a link in the Vidarbha area and tries to affect certain communities and his youth to join the Maoist movement, which he claims.
“He does this job in a great way here,” the official said.
In accordance with the cost sheet submitted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Elgar Parishad case, Milind Teltumde was named after ‘Maoist who was feared’, the top operation of the Communist Party of India (Maois), and was declared to escape.
He was allegedly involved in Naxal’s movement since 1996 and was on the radar of central and state security institutions over the past few years after his activities.
Witness Nia in the case of Elgar Parishad in a statement claiming that Milind Teltumde has lived in the Dhammadeep Nagar at Ita Bhatti Chowk in Nagpur Maharashtra Regency.
The witness has claimed that Milind Teltumde bought property worth RS 7 lakh with the name Associate and lived there between January 2017 and April 2018.
According to Nia, Milind Teltumde used several aliases, ‘Deepak’, ‘Sahyadri’ and ‘Comrade M’ when running .
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