Three members of Chaitanya Mahila Sangham (CMS) were arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) authorities here on Wednesday on charge of motivating and recruiting youngsters for the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoists).
Incriminating material including digital devices were seized during the searches before arresting Dongari Devendra, Dubasi Swapna and Chukka Shilpa, the NIA officials said. Initially, a case was registered by Peddabayalu police of Visakhapatnam district in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh State following a complaint lodged by the family members of a nursing student Radha on January 3.
The student’s family charged that members and leaders of CMS had lured Radha into revolutionary movements and made her join the Maoists operating in Andhar-Odisha border forests. Recruitment of the student was a conspiracy of activists or leaders of CMS, a frontal organisation of the Maoists, the NIA authorities said, noting that they re-registered the case five months later and took up its investigation.
