The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two persons, including a woman, for the July 2019 attack on security forces by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) elements near Tiriya village in Chhattisgarh.
Six CPI (Maoist) operatives and one civilian were killed in the incident. The NIA took over the case on March 18, 2021, along with several other cases related to the allegation against the banned outfit that it carried out terrorist activities in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
One of the arrested-accused has been identified as B.Ch. Padma, who earlier operated as a divisional committee member of the CPI (Maoist) and was currently acting as a coordinator between front organisations and the outfit. The other accused is Dubasi Devender, who was closely associated with the CPI (Maoist) cadre. He allegedly worked as a courier for them and secretly transported their messages (both paper-based and digital) and facilitated anti-national activities.
