The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested two persons for their purported involvement in a CPI (Maoist) attack on the security forces, in which one civilian and six alleged Maoists were killed near Tiriya village in Chhattisgarh in July 2019.
The accused have been identified as Kandula Sirisha and Duddu Prabhakar. The agency has arrested six persons in the case so far.
According to the NIA, both the accused were working closely with top leaders of the banned outfit and its different frontal organisations to spread its ideology. Sirisha was previously active as an armed cadre (tech. in-charge) of CPI (Maoist). Both the accused also received funds from the outfit. They were frequent visitors to the core “Naxal belt” in the Andhra-Odisha border special zone, where they would meet the late Akkiraju Haragopal, a central committee member of CPI (Maoist) and leader of the United Front.
