Telangana rid of Maoists, claims DGP

Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, December 30

The Telangana Police have claimed to have eradicated Maoists from the state completely, although they marked their presence in neighboring Andhra Pradesh (AP) where a sitting MLA and a former MLC were gunned down on the Andhra-Odisha border in September.

Over 120 terrorists were arrested and 10 gave up arms in 2018, Director General of Police (DGP) M Mahendar Reddy said today.

The police chief told The Tribune that his force was confident of having contained the Left Wing Extremists in the state, while they had strong presence in neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh on the north and eastern borders of Telangana.

“The elections were successfully held without any incident although the Maoists had called for a boycott and bandh at many places”.

DGP Reddy said a close eye was being kept on extremists and the state intelligence infrastructure had been strengthened because in case of any laxity there is always a possibility of their coming back.