NIA chargesheets four Maoists in Chhattisgarh encounter case

New Delhi, July 17

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheeted four Maoist in the Chhattisgarh case in which armed cadres of the banned CPI (Maoist) outfit were arrested following an encounter with security forces, and several weapons, including BGL and BGL shells, were seized.
 

The accused, identified as Aaytu Ram Nuruti, Manoj Kumar Hichami, Suresh Nuruti and Budhuram
Padda, have been chargesheeted under relevant provisions of IPC, Arms Act, Explosives Substances Act
and UA (P) Act.
 

NIA, which filed the chargesheet yesterday against the four before the NIA Special Court, Jagdalpur, found that all these accused were members of the proscribed terrorist organisation, CPI (Maoist). They had been involved in attacking a search team of police and other security personnel in the Chhote Bethiya area of Kanker on 16th January this year, as per the NIA findings.

Investigations in the case were taken over in February 2024, by NIA, and the anti-terror agency found that the accused had been actively involved in the conspiracy to attack security forces as part of their outfit’s anti-India agenda.
 

NIA is continuing with its investigation in the case, as part of its larger crackdown on cadres of the proscribed CPI (Maoist) with the aim to foil their attempts to disturb the peace and harmony of the nation