Telangana: Senior Maoist leader and founder of SIKASA arrested in Jammikunta
Founder of Sikasa, a fornt organisation of CPI Maoist, Ramakanth was arrested from his house in Jammikunta
Karimnagar: The Ramakrishnapur police on Monday arrested CPI (Maoist) leader Mohammed Hussein alias Sudhakar alias Ramakanth on Monday. A founder member of the Singareni Karmika Samakhya (Sikasa), a frontal organization of the Maoist party, Hussein was produced before the media in Ramakrishnapur police station in Mancherial district.
This was after reports throughout the day on the arrest, with relatives saying he was picked up from his residence in Jammikunta in Karimnagar. However, producing Hussein before the media, Bellampalli ACP A Ravikumar said that while patrolling in Ramakrishnapur and Mandamarri areas, police found a person moving suspiciously with a black bag in his hand. He allegedly tried to escape from the spot. However, cops detained him and found Maoist party documents, wall posters and pamphlets in his bag. On questioning, he revealed his identity.
A resident of Padmashaliwada of Jammikunta, Mohammad Hussein worked as a general mazdoor in the KK-2 Singareni coal mine from 1978 to 1981. Attracted to the then CPI-ML (People’s War) ideology, he joined the extremist party by resigning from Singareni job and worked in different positions. A total of 28 cases were registered in different police stations against Hussein. In 2009, he was arrested in Bokaro district of Jharkhand and was in jail till 2013.
Police said Maoist Central Committee members Chandranna and Bandi Prakash alias Prabath had instructed Hussein to revive the Sikasa in the coal belt area and had also arranged money. Based on their instructions, he had organized a meeting in the house of Gurajala Ravinder in Kyathanahalli in 2020, wherein CC members Varanasi Subramanyam and Varanasi Vijayalaxmi and others participated. As part of the resolutions adopted in the meeting, Hussein was trying to revive Sikasa in the coal belt area.
Cases under section 120, 120(b) r/w 34/IPC, section 10,13,18,18(b) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act were pending against Hussein with Ramakrishnapur police station, the ACP said.
