Tiriya encounter: Woman among 2 Maoists held by NIA, arrests rise to 6
According to NIA investigations, the accused were working closely with top leaders of the CPI (Maoist) to promote and expand the banned outfit’s anti-national activities.
By Newsmeter Network Published on 22 July 2023 1:06 PM GMT
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New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested two persons for the CPI (Maoist) attack on security forces, in which six Maoists and one civilian were killed near Tiriya village in Chhattisgarh in 2019.
The duo, including a woman, were nabbed after extensive investigations and search operations, taking the total number of arrests in the Tiriya encounter case (also known as the RK Dairy case) to six.
According to NIA investigations, the accused were working closely with top leaders of the CPI (Maoist) to promote and expand the banned outfit’s anti-national activities. Several incriminating materials related to the activities of CPI (Maoist) cadres were earlier seized by the NIA during searches at the premises of the two accused.
The accused, identified as Kandula Sirisha alias Sirisha alias Padmakka and Duddu Prabhakar alias Duddu alias Ajay alias DP, were working for different frontal organisations of CPI (Maoist). Kandula, a member of the frontal outfit, was previously active as an armed cadre (tech. in-charge) of the party. Both Duddu and Sirisha used to receive funds from CPI (Maoist) and worked for different frontal outfits to spread the Maoist ideology. Both were frequent visitors to the core Naxal belt in the Andhra-Odisha border special zone, where they would meet the late RK alias Akkiraju Haragopal, CCM of CPM and leader of the United Front.
Encounter details
The Tiriya encounter had taken place in July 2019, when a joint team of the local District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) travelled to the forest area near Tiriya in the PS Nagarnar area of Jagdalpur district in Chhattisgarh after a tip-off. They had received information that a group of Maoist cadres had gathered to conspire about carrying out a big incident on July 28, which is observed as Shaheed Diwas.
An encounter ensued among both groups. Afterwards, the security forces recovered arms and ammunition, along with incriminating handwritten documents, literature etc from the site, and started investigations into the case.
The case was initially registered under various sections of the Arms Act and UA(P) Act. It was re-registered by the NIA on March 18, 2021, after the agency took over the case, along with several other cases related to Maoist conspiracy in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
