Maoists planning major attacks in Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh's Director-General of Police R.R. Girish Kumar has warned that the Maoists are planning to carry out major attacks in the state to register their presence.

"Some [Maoist] action teams are moving at different places in the state for the purpose [of carrying out attacks]," he said.

Girish Kumar urged the public to watch out for suspicious movements and alert the police once questionable activity had been observed.

Girish Kumar was addressing a press conference after inspecting a huge stockpile of arms recovered from a secret Maoist dump in West Godavari district on Saturday.

The material included enough spare parts for 3,000 hand grenades, six rocket launchers, land mines, materials used in the preparation of pressure mines and some ammunition.

"What we have found include the lower shells and upper shells and plastic chambers used to make hand grenades," Girish Kumar said.

"These are deadly weapons meant for liquidating the police and security personnel as well as [the] common man. Imagine what they could have done with this huge arms stockpile."

The recovery was made from a house in Pydiparu village near Taunuku in West Godavari district on the basis of information contained in a diary of slain senior Maoist leader S. Kondal Reddy alias Tech Ramanna.

Proficient

Girish Kumar said that Kondal Reddy was very proficient in technical matters and he had been running the secret facility for the last 2-3 years.

"They acquired the spare parts from different places and they were assembling in this place in preparation for major attacks," he said,

The stockpile also include 26 cartridges of 9mm pistols, iron plates and various other items.