The killing of most sensible Naxal chief Milind Teltumbde is a “giant setback” to the outlawed Maoist motion within the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC) zone, Deputy Inspector Normal of Police, Gadchiroli Vary, Sandip Patil mentioned on Sunday. Teltumbde was once the important thing one that within the ultimate two decades gave a momentum to the Naxal motion and constructed it in Maharashtra, he instructed PTI.
“He was once the one long term of that motion and there have been no different chief in Maharashtra,” the authentic claimed. “Making an allowance for his contribution to the Naxal motion and his affect amongst some portions of the Vidarbha area of Maharashtra and concrete spaces, he was once a vital and key cadre and we had been on the lookout for him since a long time,” he mentioned.
On Saturday, 26 ultras had been killed at Korchi in Mardintola woodland house of Gadchiroli, positioned over 900 km from the state capital Mumbai, when the elite C-60 police commando staff was once accomplishing a seek operation.
Teltumbde, one of the vital sought after accused within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case, was once a few of the useless cadres, a senior police authentic mentioned previous within the day.
Milind Teltumbde, the brother of activist and student Anand Teltumbde, was once wearing a praise of Rs 50 lakh on his head for his alleged involvement in violent actions in opposition to the state.
Anand Teltumbde were arrested previous within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case and is these days lodged on the Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.
In step with the senior police authentic of Gadchiroli vary, the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC) was once a vital zone and mission of Maoists. Milind Teltumbde, the MMC zone’s secretary and the one member from Maharashtra within the Maoists’ central committee, was once tasked to divert the central executive’s consideration from hilly spaces to the MMC zone, he mentioned.
Since ultimate 8 to ten years, Maoists had been running in a large solution to extend the Naxal motion in north Chhattisgarh and south Madhya Pradesh, he mentioned. “It (Milind Teltumbde’s killing) is a huge setback for them within the MMC zone as a result of he was once its leader in-charge,” he mentioned.
To a question on Milind Teltumbde’s deep hyperlink with the ‘city Naxal’ motion, the authentic mentioned he was once one cadre who had sturdy connections in each the city and jungle-based actions. Milind Teltumbde in conjunction with his spouse Angela Sontakke used to run an “city community” (of the rebels) in Maharashtra, he mentioned. He additionally had hyperlinks within the Vidarbha area and was once seeking to affect a selected group and its early life to enroll in the Maoist motion, he claimed.
“He was once doing this paintings in a large approach right here,” the authentic mentioned. As in line with a payment sheet filed by way of the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) within the Elgar Parishad case, Milind Teltumbde was once named because the ‘dreaded Maoist’, a most sensible operative of the banned Communist Birthday celebration of India (Maoist), and declared as absconding.
He was once allegedly involvement within the Naxal motion since 1996 and was once at the radar of central and state safety businesses for the previous couple of years within the wake of his actions.
A witness of the NIA within the Elgar Parishad case in a commentary claimed that Milind Teltumbde had lived in Dhammadeep Nagar at Ita Bhatti Chowk in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district.
The witness had claimed that Milind Teltumbde purchased a belongings price Rs 7 lakh underneath the identify of an affiliate and stayed there between January 2017 and April 2018. In step with the NIA, Milind Teltumbde used a number of alias names like ‘Anil’, ‘Deepak’, ‘Sahyadri’ and ‘Comrade M’ whilst at the run.
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