NIA files charge sheet in Vellamunda Maoist case

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today filed a charge sheet against three Maoist cadres for allegedly threatening a police officer at Vellamunda in Kerala in 2014 for conducting anti-Maoist operations.
In the supplementary charge sheet filed before a special court in Ernakulam, the NIA charge-sheeted 34-year-old Kanya, a native of Mavinakere village in Karnataka's Chikkamangalur, and two absconders--Mahesh and Geetha--from Raichur and Dakshina Kannada districts in the state, respectively.
They have been charged under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy, sedition, provisions of the Arms Act and anti-terror law, agency officials said.
A supplementary report has also been filed by the NIA against an accused Roopesh, they said.

"The case was originally registered at Vellamunda Police Station in Wayanad district of Kerala against CPI (Maoist) activists Roopesh, Anu, Jayanna, Kanya and Sundari. The accused had formed an unlawful assembly with prohibited weapons and trespassed into the house of the Kerala Police officer at Mattilayam in Thondernadu, Wayanad district of Kerala on April 24, 2014," the NIA said in a statement.
The agency said the accused also threatened to kill the police officer alleging that he was helping in anti-Maoist operations.
"They had asked the officer to resign from his job and also set fire to his motor cycle. The accused then left pamphlets of CPI (Maoist) inside the house of the police officer, and pasted posters on the front wall of the house, calling for armed revolution against the government," it said.

The Kerala Police had filed its charge sheet in the matter on January 1, 2016.