Maoist activities: 68 arrested in state so far

Kalikavu: Majority of those who engaged in Maoist activities centering around Kerala have been arrested by police. Ever since the beginning of the Maoist armed wing People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) in Kerala in 2013, police had intensified measures against them. 

More than 250 UAPA cases have been registered against Maoists till 2021. Among these, 68 who were named accused have been nabbed and only a few more are left for the police to act. This includes PLGA members, Maoist front organizations and Urban committee members. Other than the arrests of the activists, eight of them were killed in four encounters. Most of the arrested and the deceased hail from Tamil Nadu. The only Malayali is a Malappuram Pandikkad  native C P Jaleel. 

All deceased were Tamilians except the Maoist Central committee member and Andhra Pradesh native Kuppu Devaraj. Maoists claim that Thrissur Thalikulam native Sinoj and Palakkad Malampuzha native Latha were not killed in clashes. The information given out by the organisation states that Sinoj died due to an explosion during bomb making and Latha was stomped to death by an elephant. 

The Maoists were arrested by Kerala and Tamil Nadu police. The arrested include Rajan Chittilappilly, Thrissur Vadanappally native Roopesh, Arms trainer and Chhattisgarh native Deepak, Mahalingam, Reena, Sreemathi, Kalidasan, Danish, Chinnavel, Ibrahim, Melethil Usman, Thaha Fasal, Anoop Mathew, T K Rajeevan, and Dinesh. 

The recent arrest was of Maoist Urban Committee Leader Malappuram Pandikkad native Melethil Usman. There are almost 30 people lodged in jail as undertrial prisoners. 

Vikram Gowda, Soman, Sundari, Asha, Sreemathi, Jayanna, Gopalakrishnan, C P Moideen, Lenin, Jagadheesh, Krishna, Anitha, Chandrashekara Gairwal and Latha Shekar are included in the list of the most-wanted for engaging in Maoist activity in the state. Many have surrendered by quitting Maoist activities that centred around the state. 

Sundaran (Unnikrishnan), Kanyakumari (Kanya), Anandakumar (Bhagat Singh) and Padma from Tamil Nadu are among the ones who surrendered. They are in jail as undertrial prisoners.