Mumbai: The police custody of top
Naxalite leader Surya Devra Prabhakar, arrested by
Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), was today extended
till January 30, police said.
Prabhakar, Maharashtra state committee member of the
banned CPI (Maoist), was remanded to police custody for
further two days by a local court here, they said.
Prabhakar, hailing from Warangal in Andhra Pradesh,
was arrested on January 18 from his residence in Kanjurmarg
area in eastern suburbs.
Police suspect that the Naxalite might have been
involved in Naxal activities in the southern state and also
neighbouring Gujarat.
During a search at his residence owned by an interior
decorator, police had recovered a computer, pen drive,
mobile phone and Naxal literature among other things.
He was also found in possession of election card and
Central Railway travel pass bearing his photograph. Bharat
Raman Gandhi was written in the name column of these cards,
police said.
Prabhakar has admitted that he was spreading Maoist
ideology here and was in the process of creating a base for
Naxal activities in the financial capital, they said.
He told police that he had been associated with
People's War Group since 1978 and joined CPI (Maoist) later.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 21:00