HYDERABAD: A PhD scholar of the Osmania University, who is also the state president of Telangana Vidyarthi Sangam (TVS), has been arrested by Rachakonda police in a two-year-old Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) case on Sunday for allegedly having links with Maoist and inciting people to join.
According to LB Nagar police, Kota Srinivas Goud (38), who is a native of Appannapet village in Peddapalli district, has been arrested from Warasiguda. Goud was in possession of Maoist literature and he was inciting people to join the party. “Srinivas Goud was also involved in collection of money from various people in support of the Maoist party and he has been working on the instructions of leaders of the banned organisation,” said LB Nagar inspector V Ashok Reddy.
The police stated that he is one of the accused in the 2019 case booked against Narla Ravi Sharma and his wife Anuradha, ex-state committee members of CPI (Maoist) party’s Bihar-Jharkhand unit and others for having links with the party. The police have so far arrested 13 people in the 2019 case registered at LB Nagar police station.
Goud is booked under sections 121, 121 (A), 120 (B) r/w 34 IPC, U/s 10, 13, 18, 18 (B) & 20 of UAPA and Sec. 8(1) (2) of Telangana State Public Security Act-2012 in 2019, said the police.
Kota Srinivas Goud was in possession of Maoist literature and he was inciting people to join the party. He was also collecting money from people in support of the party, said the police
