Naxal Terror Watch

AGNATHAM – SWETCHA (joining mainstream from underground life) programme of Nalgonda Police

Aim: -

To motivate and facilitate the underground extremists/terrorist to surrender by counseling their parents.

Efforts: -

Taking out rallies, displaying banners and placards for encouraging those willing to join the mainstream, leaving underground activities.

Visiting the houses of the underground activists and ascertaining the reasons of their going underground from their parents.

Holding direct meetings with the parents to persuade them to give calls to their sons and daughters to surrender, after creating conducive environment through rallies etc.

Arranging discussions between the local leaders and officers of various departments for promoting welfare of the village and exploring and implementing solutions to their problems.

Distributing food grains, new dresses and sweet packets etc. to the parents of misguided under ground activists, in order to win them over and making them more amenable for meaningful dialogue.

Achievements: -

Number of underground cadres laid down their arms & joined mainstream since the launching of this programme.

THE HINDU
June 03,2005
Andhra Pradesh – Nalgonda
Youth urged to capitalise on welfare schemes
Staff Reporter
NALGONDA: The Superintendent of Police, M.M. Bhagwat, called upon youngsters to utilise the Rashtriya Samvikas Yuvajana scheme to get better employment opportunities and lead a peaceful life.
Addressing a meeting organised as part of “Agnatam-Swechha” programme at Ipparthy village in Munugode mandal on Tuesday, he said a `Youth Facility Centre’ would be shortly opened at the district headquarters “You will get valuable information about education and employment opportunities from the proposed centre,” he said, adding the Police would act as a facilitator between the Government and the youth. Roads would be laid and drinking water would be provided for the naxal-affected villages under the newly launched scheme.
Mr. Bhagwat strictly advised the youngsters not to be carried away by anti-social elements. As part of “Agnatam-Swechha”, the SP, the Officer on Special Duty, V. Ravinder, the Nalgonda DSP, G. Ananta Reddy, and the Chandur Inspector, Ramulu, called on the parents of the underground naxalite, Antati Narasimha, and enquired about their social and economic condition.
After organising a rally with the underground cadres’ relatives, naxal sympathisers and police officers, the SP gave away new clothes, rice and medicine to the naxals’ parents. The SP launched the programme one week ago at Mallareddygudem in Samsthan Narayanapur mandal.
http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/

NDTV
AP police adopt families of Naxal recruits
T S Sudhir
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 (Nalgonda):
The Andhra Pradesh police are playing an interesting mind game. Moving into villages that have seen recruitments into the Naxal fold, they are adopting families of such Naxals. The aim is to dent the family’s self-esteem so that it puts pressure on the son or the daughter to discard the gun.One of the families adopted by the police is that of Raghupati’s. He joined the Naxal movement when he was 18 and the district police have now come forward to publicly affirm that they are here to do what the son should have done – look after the aged parents and a younger sister.”These policemen are helping for now but if my son helps, it will be much better,” said C Balaram, Raghupati’s father.Self-pride of youthForty families in 20 villages have been similarly adopted by the Nalgonda police. The strategy clearly is to strike at the emotion and self-pride of youth gone astray.”This is psychological warfare. We are reminding them that you belong to this area. The area is backward. Your parents’ condition is not too good,” said Mahesh Bhagwat, SP, Nalgonda.The villages are being wooed with promises of employment and free medical camps if they remained on the side of the law.The police hope efforts such as these would provide the healing touch. But all the good work comes to naught when people from such villages are picked up on suspicion that they provide logistical help to the underground cadre.While combing operations and hunting of Naxals still continue, this is an effort to show that the police do not talk only the language of the gun.

http://www.ndtv.com/

NEWINDPRESS.COM
SOUTHERN NEWS – ANDHRA PRADESH
Jan 19, 2006
Naxal couple lay down their arms
Wednesday January 18 2006 11:52 IST
NALGONDA: Communist Party of United State of India – Dalita Bahujana Shramika Vimukthi (CPUSI-DBSV) state committee secretary Challa Lingaiah alias Manganna, his wife and committee member Sunita alias Polakka laid down arms before Superintendent of Police Mahesh M. Bhagawath on Tuesday.Addressing mediapersons this evening, the SP said Lingaiah was accused of being involved in five murder cases in Warangal district. He also participated in encounters at Somulagadda, Ramanakkapet and three other areas in Warangal district, he said.Sunita joined the cadres in December 2004. She joined the CPUSI Singanna Dalam and remained underground.The Naxal couple said they surrendered because they were disenchanted with the Naxal ideology.The SP gave Rs 5,000 reward money to the couple. OSD Viswaprasad and other police officials were present.The surrendered couple said they were disenchanted with Naxalite policies.
http://www.newindpress.com/

THE HINDU
March13,2006
AP Edition online
Return home, family members appeal to `missing’ youngsters
Staff Reporter
They are involved in subversive activities, says the SP

AGONISING WAIT: Hameeduddin, father of Rasheed, addressing a press conference as M.M. Bhagwat, SP, shows the youngster’s file photograph at the district police office in Nalgonda on Sunday.
NALGONDA: Family members of three youngsters of Bhongir town, Ahmed Mohiuddin Rasheed (22), Mohd. Mustafa (24) and Sayed Abdul Khadeer (22), who have been missing for a year, have made a fervent appeal to the trio to return home and lead peaceful lives.
Addressing a press conference in the presence of Superintendent of Police M.M. Bhagat at the district police office here on Sunday, they said that the youths were misguided by some elements. Rasheed’s father Hameeduddin, 55, an imam, said that he needed the help of his only to take care of him in his old age.
LeT influence
Rasheed had gone to Hyderabad four years ago for further studies and came in touch with Abdul Aziz alias Gidda of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) through Naseeruddin of Tehreek Tehfooz Shariat-e-Islam (TTSI), the SP said. The police arrested him on the charge of conspiring to set off blasts during the Ganesh festival in Hyderabad on August 29, 2004. He jumped bail and absconded on October 2, 2004. In June 2005, he along with Mustafa was arrested by the Railway police in Purna in Maharastra while moving under suspicious circumstances. The duo was lodged in Aurangabad jail for some time and later jumped bail.
Mustafa left his house in 2001 along with wife and son after a fight with his elder brother Meeran. “Later he too joined the LeT and was arrested. He jumped the bail in January 2006,” the SP said. “He divorced his wife and was involved in illegal activities. My family wants to give him another chance to lead a normal life,” Meeran told reporters.
Khadeer had gone to Hyderabad from Bhongir four years ago and joined the LeT, the SP said. He was also arrested along with the duo in a conspiracy case in 2004. “He was lodged in Cherlapally jail and jumped bail on January 5, 2006,” the SP said. Khadeer’s eldest brother Shafi, a mechanic, too advised his brother to join the mainstream
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“Its not the activity of rascals but the inactivity of good people that destroys our society.”
Shiv Khera

Mahesh Bhagwat IPS
Superintendent of Police
Nalgonda District
Andhra Pradesh
India 508001
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