Summary:
Previously, on December 1 one auto driver was injured after Maoists planted a pressure bomb on the Venaktapuram – Cherla highway. The police unearthed and defused a land mine pitched by the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) party naxalites near Palem vagu near Rachapalli village in the district on Wednesday. The mine was spotted by the workers of the Palem vagu project on March 4 and the police was informed about it. According to Superintendent of Police R.
Bhaskaran, the landmine was planted purportedly targeting the police in the Telangana - Chhattisgarh border area. Mr.
Bhaskaran said that the Maoists were resorting to such incidents only to make their presence felt and create terror in the area..