Plan to blast police station foiled

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD, JAN. 14. A major plan by the Sirnapalli squad of the banned People's War Group to blast the Two Town police station building in the heart of Nizamabad town was foiled, with the arrest of two naxalites by the police.

In what would have been a major tragedy, naxalites had planned to blast the police station building on Thursday night but their plans went awry after the arrest of Radical Youth League secretary of Sirnapalli area, Malavath Dharma, by the Dichpalli police. On reliable information, the Dichpalli Circle Inspector, Mr. Trimurthulu, and the Dharpalli SI, Mr. Muralidhar, raided hideouts in Sirnapalli forest area.

From an abandoned house near the Sirnapalli railway station they arrested Dharma, who confessed to have participated in several offences in the last few months in the Sirnapalli dalam area. The RYL secretary said he had participated in offences along with the area organiser, Chakali Pochaiah, Gundla Swamy, Perika Shanker, Lateef, all local guerrilla squad members, Dommari Gangaram, VRCS member, Sukkbotla Rajanna, RYL member, Endrala Gangaram, area organiser of Nallavelli, and Dama Narsaiah, VRCS secretary, Nallavelli area. The police recovered two buckets full of gelatins, 17 detonators, three soap bombs, one photo flash, two metres of fuse wire and electrical wire.

The Superintendent of Police, Dr. Ravi Shanker Ayyanar, held a press conference at the Two Town police station, today to explain the plan of the naxals to blast the building.

Dharma, RYL secretary and Lateef, LGS member, Sirnapalli area, were produced before the presspersons, who revealed the plan. According to the plan, Swamy, Shanker, Gangaram and Lateef, carried two buckets full of gelatin to Nizamabad town. However, last night, the police arrested Lateef from a firewood shop owned by Idris in Ahmedipura locality of the town.

Lateef said that this material was brought to the town by Swamy and Gangaram by a passenger train on January 10 from Sirnapalli. They had to carry the explosives by train as vehicle-checking was stepped up by the police. He was reportedly asked to wait at Ek Minar mosque in the town by the naxals. Swamy and Gangaram came in an auto rickshaw around 11 p.m., met Lateef and asked him to come to the firewood shop where the material was reportedly stored.

He said only then was he informed that they had hatched a plan to blow up the police station building. The idea, according to him, was that there was no rear sentry post in the police station. The plan was to keep the explosives between the water tank and the police station building and draw wire to some distance and blast the building.

The same night, they even visited a lane besides the police station to have a look at the area. Only after that they planned to meet again on Thursday night and carry out the mission as per the plan. Based on the information provided by Lateef, the police raided hideouts in the Sirnapalli area and recovered more explosives and party literature.

The arrested LGS member admitted that he had indulged in the snatching of walkie talkie sets from two trains at Sirnapalli railway station, burning of an RTC bus on Gannaram bridge, snatching of weapon from a Tata Sumo and blasting of a culvert on NH - 7 near Daggi forest.

The arrest of the two exposed the plan to blast the building, the SP said adding that the impact of the blast would have been tragic. There is a huge water tank adjoining the police station which is located in a narrow lane. There are rows of houses surrounding the police station. The police station building itself is so old that due to the impact of the blast, it would easily come with a thud.

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