Accused Narla Ravi Sharma and his wife B Anuradha

HYDERABAD: The LB Nagar police on Tuesday arrested a Maoist couple who are on bail for allegedly resorting to illegal activities. Police seized Maoist literature, three laptops, pen drives and memory cards from the possession of the accused.

Narla Ravi Sharma, 52, and his wife B Anuradha, 56 are ex-state committee members of CPI Maoist Party’s Bihar-Jharkhand unit.

Acting on specific information, the intelligence sleuths of Telangana along with LB Nagar police conducted a search at the house of the couple in Visalandhra Colony, Mansoorabad, LB Nagar. Police seized memory cards, three laptops, pen drives containing couple’s correspondence with Maoists.

According to police, Ravi Sharma alias Rahul is a native of Tirumalapuram village in Kollapur mandal of Nagar Kurnool district. He completed graduation in agriculture from Acharya NG Ranga Agriculture University in 1986. Ravi got introduced to extreme left wing politics through M Damodar Reddy, a member of People’s War Group. Ravi was elected as General Secretary of Radical Student’s Union (RSU), Hyderabad.

Ravi was first arrested in 1988 for settling ablaze an RTC bus at Saidabad . Between 1992-93, Ravi worked in Central Research Institute of Dry Land Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad.

In the year 1998 he was sent to Bihar by the party and when he was arrested by Hazaribagh police on October 17, 2009, Ravi was state committee member of the Maoist party’s Bihar-Jharkhand unit.

After getting released on bail on April 4, 2016, Ravi came to Hyderabad and started living with his wife, who is also ex-state committee member of Maoist party’s Bihar-Jharkhand unit, at Swetcha Apartments in Bagh Amberpet. In June they moved to a house in Mansoorabad. Both of them were currently on bail in different cases, LB Nagar police said.

According to police, Ravi and Anuradha went to Dandakaranya in July 2018 and met Maoist party leadership. “Sixteen cases were registered against him in Jharkhand , Hyderabad and Chintapalli of Visakhapatnam. Ravi was actively involved in the formation of All India Forum against Hindutwa Fascist Offensive in February 2019 at Delhi,” an official release issued by Rachakonda police stated.

A case was booked against the couple under sections 120(B) r/w 34 IPC & Sections 10, 13, 18, 18(B) and 20 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 and Section 8(1)(2) of Telangana State Public Security Act, 2012.

