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Civic polls under way in Chhattisgarh, police arrest six alleged Maoist sympathisers
Raipur, Dec 27 (IBNS): Voting is underway amid high security for civic polls in six municipalities and 92 panchayats of Chhattisgarh on Monday, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, the Bastar police on Monday arrested seven people from Andhra Pradesh inside the Chhattisgarh border in Sukma district and claimed that they belonged to intellectual wings of Maoists outfits, reported the Hindustan Times.
HT quoted Indira Kalyan Elesela, SP of Sukma, as saying that those arrested included social activist Durga Prasad of Hydrabad, R. Laxmaiyya, secretary of Adiwasi Tudem Dubba, Khammam, journalists B. Prabhakar Rao and Rajendra Prasad from Hyderabad, high court advocates Ch Prabhakar Rao and B. Ravindra Nath from Hyderabad and Mohammad Nazim, research scholar Osmania University.
One of the arrested, Ch. Prabhakar said the police action was unwarranted because they were only civilians, according to media reports.
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