NIA Arrests Woman HC Advocate For Maoist Links

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) reportedly took into custody Chukka Shilpa, a practicing advocate of the High Court and member of Chaitanya Mahila Sangham (CMS), a frontal organisation of the CPI (Maoist), from her residence in Hyderabad on Thursday.

According to sources, the police took her into custody after conducting searches in connection with a case of a girl's kidnap booked by the Visakhapatnam police against Shilpa and others, which is now being investigated by the NIA.

The nursing student, Radha, has been missing for the last three-and-a-half years. The parents of the girl lodged a complaint with the police, who registered a case and have been investigating it since then.

Her mother alleged that CMS leaders Dongari Devendra, Dubasi Swapna, Chukka Shilpa and others had met their daughter at her college and influenced her towards Maoism.

In December 2017, Devendra reportedly took Radha away forcibly on the pretext of providing medical treatment to someone. Since then, she has not returned home. The parents later learnt that she had joined the banned organisation.

The NIA also conducted searches at the residence of Devender, son of a Maoist leader Dubashi Shankar, at Chegunta town in Medak district.