Heavy security in Visakha agency ahead of July 1 bandh

The Visakhapatnam District Police have deployed good number of police personnel in all the LWE-affected mandals ahead of the bandh call given by the banned CPI (Maoist).The bandh call was given by the

The Visakhapatnam District Police have deployed good number of police personnel in all the LWE-affected mandals ahead of the bandh call given by the banned CPI (Maoist). The bandh call was given by the Maoists for July 1, protesting against the recent encounter in Theegalametta area in Koyyuru mandal, in which six Maoists, including two DCMs (divisional committee member) and one ACM (area committee member) were killed. They alleged that the encounter was one-sided and had said that the State Government was spending crores of rupees in arming the security forces and sending them to the forest area to scuttle the movement and harass the tribals, at at time when the entire country, including the state was reeling under the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.