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Six of Naxal gang suspected to have killed TRS leader held
May 20, 2014

Six members of a gang allegedly belonging to former Naxal leader Nayeem, who is on the radar of Andhra Pradesh police in connection with the murder of TRS leader K Ramulu, were arrested in Thiruvananthapuram today, police said.         Ramulu, a member of Telangana Rashtra Samiti executive committee and brother of former top Maoist leader Sambashivudu, was shot dead by unidentified persons on May 11 in Nalgonda town of Andhra Pradesh. Subsequently, fugitive Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem had emerged as the prime suspect behind the killing of Ramulu.        

 

"We have got information on arrest of six persons in Trivandrum. It is still not clear whether they are members of Nayeem's gang. Their involvement in the killing of Ramulu is also not confirmed...however, we are sending a police team to Kerala to interrogate the arrested persons," Nalgonda district Superintendent of Police T Prabhakar Rao told PTI.

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