Hyderabad: Gajwel sessions court on Wednesday passed an order handing over Osmania University professor C. Kashim to seven-day police custody even as Siddipet police have claimed that Kashim has confessed to having links with top cadres of banned CPI (Maoist), and supplying to them firearms, ammunition and raw material for making land mines.
In his confession statement, the OU professor reportedly stated that he is in contact with Mallojula Venugopal, secretary, central regional bureau, Katkam Sudarshan, central committee member, Pulluri Prasad Rao alias Chandranna, central committee member, and Yapa Narayana alias Haribhushan, state committee member.
Kashim is being accused of implementing the Maoist agenda of achieving a new democratic revolution through the barrel of gun, working as a professional revolutionary, looking after CPI (Maoist) frontal organisations in Telangana, and guiding them in spreading Maoist ideology. He becoming the professor of OU is part of the tactics of CPI (Maoist) Party to avoid coming under the focus of police, Siddipet police said in their remand report.
It may be recalled that Siddipet police conducted searches at the residence of 43-year-old Chinthakindi Kashim, Osmania University professor, around 7 am on Saturday. Three hours of search by police culminated with the arrest of Kashim under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Prof Kashim’s wife Snehalatha is also an accused in the case.
During the search, it is stated; police recovered 118 documents and 163 CDs, pen drives and others things.
