RAIPUR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a supplementary chargesheet against four more accused for alleged promotion of activities of the banned outfit CPI (Maoist) in Chhattisgarh.
The NIA in its statement stated that the four accused against whom the supplementary chargesheet was produced, the three identified as Sunita Potam, Shankar Muchaki and Dashrath alias Dasru Modiyam, were office bearers of Moolwasi Bachao Manch (MBM), a frontal organisation of the CPI (Maoist), and arrested in the past.
Mallesh Kunjam, the fourth accused named in the chargesheet, was an armed Maoist cadre and is still absconding, the agency said.
Till now, seven accused have been charge-sheeted in the case.
In October 2024, the MBM was banned by the state government under provisions of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005.
The NIA stated that all four accused named in the chargesheet were involved in activities like collection, storage and disbursal of funds for left-wing extremist groups.
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) used these funds for staging protests against the democratically elected government and the development activities that are being carried out in the state. These illicit funds were being channelised through the frontal organisation like MBM, it added.
The NIA, continuing with its probe into the case, is pursuing an action carried out by the Bijapur police in May 2023, when Gajendra Madvi and Laxman Kunjam, both workers of MBM, were arrested and seized Rs 6 lakh cash in junked Rs 2000 notes belonging to Naxalites.