A member of Central Military Commission, Venkateswara Reddy is believed to have taken a front position during the Maoist attack on the EFR camp at Sildah.
He is also a close aide of CPI (Maoist) politburo member Kishenji alias Mallojula Koteswara Rao, and was in the thick of the Maoist movement in Lalgarh and Nandigram.
“He is a big catch,” said the director general of police, Mr Bhupinder Singh “He has had a role to play in almost all the big Maoist attacks in the recent past. We are interrogating him.”
Sources said that Venkateswara Reddy belongs to a very rare breed of the Maoists who are both ideologues and men of action. He is also the leader of the Jharkhand-Bengal-Bihar-Orissa regional committee. “He specialises in handling improvised explosive devices,” said an intelligence source.
He is wanted in several cases in Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa and was picked up from a bus stand at Sarsuna in Behala area on a tip off.
Venkateswara Reddy, hailing from Prakasam district, had gone underground 20 years ago. He studied in a polytechnic in Guntur and was an activist in the Radical Student Union and worked as city organiser.
“He is wanted here too,” said a senior AP cop. “His arrest is a big blow for the movement. He is known for military tactics. We will arrest him on prisoner transit warrant and bring him here.”
Venkateswara Reddy is accused in major offences in West Bengal including the attack on the Chief Minister, Mr Buddadheb Bhattacharjee. Meanwhile, Maoists killed two villagers at Goghaldiha village in Bihar’s Munger district accusing them of being police informers.
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