The
National Investigation Agency (NIA),
which is investigating the activities
of the arrested Communist Party
of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
leader Sadanala Ramakrishna alias
RK, the chief of the outfit's Technical
Research and Arms Management Unit,
believes that the Maoists may have
already managed to send over 6,000
rocket launchers to Chhattisgarh,
reports The Times of India.
The agency found evidence that in
his seven-month clandestine stay
in Kolkata, RK, the trained engineer
from Warangal spent close to INR
20 million manufacturing ultra-low
cost rocket launchers whose designs
and assembling techniques were formulated
by him.
Pegged
back by Security Forces across the
country and having lost several
senior functionaries to either encounters
or arrests, sources said the CPI-Maoist
has been on the offensive and has
sought to drastically improve its
military capability.
It
was with this focus that Ramakrishna
replaced Kishanji in the party hierarchy
and was entrusted with spreading
Maoist activity in eastern India.
"There is information that
CPI (Maoist) has earmarked about
Rs 200 crore [INR 2 billion] for
weaponry and ammunition. We are
trying to verify this," an
officer privy to investigation details
said. | 
