Four alleged Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) sympathisers from adjoining Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh were arrested by a joint patrol party of Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel on the outskirts of Charla town in the Bhadrachalam Agency in Bhadradri Kothagudem District of Telangana on November 30, reports The Hindu. Around 20 pamphlets relating to the ensuing CPI-Maoist’s 21st annual ‘People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) week’, slated to be observed by the outlawed organisation from December 2 to 8, and 10 rice bags, each weighing 30 kilograms, were recovered from them, Police said. The arrested Maoist sympathisers, whose identities are yet to be ascertained, hail from two remote villages in Usoor Block in Bijapur District. Police sources said the arrested Maoist sympathisers were carrying the rice bags to hand them over to the Maoists as per the instructions of the Maoist leaders based in the forests in Usoor Block of Chhattisgarh.