Radha, a nursing student, was allegedly abducted by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and forcefully inducted into the movement in 2017, reports The Hindu on June 23. Officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) came to Visakhapatnam District on June 23 to investigate the case of a woman who had been missing since 2017. Pallepati Pochamma, a resident of Ranga Reddy District in Telangana, had lodged a complaint stating that her daughter, Radha, a nursing student, was abducted three years ago by members of the Chaitanya Mahila Sangham (CMS), a frontal organisation of the CPI-Maoist, and inducted into the Maoist movement forcibly. In her complaint, Pochamma said her daughter was taken away by the Maoist leaders and CMS activists under the pretext of providing treatment to someone in the Maoist fold. Pochamma also said that her daughter was brought to the Pedabayalu forest area in the erstwhile Visakhapatnam Agency, which is now part of Alluri Sitharamaraju District, and brainwashed by the Maoist leaders to join the movement. Based on her complaint, the NIA officials came to Visakhapatnam and visited Pedabayalu Police Station, where cases had been booked under relevant Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections and also under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment Act (UAPA). It is learnt that the Maoist leaders such as Gajarla Ravi alias Uday, ‘secretary’ of the Andhra Odisha Border Special Zone Committee (AOBSZC), Aruna, Devendra, Dubasi, Swapna, and Shilpa are the main accused in Radha's abduction case.