Four cadres of the Chandra Pulla Reddy Bata faction of the Communist Party of India–Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML, Chandra Pulla Reddy Bata faction) were arrested and four weapons and ammunition were seized by the Police near a stream in Gundala Mandal in Bhadradri-Kothagudem District of Telangana on April 24, reports The Hindu. Acting on a tip-off, a Police team arrested the four-armed cadres while camping at a plantation abutting a local stream near Gundala. They were identified as Mokalla Sammaiah alias Nuthan (45), State ‘secretary’, CP (Bata) Kumar squad, P Iythaiah (30), dalam (armed squad) member, M Devaiah (22), dalam member, and M Rambai (38), dalam member, all belonging to Bhadradri-Kothagudem District, Police said. Superintendent of Police (SP), Sunil Dutt said the four were arrested while hatching a plan to extort money from local contractors. Sammaiah was involved in nine offences, including a double murder case, and several incidents of extortion, Dutt said. Weapons seized included one 8 mm rifle, two Smooth Bore Breech Loading (SBBL), one Bharmar gun, besides 90 rounds of ammunition.