The NIA found during investigation that Tati was the president of Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangh, a frontal organisation of CPI (Maoist), in Acheli village in Dantewada district, the statement said.   He was involved in the transportation of the IEDs used in the attack, carried out in Aranpur with the aim to loot weapons of the security forces as part of a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the government of India and strike terror in the minds of people, it said.

“Tati was in the possession of the prohibited explosive material, which he had received from senior cadres of the proscribed terrorist organisation. He had also attended conspiracy meetings organised by CPI (Maoist),” the agency said.

The state police, during initial investigations, had chargesheeted 26 accused in 2023 before the NIA re-registered the case on February 23, 2024. PTI AKV AKV KVK KVK