Three of the accused, recognized as Sunita Potam, Shankar Muchaki and Dashrath, alias Dasru Modiyam, have been workplace bearers of Moolwasi Bachao Manch (MBM), a frontal organisation of CPI (Maoist), NIA mentioned.
MBM was banned by the Chhattisgarh authorities underneath the Chhattisgarh Particular Public Safety Act, 2005, in October final 12 months. The fourth accused, Mallesh Kunjam, was an armed cadre of CPI (Maoist) and remains to be absconding.
As per NIA investigations, the 4 have been actively engaged in elevating, accumulating, storing and distributing funds for CPI (Maoist).