hyderabad the state government on saturday directed the telangana police to withdraw names of five people including that of former dean of university of hyderabads school of social sciences professor haragopal from a case linking them to the outlawed cpi maoist partythe move comes after the police was criticised by a crosssection of people for naming haragopal as an accused with 151 others in an fir filed by tadvai police in mulugu under the unlawful activities prevention act uapa a year agoon saturday evening mulugu superintendent of police gaush alam said they would move a withdrawal petition in the local court against haragopal professor padmaja shah advocate v raghunath civil rights activist gaddam laxman gunti ravinder and suresh kumar the investigation so far has shown that there is no evidence against these five people in this case the sp said in a statementi feel the case must be dropped against all the accused as it is now clear that its fabricated uapa is a draconian act which needs to be scrapped haragopal told toi on saturdayin august 2022 a criminal case was registered against telangana maoist state committee senior member bade chokka rao alias damodar and 151 others under the uapa arms act and other sections however it was kept under wraps with even haragopal not aware that he was named in such a case the details came to light when edla kishore of telangana vidyarthi sangham tvs who was arrested by hyderabad police in january 2022 in connection with another case moved a court seeking details of all the cases booked against him kishore was named as accused no 17 in the uapa case along with haragopal and others which created an uproar mulugu police now claim the case was registered on the basis of reliable information about an illegal assembly of cpi maoist party members led by bade chokka rao and others during a combing operation a police party observed armed men of the banned cpi maoist party in olive green uniforms they immediately asked them to surrender however they ran away vacating their tents and escaping into dense forest apart from various material recovered our team seized some cpi maoist literature and other documentary evidence the 152 accused included main maoist leaders their sympathizers and others whose names were mentioned in maoist literature seized from the scene a cop said