Chennai: A day after the Andhra Pradesh police nabbed Kerala’s most wanted Maoist from Coimbatore with the help of TN police, the ‘Q’ branch of the state police had intensified the search for Kalidas, the top and hardened Naxal operative from the state. Surprised by the fact that AP police team had come to Coimbatore and tracked the wanted Naxals, the TN police are now shifting to top gear to nab Kalidas, who nurtured People’s War Group in Dharmapuri, before sleuths from other states nab him.

The Dharmapuri police even believe that Kalidas had been giving arms training to fresh recruits. Police sources said Kalidas, is now absconding. “He is an important man and had been very active for the last four years in the TN unit of the Maoist outfit,” sources added.Sleuths from Tamil Nadu ‘Q’ branch, monitoring terror suspects and Naxals in the state, are still hunting for Kalidas, believed to be holed up in tri-junction jungle along with some other cadres.

The problem is that members of Maoist groups keep travelling from one state to another through tri-junction jungles to dodge the cops, sources added. The fact that Kerala’s most wanted man Roopesh was nabbed in Tamil Nadu itself explains the strategy of the Naxals.

Though the autocratic ways of Kalidas have already earned him a few enemies within the Red outfit, the Tamil Nadu police are still not been able to track him down. Termed as a ‘Capitalist’ functioning within the Naxal group, Kalidas is said to be exploiting women cadres. Others have started questioning his relationship with a female cadres, an internal report, prepared by CPI (Maoists) central committee said.