Maoists engaging children for menial works: DGP

‘Children used as cooks, orderlies or assistants’

Maoists were doing disservice to children by engaging them to do menial works, DGP M. Mahender Reddy said on Wednesday. The outlawed CPI-Maoists were using children to cook food and carry luggage, the DGP said. Sometimes, the Maoists were also engaging the children to work as orderly or assistants, Mr. Reddy said. By doing so, Maoists were robbing children of their precious childhood and doing a great disservice to them, the State police chief remarked. He was addressing a press conference over the surrender of a Maoist Ravula Revanth alias Ramanna, who was son of the late top Maoist leader Ravula Srinivas alias Ramanna.