The Radical Youth League (RYL) was a frontal organisation of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a Naxalite group, mainly operating in Andhra Pradesh.
In March 2012 the Madras High Court ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the event, saying there was prima facie evidence that the police had violated the law.
[1] On 24 November 2002 the police arrested twenty six people in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu, and on 10 January 2003 they were placed under POTA by the government on the grounds that they were members of the Radical Youth League.
The former judge Rajinder Sachar led a team of human rights activists who visited them in jail on 15 September 2004 and persuaded them to end the hunger strike.
[8] In February 2012 "Q" branch officials arrested a core committee member of the Radical Youth League named Manivasagam along with 25 other Naxalites.