<p>Kodagu Superintendent of Police Dr Suman D Pennekar has denied reports of a Maoist team appearing in Yavakapadi village in Napoklu police station limits on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district police had conducted a combing operation, following a tip-off from the local residents, but no naxal movement has been traced. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Unconfirmed reports had been doing the rounds that two Naxalites had collected food items from two houses in Yavakapadi village and had snatched a mobile phone from a woman.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The rumour created panic in the villages located on the fringes of the forest. It was also suspected that the team of Maoists had shifted base to Kerala. </p>.<p class="bodytext">But the photographs of the suspected Naxalites did not match with the identity of those who had snatched the mobile phone from the woman. The phone-snatchers had come in normal attire and did not have any weapons. The mobile phone was found 80 km away from the house. The Anti-Naxal Force, however, continued to comb the forests, the SP added.</p>
<p>Kodagu Superintendent of Police Dr Suman D Pennekar has denied reports of a Maoist team appearing in Yavakapadi village in Napoklu police station limits on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district police had conducted a combing operation, following a tip-off from the local residents, but no naxal movement has been traced. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Unconfirmed reports had been doing the rounds that two Naxalites had collected food items from two houses in Yavakapadi village and had snatched a mobile phone from a woman.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The rumour created panic in the villages located on the fringes of the forest. It was also suspected that the team of Maoists had shifted base to Kerala. </p>.<p class="bodytext">But the photographs of the suspected Naxalites did not match with the identity of those who had snatched the mobile phone from the woman. The phone-snatchers had come in normal attire and did not have any weapons. The mobile phone was found 80 km away from the house. The Anti-Naxal Force, however, continued to comb the forests, the SP added.</p>