Overview
- Twelve students from multiple universities, including Osmania University, were stopped at Chintoor on Friday as they headed to the Maredumilli forests and were released after several hours.
- Chintoor Assistant Superintendent of Police Boddu Hemanth said the team was briefed and not allowed to proceed due to ongoing Operation Sambhav and safety concerns.
- The students said they planned to visit the site, speak with locals and officials, and examine allegations that Madvi Hidma was captured alive and later killed.
- Human Rights Forum Andhra Pradesh condemned the detention of the fact-finding group at the tri-State border.
- Authorities maintain that six Maoists, including senior CPI (Maoist) leader Madvi Hidma, were killed in a November 18 encounter in Papikonda National Park, and the student team returned to Hyderabad the same evening.