Overview
- Police in Alluri Sitarama Raju district confirmed six Maoists were killed during an early‑morning exchange of fire in Maredumilli as a Greyhounds‑led joint team moved in on intelligence inputs.
- Authorities say formal identification of the bodies is pending and forensic verification will precede any final confirmation, with area sanitisation and combing operations continuing.
- Multiple police sources and media reports name Madvi Hidma and his wife, known as Raje or Rajakka, among the dead, though officials have not issued definitive confirmation.
- The encounter unfolded in dense forest near the tri‑junction border belt, a corridor long used by Maoist cadres moving between Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and neighbouring states.
- Officials characterize the development as a major setback to CPI (Maoist) leadership following a year of top‑tier losses and surrenders, as a separate Sukma operation also reported one Maoist killed.