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Security Forces Kill Three Top Maoist Leaders in Andhra Forest

The targeted operation deepens pressure on the outlawed CPI (Maoist) just days before their planned June 20 bandh in the Telugu states.

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The operation, carried out by the elite Greyhounds unit, led to the death of central committee member Gajarla Ravi alias Uday. (HT sourced photo)
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Overview

  • On June 18, Andhra Pradesh’s elite Greyhounds unit killed three senior Maoist leaders, including Central Committee member Gajarla Ravi alias Uday, during an operation in the Maredumilli forest.
  • Security forces recovered three AK-47 rifles at the encounter site near Devipatnam and launched follow-up combing actions after other insurgents fled.
  • The slain include zonal committee member Aruna, wife of earlier casualty Chalapati, further weakening the Andhra-Odisha Border Special Zonal Committee.
  • The CPI (Maoist) has called a bandh in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on June 20 to protest Operation Kagar and the killing of its leaders.
  • Maoist cadres strangled three villagers in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on June 17 in a retaliatory move, underscoring insurgent violence amid the intensified counter-insurgency drive.