Overview

• Police and CRPF units have launched intensified patrols, vehicle inspections and search operations in Mulugu and Bhadradri Kothagudem districts along the Telangana–Chhattisgarh border.
• Security measures including rigorous vehicle checks have been extended to agency areas in the Andhra–Odisha border region to prevent Maoist gatherings.
• Maoist banners and pamphlets condemning the Centre’s Operation Kagar appeared in Charla mandal, urging villagers to organize memorial meetings from July 28 to August 3.
• A breakaway group, the Jayashankar Bhupalpally District Maoist Atma Parirakshana Praja Front, distributed anti-Maoist pamphlets challenging insurgent ideology across Jayashankar Bhupalpally and Bhadradri Kothagudem districts.
• Alerts were raised further after recent encounters killed senior Maoist Central Committee members, including secretary Namballa Keshav Rao alias Basavaraj.