Overview
- The encounter took place between 6:30 and 7:00 am in the Maredumilli forest of Alluri Sitarama Raju district near the Andhra–Chhattisgarh–Odisha border.
- Police identified the dead as Madvi Hidma, his wife Madakam Raje, and four associates, with bodies sent for post-mortem and formal verification.
- Elite Greyhounds and district police acted on specific intelligence about Maoist movement across state lines as part of intensified counter-insurgency operations.
- Two AK-47 rifles, a pistol, a revolver, a single-bore firearm and explosive detonators were recovered as combing operations continued at the site.
- Officials call the killing a major setback for the insurgency; Hidma was a CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member linked to at least 26 deadly attacks and carried a ₹50 lakh bounty, and police reported 31 related arrests across Andhra Pradesh.