Overview
- Security forces killed Madvi Hidma, his wife Madakam Raje, and four others in an early-morning encounter in the Maredumilli forests near the Andhra–Odisha–Chhattisgarh tri-junction.
- Police said the exchange of fire occurred between roughly 6:00 and 7:10 a.m., six bodies were recovered and sent for post-mortems, and combing operations continue to track fleeing cadres.
- Recovered items at the site included two AK-47 rifles, a pistol, a revolver, a single-bore weapon, ammunition, kit bags, and explosive components such as electrical and non-electrical detonators.
- Officials said the action followed specific intelligence and cross-border surveillance by Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha police with central forces, resulting in parallel raids and 31 arrests linked to Maoist networks across Andhra districts.
- Hidma, a CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member and PLGA Battalion No. 1 commander tied to the 2010 Dantewada and 2013 Jhiram Ghati attacks, was killed 12 days before an internal November 30 target set for his elimination within the broader March 2026 deadline to end Maoist violence.