Three Prime Maoists Killed In Encounter With Police In Andhra | India Information
Three high leaders of CPI(Maoist) had been killed in an alternate of fireplace with police in Andhra Pradesh’s Alluri Sitarama Raju district on Wednesday.
The alternate of fireplace between the personnel of the elite anti-Maoist power Greyhounds and Maoists occurred within the Devipatnam forest space on the Andhra-Odisha border.
The Greyhounds personnel, engaged in a combing operation within the forests, noticed the Maoists and requested them to give up. When the Maoists opened hearth, the safety personnel retaliated, killing the three Maoists. The encounter occurred close to Kondamodalu within the forests between Rampachodavaram and Maredumilli mandals.
The slain Maoists had been recognized as Andhra Odisha Border (AOB) Particular Zone Committee secretary Gajarla Ravi alias Uday, Particular Zone Committee member Aruna, and Particular Zone Committee ACM Anju. Ravi was additionally a member of the CPI(Maoist) Central Committee.
The safety forces recovered three AK-47 rifles from the scene of the encounter.
Aruna was the spouse of Ramachandra Reddy alias Chalapathi, a Central Committee member who was amongst 14 Maoists gunned down by safety forces in January this 12 months in Chhattisgarh close to the border with Odisha.
Aruna was concerned within the killing of Araku MLA Kidari Sarveswara Rao and former MLA Siveri Soma. The Maoists had gunned down the 2 leaders of the TDP in 2018 within the Visakhapatnam district. Aruna was a local of Karakavanipalem in Pendurthi mandal of Viskhatpatnam district and carried a reward of Rs 25 lakh on her head. Uday carried a bounty of Rs 25 lakh on his head.
The our bodies of the slain Maoists have been shifted to the Rampachodavaram Space Hospital.
Senior police officers visited the scene of the encounter.
The killing of three Maoist leaders is seen as a significant blow to the banned outfit within the AOB area.
The AOB was seen by Maoists as a protected hall between the Dandakaranya area in Chhattisgarh and the forests of Jharkhand.
The most recent blow to the Maoists in AOB got here shut on the heels of the killing of a number of Maoists by the safety forces in Chhattisgarh below Operation Kagar.
