Uneasy calm pervades Tharalapally in Hanmakonda, native village of Maoist chief Saraiah

An uneasy calm pervaded Tharalapally village in Hanamkonda district on Tuesday (March 25, 2025) following the reported demise of Maoist chief Ankeshwaram Saraiah alias Sudhakar, a local of the village, in an change of fireplace with the safety forces in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar forest space within the morning.

Based on sources, Saraiah was among the many three Maoists these killed within the “encounter” in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist stronghold of south Bastar area. The native police, nonetheless, are but to verify this.

Saraiah, a Dandakaranya particular zonal committee member of the banned CPI (Maoist), carried a reward of ₹25 lakh on his head. He had joined the then Individuals’s Struggle Group (PWG) and gone underground within the late Nineties.

He had been lively within the armed battle within the forest area straddling the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border for the final two and a half a long time, sources added.