A day after safety forces recovered the physique of a senior Maoist chief after an encounter in Indravati Nationwide Park in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, the physique of one more chief from the banned outfit’s Telangana state committee has now been discovered.
The physique was recovered from the encounter that broke out in Indravati Nationwide Park in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district Thursday morning, officers have mentioned. That is the third encounter this 12 months within the nationwide park and brings the whole gunned down in them to 45.
“The deceased Maoist is recognized as 45-year-old Bhaskar @ Mailarapu Adellu. He’s a Particular Zonal Committee (SZC) Member of the Telangana State Committee,” Bastar vary Inspector Basic of Police Sundarraj P mentioned.
A resident of Urumadla village in Telangana’s Adilabad district, Bhaskar was the secretary of the Mancherial-Komarambheem (MKB) division of the Telangana State Committee of the banned CPI (Maoist) outfit. He had a bounty of Rs 45 lakh — Rs 25 lakh in Chhattisgarh and 20 lakh in Telangana.
“An AK-47 rifle together with different explosives, weapons, and ammunition have been recovered from the encounter web site,” Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Yadav mentioned.
That is the second important dying on this encounter after central committee member Thentu Laxmi Narasimha Chalam alias Sudhakar, 66, was killed Thursday. Hours after the killing, a gaggle of Maoists stopped a transport car and set it on fireplace in retaliation.
This comes almost a fortnight after Nambala Keshava Rao, alias Basava Raju, the final secretary of the CPI (Maoist), was gunned down in an encounter together with 27 others within the jungles of Abujhmad area in Narayanpur district on Could 21.
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Union Residence Minister Amit Shah has set a deadline of March 2026 to eradicate Left Wing Extremism (LWE) from India. The safety forces this 12 months until date have 202 Maoists, of which 185 have been in Bastar area alone — Bijapur is part of Bastar area. This 12 months has additionally seen the dying of 17 safety personnel in assaults by Maoists.