NAGPUR: Senior Maoist cadre Narmada Akka, arrested along with her husband Kiran in 2019, is learnt to have died in a hospital in Mumbai on April 9. The popular Maoist leader, slapped with 65 offences after arrests, was suffering from cancer.
Maoists have declared a one-day bandh in the Dandakaranya, stretching to Chhattishgarh, Maharashtra, parts of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, on April 25.