Vigil has been intensified in the forest areas of Telangana’s border mandals of Charla and Dummugudem abutting Chhattisgarh’s Maoist hotbed of south Bastar division in view of the CPI (Maoist)’s call for week-long celebration of the outfit’s 18th anniversary from September 21 to 27.
An uneasy calm continued to prevail at Kurnapalli and its surrounding forest fringe villages dotting the restive Telangana-Chhattisgarh border. Last month, suspected Maoist militia members hacked the village deputy sarpanch Irpa Ramudu to death by branding him as a police informer, while the police denied the charge.
The Charla police claimed to have arrested CPI (Maoist) area committee member Madakam Kosi alias Rajitha, wife of senior Maoist leader Damodar, wanted in several cases of ‘Maoist violence’ including the ‘murder’ of Kurnapalli deputy sarpanch, along with another woman cadre during a combing operation in the Kurnapalli-Bodanelli forest area earlier this month.
