The second ‘Maoist’, who was killed in Sunday’s ‘encounter’ in Puttapadu forest area near the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border, has been identified as 20-year-old Sodi Mada, a militia member of the outlawed outfit.
Police sources said the deceased hailed from Puttapadu village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district.
CPI (Maoist) Charla Local Organising Squad (LOS) commander Madakam Yerraiah alias Rajesh, 28, was the other Maoist killed in the ‘exchange of fire’.