Andhra Pradesh (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2007

A day earlier, armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed K. Satyam, a Congress party leader, at Chinnamidisaleru village in the Khammam district. Read less...

Police arrested a top CPI-Maoist leader and Mahabubnagar ‘district committee secretary’, Kodavati Kumara Swamy alias Naganna alias Sahu, carrying a head money of INR 300,000 in Warangal on June 5-night. According to police, Swamy is also a member of the South Telangana Zonal Committee and one of the prime accused in the killing of the Indian Police Service officer, Paradeshi Naidu, the then Superintendent of Police (SP) of Mahabubnagar district. Warangal Superintendent of Police, Soumya Mishra, said that Swamy was involved in several cases, including the killing of eight police personnel. Read less...

Maoists attacked the house of a trader, Soyam Somaraju, in the Pedamidisaleru area of the same district. Read less...

Maoists set ablaze a tractor in the Togugudem forests Read less...

The Warangal police also recovered 13 landmines, four claymore mines,16 detonators and 200 meters of wire bundle. Read less...

Two cadres of the Janashakti (a left-wing extremist group) group were reportedly killed in an exchange of fire with police in the reserve forest area near Gattupalli in the Gopavaram mandal (administrative region) of Kadapa district on June 6-night, reports The Hindu. Read less...

A Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre, identified as Konapuri Ramulu, brother of the CPI-Maoist ‘State secretary’ Sambasivudu, surrendered at the office of Deputy Inspector General of Police (Hyderabad Range) in Hyderabad on June 13, reports The Hindu. Read less...

According to The Hindu, on June 17, police arrested a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Kota Anand alias Kishore, a member of the Bellamkonda Dalam (squad) of the erstwhile People’s War Group (PWG) and a close associate of ‘Tech’ Madhu, who was arrested on the charge of manufacturing rocket launchers under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act, in Vijayawada. The police seized revolutionary literature from Anand and charged him with continuing his association with the Maoists by taking up repair of their weapons. He was also involved in several cases, including two relating to murders. Read less...

Two cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) reportedly threatened the husband of Joolakallu Gram Panchayat (local administrative body) Sarpanch (village head) in the Piduguralla area of Guntur district with dire consequences if he did not ‘mend his ways’. The Maoists alleged that he had swindled INR 3, 00,000 in a road contract. They also warned five surrendered left-wing extremists for their alleged links with the police to face dire consequences, reports The Hindu. Read less...

New Indian Express reports that on June 21, senior police officials of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, all Maoist-affected States, held a meeting at Visakhapatnam to take stock of the spurt in Maoist activities. Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police, M. A. Basith, who presided over the meeting, reportedly told the officers that the State government has decided to put down the violent activities of the Maoists using full force. Read less...

A Salva Judum (anti-Maoist peace movement) activist, identified as Srinivas, was shot dead by cadres of the CPI-Maoist at a weekly tribal market at Edugurallapalli in the Khammam district. Srinivas was reportedly chased and subsequently shot dead in full public view. Read less...

A top Maoist leader, Sande Rajamouli alias Prasad - the State Committee Secretary of Karnataka, a Central Committee Member and Central Military Commission member of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) - was reportedly killed in an encounter with the police near the railway station at Dharmavaram in the Anantapur district, reports The Hindu. Rajamouli was reportedly involved in about 120 cases in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa and also the mastermind behind the Alipiri blast in which former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had a narrow escape. According to police, two cadres of the CPI-Maoist, possibly Prasad’s bodyguards, opened fire towards a special police party without any provocation and Rajamouli was killed in retaliatory fire by the police while trying to escape. The police recovered a revolver from the slain Maoist leader. However, the other two CPI-Maoist cadres managed to escape. Read less...

Maoists have reportedly disputed the Andhra Pradesh Police claim that the top Maoist leader Sande Rajamouli was shot dead in an encounter at Dharmavaram town in the Anantapur district on June 22. Gangadhara, the Maoist spokesman for Karnataka, said that Rajamouli was in fact arrested near a bus stand at Kollam in the State of Kerala on June 22 at 2 pm when he was talking to a party leader over phone and killed later on. Gangadhara reportedly warned the State Government that it would have "to pay a price for the killing." Read less...

Two cadres of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML) Praja Pratighatna outfit, Bhaskar alias Srinivas, 'dalam' (squad) commander of the Mahabubabad area, and Srinivasulu, 'dalam' commander’ of the Tirmulgery area, were killed in a gun-battle with police near Mallampalli in the Warangal district on June 22, IANS reports. However, some of their associates managed to escape from the incident site. Read less...

A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre, identified as Palaka Raja Rao alias Kiran, a member of Kondabariki dalam (squad) of the outfit, surrendered to the police at Palakonda in the Srikakulam district on June 25, reports The Hindu. Read less...

A red alert was declared in the agency area of Visakhapatnam district in view of the Maoists’ economic blockade programme on June 26-27, during which it was expected to target major projects and installations. Read less...

The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set ablaze a state-run Road Transport Corporation bus at R.V. Nagar in the Visakhaptanam district on June 26, reports New Indian Express. Maoists also set ablaze the records of Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation and Coffee Board Research Centre in the same area. The attacks were reportedly to protest the killing of Maoist leader S Rajamouli by the police and the approval for a alumina refinery in the S Kota mandal (administrative division) area in Vizianagaram district. Read less...

A CPI-Maoist activist, identified as Polam Narasaiah alias Ramanna, carrying head money of INR 50,000, was arrested by police from the Mancherial division of Adilabad district. Read less...

According to The Hindu, police personnel recovered eight landmines laid on the Kaluvapally road in the Tadvai mandal (administrative division) of the Warangal district by cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on an unspecified date. Read less...

On June 29, a claymore mine weighing about 12 kilogram was spotted by farm workers and subsequently defused by the police on the rail track near Gate Karepalli village in the Khammam district. The mine was reportedly planted by the CPI-Maoist as part of their economic blockade programme on June 26-27. Read less...

Police arrested a courier of the Praja Prathighatana outfit, identified as Bandaru Bhadraiah alias Bhaskar, in Warangal on an unspecified date. Read less...

Police recovered a .30 carbine along with 32 live rounds from cadres of the Janashakti outfit at Lingala forest area in the same district. Another .30 carbine with 12 live rounds, one 3.2 pistol with four rounds belonging to the Prathighatana outfit was recovered at Musuku Thanda in the Palakurthy mandal. Read less...