Andhra Pradesh (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2022

Radha, a nursing student, was allegedly abducted by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and forcefully inducted into the movement in 2017, reports The Hindu on June 23. Officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) came to Visakhapatnam District on June 23 to investigate the case of a woman who had been missing since 2017. Pallepati Pochamma, a resident of Ranga Reddy District in Telangana, had lodged a complaint stating that her daughter, Radha, a nursing student, was abducted three years ago by members of the Chaitanya Mahila Sangham (CMS), a frontal organisation of the CPI-Maoist, and inducted into the Maoist movement forcibly. In her complaint, Pochamma said her daughter was taken away by the Maoist leaders and CMS activists under the pretext of providing treatment to someone in the Maoist fold. Pochamma also said that her daughter was brought to the Pedabayalu forest area in the erstwhile Visakhapatnam Agency, which is now part of Alluri Sitharamaraju District, and brainwashed by the Maoist leaders to join the movement. Based on her complaint, the NIA officials came to Visakhapatnam and visited Pedabayalu Police Station, where cases had been booked under relevant Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections and also under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment Act (UAPA). It is learnt that the Maoist leaders such as Gajarla Ravi alias Uday, ‘secretary’ of the Andhra Odisha Border Special Zone Committee (AOBSZC), Aruna, Devendra, Dubasi, Swapna, and Shilpa are the main accused in Radha's abduction case. Read less...

Wanted Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader and ‘secretary’ of the Pedabayalu-Korukonda area committee of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Vanthala Ramakrishna alias Prabhakar alias Ashok alias Goddali Rayudu, was arrested in Alluri Sitarama Raju District of Andhra Pradesh on June 29, reports The New Indian Express. Besides Ramakrishna’s arrest, 33 party members and 27 members of the ‘militia’ (people’s army of Maoists), including eight women, his supporters who had been working under his supervision, surrendered to the Police in Alluri Sitarama Raju District. The arrested Maoist, an accused in 124 cases, including several murders, registered in the neighbouring Odisha, and East Godavari and Alluri Sitarama Raju Districts, was carrying a bounty of INR 500,000 on his head. Ramkrishna was allegedly involved in 14 murders, including that of member of legislative Assembly (MLA) Kidari Sarveshwar Rao and former MLA Siveri Soma, Korra Lakshman of Bongajangi, Gemmili Krishnarao of Vakapalli, and others, Police said. Police recovered INR 3.9 million in cash, a landmine, five detonators, one 9 mm pistol along with eight rounds, electrical wire, six batteries and Maoist literature from his possession. Superintendent of Police (SP) S Sateesh Kumar said Operation Parivartan and the comfortable life being led by surrendered Maoists influenced ‘militia’ men to join the mainstream. Several cases are pending against the surrendered members. Among those surrendered, Anand Sireesha, Gangi, Jeevani, Srikanth, Srinu and some others moved along with the Maoist party, laid landmines and ambushed police parties. They had also set fire to road-laying machinery and cellphone towers, killed tribesmen in Praja courts (Kangaroo courts of the Maoists) after branding them as ‘police informers’, and committed other offences, the SP said. Read less...