Telangana (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2023

Two couriers of the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) were arrested by a joint squad of Charla Police and the personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) during a vehicle checking drive on the outskirts of the Charla Mandal (administrative sub division) headquarters town in Bhadradri Kothagudem District of Telangana on January 5, reports The Hindu. A bundle of 200-metre cordex wire, 10 pressure cookers, some substances used for making explosive materials, and a tractor-trolley were seized from them. The arrested persons were identified as P Sammaiah (35), and Satyaveni (33), both hailing from Charla. According to the Police, the duo had been working as couriers for the CPI-Maoist Dalam (armed squad) led by the Bhadradri-Kothagudem division ‘secretary’ Azad by providing essential commodities and explosive materials to the ultras operating in the neighbouring Chhattisgarh for the last two years. Read less...

A Dalam (armed squad) member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Madavi Bheema alias Dashru, surrendered before the Superintendent of Police (SP) Sangramsingh G Patil in Mulugu District of Telangana on January 25, reports The New Indian Express. Bheema, a native of Komatpally village under Ursuru Tehsil (revenue unit) in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh, joined the party and was a 'militia' (people's army of the Maoists) member for two years. In December 2012, he went underground and joined the 1st battalion of Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), military wing of the Maoists, and worked in the second platoon of the 1st Company. He was involved in an exchange of fire in Sukma District in 2014, in which six cadres of the Maoist party were injured and 14 Policemen died. In another exchange of fire in the same district in 2015, six weapons of the Security Forces (SFs) were captured by the Maoist. At Pottongupadu, he was involved in another exchange of fire in which Policemen were injured. Read less...