Two persons believed to be CPI (Maoist) Central Committee members (CCM) from Telangana state were killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Monday, Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Robinson Gudiya announced to the media today.
In his report, the SP told the press that the slain persons had been identified as Katta Ramachandra Reddy and Kadari Satyanarayana Reddy, and that both of them were purported to be Central Committee (CC) members of the CPI (Maoist).
Along with the bodies of the two alleged Maoists, several automatic weapons were recovered at the encounter site in the Abujhmad forest falling under Narayanpur district in south Bastar of Chhattisgarh, the SP stated in his remarks.
The encounter, which took place along the inter-district border of Narayanpur (Chhattisgarh) and Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) districts, was still underway, according to the SP, adding that the exchange of fire began during a search operation launched by security personnel based on intelligence inputs regarding the presence of Maoists in the Abhujmad region on the Chhattisgarh–Maharashtra inter-state border.
As per the SP’s statement to the press, Katta Ramachandra Reddy (63) used many aliases such as Gudsa Usendi, Vijay, Vikalp and is a native of Karimnagar in Telangana. Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy (67), who used the aliases Gopanna and Buchanna, is also a native of Karimnagar in Telangana.
The SP alleged in his report that both the slain persons were Maoist CC members who were active in the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the Maoist party for over three decades.
The SP concluded his remarks by saying that so far security personnel have recovered one AK-47 rifle, one INSAS rifle, one Barrel Grenade Launcher (BGL), and a large cache of explosives from the site of the encounter.
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