Mine event in Telangana, Bhadradri Kothagudem District of Telangana area, India on Wed 7th September 2022

The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)’s Charla ‘area committee member (ACM)’ Madakam Kosi alias Rajitha (25), wife of senior Maoist leader Damodar, and a Dalam (armed squad) member, Madvi Dhani (19), were arrested by a joint squad of Charla Police and the special party Police personnel in the Kurnapalli-Bodanelli Forest area in Charla Mandal (administrative sub-division) in Bhadradri Kothagudem District of Telangana on September 7 afternoon, reports The Hindu. The Police said Rajitha, active in the restive forest region of Charla Mandal, bordering Chhattisgarh, was wanted in several cases of Maoist violence including the recent murder of Kurnapally deputy Sarpanch (head of the Panchayat, village level local self-Government institution) Irpa Ramudu. The Police recovered 20 gelatin sticks, two detonators, and revolutionary literature from the arrested duo. “The duo, identified as Maoist women cadre - Rajitha of Mulkanapalli in Dummugudem mandal of Telangana’s Bhadrachalam division and Dhani of Konta in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, confessed that they were trying to plant landmines to kill police and resort to violence, when apprehended by the combing police party,” Superintendent of Police (SP), G Vineeth said, adding, “Rajitha is involved in 80 incidents of Maoist violence including the murder of Kurnapalli deputy sarpanch Ramudu last month, attack on the CRPF [Central Reserve Police Force] jawans at Tekulagudem area last year and several incidents of exchange of fire with police, landmine blasts and other offences.”