Other MoA event in Maharashtra, Gadchiroli area, India on Sat 25th February 2023

A woman Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre, identified as Rajeshwari alias Kamla Padga Gota (30), who was allegedly involved in attacks on Security Forces (SFs) and carried a reward of INR 600,000, was arrested from a forest along the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra on February 25, reports The Times of India. Kamla, a native of Bijapur District in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, was allegedly involved in the shootout between the Police and Maoists in the Kedmara Forest area of Bhamragad, Maharashtra in April 2023, firing on Police parties in the Kachalaram Forest area in Chhattisgarh, among other incidents of violence, the Police said in a release. She was arrested in 2019 and released a year later. She was an ‘area committee member (ACM)’ in the tailoring team under the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC), it stated. The Maharashtra government had announced a reward of INR 600,000 for her capture, it said.