Unknown event in Chhattisgarh, Mallampeta Forest, Kanker District area, India on Sun 8th September 2024

A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader has been killed allegedly by his own fellow cadres in Mallampeta Forest under Partapur Police Station limits in Kanker District in the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh on September 8, reports newsdrum.in. Vijja Madkam, an ‘area committee member (ACM)’ of the ‘Rajnandgaon-Kanker Border division’ of Maoists and a resident of south Bastar, was brutally murdered by his colleagues on instructions of Maoist leader hailing from Telangana Vijay Reddy, who had accused him of betraying the outfit, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Bastar Range, Sundarraj P said. Suspecting their own cadres of being "covert operatives" (police informers), senior Maoist figures from other states have been targeting their local colleagues, thereby creating a situation of infighting within the banned organization, he informed.