SAA event in Andhra Pradesh, Maredumilli Forests, Alluri Sitarama Raju District area, India on Thu 20th November 2025

Seven Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed in an exchange of fire (EoF) with the Police in Maredumilli Forests in Alluri Sitarama Raju District of Andhra Pradesh on November 19, reports The Hindu. This was the second encounter in the last 24 hours in the forests near G.M. Valasa of the same district. Top Maoist leader Metturi Joga Rao alias Tech Shankar, who was the CPI-Maoist in-charge ‘Central Committee Member (CCM)’ of Andhra Odisha Border (AOB), was among those slain, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Intelligence, Mahesh Chandra Laddha said. Former guard ‘commander’ of Nambala Keshava Rao, Jyothi alias Saritha; Suresh alias Ramesh; Lokesh alias Ganesh; Sainu alias Vasu; Anitha; and Shammi, Area Committee Members (ACMs), were the other Maoists gunned down. “The encounter took place around 7 a.m. and firing is continuing when the reports last came in. Of the total, three women and four male Naxalites were killed in the EoF on Wednesday (November 19),” Laddha said at a press conference in Vijaywada. A few of the Maoists, who managed to escape from the Police in yesterday’s (November 18) EoF, were killed in today’s firing, the intelligence chief added. On November 18, top ‘commander’ Madvi Hidma and his wife, Madakam Raje, were among six killed in a similar encounter. Hidma was the ‘CCM’ and South Bastar Battalion Commandant of the CPI-Maoist, while his wife was the Chhattisgarh ‘State Zonal Committee Member (SZCM)’.