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8 Left wing extremists killed by Telangana police
Thursday, 14 December 2017 | Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
In the biggest encounter after several years in Telangana, police has gunned down 8 left wing extremist in the forest area of Bhadradari Kottagudem district on Thursday morning, police said.
District Superintendent of Police Amber Kishore said that the incident occurred under Boda police station limit of Tekupally mandal, about 250 kms east of Hyderabad. Those killed were identified as members of CPIML-Chandrapulla Reddy group. The organization was different from the major left wing guerilla organization CPI-Maoist involved in violent insurgency in several states of India but which was lying low in Telangana for more than a decade.
“On the receipt of information of a meeting of an armed group, police from four police stations surrounded the forest area. When the attempts to escape failed, the extremists opened fire and in retaliatory firing by the police six members of the group were killed”, the SP said.
Police seized a large cache of arms including a self loading rifle, two 8 mm rifles and two SBBL rifles and 8 kit bags. Four of those killed identified as Yeti Kumar alias Rakhi, E Naresh alias Sudarshan, Azad and Madhu, police said.
police officials said that the extremists were indulging in large scale extortion from contractors and terrorising the local people.
The left wing extremists of different groups were trying to regroup and revive their activities in the region ever since the formation of Telangana state in June 2014. However the intense combing operation by the elite Greyhound and the police force have foiled many such attempts, officials said.
Yadadri (earlier part of Khammam district) borders Chattisgarh, one of the worst affected states by the left wing violence.