In the past year, security forces across Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, neutralised at least 270 Maoists, got at least 1,225 to surrender and arrested 680 including top leaders

Madvi Hidma, 50, his wife Madakam Raje, 44, and four other Maoists were killed by the Andhra Pradesh police after a gunfight early on Tuesday, dealing a crippling blow to the Left Wing Extremist (LWE) movement in the country.

Hidma, CPI (Maoist) central committee member and commander of party’s first battalion and the others were killed after the encounter at Maredumilli forests of Alluri Sitarama Raju district on Tuesday morning, state intelligence chief Mahesh Chandra Laddha announced.

“Along with Hidma, who is a central committee member of the Maoist party, his wife

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