Rampachodavaram: Police on Thursday said they have handed over the bodies of top Maoist leader Madvi Hidma and his wife Madakam Raje to their relatives here.

The couple was among a bunch of Maoists killed recently in an encounter in the state.

“We handed over the bodies of Hidma and his wife Raje to their relatives on Wednesday evening after the postmortem,” Rampachodavaram Deputy Superintendent of Police Sai Prashanth told PTI.

He said Hidma’s brother and cousin received the bodies after the completion of postmortem and other mandatory formalities.

Meanwhile, the Alluri Sitharama Raju district police said the successful execution of Operation SAMBHAV has dealt a major blow to Maoist activity in the Andhra Pradesh– Chhattisgarh –Odisha border region.

They said the elimination of ke

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