Two Maoists were gunned down in an exchange of fire with the police in Telangana’s Mulugu region on Sunday, police announced.
The exchange of fire happened in the Mangapet forest region in the district when special police forces were combing the region on a tip-off.
Police stated that the combing activity was dispatched, following substantial information about the movement of the extremists supposedly intending to perform attacks.
Police seized a few fire weapons from the location of the encounter, and killed Maoists were yet to be identified.
The occurrence came seven days following Maoists killing a worker of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the region.
Individuals from the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist stabbed to death Maduri Bheemeshwar, 48, right in front his spouse in Bokkapuram village in Venkatapuram mandal of the region bordering Chhattisgarh.
Mulugu is among the areas where the police ventured up the vigil as of late to thwart the efforts of Maoists to regroup themselves.
Police have elevated the vigil in the locale bordering Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, as Maoists are attempting to regroup themselves in Telangana.
In the previous month, eight Maoists were killed in four exchanges in the locale this month. Five of them were shot down in Bhadradri Kothagudem locale, bordering Chhattisgarh.
The CPI (Maoists) endured a progression of setbacks while making attempts to pick up traction in Agency zones of Telangana in the recent past. Upwards of eight of its cadres were executed in four separate “encounters”— six in Bhadradri-Kothagudem locale and two in Kumram Bheem Asifabad region — since the first week of September. The rebels watched a bandh in Bhadrachalam Agency on September 28 in dissent what they named as “fake encounter killings” of its cadres.
The spurt in Maoist actions in Agency zones provoked the top brass of the State police to hold a top-level coordination meeting on joint anti-Maoist strategy with their partners of Chhattisgarh and senior authorities of the CRPF in Venkatapuram in the border district of Mulugu on October 4.
The Venkatapuram police on Saturday took a Maoist militia member, who was allegedly associated with the recent homicide of TRS unit Bheemeshwara Rao, at Kondapuram village and held onto some explosive materials from his possession.
