2 key Maoists gunned down in Chhattisgarh were involved in 129 killings, police say

The 2 members of the CPI (Maoist)’s Central Committee carried a total bounty of Rs 3.6 crore across multiple states.

Written by Jayprakash S Naidu

Raipur | Updated: September 24, 2025 06:59 AM IST

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123 security personnel, 6 civilians — 2 key Maoists gunned down in Chhattisgarh were involved in 129 killings: police

In 2020, 22 personnel were killed in an ambush in Sukma district’s Jonagudem and their weapons looted. In another village in Sukma, Tekalgudem, 22 personnel were killed.

The two members of the Central Committee of the banned CPI (Maoist), carrying a total of Rs 3.6 crore reward across multiple states, gunned down by security forces in Abujhmad, were allegedly involved in the killings of 123 security personnel and six villagers, the Chhattisgarh police said.

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The encounter Monday took place between the Narayanpur District Reserve Guard (DRG) in Abujhmad, a Maoists stronghold for over four decades, near the hills of Farasbeda and Toymeta villages located near the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border.

According to the police, the central committee member Katta Ramachandra Reddy, 63, alias Raju Dada alias Gudsa Usendi alias Vijay alias Vikalp, was involved in the killings of 75 security personnel. In 2009, 27 CRPF personnel were killed in an ambush in Maharabeda village under Dhoudai police station jurisdiction in Narayanpur district, while four personnel were killed in 2011 in an IED blast on a culvert near village Kanhargaon in Narayanpur.

In 2020, 22 personnel were killed in an ambush in Sukma district’s Jonagudem and their weapons looted. In another village in Sukma, Tekalgudem, 22 personnel were killed.

The police said that the second central committee member Kadri Satyanarayana Reddy, 67, alias Kosa, was involved in the killing of 48 personnel and six villagers. In 2006-07, six villagers were killed in Kachapal in Narayanpur district. In Gadchiroli district, 17 personnel were killed in the Markatola ambush in 2009. In 2019, 27 personnel, including the then SP Vinod Chaubey, were killed in the Madanwada ambush in Rajnandgaon district, and a year earlier, four personnel were killed in an ambush in Irpanar in Narayanpur.

The total reward on the Maoists comprised Rs 50 lakh from Maharashtra, Rs 40 lakh from Chhattisgarh, Rs 25 lakh each from Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, and Rs 15 lakh from Madhya Pradesh.

This year top Maoist leader Basva Raju, alias Nambala Keshava Rao, who was the general secretary of CPI (Maoist) and eight central committee members have been gunned down by the forces. While Basva Raju and four central committee members were killed in Chhattisgarh, two were gunned down in Jharkhand and one in Andhra Pradesh. Four Politburo members and six central committee members of the banned outfit are said to be active members.

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IGP for Bastar Range, Sundarraj P said, “The deaths of senior Maoist cadres — Basava Raju and CC members Sudhakar, Chalapathi, Modem Balakrishna, Uday, Sahadev, and Vivek Manjhi — in 2025 left the organisation in complete disarray. The deaths of Kosa Dada and Raju Dada in an encounter on September 22 further weakened this banned and illegal organisation.”

“The banned CPI (Maoist) has suffered serious and irreparable losses in recent times, leaving the organisation fragmented, leaderless and directionless. What once presented itself as a united front is now grappling with internal strife and serious crises,” the IGP said.

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