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Chhattisgarh: Top Maoist leader with Rs 45 lakh bounty shot dead in Indravati National Park encounter
Top Maoist leader Bhaskar, also known as Mailarapu Adellu was killed in an encounter with security forces on Friday in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, the third major success for anti-Maoist forces in just two weeks.
Inspector General of Police, Bastar Range, Sundarraj said that The encounter was part of the same anti-Maoist operation underway since Wednesday by personnel from the state police's Special Task Force (STF) and District Reserve Guard (DRG) as well as the CRPF's specialised unit CoBRA.
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'After the exchange of fire stopped, the body of a Maoist along with one AK-47 rifle and other explosives, weapons, and ammunition were recovered from the encounter site. Preliminary identification suggests the body is of Bhaskar alias Mailarapu Adellu, a special zonal committee (SZC) member of the Telangana State Committee (TSC) of the outlawed Maoists,' he said.
'Bhaskar, a resident of Adilabad district in Telangana, was the secretary of the Mancherial-Komarambheem (MKB) division of the TSC of Maoists. He carried a reward of Rs 25 lakhs in Chhattisgarh and 20 lakhs in Telangana,' the IG added.
His death follows two other high-profile Maoist killings in recent days. On Thursday, senior Maoist leader Narasimha Chalam alias Sudhakar, a 67-year-old ideologue wanted for indoctrinating youth and orchestrating deadly attacks, was shot dead in the same region. He had a bounty of ₹40 lakh.
Earlier, on May 21, Maoist general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju (70) was neutralised in Narayanpur district, a top figure in the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Security forces have intensified operations in the Bastar region with the goal of ending the decades-long Maoist insurgency by March 2026.
With inputs from agencies
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