The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader, Ravalu Srinivas aka Ramanna (56), reportedly died of a cardiac arrestin the forest region in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh, reports Hindustan Times on December 10. Ramanna carried a cash reward of INR 4 millionon his head. Although the CPI-Maoist has not made any statement on his death, the senior Police Officers in the State has confirmed Ramanna’s death. Ramanna was a Central Committee member of CPI-Maoist and in addition to that he was also the ‘secretary’ of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC). He was drafted into the Central Committee in 2014. Ramanna was a resident of Bekkal village of Maddur Mandal (administrative sub-division) in Siddipet District of Telangana and had been underground for a long time. He was overseeing the Maoist movement in the Bastar forest region of Chhattisgarh and Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. He had led several violent attacks on Security Forces (SFs) in Chhattisgarh, including the killing of 76 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel at Chintalnar village of Dantewada District on April 6, 2010, 16 SF personnel at Jeeram Nullah in Sukma District on March 11, 2014, and 25 CRPF personnel at Burkapal in Sukma District in April 2017. Besides, he was also involved in several serious crimes in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra.