The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) State committee has called a Bandh (general shutdown strike) on October 27 in protest against what it termed as “fake encounter” killing of three of its cadres at Tekulagudem forest area in Mulugu District of Telangana on October 25 morning, reports The Hindu. In a statement, official ‘spokesman’ of the CPI-Maoist State committee Jagan alleged that three Maoists – Naroti Dhamal, ‘area committee member’ (ACM) of Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, Sodi Ramal and P Badhru, Maoist cadres from Bijapur District in Chhattisgarh, were killed in a “fake encounter” in Tekulagudem forest area. He charged the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) dispensation in the State with unleashing "brutal repression" against revolutionaries as part of the Centre’s “Operation Samadhan offensive.”