Two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with Security Forces (SFs) in a forest area near Tekameta village under Farsegarh Police Station limits in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh on December 23, reports The Indian Express. The Police said the encounter took place during an anti-Maoist operation undertaken jointly by SFs of Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. Bilaspur, Superintendent of Police (SP), Anjneya Varshney said, “The location of the encounter is said to be around 10 km from Maharashtra border. One woman and one man were killed. Another Maoist, who was injured in the encounter, was captured alive and we are questioning him. We have recovered three weapons – two SLRs [Self Loading Rifles] and another firearm. No one from our team suffered injury.” While the male Maoist killed in the operation is yet to be identified, the woman Maoist was later identified as Kanthi Lingavva alias Anitha (41), from Laxmi Sagar village in Kaddampeddur Mandal (administrative sub division) in Nirmal District of Telangana. She had a bounty of INR 1.6 million on her arrest from Maharashtra and another bounty of INR 500,000 from Telangana. She worked as a ‘Divisional Committee Member (DCM)’ and ‘Assistant Commander’ of Kumram Bheem Divisional Committee (KBDC). She had joined the party after being attracted to ideologies of the outfit 15 years ago. According to the Police, she is the wife of Mylarapu Adellu alias Bhashkar, a member of the Telangana State Committee and ‘secretary’ of KBDC of the Maoists. Mylarapu, who has a bounty of more than INR 2 million for his arrest, was at the spot and managed to escape, the Police said. The injured Maoist, identified as Lachhmayya Kuchha Weladi (28), from Tekameta in Bijapur, was arrested and taken into custody.