Andhra Pradesh (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2023

Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed a tribal after branding him as a ‘police informer’ in the Chintur Mandal (administrative sub division) area in Alluri Sitarama Raju District of Andhra Pradesh late on January 4, reports The New Indian Express. According to Chintur circle inspector Appala Naidu, about 10 Maoists went to the house of the victim Soyam Subbaiah (40) in Juvvigudem village in Chintur Mandal, later, they rounded up Subbaiah and allegedly thrashed him to death with sticks. Police suspect the Maoists came from the Konta area in Chhattisgarh. According to Police, Maoists killed Subbaiah suspecting him as a ‘police informer’. In the letter purportedly left by the Maoists, it was alleged that Subbaiah was working as a ‘police informer’ for the past five years. The letter read that the Maoists had warned Subbaiah to mend his ways several times, but in vain. Police suspect that Maoists believed Subbaiah passed on crucial information to the Police sometime back leading to the alleged fake encounter of a Maoist cadre. “Subbaiah was an active police informer and we wanted to punish him,’’ the Maoists said in their letter. Read less...

The Police seized a huge dump belonging to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) in the Alluri Sitarama Raju District in Andhra Pradesh on January 26, reports The Hans India. An air pistol barrel granite launcher, 13 containers of land mines, and one SLR gun along with 113 types of materials, explosive materials, and revolutionary literature were seized from the Maoist dump. Read less...