A senior Maoist cadre with a reward of ₹45 lakh on his head was killed in an ongoing anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur, the police said on Friday (June 6, 2025).
Police found a body whose preliminary identification revealed that it was that of Bhaskar alias Mailarapu Adellu, a member of the Telangana State Committee of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). The operation, launched on Thursday (June 5, 2025), is on.
An AK-47 rifle along with other explosives, weapons and ammunition were recovered from the encounter site.
On Thursday, Central Committee member Gautam alias Sudhakar was killed in the same operation.
A senior police officer said that 45-year-old Bhaskar, a resident of Adilabad district in Telangana, was the secretary of the Mancherial-Komarambheem division of the Telangana State Committee of the CPI (Maoist). Of the ₹45 lakh reward he was carrying, Chhattisgarh had declared ₹25 lakh, while another ₹20 lakh was declared by the Telangana government.
