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Radha's body was said to have been abandoned in a forest area on Telangana-Chhattisgarh borders at Chennapuram in Cherla mandal in Kothagudem district.

CPI (Maoist) Sabari dalam member Vetti Laxmaiah alias Kallu of Cherla mandal in Kothagudem district and Chhattisgarh’s Gollapalli LOS member Mallam Deva of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh State surrendered to police, CRPF 141 Bn and 81 Bn here on Thursday.

Superintendent of Police B Rohith Raju informed that naxals, Pottam Raju and OyamPandu of Chhattisgarh, Punem Chukki of Mulugu district and sympathiser Shyamala Mukesh of Dameratogu were caught during a combing operation in the forest area.

Deceased said to be Ashok of Buddharam village in Ghanpur mandal of Mulugu district.

The heavy exchange of fire broke out in the afternoon between C60 commandos and Naxals in Wandoli village and continued for six hours, Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police Nilotpal said.

A colour printer, one black and white printer and one power inverter, 200 bottles of ink and bundles of fake currency of 50, 100, 200 and 500 denominations, four printer cartridges, nine printer rollers and a gun were found.

Security forces for the first time recovered a huge cache of fake currency notes belonging to naxalites

These cadres belonged to the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) military company no. 1 of naxalites

The gunfight broke in the forest of Abhujmad when a joint team of the security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation

According to officials, several naxalites are reported to be either killed or injured in the skirmish

The injured woman D Sunitha was among 100 villagers who ventured out deep into the forest area to visit Beeda Mallana temple near Doli village.

The villagers initially ran helter-skelter but gathered again tom notice that Sunitha sustained deep injuries on left leg and they made a makeshift stretcher and carried her for nearly 25 kms to bring to Mallapuram village near Palam project.

In a statement here on Thursday, CPI (Maoist) party Wazedu-Venkatapuram Area Committee secretary Shanta extended condolences to the family members of the deceased.

The other three escaped unhurt. Police defuse landmine Meanwhile, a police team defused a landmine planted by the Maoists near Chelimela village under Venkatapuram police station limits in the district.

The incident occurred when the deceased, along with three other villagers from Jagannadhapuram village ventured into the forest to collect firewood

Two adivasi women were severely injured in both legs due to traps set by Maoist militia.

According to the police the deceased, Joga Madvi and Hanga Madvi of Chutwahi village under the limits of Tarrem police station in the district, were brothers.

In a statement released to the media he alleged that the anti-naxal operation carried out by Telangana’s Greyhounds and Bijapur police was a result of information given by a ‘traitor’.

Telangana’s anti-naxal forces Greyhounds and Bijapur police jointly conducted an anti-Naxal operation,

According to Bijapur police 18-year-old Guddu Lekam left his village Kachilwar for a nearby village Naimed on foot on March 11.