Maoist leader Madvi Hidma Encounter: The first time Kamlochan Kashyap, Deputy Inspector General of South Bastar, heard of Madvi Hidma was in 2007, soon after Maoists attacked and killed 23 jawans, many of them CRPF personnel, at Urpalmetta in Dantewada.

The attack saw Hidma swiftly rising through the Maoist ranks, turning him into a headache for the forces and setting them off on a decades-long chase through the forests of Bastar that ended on November 18, with his killing in an encounter with the Andhra Pradesh Police.

“In 2007, Hidma was commander of Company Number 3 in Bastar. Two years later, he was promoted as deputy commander of Battalion 1, and the same year, he went on to head it,” says Kashyap, who has been serving in Bastar for over a decade. Top Naxalite commander Madvi

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