Vijayawada: Under pressure due to sustained operations by security forces in Chhattisgarh, Maoists were trying to take shelter in Andhra Pradesh, and after getting arms and ammunition, they had plans to revive the movement from the Andhra-Odisha border area, a top police official said on Wednesday.

Tuesday’s encounter in Alluri Sitharama Raju district near the Odisha border, in which top Maoist commander Madvi Hidma and five others were killed, another exchange of fire on Wednesday morning in the same area killing seven Maoists, and the arrest of 50 Maoist cadre in five districts of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday all point to this strategy by the banned CPI (Maoist).

Additional Director General (Intelligence) Mahesh Chandra Laddha said they had intelligence input about a lot of movement of Ma

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