A day after his habeas corpus petition was rejected by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Thippiri Gangadhar, the youngest sibling of CPI(Maoist) Central Committee member Thippiri Tirupati alias Devuji , tells The Indian Express that he has “very strong doubts” about his brother’s whereabouts.

Devuji, who is believed to hold the top-most CPI (Maoist) post as its general secretary, is one of the last few senior guerrilla leaders still in action after the killing of Madvi Hidma.

Gangadhar, who is eight years younger than Devuji and says he hasn’t seen or heard from his brother in four decades, moved the High Court after Hidma was killed, and believes Devuji is in Andhra Police custody. “Everything that has happened since the encounter of Hidma on November 18 indicates that my brother Devuji

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