Overview
- Telangana Today reports that Rupi alias Rangaboyina Bhagya, 46, was killed in an encounter in the Machpally forest of Kanker district in Chhattisgarh.
- Her body was expected to be brought back to Dhramaram village in Siddipet, where her 75-year-old mother who recently urged her to return is mourning, and local MLA Kotha Prabhakar Reddy has promised support.
- She joined the Maoist Dubbak dalam in 2002 under a commander known as Madhu, first operating in Andhra Pradesh before moving to the Abujhmad area of Chhattisgarh.
- She lived underground for about 24 years and carried a reported bounty of Rs 5 lakh.
- The case reflects the long-running Maoist insurgency in central India, where female cadres are active and clashes with security forces are common in forest regions like Abujhmad.