Top Naxal killed in Andhra encounter

Two top Maoists, including the extremists’ central committee member Patel Sudhakar Reddy were killed in an encounter with the police in Tadwai forests in the district on Sunday morning.

Reddy, also member of the Maoists’ central military commission, carried a Rs 12 lakh reward on his head and was said to have plotted some of the biggest attacks in the country.

Reddy alias Suryam had masterminded the assassination attempts on the then chief minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, near Tirupati in November 2004 and the former chief minister, Mr N. Janardhan Reddy, in Nellore last year.

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