The banned CPI (Maoist) Charla area committee member Madakam Kosi alias Rajitha, 25, wife of senior Maoist leader Damodar, and a dalam member, Madvi Dhani, 19, were arrested by a joint squad of Charla police and the special party police personnel in the Kurnapalli-Bodanelli forest area in Charla mandal on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The police said Rajitha, active in the restive forest region of Charla mandal, bordering Chhattisgarh, was wanted in several cases of Maoist violence including the recent murder of Kurnapally deputy sarpanch Irpa Ramudu.
Producing them at a press conference in Kothagudem on Thursday, Superintendent of Police G Vineeth said the duo were nabbed by a combing police party after a brief chase when they tried to flee on spotting the police in the Kurnapally-Bodanelli forest area on Wednesday afternoon. Some others, accompanying them, managed to escape into the forest.
