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Top Maoist leader Kadumala Ravi dies of jaundice
Top Maoist leader, State committee member and Central Reserve Command leader Kudumala Ravi died here on Saturday. Ravi carried a reward of Rs 20 lakh on his head. Superintendent of Police Dr Koyya Praveen said Ravi became sick due to acute jaundice and the party members handed him over to sympathisers who brought him to Visakhapatnam for treatment.
Visakhapatnam: Top Maoist leader, State committee member and Central Reserve Command leader Kudumala Ravi died here on Saturday. Ravi carried a reward of Rs 20 lakh on his head. Superintendent of Police Dr Koyya Praveen said Ravi became sick due to acute jaundice and the party members handed him over to sympathisers who brought him to Visakhapatnam for treatment.
But when he was about to be admitted to a corporate hospital, the doctors declared him dead on arrival. The Maoist sympathisers carried the body back to his village in Chintapalle mandal. Sources said the 40-year-old Kudumala Ravi was born in Kommasinghi village in Chintapalle and was a student of AP Residential Junior College under tribal welfare department at Koyyuru.
During the days of Intermediate at Koyyuru, the hot bed of Maoists activities in 1980s, Ravi got attracted to Maoist ideology and disappeared from the region for good. His friends at the hospital told reporters that Ravi never came back to village but his family members were told that he had grown in the ranks in the outlawed CPI (Maoist) and actively participated in the party building activities.
He was mostly placed in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh and recently came to AOB region following sickness. Police sources said a number of cases were filed against Ravi in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. Recently, he came close to getting arrested in Odisha but escaped with the help of local tribals.
