The banned CPI (Maoist) retaliated to the killing of one of its senior leader Sharath and a militia member near Korukonda shandy on October 19, 2014, after it killed a native of Veeravaram village Sanjeeva Rao, by destroying an ashram of Sanjeeva Rao’s spiritual guru Simhachalam at Gurramveedhi village in G. Madugula mandal on Saturday night.
During the October incident Sanjeeva Rao’s guru Simhachalam escaped from being tried at a ‘praja court’ while the Maoists were attacked.
The Maoists had also beaten up six persons in the Ashram and burnt down furniture and other material and a shed and some vehicles, according to information reaching here. An earth-moving equipment engaged in laying a nearby road was also set on fire. The Korukonda local area committee was responsible for the incident.
Along with some Maoists, a large number of militia members and sympathisers allegedly participated in the incident. They reportedly left pamphlets and hung a banner saying that the Ashram was attacked in retaliation to the killing of Sharat and the militia member and that Simhachalam would not be spared.
It may be recalled that the Maoists later claimed that in the Korukonda incident the police provoked the local Girijans to attack the Maoists.
Simhachalam was not present at the ashram when it was attacked.
