Summary:
Tension flared up in the remote tribal pockets of the Bhadrachalam Agency with additional contingents of police and CRPF troupes spanning across the forest region to track down the Maoist rebels. In 2006 Maoist rebels blasted a telephone exchange and in 2014 made a vain bid to blew up a cell phone tower at Satyanarayanapuram. A Maoist poster is seen at Gogubaka in Charla mandal of Bhadradri Kothagudem district during the bandh against encounters. RaoIt is suspected that they blew up the culvert by detonating explosives at about 2 a.m. The incident took place a few kilometres away from Kaliveru, a border village along the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border where a CRPF camp is located..