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Madvi Hidma (1981 – 18 November 2025) was an Indian Naxalite who at the time of his appointment was the youngest member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Hidma was responsible for various attacks on the security forces in Chhattisgarh, including the 2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley. He was on the National Investigation Agency's list of most wanted criminals. He had a bounty of more than ₹1 crore at the time of his death.

Militant activities
Hidma was born in Puvarti village of south Sukma in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in 1981.[1][2][3] He was also known as Hidmalu alias Santosh and was the face of the Maoists in Bastar. After completing his education up to class 10, he joined the Party and became a master strategist of military operations and guerrilla warfare.[4][5] He reportedly received guerilla warfare training from a militant group in the Philippines.[6][7]

Hidma was arrested in 2016 along with six other alleged naxals; at the time he was considered a low-level participant.[2] About that time, Hidma became the area commander of People's Liberation Guerrilla Army Battalion No 1[3] and an active member of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the CPI (Maoist),[8] which operates in the Sukma, Dantewada and Bijapur areas.[9] He was promoted to the Party's Central Committee as the youngest member.[4] It is believed that Hidma was one of the masterminds behind a number of attacks on security personnel, including the April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada and the 2017 Sukma attack.[10][11][12] All told he is cited as having been responsible for twenty-six separate attacks.[13] Indian Agencies also declared a ₹45 lakh bounty on his head.[13]

2021 activities
Hidma was the objective of the security forces' planned 3 April 2021 attack on the Maoists; their intent had been to capture Madvi Hidma along with his associates. The planned attack of approximately 2,000 security forces, consisting of CRPF's specialised jungle warfare unit Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) combined with some of its regular battalions, and with units of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of the Chhattisgarh Police was in turn ambushed by about 400 guerrillas. In the five-hour battle, there were twenty-three deaths among the security forces .‪@BBCNewsTelugu‬ ‪@YouTube‬ ‪@ThinkTeluguPodcast‬ ‪@Ayejude‬ ‪@GenZway‬ ‪@AdVentureCommunist‬ ‪@Spotify‬ ‪@COMMONERLIBRARY‬