Bhima Madvi was last seen by his family being taken away by security personnel from their village, Rekhapalli, on December 4. Three days later, his cousin Sukhram Madvi found him lying lifeless on a cot inside the security camp at Wattewagu.
The police claim Bhima, 46, died by suicide. But his family suspects he was beaten to death by the security forces.
Separated by about three km of forests, Rekhapalli and Wattewagu lie in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, in a block called Usur. Until a few years ago, Usur was largely under the sway of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the banned group that has been waging an insurgency in the forests of central and eastern India for decades.
The Maoists ran a parallel state in the villages of Usur, governing every aspect of life through a network of organisations and committees.
Since 2024, however, the state has aggressively expanded its presence in the area by establishing a grid of security camps, most of them manned by the paramilitary soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force.
Of the 52 new security camps that came up in 2025 in Bastar, the region in southern Chhattisgarh of which Bijapur is a part, 22 were established in Bijapur. Seven of those came up...
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