She spent 28 years as an outlaw and over two years in jail after she was arrested in Khammam on June 3, 2013.
Tears welled in the eyes of Kursenga Motibai, a Maoist who went by the alias of Radhakka, as she walked free from the District Jail in Adilabad on Saturday. Emotions ran high once again when she reached her home in Pippaldhari, the tribal village located about 15 km from the district headquarters. The 51-year-old Motibai is the first woman naxalite of Andhra Pradesh-Telangana and wife of Pulliri Prasad Rao alias Chandranna, a member of the Maoist Central Committee.
She spent 28 years as an outlaw and over two years in jail after she was arrested in Khammam on June 3, 2013. She arrived at Pippaldhari after 31 years and found much had changed since she left the village for joining the extremist movement in 1985. The senior Maoist, a Gond Adivasi, who last worked as Bastar divisional committee secretary, was acquitted in all the 29 cases filed against her in various police stations of Adilabad district. She, however, will face trial in one case in Khammam, in which she has been granted bail.
The hardship of life on the run, however, started taking its toll on the gutsy tribal woman by the time she reached the Chhattisgarh forests. In t was in 1998, that she underwent surgery for a heart ailment and was down with an infection in her kidneys. Motibai was apprehended when she was trying to reach a hospital with the help of a courier in Khammam. “I expect the authorities will leave me alone so that I can access medical treatment,” was all she told The Hindu as she came out of the prison.
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