Elusive Hidma lands in police trap
Hailing from Puvvarti village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, Hidma, an Adivasi with only a fifth-grade education, joined the Maoist movement at the age of 25. Now 44, he rose through the ranks to become the commander of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion No. 1 and a member of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee.