India, June 18 -- Three Maoists, including a top Communist Party of India (Maoist) central committee member, were killed in an encounter with the security forces in forests of Maredumilli in Andhra Pradesh's Alluri Sitarama Raju district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.

Along with central committee member Gajarla Ravi alias Uday, another top Maoist leader Raavi Venkata Chaitanya alias Aruna and another unidentified Maoist leader were also killed in the encounter. Aruna was the wife of another central committee member Pratapreddy Ramachandra Reddy alias Chalapati, who was killed in the encounter with the security forces at Gariaband in Chhattisgarh bordering Odisha.

While Ravi is also the secretary of the Andhra-Odisha Borde...