He studied engineering, clashed with RSS on campus, then vanished in 1980 , how Basavaraju went from a middle-class Andhra family to becoming mastermind of the Jhiram Ghati massacre

A Special NIA Court in Jagdalpur sentenced all 10 convicts to death for the 2013 Jhiram Ghati ambush, where Maoists killed 27 people, including top Chhattisgarh Congress leaders, during a Parivartan Yatra convoy. The court convicted the accused, including two women, after examining 101 witnesses.