Patel Sudhakar Reddy, aliases Suryam, Damodar, and Venkatesh, (1950s – 24 May 2009)[1] was a leader of the central committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

In 1983, Sudhakar Reddy moved to the Eturnagaram-Mahadevpur forest in north Telangana as commander of a guerrilla squad.

[1] Andhra Pradesh Police accused Reddy of being involved in several major crimes including the murders of Home Minister Alimineti Madhava Reddy, Greyhounds founder K. S. Vyas, IPS officer Umesh Chandra, and the attempted murder of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu at Tirupati in 2003.

Another senior Maoist leader Venkataiah, a district committee member of the Warangal unit, was also killed in the encounter.

[3] The CPI (Maoist) alleged that the encounter was staged by the police and that Sudhakar Reddy was arrested near the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border and shot dead in Warangal.