A woman Maoist commander was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kanker district on Monday, as search operations continued in the area following intelligence inputs about Maoist presence.
Senior CPI (Maoist) leader and politburo member Prashant Bose, widely known as Kishan Da, died at a Ranchi hospital on Friday after prolonged illness, officials said.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Tuesday said that the state is poised to enter a new phase of development, trust, and prosperity as it moves decisively towards becoming free of Maoist insurgency.
On the day the clock ran out on the Union government’s deadline to end armed Maoist insurgency, Bastar woke up to a different kind of reality, one marked not by gunfire or ambush alerts, but by a cautious, almost unfamiliar sense of calm.
Papa Rao, one of the most wanted Maoist leaders with a bounty of ₹25 lakh on his head, surrendered before security forces in Jagdalpur along with 17 armed insurgents, including two other senior cadres identified as DVCM Prakash Madvi and DVCM Anil Tati.
3 March 1967: By any historical yardstick, the date carries weight. On this date, a peasant uprising in Naxalbari lit a fuse that burned through India’s internal security landscape for nearly five decades.
During the surrender, the cadre- Sukhram Markam, also laid down an SLR Rifle, 12 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, and other articles.
In a major breakthrough for Chhattisgarh’s counter-insurgency and rehabilitation efforts, 52 Maoist cadres surrendered in the Bijapur district on Thursday, signalling a further weakening of the outlawed organisation in the Bastar region.
Ganesh Uikey was a CPI (Maoist) central committee member and head of its Odisha operations. He carried Rs 1.1 crore bounty on his head.
In a step towards making southern Odisha free from Naxal violence, the police in Malkangiri district managed to stitch a truce with red rebels ensconced along the hilly terrains and forest region, resulting in the surrender of 22 underground cadres of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) outfit, police said on Tuesday.
