Four Maoists including a cadre carrying a reward of Rs 15 lakh, were killed in an encounter with security forces along the Chatra-Hazaribag border in Jharkhand on Friday, police said.
The cadres surrendered along with automatic weapons and ammunition under the Poona Margem initiative being carried out by Chhattisgarh Police. Two of those who laid down arms are women.
At least 11 security personnel were injured when Maoists triggered multiple IED blasts in the Karregutta Hills area near the Bijapur-Telangana border in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, police officials said on Monday.
Bastar Range Inspector General of Police P. Sundarraj said that 2025 marked a decisive turning point in the fight against Left-Wing Extremism in the region, with security forces killing 256 Naxals in encounters and facilitating the surrender of more than 1,500 Maoists during the year.
According to police officials, the surrendered Naxals carried a combined reward of Rs 2.36 crore.
Two villagers were brutally killed with sharp weapons by suspected Maoists in south Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. Officials say the heightened security pressure has led to desperation among Maoist cadres, prompting them to target unarmed civilians.
The security forces in Odisha’s Kandhamal district on Monday neutralised two Area Commander Members (ACMs) of a banned Maoist outfit in inaccessible hilly terrains of the left-wing extremism-affected district.
In a fresh recovery of explosive substances looted by Left Wing Extremists in Odisha’s Sundargarh district, security forces have retrieved 700 kilograms of the looted materials hidden deep inside the dense forest area of the district, in a refreshing relief for the government agencies, a senior police official informed on Wednesday.
It has come as a refreshing relief for the law-enforcing agencies of both the bordering States, as apprehension of misuse of looted explosives by the left-wing extremists loomed large.
A case has been registered at K Balang police station in this connection, he said, adding that DGP Yogesh Bahadur Khurania rushed to the area on Wednesday to review the situation.
