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Dozens of Maoist cadres surrendered across Bastar in Chhattisgarh and Gadchiroli in Maharashtra on the final day of Union home minister Amit Shah’s March 31 deadline to end left-wing extremism, while Odisha declared itself free of Naxalite influence and scrapped its surrender and rehabilitation policy for those who failed to lay down arms on Tuesday.In…
RAIPUR: In a quiet classroom in Bijapur, far removed from the dense forests that once defined their lives, 85 surrendered Maoists sat down this week to write an exam, most of them for the first time in their lives. For years, these men and women had lived in the shadows of insurgency, cut off from…
BHUBANESWAR: As many as 11 Maoists, carrying a bounty of Rs 63.3 lakh, surrendered before the Odisha Police in Kalahandi district on Sunday, handing over a large cache of arms and ammunition, reports Debabrata Mohapatra. The Maoists were active in Kalahandi, Rayagada and Kandhamal. While one of them hails from Maharashtra, the other 10 are…
Top Maoist Devuji alias Tippiri Tirupati (File Photo) HYDERABAD: Top Maoist Devuji alias Tippiri Tirupati who joined mainstream recently has urged Telangana CM Revanth Reddy to seek lifting of the ban on CPI (Maoist), saying the party would work legally and disband the PLGA if allowed political space. He also sought release of jailed Maoist…
RAIPUR:“Dear sister Maase, who is now known as ‘Kranti’ in the Maoist outfit, you had left home as a teenager to join the (Maoists) ‘party’ and I have never seen you since then. I request you to lay down arms and come back home, we all worry for you,” these are the words of appeal…
RAIPUR: In one of the biggest recent mass surrenders in Bastar, 63 Maoists – 36 of them carrying cash rewards totalling Rs 1.2 crore – laid down arms before police and CRPF officers in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Friday under state govt’s ‘Puna Margeim’ rehabilitation scheme, reports Rashmi Drolia. Police said the surrender came months…
RAIPUR: More than ten Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in the southern region of Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Saturday. The encounter is still ongoing, and casualties may rise.Speaking to TOI, Sukma SP Kiran Chavan said the gunfight broke out during an anti-Maoist operation launched by District Reserve Guard (DRG) teams following…
HYDERABAD: By torchlight in deep forest camps, a shadow surgeon once cut close to a beating Maoist heart, fingers steady as a bullet lay lodged centimetres away. For years, the man they called Dr Rafiq worked unseen. Little about him surfaced beyond intelligence files.Now, through surrendered Maoists and security officials, a detailed portrait is emerging…
Maoists claim top leader Madvi Hidma was trapped and killed by police informers, including contractors, after seeking medical treatment HYDERABAD: The Dandakaranya special zonal committee of the CPI (Maoist) has accused contractors acting as police informers of leading top leader Madvi Hidma into a trap, resulting in what it calls his arrest, torture and killing…
RAIPUR: A daylong gunfight on the Dantewada-Bijapur border in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region left at least 12 Maoists and three District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel dead Wednesday, marking one of the year’s heaviest losses for the outlawed group as security forces pressed deeper into the insurgency’s crumbling stronghold,Another DRG constable was wounded but was said to…
