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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…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday accused Rahul Gandhi of fuelling sympathies for Maoists and asked if the Congress leader is offering tacit endorsement of “urban naxals” by amplifying a video featuring them. BJP claimed that a video shared by Rahul on his social media platforms on the issue of pollution featured those who had raised…
Maoist MMC zonal committee offers to lay down arms by January 1 RAIPUR: In yet another significant turn in central India’s Maoist landscape, the Maharashtra–Madhya Pradesh–Chhattisgarh (MMC) Special Zonal Committee of the CPI (Maoist) has said its cadres are prepared to give up arms and join the mainstream by January 1, 2026, if the three…
RAIPUR: Six Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces on Tuesday with recovery of bodies of cadres and a cache of arms and explosives in forests of Indravati National Park area of Bastar’s Bijapur district. The encounter which is still on, began at around 10 am and intermittent firing went till 5:30 pm….
NAGPUR: Top surrendered Maoist Mallojula Venugopal Rao alias Bhupathi, 69, in a five-minute video, made a fervent appeal to the insurgents still holed up in the jungles to give up arms and join the mainstream.Bhupathi emphasised that the failed armed struggle led to the Maoists’ alienation from the masses and triggered their downfall. But, the…
