cpi (maoist)

Hyderabad, April 10 – With 42 Maoists surrendering, including 11 from the TSC, the state is completely free of CPI (Maoist) armed formations, DGP B Shivadhar Reddy said on Friday.Sodi Malla, alias Keshal, commander of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion, was among the 42...

Hyderabad, April 10 – With 42 Maoists surrendering, including 11 from the TSC, the state is completely free of CPI (Maoist) armed formations, DGP B Shivadhar Reddy said on Friday.Sodi Malla, alias Keshal, commander of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion, was among the 42...

Hyderabad, April 10 With 42 Maoists surrendering, 11 of them from the TSC, the state is completely free of CPI (Maoist) armed formations, DGP B Shivadhar Reddy said on Friday.Sodi Malla, alias Keshal, commander of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion, was among the 42 ultras...

Hyderabad, April 10 – As many as 42 members of the CPI (Maoist), including the commander of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion, Sodi Malla alias Keshal, surrendered to the Telangana Police on Friday, along with 36 firearms and 800 grams of gold.The Maoists who surrendered...

Latehar, April 2 A Maoist, who carried a bounty of Rs 5 lakh on his head, surrendered to the police in Latehar district, Jharkhand, on Thursday, officials said.Surendra Lohra, also known as "Tiger ji," was a "sub-zonal commander" of the Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), a splinter group of...

Raipur/Kanker, April 2: The ongoing campaign against left-wing extremism in Chhattisgarh received another boost as the wave of Naxalite surrenders continued in the Kanker district.On Thursday, Ramko Mandavi, the personal security guard of the most wanted Naxalite leader, Rupi, surrendered to...

New Delhi, April 1 – Union Home Minister Amit Shah fulfilled his promise of a “Naxal-free India”. The Home Minister announced that all members of the Naxal central and state committees have been killed, arrested, or have surrendered. He said that talks are ongoing with the last active CPI...

Bhubaneswar, March 31 Asserting that Left Wing Extremism (LWE) no longer poses a threat in the state, the Odisha Police said on Tuesday that the surrender window for the remaining Maoists has been closed, with the deadline ending on March 31.Additional Director General of Police (Anti-Naxal...

Raipur, March 31 More than four decades after the first "dalams" entered the forests of Dandakaranya, now Bastar, the armed Maoist rebellion in Chhattisgarh has effectively ended, as the region was declared free of Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) by the Centre on Tuesday, as per the deadline set.In...

Raipur/New Delhi, March 31 – With Union Home Minister Amit Shah declaring that India has effectively achieved a Naxal-free status by meeting the government’s self-imposed deadline of March 31, a significant breakthrough has been achieved for the country, which was previously seen as a prolonged...

Hyderabad, March 30 Telangana Director General of Police B Shivadhar Reddy appealed to the leaders and members of the CPI (Maoist) party to renounce violence, lay down their arms, and join the democratic mainstream to lead safe and dignified lives.The DGP made a special appeal to Telangana...

Hyderabad, March 30 – Telangana’s Director General of Police, B. Shivadhar Reddy, appealed to the leaders and members of the CPI (Maoist) party to lay down their arms and join the national mainstream on Monday.The police chief urged the leaders and members of the banned organization to...

Bhubaneswar, March 29 Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) Y.B. Khurania said on Sunday that coordinated operations by security forces over the past year have led to the surrender of 77 Maoists and the neutralization of 27 Maoist insurgents in the state, while urging the remaining cadres to...

Raipur/Sukma, March 29 – One Maoist cadre was neutralized in an encounter with security forces in the forested hilly terrain under the Polampalli Police Station area of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh on Sunday.The operation was launched by the District Reserve Guard (DRG) team of Sukma based...

New Delhi, March 28 – One of the biggest mistakes when dealing with Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in India is to treat it as a permanent social reality. Insurgencies often present themselves as historical inevitabilities. They claim to represent the marginalized, gain legitimacy from grievances, and...

Bhubaneswar, March 25 Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Wednesday asserted that the Maoist threat would be a thing of the past after this month, and said that 27 red rebels have been killed in the state since the beginning of 2025.During a discussion in the assembly on the 2026-27...

Raipur, March 24 – Security forces have dealt a significant blow to the Naxalite movement in 2025, with official figures revealing substantial gains in the fight against left-wing extremism across central and eastern India.The data portrays a rapidly weakening Maoist outfit, characterized by...

New Delhi, March 20 – The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against six individuals, including three who are still at large, in connection with the January 2024 Maoist attack on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camps in the Bijapur district of...

New Delhi, March 20 The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed chargesheets against six more accused, including three absconding individuals, in connection with an attack on a CRPF camp in Chhattisgarh by members of the banned CPI (Maoist) terror organization in 2024.A dozen...

Hyderabad, March 14 CPI (Maoist) leader Thippiri Tirupati alias Devuji, who recently surrendered to the Telangana Police, demanded on Saturday that the Centre lift the ban on the outfit and recognize it as a political party, although the organization does not favor participating in electoral...