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Chhattisgarh: 41 Maoists surrender in Bijapur, say police
Forty-one Maoists, including 32 carrying a collective reward of Rs 1.19 crore, surrendered before the police in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Wednesday, PTI reported.
The group, which included 12 women, laid down arms before senior police officers, PTI quoted Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar Yadav as saying.
Thirty-nine of the 41 cadres were allegedly part of the Maoists' south sub-zonal bureau. They were associated with the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, the Telangana State Committee and the Dhamtari-Gariaband-Nuapada divisions of the banned outfit, officials said.
Under the state's rehabilitation policy, each of those who surrendered received Rs 50,000 in immediate financial assistance.
Those who surrendered included Pandru Hapka alias Mohan (37), Bandi Hapka (35), Lakkhu Korsa (37), Badru Punem (35), Sukhram Hemla (27), Manjula Hemla (25), Mangali Madvi alias Shanti (29), Jairam Kadiyam (28) and Pando Madkam alias Chandni (35), all of whom carried rewards of Rs 8 lakh each.
Three cadres carried bounties of Rs 5 lakh, 12 carried Rs 2 lakh and eight carried Rs 1 lakh, PTI reported.
With Wednesday's surrenders, 790 Maoist cadres have surrendered in Bijapur since January 2024, Yadav told PTI.
In the same period, 202 Maoists have been killed in gunfights and 1,031 arrested in the district, the police official added.
Across Chhattisgarh, more than 2,200 Maoists have surrendered in the past 23 months, PTI quoted unidentified officials as saying.
On October 14, 210 Maoists, including a central committee member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Jagdalpur.
The Union government has repeatedly vowed to end Maoism by March 31, 2026.
On October 12, the Union home ministry said that the number of districts affected by “Left-wing extremism” has come down to 11 from 18 in March.
In 2025, the number of “most affected” districts has also come down from six to three, it added. These are Bijapur, Sukma and Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh.
On October 13, the Chhattisgarh chief minister said that over the past 22 months, 477 suspected Maoists were killed, 2,110 had surrendered and 1,785 had been arrested in the state.
In 2024 alone, 217 suspected Maoists were killed by security forces across Chhattisgarh.
Malini Subramaniam has reported for Scroll that while many of those killed in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region in 2024 were declared by the police to be reward-carrying Maoists, several families dispute the claim. The families claim that the persons killed were civilians.
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