Sixteen Maoists, including six carrying a combined bounty of Rs 39 lakh, surrendered before Jharkhand Police in Ranchi. The group included senior CPI (Maoist) members and five women cadres. Officials called the surrender a major success in the state’s anti-extremism campaign
Three Maoists, including Sahdev Soren, a top CPI (Maoist) leader with a ₹1 crore bounty, were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jharkhand’s Hazaribag district early Monday. The encounter triggered a large-scale search operation in Pantitri forest.
Two Naxalites, Hidma Podiyam and Munna Madkam, were killed in an encounter with District Reserve Guard in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur. The duo carried a combined bounty of Rs 16 lakh, and weapons and Maoist literature were recovered from the site.
