Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during his visit to Jagdalpur in southern Chhattisgarh, declared that India would be free of Maoist insurgency by March 31, 2026, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Special Operation Group (SOG), an elite Commando unit of the Odisha police, on Thursday gunned down a maoist cadre of outlawed the Communist Party of India (Maoist) outfit in a dense forest area along the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border in Malkangiri district
A Bastar Fighters personnel died of suicide at his Barada village home, Kondagaon. This incident underscores rising concerns about mental health and stress among security personnel.
Already reeling from heavy losses, the Maoists are now grappling with leadership crises and discontent among local cadres.
A concerning surge in suicides among security personnel stationed in Chhattisgarh to fight Maoist insurgency has raised urgent alarms about the mental health crisis within India's security forces.
According to police, Maoist in remote villages of Bastar had recently put up posters calling for a boycott of the panchayat polls.
The move comes after the indictment of security forces, by a one-member judicial commission set up to probe an alleged encounter in which 17 people, including six minors, were killed in Sarkeguda, in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, in June 2012.
The security personnel were returning early on Sunday morning after conducting polls at Tamar assembly seat for the second phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections when Maoist Guerrillas triggered IED blast in which two CRPF personnel got injured, according to police.
He was in hiding in the city at a residence of his relative at Strand Road for the last five months and earning his bread by working as a porter.
The incident took place on late evening on Friday when the rebels ambushed and opened indiscriminate fire on a police team which was on-board a PCR van in the Chandwa police station area, leading to a gun battle.
