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Ten Maoists, including 4 women, surrendered connected Sunday (December 7, 2025) aft laying down arms successful the beingness of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav successful Balaghat district.
The improvement comes a period aft a woman Maoist surrendered successful Balaghat, becoming the archetypal to laic down arms successful Madhya Pradesh since the instauration of State’s caller rehabilitation policy, launched successful August 2023.
Speaking astatine a programme held for the ceremonial surrender, Mr. Yadav said the 10 Maoists unneurotic carried a reward of ₹2.36 crore crossed Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
The Maoists see Surendra alias Soma Sodi, 50, a sub-zonal committee caput successful the Kanha-Bhoramdeo (KB) part of the Maharashtra–Madhya Pradesh–Chhattisgarh (MMC) portion with a reward of ₹62 lakh connected him. A autochthonal of Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, helium was besides the subject main of the Darbha part of the Maoists.
Another surrendered Maoist, Rakesh Odi alias Manish, 42, a nonmigratory of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli territory and a caput successful the MMC zone, besides carried a bounty of ₹62 lakh. Apart from him, each 9 are from Chhattisgarh.
The arms and ammunition enactment down by the Maoists included 2 AK-47 rifles, 2 INSAS rifles, 2 single-shot rifles, a self-loading rifle, 7 tube grenade launcher (BGL) cells, 5 detonators, 4 walkie-talkie sets, and implicit 100 rounds of cartridges.
“The authorities is committed to making Madhya Pradesh Naxal-free, successful accordance with the goals acceptable by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Under their leadership, the run of aakhiri salaam to lal salaam [last salute to reddish salute] is progressing. Nobody volition beryllium allowed to instrumentality up arms successful the State,” Mr. Yadav said, urging much Maoists to laic down arms nether the Madhya Pradesh Surrender, Rehabilitation cum Relief Policy, 2023.
“The authorities volition marque each effort to unafraid their lives, guarantee their development, and integrate them into mainstream society,” helium added.
The Chief Minister besides congratulated the State’s constabulary force, including the anti-naxal portion Hawk Force, and said that astatine slightest 10 hardcore Maoists person been eliminated this twelvemonth successful Balaghat zone.
“In our campaigns of the past 2 years, Mandla and Dindori [districts] person go wholly escaped from Maoist activity,” Mr. Yadav said, adding that Maoist beingness and activities volition importantly driblet successful the Balaghat portion aft the latest surrender.
Hawk Force Commandant Shiyaz K.M. told The Hindu that the 10 Maoists were portion of a portion of 18 members, residing successful the Kanha Tiger Reserve forests, and that six of its members were eliminated successful encounters successful February and April.
“We eliminated 4 successful February and 2 successful April. A mates from this portion ran disconnected to Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur and surrendered earlier this year,” helium said.
Mr. Shiyaz said that interaction was established with the radical earlier this week aft an quality portion of the unit came successful interaction with a wood defender successful the Kanha Tiger Reserve who had been approached by the Maoists seeking assistance successful moving to Chhattisgarh.
“They were readying to spell to Chhattisgarh but our squad established interaction with them and convinced them to conscionable the Inspector General of Police (IG), Balaghat,” Mr. Shiyaz said, adding that the radical was made alert of the benefits and provisions nether the State’s rehabilitation policy.
He said that the caller rehabilitation has been propagated successful the wood areas of the Kanha Tiger Reserve and wood guards are a cardinal portion of it.
“They unrecorded successful the mediate of the wood and often travel successful interaction with the Maoists. So, we person advertised the argumentation among them decently and guarantee them that they volition besides get benefits if they assistance the police,” helium said.
The Commandant said that proposals of the 10 Maoists volition beryllium submitted to a surrender committee that volition determine connected the terms.
“We besides support an oculus connected them for a play decided by the committee and observe their activities, and assistance them modulation to a mean life,” helium added.
