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As galore arsenic 71 Maoists, 30 of them carrying a corporate bounty of ₹64 lakh, surrendered successful Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada territory connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025), a constabulary authoritative said.
The Maoists, including 21 women, turned themselves successful earlier elder constabulary and CRPF officials, citing disappointment with the “hollow” Maoist ideology, Dantewada Superintendent of Police Gaurav Rai said.
A 17-year-old lad and 2 insignificant girls, aged 16 and 17, are besides among the surrendered cadres.
The Maoists said they were besides impressed by the rehabilitation drives ‘Lon Varratu’ and ‘Poona Margem’, launched by the Bastar Range police, and the State government's caller surrender and rehabilitation policy, helium said.
Of the surrendered, Baman Madkam (30) and Manki, alias Samila Mandavi (20), carried a reward of ₹8 lakh each, portion Shamila alias Somli Kawasi (25), Gangi alias Rohni Barse (25), Deve alias Kavita Madvi (25) and Santosh Mandavi (30) carried a bounty of ₹5 lakh each, helium said.
Among others, 1 Naxalite carried a reward of ₹3 lakh, six cadres ₹2 lakh each, 9 cadres ₹1 lakh each and 8 cadres ₹50,000 each, helium said.
Baman, Shamila, Gangi and Deve were allegedly progressive successful respective attacks connected information personnel. The others were progressive successful digging roads, cutting trees, putting up Naxalite banners, posters and pamphlets successful their respective areas, helium said.
With this surrender, 1,113 Naxalites, including 297 carrying rewards, person truthful acold discontinue unit successful the territory nether the ‘Lon Varratu’ (term coined successful section Gondi dialect, which means instrumentality to your home/village) campaign, launched successful June 2020, the SP said.
All the surrendered Naxalites were provided with an assistance of ₹50,000 each and volition beryllium further rehabilitated arsenic per the government’s policy, constabulary said.
The caller sidesplitting of 2 elder Maoist leaders, who were cardinal figures successful overseeing the organisational and subject activities of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), successful an brushwood successful Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur territory has dealt a further stroke to the outfit’s already weakening ecosystem, a elder constabulary authoritative had said connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025).
Raju Dada alias Katta Ramachandra Reddy (63) and Kosa Dada alias Kadari Satyanarayana Reddy (67), some Central Committee members of the banned outfit and carrying a bounty of ₹1.80 crore each, were neutralised connected Monday (September 22, 2025) adjacent the forested hills of Farasbeda and Toymeta villages successful Abujhmad, helium had said.
