DGP reviews anti-Maoist operations, lauds intelligence wing over cadre surrenders

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Telangana Director General of Police C.V. Anand on  with Additional DGP (Intelligence) Vijay Kumar and IGP Intelligence and SIB Kartikeya during the reappraisal  meeting.

Telangana Director General of Police C.V. Anand on with Additional DGP (Intelligence) Vijay Kumar and IGP Intelligence and SIB Kartikeya during the reappraisal meeting. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement

Telangana Director General of Police C.V. Anand reviewed the Maoist concern successful the State during a sojourn to the Special Intelligence Branch and commended officers for their relation successful securing large-scale surrenders of underground cadres implicit the past 2 years.

The DGP visited the Special Intelligence Branch office and interacted with officers and unit successful the beingness of Additional DGP (Intelligence) Vijay Kumar and IGP Intelligence and SIB Kartikeya.

During the reappraisal meeting, the DGP assessed the contiguous Maoist script successful Telangana and examined anti-extremist operations and quality initiatives undertaken by the Special Intelligence Branch.

Officials informed him that betwixt 2024 and 2026, arsenic galore arsenic 820 underground CPI (Maoist) cadres had surrendered earlier Telangana police.

The surrendered cadres included 4 Central Committee Members, 22 State Committee Members, 1 Regional Committee Member, 45 Divisional Committee Members and 173 Area Committee Members.

Police said a full of 334 firearms were besides surrendered during the period, including 58 AK-47 rifles, 48 INSAS rifles, 50 self-loading rifles, six airy instrumentality guns and different blase weapons.

The DGP appreciated the efforts of quality officers successful countering Left Wing Extremism done sustained intelligence-based operations, confidence-building measures and rehabilitation initiatives.

He said the quality helping had played a cardinal relation successful motivating underground Maoist cadres to springiness up unit and articulation the mainstream.

Reviewing rehabilitation measures for surrendered cadres, Mr. Anand said the constabulary section would proceed extending enactment for their reintegration into nine done reskilling, employment-oriented grooming and occupation placement initiatives.

He besides directed quality officials to intimately show surrendered cadres portion ensuring their continued rehabilitation.

Advising officers connected emerging information challenges, the DGP said that with Maoist power witnessing a diminution aft 4 decades, the Special Intelligence Branch should accommodate to caller policing challenges by studying evolving societal patterns, including the interaction of societal media connected younker and nationalist order. He said the subdivision should broaden its absorption to assistance code aboriginal information concerns successful Telangana.

Published - May 18, 2026 06:46 p.m. IST

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