Woman Maoist surrenders in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat, first since State’s new rehabilitation policy

A 23-year-old pistillate Maoist has surrendered successful Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district, the archetypal specified lawsuit successful the State since the instauration of its caller rehabilitation argumentation launched successful August 2023, officers said.

Sunita, a nonmigratory of Bhairamgarh tehsil of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur territory and a subordinate of the GRB (Gondia, Rajanandgaon Balaghat) part of the Maoists, surrendered astatine the Chauriya campy of Madhya Pradesh’s anti-naxal Hawk Force connected Saturday (November 1, 2025) night. The GRB part is simply a portion of the MMC (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) zone.

Hawk Force Commandant Shiyaz K.M. told The Hindu that Ms. Sunita had arrived astatine the campy without immoderate arms and expressed her privation to surrender. 

“Today, she took a squad to her hideout heavy into the wood to assistance america retrieve her arms and ammunition,” Mr. Shiyaz said, adding that an INSAS rifle, 3 magazines, and a UBGL ammunition were recovered from the hideout.

Maoist leader’s bodyguard

Mr. Shiyaz said that Ms. Sunita carried a reward of ₹14 lakh for her capture, including ₹6 lakh successful Maharashtra and ₹3 lakh successful Chhattisgarh. She was a bodyguard to elder Maoist person and Central Committee Member (CCM) Ramder.

“She was an ACM (Area Committee Member) and a important portion of Ramder’s team. As per our information, Ramder on with much than 10 Maoists entered Balaghat successful February this twelvemonth and person been hiding present ever since,” the serviceman said, adding that the Hawk Force hopes for much Maoists to travel suit successful the region.

Another elder serviceman of the Hawk Force said that Ms. Sunita had separated from her radical a mates of days agone and hid successful the wood earlier arriving astatine Chauriya campy to surrender. “We are interrogating her to get accusation connected her radical members and if much radical privation to laic down their arms,” the serviceman said, requesting anonymity.

New rehab pathways

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that the surrender was a effect of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s “stern warning” to the Maoists arsenic good arsenic caller actions by the M.P. police.

“This is the archetypal surrender of immoderate Naxalite nether the Madhya Pradesh Surrender, Rehabilitation cum Relief Policy, 2023. This is besides the archetypal clip since 1992 that a Naxalite belonging to different State has surrendered earlier the Madhya Pradesh government. In this year, we person eliminated 10 Naxalites carrying a cumulative reward of much than ₹1.5 crore,” Mr. Yadav said successful a video statement.

The Chief Minister added said that the State Government has opened rehabilitation pathways for Maoists who are consenting to surrender. “They are either being eliminated oregon they are surrendering. Only a fistful of Naxalites are near present and we anticipation that our strict enactment volition person an interaction connected them excessively precise soon,” helium said.