At least 27 members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), including its general secretary and top leader Nambala Keshava Rao, were killed in an alleged encounter with security forces in the Abujhmad region of Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Wednesday morning.
At least thirteen individuals, including nine women and four children, lost their lives, and eleven others sustained serious injuries in a devastating crash on the Raipur–Baloda Bazar highway, near Saragaon in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district on Sunday.
At least 15 Maoists were killed by the security forces in an alleged encounter on Wednesday, May amid an intensive drive in the Karegutta hills region of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, according to police officials.
Dalit teenagers were allegedly subjected to brutal assault and torture in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district by the owner of the ice cream factory where they worked, along with his associates.
Attacks on Christians have increased in different parts of the country. However, in Central India’s Chhattisgarh, particularly, there has been a massive campaign to brainwash young Hindu men into attacking the community for alleged “forced conversions.”
As Jharkhand-based journalist Rupesh Kumar completes 1000 days on 11 April, civil society, consisting of activists, lawyers, and journalists, wrote an open letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) demanding his immediate release.