Twelve suspected Maoists and three personnel of the Chhattisgarh District Reserve Guard (DRG) were killed in a gunfight in Bijapur district on Wednesday.
Members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) operating across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have formally asked the Union government and the three state governments for time until February 15, 2026 to “temporarily suspend arms struggle” and move towards surrender.
Madvi Hidma, one of the most prominent surviving Maoist leaders, was among the six Maoists killed in an early Tuesday encounter with the anti-Naxal Greyhounds and local police in Andhra Pradesh’s Maredumilli forest region.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet before the NIA Special Court in Hyderabad against a senior leader of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), in connection with an alleged anti-India conspiracy case, under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Three Maoists, including Central Committee member Gajarla Ravi and senior female leader Aruna, were killed in an alleged encounter in the Maredumilli forests of Andhra Pradesh’s Alluri Sitharama Raju district on Wednesday.
Chhattisgarh Police cremated the dead bodies of two top Maoist leaders–Nambala Keshava Rao and Sajja Venkata Nageshwara Rao–on 26th May, alleging them to be “unclaimed,” as their families camped at the hospital.