Chhattisgarh: 103 Reds, 49 with Rs 1cr bounty on their heads, surrender in Bastar

RAIPUR: In a boost to Chhattisgarh govt’s surrender argumentation and a setback for banned CPI (Maoist), 103 Naxals, including 49 carrying a cumulative reward of Rs 1 crore, laid down arms earlier elder constabulary and paramilitary officials successful Bijapur territory of Bastar part Thursday.Each surrendered cadre was fixed a cheque of Rs 50,000 arsenic contiguous assistance nether the surrender and rehabilitation policy.“This is not simply a surrender of weapons, but the decision of a Maoist ideology sustained for decades done violence,” said Dantewada scope DIG Kamlochan Kashyap, who, on with CRPF Bijapur DIG B S Negi and Bijapur SP Jitendra Kumar Yadav, presided implicit the ceremony.SP Yadav said the rehabilitation strategy offers Maoists and their families a accidental to unrecorded peacefully successful the mainstream.

Revolutionary people’s committees, erstwhile Maoists’ parallel governance structure, are collapsing arsenic members instrumentality successful ample numbers. The sidesplitting of elder commanders successful encounters and the surrender of apical cadres person deepened the enactment vacuum, forcing lower-level members to springiness up arms, Yadav added.Appealing to remaining Maoists inactive progressive successful jungles, the SP urged them to avail themselves of the policy.

Since Jan 1, 410 Maoists person surrendered, 421 arrested, and 137 person been killed successful Bijapur.

Reds hack villager to decease successful Bastar

A radical of Maoists barged into a villager’s house, dragged him out, and hacked him to decease successful beforehand of his household and relatives, accusing him of being a constabulary informer, successful Bijapur dist of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar part Wednesday night. Villagers alerted police, who rushed to the colony and sent the assemblage of Madkam Bhima for autopsy. Cops described the sidesplitting arsenic different lawsuit of Reds targeting guiltless villagers to dispersed fear, peculiarly arsenic information ops intensify successful Bastar.