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NAGPUR: Maharashtra delivered a knockout stroke to Maoist insurgency, efficaciously wiping retired guerrilla beingness successful Gadchiroli territory successful a 100-hour coordinated enactment this week, leaving zero progressive Maoists successful constabulary records.
This comes 45 days aft Union location curate Amit Shah's March 31 deadline to eradicate left-wing extremism successful the country. The past 4 lasting members of the Maoists' subject wing, Company 10, were taken retired of their hideouts portion 2 members of the dreaded ‘dalam' surrendered earlier police.The crackdown connected the guerrillas was carried retired successful a decisive cognition codenamed — Antim Prahar — that carried retired 8 arrests and 5 surrenders implicit a four-day span.
The 8 arrested guerrillas and 5 surrendered rebels carried a corporate bounty of ₹1 crore announced by Maharashtra govt."Gadchiroli is present officially Maoist-free connected constabulary records," said the SP Gadchiroli, M Ramesh. Senior officials described the time arsenic "the extremity of Maoist insurgency" successful Maharashtra.Besides dismantling Company 10, Gadchiroli constabulary and CRPF jawans conducted an inter-state cognition and nabbed 4 Maoists astatine Rukmapur railway presumption successful Telangana's Vikarabad territory connected May 12-13.
The quartet of Jayaram Gawde, Mukesh alias Lachu Avalam, Vijay Hunga Tamo and Rajita alias Shambatti Madavi were progressive successful the Feb 7 Fodewada jungle ambush that killed a C-60 commando.Further raids connected May 14 successful Kumner and Naitala villages successful Gadchiroli led to the apprehension of different 4 apical guerrillas, including divisional committee subordinate Raju alias Mangdu Veko and his wife, Janni on with Jyoti alias Samita Potavi and Amati alias Sandhya Idma Podiyam.The cognition yielded a cache of 51 arms and ammunition — 2 airy instrumentality guns, 4 AK-47s, 4 self-loading rifles, 3 INSAS rifles, aggregate .303 and 12-bore guns, tube grenade launchers, hundreds of unrecorded rounds and detonators. The seizures from jungle hideouts of Phodewada, Gundenur and Naitala included ₹65 lakh successful cash, dealing a crippling fiscal and logistical stroke to the outfit.Also, 5 elder Maoists, including a couple, laid down guns.
They were identified arsenic Madhu alias Bajirao Welda (divisional committee member), his woman Rajani alias Durga (area committee member), Jivan alias Jaggu (party committee member), Mangli Kursam and Laxmi Punem.Post-surrender, they volition person rehabilitation packages, including ₹8.5 lakh for Madhu and ₹5 lakh each for others, on with further incentives for the mates and group."These successes physique connected the momentum generated by the historical Oct 2025 wide surrender of 61 Maoists, led by elder Maoist, Bhupati," said SP Gadchiroli M Ramesh.Gadchiroli SP Ramesh led by Special IGP Sandeep Patil, DIG Yogesh Kumar and elder CRPF officers including Ajay Kumar Sharma, orchestrated the operations. "No shots were fired during the arrests, underlining the forces' nonrecreational restraint," said Ramesh."This broad triumph successful Maharashtra is expected to accelerate the last eradication of Left-Wing Extremism from remaining affected areas crossed the country," said IGP Patil.
