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10 Maoist cadres, including leader with ₹55 lakh bounty, surrender in Odisha| India News

10 Maoist cadres, including leader with ₹55 lakh bounty, surrender in Odisha| India News

Ten Communist Party of India (Maoist) cadres, including a state committee member with a ₹55 lakh bounty, surrendered before the Kandhamal police on Wednesday. Ten Maoist cadres, including a state committee member, lay down arms before Odisha Police in Kandhamal. The surrender took place at a formal ceremony organised by the Odisha Police at the Reserve Police Ground in Phulbani, where the cadres also laid down arms and ammunition before senior officers of the police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Those who surrendered include Sanu Pottam alias Nitu, a State Committee Member of the KKBN Division, and Santaei Salam alias Anupa, a Divisional Committee Member of the same division. Two Area Committee Members, Laxmi Madvi alias Sangita and Sunil Telam, were also among those who surrendered, along with six party members identified as Manjula Punem alias Silpa, Rambati Oyam alias Jamuna, Ganesh Kunjam, Susila Dudi, Sarita Kuhudam and Chodi Yogi alias Rajni. Additional director general of police (anti-naxal operations) Sanjeeb Panda said all 10 cadres are from Chhattisgarh and surrendered with 10 firearms …

Day After 4 Naxalites Killed In Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur, 2 More Die In Fresh Gunfight | India News

Day After 4 Naxalites Killed In Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur, 2 More Die In Fresh Gunfight | India News

Last Updated:January 18, 2026, 19:07 IST Six Naxalites, including Dilip Vedja, Madvi Kosa, Lakkhi Madkam, and Radha Metta, were killed in Bijapur during a joint security operation targeting Maoists. Between 2014 and 1 December 2025, security forces recorded a total of 27,765 outcomes against LWE cadres across the country. (PTI Photo) A day after four Naxalites were killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, two more cadres were shot dead in the same operation, police said on Sunday. PTI quoted Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Yadav saying the latest exchange of fire occurred on Sunday morning in the forested hills of the district’s north-western region, where a joint team of security forces has been conducting an anti-Naxalite operation. On Saturday, four Naxals, later identified as senior cadre Dilip Vedja, who was a divisional committee member, area committee members Madvi Kosa and Lakkhi Madkam, and party member Radha Metta, were killed. All four were active in the National Park Area Committee of the Maoists, the SP said. The gunfight first broke out on Saturday morning …