Security Forces Target Top-level Maoist Leaders in Bastar
Deccan ChronicleRaipur: Security forces have targeted top-level Maoist leaders operating in the Leftwing insurgency-hit Bastar in Chhattisgarh to achieve the goal of ending Naxalism by March, 2026, a senior police officer said on Monday. “A hit-list of top-level Maoist leaders has been prepared to neutralize them either through surrender, arrest or elimination”, sources in the state intelligence bureau told this newspaper. “Neutralisation of top-level leaders of the Maoist cadres makes the Naxal movement leaderless in the Maoist strongholds leading to erosion of Maoist bases”, the police officer said. Our objective is to remove the top-level leaders from the Maoist movement to ensure erosion of Maoist bases”, Bastar range inspector general of police P Sunderraj told this newspaper.