Overview
- Around 2,000 personnel from the CRPF and Chhattisgarh Police launched Operation KGH-2 along the Chhattisgarh–Telangana border to track central committee member Devji, also known as Chetan, and deputy Kesa Sodhi.
- Security assessments now place four CPI (Maoist) central committee members—Ganapathy, Devuji, Malla Raja Reddy and Misir Besra—within the final cohort of roughly 300 active cadres.
- The Centre is finalising an area-wise plan to begin phased withdrawal of select CAPFs from late April, with the CRPF maintaining the security grid under a condition-based roadmap.
- Gadchiroli Police and CRPF teams demolished 44 Maoist-built monuments in remote Maharashtra villages, an action praised by the state leadership as removing the last visible symbols of insurgent intimidation.
- Surrender-and-rehabilitation drives continue, including 22 cadres who laid down arms in Sukma under the Poona Margem scheme that provides ₹50,000 in immediate aid, alongside sustained declines in violence and affected districts since 2010.