Overview

• At a ceremony in New Delhi, the home minister felicitated personnel from the CRPF, Chhattisgarh Police, DRG and CoBRA for the Karreguttalu hill offensive.
• Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai and Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma attended the event, which highlighted recent counterinsurgency gains.
• Officials said the prolonged Karreguttalu operation dismantled a major Maoist base, cut supply lines and destroyed material dumps, with weapons and IEDs recovered.
• Reported tallies vary, with accounts citing 27 to more than 30 Maoists neutralised, and some reports stating CPI (Maoist) leader Nambala Keshav Rao (Basavaraju) was among them.
• Separately, police said 20 Naxalites surrendered in Sukma and were given initial financial assistance under the state’s rehabilitation policy.