Overview

• Four Maoist cadres with a combined bounty of Rs 19 lakh surrendered in Gariaband district on August 17, 2025.
• The group featured a divisional committee member and three area-level operatives carrying bounties ranging from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 8 lakh.
• Acting on their intelligence, security forces recovered a cache of explosives—including BGL rounds and a hand grenade—alongside INSAS ammunition, gelatin rods, detonators and over Rs 16 lakh in cash.
• The cadres surrendered an SLR rifle and a single-shot gun and guided authorities to Maoist literature caches used for indoctrination.
• Officials credit the sustained counter-insurgency campaign and the state’s new surrender-and-rehabilitation policy with driving defections and deepening the insurgents’ financial and command crisis.