Overview

• Security forces killed 27 Maoists in Bastar recently, including NIA’s most wanted leader Nambala Keshav Rao (Basavaraju).
• On June 9, five Left parties including CPI and CPI(M) wrote to Prime Minister Modi urging an immediate halt to extra-judicial killings under Operation Kagar.
• They demand that detained senior Maoist figures be produced in court under the rule of law and that families receive bodies for dignified funerals.
• The letter accuses the campaign of disrupting Adivasi life and facilitating indiscriminate corporate exploitation of forests and minerals.
• Signatories call on the government to respond to a unilateral Maoist ceasefire declaration and to order an impartial judicial inquiry into recent deaths.