Overview

• On July 21, Maoist cadres from the Jagargunda Committee stormed Chhutwai and Bada Tarrem villages, dragging Kawasi Joga and Manglu Kursam from their homes and killing them with sharp weapons.
• These deaths represent the 10th such killing in Bijapur over the past 25 days, raising the Bastar region’s Maoist-related death toll to 27 so far this year.
• Police view the attacks as reprisals against suspected informers, including relatives of surrendered cadres, in response to Operation Sankalp’s intensified forest sweeps.
• Security forces—including District Reserve Guard and CRPF CoBRA units—have launched intensive combing operations in Tarrem to apprehend the assailants.
• Civil society voices warn that civilians in remote Bastar communities face escalating violence as Maoists adopt brutal tactics to maintain influence under growing security pressure.