Final ops on to target ‘Big 4’ as Naxal-free deadline nears | India News – The Times of India

Final ops on to target ‘Big 4’ as Naxal-free deadline nears | India News – The Times of India

New Delhi: As the March 31, 2026 deadline for making the country “Naxal-free” approaches, security forces are in the final leg of intelligence-based operations to get the remaining ‘Big Four’ of the CPI(Maoist) leadership — three politburo-cum-central committee members and one central committee member — and an estimated “300-350 regular, uniformed cadres of concern” still…

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Sahdev Soren encounter: Slain Jharkhand Maoist leader had escaped from jail van in 2012; killed Babulal Marandi’s son in 2007 | India News – The Times of India

Sahdev Soren encounter: Slain Jharkhand Maoist leader had escaped from jail van in 2012; killed Babulal Marandi’s son in 2007 | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Nearly thirteen years after fellow Maoists helped him escape by ambushing his jail van on its way to a Giridih court, Sahdev Soren, a CPI(Maoist) central committee member (CCM) wanted for over 80 cases of Naxal violence, including the 2007 Chilkhari massacre that had killed former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi’s son and…

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