The Senior Maoist cadre and a member of the Central Committee (CCM) Zarasimha Chalam, aka Gautam, also known as Sudhakar, was neutralized during the replacement of a fire between security forces and Maoists in the National Park in the Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh. The meeting took place in the middle of ongoing operations aimed at limiting rebel activities in the region.
According to IG Bastar P Sundarraj, security forces gained one AK-47 rifle together with a large number of explosive materials, weapons and ammunition.
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A successful operation is a significant development in the effort to dismantle Maoist networks in this area.
Killing Zarasimha Cham comes fourteen days after the Secretary General of CPI (Maoist) Zambal Keshav Rao aka Basavaraju (70) was neutralized by the Bastar security forces.
The police said the replacement of the fire broke out in the forest area in Indravati, when a joint team of security staff was for an anti-naxalite operation based on the entrance presence of higher cadres.
The operation of the special working group, the district reserve guard, the two units of the Chhattisgarh and Cobra (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action – the elite CRPF unit) were involved in the operation.
The head of the police officer published in the Bastar series said PTI that the security forces consisting of a special working group, a district reservation, both Khhattisgarh and Cobra (Commando Battalion for Resolte Action – the elite CRPF unit) started the operation.
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They launched an operation after receiving information that Maoist leader Sudhakar, a member of the TELANGANA BANDI PRAKASH, Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) Pappa Rao, and several other armed cadres hid the forest area.
About Zarasimha Chalam:
When changing the fire, they killed the security forces of Narasimha Chalam, who also know the aliases Anand, Chanti Balakrishna, Ramaraju, Aravind and Somanna. He was a resident of the village of Pragadavaram in the district of West Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, the official informed.
Chalam originally came from Andhra Pradesh and was involved in the indoctrination and radicalization of youth and also responsible for numerous attacks Naxal in Chhattisgarh, the police said.
Chalam was not only a member of the Maoists Central Committee, but was also responsible for the reposits (revolutionary political school) and the Central Regional Authority (CRB). Zarasimha Chalam had a reward £40 Lakh on the head.
“Sudhakar was responsible for various violent incidents that resulted in the death of numerous innocent tribal civilians and martyrdom of security staff. Moreover, as authorized by Maoist ideological training (Reports), it was involved in misleading and radicalization of youth with violent and anti -national ideology. Bastar range).
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“His death is the main success for security forces and is an important blow to Maoist leadership, especially in the Dandakaranya area (which covers the southern Chhattisgarh and the border areas of the Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha).
Previous Meeting:
Formerly 21st May, when meeting with security forces on the border of Narayanpur-Bijapur in the Bastar area in the Bastar area, killed in the Bastar area.
In 2025, in separate meetings in Chhattisgarh were killed by 203 naxaliti. 186 were excluded in the Bastar division, which includes districts of Bijapur, Bastar, Kanker, Konadagaon, Narayanpur, Sukma and Dantewad. Since January last year, according to government data, more than 403 Maoist cadres have not yet been neutralized in the Bastar division.
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