Unknown event in Chhattisgarh, Bhejji Police Station in Sukma District area, India on Sun 27th February 2022

Nineteen Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, including four women cadres, surrendered at Bhejji Police Station in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh on February 27, reports devdiscourse.com. The Maoists, three of them carrying cash rewards of INR 100,000 each on their heads, turned themselves in before Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officials at Bhejji Police Station in the district on February 27 evening, citing disappointment with the "inhuman" and "hollow" Maoist ideology. All the rebels, whose identities are yet to be ascertained, hailed from Bodhrajpadar village in Bhejji area and were active as lower rung cadres of the CPI-Maoist. A senior official said the Maoists who laid down their arms were also "impressed" by the district Police's rehabilitation drive for Naxals [Left Wing Extremism, LWE], called 'Puna Narkom' (a term coined in local Gondi dialect which means New Dawn, New Beginning).