SAA event in Telangana, Hyderabad area, India on Fri 19th December 2025

41 cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including 39 from Chhattisgarh, surrendered before Telangana Police in Hyderabad on December 19, reports The Hans India. The Maoists, including six senior functionaries of Company Platoon Committee Member/Divisional Committee Member (CyPCMs/DVCMs) rank, along with 24 firearms, surrendered and joined the mainstream in the presence of Telangana Director General of Police B. Shivadhar Reddy. The surrendered arms include one Light Machine Gun (LMG), three AK-47 Rifles, five Self Loading Rifle (SLR) Rifles, seven INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) assault rifles, one Barrel Grenade Launcher (BGL) gun, four .303 Rifles, one Single-shot Rifle and two Air guns. The cadres from Telangana who surrendered are Erragolla Ravi alias Santhosh, 40, Komaram Bheem Asifabad – Mancherial Divisional Committee (K-M DVC) Secretary and Kanikarapu Prabhanjan, 33, a Party Member (PM). The remaining surrendered Maoists are from Chhattisgarh and they include 11 cadres of People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion, five cadres of 2nd Central Regional Command (CRC) Company of Telangana State Committee, four cadres of Cherla-Shabari Area Committee, Bhadradri Kothagudem-Alluri Seetha Rama Raju DVC of Telangana State Committee, five cadres of Platoon-33 of South Sub Zonal Bureau, Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC), nine cadres of South Bastar DVC of DKSZC, four cadres of Darbha DVC of DKSZC and one cadre of Gangaloor AC, West Bastar DVC of DKSZC. The cadres handed over 24 firearms and 733 live rounds of ammunition of various calibres and eight BGL shells.