Three suspected Maoists were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Sunday, PTI reported.

Superintendent of Police Kiran Chavan told PTI that the gunfight broke out in the forested hills of Bhejji and Chintagufa police station areas.

“A team of District Reserve Guard was out on an anti-Maoist operation based on inputs about the presence of Maoist cadres in the region,” Chavan was quoted as saying.

On November 11, six suspected Maoists were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Bijapur district.

Last month, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs said that the number of districts affected by “Left-wing extremism” has come down to 11 from 18 in March.

In 2025, the number of “most affected” districts has also come down from six to three, it added. These are Bijapur, Sukma and Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh.

On October 16, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai also said that over the past 22 months, 477 suspected Maoists were killed, 2,110 had surrendered and 1,785 had been arrested in the state.

This year alone, 259 suspected Maoists have been killed by security forces in the state.

Malini Subramaniam has reported for Scroll that while many of those killed in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region in 2024 were declared by the police to be reward-carrying Maoists, several families dispute the claim. The families claim that the persons killed were civilians.

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