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Amit Shah accuses Opposition VP candidate of aiding Naxalism: What was the Salwa Judum Case?

August 26, 2025 10:09 am

Home Minister Amit Shah has accused the Opposition’s vice presidential election candidate Justice B Sudershan Reddy (retd) of supporting Naxalism by passing a judgment that ended the practice of appointing Special Police Officers to fight the Maoists in Chhattisgarh. What was the case?

The first ever visual of a Salwa Judum procession-comprising tribals from Villages annexed by Salwa Judum activists. (Express Archive)

A look at rise and fall of Salwa Judum amid Amit Shah's Naxalism barb at Oppn's Vice-President candidate

August 24, 2025 11:51 am

Justice B Sudershan Reddy was part of SC Bench along with Justice S S Nijjar, which in a landmark judgment in July 2011 disbanded Salwa Judum militia in Bastar for being illegal and unconstitutional.

Salwa Judum ruling by Opp V-P pick aided Naxalism, says Shah

August 23, 2025 2:36 am

Shah responded to a question on the three Bills that propose the removal of ministers who are accused in serious cases and have been detained for at least 30 days

The long shadow of Salwa Judum: Bhupesh Baghel govt fears tribal killing will hit rehab plan

April 26, 2022 9:01 am

Salwa Judum (meaning Peace March) was mobilised in 2005 by the late Congress leader Mahendra Karma and deployed in parts of Chhattisgarh, that was at the time ruled by the BJP.

Chhattisgarh: NHRC accuses state officials of ‘abetting’ crimes of Salwa Judum

February 11, 2020 3:22 am

The commission made the comment while declaring an order on September 23, 2019, in the matter of the killing of seven people and burning of 95 huts in the Kondasawali, Karrepara and Kamaraguda villages of Sukma district in 2007.

13 years later, 15 families back in Bastar: ‘Happy but leave us alone’

June 24, 2019 7:19 am

On April 28, 25 members of the 15 families from Kannapuram returned to the village. They came in a bus, and as he stepped of it, he saw the 68 families that had remained, smile at him welcomingly.

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NHRC slams police, officials for ‘turning blind eye to Salwa Judum killings’

November 06, 2017 3:26 am

In the complaint, it was alleged that Salwa Judum personnel carried out mass burning of homes in Kondasawali, Kamaraguda and Karrepara villages and killed seven villagers.

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Chhattisgarh: Activists see Salwa Judum link, locals say ‘fed up’ of Naxals

May 29, 2016 8:43 am

On May 20, Nama and Sautenar’s nightly vigil became national news when a group of visiting activists from Delhi was accused of trying to persuade the villages to “support the Maoists”.