In all, 208 Naxalites and 153 weapons were taken to police lines for rehabilitation and surrender. This is an important step towards bringing peace back to Chhattisgarh's Dandakaranya area. The majority of the Abujhmad will no longer be influenced by the Naxals, according to sources. The ten-year Red terror in North Bastar ended when the Naxalites put down their weapons and chose rehabilitation.

Officials said there are 98 males and 110 women in the group that has turned themselves in. Nineteen AK-47 rifles, seventeen SLR rifles, twenty-three INSAS rifles, one INSAS LMG, thirty-six.303 rifles, four carbines, eleven BGL launchers, forty-one twelve-bore or single-shot firearms, and one handgun are among the weapons that have been turned in.Rupesh alias Satish (Central Committee Member), Bhaskar alias Rajman Mandavi (DKSZC Member), Ranita (DKSZC Member), Raju Salam (DKSZC Member), Dhannu Vetti alias Santu (DKSZC Member), and Ratan Elam (Regional Committee Member), Chhattisgarh, were among the prominent Maoist leaders who turned themselves in.Vishnu Deo Sai, the country's chief minister, praised the action and referred to it as a historic day. He said that Abujhmad and north Bastar are now totally free of naxalism and that "Bastar is no longer a land of violence, but a land of hope."

The administration will endeavour to upskill and rehabilitate them, the Chief Minister further promised.