Government today said it had got intelligence reports that Maoists are forcing induction of at least one child from each family in certain villages and districts of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
"As per the intelligence reports, in the current year, incidents of Maoists forcing at least one child from each family to join the outfit has been reported from areas under police stations Senha (district Lohardaga), Bishnupur (district Gumla) in Jharkhand and police station Ambabeda (district Kanker) in Chhattisgarh," Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
The Left Wing Extremist groups, the Minister said, particularly the CPI (Maoist) recruit minors, both boys and girls from the tribal belt of LWE affected areas in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Odisha.
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In a separate reply, Chaudhary said a large number of Maoist cadres, 327, have surrendered in Bastar region in the current year.