“The truce officer by the Maoists has been taken seriously but the operation will continue as usual. If the Naxals genuinely want peace, they must stop targeting civilians and surrender all the IEDs in the designated camps. One of them, Qadari Satyanarayan Reddy had masterminded the abduction of then Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon in 2012. At the start of 2025, 12 CC members and five politburo members were active. Eight CC members have been killed and one has surrendered since then, a police officer said.