The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charged five members of the banned CPI (Maoist) for their alleged involvement in the murder of an Indian Army soldier in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district in 2023, officials said on Saturday (August 30, 2025).
The accused — Bhawan Lal Jain, Suresh Kumar Salam, Shailendra Kumar Baghel, Anduram Salam and Sonu Hemla — have been named in a supplementary charge sheet filed on Friday (August 29, 2025) before a special NIA court in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, they said.
