CM Baghel added that the pressure of the security forces had pushed the Naxals back, insinuating that the recent killing of BJP leader Dubey was just a minor incident in an otherwise improving law and order situation in the Naxalite-prone area.
The High Court's ruling from October 14, 2022, allowing Saibaba's appeal against a 2017 trial court decision convicting and sentencing him to life in prison, was challenged in the case that led to the verdict.
An award in the translation category was declared to a former Politburo member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), Kobad Gandhi's book 'Fractured Freedom'. The government has now withdrawn the award and scrapped the committee that recommended the book.