New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- At least 44 Maoist structures were destroyed by CRPF personnel in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli on Sunday, the force said in a statement. An 800-member CRPF team, spread into 18 teams along with state police, used earth movers to destroy 44 Maoist memorials in a bid to erase every memory of the left-wing extremism from the country. Sharing videos of tall Maoist structures being topped by earth movers in Gadchiroli, CRPF chief, GP Singh, in a statement on X, said, "Brick by brick, we would destroy the idea and its manifestation in each and every form."

Gadchiroli, which was on the list of districts most affected by LWE violence, was removed from the list last year.

Separately in Chhattisgarh, over the last fortnight, the...