New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- For the last two months, the family of Tati Gandhi aka Arab (35), a former Maoist who carried a reward of Rs.8 lakh on his head until his surrender in January 2025, has been seeking a bride for him. His initial work as an informer (post surrender), assisting security forces in anti-Naxal operations helped him become a sahayak (assistant constable) in the district reserve guards (DRG). Once a wanted divisional committee member, Arab is now a free man, no longer wanted by the forces, and is looking forward to marry and have a family. Once that would have been a dream; sometime around 2014, a trained doctor who was part of the Maoists performed a vasectomy on him. But in October last year, doctors at a hospital in state capital Raipur, reversed his vasectomy. Arab's story is not unique. The surrender of a record number of Maoists has thrown up an unusual challenge for security forces - surrendered cadres in large numbers are approaching security forces seeking medical help to reverse vasectomies performed on them during their years in the jungle. While cadres were permitted to marry within ranks, they were prohibited from having children, so trained doctors performed vasectomies inside the jungles. Officials in the security forces said that in the last six months, at least 50 surrendered Maoists have undergone the reverse procedure; and there are dozens waiting in line. The cadres call this procedure - nas jodna (rejoining the tubes). In a vasectomy, the vas deferens that transports the sperm is cut or sealed. It is a process that is quick, painless and effective. The reversal, called vasovasostomy, simply involves connecting or unblocking the vas deferens....