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title: "Operation Green Hunt: India's Anti-Naxal Drive"
description: "Operation Green Hunt refers to the 2009 offensive against Maoist insurgents in India, crucial for understanding state responses to internal security threats."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- Operation Green Hunt is the media-coined name for the coordinated central-state security offensive launched across India's Naxal-affected belt from 2009 to counter Maoist insurgency.
- Is Operation Green Hunt an officially named government operation?
- How does Operation Green Hunt differ from Salwa Judum?
- What legal basis underpins the campaign against the Maoists?
- Which states and districts were the main theatres?

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## Timeline

1. 6 April 2010

   The campaign's costliest single reverse came on , when Maoists ambushed a CRPF column in Dantewada district, killing 76 personnel—the deadliest single attack…

2. 5 July 2011

   State of Chhattisgarh\* (), ordering the disbandment of Special Police Officers deployed against Maoists.

3. 31 March 2026

   More recently, the government set a publicly stated target of eliminating Left-Wing Extremism by , intensifying operations in the core Chhattisgarh forests.

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On 6 April 2010, Maoist insurgents ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force column in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district during the Green Hunt surge, killing 76 personnel in the deadliest single attack on Indian security forces by the Naxal insurgency.

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