In M.P.’s Duglai, a remote hamlet, unprecedented civic push follows a horrific crime

Duglai is located deep inside the forests of Balaghat, which was last month removed from the Union Home Ministry’s list of the districts “most-affected” by left-wing extremism and notified as a “district of concern”, suggesting that Maoist influence in the area is on the wane.

​Duglai is located deep inside the forests of Balaghat, which was last month removed from the Union Home Ministry’s list of the districts “most-affected” by left-wing extremism and notified as a “district of concern”, suggesting that Maoist influence in the area is on the wane.