8 Maoists including senior leaders, killed in Bijapur encounter
The encounter began in the densely forested Todka area under Gangaloor police station limits and was still ongoing as of late afternoon, with reinforcements rushed to the site.
The encounter began in the densely forested Todka area under Gangaloor police station limits and was still ongoing as of late afternoon, with reinforcements rushed to the site.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lauded Maharashtra Government's efforts to ensure all-round development in remote and Maoist-affected areas.
In the dense Maoist insurgency-hit forests of Bastar in Southern Chhattisgarh, smartphones have emerged as a powerful tool reshaping the lives of the region’s youth and weakening the Maoist grip on local communities.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during his visit to Jagdalpur in southern Chhattisgarh, declared that India would be free of Maoist insurgency by March 31, 2026, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Special Operation Group (SOG), an elite Commando unit of the Odisha police, on Thursday gunned down a maoist cadre of outlawed the Communist Party of India (Maoist) outfit in a dense forest area along the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border in Malkangiri district
Karma along with veteran leader Vidya Charan Shukla, then PCC president Nandkumar Patel and other Congress leaders was assassinated in Bastar on 25 May 2013 by the Maoist rebels.
Officials called it the biggest Maoist attack on security forces since the attack in Sukma in 2017 when 24 CRPF personnel, part of a road opening party, were killed.
In a gun battle which lasted for about two-and-a-half hours when around 250 ultras, who were heavily armed , ambushed the patrolling teams when they reached near Minpa village forests, leaving 15 personnel injured, according to Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P.
According to police, Maoist in remote villages of Bastar had recently put up posters calling for a boycott of the panchayat polls.
The move comes after the indictment of security forces, by a one-member judicial commission set up to probe an alleged encounter in which 17 people, including six minors, were killed in Sarkeguda, in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, in June 2012.
