How security forces executed one of Chhattisgarh’s biggest anti-Naxal operations that killed over 30 Naxals
After over 96 hours of intensive planning and intelligence gathering, security forces surrounded the Naxals in a radius of 10 kilometers.
After over 96 hours of intensive planning and intelligence gathering, security forces surrounded the Naxals in a radius of 10 kilometers.
This transformation is being seen as the result of concerted efforts by the Chhattisgarh government, with support from the central government, to foster peace and prosperity.
Acting on specific intelligence input, a special operation was conducted by BSF troops from the Company Operating Base (COB) Bodigetta within the Bejangiwada Reserve Forest area.
Four Naxals were gunned down in an ongoing encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district.
Sources indicate that the assailants, armed with sharp-edged weapons, launched their assault from a distance of nearly 500 meters from a CAF camp.
The remarks come in the wake of an IED blast triggered by Naxals in Maharashtra’s Gadchroli district earlier on Wednesday which left 16 people dead including 15 security personnel.
Earlier in the day, Maoists torched at least three dozen vehicles belonging to private contractors in Kurkheda sub-district of Gadchiroli.
The officer, Sanjukta Digal, was on her way to a polling booth when she was shot dead by the Naxals in Balandapada village under Gochhapada police station limits.
Elections to 11 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state will be held in three phases on April 11, April 18 and April 23.
In Naxal-affected Bastar, far from the urban jungles, district officials unfurled the tricolour on the banks of a river that runs right through the Maoist hotbeds.