New Delhi: Three Maoists, together with two ladies cadres had been killed in an encounter with safety forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday morning, police mentioned.
The reported encounter happened round 8 am within the Belam Gutta hills beneath the Basaguda police station limits, greater than 400 km from state capital Raipur, PTI cited a senior police official.
As per data, personnel of the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) and `Commando Battalion for Resolute Motion’ (CoBRA), an elite unit of the CRPF, had been out on an anti-Naxal operation within the space, when Maoists opened fireplace, he additional added.
The id of the slain Naxals is but to be ascertained, the official mentioned, including {that a} search operation is underway in close by areas, reported PTI.
A cache of explosives and weapons, Naxal uniforms, literature and different objects had been additionally seized from the encounter web site, reported PTI.
“Two muzzle-rifles, one pistol and different explosives have been recovered. We had data that the Madded Space Committee‘s divisional member Vinod Karma and different 25 armed Maoists had been tenting in that space and therefore the operation was launched. The our bodies of the deceased Maoists are but to be recognized,” HT quoted Inspector basic of police, Bastar vary, Sunderaj P, as saying.
In accordance with the report, the anti-Maoist operations have intensified within the final two months. The figures present that there have been solely 4 anti-Maoist operations in July and August final yr, which dropped to 2 in September and October. Nonetheless, the quantity elevated to 12 in November and 9 operations had been carried out in December 2023. In all, 27 operations had been carried out.
The best variety of Maoists arrested in 2023 was in December when 59 of them had been arrested by the safety forces and previous to this, it was in July when 15 had been arrested. In all, 173 Maoists had been arrested between July and December 2023, whereas 12 had been killed in gunfights with the safety forces.