A Naxal was killed in an encounter with safety personnel in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. A gun battle happened round 6 AM in a forest space underneath Gangaloor police station whereas a joint workforce of safety personnel was conducting an anti-Naxal operation, a senior police officer was quoted as saying by information company PTI.
After the change of fireplace stopped, the physique of the Naxal and his weapon had been recovered from the situation. The cops added {that a} search operation was launched for extra naxals within the space.
With this incident, 34 Naxalites have been killed by safety forces within the Bastar area, encompassing seven districts together with Bijapur, this yr. Bijapur district comes underneath the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, which is able to go to polls within the first part of common elections on April 19.
Naxal Encounters In Chhattisgarh
Final month, a police constable and a Naxalite had been killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district. The gunfight occurred in a forest close to Hidur village, which is throughout the jurisdiction of Chhotebethiya police station, whereas a mixed safety power was conducting an anti-Naxal operation. This operation began after receiving exact info concerning the presence of Naxalites within the Hidur forest.
Constable Ramesh Kurethi of the Bastar Fighters, a state police power, was killed within the firefight. The Naxal’s physique and an AK-47 rifle had been discovered on the scene.
On March 27, a joint workforce of safety forces neutralised six Naxalites, together with two girls, throughout a fierce gun battle that occurred in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. The extreme change of gunfire transpired between safety forces and the Individuals’s Liberation Guerrilla Military (PLGA), the armed wing of Platoon No. 10 of Naxals, close to Chunabhatti jungle alongside the Palar River underneath Basaguda Police Station in Bijapur. Basaguda District Reserve Guard and Central Reserve Police Power and its CoBRA unit had been concerned within the motion towards the Naxals, as per ANI.
On March 19, safety forces engaged in an change of fireplace with Naxal insurgents within the jungles of Purangel close to the border of Dantewada and Bijapur in Chhattisgarh. Through the search, the police seized two knuckle dusters, and a big amount of ammunition, as per ANI.
Two our bodies of Maoists, together with that of a girl, had been recovered.
In February, a Naxal with a historical past of practically thirty years of exercise within the banned Maoist group and carrying a reward of Rs 8 lakh, was killed in an encounter with safety forces in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district. The encounter occurred on Wednesday in a forested terrain close to villages alongside the border of Dantewada and Sukma districts, the place a joint safety workforce was engaged in an anti-Naxal operation.
In January, a minimum of three CRPF personnel had been killed and 14 others sustained accidents throughout a gun battle with the Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. Two of the commandos killed had been a part of the elite jungle warfare unit CoBRA.