The Nationwide Investigation Company has filed a cost sheet towards six Naxals in reference to the maoist assault in Chhattisgarh Bijapur district in 2021 that left 22 safety personnel lifeless, stated the federal company on Wednesday.
With the recent cost sheet filed within the case, the entire variety of accused has reached 46.
The anti-terror company had registered the case in reference to the matter on June 5, 2021 and had filed its unique cost sheet towards 23 accused individuals in December final yr, adopted by a supplementary chargesheet towards 17 extra in July 2023, it stated in an announcement on Wednesday.
On April 3, 2021, an encounter broke out between safety forces and Naxals alongside the Sukma-Bijapur border in Chhattisgarh after a celebration of troopers was ambushed by Maoists close to Jonnaguda village.
The Nationwide Investigation Company on Tuesday charge-sheeted six extra naxals within the case referring to a deadly assault that left 22 safety personnel lifeless in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh in 2021. This takes the entire variety of accused charge-sheeted by the NIA within the case up to now… pic.twitter.com/BPC2jEaE8o
— ANI (@ANI) November 22, 2023
The forces had been scattered and trapped alongside a two-kilometre lengthy stretch of forest space.
22 troopers had been killed within the assaults whereas 32 extra had been wounded within the three-hour lengthy encounter.
Responding to the assaults, Chhattisgarh police stated that it had killed 9 Naxalites and recovered the lifeless physique of a girl Naxal.
On April 2, 2021, a joint staff of Cobra Battalion of Central Reserve Police Pressure, DRG and STF was despatched from Bijapur and Sukma districts within the anti-Naxal operation. About two thousand troopers from Tarrem, Usur of Bijapur district, Minpa and Narsapuram of Sukma district had been concerned within the anti-Naxal operation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had expressed his grief over the lack of lives.
“My condolences are with the households of the troopers who had been martyred combating the Maoists in Chhattisgarh. The sacrifice of the courageous martyrs won’t ever be forgotten. I want the speedy restoration of the injured,” Modi had tweeted