RaipurIn Chhattisgarh’s Naxal-affected Bastar area, security forces have killed five Naxalites, including two women Naxalites, in separate encounters. Inspector General of Police, Bastar region Sundarraj P said on Tuesday that four Naxalites, including a woman Naxal, were killed by security forces in the border area of Chhattisgarh and Telangana state and a woman Naxalite in Sukma district.
Sundarraj said that the police received information about the presence of about 50 armed Maoists including Telangana State Committee Maoist leaders Sudhakar (Divisional Committee Member) and Venkatapuram (Area Committee Member) in Perur, Ilmidi and Usoor police station areas of the border area of Telangana and Chhattisgarh. Was. After the information, the Greyhounds force of Telangana and Central Reserve Police Force and DRG personnel were sent from Bijapur district in anti-Naxal operation on Monday.
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The Maoists started firing when security forces were in the border area of Semaldodi village under Ilmidi police station area of Bijapur district and Penugolu village under Perur police station area of Telangana state at around 7 am on Tuesday, the Inspector General of Police said. After this the security forces retaliated. Sundarraj said that after the encounter, the security forces recovered the bodies of four Maoists, including a woman Maoist, from the spot.
A police officer said that a Greyhound jawan was injured in the encounter. The jawan was taken out of the forest by helicopter and admitted to the hospital in Warangal district. He said that security force personnel are conducting searches at the spot and the surrounding area.
In another encounter, a woman Naxal was gunned down by security forces in Sukma district of the area, a police official said. Sundarraj said that on Monday, Sukma bordering Katekalyan police station in Dantewada district and Tongpal in Bastar district and Morenga, Junapani, Jaimer hill, Nandel Dongri, Marjum and Dhruvapara villages of Tahkwara district, Darbha Divisional Committee member Mangtu, Katekalyan area committee member Mahgu. , Munni, Pradeep, Somadu along with the presence of around 25 Maoists were reported. After the information, the security forces were sent in the anti-Naxal operation.
The Maoists opened fire on the security forces this morning when the security forces were in the forest of Marjum and Pratapgiri in the border areas of Dantewada and Sukma districts, a police official said. After which the security forces also retaliated. The Naxalites fled from there after firing from both the sides for some time.
When the security forces searched the spot, the body of a female Maoist was found there, he said. The Maoist has been identified as Area Committee member Munni. Sundarraj said that the operation against Naxalites is going on in the area.