Chhattisgarh encounter: Who is Hidma, the brutal Naxal commander behind the attack that killed 22 jawans
Hidma, who carries a bounty of Rs 40 lakh, is the youngest member of the CPI (Maoists) supreme 21-membered âcentral committee.â (Photo source: Reuters)
Updated: Apr 5, 2021, 06:59 PM IST
In major loss to our security forces, 22 jawans were killed and 31 were injured in a deadly four-hour encounter with Naxals along the border between Bijapur and Sukma districts in Chhattisgarh on Saturday (April 3).
Over 2,000 police personnel drawn from CRPF’s elite CoBRA unit, and the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Special Task Force (STF) walked into a deadly trap of Maoists in deep jungle in a rebel-dominated patch in Chhattisgarh’s restive Bastar, purely on an unverified intelligence input that top Naxal commander Madvi Hidma was holed up at a hilly site along with his colleagues.