Maoists would like the state to respond from a security rather than developmental perspective, as they know that only in poverty can they sustain a captive support base.
The troops of 113 Battalion Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were fired upon in Tumrikasa Village of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli at about 4 pm on Thursday.
At least 13 Naxals including seven women cadres were killed in an encounter with police in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra early on Friday, officials said. The slain ultras belonged to Kasunsur Dalam (squad) of the Naxals, police said. The encounter took place on a day the state home minister was visiting the eastern Maharashtra district, over 900 km from Mumbai. A release by Gadchiroli Police said they had received inputs that Naxals had gathered in the Paidi forest area in Etapalli tehsil for extortion as auctions of Tendu leaves used for making bidis or leaf cigarettes were underway, hence a team of C-60 commandos, a special combat force of the district police, was sent to the area. The encounter took place between 6 am to 7.30 am as about 60 to 70 Naxals opened fire on C-60 commandos and kept firing despite an appeal to them to surrender, it added. After the Naxals fled into the dense forest, the bodies of six male and seven female cadres were found, while some more Naxal
At least two Naxals were killed on Wednesday in an encounter with the police in a forest in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, a senior official said. The exchange of fire took place when C-60 commandos of the Gadchiroli Police were conducting an anti-Naxal operation in the Jambia gatta forest around 6.30 am, he said. Two ulltras have been killed and a search operation is underway in the forest area, the official added.
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In the wake of the deadly Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh s Bastar region that claimed the lives of 22 security personnel, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday said the morale of jawans is high and the operation against Naxals would continue. Talking to reporters this evening at Raipur airport after returning from Assam, Baghel said the work of setting up security forces camps will be expedited in Maoists stronghold areas. Baghel had been campaigning in Assam for the ongoing Assembly election. Morale of our security forces is high and they are giving a strong fight to Naxals in their den. In the Saturday s encounter, Naxals have suffered a huge loss, he said.