Security agencies are working to ascertain a claim made by naxals that they abducted a CoBRA commando after the ambush in Chhattisgarh on Saturday that left at least 22 security personnel dead, official sources said.
A top officer in the security establishment said that they have reasons to believe that this claim, made over phone on Sunday evening to a journalist based in Bijapur by a purported Maoist group, is true. We have not been able to locate commando Rakeshwar Singh Minhas of the 210th CoBRA battalion till now. However, we do not have concrete evidence to substantiate the claim made by some naxal elements that he has been taken away by them, a senior officer told PTI.
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