Bastar police chief on Naxal attack: âNo, our forces werenât lured into a trapâ It wasn t like Tadmetla where our men were washed out before they could do anything, claims IG Sundarraj Pattilingam.
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Naxal ambush that killed 22 security personnel in the forest of Tarrem, Chhattisgarh, on April 3, was the deadliest in recent years. It revived memories of the 2010 Tadmetla attack in which 76 CRPF personnel were killed and the Jheeram Ghati of 2013 which wiped out the entire leadership of the Congress party in Chhattisgarh. The forces targeted in Tarrem were commanded by Sundarraj Pattilingam, inspector general of police, Bastar.