Four CoBRA jawans injured in separate Naxal incidents
New Delhi :- Four CoBRA jawans were today injured in separate Naxal
incidents in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said.
While three personnel were hurt during a gunbattle between security
forces and ultras in Bhejji area, another sustained injuries in a
pressure bomb blast laid by ultras in Chintagufa area, Sukma Additional
Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh said. In the first instance, the
face-off occurred in the restive Tetri forests under Bhejji Police
Station limits while a squad of CRPF’s elite battalion-CoBRA (Commando
Battalion for Resolute Action) was carrying out an anti-Naxal operation
in the region, the ASP said. The team of CoBRA’s 208 battalion was
mobilised from its Errabor camp this morning for the operation.
Chhattisgarh: 3 policemen injured in encounter with Naxals in Sukma
At least three police personnel in Chhattisgarh were injured in an
encounter with the Naxals in Sukma on Thursday. The encounter took place
in the morning.
Local Tribal cops are now target of Maoists in Bastar
Nine Tribal constables were killed after abduction this year.
Kudium Pandu (30), an auxiliary constable of Chhattisgarh police
posted in Farsegad police camp of Bijapur district in Bastar division,
dropped his wife to Talmendri village on September 27 as her mother
died. On September 28, Kudiuam Pandu again went to Telmendri for his
mother-in-law’s cremation but while returning he was abducted by the
Maoists. A local Tribal from nearby Chitanpalli village, Pandu was found
dead hardly 500 meters from Farsegad police camp on the next day. Pandu
is not the only local Tribal cop to have been killed after abduction in
Bijapur this year. Eight other auxiliary constables, all from local
areas, have been abducted and killed in Bijapur this year.
On April 7, auxiliary constable Bira Basant was going to his village
Madded, when the Maoists abducted him. For next two days, school
children and local trading community organised “silent” rallies in
Bijapur and appealed to the Maoists to release their “Tribal brother”.
But the public appeal fell on deaf ears and on April 15, Bira Basant’s
body was found on Gangaloor- Bijapur road. In the same month, Sundar
Kashyap, posted in Mirtur police station and Bhagirathi Kartam posted in
Kutaru police station of Bijapur, were abducted and killed by the
guerrillas of Communist Party of India (Maoist) which claim to fight for
“Tribal cause” in Bastar. In June, Telam Dokka, who was posted in
Talipenta police station of Bijapur, was killed in the same fashion.
On July 13, four auxiliary constables, Jaydev Yadav (30, Rama Majji
(25), Mangal Sodhi (27) and Rajuram Telam (30), were returning to Kutaru
police camp in a local passenger bus after withdrawing their salary
money from an ATM in Nemed village. “The Maoists stopped the bus, took
it a few meters inside forest and abducted all four after separating
them from other passengers. Their dead bodies were found after two days
on the same road,” informed Bijapur Additional Superintendent of Police
(ASP) I. Kalyaan Elesela. They were unarmed Eight out of nine auxiliary
constables killed after abduction in Bijapur this year, were local
Tribals and were travelling without any weapon and in civil uniform for
personal or family work
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