Chhattisgarh: Two BSF men killed fighting Maoists
Two BSF personnel and four others were injured in an encounter with
Maoists in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh in the early hours of
Saturday. The encounter took place near the Chhotebethiya-Pakhanjore
jungle axis of the district, officials said. A senior police officer
said that a joint operation was launched by the 117 and 122 battalions
as well as Chhattisgarh Police from the Chhotebetoya camp, deep in the
jungles of the Bandeh area in Kanker. “The exchange of fire took place
at around 2.30 am when the forces reached a river in the dense forests
near Becha village. The Maoists opened indiscriminate fire, in which two
BSF personnel were killed and four others were injured. They were all
rushed to a hospital in Raipur,” a senior officer said. The BSF men who
died were identified as Vijay Kumar and Rakesh Nehra. They were inducted
into the force in 2011-12. The injured are Manoj Kumar, S Thomson,
Jagdish K and Bappa D.
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Anti-Naxal activist shot dead by Maoists
A 20-year-old anti-Naxal activist, who was kidnapped on March 3, was
shot dead allegedly by Maoists at Jambiya village of Etapalli taluka
here, police said today. The victim, Manoj Gota, who had been kidnapped
by suspected Naxals, was shot dead last night and his body was dumped in
the village, a police statement said. “Manoj, who was earlier working
with an NGO called Bharat Jan Andolan, was now into farming at his
native place. He had been actively raising voice against Naxals and was
instrumental in spreading information about the Panchayats Extension to
Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act among the people,” it said. A case has been
registered against unidentified rebels in this regard and anti-Naxal
operations have been intensified in the area. Yesterday, a police
constable had been shot by suspected Naxals at village Hedri in the
taluka.
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Gadchiroli
A police constable was shot dead allegedly by naxals in Hedri village
in the district today. The incident happened at a market place when the
ultras suddenly arrived at the spot and opened fire on the police
personnel on bandobast duty, the police said. The bullets hit constable
Deepak Shedmake, attached with Hedri Police Assistance Centre, who
succumbed to his injuries, they said. The naxals fled in the direction
of Surjagad hills, a press release issued by the district police said.
Following the incident, anti-naxal operations have been intensified in
the area.
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Raipur
Naxals today torched a private bus after asking its passengers to get
down in insurgency-hit Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, police said.
The incident took place this evening near Bandepara village in Kutru
police station area when the private bus was on its way to Bedre from
Bijapur, district superintendent of police K L Dhruv told PTI. A group
of 15-20 Naxals, some of them armed, stopped the bus near Bandepara,
some 450 km from here. After asking the passengers to get down they set
it afire. Sixteen passengers who were travelling by the bus are safe,
the SP added. Security forces have launched a combing operation in the
region following the incident. Naxals have given a call for general
strike in south Bastar tomorrow, to protest alleged fake encounters.
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