RAIPUR: A Maoist was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar Saturday. This takes Maoist death toll in Chhattisgarh this year to 141, eight this month.
Police said an encounter took place in Tumar Gatta and Singavaram villages in Jagargunda when a team of District Reserve Guard was out on an anti-Naxalite op.
The troops left on Friday following inputs that a few senior Maoist cadres were camping in the Tumar Gatta forest, around 430km south of Raipur city and barely 20km from Tarrem region of Bijapur, where two policemen were killed in a Maoist blast just two nights earlier.
When the troops were returning from the op, Maoists began firing at them, police said. DRG jawans counterattacked and forced the cadres to flee. While searching the area, they found the body of a Maoist and seized a gun, a wireless set and explosives from the spot.
He was identified as a militia commander, who carried a bounty of Rs 1 lakh and had two cases registered against him in Jagargunda police station.
Separately, a Maoist was killed on the border of Telangana and Chhattisgarh in Bijapur on Friday. He has been identified as ‘section-B commander’ of platoon number 2 Baman Madkam, who carried a bounty of Rs 3 lakh. Madkam was gunned down in a joint operation by Telangana Greyhounds and Bijapur DRG personnel in the forests of Ilmidi, around 50km from the site of Saturday’s encounter.
Police said an encounter took place in Tumar Gatta and Singavaram villages in Jagargunda when a team of District Reserve Guard was out on an anti-Naxalite op.
The troops left on Friday following inputs that a few senior Maoist cadres were camping in the Tumar Gatta forest, around 430km south of Raipur city and barely 20km from Tarrem region of Bijapur, where two policemen were killed in a Maoist blast just two nights earlier.
When the troops were returning from the op, Maoists began firing at them, police said. DRG jawans counterattacked and forced the cadres to flee. While searching the area, they found the body of a Maoist and seized a gun, a wireless set and explosives from the spot.
He was identified as a militia commander, who carried a bounty of Rs 1 lakh and had two cases registered against him in Jagargunda police station.
Separately, a Maoist was killed on the border of Telangana and Chhattisgarh in Bijapur on Friday. He has been identified as ‘section-B commander’ of platoon number 2 Baman Madkam, who carried a bounty of Rs 3 lakh. Madkam was gunned down in a joint operation by Telangana Greyhounds and Bijapur DRG personnel in the forests of Ilmidi, around 50km from the site of Saturday’s encounter.