NAGPUR: C-60 commando Kumod Atram, who was airlifted in a critical condition from the Abujmarh battlefield on Monday, says he has participated in 22 encounters over eight years. “Ab tak unchaalis,” he said when asked about the toll he had inflicted personally on the Maoists.Though down with gunshot injuries, he told TOI from his hospital…
NAGPUR: Captain Reena Varughese was a rookie pilot in 2009 when Maoists shot down a helicopter ferrying senior police and polling officials in Laheri on the fringes of Abujmarh, the ‘People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army’ (PLGA) headquarters straddling Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.Fifteen years later, Varughese knew what she was getting into when her 13-seater Dauphin-N Pawan Hans…
GADCHIROLI: Splinters flew past Vikas Kumre, of Gardewara village, as multiple IEDs went off at noon along a booby-trapped stretch, just 6km off the Maoist headquarters of Abujmarh. This was during 2019 LS polls.Fast forward to 2024. Kumre considers himself lucky to be alive and witness the bustling electoral process at one of the 11…
