Team News Riveting
Raipur, June 1
Two women Maoists were killed in a gun battle with the security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s restive Kondagaon district on Tuesday afternoon.
According to Kondagaon Superintendent of Police Siddharth Tiwari, the security forces received a vital tip off on Monday about the presence of Maoists cadre affiliated to the North Kanker-Mainpur Division Coordination committee in the forests of Rajpur-Bhandarpal-Timnar. Acting on the information, a search operation was launched along Kondagaon-Kanker inter-district border region.
On Tuesday at around 1230 hours, the jawans of Kondagaon District Reserve Guards (DRGs) established contact with the rebels near Bhandarpal jungle. The gun battle continued for an hour before the rebels slipped into the forests.
Later during search operation, bodies of two uniformed Maoist female cadre were recovered from the spot. The security personnel also recovered one SLR rifle, one .303 rifle and three 12 bore rifles along with huge quantities of essential commodities and explosive materials.
Tiwari said the blood stains spotted in the site indicated that a few more Maoists had sustained serious injury in the action. A massive search operation had been launched in the area, he added.
Inspector General of Police, Bastar Range Sundarraj P said that in the last of couple of days, a series of search operations were launched by the BSF, ITBP, STF, DRG troops from Amabeda, Iragaon, Dhanora and Kanker to apprehend the North Kanker-Mainpur Division Coordination committee CPI Maoist cadres moving around the pocket straddling between Kondagaon and Kanker district.
