Team News Riveting
Raipur, November 27
The Maoists guerrillas unleashed terror in different parts of Central India to mark the bandh called on November 27 to protest against the killing of 27 rebels in Gadchiroli of Maharashtra that came as a big jolt to the outlawed organisation.
The elite C-60 commandos of the Maharashtra police struck on November 13 in the forest of Mardintola village in Gadchiroli district and killed 27 Maoists including top leader and Central Committee member Milind Teltumbde. The incident was a big blow to the Maoists as Teltumbde was working for the expansion of the organisation in the new corridor being development in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.
The central committee (CC) of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) has called for ‘bandh’ in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Telangana on November 27. The rebels unleashed violence at many places, Chhattisgarh being the epicentre, to mark the bandh a “success”.
In Narayanpur district, they killed husband of a Sarpanch while damaged roads at many places in Sukma district besides cutting trees to block the transportation. A goods train carrying iron ore, from Bacheli to Visakhapatnam, derailed between Kamalur and Bhansi in Chhattisgarh, under Waltair Division of East Coast Railway, due to suspected sabotage of the railway track, on Friday night. Three locomotives of the goods train and nineteen wagons derailed.
In Bhamragarh tehsil of Gadchiroli, rebels set two tractors on fire.
The security forces in the Maoist-affected pockets of the six districts were put on high alert following the bandh. In Bijapur district, rebels came in contact with the security forces. A rebel was killed in the gun battle that followed. The security forces have recovered the body.
