Team News Riveting
Jagdapur, February 11
The Maoists had abducted an engineer of a private construction company engaged in a bridge project in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
The rebel has also taken hostage another employee of the Construction company that has bagged contract for building a bridge on Indrawati. The engineer, Ashok Pawar along with his team was on a site visit when armed Maoists struck and took him hostage.
The incident took place under the limits of Bendre police station.
According to sources, the engineer reached the site before the security personnel had conducted the area domination and road opening. The security forces deployed in the area has been providing security cover to the employees engaged in the infrastructure projects that rebels have been opposing.
By the time security personnel could reach the spot, the Maoists had taken the engineer and the employee hostage. A brief gun-battle took place between the security personnel and the rebels before the latter skipped into the dense forests with the abducted engineer and the employee.
Senior police officials said the were examining the information and would launch operation to free the hostages.
The outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoists) that is active in the region has so far not claimed the responsibility for the incident.
