Narayanpur: Seven Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district, a police official said on Thursday.
The fierce gunfight between security forces and Naxalites is going on in the forests of Abujhmad located on the border area of Narayanpur and Dantewada districts.
The encounter broke out around 3 AM on Thursday when a joint team of police officials from four districts launched a search operation in the woods following inputs about the presence of Naxalites in the area.
Narayanpur and Dantewada SPs have confirmed the encounter saying that there were inputs about the presence of 50 to 60 Indravati Area Committee Naxalites in South Abujhmad prompting the Joint Action Force to launch the operation.
Dantewada SP Gaurav Rai said that they had received intelligence inputs about the presence of Naxalites in the southern region of Abujhmad. Under the ongoing operation, on December 10, a joint party of STF and CRPF along with DRG team of Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bastar and Kondagaon districts left for South Abujhmad.
“Intermittent firing has been taking place between the soldiers and the Maoists since 3 am today. After the encounter, the search operation is going on in the area. Full information will be given after the operation is over,” Rai said.
So far in the year 2024, 207 Naxalites have been killed in encounters between soldiers and Maoists in Bastar division as per officials.
Major Naxalite Encounters In India In Recent Past
04.10.2024: 38 Naxalites were gunned down in the October 4 encounter, the highest fatalities suffered by Maoists in a single operation in the State's 24-year-old history, were identified and they were collectively carrying a reward of Rs 2.62 crore. The encounter happened in the Abhujmad area in a forest between Thulthuli and Nendur villages along the border of Narayanpur-Dantewada districts. A joint team of the State police's District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the Special Task Force (STF) was involved in the operation.
17.07.2024: 12 Naxals were killed in a six-hour-long encounter in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. Several automatic weapons were also recovered. The Maharashtra Police launched a massive operation from Gadchiroli around 10 am after being tipped off about nearly 15 Maoists camping near the Vandoli village close to the Chhattisgarh border.
10.05.2024: 12 Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district , the police said. According to Bijapur SP and Dantewada DIG, 12 Naxalites were killed in the encounter that continued for more than 12 hours. A large quantity of arms and ammunition has been recovered from the spot. The gunfight took place in the forest near Pidia village under Gangaloor police station limits when a team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation, police had said earlier.
16.04.2024: Security forces gunned down at least 29 Maoists in an encounter in Bastar’s Kanker district, close to Maharashtra border. This is the highest casualty Maoist have suffered in a single operation in Chhattisgarh and the second-highest across the country. The dead include “senior commanders” Shankar Rao, Lalita and Vinod Gawde who carried a combined bounty of Rs 24 lakh. The Union home ministry provided the forces with the exact grid location of a division of Maoists who had been camping in Binagunda area since April 5, officials said.
13.11.2021: 26 Maoists were killed during a fierce encounter with the Maharashtra Police in the deep forests near Dhanora in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra.
23.04.2018: In Maharashtra, Gadchiroli police gunned down 40 Maoists in two different encounters. While 34 were killed in the Boria-Kasnasur area of Etapalli tehsil, six from the same group were gunned down while on the run in Aheri tehsil.
24 to 27 October 2016: In one of the deadliest ever episodes involving the Communist Party of India (Maoist), 30 of its cadres were killed, on October 24, 25 and 27, according to the police, in the interiors of the Eastern Ghats close to the Chitrakonda dam in Odisha’s Malkangiri district. The operation, conducted by the Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh jointly with the Odisha Police, started with the busting of an Andhra Odisha Border (AOB) Special Zonal Committee meeting of the Maoist party at Ramguda village on the morning of October 24. Central paramilitary forces were also part of the operation.
21.11.2014: At least 15 Maoists were killed and 25 grievously injured in an encounter with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in the Sukma district of South Chhattisgarh, the CRPF Inspector General (IG) H.S. Sidhu claimed.An encounter had taken place near Chintafua and Kasalpara area in Sukma district on November 21 between the teams of the CRPF, COBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) and the Maoists.
29.06.2012: In a major crackdown by CRPF, at least 20 naxalites, including a woman, were killed in a fierce overnight encounter in the dense jungles of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh that left six jawans wounded. The encounter, which took place in the forests of Silger, an uncharted Maoist zone between the naxal hotbed of Jagargunda and Basaguda in Bijapur district of Bastar region, was launched on 28th night in a joint operation by over 300 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and state police personnel from three directions.
10.07.2007: At least 20 Maoists were killed and nine security personnel were injured in a fierce gunbattle in a jungle in Naxal-infested Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, a senior police official said. The gunbattle erupted last evening at the Elampatti-Regadgatta jungle after CRPF and Special Police Force launched an operation to flush out the ultras from there.
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