Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Sunday lauded a C-60 commando team of Gadchiroli police for destroying a Naxal weapons manufacturing unit in an operation along the state's border with Chhattisgarh that lasted for over 48 hours.
The operation took place on March 4-5 in Koparshi forest in Gadchiroli's Bhamragad taluka and the Naxal weapons manufacturing unit was destroyed in Maad, some five kilometres inside neighbouring Chhattisgarh, police had said earlier.
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The jawans succeeded due to good strategy and use of force and had dealt a body blow to Naxals in their Abujhmad stronghold, and this would reduce the activities of the ultras in the region in a big way, the minister said.
PTI
