Two personnel of the District Reserve Group (DRG) were on Sunday injured in an encounter with Maoists in Bijapur district of Bastar, police said.
The encounter took place at about 10:00 a.m. near the forests of Timarpur-Basaguda axis in the said district when a security squad led by the elite CoBRA commandos of the CRPF had an exchange of fire with Maoists in the area.
“Two DRG personnel of Chhattisgarh police have been injured in the encounter” a senior police officer said.
The CoBRA team and other troops are still undertaking the operation and more details are awaited, he said.