Aditya Sharan Pratap Singh Tanvar, the 25-year-old jawan who was seriously injured in a Naxal encounter at Dantewada district of Bastar breathed his last in a Raipur-based private hospital here on Thursday.
Notably, Aditya was the part of the police team that had successfully executed an attack on Maoists in the dense forested patch of insurgency-hit Dantewada district on Wednesday. Four ultras were gunned down in the action.
Aditya had received four bullet injuries in his stomach and was airlifted from Dantewada to Raipur and was admitted in Ramkrishna Care Hospital.
After post mortem, his body was sent to his native village Pali in Korba district. According to the family members of the deceased jawan, he had died on late Wednesday night.
As soon as news of the jawan’s death broke out, former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, his son Amit Jogi, Forest Minister Mahesh Gagda, Raipur City Congress President Vikas Upadhyay along with several others had reached the mortuary of Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial hospital in Raipur.