Due to explosion of a hand grenade in Chhattisgarh Security Forces camp during cleaning exercise, four jawans of Chhattisgarh Security Forces Fifteenth Battalion were injured out of which condition of a jawan Balaiya Gota was critical. He was airlifted to Raipur for better treatment.
According to police department sources, Chhattisgarh Security Forces 15th Battalion camp has been set at Maoist Insurgency hit village Bodali in Bijapur district. As usual on Sunday morning too CSF jawans on the duty were busy in cleaning the premises where arms and ammunition were kept. Due to minor carelessness a hand grenade went off injuring 4 jawans working nearby. Injured jawans have been identified as Balaiya Gota, Gopal, Raviranjan and Arvind Kumar. Due to precarious condition Gota was referred to Raipur while other three have been admitted to Jagdalpur Medical College Hospital.