A Maoist was gunned down during an encounter with security forces at restive Kondagaon district of Bastar while a suspected insurgent was nabbed in Kanker district, police said here on Friday.
“The face-off between police and armed Naxals occurred on Friday morning in a forested patch under Kondagaon police station”, Superintendent of Police (SP) Kondagaon Santosh Singh said.
On receiving specific inputs, a small team of District Reserve Group (DRG) had launched the counter-insurgency operation in the interior forest pockets during which they confronted a group of armed rebels near Bavadi village, under Kondagaon police station limits.
The intermittent gun fight which broke out after the face-off soon ended as Naxals fled from the spot, he added.
later on, while searching the area, body of a rebel, clad in Naxal uniform, along with one 315 bore rifle and one 12 bore gun was recovered from the spot, the SP said. The identity of the killed cadre was yet to be ascertained, he added.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a Naxal wanted in connection with an attempt to murder case was arrested from rebel dominated Antagarh region of Kanker district.
“District police during a search operation was tipped off about presence of Kaliram Anchal (30), a resident of Antagarh in Kasdand village” SP Kanker Ml Kotwani said.
Acting on the input, police nabbed the ultra against whom an attempt to murder case was registered with Antagarh police station, he said.