A joint team of District Police and Special Task Force (STF) destroyed a temporary Naxal camp in a forested patch under Mardapal police station, Superintendent of Police (SP) Kondagaon, Abhishek Meena informed here on Wednesday.
“We had specific intelligence inputs that a group of left wing insurgents were camping in a jungle near Kelam village under Mardapal police station. Based on the information, a joint police party consisting of District Police and STF jawans was mobilised to move from Mardapal towards the spot,”
SP said. Around 10 am on July 15, the police party had face-off with armed insurgents in jungle near Kelam village who were about 30 to 40 in numbers and both the sides engaged in gun battle.
The gunfire lasted more than an hour and Naxals finding themselves surrounded by police personnel ran away in the deep forest while taking advantage of dense vegetation and continuous rain, the SP maintained adding that the Naxals were members of Maoist military platoon number-6 active in the region.
later on, during the searching of area police recovered Walkie-talkies, tiffin bombs, live bullets hand grenades detonator wire, flash, watches, tent, radio, ration in huge quantity and other items of daily use from the spot Meena said that Naxals had gathered for organising ‘Jan Adalat’.
Notably, Naxals had killed a villager in Usri on July 13 in a ‘Jan Adalat’ branding him as a police informer. However, police had later on denied of having any link with the deceased person.