A jawan of district police was injured in a gun battle with Naxals that took place at a forested patch in the area bordering Kondagaon and Narayanpur districts, police said here on Saturday.
“A team of district police from Narayanpur while carrying out a search operation had reached in the jungles of Gardapal in Kondagaon district where they had a face-off with armed Maoists on Saturday morning,” Superintendent of Police Narayanpur Abhishek Meena said.
They gun fight between Naxals and police personnel broke out in three different spots in which constable Dhansu Usendi was seriously injured, the SP said while adding that every time Naxals had to run away after brief gun battle.
According to police during an encounter near Chilambecha village, the constable was injured who was then moved out of the jungle.
“Usendi was airlifted to Raipur and is undergoing treatment where his condition was reported serious,” he said.
Meanwhile, police informed that at firing between police parties and Naxals was reported in the same region on Friday as well, but no one was injured in the incident.