State police carry out massive anti-Naxal operation in Bastar
Three security personnel were injured in separate encounters during anti-Naxal operations launched by Chhattisgarh police in the different districts of Bastar division since Wednesday night.
“A jawan of CoBRA 201 battalion was injured in an encounter with Naxals in a forested patch, at the borders of Sukma-Bijapur district,” Superintendent of Police (SP) Sukma Jitendra Shukla said.
"The injured jawans was identified as Deva Lal who has been airlifted to Raipur. His condition is stable and out of danger" SP Shukla added.
The security team had the faceoff with armed Maoists Thursday afternoon during the operation jointly conducted by the Special Task Force, DRG and CoBRA .
The police officer further informed that a few muzzle loading guns were found at the encounter site.
Earlier, in a different operation that was carried out in the jungles of Dabbamarka about 150 km south of Sukma, two police personnel were injured who have been rescued. The encounter between armed guerrillas and police forces happened around 2:30 pm and gunfight between both sides lasted for about one hour, the SP informed.
The operations were launched in a day Girdhari Nayak has been given the charge of DG (Naxal Operations).Notably, according to Chhattisgarh police from 2016 to 2018, 575 conflicts happened between Naxals and police in Bastar in which 336 Naxals were killed. In the same period, 151 police personnel attained martyrdom, while 207 civilians were also killed.