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New Delhi: At least 11 Maoists including a company commander were killed in a major counterinsurgency operation that involved over 800 security personnel in Chhattisgarhs Bijapur district Tuesday...
The joint operation by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the state police came on the back of an intelligence report about the movement of over 60 Maoists, security sources said.. Significantly, this is the season for collecting Tendu leaves a traditional occupation in tribal areas such as Bijapur...
A tip-off was received on 1 April following which teams of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF), and Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) of the CRPF left for search operations in the area under Gangaloor police station, Additional Director General (anti-naxal operations) Vivekanand Sinha told ThePrint.There was a fierce exchange of fire between these teams and the Maoists in which the latter suffered heavy casualties...
According to the data that the Ministry of Home Affairs shared with Lok Sabha last August, there was a 76 percent drop in LWE-related violence and a 90 percent decline in casualties both from security forces and among civilians between 2010 and 2022...
Last month, Chhattisgarhs Vishnu Deo Sai government announced it was going to set up a State Investigation Agency for terrorism and naxalism cases, set up on the lines of the National Investigation Agency...
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