Three Maoists have been killed in an encounter between security forces and Maoists in the border area of Chhattisgarh and Telangana.
An anti-Naxal operation is going on in the hills of Karregutta in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. Various security forces of Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Maharashtra have launched this operation about two days ago after receiving intelligence inputs about the presence of Top leaders of the Maoist organisation in the hills. Security forces have surrounded the hill. Top officials of the Police and the CRPF are monitoring the operation. This is one of the biggest joint operations against the Maoists.
The gunfight took place at a forest in Karegutta hills in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district along the inter-state border in the morning when a joint team of security forces was out on an anti-Naxal operation, a senior police official said.
So far, bodies of three Naxalites have been recovered from the encounter site, and several other Maoists are also suspected to have been killed in the fierce gun battle, he said.
The operation, one of biggest counter-insurgency actions launched in Bastar region, involved around 10,000 security personnel belonging to different units, including the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Bastar Fighters, Special Task Force (STF), all units of the state police, as well as the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and its elite Commando Battalions for Resolute Action (CoBRA), he said.