Big Success For Security Forces: At Least 26 Maoists Killed In Chhattisgarh Encounter

At least 26 Maoists have been killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district, India Today reported, citing state Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma.

A major anti-Naxal operation was underway in Chhattisgarh’s dense Abujhmad forest area, where an encounter broke out between DRG personnel and Naxals.

District Reserve Guard's jawans from four districts of Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bijapur and Kondagaon were reportedly pressed into action based on intelligence inputs about the presence of senior cadres from the Maoists' Mad division.

During the operation, that began on Wednesday (21 May) morning in the forested Abujhmad area, the security forces reportedly surrounded top Naxal leaders.

Naxalites opened fire on the DRG teams after which the security forces returned fire.

In a major counter-insurgency breakthrough earlier this month, the security forces also reclaimed the Koragutta Hills in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, once considered a key Maoist stronghold, after a nine-day operation.

According to a report by The Times of India, the operation resulted in the clearing of Maoist presence from the hilltop, which lies along the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border.

As per government sources cited in ToI report, elite security forces units, including the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF), and CRPF’s CoBRA battalion, mounted a coordinated offensive that led to the strategic encirclement of the area.

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