A significant encounter broke out on Thursday morning between safety forces and Maoists on the Indravati Nationwide Park in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district.
The continued encounter began after a joint crew of safety forces undertook an operation based mostly on particular intelligence in regards to the presence of senior Maoist cadres within the space.
This comes practically a fortnight after Nambala Keshava Rao, alias Basava Raju, the final secretary of the banned Communist Celebration of India (Maoist), was gunned down in an encounter together with 27 others within the jungles of Abujhmad area in Narayanpur district on Might 21.
Indravati Nationwide Park has seen two different main encounters this 12 months between Maoists and safety forces. On February 9, two safety forces personnel and 31 Maoists had been killed in an encounter on the nationwide park. Earlier than that, on January 12, 5 Maoists, together with two girls, had been killed in an encounter with safety forces.
Again in August 2023, sources within the safety forces had instructed The Indian Specific that Maoists had been recruiting new cadres within the nationwide park, Abujhmad, and the Kanker-Narayapur inter-district border close to Maharashtra. The recent recruits are additionally being skilled within the nationwide park, the sources had mentioned, including that that they had been utilizing drones to trace safety forces.
Safety forces have since been making an attempt to free the nationwide park space of Maoists. Additionally, they need to construct a bridge over the Indravati river that may join the 2 states and assist enhance financial actions.
Union Residence Minister Amit Shah has set a deadline of March 2026 to eradicate Left Wing Extremism (LWE) from India. The safety forces this 12 months until date have 202 Maoists, of which 185 had been in Bastar area alone — Bijapur is part of Bastar area. This 12 months has additionally seen the loss of life of 17 safety personnel in assaults by Maoists.