Bijapur Encounter: How Cops Ambushed Naxalites With Sudden Entry, Meticulous Planning | India Information
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh police took Naxalites abruptly and succeeded in surrounding them by launching their operation in Bijapur district, throughout which 31 ultras had been killed, from neighbouring Maharashtra, officers stated on Tuesday. In one of many greatest strikes in opposition to Naxalites in Chhattisgarh, safety forces gunned down 31 ultras, together with 11 girls, on a forested hill within the Indravati Nationwide Park space on Sunday.
Two safety personnel had been additionally killed and as many others injured within the gunfight. “We had inputs concerning the presence of cadres belonging to Telangana state committee, west Bastar division and nationwide park space committee of Maoists within the distant jungles of Indravati Nationwide Park space for a gathering forward of their Tactical Counter Offensive Marketing campaign (TCOC),” a police official advised PTI.
Naxalites perform the TCOC between March and June throughout which they step up their actions. Fight models of the Chhattisgarh police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG), Particular Job Power (STF) and Bastar Fighters had been mobilised from completely different instructions within the space on February 7, the official stated.
“To strategically utilise the factor of shock, among the groups had been mobilised into the Indravati Nationwide Park from the launch pads of Maharashtra police within the neighbouring state,” he stated. On Sunday morning, patrolling groups zeroed-in on a hill the place the motion of Naxalites was noticed.
The change of fireplace broke out at round 8 am as safety forces began encircling the hill, the official stated. “Naxalites cut up into two teams amid the gunfight. Whereas one group, apparently comprising cadres of Telangana state committee, began retreating, the opposite group remained engaged within the gun battle,” he stated.
The patrolling groups getting into from Maharashtra aspect appeared to have taken Naxalites abruptly as they didn’t anticipate the motion of forces from that route and had been outnumbered. The intermittent change of firing lasted until round 4 pm, the official stated. The technique to vary the method routes helped in attaining a significant success within the operation as 31 Naxalites had been neutralised, the official stated.
The encounter website is almost 80 km away from the Bijapur district headquarters and 40 km inside Chhattisgarh from Maharashtra border. Safety personnel coated round 100 km on foot in the course of the three-day-long operation, he stated. Following the gunfight, safety forces introduced the our bodies of Maoists with the assistance of makeshift sling for about 5 km following which assist for air transport was sought, he stated.
“It was not attainable for safety forces to hold the 31 our bodies on their shoulders whereas strolling on foot for about 45 km as they had been already drained, being out on the operation since February 7. So, whereas evacuating our bodies of the martyred jawans and two injured personnel, we additionally determined to airlift the our bodies of Naxalites,” he stated.
Some jawans, principally girls commandos, who had been affected by dehydration had been additionally airlifted to Bijapur, the official stated. Twenty 4 firearms and an enormous cache of explosives have been recovered from the encounter website, he stated. 5 of the 31 Naxalites killed have been recognized as dreaded cadres, carrying a cumulative bounty of Rs 25 lakh.
Of the 5, Hunga Karma, a divisional committee member of west Bastar division of Maoists, carried a reward of Rs 8 lakh, the official stated. “The west and south Bastar divisions of Maoists are their strongest formations within the area and within the final one 12 months, a number of key cadres of the west Bastar division have been eradicated,” the official stated.
Out of the 81 Naxalites gunned down within the state up to now this 12 months, 65 had been killed within the Bastar division comprising seven districts, together with Bijapur.
Final 12 months, 219 Naxalites had been neutralised by safety forces in separate encounters in Chhattisgarh, in accordance with police.
