Six-armed guerrillas of banned outfit CPI(Maoists) were reportedly killed in a joint operation executed at the interstate border of Sukma-Telangana. The operation was carried out jointly by the security forces of Chhattisgarh and Telangana police on Monday.
The encounter took place on the Monday morning hours in a forest in the Kistaram area of Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, situated at a distance of more than 400 km from the capital city Raipur, a senior police officer said.
Superintendent of Police Sukma Sunil Sharma said it was a joint operation in which Telangana Greyhound forces, Telangana police, CRPF, DRG and local police of Sukma participated.
The police received intel input that around 50-60 armed Maoists have planned to carry out attacks in Cherla Police station (Telangana) and Kistaram Police Station limits (Chhattisgarh).
Based on verified inputs, a joint operation was planned and launched from the Telangana side in which local police of Telangana, special greyhounds, DRG team of Sukma, CRPF -141 Battalion participated.
"Around 7 am on Monday, amid the operation, the armed Naxals carried out the heavy fire on the joint security forces, the joint team retaliated and killed six ultras, including four women found killed in the gun battle," the SP said.
In addition, a huge cache of arms and ammunition including four rocket launchers, 2 303 rifles, Naxal literature and other daily use items were recovered from the site of the encounter, the SP said. Combing operations are still on. However, police teams were instructed to bring the body of slain Maoists to the District Police Headquarters for identification, the officer said.
Sukma police have termed the joint operation as a major success and a huge blow to the armed Maoists movement. It has been also claimed that the Maoists guerrilla of the notorious Kistaram area committee were directly involved in carrying out various deadly attacks on security forces in the past.
