Several senior cadres, including Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) member and east Bastar in-charge Niti alias Urmila carrying a bounty of 25 lakh, were eliminated in a single anti-naxal operation.
As a result, the total number of Naxalites killed in the gun battle with security personnel on Friday has increased to 31. Authorities have confirmed that a search operation is still ongoing in the area.
Police said that a joint police party of Narayanpur-Dantewada district went on a search operation on receiving information about the presence of Maoists in the area.
Bijapur additional Superintendent of Police Chandrakanth Governa told the media that a team of CPRF 153 Bn of Chinnagelur camp was engaged in demining duty. The team detected an IED and was defusing it during which it exploded.
Joga was involved in as many as 11 attacks against police forces, including the 2010 attack on special forces in Tadmetla forest area killing 75 personnel, 2017 attack on Burkapal police camp killing 25 personnel and 2021 attack in Tekulgurma forest area killing 22 police.
According to official sources, some girls celebrated their classmate's birthday inside a classroom on July 29, and they allegedly consumed beer during the party
Macherla Esobu was in-charge of the CPI (Maoist) Party central military and Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border. He was a DKSZC member and hails from Tekulagudem village of Kazipet mandal in Hanamkonda district
BRS leader Vinod Kumar recalled that the BRS for the last ten years was fighting for a strategic railway line that would facilitate the establishment of the steel plant as promised in Kothagudem district.
The Krishna catchment in Maharashtra and Karnataka continued to receive heavy rains and the inflows into the Upper Krishna projects right from Almatti remained on the rise.
Located in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, these two mines produce more than 100 million tonnes of coal annually, accounting for about 10 per cent of India’s total coal production.