"sukma-district"

Maoists triggered an IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, killing Additional SP Akash Rao Giripunje and injuring two other police personnel. The explosion occurred near a newly set up police base camp on the Konta-Gollapalli road during a routine patrol.

The cadres turned themselves in before senior police and CRPF officials here, citing disappointment with "hollow" and "inhuman" Maoist ideology and atrocities by ultras on local tribals

With this incident, naxalites have killed nine people at separate places in the Bastar division, comprising seven districts, including Sukma, this year

Acting on a tip-off, separate teams of security forces unearthed Maoist dumps on a forested hill of Markanguda village near Duled security camp and in a forest near a new camp at Mettaguda village

The gunfight took place on Saturday morning in a forest under Kistaram police station area in Sukma district where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-naxalite operation

Security personnel recovered another IED planted by Naxalites at a different location in the same district, officials said. The first IED blast occurred around 11 a.m. near the newly established Raiguda police camp under the Chintalnar police station area. The explosion happened while a District Reserve Guard (DRG) team, a unit of the state police, was conducting an area domination operation, an official stated. 4o

Bastar Range IG Sundarraj P informed the media that the encounter occurred in the hilly forests of Bandarpathar and Bhejji in the district. Personnel from the District Reserve Guard and CRPF participated in the operation. After returning to the nearest village, the security forces celebrated their success, joyfully embracing each other, displaying their personal weapons, and dancing to folk music.

With this, bodies of 207 naxalites have been recovered so far this year following separate encounters in Bastar region

The deceased Kavvasi Sukki stepped on an IED causing it to explode when ventured into the forest area near the village to graze her cattle.

Sukma SP Kiran Chavan confirmed the neutralization of a Naxalite in an encounter with security forces in Sukma. The body and weapons have been recovered, and a search operation is ongoing.

On Tuesday, in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, two Naxalites, one of whom was carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh, surrendered before the police and security forces, as per an official statement.

The district police unit and Central Reserve Police Force played an instrumental role in their surrender

Nearly 25 years after their homes plunged into darkness due to damage to infrastructure by Naxals, 342 families from seven remote villages of insurgency-hit Sukma district are back on the electricity supply grid.

Two women staffers of a residential school's hostel have been suspended for allegedly informing the police late about the rape of a minor girl.

A minor girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified man in the hostel of a residential school in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Sukma district.

3 Naxalites were injured in the firing and surrendered before the security forces.

The police identified her as Kerlapal Area Committee member, Jogi.

Kothagudem: A civic action programme was organised in the naxal affected Sukma district in Chhattisgarh under the aegis of CoBRA 208 battalion and CRPF 212 battalion on Saturday. The programme was held at Palodi camp under Kistaram police station limits, said a release from the security forces. A medical officer Dr. Rajesh P and staff […]

According to District Collector Vinit Nandanwar, Naxalites surrendered before the Sukma administration yesterday.