Meanwhile, another C-60 commando also sustained a gunshot injury during the encounter on Thursday night. He was evacuated from the area and airlifted to Bhamragad taluka. Officials said his condition is stable and he will be shifted to Gadchiroli for further treatment
Deepak Chinna Madavi was airlifted from the deep forest area and taken to hospital, where he died. PIC/BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
A C-60 commando of the Gadchiroli Police in Maharashtra died on Friday after sustaining gunshot injuries during an ongoing anti-Maoist operation in the Abujhmaad forest region.
The injured personnel, identified as 38-year-old Deepak Chinna Madavi, was a resident of Aheri and a native of Mandra village in Damrancha under Aheri taluka. He was airlifted from the deep forest area early in the morning and taken to the sub-district hospital in Bhamragad, where he succumbed to his injuries during treatment.
Another C-60 commando, identified as Joga Madavi, a resident of Kistaipally in Hyderabad, also sustained a gunshot injury during the encounter on Thursday night. He was evacuated from the area and airlifted to Bhamragad. Officials said his condition is stable and he will be shifted to Gadchiroli for further treatment.
Meanwhile, security forces recovered two more Maoist bodies — one male and one female — from the operation area on Friday morning. With this, the total number of Maoist bodies recovered so far has risen to three, including two men and one woman. An AK-47 rifle and a self-loading rifle were also seized from the site. The identities of the slain Maoists are yet to be established.
Officials said the operation is still underway in the Abujhmaad region, with search operations continuing. More details are awaited.
Top Maoist neutralised in encounter at Chhattisgarh; AK-47, explosives seized
Security forces on Thursday achieved a major success in their anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district with the killing of a senior Maoist leader during a joint operation in the forested and hilly terrain under Tarrem police station limits in the district’s southern region, news agency IANS reported.
Acting on specific intelligence inputs about the presence of South Bastar Division Divisional Committee Member (DVCM) Udham Singh and other armed cadres, teams of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Bijapur, and CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) launched a search operation, Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar Yadav told the media.
Intermittent firing broke out between the security forces and the Maoists at around 7 am and continued for several hours amid the dense forest terrain, IANS reported.
Following a search of the encounter site, Singh’s body was recovered. He was carrying a reward of Rs 8 lakh and was identified as the in-charge of Platoon No 30 of the South Bastar Division, the senior police officer said.
A resident of Kottaguda village under Basaguda police station, Singh had joined the Communist Party of India (Maoist) as a party member in 2002-03 and was active mainly along the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border.
In recent years, he had been operating in the Pamed Area Committee for about three years. He was involved in nine criminal cases registered at various police stations in Bijapur district.
(With IANS inputs)
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