A member of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), a unit of state police, was also killed in action while some others sustained injuries, police said
Maoist leader Basavaraju killed on Wednesday
At least 27 Maoist have been killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, officials said on Wednesday, with sources claiming that top Maoist leader Basavaraju was among them.
A member of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), a unit of state police, was also killed in action while some others sustained injuries, police said. Security forces achieved “historic success” during the encounter as a top Maoist leader was eliminated, a senior police official said without giving more details.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah
Sources claimed that Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju, the general secretary of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) who was in his late 60s, was among the slain Maoists, though police did not confirm it officially.
Amit Shah hails Basavaraju killing as landmark
CPI-Maoist general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju, the topmost leader and backbone of the Naxal movement, was among the 27 dreaded Naxals killed by security forces in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced. He also said that this is for the first time in three decades of India’s battle against Naxalism that a general secretary-ranked leader has been neutralised by the security forces.
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