Eight naxalites were killed in an ongoing encounter with security personnel, which started yesterday in the border area of Narayanpur and Bijapur districts in Chhattisgarh.
The temple in Kerlapenda village which housed the deities of Lord Ram, Sita Mata and Laxman, was shut down after a Naxal attack in 2003. The Naxalites ordered villagers to stop offering prayers at the temple. The fear of Naxalites was so strong that villagers stopped coming to the temple exc
Two jawans were injured in an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) blast in the Naxal stronghold of Dantewada, the superintendent of police in the district informed on Saturday.
According to DSP Krishna Kumar Chandrakar, two Naxalites were killed in an encounter at Dantewada's Bijapur border area of Chhattisgarh today. During the search, the police seized two knuckle dusters, a large quantity of ammunitions.
The police forces are engaged in an exchange of fire with the Naxal insurgents in the jungles of Purangel, near the border of Dantewada and Bijapur in Chhattisgarh, sources said.
The Superintendent of Police, Gaurav Rai, confirmed the incident and said that the encounter took place between police officials and Naxalites in the border area of Dantewada, Bijapur.
The encounter broke out between Naxalites and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), District Reserve Guard (DRG), and Bastar fighters in the hilly forest between Gondpalli, Parlagatta, and Badepalli at 4:30 pm after intelligence was received about the presence of Naxalites in the border a