Sanjeeb Panda, Additional Director General (ADG) of Police, Anti-Naxal Operations (ANO), said that the encounter took place in the Karada forest area within the jurisdiction of Raikia police station in Kandhamal district.
operation was launched based on specific intelligence indicating the presence of Maoists in the southern regions of the Bijapur and Sukma districts. During the operation, security forces engaged in multiple encounters with Maoists in the area.
Security forces launched a search operation in the southern region of Bijapur district. A team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was deployed as part of the operation in the South Bastar region.
Speaking to the media, Intelligence ADG Maheshchandra Laddha said that the Maoists are trying to enter Andhra Pradesh from Chhattisgarh and Telangana, further urging them to surrender.
"The Maoists were identified as Divisional Committee member Kanna, who is in charge of the Central Area Committee, and other Area Committee member Jagat, and other party members, Mangali, and Bhagat; thus, a total of six Maoists have been identified...," IG Sundarraj briefed the reporters
Two Central Committee Member Naxal leaders, Katta Ramachandra Reddy and Kadri Satyanarayan Reddy, have been eliminated by security forces in the Abujhmad region of Narayanpur along the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border.
Three senior Maoist leaders, including Secretary Uday and East Division Secretary Aruna, were killed by security forces in Alluri Sitharama Raju district near the Andhra-Odisha border, as per the information from Alluri Sitharama Raju District SP.
Chhattisgarh DGP Arun Dev Gautam on Thursday said that all the 27 Maoists killed in the encounter in the Narayanpur district of the State on Wednesday have been identified. The CPI (Maoist) general secretary was among the killed.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that security forces have neutralized 27 dreaded Maoists, including Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, general secretary of CPI-Maoist, in an operation in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district and lauded the the major breakthrough.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that security forces killed 31 notorious Naxalites in the Kurraguttalu Hills (KGH) on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border in the biggest ever operation against Naxalism.