Earlier in the day, a CAF Jawan was killed and another CAF constable was injured in the IED blast by Naxals in the Narayanpur area of the Bastar district.
Chhattisgarh Police apprehended four naxals on Sunday in connection with the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ratan Dubey during election campaigning in Narayanpur.
There has been a substantial decrease of 36 per cent in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) or Naxalism-related violence incidents in 2022 in comparison to 2018, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
The IED was recovered by the joint team of CoBRA and CRPF during an anti-naxal drive-area domination campaign and was planted to cause harm to the security forces.
The incident occurred on the Barsur Palli route, where personnel from the 195th Battalion spotted a Maoist banner and an IED concealed in it near Saatdhaar bridge and were engaged in defusing it.
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Bihar's capital Patna on Friday convicted three accused in a 2012 Naxal arms and ammunition seizure case of the state's Aurangabad district.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) charged eight people on Friday with supplying deadly explosives, drones and other equipment to the naxals for attacking security forces in the naxal-infested areas of India.
"We are on the verge of winning the fight against naxalism in the country... The area of naxalism is decreasing continuously and our personnel of the CRPF and the BSF are committed to completely rooting out the naxalism," said Shah.
"Naxalism is taking its last breath in Odisha. There has not been a single major Naxalite activity in Odisha in the last three years. Before the Naxalites could carry out any activity, we broke the backbone of the Naxalites by carrying out regular operations with the help of the Special Oper
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA ) on Wednesday announced to assign additional charge of Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to the chief of Indo-Tibetan Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Anish Dayal Singh, till the appointment of a regular officer for the post.
A police patil was killed by Naxals on Friday in Titola village on the premise of being the agent of the police and helping local villagers get employment, the police said.