"Four suspects have been taken into custody and an intensive search of the surrounding area is being done by the CRPF, Cobra and District Force," the police added.
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.
According to Sukma Superintendent of Police Kiran Chavan, "One jawan of CRPF CoBRA Battalion was injured in an IED blast triggered by naxals in the Tondamarka area of Sukma. The jawan was deployed for election duty."
Lashing out at the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that the grand old party did not want Ram Temple to be built in Ayodhya and that it questioned the existence of Lord Ram.
Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge, while addressing a rally here in Sukma on Wednesday, targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying PM Modi keeps abusing the Gandhi family, although no one from the Gandhi family has held the PM post for the past 40 years.
"Kunded, a highly Naxal-affected village in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, got access to electricity after 20 years. The area is dominated by Naxalites," Sukma SP Kiran Chauhan said.
According to Inspector General Bastar P Sundarraj, the injured security personnel is an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of the 231 Battalion Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
Hundreds of villagers in insurgency-hit Bastar division will get the opportunity to exercise their voting rights for the first time in the upcoming Chhattisgarh assembly elections, as the poll body is going to set up polling centres at 40 villages for the maiden time.
Two Naxalites were killed in an encounter with police personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Tuesday, Sukma police said. A Joint operation was conducted by the District Reserve Group (DRG) Sukma and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 223 Corps.
A villager in Chhattisgarh was allegedly killed by Naxals on the suspicion of being a "police informer" near Minpa village, Superintendent of Police, Sukma Kiran Chavan said on Friday.
In a significant achievement for the local administration in its efforts to take development to the areas affected by Naxalite violence, households in Elmagunda village in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh have got electricity. The feat of electrifying households in this remote Naxal v