The encounter broke out between Maoists and the District Reserve Guard (DRG), a unit of the Chhattisgarh Police, in a forest near Kanker's Hidur village under the Chhotebethiya police station during a search operation on Sunday morning.
According to Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) P. Sundarraj, the incident occurred near Tekalgudem village when a joint team of security personnel was out on a search operation.
"As everyone knows, voting is to be held in the first phase of the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections on November 7 in all seven districts of the Bastar division. All security arrangements and administration preparations are going on regarding the same arrangement. And we are trying our best to
In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to poll-bound Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, security arrangements have been beefed up, said Inspector General of Police of Bastar, P Sundarraj.
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).
"The way security camps have started in the forested interior areas of Bastar in the last four years, the safe zone of Naxalites is continuously shrinking. This has led to increasing pressure on their supply network," Inspector General (IG) of Police in Bastar Range Sundarraj P said.
"There was an exchange of fire between Maoists and security forces in the Basaguda-Pamed-Usor tri-junction area of Bijapur district. Security forces are fine; any damage to naxals would be clear only after the completion of search operations," Inspector General Bastar P Sundarraj said.
The insurgency-hit Bastar region, which has been battling Naxalism for around three decades, in Chhattisgarh is witnessing a positive change in terms of communication revolution as the Government of India has installed 525 mobile towers in the naxal-hit districts.
More than 400 Maoist cadres are surrendering every year following government's surrender and rehabilitation policy under which they are given all kinds of facilities including financial assistance claimed Bastar Range Inspector General of Police Sundarraj P.
Developmental works coupled with rehabilitation-cum-surrender policy of Chhattisgarh government are emerging as a wind of positive change in the worst insurgency-hit Bastar region and a significant example of this is naxal cadres are shunning the path of violence to join mainstream of the
The incident took place between Jagargunda and Kunded under Jagargunda police station limits at around 9 am on Saturday, said Bastar Range Inspector General of Police (IG) P Sundarraj.