Mumbai. Five Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra on Monday. An officer gave this information. Just a month before the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the encounter took place in a forest in Bhamragarh taluka of Eastern Maharashtra district. In this encounter, commandos of C-60 special combat unit of Gadchiroli Police played a major role. A press release issued by the Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police (SP) office said that in view of the November 20 assembly elections, a group of Naxalites had gathered in the forest on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border for the last two days and were planning an attack. Was.
The officer told ‘PTI-Bhasha’ over phone that the area where the Naxalites were gathering is on the border of Naxal-affected district Narayanpur of Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. The release said that under the supervision of senior officers, 22 teams of C-60 commandos and two squads of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) conducted anti-Naxal operations from two different points in the forest area.
Citing preliminary information, the release said that as soon as the police and CRPF personnel reached the area where the Naxalites were gathered, they had to face indiscriminate firing by the Naxalites. After this, the security personnel also retaliated and five Naxalites were killed in the encounter. The release said that the search operation is going on in the forest. According to the release, the identity of the slain Naxalites will be revealed in a press conference in Gadchiroli on Tuesday.