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GAYA: The CRPF has claimed that six Maoists had been killed and 11 others injured during the Sunday encounter with the police forces comprising COBRA battalion of the CRPF, STF and BMP jawans in Chakarbandha forest under the Dumaria police station in Gaya district.
However, the Maoists maintained they did not suffer any loss in the gun battle that followed the landmine blast. Reports say that the Maoist squads made a tactical retreat. They were the members of the PLGA, the armed wing of the Maoist outfit. The police operation against them continued on Monday with one helicopter requisitioned to provide aerial support to the police forces.
According to Amit Kumar, IG (Operations), the morale of the cops engaged in the operation was very high and the campaign would continue till the area was fully sanitized. He justified the use of motorbikes in the operation saying the cops have been imparted intensive training for conducting such operations on bikes and the results have been encouraging. Moreover, there has been no complaint from the jawans on this count, he said.
The CRPF DIG, Umesh Kumar, told TOI that the two killed Maoists have been identified as Kailu Manjhi and Phoolchand Manjhi, both residents of the area. The DIG claimed the Maoists had deployed a sizeable number of trained women in the Sunday morning operation.
According to the IG, CRPF, A A Khan, CRPF jawan Shachindra Sharma died in the landmine blast while another died due to heart attack. Six CRPF jawans also received injuries. All of them were out of danger, he said. The policemen recovered the body of the two Maoists and overpowered an injured Maoist. A special team is interrogating the injured Maoists at a secluded place in Gaya town to ascertain his identity, he added.
Khan told TOI that the police forces intercepted the voice of an area commander of Maoists, Sandeep Yadav, who was leading the operation against police in the forest, and came to know that overall six Maoists were killed and 12 others injured. Search was on to trace the bodies as all nursing homes in the district were being closely screened to locate them.
As soon as the police got information about the gathering of over 100 Maoists, led by Sandeep, in Chakarbandha forest on late Saturday evening, the CRPF, STF and BMP jawans decided to move towards the forest late in the night. About 400 CRPF personnel and 100 odd Bihar police jawans moved in anti-landmine vehicles, bullet proof jeeps and motorcycles.
The terrains were difficult. Hence the movement of the forces was slow. This gave sufficient time to Maoists to plant landmine with heavy explosives on the route. IG CRPF said in all 85 landmines were laid in a series as a result of which one landmine vehicle and few motorcycles were blown off. But even in the face of death, the forces showed their grit and determination, Khan said.
They moved in four directions to surround the Maoists who were firing hail of shots from automatic weapons. Police repulsed fire with equal force and also triggered blasts with 51mm mortar and grenade launcher since the Maoists were at a higher altitude and covered themselves in forest woods. As the forces advanced, they kept on demining the rugged road. The IG said he had never seen such a heavy firing from the Maoists who had deployed their best warriors for the face-off with the police forces.
It is also the first time that the police could recover the body of dead Maoists. Otherwise, the ultra-Left always carried away bodies of their slain colleagues, as part of tactics, to avoid identification.
The IG said search operation was still on and the police forces were also carrying out an operation under the leadership of CRPF DIG Umesh Kumar. "We have sealed their escape route," the IG added.
Six Maoists killed in Sunday encounter: CRPF - The Times of India
Good job CRPF and Rot in Hell terrorists
However, the Maoists maintained they did not suffer any loss in the gun battle that followed the landmine blast. Reports say that the Maoist squads made a tactical retreat. They were the members of the PLGA, the armed wing of the Maoist outfit. The police operation against them continued on Monday with one helicopter requisitioned to provide aerial support to the police forces.
According to Amit Kumar, IG (Operations), the morale of the cops engaged in the operation was very high and the campaign would continue till the area was fully sanitized. He justified the use of motorbikes in the operation saying the cops have been imparted intensive training for conducting such operations on bikes and the results have been encouraging. Moreover, there has been no complaint from the jawans on this count, he said.
The CRPF DIG, Umesh Kumar, told TOI that the two killed Maoists have been identified as Kailu Manjhi and Phoolchand Manjhi, both residents of the area. The DIG claimed the Maoists had deployed a sizeable number of trained women in the Sunday morning operation.
According to the IG, CRPF, A A Khan, CRPF jawan Shachindra Sharma died in the landmine blast while another died due to heart attack. Six CRPF jawans also received injuries. All of them were out of danger, he said. The policemen recovered the body of the two Maoists and overpowered an injured Maoist. A special team is interrogating the injured Maoists at a secluded place in Gaya town to ascertain his identity, he added.
Khan told TOI that the police forces intercepted the voice of an area commander of Maoists, Sandeep Yadav, who was leading the operation against police in the forest, and came to know that overall six Maoists were killed and 12 others injured. Search was on to trace the bodies as all nursing homes in the district were being closely screened to locate them.
As soon as the police got information about the gathering of over 100 Maoists, led by Sandeep, in Chakarbandha forest on late Saturday evening, the CRPF, STF and BMP jawans decided to move towards the forest late in the night. About 400 CRPF personnel and 100 odd Bihar police jawans moved in anti-landmine vehicles, bullet proof jeeps and motorcycles.
The terrains were difficult. Hence the movement of the forces was slow. This gave sufficient time to Maoists to plant landmine with heavy explosives on the route. IG CRPF said in all 85 landmines were laid in a series as a result of which one landmine vehicle and few motorcycles were blown off. But even in the face of death, the forces showed their grit and determination, Khan said.
They moved in four directions to surround the Maoists who were firing hail of shots from automatic weapons. Police repulsed fire with equal force and also triggered blasts with 51mm mortar and grenade launcher since the Maoists were at a higher altitude and covered themselves in forest woods. As the forces advanced, they kept on demining the rugged road. The IG said he had never seen such a heavy firing from the Maoists who had deployed their best warriors for the face-off with the police forces.
It is also the first time that the police could recover the body of dead Maoists. Otherwise, the ultra-Left always carried away bodies of their slain colleagues, as part of tactics, to avoid identification.
The IG said search operation was still on and the police forces were also carrying out an operation under the leadership of CRPF DIG Umesh Kumar. "We have sealed their escape route," the IG added.
Six Maoists killed in Sunday encounter: CRPF - The Times of India
Good job CRPF and Rot in Hell terrorists
. naxals were killed so many polices and security forces in the chatisgradh forest regions.security forces need to punch them badly. would there be any chance to have the images of naxals area through the RISAT??. so that would be used to track them easily and punish.
