NEW DELHI: Two District Reserve Guards (DRG) jawans were injured in an IED blast, and one Maoist was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Wednesday, an official told news agency ANI.
According to SP Bijapur, Jitendra Yadav the search operation is still underway.
Earlier on Sunday, insurgents killed a second woman in two days in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur, accusing her of being a police informant. The victim,
Yalam Sukra
, 40, hailed from Loded village in Madded, located less than 50km from Timapur, where another 45-year-old woman was murdered on Saturday.
Both women were strangled in front of their families. Maoists alleged that Sukra had provided intelligence to security forces in Chhattisgarh and Telangana.
A Maoist leaflet found close to Sukra’s body said, “Sukra was in touch with police since 2017 and informed them about movement of cadres. Between 2017 and 2024, she was warned four times not to work as a police informer, but she ran to police and tipped them and Telangana Greyhounds about our movement recently, which ended up killing seven Maoists. Hence, she has been killed at a jan adalat.”
Sukra is the third woman in Bastar to be killed for allegedly being a police informant. Maoists have killed at least 64 civilians this year in Bastar division.
