Around 6am on April 2, a joint team of the District Reserve Guard, and Commando Battalion for Resolute Action of the Central Reserve Police Force encountered alleged Communist Party of India cadres at Lendra village in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. Better Centre-state coordination A senior officer of the security grid involved in the anti-Naxal operations told CNN-News18 that a factor in …
For four decades, Puvarti has been enveloped in a mutinous silence. Puvarti is on the border of Sukma and Bijapur districts of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar range, the arena of a deadly battle between the security forces and the banned CPI ; a battle once called India’s gravest “internal security challenge” by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2006, and the focus of …