According to the information received, a 32-year-old Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan was killed in an encounter between a group of Naxalites and a joint team of security personnel on Monday in dense forests of Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. Officials said that Manna Kumar, a resident of Sahibganj, Jharkhand, was shot and died on the spot in an encounter in a wooded area of ​​Udipal. The CRPF said that the encounter started around 2.11 pm on Monday when the CRPF’s Special Action Team and the District Reserve Group of Chhattisgarh Police were jointly conducting a search and siege operation.

5 Maoists arrested in Jharkhand

On Monday, the Itkhori police station of Chatra district in Jharkhand arrested five Naxalites, including its staunch Naxalite Birendra alias Kameshwar alias Ranjit Rana, on the basis of secret information, giving a big blow to the banned Triti Sammelan Presentation Committee ie TSPC in the district. Superintendent of Police Rishabh Jha said that the police have arrested these five hardcore Naxalites and have broken the back of the Third Conference Presentation Committee Naxalite Organization.

In a press conference held at Itkhori police station, Jha said that a 9 mm pistol, a Marathi gun, a khokha, dozens of uniforms, Naxalite form, 19 mobile phones of different companies have been recovered from the arrested Maoists. . He said that several cases of Naxalism, extortion, extortion, assault, theft, robbery and arms law were registered against the arrested Naxalites in various police stations of Chatra, Hazaribagh, Latehar and Palamu districts. In all these cases, the police had been looking for him for a long time.