The deceased DRG security personnel were identified as ASI Ramuram Nag, assistant constable Kunjam Joga and Sainik Vanjam Bheema.
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Sukma Naxal attack: Three District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel, including an assistant sub inspector (ASI), were killed in an encounter with Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district on Saturday. The face-off took place around 9 am between Jagargunda and Kunded villages when a DRG team was out on a search operation, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P told PTI.
The team had launched an operation from Jagargunda police station limits, located over 400 km away from capital Raipur. “This morning, a team of DRG was out on a combing operation and when they reached Jagargunda and Kunded, the Naxals opened firing,” IG said. The officer further elaborated that as the firing was opened from naxals’ side, and security personnel launched a retaliatory action.
The deceased DRG security personnel were identified as ASI Ramuram Nag, assistant constable Kunjam Joga and Sainik Vanjam Bheema. According to the police source, the Naxals also suffered major damage in the encounter.
Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel expressed deep sorrow and condemned the cowardly act. Taking to Twitter, CM said that the sacrifice of the soldiers will not go in vain.
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मुख्यमंत्री श्री @bhupeshbaghel
— CMO Chhattisgarh (@ChhattisgarhCMO) February 25, 2023
ने @SukmaDist के जगरगुंडा के पास नक्सली हमले में 3 जवानों की शहादत पर गहरा दुःख प्रकट करते हुए, शहीदों के शोक संतप्त परिजनों के प्रति संवेदना प्रकट की।
– मुख्यमंत्री ने इस कायराना हरकत की निंदा करते हुए कहा कि जवानों का बलिदान व्यर्थ नहीं जायेगा।
Earlier on February 5, Neelkanth Kakem, president of BJP’s Awapalli mandal in Bijapur, was killed by Naxals. On February 10, vice president of BJP in Narayanpur district Sagar Sahu was shot dead by Naxals in Narayanpur district while a former sarpanch identified as Ramdhar Alami (43) was hacked to death in Dantewada district on February 11.
In the backdrop of the killing of public representatives in the Bastar region, Chhattisgarh’s Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Juneja has written a letter to National Investigation Agency (NIA) requesting a probe into the killings.
Amid the recent incidents, Bastar Range IG Sundarraj P had recently chaired a meeting attended by the office-bearers of political parties and briefed them about the protocols to be kept in mind during political rallies, meetings and movements in sensitive areas.
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Earlier, lashing out at the government over the killing of public representatives, former Chief Minister and BJP national vice president Raman Singh had dubbed the incidents as a part of the conspiracy.
