CRPF personnel shot dead, Maoists killed in encounter

June 14, 2010 10:59 am | Updated November 28, 2021 09:02 pm IST - Chaibasa

IPS officers inspect targets after a shooting practice, ahead of anti-Naxal operations to be carried out in and around Bokaro, Jharkhand, on Sunday.

IPS officers inspect targets after a shooting practice, ahead of anti-Naxal operations to be carried out in and around Bokaro, Jharkhand, on Sunday.

A CRPF personnel was shot dead and a dozen Maoists possibly killed during an encounter in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said on Monday.

The security forces — a combined team of CRPF and State police — also recovered claymore mines, ammonium nitrate and other items after the almost 24-hour gunbattle in Bandgaon which ended Sunday night.

Himmat Singh, a commando of the 203 battalion of the Special Action Force (SAF) of the CRPF, was killed while six CRPF personnel injured in the encounter, a senior CRPF officer said.

“About a dozen Maoists were hit by the security forces and there is all possibility that they might have been killed,” West Singhbhum Superintendent of Police Akhilesh Jha said. However, bodies of the Naxals are yet to be recovered, Mr. Jha said.

Villagers in the district have also indicated that some Maoists were killed in the operation, the CRPF officer said.

Mr. Jha said a camp of the Maoists was demolished during the anti-Naxal drive on Sunday and 20 claymore bombs seized and destroyed. All the injured security personnel were admitted to a hospital in Ranchi.

Self-styled Maoist area commander ‘KP’ and his comrades Anmol and Animesh were among the Maoists, who fired around 5,000 rounds during the encounter, the SP said.

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