The Maoists attacked an anti-guerrilla camp in Pusuguppa, a village on the edge of the forest in Charla Mandal (Telangana state), on Monday night. Security forces occupying the camp returned fire, and the shooting was intense. The Maoists used homemade rifle grenades, some of which did not explode (photo). After the attack, police intensified joint combing operations with CRPF anti-guerrilla paramilitaries in the forests straddling the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border. In addition, a police informer named Soyam Pandu, from Bhandarpadar village, Sukmas district, Bastar State, was executed by the Maoists on Wednesday.
Also on Monday, three guerrillas were killed in the forests of Abujhmarh in the Narayanpur district, on the border between Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. Abujhmarh is known as the “Unknown Hill” because this dense 6,000 km² jungle has not been studied since British times. The jungle is the epicenter of Maoist activities in the region. One of the Maoists killed at the meeting was identified as Rupesh, a member of the Dandakaranya Special Area Committee (DKSZC). He was the commander of the DKZSC Western Sub-Area, which operated mainly in the Gadchiroli district of the state of Maharashtra. A bounty on his head was put on a price of 25 million euros. The second Maoist was identified as Jagdish, whose arrest was worth a reward of 16 million euros.
Source: Secours Rouge