SAA event in Chhattisgarh, Durda in Bijapur District area, India on Sun 27th February 2022

Two women Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were gunned down by Security Forces (SFs) following an exchange of fire in the forested terrain of Durda in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh on February 27, reports The New Indian Express. Kamal Lochan Kashyap, Bijapur District Superintendent of Police (SP) said, “Based on an intelligence input about the movement of Maoists in the region, a joint team of the Bijapur district reserve guards (DRG) and CRPF [Central Reserve Police Force] was out on a search operation. When the forces arrived close to the forested terrain of Durda, about 30 km from the district headquarters, an encounter ensued. Two bodies of women cadres in uniform of the banned outfit were recovered from the site.” There was however no report of any injury sustained by the SFs that safely returned, the SP said, adding the Bijapur Police are identifying the bodies. The SFs also recovered one locally-made rifle, ammunition and explosives.