SAA event in Chhattisgarh, Timenar village in Bijapur District area, India on Tue 20th December 2022

A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre was killed in an encounter with security personnel in a forest between Perowada and Timenar villages under Mirtur Police Station limits in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh on December 20, reports The Print. Inspector General of Police (IGP), Bastar Range, Sundarraj P said, the gunfight took place at around 10 am in a forest between Perowada and Timenar villages under Mirtur Police Station limits when a joint team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the Special Task Force (STF) was out on an anti-Maoist operation. The operation was launched based on the inputs about the presence of members of the Bhairamgarh area committee of Maoists in Mirtur area, located more than 400 kilometres from the State capital Raipur. After the exchange of fire stopped, the body of a Maoist along with a weapon was recovered from the spot, the IG said, adding, that the identity of the killed Maoist was yet to be ascertained.