SAA event in Chhattisgarh, Duled in in Sukma District area, India on Tue 5th September 2023

Two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed in an encounter with Security Forces (SFs) in the forests between Tadmetla and Duled villages in the Chintagufa region in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh on September 5, reports The Times of India. Sukma Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Rajat Nag said, "Police had received specific inputs about the presence of Maoists of the Jagargunda area committee in the forests of Tadmetla in the Chintagufa region of Sukma. Based on the information that they were hacking out a plan for a major attack, a joint team of battalion 203rd of the CRPF [Central Reserve Police Force] and DRG [District Reserve Guards] went out on an operation." When the SFs were crossing forests between Tadmetla and Minpa, a group of armed Maoists opened indiscriminate firing upon them, which was retaliated against, resulting in an encounter in which two Maoists were killed. SF personnel sanitised the area and recovered two bodies of male Maoists from the encounter site. The slain Maoists, who are identified as Sori Deva and Rama Deva, both residents of Tadmetla and ‘militia’ (people’s army of the Maoists) cadres of the Jagargunda area committee, carried INR 100,000 cash bounty each on their heads, and murder cases were registered against them. Police have also recovered a 12-bore double rifle, a pistol, uniforms, raincoats, and other materials used by the Maoists in the forest.