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Top gun among 14 Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh
The Morning Standard
|January 22, 2025
IN a big jolt to the outlawed CPI (Maoist), its Central Committee member Jayram Pratap Reddy alias Chalapathi and 13 senior cadres were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces along the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border, 160 km east of Raipur.
The gun battle late on Sunday continued intermittently for 48 hours in the Kularighat forest of Mainpur region in Gariaband district, said a senior police officer supervising the operation.
There were intelligence inputs specifying the presence of the senior Maoist assembling in the region. A joint operation launched by a special team faced heavy gunfire from the Naxals, the officer said.
This story is from the January 22, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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