Maoist base dismantled in C'garh, 31 killed in 21-day operation: Top officials

THE first-ever decisive and strategic crackdown against the CPI (Maoist) — 'Operation Black Forest', launched on April 21 — has "stamped out the safe haven of senior Maoist leaders," senior officials of the CRPF and Chhattisgarh police said, commending the operation as immensely successful.

- EJAZ KAISER @ Raipur

Executed in Bijapur's southwest forested area adjoining Telangana border, the operation involved thousands of security personnel for 21 days, during which the troops cautiously secured a substantial area of a lesser-known Karreguttalu forested hills surrounded by forests from the grip of left-wing extremists.