{"id":305395,"date":"2018-11-11T07:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T07:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305395"},"modified":"2018-11-11T07:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T07:32:54","slug":"chhattisgarh-encounter-breaks-between-security-forces-and-maoists-ahead-of-assembly-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chhattisgarh-encounter-breaks-between-security-forces-and-maoists-ahead-of-assembly-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh: Encounter breaks between security forces and Maoists ahead of assembly polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_300524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300524\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300524\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/naxal-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/naxal-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/naxal-446x420.jpg 446w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/naxal.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An encounter broke out between security forces and Maoists in Chhattisgarh&#8217;s Kanker&#8217;s Koyali beda after the Maoists triggered series of IED explosions, a day before voting begins for the assembly election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to a senior police officer, a BSF team came under attack when they were\u00a0patrolling the area. A\u00a0BSF personnel\u00a0was injured when an improvised explosive device or IED exploded during the encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the sources, the injured BSF personnel Mahinder sigh was airlifted to Raipur and the search operation is underway in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Another encounter between security forces and Maoists broke out in Bijapur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One Maoist was gunned down and one apprehended by security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the body of a Maoist, clad in a uniform has been recovered by the police along with arms and ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The exchange of fire took place in a forest when a team of the Special Task Force (STF) was out on an anti-Maoist operation, a senior police official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The attacks came amid tight security in seven districts of Rajnandgaon district and Bastar division which go to polls in the first phase on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the smooth conduct of the poll process in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around one lakh security personnel have been deployed across the state to ensure smooth conduct of elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An encounter broke out between security forces and Maoists in Chhattisgarh&#8217;s Kanker&#8217;s Koyali beda after the Maoists triggered series of IED explosions, a day before voting begins for the assembly election. According to a senior police officer, a BSF team came under attack when they were\u00a0patrolling the area. A\u00a0BSF personnel\u00a0was injured when an improvised explosive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3642,2089,2014],"tags":[1818,8839,9627,9626,9628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305398,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305395\/revisions\/305398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}