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Indian Express
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Jharkhand: Maoist, COBRA jawan, unidentified person killed in gunfight
Security forces Wednesday killed a Maoist carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh during a jungle shootout in Jharkhand's Bokaro district that also left a COBRA jawan and an unidentified person dead. Police had earlier claimed that the body of the last individual, found in civilian clothing, was that of a Maoist. They later said his identity is yet to be ascertained. Jharkhand DGP Anurag Gupta said the Maoist killed during the gunfight was Kunwar Manjhi, a resident of Bokaro who carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh and was wanted in over two dozen cases. Twenty-one of these cases were registered in Bokaro and seven in Hazaribagh, show police records. He was also involved in a shootout with police on April 21. The jawan of the COBRA 209 battalion, Praneshwar Koch, was critically injured in the operation at Birhordera under Gomia police station limits and later succumbed to his injuries. A joint search operation by COBRA-209 and the district police was underway in the area to locate other suspected Maoists. The DGP said the joint combing operation began early Wednesday morning. At Around 6 am, he said, the forces came face to face with the Maoists, leading to an exchange of fire. A police statement said that top CPI (Maoist) leaders, including Sahdev Soren (a central committee member) and Birsen (a special area committee member) were suspected to be planning a major attack in the area. 'The second body, found in civilian attire, remains unidentified,' said the DGP. The DGP said that Koch, the slain COBRA jawan, was from Kokrajhar in Assam. Assam Chief Minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma paid tribute to him on X. An AK-47 assault rifle and a magazine with ammunition were recovered from the site along with other daily-use items. Shubham Tigga hails from Chhattisgarh and studied journalism at the Asian College of Journalism. He previously reported in Chhattisgarh on Indigenous issues and is deeply interested in covering socio-political, human rights, and environmental issues in mainland and NE India. Presently based in Pune, he reports on civil aviation, other transport sectors, urban mobility, the gig economy, commercial matters, and workers' unions. You can reach out to him on LinkedIn ... Read More
Indian Express
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
One CRPF jawan killed in encounter with Maoists in Jharkhand's Bokaro district
One jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force's specialised Commando Battalion for Resolute Action was killed in an encounter between security forces and members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the forested area of Birhordera under Gomia police station limits in Bokaro district Wednesday morning. Two Maoists were also killed in the encounter, Jharkhand DGP Anurag Gupta said. The encounter followed a joint operation of security forces launched on the basis of specific intelligence inputs about the presence of outlaws in the forest area of Birhordera. Acting on the tip-off, a joint team of the COBRA 209 battalion and district police initiated a combing operation early Wednesday morning. Around 6 am on July 16, 2025, the forces came face-to-face with the Maoists, leading to an exchange of gunfire, police said. The wounded jawan of the COBRA 209 battalion was critically injured in the operation and later succumbed to his injuries while being evacuated for treatment. A search operation is still underway in the area to locate other suspected Naxals. The bodies of both Maoists have been recovered, the DGP said. While one was the Maoist uniform and the other was allegedly in civilian clothes. An AK-47 assault rifle was also recovered from the spot. Further details will be shared after the operation, IG operational Michael Raj S said. Shubham Tigga hails from Chhattisgarh and studied journalism at the Asian College of Journalism. He previously reported in Chhattisgarh on Indigenous issues and is deeply interested in covering socio-political, human rights, and environmental issues in mainland and NE India. Presently based in Pune, he reports on civil aviation, other transport sectors, urban mobility, the gig economy, commercial matters, and workers' unions. You can reach out to him on LinkedIn ... Read More
India Today
30-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Jawan injured in Naxal encounter in Jharkhand, cache of explosives recovered in Ops
A fierce encounter broke out between the police and Naxalites in Jharkhand, leaving one personnel injured. Following the clash, the security forces recovered a cache of explosive materials, Naxalite uniforms, and other items from the encounter confrontation took place in the Saranda forest of West Singhbum district in the encounter, Naxalites carried an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) blast, resulting in injuries to Sunil Kumar of the COBRA 209 battalion. He was immediately rushed to a hospital for Despite the intensity of the attack, the police retaliated with heavy firing, after which, the Naxalites to sources, the cache of explosives looted on the Odisha-Jharkhand border in recent days has been recovered by Jharkhand Police in Tirilposi as the Naxalites kept firing at the security Singhbhum Superintendent of Police (SP) Rakesh Ranjan confirmed the incident and stated that a search operation is still underway in the police recovered a large quantity of explosives during the encounter, which were looted by the Naxals near the Jharkhand-Odisha border. The Naxalites had attacked and looted a truck containing four tons of explosives from Banka mines in Odisha near the Jharkhand Director General of Police himself camped in Rourkela for two days to investigate the incident by the Maoists. Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is also investigating the to a press release by the police, top leaders of the CPI Maoist Naxalite organisation — Misir Besra, Anmol, Mochhu, Anal, Asim Mandal, Ajay Mahato, Sangen Angaria, Ashwin, Pintu Lohra, Chandan Lohra, Amit Dansda alias Upton, Jaykant, and Rapa Munda — are active with their squad members. These Naxalite leaders may carry out destructive incidents in the view of this, the police have intensified the search operation in the area. In this operation, besides the Chaibasa police, jawans from CoBRA, Jharkhand Jaguar, and CRPF are continuously conducting search operations in the forested and hilly week, as many as 30 Naxals were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Chhattisgarh. These included top Naxal leader Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavraj, who carried a bounty of Rs 1 crore, sources Watch
