Maoists say bombed by drone in Chhattisgarh, police deny
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We had been in a position to change location minutes earlier than the assault befell, says banned group
The Maoists claimed in an announcement on Wednesday that safety forces had on April 19 dropped 12 bombs from a drone close to a village in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district.
The Chhattisgarh police stated the “allegation being levelled by Maoists regarding air strike/drone attack are totally baseless and it’s an outcome of fear and confusion in the rank and file of Maoist cadres”.
An announcement signed by ‘Vikalp’, spokesperson of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the Maoists.
| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
An announcement signed by ‘Vikalp’, spokesperson of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the Maoists, stated on April 19, the drone dropped “12 bombs” between Bottalanka and Palagudem villages in Pamed space of Bijapur in which some vegetation and bushes had been destroyed and some animals had been injured.
The Maoists additionally shared {a photograph} of the affected space and the ‘bombs’. The assertion stated they had been in a position to change their location minutes earlier than the assault befell. They claimed that this was the primary time {that a} drone has been used to aerially bomb areas including the assault is a retaliation of the April 3 encounter at Tarrem on the Sukma-Bijapur border the place 22 safety personnel had been killed by the banned group.
Chhattisgarh IGP P. Sundarraj stated, “The security forces in Bastar operate within the legal framework with a single objective of protecting life and property of the native population of the region. It is the Maoist cadres who have taken away the lives of thousands of innocent civilians by using IEDs and explosive materials. They haven’t even spared children, women and animals also during their desperate attempts to harm the security forces by using IEDs.”
He stated on Wednesday an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officer was significantly injured in Narayanpur and one cow acquired killed in an IED explosion triggered by the Maoists.
“The Maoists do not have any moral authority to blame the security forces to level such baseless allegation against the security forces. It is high time that they stop unleashing cruelty against innocent tribals of Bastar and let the native population lead a peaceful life,” he stated.
As many as 14 of the 27 districts in Chhattisgarh are affected by the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) violence.
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