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The April 2010 Dantewada Maoist attack [1] [2] was an 6 April 2010 ambush by Naxalite-Maoist insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) near Chintalnar village in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh, India, leading to the killing of 76 CRPF policemen and 8 Maoists [3] — the deadliest attack by the Maoists on Indian security forces.
Bhima Mandavi (died April 9, 2019) was a Bharatiya Janata Party politician and member of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly from Dantewada assembly constituency. [2] He was assassinated by naxalites belonging to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in Nakulnar village of Dantewada district in the state of Chhattisgarh. [3] [4]
On 26 April 2023, a blast took place in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.While they were returning from an anti-Maoist operation undertaken based on intelligence inputs, a party of ten policemen and their driver who were members of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Chhattisgarh Police were killed in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated by Naxals.
26 July: A Maoist was killed in an encounter with the security forces in Damarathogu-Alligudem forest area, Telangana. [293] 29 July: Two Naxalite were arrested in Shoranur and Kochi in Kerala. [294] 2 August: A senior Maoist leader was arrested in Kerala. [295] 10 August: A Maoist was killed by the security forces in Dantewada district ...
The Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) would take the lead in the operations against Maoist insurgents. [14] But in September 2009, the media had already reported a "massive three day joint operation" by the CoBRA and Chhattisgarh police against the Maoists in Dantewada. [1]
A senior security official said that Rao alias Basavraj has been at the forefront in 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada in which 76 CRPF soldiers were killed, the Jeeram Ghati attack in which 27 people, including former state minister Mahendra Karma [3] and Chhattigarh Congress leader Nand Kumar Patel, were killed.
The Sukma attack was an ambush carried out by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) against Indian paramilitary forces on 24 April 2017, during the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency. It was the largest ambush since a similar attack in 2010 , in the neighbouring district of Dantewada .
Since the inception of the movement in 2005, over 800 people have been killed by the Naxalites and security forces. This includes 300 security personnel, of which SPO deaths total 98—one in 2005; 29 in 2006; 66 in 2007; and 20 in 2008. [12] [19] By 2008, the Maoist rebels had altered their tactics. Operating in smaller groups, they now ...