Three Naxals killed in gunfight with police in Maharashtra

Three suspected Maoists, including two women, were killed in an encounter with security forces in a forest area in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, bordering Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, on Monday, police said.

Police said the Maoists opened fire on the commandos indiscriminately, prompting the security personnel to retaliate. (Representative Image)

The Superintendent of Police (SP), Neelotpal, said that based on intelligence indicating the presence of members of the banned CPI (Maoist) group, specifically the Perimili Dalam, planning their Tactical Counter Offensive Campaign (TCOC), two units of C-60 commandos, led by additional SP, Yatish Deshmukh, were dispatched immediately for a search operation in the forests near Katarangatta village under Bhamragarh tehsil on Monday morning.