Ten Naxalites, three of them women, were gunned down in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Friday, November 22, a senior police official said.
CM Vishnu Deo Sai hailed the security forces and said the era of peace and progress had returned to the Bastar region.
The gunfight broke out in the morning in a forest near Bhandarpadar village in the jurisdiction of the Bhejji police station, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation, said Sundarraj P, IGP (Bastar range).
He said personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and CRPF launched the operation based on inputs about the presence of Maoists from the Konta and Kistaram area committees on forested hills of Korajguda, Dantespuram, Nagaram and Bhandarpadar villages.

“Bodies of 10 Naxalites, including three women, clad in ‘uniform’, have been recovered from the spot,” he said. Besides, 12 weapons, including an INSAS rifle, an AK-47 rifle, a self-loading rifle (SLR) and Barrel Grenade Launchers (BGLs), were also seized, he said. Two of the deceased have been identified as Madkam Masa (42), military in-charge of the south Bastar division of Maoists, and Lakhma Madvi, an area committee member, the IG said, adding that they were carrying a bounty of Rs 8 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, respectively.
Rape case: SC notice to govt on Asaram plea seeking suspensionof sentence
The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from Gujarat government on a plea filed by jailed self-styled godman Asaram seeking suspension of life sentence awarded to him by a trial court in a 2013 rape case.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Aravind Kumar told the counsel appearing for Asaram that it will examine the issue only if there are medical grounds.
“We will issue notice, but we will consider only on medical conditions,” the bench said while posting the matter for hearing on December 13.
The Gujarat High Court on August 29 had rejected Asaram’s plea for the suspension of life imprisonment in the case by a Gandhinagar court in 2023. Refusing to suspend the sentence and grant him bail, the high court had observed that no case for relief was made out.The sessions court in January 2023 convicted Asaram in 2013 rape case.