Yesterdays(April 6) killing of 76 security personnel proved that Maoists in Dantewada District are super strategist.On February 9,security personnel were ambushed by Maoists at a village in Dantewada District where they were going to find the whereabouts of 12 missing tribals.
On October 8,2009,a police party of nearly 40 personnel came under heavy fire from 200 Naxals or Maoists at about 1 PM local time near Laheri police station of the Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district killing 20 police personnel.The police personnel, who were outnumbered by the heavily armed Maoists, retaliated .Their encounter lasted for nearly three to four hours in an area adjoining the Maoist infested Bijapur district of Chattisgarh.Recently. Maoists beheaded a police intelligence officer near Ranchi,Jharkhand.
on May 21,16 Police personnel, were killed during a three-hour long encounter with a group of heavily armed Maoist cadres near the hills of Hatti Tola in Gadchiroli District.The encounter took place when a team of 16 member Police team led by Inspector Ashok Aiyyar were clearing the Dhanora-Murumgaon road of the Gadchiroli District, which was blocked by the Maoists during their two-day long general strike call from May 20 in the Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli.On April 6, 14 CPI-Maoist cadres and three security force personnel were killed during a three hour-long encounter between a group of 300 Maoist cadres and security force personnel at Mungner village of Gadchiroli District.On February 1,15 Police personnel including 5 women constables, were killed by the Maoist cadres when a Police patrolling party visited the Maoist infested forest area of Morke village in the Gadchichiroli District.Gadchiroli, Chandrapur and Gondia Districts are the Maoists infested areas of Maharastra.