{"id":44946,"date":"2025-02-10T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44946"},"modified":"2025-02-10T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:23:57","slug":"indian-forces-kill-31-suspected-maoist-rebels-in-chhattisgarh-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44946","title":{"rendered":"Indian forces kill 31 suspected Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian security forces have killed at least 31 suspected Maoist rebels in the forests of the central state of Chhattisgarh, police said, in its biggest encounter this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two security personnel were also killed while two others sustained injuries in the gun battle in Indravati area of Chhattisgarh on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of police and paramilitary soldiers launched an operation in the forests based on intelligence that a large number of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2017\/4\/26\/indias-maoist-rebels-an-explainer\">Maoist rebels<\/a>&nbsp;had gathered there, state police Inspector General Pattilingam Sundarraj said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the toll could be higher with search operations expanding. \u201cAdditional forces have been rushed to the encounter site,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Automatic weapons and grenade launchers were recovered from the scene, a police statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Maoist rebels, also known as Naxals, follow a form of communism propagated by the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong. They have waged a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2013\/8\/24\/analysis-indias-maoist-challenge\">guerrilla-style war<\/a>&nbsp;against the government, particularly in central and eastern India, for decades, leading to periodic clashes and casualties on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a big success in the direction of achieving a Naxal-free India,\u201d said India\u2019s Home Minister Amit Shah, who last year said the government expected to crush the Maoist rebellion by 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Indian security forces have killed at least 31 suspected Maoist rebels in the forests of the central state of Chhattisgarh, police said, in its biggest encounter this year. Two security personnel were also killed while two others sustained injuries in the gun battle in Indravati area of Chhattisgarh on Sunday. Hundreds of police and paramilitary soldiers launched an operation in the forests based on intelligence that a large number of&nbsp;Maoist rebels&nbsp;had gathered there, state police Inspector General Pattilingam Sundarraj said. He said the toll could be higher with search operations expanding. \u201cAdditional forces have been rushed to the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44948,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44946\/revisions\/44948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}