The gunbattle took place Thursday evening in a forest under Pusnar police station when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was returning after carrying out an anti-naxal operation.
Earlier on Tuesday, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra accused the Congress of compromising national security for political opportunism.
BJP leader Sambit Patra accuses Congress' Digvijaya Singh of backing naxals
The letters establish links between the Naxals and Kashmiri sepratists, suggest support of Congress leaders to extreme Leftists agenda, and even give proof that the arrested accused were involved in procuring weapons and arming the rebels through international routes.
"Comrade Kisan and few other senior comrades have proposed concrete steps to end Modi-Raj. We are thinking along the line of another Rajiv Gandhi-type incident."
One naxal was killed and two policemen were injured in an encounter between security personnel and ultras at a weekly market in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district
The incident occurred when Maoists uprooted tracks between Bhansi and Kamaloor, leading to derailment of its engine and eight wagons that fell off a bridge on a small rivulet, the police said.
According to latest updates, the injured soldiers have been admitted to a hospital near Raipur for treatment.
At least 11 more bodies of suspected Maoists were recovered from the Indravati River by the security forces on Tuesday, official sources said. As per reports, the death toll in the last 48 hours has reached 33.
Maharashtra: Security forces gun down 22 Maoists in Gadchiroli.
According to sources, the police located Naxals after a two-day long massive search operation, which ended when the extremists opened fire at the security personnel.
Maharashtra: 14 Naxals killed in an encounter with police in Gadchiroli district
Naxals targeted a bus ferrying nearly 30 jawans with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur, leaving two of them dead and five injured, the second attack today ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the district on Saturday.
The encounter comes three days after two Naxals, including a woman, were gunned down by the security forces in an exchange of fire in insurgency-hit Sukma district on Thursday.
The Maoists uprooted tracks between Bhansi and Bacheli, leading to the derailment of six wagons and the engine of the goods train, a senior police official told PTI.
Assistant Constable Raju Lekam died after he was attacked with sharp-edged weapons by suspected rebels at the weekly market under Jangla police station limits this evening, a district police official told PTI.
The arrested Maoists were active as members of the Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangthan (DAKMS), a front organisation of the Naxals, he said.
The abducted ASM called up Maldah DRM in the morning saying Maoists have threatened to kill them if trains continue plying on Masudan track. All passengers have been requested to take other alternatives as a precautionary measure.
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