Tag: Encounter

Berhampur: Dreaded criminal Bhikari Das sustained bullet injuries on his leg in a police encounter on Ganjua-Aruapalli road under Gopalpur police limits here on Thursday night. Acting on a tip off, a police team raided the Ganjua-Aruapalli area where Bhikari and his four associates were hatching a plan to commit a crime in the area. […]

Aska: Notorious criminal Chakanayan Nahak sustained bullet injuries on his leg in a police encounter at Jhagadei area late on Friday night. According to police sources, a police team attempted to overpower Nahak and his associate when the duo was roaming in the city on a motor cycle. When the police tried to nab them, […]

Kalyansinghpur: Claiming that the police have killed a Dangaria Kandh tribal youth in cold blood and sought to pass it off as an encounter with the Maoists in Rayagada district on February 27, family members of the youth, backed by the Niyamgiri Suraksha Manch, on Wednesday demanded the return of his body with adequate compensation […]

Bhubaneswar: A notorious criminal was injured during a gun battle with police at Jagannath Sadak area under Mancheswar police limits here last night. Sashanka Nayak, a wanted criminal, sustained injuries in police firing and was admitted to Capital hospital for treatment. Later, he was shifted to SCB medical College and hospital in Cuttack when his […]

Jammu: Indian and Pakistani troops traded gunfire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch and Rajouri districts on Wednesday. The first clash took place in Poonch district. Pakistan troopers resorted to unprovoked firing at Indian positions in Gulpur and Khari Karmara areas at around 8.15 a.m., Defence Ministry sources said. “They […]

Srinagar: A Pakistani commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit and two Kashmiri militants were killed by the Indian forces in an 18-hour-long gun battle that ended on Sunday here in the outskirts of the Jammu and Kashmir capital, police said. The exact identity of the slain militants was being ascertained. An Indian soldier, a […]

Srinagar: Security forces on Saturday gunned down two heavily armed terrorists hiding in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. Receiving information about their presence in Tekkin village, a cordon and search operation was started that led the militants to fire at the forces. Both were killed in the ensuing gun battle. […]

Srinagar : A gunfight started between the security forces and holed up militants on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said. Security forces surrounded Binpora village in Khanabal area following information about the presence of the militants there. “As the joint forces of the Rashtriya Rifles (RR), special operations group (SOG) of state […]

Srinagar: One militant was killed on Friday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said. The militant’s body was recovered from the gunfight area in Gandole village of Kokernag area. “Firing has now stopped, but a search operation is ongoing. Identity of the victim is being ascertained,” the […]

Srinagar: Two militants were killed on Thursday in a gunfight between security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said. Police sources said militants fired at a patrol party of Rashtriya Rifles in Kralgund forest area of the district late on Wednesday. “Army retaliated the fire after which an encounter started there. […]

Gadchiroli (Maharashtra): The security forces have recovered at least 15 more bodies of Maoists from the Indravati River here early on Tuesday, taking the toll in the gunfight in the past 48 hours to 37, official sources said. A fresh gun-fight on Monday night left at least six Maoists dead, barely 36 hours after Sunday’s […]

Srinagar: Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces on Saturday in Khunmoh area on the outskirts of Srinagar city in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation following information about presence of militants in the area, a police official said, as Republic Day events were being […]

Srinagar: An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Aripal village of the south Kashmir district this morning following specific information about the presence of militants there, a police official said. He said […]

Raipur: Eight Naxals and two police personnel were killed in an encounter between ultras and security men in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Monday, police said. The gunbattle took place at a forest in Kistaram area bordering Telangana, around 500 km from here, when a team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Sukma’s […]

Raipur: A hardcore woman Naxal, who was carrying a reward of Rs 8 lakh on her head, was gunned down by security forces in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday, police said. The skirmish took place in the evening in a forest near Chitalnar and Dondipadar villages under Pushpal police station limits in which Military […]