The deceased has been identified as Lalabati Majhi.
The gunfight took place in a forest close to Jal Mahadev Temple under Khaprakhol police station limits after security personnel of Odisha's elite Special Operation Group (SOG) and Bolangir district voluntary force (DVF) spotted a Maoist camp during a combing operation.
Maoist Dalmati Kamar aka Madhuri from Kundenjharia village falling under the limits of Sinapali police station, tied knot with Rahul Mushaki aka Pintu of Chhattisgarh.
This is a video released by the Maoist to instil fear in the minds of people whom they want to subvert. The purported video is from a praja court hearing somewhere in the dense forests of Telangana. The person blindfolded & with hands tied behind back had shunned the Maoists and surrendered to police to join the mainstream.
The incident occurred during the hours when the Dandakaranya Division of the Maoist organisation was observing a bandh.
An unusual spectacle greeted people in Bhawanipatna Friday when they saw the local Reserve Police ground decked up for a marriage. It was a marriage of two tender hearts who shunned violence to dip themselves in heavenly love.
The Director General of Police (DGP), Odisha, Sunil Bansal, visited Koraput on Monday to take stock of the Maoist situation in the southern Odisha district and review the security arrangements for the urban body polls scheduled to be held on March 24.
The first phase of polling for Panchayat elections in Maoist infested Paikmal and Jharabandh Blocks of Bargarh district concluded without any event on Wednesday despite threats issued by the Maoist ultras to boycott the elections.
The footprints of Maoists have been shrinking rapidly in India because of the development works getting executed in the 'Red Corridor' and also due to operations against these Maoists.
The burnt vehicles and other machinery belonged to different contractors involved in the road construction work, he added.
These are not just tears. They represent the strength of a woman who brought her husband back from the jaws of death. Engineer Ajay Roshan Lakra and peon Suraj Lakhman Paritagiri were abducted by Naxals while supervising Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana works at Kurana and Makeli areas of Chhattisgarh.
Khajuripada village in Chitrakonda area of Left-wing extremism infested Malkangiri is a transformed landscape now. But this wasn’t the case not in the very distant past.
The Central forces are all set to carry out well coordinated offensive operations against Maoists in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Odisha soon, the sources said on Wednesday.
At least three Maoists including two women cadres were gunned down in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Malkangiri on Tuesday (Oct 12).
The chief ministers who attended the meeting were Naveen Patnaik (Odisha), K Chandrashekar Rao (Telangana), Nitish Kumar (Bihar), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Uddhav Thackeray (Maharashtra) and Hemant Soren (Jharkhand).
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