One Maoist killed in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur

One Maoist has been killed by the security forces in an ongoing anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, said the police on Saturday (July 5, 2025).

A senior police officer said that the gunfight between the Maoists and a security team has been going on in the National Park area of Bijapur since Friday (July 4) evening during which the casualty was inflicted.

Earlier, said the officer, based on the intelligence received about the presence of a large cadre of Maoists in the National Park area of the Bijapur district, a search operation was started by joint teams of security forces.

“During the operation, intermittent encounters are going on between security forces and Maoists since yesterday, 04/07/2025. In the search operation so far, the body of one male Maoist has been recovered from the encounter site along with weapons,” he said.

A police statement added that since the operation was still going on, more information was “not being shared keeping in mind the safety of the soldiers involved in the operation”.

In his recent visit to Chhattisgarh late June, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said that in a departure from, the past anti-Maoist operations would continue in the Bastar forests in monsoon this year.

Traditionally, the operations are halted during the rains because sustained rainfall and floods hamper any action inside dense forests.