In a important revelation, it’s been learnt that the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) which triggered the large explosion that killed a whole of 10 District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel together with a driver was planted on the time of Dantewada-Aranpur highway development in 2012, suggests sources acquainted with the fateful improvement, it was additionally learnt that the IED was planted so neatly by the Maoists that even the Deep Search Metal Detector (DSMD) machine was unable to hint it.
Also, the load of the IED that exploded in Aranpur was round 50 kg which led to a robust explosion that finally break up the highway by placing a ten mtr deep wrench and blew up the safety personnel car within the Bastar area of the insurgency-hit State.
In a horrific incident on April 26, as many as ten DRG personnel and a civilian driver had been martyred in an intense IED explosion that rocked the Maoist-hit Dantewada of Chhattisgarh.
As per the preliminary data, the fateful incident occurred when DRG personnel returned from a search operation when an IED explosion detonated by Maoists hit their car close to the Aranpur-Sameli area beneath the Aranpur police station limits of Dantewada.
It’s been reported that the DRG personnel had been out on a search operation after they acquired some particular intel in regards to the presence of some armed cadres of the Darbha division of the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army, the armed wing of the unlawful Communist Party of India (Maoist) close to Puru Hidma of the Aranpur area.
In a video launched after the incident, IG Bastar vary P Sundar Raj, whereas confirming the assault, mentioned that the DRG Jawans had been out on a combing operation within the Aranpur space of Dantewada. When the personnel returned to the district headquarters, an IED explosion occurred close to the Aranpur-Sameli space, wherein as many as 10 DRG personnel had been martyred.
Reinforcement has been instantly rushed to the spot, and the evacuation technique of the our bodies of Martyred personnel is being carried out; extra particulars in regards to the incident are nonetheless awaited, added IG Sundarraj.
On the opposite hand, it’s been learnt that it’s fairly uncommon within the area for DRG personnel to make use of a car for motion, which finally grew to become deadly for them as the realm falls beneath one of the crucial Maoist-affected delicate zones and IEDs planted by the Maoists have been usually seized by the forces on occasion.
Meanwhile, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in regards to the state of affairs and assured him of all potential help from the centre; the Home Minister, in a tweet, additionally paid tribute to the Jawans martyred within the assault and expressed his anguish over the cowardly assault.
In a assertion earlier exhibiting his grief, Chief Minister Baghel mentioned that the “incident is heart rending and the sacrifice of the Jawans will not be wasted, there is huge pressure on the Maoists that is why they did this cowardice, Naxalism will be uprooted.”
On the opposite hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whereas strongly condemning the assault, paid his tributes to the Braveheart who misplaced their lives within the line of responsibility; the PM in his tweet mentioned, ” Strongly Condemn the assault on the Chhattisgarh police in Dantewada; I Pay my tributes to the courageous personnel we misplaced within the assault, their sacrifice will all the time be remembered, my condolences to the bereaved households.
It is to be famous that that is the primary such large-scale casualties that have occurred within the final two years because the safety forces upped the ante within the Maoists stronghold of Bastar after the Bijapur assault in April 2021 wherein a whole of 22 safety personnel acquired martyred.
