NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (KUNA) -- Indian police announced on Tuesday that at least 14 Maoist rebels were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Gariaband district of Chhattisgarh.
The Press Trust of India said quoting the local police that two women Maoists were gunned down on Monday while 12 more were killed in a joint operation on Tuesday in a forest under the Mainpur police station area along the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border. Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said the Maoists were killed in a joint operation by the Central Reserve Police Force, and police forces of Odisha and Chhattisgarh along the inter-state border adding Maoists are breathing their last. Maoist rebels are active in various Indian states including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar and Maharashtra. The banned group is waging an armed struggle for decades against the government and its developmental projects in order to establish a communist society toppling the current system which they call as semi-feudal and semi-colonial. (end) atk.aa