Subhechcha Ganguly 
Officials said on Monday morning that at least four Maoists had died in a shootout with police in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. The incident occurred two days after an encounter in the Narayanpur area of Chhattisgarh resulted in the deaths of eight Maoists and a jawan of the Special Task Force (STF).According to news agency PTI, which cited police, six of the eight Maoists murdered in the encounter were senior rank cadres with total financial awards of ₹48 lakh. These cadres were part of the Maad division supplies and Naxalites’ People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) military company no. 1.This was the fourth significant victory in 45 days and the second within a week of the Narayanpur police’s “Maad Bachao Abhiyan,” an anti-Maoist operation.
“After forty years of Naxal brutality and terror, the locals, tribals, and villagers of Abhujmaad (in the Narayanpur district) are beginning to envision a place free from Naxalism, violence, and terror. The development process has been accelerated by successful anti-Naxal campaigns, he stated.Eight Maoists were allegedly shot and killed by police on Saturday during an altercation in the district’s woodlands close to the villages of Kutul-Farasbeda and Kodtameta.
“Sudru, Vargesh, Mamta, Samira, Kosi, and Moti, who were active in different capacities in PLGA company no. 1 of Maoists and carried a reward of ₹8 lakh each on their heads, were identified as six of the eight killed cadres,” the IG stated.
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