Six Naxals Taken into Custody for April 6 Attack on CRPF in Dantewada
As many as six Naxalites, a self-styled commander one of them, who were involved in April 6 attack on a CRPF contingency have been taken into custody, said media reports citing police.
In the gruesome attack, 75 CRPF troopers were killed along with a state police constable in the Mukrana forests of Dantewada district.
“The arrested commander has given details of the way the ambush was planned,” Dantewada SP Amaresh Mishra told a TV chanel. “According to him, local Naxals found a wireless set dropped by the CRPF company on April 5 and handed over the set to Papa Rao – the man in charge of Operations in the area.
“Papa Rao planned the ambush and called in 250 armed cadres from nearby areas. Five-six other spotters kept a watch on the movement of the CRPF company, further fine-tuned the ambush and attacked them the next morning,” he was quoted as saying.
On April 6, the CRPF party which had returned after a three-day anti-Maoist operations, was taking a break at nearly 6 am after travelling all night when almost 1000 rebels positioned on neighbouring hill top started firing on the team.
The Naxals, aware of the CRPF movement, executed their attack with fierce precision, giving the jawans no chance to react.
They blew up an anti-landmine vehicle and then began firing indiscriminately.
The shocked and exhausted jawans weren’t able to follow standard operating procedures like checking the road for landmines, and were massacred within minutes.
The Naxals also managed to loot all the weapons that the CRPF team had.
(Based on internet reports)
