Key Naxal leader who killed 76 CRPF men in Dantewada in 2010 arrested

November 03, 2014 15:10

Just in: Police arrest key Naxal leader Hemant Mandavi alias Bijja. He is accused of killing 76 CRPF men in Dantewada in April 2010. He is also responsible for killing 136 cops in five years.

In the deadliest attack on security forces, Maoists trapped and gunned down 75 security personnel during Operation Green Hunt, an offensive against the Left-wing extremists, in April 2010 in the thick forests of Mukrana in Dantewada district of Chattisgarh.

The incident took place between 6 am and 7 am, when nearly 80 personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force and the state police were returning after opening a road for the troops, to begin an operation against Maoists.

While 74 of those killed were CRPF personnel, including a deputy and an assistant commandant, one was a head constable of the district police.

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