Addressing the House on Wednesday during the ongoing Budget Session, Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta informed that another hoax call, specifically, an email, was sent to his office today.
The exchange of fire broke out in the early hours when a joint team conducting a search operation came face to face with the Maoists. Officials said the gun battle lasted for a brief period before the extremists retreated into the dense terrain.
According to police officials, the surrendered Naxals carried a combined reward of Rs 2.36 crore.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said there will be no ceasefire with the Naxalites, asserting that those who wish to surrender must lay down their arms, after which the police will not fire a single shot and will ensure their rehabilitation.
Jharkhand Police and the CRPF’s COBRA battalion killed three Maoists in an encounter in the forests of Patitiri under Girhor police station area of Hazaribagh district near the Giridih border on Monday morning.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has appealed to the Naxalites to lay down arms as soon as possible and join the mainstream under the surrender policy of the Prime Minister Modi led government.
At least three hardcore women naxalites were shot dead in an encounter with security forces while some others managed to escape into the forest with injuries in the naxal-infested Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.
The Union Home Minister, Amit Shah on Sunday described the recent neutralisation of 31 Naxalites by encounter with security forces as a major success in the direction of making India Naxalite-free.
According to the police, the encounter took place on late night Monday in the jungles near the Kerejhari village under Lanji Police station limits in Balaghat.
Four Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district on Tuesday morning, a senior police official said.
