TIL Desk/National/Gadchiroli/ As many as 100 Naxals fired indiscriminately at C-60 commandos and jawans of the Special Action Team from their sophisticated weapons in the Mardintola forest in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra disregarding the appeal to surrender on Saturday morning, a police officer said on Sunday.
When the fierce encounter ended around 3:30 PM on Saturday after almost 10 hours, senior cadre Milind Teltumbade and 25 ultras had been killed. Police said the ultras had gathered in large numbers in the forest to plan “subversive” activities against security personnel ahead of the Naxal week.
According to the police, the killing of Milind Teltumbde, carrying a bounty of Rs 50 lakh, has delivered a huge blow to the banned movement in the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC) zone, DIG, Gadchiroli Range, Sandip Patil said.
Milind Teltumbde was one of the wanted accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. He was the brother of activist and scholar Anand Teltumbde arrested earlier in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case and is currently lodged at the Taloja prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.
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