Raipur, April 17 (Inditop.com) Maoist guerrillas Saturday opened fire on a team probing the Dantewada massacre in Chhattisgarh when it was on its way to the site where 76 security personnel were killed April 6, police said. There were no casualties.
“Maoists fired a few shots from a distance on the probe team headed by E.N. Rammohan (former director general of the Border Security Force),” Amresh Mishra, Dantewada district superintendent of police, told Inditop over phone.
“The police guarding the single-member team returned fire. There is no casualty or injury,” he said.
He added that leftist ultras fired at the team in the Chintalnar forest, some 500 km south of capital Raipur. The firing took place nearly 4 km away from the spot where 76 security personnel were killed by Maoists April 6.
Mishra said the guerrillas escaped into the forest after the exchange of fire. “It’s difficult to say how many Maoists were involved in the firing,” he added.
The former BSF chief, who reached Chhattisgarh Saturday to probe the Dantewada massacre, is scheduled to interact with senior officials of the state police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) posted in restive Bastar region to find out the exact reason for what went wrong April 6.
Chhattisgarh Director General of Police Vishwa Ranjan and CRPF Special Director General Vijay Raman are also accompanying Rammohan, a 1965 batch Indian Police Service officer, who is expected to complete the probe by April 24.
