Raipur, Sep 25 (Inditop.com) Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday visited the homes of an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a police constable who were killed in an attack by Maoist guerrillas rebels in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district.
Chidambaram made an unscheduled visit to the homes here of Rajnandgaon superintendent of police (SP) V.K. Choubey and constable Sanjay Yadav with Chief Minister Raman Singh.
Choubey and Yadav were amongst the 29 policemen killed by Maoist guerrillas July 12 in Madanwara forest area of Rajnandgaon bordering Maharashtra state.
Choubey had been on the hit-list of Maoist rebels for years and is the first IPS officer to have been killed by guerrillas in the state’s three-decade history of Maoist violence.
Chidambaram, who landed at Mana airport in state capital Raipur around 8 a.m., drove straight to Raj Bhavan and met Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan and the chief minister.
After a brief meeting, he drove first to Choubey’s home and met Ranjana Choubey, wife of the deceased cop, and other family members.
“It’s a great feeling that (the) union home minister consoled us, he basically told me that the government is entirely with you,” Ranjana Choubey told reporters outside her residence.
The home minister told reporters that meeting up with the families of policemen killed by the guerrillas was also one of the purposes of his visit to the state.
He left for Jharkhand after chairing a high-level meeting with senior police officers of Chhattisgarh and top brass of paramilitary forces engaged in tackling Maoists.
