Bhubaneswar: Terming the killing of three
security personnel in Gajapati as "very tragic", Orissa Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik today said it would not have any
impact on the impending anti-Maoist operation in the state.
"It will not affect the anti-Maoist joint operation in
the state," Patnaik told reporters here and condemned the
killing.
The state police along with CRPF have already launched
combing operation in Gajapati district to nab the ultras
involved in the incident, he said.
Meanwhile, senior police officials engaged in anti-Maoist
operations held meetings with CRPF and BSF officials to chalk
out a strategy for an early launch of the operation.
While four battalions (4000 personnel) of CRPF are
already deployed in anti-Maoist operation along with Orissa
police, four battalions of BSF have already arrived and
another is expected, official sources said.
Meanwhile, bodies of the three personnel of Orissa`s
elite anti-naxalite force `Special Operation Group`, killed in
a fierce encounter with the Maoists in Ambajari forest in
Ganajapati district in the early hours of the day were handed
over to their families at their villages for funeral.
DIG, southern range, R K Sharma and other senior
officials paid their tribute to the slain jawans at
Parlakhemundi, the headquarter of Gajapati district.
Four jawans critically injured in the encounter were
shifted to Vishakhapatnam.
-PTI
