Bhopal: The deadly attack on the CRPF party by Maoists at Burkapal in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar district of Sukma on April 24 was done a week before the incident in a jungle in the region, where the ambush was rehearsed live, intelligence sources said on Wednesday.
Commanders of three platoons of Maoists first military battalion, Sonu, Arjun and Situ along with their unit members had camped in the Korecha-Dodede jungle in Dantewada-Sukma border in south Bastar where the attack was planned in the second week of this month, a senior police officer posted in Bastar, close to the operation, told this newspaper.
“It was a live rehearsal where arms and ammunitions were used to hit decoy security personnel. Even, local tribals were brought to the training site to use them as shield to fine tune their attack plan,” the intelligence officer said on Wednesday.
“It was a pre-planned attack by Maoists,” CRPF in-charge director general (DG) Sumit Lakhatkia said at a press conference at Raipur in Chhattisgarh on Wedn-esday.
“Even time and place of ambush were also chosen by Maoists much earlier. Movements of jawans had been kept under vigil by local villagers for several days to give shape to the plan,” he added.
