Raipur. In the encounter between police and Naxalites in Tekalgudem village, border area of Sukma and Bijapur districts of Chhattisgarh, 3 soldiers were martyred and 15 soldiers were also injured. The soldiers also killed 6 Naxalites. After which Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai paid tribute to the martyred soldiers by placing a wreath on their mortal remains. Along with this, Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma, Forest Minister Kedar Kashyap, MLA Chitrakot Vinayak Goyal, DGP Ashok Juneja, ADG Naxal Operation Vivekananda Sinha, Commissioner Shyam Dhavde, IG Sundarraj P. and other public representatives also paid tribute to the martyrs.
These soldiers became martyrs
Constable Devan C, 201 Cobra Constable Pawan Kumar, 201 Cobra Constable Lambdhar Sinha, 150 CRPF
These soldiers have been injured
Lakhveer, Deputy Commandant 201 Cobra Rajesh Panchal, Assistant Commandant 201 Cobra 1 Khedkar Ramdas, Head Constable 201 Cobra Akhilesh Yadav, Head Constable 201 Cobra Harendra Singh, Head Constable 201 Cobra Mohammad Irfan, Head Constable 201 Cobra Gopinath Basumtadi, Constable 201 Cobra Manoj Nath , Constable 201 Cobra Vikas Kumar, Constable 201 Cobra Benudhar Sahu, Constable 201 Cobra T. Madhukumar, Constable 201 Cobra Malkit Singh, Constable 201 Cobra E. Venkatesh, Constable 201 Cobra Avinash Sharma, Constable 201 Cobra Raut Omprakash, Constable 201 Cobra
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