Chhattisgarh: Maoists allege 'fake encounter'; claim police arrested CC members, then killed them

RAIPUR: After the gunfire, a war of words. Two days after Chhattisgarh police claimed that two central committee members of the banned CPI (Maoist) were killed in an encounter in Abujhmarh forest on Monday, the Maoist outfit claimed on Thursday that it was a "fake encounter. " In a statement issued by Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee spokesperson Vikalp, the outfit accused police of arresting the Maoist commanders from separate places and then "killing them" and then presenting it as an encounter. Two top Maoist commanders from the central committee of the banned outfit were killed on Monday in a prolonged gunfight with security forces in the dense Abujhmarh forests of Narayanpur district in Bastar division, near Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border. The dead included Katta Rama