Overview

• Three suspected Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad operatives were killed in a cordon-and-search operation in Gumla district after intelligence tipped off their presence in Lawadag forest.
• Security forces recovered three automatic rifles, including an AK-47, at the Gumla encounter site.
• A separate Operation Sankalp mission in Bijapur district resulted in four Maoist deaths, with security personnel seizing a cache of INSAS and SLR rifles plus explosive materials.
• Teams from the DRG, STF, CRPF, Jharkhand Jaguar and state police conducted simultaneous operations in both states, illustrating intensified multi-agency collaboration.
• Security forces have launched combing sweeps to flush out remaining Maoist cadres, are verifying the identities of those killed and cataloguing the recovered arms.