Naxal menace: The joint forces managed to free Buddha Pahad located in Jharkhand`s Latehar district, about 150 km from the state capital Ranchi. Buddha Pahad is spread over about 55 square km with one side connected with Chhattisgarh. It had turned out to shelter top Naxal commanders of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Odhisha.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated the government forces for freeing Buddha Pahad in Jharkhand after almost three decades from the domination of Maoists.The Maoist-dominated area has been freed under Operation 'Octopus' of Jharkhand .
Security forces have won a decisive victory in the ongoing battle against left-wing extremism across the country, said the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday adding that compared to before 2014, incidents of left-wing extremism violence have come down by 77 per cent.
Two large Naxal-affected forested areas in Jharkhand and Bihar have been “completely cleaned off and captured” by the security forces even as the most violence-prone districts under this category have gone down to an all-time low of 25, CRPF DG Kuldiep Singh said on Wednesday.