The successful anti-Maoist operation on Saturday is believed to have not only disrupted the regrouping of the three area committees for a major event but also prevented the crucial annual meeting from taking place.With search and combing operations still continuing deep inside the forests, the possibility of the meeting being held has become remote.“Ravi could’ve been the key man who might have been tasked with the transit of armed LWE cadres from Chhattisgarh to strengthen the armed struggle here, but he has been eliminated,” the senior officer said.Almost three decades ago, the Pachama Dadar forests, located around 65 km from Balaghat town, were a core mining zone but gradually turned into one of the safest and most unbreachable terrains for the LWE.“In the late 1990s, the armed Maoist cadres looted two trucks full of explosives. Nearly three decades later, the police have recovered arms, ammunition and explosives, including IEDs, live detonators, grenades, rifles and grenade launchers from the hideout in the same jungles. The recovery was so large that it had to be transported in a truck,” Mishra said.”Almost 30 years later, the ongoing operation in the densely forested Pachama Dadar plateau, which started on Saturday, has changed the narrative that we (security forces) cannot come there and hit you. The unbreachable Naxal base has been breached and it no longer remains their impregnable safehouse,” Mishra added.
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