Indian security forces have killed 31 Maoist rebels in what the country’s home minister called the “biggest operation against Naxalism”.
Amit Shah said on social media that the operation took place on Karreguttalu Hill on the border of Chhattisgarh and Telangana.
“The hill on which the red terror once reigned, today the tricolor is flying proudly … Our security forces completed this biggest anti-Naxal operation in just 21 days and I am extremely happy that there was not a single casualty in the security forces in this operation,” he wrote on X.
India has been waging an offensive against the last remaining groups of the Naxalite rebellion, a far-left Maoist-inspired fighter movement that began in 1967.
According to government data, since last year, Indian soldiers have killed at least 400 rebels.
The Karreguttalu Hills used to be the unified headquarters of several Naxalite organizations, where rebels were provided weapons and strategic training.
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