India, Sept. 23 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said security forces have achieved a major victory against the Naxalites with the killing of their two top leaders along the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border.
The security forces eliminated two central committee members of the outlawed CPI (Maoist)- Katta Ramachandra Reddy and Kadri Satyanarayan Reddy - in the Abujhmad region of Narayanpur, according to Shah. "Our security forces are systematically dismantling the top leadership of the Naxals, breaking the backbone of red terror," he wrote on social media. According to a Chhattisgarh police officer, the gunbattle broke out in the morning at a forest in Abhujmaad, adjoining Maharashtra, when a team of security forces was out on a sea...