Raipur, Jan 25 (IANS) The police search teams have gone into the thick forests of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district Friday to look for two Special Police Officers (SPOs) whom Maoist militants kidnapped late Thursday, the police said.
“Several search teams have spread over in the Maoist stronghold forested hamlets of Bhairamgarh and Gangloor areas early Friday to rescue the two tribal male SPOs who were taken hostage by leftists radicals Thursday,” Ankit Garg, Bijapur district superintendent of police, told newsmen at Bijapur town nearly 440 km south of capital Raipur.
The police believe that both policemen, in their late 20s, are kept in a rebel hideout in the forests near Bhairamgarh locality.
Meanwhile, thousands of security forces have been deployed Friday in and around the government installations in the insurgency hit southern Bastar region and at the residences of politicians and top police officers in Raipur in view of Maoists’ call to boycott the Republic Day celebrations Saturday.