Rajnandgaon SP Vinod Kumar Chaubey was assassinated in July 2009
RAIPUR: A jawan crept up on his goal in a jungle. It had been 154 hours of battle. Lots of of rounds had been fired. Bullets had been whizzing round when the jawan took regular intention and let unfastened a burst. The Maoist, crouched simply yards from him, crumpled into the forest flooring. Two bullets had hit him within the neck and chest.
A 15-year hunt was over.
It was Maoist platoon commander Rupesh, needed for the assassination of the then Rajnandgaon SP Vinod Kumar Chaubey in July 2009.Rupesh carried a bounty of Rs 25 lakh and was gunned down with two different Maoists in a marathon safety op that lasted practically per week in Bastar‘s Narayanpur, Kondagaon and Dantewada districts. He’s the primary of 33 Maoists needed for the killing.
Chaubey, referred to as a daredevil, had gone down combating, together with 28 different policemen, in a Maoist ambush in a forest in Madanwada. He was posthumously honoured with a Kirti Chakra, the nation’s second highest medal for gallantry in peace time.
Two months in the past, on July 12, his son Saumil Ranjan Chaubey – a pupil at Harvard College – had posted on social media a childhood image of him along with his father, with the phrases: “A black Sunday, 15 years in the past, modified all the things.”
Every step in direction of justice brings each reduction & ache: SP’s son
Two months in the past, on July 12, his son Saumil Ranjan Chaubey – a pupil at Harvard College – had posted on social media a childhood image of him along with his father, with the phrases: “A black Sunday, 15 years in the past, modified all the things.”
Saumil advised TOI on Friday, “I learn concerning the current encounter, and it stirred many feelings. My heartfelt congratulations to the bravehearts of Chhattisgarh Police and CRPF for his or her braveness on this operation. For households like ours, who’ve endured unspeakable loss as a consequence of Naxalite violence, every step in direction of justice brings each reduction and ache. I hope this second serves as a reminder to these nonetheless on the trail of violence that dialogue, not destruction, is the best way ahead.”
SP Chaubey’s demise nonetheless rankles Chhattisgarh. The decision to avenge his killing is without doubt one of the rallying cries of safety forces right here.
An IPS officer of the 1998 batch, Chaubey had been attacked twice earlier throughout his tenures in Balrampur and Kanker however fought his means out unscathed. When the decision took place one other ambush on a sultry afternoon on July 12, he instantly set off with a rescue crew.
The alerts saved coming. Two policemen had been killed. The ambush website in Madanwada was round 120km from the district headquarters. With out warning, the battle got here to Chaubey.
The rescue celebration was ambushed on the highway by Maoists. Chaubey’s driver was hit and critically injured. The SP himself took the steering wheel, drove the motive force out of the ambush zone, rallied his males and went again into the hail of bullets.
The SP needed to pause the counterattack to guard the terrified civilians till the bus was out of the battle zone.
One of many key leaders of the Maoist ambush was Rupesh. When police lastly gunned him down on Sep 23, Rupesh was a zonal committee member and a platoon commander with 66 instances towards him and the ‘most needed’ tag.
