Gariaband : In a major development, more than 14 Naxals were killed during a joint anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh's Gariaband district, where the security forces were able to kill a member of the Naxalite Central Committee, Jairam alias Chalpati, who had a reward of one crore on his head, the Gariaband Superintendent of Police said on Monday.
According to the SP, Nikhil Rakhecha, the operation, which was started on Sunday, saw senior cadres of Maoists dead and a large quantity of weapons, including automatic weapons like SLR rifles, recovered.
