The Chief Minister apprised him of the incident and the prevailing situation in the state.
Notably, 27 Maoists, including their top leaders, were gunned down in a fierce gun battle with security forces in Odisha’s Malkangiri district on the border with Andhra Pradesh yesterday, giving a major blow to the ultras.
A commando of the elite anti-Naxal force, Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh, was also killed and another was injured in the encounter that took place in the cut-off area of remote Chitrakonda area on the Andhra-Odisha border.