NEW DELHI: The CRPF has suspended its commander who led the team which came under attack by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma on April 24, leaving 25 personnel dead.
While the company commander, Assistant Commandant J Vishwanath, has been suspended for alleged “failure of leadership”, the commanding officer of the 74th battalion, Commandant Firoze Kuzur, has been shifted out of Chhattisgarh.
The 25 slain men belonged to the ‘Delta’ company of the 74th Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and were deployed in the Naxal hotbed between Burkapal and Chintagufa in Sukma district, one of the worst-hit by ultra-Left violence.
Seeking to set its house in order after 37 troopers were killed in two recent Naxal ambush in Sukma, the force has also transferred at least half-a-dozen Commandants and a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) posted in the Bastar region, and has replaced them with some of some of its best officers serving in other parts of the country. (AGENCIES)
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