Four Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres and a Police Sub-Inspector (SI) were killed in an exchange of fire in a forested area near Pardhoni village under Manpur Police Station limits in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh on May 8, reports Hindustan Times. The Superintendent of Police (SP), Jitendra Shukla, said, “we had got a pin-point Information about the Maoists and hence a team was made to nab (arrest) them. When we were cordoning off Pardhoni, the Maoists started firing. In retaliation, we also started firing. Our sub-inspector S.K. Sharma lost his life in Maoist firing.” The slain Maoists included a ‘divisional committee member, DCM’ identified as Ashok, and an ‘area committee member, ACM’ of CPI-Maoist identified as Krishna. “Two other woman cadres, Sarita and Pramila, were junior cadres and working as party members,” the SP said, adding, “we have also recovered an AK-47 assault rifle, one Self Loading Rifle (SLR) and two 315 bore rifle from the spot and searching of the whole area is going on.”