A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militia ‘commander’, identified as Basta Bheema, who was involved in at least nine deadly attacks on Security Forces (SFs) was killed in an encounter in a forest near Tadmetla village in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh on November 26, reports Times Now News. Bheema, the slain Maoist, was carrying a reward of INR 500,000 on his head. The gunfight took place around 7 pm in a forest near Tadmetla village when a joint team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)'s elite Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA)'s 201 battalion was out on an anti-Naxal [Left Wing Extremism, LWE] operation, Sukma Superintendent of Police (SP), Sunil Sharma said. When the patrolling team was cordoning off the forest near Tadmetla, Maoists fired on them, SP, Sharma said, adding, after the guns fell silent, the body of Basta Bheema was recovered from the spot. Bheema was involved in several incidents including the Minpa attack in March 2020, where 17 security personnel were killed, and the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in November last year in Chintalnar area in which a CoBRA assistant commandant was killed and nine others sustained injuries, Sharma added.