"On 6 April 2010, a company of India's central paramilitary soldiers came under attack from Maoist guerrillas in the central-eastern state of Chhattisgarh. The Maoists, who had turned this region into their stronghold, had laid a trap. With little training and scant knowledge of the Amazon-like jungle, the Indian soldiers found themselves ambushed. They fought back, but they could not escape the ambush. Seventy-five soldiers and a state policeman accompanying them were killed."
"Since the mid-2000s, the Maoists had grown in strength, launching audacious attacks against government forces and looting police armouries and declaring certain areas as 'liberated zones'. Their operations ran in a contiguous arc of land, from Nepal's border in the east to the Deccan Plateau in the south - an area the Maoists called Dandakaranya or DK, using the name in its historical sense."
On 6 April 2010, Maoist guerrillas ambushed a company of India's central paramilitary soldiers in Chhattisgarh, killing 75 soldiers and a state policeman. The ambush represented the largest single-incident casualty for Indian forces, surpassing losses in Kashmir. The killings stirred widespread anger across India and raised public awareness of the Maoist presence and the guerrilla-controlled hinterland. Since the mid-2000s, Maoists expanded operations, seizing police armouries and declaring 'liberated zones' across a contiguous arc from Nepal's border to the Deccan Plateau. The Maoists operated in Dandakaranya (DK), a mineral-rich region inhabited by Adivasis and contested for state control of resources.
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