The CRPF believes that information regarding the movement of its troops, killed in a deadly landmine blast in Dantewada, was “leaked” and it has begun a probe to find the mole, who could be from “within or outside” the paramilitary.
It is certain that the information about their movement was leaked. Somewhere or at some stage, this has happened. The boys were doing a surprise non-operational movement and hence were in mufti. We are looking into it.K Durga Prasad, CRPF Director General
Seven CRPF men were killed on Wednesday in a deadly landmine blast carried out by Naxals that also left a massive four-feet deep crater on the road in the worst Maoist violence-affected Dantewada district.
The DG reached Chhattisgarh late last night and will travel to the blast site near Melawada village in the said district where Naxals blew off a Tata-709 mini-truck being used by the CRPF men to go from one camp to the other.
DG Prasad, who rushed to the state from a tour of Maharashtra, said they are working on the leak theory due to a number of facts visible in the incident.
The DG said the blast was “big”, and it is suspected that about 50-60 kgs of explosive could have been planted beneath the ‘pucca’ metalled road to trigger the explosive.
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