Raipur, July 19 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Sunday rejected reports that spurt in Maoist violence in the state was basically due to failure of intelligence network.
Singh, who travelled Sunday to the site in Rajnandgaon district where Maoists killed 29 state policemen in an ambush July 12, said police had prior information of Maoists’ possible attack in the district but police suffered casualties as it was a “well coordinated flash attack” of the rebels.

Those killed in July 12 attack included Rajnandgaon district superintendent of police (SP) V.K. Choubey - the first officer of this rank to be killed in the state by the rebels since the beginning of the insurgency in early 1980s.

“Maoists would be given a befitting reply,” Raman Singh told media persons at the site of the attack, some 200 km from capital Raipur.