Raipur, 12 July 2023
Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel paid humble tribute to Martyr Vinod Choubey and 28 policemen who were martyred along with him on their Martyrdom Day.
The Chief Minister tweeted that on July 12, 2009, in the forests of Madanwada in Rajnandgaon, the brave Superintendent of Police late while taking on the Naxalites. Vinod Choubey ji and his team sacrificed their lives for the soil of Chhattisgarh without caring for their lives. We all bow down to such great sons, offer our wreaths. We all are proud of you. Jai Hind.
It may be known that SP Mr. Vinod Choubey was the country’s first martyr IPS officer in Chhattisgarh’s Naxal operation. He was posthumously awarded the Kirti Chakra. He was martyred in an encounter during the Naxal attack. That attack was the first Naxalite attack in the country in which an SP was martyred. Apart from the SP, 29 jawans were also martyred in this Naxalite attack.
Late Vinod Dhruv, Uni Komal Sahu, Uni Dhanesh Sahu, Pr Sundar Lal Chaudhary, Pr Dushyant Singh, R Premchand Paswan, R Arvind Sharma, Pr Geeta Bhandari, Pr Zakharius Khalkho, Pr Sanjay Yadav, Constable Prakash Verma during the encounter with Naxalites. , R Beduram Suryavanshi, R Subhash Kumar Behera, R Tikeshwar Deshmukh, R Suryapal Vatti, R Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj, R Manoj Verma, R Lokesh Chediah, R Shyamlal Bhoi, R Mithlesh Kumar Sahu, R Rajnikanth, R Nikesh Sahu, R Santram Sahu , R Jhaduram Sahu, R Amit Nayak, R Vedprakash Yadav, R Ritesh Kumar Vaishnav, R Lal Bahadur Nag were martyred.
