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Sukma district is a part of the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency which will go to poll in the first phase in the state. While the area was sanitized by security personnel, they found four uniformed bodies of ultras killed during the encounter including two women cadres, Sundarraj said.Two of the encountered ultras were identified as Dudhi Hidma and Aayte (woman cadre) who were members of battalion number one of PLGA.The forces recovered weapons and explosives in large number from the spot, including one INSAS rifle, two .303 rifles, one muzzle loading gun.After Lok Sabha polls' announcement, a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel was killed and five jawans were injured in an encounter with a banned outfit of Maoists during an anti-Naxalite operation in restive Dantewada district on March 18.Anti-Naxal operations have been intensified in the forests of Bastar division in view of the Lok Sabha elections.Chhattisgarh will vote in three phases on April 11, April 18 and April 23. RAIPUR: A fortnight ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Bastar, four Maoists, including two women cadres were gunned down in an encounter with CRPF personnel in worst Maoist affected Chintalnar region of Sukma district on Tuesday.Police said that bodies of 17 Maoists have been recovered in several operations carried out in Bastar in 2019 along with the recovery of 35 weapons after encounters.Deputy Inspector General of Police (anti-Maoist operations) P Sundarraj said that based on the input received about presence of ultras in Karkanguda region of Chintalnar, joint team of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) and District Force were out on special anti-Maoist operation from camps of Chintalnar and Narsapuram on Monday evening.It was around 6am on Tuesday when the security force spotted a group of Maoists at Karkanguda forest and the rebels opened fire upon them which broke into an encounter.The exchange of fire went on for about half-an-hour following which the Maoists took refuge in the deep forest and escaped..