2021 Sukma–Bijapur attack
[6] On 2 April 2021, separate joint teams of security forces launched a major anti-Maoist operation from Bijapur and Sukma district in the South Bastar forests.Hidma, a tribal from Puvarti village of Sukma district, who heads the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army’s (PLGA) battalion number 1, is known for deadly ambushes.Hidma is accused in at least 26 attacks, including the 2013 Jhiram Ghati massacre of frontline Congress leaders and Burkapal ambush of April 2017 in which 24 CRPF personnel were killed.[6] The fighting ensued when Indian security forces, acting on military intelligence, raided a rebel hideout in a densely forested area of Bijapur district.[11] At least 22 Indian security personnel were killed and 30 injured in the ambush by Maoist rebels that lasted for four hours in the border Sukma district, 540km (340 miles) south of state-capital Raipur.