location: Metapal
notes: A teen Naxal was gunned down in an encounter with security forces in the forest of Metapal village under Gangaloor police station when a joint team of security forces was out on a counter-insurgency operation. However there is now speculation of whether the teen was a militant at all, after his family approached the Bilaspur High Court with allegations that he was not a Maoist, and was tortured by police.
target_text: location: Metapal, fatalities: 1