Slain SP had survived two Naxal attacks, won 2 gallantry awards - July 14, 2009 - Facing Naxal attacks was not new to Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Choubey. A few years ago, he had been shot at and injured by Maoists in Balrampur in Chhattisgarh’s Sarguja district, bordering Jharkhand. Later, as SP, Kanker, he survived a Naxalite ambush in the state’s tribal Bastar region.So when he heard Naxals had killed two policemen in the remote forest area of Madanwada in Rajnandgaon on Sunday morning, the officer reacted as he had always been known to do: personally lead his men into battle. It was to be the last of his many fearless campaigns.
Choubey, SP, Rajnandgaon, twice winner of the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry, perished along with 23 of his men in a massive Maoist attack at village Kerketti, close to Chhattisgarh’s border with Maharashtra.
The 49-year-old IPS officer left behind his wife Ranjana and son Swamil, who is studying to be an engineer.
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