India, March 26 -- Three Maoists, including a member of the special zonal committee of the banned CPI (Maoist) carrying Rs.25 lakh reward on his head, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, police said, taking the number of ultras neutralised in the state to 116 so far this year amid intensified operations against Left Wing Extremism (LWE).

The gunfight took place at around 8 am in a forest along the border of Dantewada and Bijapur districts when a team of security personnel - belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Bastar Fighters, both units of the state police - was out on an anti-LWE operation based of inputs about the presence of Maoists in forests of Girsapara, N...