An incident of Shahid Shakti took place in Bijapur Mahila Mirtoor Police Station when the police were on their duty for construction work due to the security breach planted by the Naxalites.
Road construction work is in progress between CAF (Chhattisgarh Armed Forces) Camp Etepal and CAF Camp Timenar. Therefore, a troop of soldiers had left from Timinar camp around 8 am on Monday to provide security. On reaching just 1 km from Etepal camp, an IED exploded in a roadside tekri.
It found APC Vijay Yadav (Assistant Platoon Commander) of 19th Corps D Company Timener. He died in it. It is reported that the search operation has been intensified in the area after the incident.