55 POLICEMEN SLAUGHTERED AS 300 NAXALS OVERRUN RANI BODLI POLICE POST
Maoists Throw Petrol Bombs, Slit Throats of Sleeping SPOs & Armed Police in Midnight Raid
In the midnight hours of 15 March 2007, over 300 heavily armed Maoist insurgents attacked the Rani Bodli police outpost in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh with rocket launchers, grenades, and petrol bombs.
55 security personnel, including local tribal Special Police Officers (SPOs) and state armed police, were brutally murdered while sleeping inside barracks or burnt alive after exits were barricaded with felled trees.
The massacre exposed the absence of central tactical air support and fortified defenses for isolated security posts in Naxal corridors.
📌 Key Figures & Decision Makers
- ▸ Shivraj Patil (Home Minister)
- ▸ Raman Singh (Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh)
- • Chhattisgarh Police Inquiry into Rani Bodli Outpost Massacre (Chhattisgarh Police, 2007)