Chhattisgarh Cop Saves Maoist He Had Shot At

One does not come across such stories very often. Abhishek Pallav, a doctor-turned IPS officer in Bastar of Chhattisgarh, treats wounded Maoist after a seven-hour long encounter. Somaru, a Maoist commander, owes his life to IPS officer Pallav who had engaged him in a fierce gun battle last week in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar. Carrying a bounty of one lakh rupees, Somara was hit in the abdomen by a bullet on March 18 during the seven-hour long encounter that left five Maoists and two policemen dead. Before joining the IPS in 2013, Pallav from Begusarai in Bihar had been a practicising doctor, having done his MD from AIIIMS in 2009.

Read more of this officer and a gentleman in a report by Ritsh Mishra in Hindustan Times......