The government said on Wednesday that the 62nd Battalion, which lost 75 of its personnel during the bloody encounter with Naxals in Dantewada last month, was not trained by the army.
The CRPF is also looking at the second option of inducting a new company (around 125 men) into the 62nd battalion to be deployed in the dense jungles of Chhattisgarh to undertake anti-Naxal operations.
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