Police sounded alert along Shimoga borderFriday

SHIMOGA: Anti-naxal team and the regular police in Shimoga district were sounded alert on Thursday after an encounter between Police and naxalites at a village under Shankaranarayana Police Station limits of Udupi district.Talking to this website's newspaper Superintendent of Police Arun Chakravarthi Jeji said that the anti-naxal teams operating particularly in Hosanagar sector, bordering between Shimoga and Udupi districts, had also taken up combing operation in their area.“Department knows that the naxal teams frequently move in this border. That is why Police and naxals encounter at these points quite often. So anti-naxal team of the Department is always on the alert along the border between Shimoga and Udupi districts. Now they became extra cautious,” he said.