To help identify top naxals, security agencies have been able to piece together sketches of these extremists who had remained faceless for decades now.
Police and security forces fighting the naxals in Chhattisgarh were recently handed over sketches of some of the Naxalites who have been active in the area.
But since the pictures of numerous top naxal leaders are not available, artists have been roped in to draw sketches based on details provided by arrested Maoists.
"The security forces, both state and central, are being provided with the sketches in order to get the top leadership of the naxals and also to sharpen intelligence based operations," a senior security officer said.
The photographs are being provided to all officers in the rank of company commanders and commanding officers of battalions deployed in naxal areas.
The directives to take up intelligence-based operations have been issued from Home ministry and the headquarters of para-military forces. Once the security teams have the photographs they can also take the help of locals to track the movements of naxal leaders, the officer said.
According to sources, the security forces are also taking the help of locals to prepare the sketches of the naxal leaders.
Almost 60,000 personnel of central security forces apart from state police teams are undertaking operations in the Left wing extremism hit areas of the country.
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