Braving the scorching heat and a challenging terrain, around 24,000 security personnel holding fort for more than a week, surrounding the Karregutta Hills along the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border to flush out about 1,000 Naxalites from their bastion in one of the biggest counter-insurgency operation the country has seen so far in line with Home Minister Amit Shah’s vow to completely eradicate Left-wing extremism (LWE) by March 2026.