Areas such as Chintagufa in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district are rarely in the news and when they are it is never good. April 24 was one of those days. The Bastar conflict zone saw another bloodbath. Twenty-five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans were killed by Maoists in Chintagufa-Burkapal area while they were guarding a road construction site. Even before the country could come to terms with the gruesome murder of these men, the Hindustan Times in its report, claimed that their bodies were mutilated by Maoists. The paper also claimed that it had a photograph of a slain CRPF jawan whose genitals were mutilated. Over the last 50 days, the organisation has already claimed lives of 37 CRPF jawans.