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XKochi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the probe into the shootout between a Maoist group and police in the Uruppumkutti forest area of Kannur on November 13, 2023, sources said on Thursday.

The agency has recently filed a re-registered FIR before the NIA court in Kochi.

As part of the probe, the agency is set to question several Maoist activists who have either surrendered or been arrested by police in Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu, sources said.

The incident occurred when Thunderbolt, the Kerala Police’s anti-Maoist commando unit, was conducting a combing operation at Njettithodu in the Uruppumkutti forest under the Karikottakari police station limits in Kannur.

Eight armed cadres of CPI (Maoist), who had trespassed and unlawfully assembled in the

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