Mangalore : Four teams of Anti Naxal Force (ANF) on Thursday conducted search operations in Cheru and Gopalapura areas of Dakshina Kannada bordering Hassan, after receiving inputs that an injured Naxal may be holed up in that area.

ANF IGP Alok Kumar told TOI that the teams scoured about four kilometres of the forest. “We received information that the injured Naxalite was being treated by a local homeopath or a practitioner in that area,” he said.

About a week ago, ANF had gunned down a suspected Naxalite in a brief exchange of fire at Kakkunje reserve forest area under Kadaba PS limits. As they had found two guns, ANF suspected that one more Naxal may have been injured in the exchange of fire.Times of India