When an area domination exercise by the security forces ends up in the killing of the same forces, it is not difficult to conclude as to who controls the area. The dominance of the extremists appears even more pronounced when supposedly well planned operations continue to go awry in a repeated manner. In the military battle between the left-wing extremist Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and the Indian state, the extremists continue to retain the stranglehold. Home Minister P. Chidambaram had referred to a 'stalemate' between the Maoists and the Indian state, while summing up the Maoist (also referred to as "Naxal") situation in 2010. In reality, however, the stalemate is clearly swerved to the advantage of the extremists.
In mid-2010, two ambushes in Chhattisgarh led to the killing over 100 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, a police force under the jurisdiction of the Central government in New Delhi. The ferocity of the attacks pushed the forces on the defensive and led to a considerable slow down of the Operation Green Hunt, the multi-state military manoeuvre New Delhi had launched since March 2010 to defeat the Maoists. Over 70 battalions of Central Armed Police Forces were involved in the operation.