The CRPF has created 70 exclusive battalions for counter insurgency and naxal operations which will be insulated from regular law and order duties performed by the force. This was disclosed by CRPF Director General K Vijay Kumar in New Delhi on Sunday.

He said, the creation of two distinct units — one for undertaking operations and the other for performing duties like conduct of polls, etc was recommended in the aftermath of the attack in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada where 75 armed CRPF men and a state policeman were killed in April last year.