Incidents involving Communist Party
of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) 2012
Andhra
Pradesh
January 5: DGP V. Dinesh Reddy said
heavy security cover would be provided to facilitate expeditious completion
of various road works taken up under the IAP for the areas affected
by CPI-Maoist.
January 7: Around 50 Maoists belonging
to the Korukonda Dalam and their sympathisers of the CPI-Maoist blasted
the Forest Department Office and check-post at Lothugedda in Vishakhapatnam
District to make their presence felt in the region. The Maoists have
demanded that the APFDC hand over the coffee plantations to tribals
and wanted lifting of cases against tribals of Balapalam village. They
appealed to the tribals to oppose bauxite mining in the Agency.
January 11: The cadres of the CPI-Maoist
pasted posters at Chowdupalli in Chintapalli mandal of Visakhapatnam
District demanding the people's representatives to pass a resolution
against mining of bauxite in the Agency. The posters appeared as the
officials and the Police were preparing to receive Chief Minister N.
Kiran Kumar Reddy at G.K. Veedhi mandal to call on Tribal Welfare Minister
P. Balaraju, whose mother passed away four days ago. The Maoists also
warned the informers to mend their ways.
January 13: A former Maoist female cadre,
Veeramalla Pushpa (35), was found dead at her residence in Ramanthapur
in Hyderabad under the Uppal Police limits. Pushpa's husband Ganesh
Babu, who was said to be a Maoist sympathiser, had been killed around
three years ago. Pushpa was an accused in the case and investigators
believe her murder now could be connected to her husband's death.
January 17: Nune Narasimha Reddy alias
Ganganna, a key CPI-Maoist leader and State Committee member, was reportedly
arrested by special party Police teams at Old Guntur. Ganganna, who
has been in judicial remand for the last one-and-a-half years in the
District jail, was released on January 17.
January 19: The Centre sanctioned INR
1.8 billion for six more Districts in Andhra Pradesh under the IAP for
selected tribal and backward Districts to cope with the Maoist menace.
The member-secretary of the Planning Commission, Sudha Pillai, in a
message to the chief secretary informed that Visakhapatnam, East Godavari,
Warangal, Karimnagar, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram have been included
under the IAP with INR 1.80 billion (INR 300 million per District )
to be released for the year 2011-12.
January 27: The honeymoon between the
CPI-Maoist and TRS party has come to an end with the failure of month
long general strike by Telangana employees headed by K. Chandrashekhar
Rao and Prof. Kodhandaram. TDP has alleged that they have pledged the
Telangana agitation to the Union Government to bag Polavaram tenders.
The North Telangana wing CPI-Maoist leader Jagan has heavily comes down
on KCR and Prof. Kodhandaram for the same reasons.
February 1: Seendri Bathro alias
Badri (35), from Kannavaram under Mampa Police Station in Koyyuru mandal
of Visakhapatnam District was found killed with his neck strangulated.
A letter left at the spot reportedly by some CPI-Maoist cadres said
he was killed for being a 'police informer'.
February 5: An UAV or drone is likely
to be pressed into service in the Visakhapatnam and other border Districts
of Andhra Pradesh to help in intelligence gathering on a real-time basis.
A magisterial inquiry will be held on
February 13 at 11 a.m. in Nalgonda District mandal revenue office
into the death of an unidentified CPI-Maoist cadre following an exchange
of fire with Police at Narayanpur village on January 17, 1998.
February 9: The recent surrender of
15-year-old tribal, Kursinge Divya alias Bharatakka, a CPI-Maoist
cadre in Adilabad District has made anti-Maoist SF's suspicious of Maoists
activating 'sleepers' in order to build an alternative communication
network. According to sources, the Maoists used to stage cultural programmes
with revolutionary overtones in ashram schools located in remote villages
in the Mangi forests. Apparently, the aim was to mentally prepare tribal
children to join the underground stream when required to do so in future.
Tension gripped the Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh
border following the reported death of three SF personnel in a land-mine
blast allegedly triggered off by CPI-Maoist cadres in the Polampalli
forest area of Dantewada District in Chhattisgarh.
February 12: Four CPI-Maoist cadres
were arrested by the Charla Police near Timmirigudem village in Khammam
District during patrolling. According to Police, the arrested Maoists
- Madivi Lakma, Vetti Adama, Kovasi Inga, and Podium Joga- all in the
age group of 20 to 25 years, were residents of Yerrampadu, a tribal
hamlet of the Gutti Koyas tribe. They were involved in the burning of
a hydraulic excavator near Gisarelli village.
February 15: The Nizamabad Police (rural)
arrested a fake Maoist, Eligeti Ravi Prakash, who demanded money from
a businessman, G. Subash Reddy.
February 18: Three hydraulic excavators
allegedly set ablaze by a group of cadres of the CPI-Maoist at Modingedda
in GK Veedhi mandal in Visakhapatnam District. The Maoists left posters
saying that any move to start bauxite mining would result in such reaction
from the CPI-Maoist and that the Government must immediately stop the
Green Hunt Operation against Maoists.
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a blast
at the coffee-seeds godown of the APFDC at Lankapaakala village in G.K
Veedhi Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, demanding distribution
of its coffee plantations to the Girijans.
Contradicting the claims of the Central
Government which blames the loss of forest cover to the CPI-Maoist,
the Andhra Pradesh forest department says that the loss of forest cover
is due to encroachments.
February 20: A dalam 'commander'
of the CPI-Maoist, Sutari Papa Rao (42) alias Singanna, was killed
in an exchange of fire with a Police party near Sayannapalli village
in Gundala mandal of Khammam District. It was initially believed
that two Maoist cadres were killed, but Police later said that only
one Maoist died in the encounter. Sources said a Police constable was
also injured. Police recovered live ammunition and INR 19,000 from the
scene of encounter.
In a renewed bid to flush out Maoists
from the AOB, the Government is hurrying with the setting up of paramilitary
and Special Forces bases in north coastal Districts. BSF is already
setting up a base in Srikakulam with IRB having selected Anandapuram
in Viskhapatnam for its camp. Now, the CRPF is planning to set up a
regional base at Vizianagaram district's Kottavalasa mandal.
March 1: The G. K. Veedhi Police arrested
a CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Pangi Gopala Rao of Kampumanipaakalu
in Visakhapatnam District. A member of the Korukonda dalam of the CPI-Maoist,
he was reportedly picked up by the Police during a combing operation
recently and was kept in the G.K. Veedhi Police Station.
The State Government is likely to increase
the reward to between INR 100,000 and INR 2.5 million. The State Police
have proposed INR 2.5 million as reward for the capture or surrender
of high-ranking central committee members such as Ganapati and Mallojula
Venugopal. The proposal is awaiting the Government's approval.
March 10: A joint combing operation,
codenamed 'Sarvanash', begun on March 7 by CRPF, Jamui and Banka Police
against CPI-Maoists in the border area of the two Districts ended with
the arrest of Babulal Yadav, a Maoist and the prime accused in the killing
of Prayag Yadav, a former head of Chilkari Panchayat in Banka
in March 2010.
March 11: Ravi Kumar (22), an engineering
student from Ranchi was injured by a stray bullet when alleged CPI-Maoist
cadres opened fire at Habbipur village under Rajpur Police Station in
Rohtas District. Rajesh Sharma, an active member of the now disbanded
MCC, had land dispute with a fellow villager, Lalan Singh which was
intervened by Rajpur block pramukh Rajendra Singh. About six
members of an armed squad of the Maoists attacked the relatives of Rajendra
Singh while they were on their way to the local market where Ravi, who
had gone to the market to buy vegetables, was hit by a stray bullet
which was fired by the Maoists. Police seized 15 cartridges of .315
bore and an empty cartridge during a search at Rajesh's house.
March 12: G K Veedhi Police in Visakhapatnam
District arrested a cadre of Galikonda area committee of CPI-Maoist,
Gemmeli Balaraju, at G Addaraveedhi. Balaraju of Boddamanupakalu was
involved in the two murder cases - killing of Majji Madhava Rao, a forest
ranger, at Lankapakalu and Pangi Das, a Police informer, at GK Veedhi.
The Maoists has issued a warning to
an IAS officer for 'discriminating against tribals'. Maoist east division
'secretary' Ganesh warned in a news release in Paderu in Visakhapatnam
District that the people would teach a lesson to Paderu sub-collector
Kartikeya Misra if he did not mend his arrogant ways.
March 14: A Naxal belonging to CPI-ML-New
Democracy, identified as Gujjula Karunakar Reddy (23) alias Bharath,
surrendered before the Police in the presence of Circle Inspector V
Suresh at Gudur mandal in Warangal District. Bharath hails from
Nalgonda District and worked with Suryam dalam and Soma Bhaskar dalam.
March 16: Two civilians were injured
in the crossfire between a Police team and the CPI-Maoist cadres in
of Allubaka and Thippapuram forest area in Khammam District. The exchange
of fire took place when a Police team combing the forest areas came
under fire from Maoists at around 2 AM to 2:30 AM, which was retaliated
by the Police team.
The Maoists set ablaze equipment in
the BSNL telephone exchange at G. Madugula in Viskhapatnam District
late in the evening. A group of five Maoists of the Korukonda area committee
entered the exchange and poured petrol on the panel board and other
equipment and set them on fire.
March 18: A CPI-Maoist leader, Tupakula
Ramanjaneyamma alias Santhi, a leader of the AOB carrying a head money
of INR 500,000, was arrested near Kondramutla village in Ipur mandal
in Guntur District.
March 20: A LWE, Grandhi Vikanna, was
shot at by his comrades over a dispute on sharing of booty in the forests
near Nagarjunasagar reservoir in Guntur District. He was rushed to nearby
Government hospital in a serious condition.
March 21: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up
a culvert in GK Veedhi mandal in Visakhapatnam District, protesting
against the Government's move to permit bauxite mining in the Agency.
Around 50 Maoists stopped an APSRTC bus going to Chintapalli from Narsipatnam
at the culvert and after taking away mobile phones from the passengers
blew up the culvert. They allowed the passengers to leave after distributing
pamphlets urging locals to continue their fight against bauxite mining
and to chase away Ras Al Khaima Company.
Another group of Maoists felled trees
near Lothugedda junction and placed them across the road in Visakha
Agency in the District. The Maoists put up many banners on the road
demanding the Central and State Tribal Welfare Ministers, who represent
the Agency, to come out with a clear statement that bauxite mining would
not be taken up in the Agency.
March 22: A CPI-Maoist 'commander' of
Indervelli dalam in Adilabad, Gundarapu Kistakka alias Lalitha,
surrendered herself to the District Police.
March 24: The nation-wide bandh
called by the CPI-Maoist evoked good response in Visakhapatnam District
while response was mixed in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam Districts.
March 28: The Police arrested two CPI-Maoist
cadres, identified as Gollari Kondababu of Gadapari village and Lake
Mohana Rao of Nallabilli, from an unspecified place under GK Veedhi
mandal in Visakhapatnam District.
March 31: Guntur Police arrested the
CPI-ML-Janashakti 'state secretary' Subhash alias Narayanalingam Tyagaraju
alias Prakash in Guntur District. Police also arrested three
of his associates and recovered four 12 bore SSB guns, a country-made
pistol, 20 SLR live rounds and four thapanchas from their possession.
75 CPI-Maoist cadres belonging to the
Korukonda Area Committee of the CPI-Maoist surrendered before the Police
in Visakhapatnam District.
April 4: The Gurazala Police arrested
three LWEs, identified as Mohan alias Prakash, Jathavatu Krishna
Naik and Challa Ramalingeswara Rao, belonging to the CPI-ML-Janashakti,
from a place in Karampudi mandal in Guntur District. The Police
recovered a tapancha and a live cartridge from their possession.
April 10: Nakka Vijay alias Jeevan (29),
a top cadre of the CPI-ML-Janashakti of Odisha surrendered before the
Karimnagar District Police in Karimnagar on April 10 along with four
weapons, ammunition and INR 311, 000 in cash. Jeevan, a native of Baddenapalli
village of Sircilla mandal in Karimnagar District, joined the party
in 2004.
April 16: Seeking to highlight the efficacy
of the policies pursued by the Congress Government since 2004 to end
the problem of LWE, Chief Minister, N. Kiran Kumar Reddy claimed that
the number of CPI-Maoist cadres in the State had dwindled to mere 150
from 1,100 eight years ago.
April 18: Cadres of the Venkatapuram
area committee of the CPI-Maoist allegedly killed one U. Guravaiah (23),
branding him a Police informer, near Pedamidisileru village in Charla
mandal of Khammam District.
April 19: Police in Neelampalli village
of Mahadevpur mandal in Karimnagar District arrested two CPI-Maoist
cadres during a regular vehicle checking. The arrestees were identified
as V. Shekhar (30) and K. Shyamsundar (27), a former deputy dalam
‘commander’ and now working as active militant and native of Bhoorgudem.
April 23: Three Naxalites, including
two belonging to the CPI-Maoist, surrendered in Warangal District. The
surrendered Maoist cadres include ‘deputy commander’ of Sironcha dalam
(South Gadchiroli division of Maharashtra), Pasham Swaroopa (22), and
Agaboina Sambaiah (24), member of Singanna dalam that operates
in Narasampet and Kothaguda areas. The third member, Gosula Raju, belongs
to CPI-ML-New Democracy had been underground since 2009. He worked with
the Suryam dalam in Kothaguda area.
All the 32 detained Adivasis
of Chhattisgarh were produced before the executive magistrate in Kusumanchi
mandal in Khammam District by the local Police and later let
off. Kusumanchi Police took the 32 Adivasis, including seven women and
five girls, into preventive custody while they were travelling in a
bus from Bhadrachalam to Hyderabad to participate in the RDF meeting
on April 22.
April 26: A constable of SIB of Andhra
Police, Pangi Appanna, was shot dead by CPI-Maoist cadres at Paderu
in Visakhapatnam District. Reportedly, the Maoists had also made an
attempt on his life four years ago.
April 29: Normal life was partially
hit in Vizianagaram District the first day of two-day bandh,
April 29-30, called by the Korukonda area committee of the CPI-Maoist
in the AOBSZC area. The committee had given a call for the bandh
demanding suspension of the Operation Green Hunt.
April 30: The CPI-Maoist has ‘blamed’
SIB Head Constable K. Appanna, who was shot dead at Paderu on April
26 for converting Girijan youths into informers with inducement of money
and undermining the revolution.
May 2: Some CPI-Maoist cadres reportedly
destroyed country-made liquor and warned tribal people against brewing
illicit liquor at the weekly shandy at Busiputtu village of Pedabayalu
mandal in Visakhapatnam.
May 5: A CPI -Maoist leader, Gadi Rambabu,
‘deputy commander’ of Peddapalli Area Committee was arrested from the
outskirts of Chinnaboyanpalli village in Eturunagaram area of Warangal
District, Additional Senior Superintendent of Police (ASSP) Senthil
Kumar said. 20 rounds of ammunition were also seized from his possession.
He was carrying an award of INR 50,000 on his head and was also allegedly
involved in the killing of AP Rayons Factory Deputy Manager Ramakrishna
in May 2011, Police said.
May 10: Two Maoists were killed in an
exchange of fire in the Luvasingi forest area in G. Madugula mandal
in Visakhapatnam District. The exchange of fire lasted three to four
hours, according to unconfirmed reports. Later, the Police found bodies
of two youths aged around 25 years. A tapancha and a bucketful
of grenades were found near the bodies. They could be members of the
armed militia of the Maoist outfit or members of the Korukonda area
committee which is active in that area, Police said. Fifteen kit bags
were recovered from the area where the exchange of fire took place.
The Maoists held a people's court in
Mukkunur village of Mahadevpur forest area in Karimnagar District, fired
at former Sarpanch Venkatswamy, beat up former block member Chinnappa
and abducted a surrendered Maoist Narender.
A ‘deputy commander’ of the Galikonda
dalam of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Pangi Aasu (32) of Mandapalli
village of Koyyuru mandal in Visakhapatnam District, surrendered
before the Police in East Godavari District. He carried a cash reward
of INR 50,000 on head.
Police recovered a huge dump from Dadalikawada
hamlet of Ramachandrapuram.
May 14: The Maoists partially blew up
the quarters a forest section officer, Kurasam Rajulu, at Sitanagaram
in Dummugudem mandal of Khammam District. Accusing
him of harassing Adivasis (tribals), Maoists assaulted him with rifle
butts also.
A group of CPI-Maoist cadres fired at
Mothugudem Sub Inspector, Srinivas, and two constables near Kothur village
in Chintur mandal in Khammam District adjoining Konta
block in Chhattisgarh while the Policemen were proceeding to Edugurallapalli
in an autorickshaw. While Srinivas had a narrow escape, Ramesh, a constable
of the Mothugudem Police Station, sustained a bullet wound. The Maoists
were digging up the Boddugudem-Pothuru main road near Kothur (for the
Bharat bandh on May 16) when the incident occurred. A case was
registered against the members of the Sabari Dalam (squad),
said Police.
May 16: Adilabad Police recovered a
huge arms dump belonging to the CPI-Maoist from the Mangi-Dongapalli
forest in Adilabad District.
The Maoists blocked vehicular movement
on the Charla-Bhadrachalam main road near Devarapalli village in Charla
mandal and on the Venkatapuram-Charla highway near Alubaka village
in Khammam District as part of the nation-wide bandh called by
the outfit.
May 20: Suspected Maoists shot dead
a former Naxalite suspecting him to be a police informer at Bojjiguppa
village in Bhadrachalam rural mandal in Khammam District.
May 21: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
allegedly whisked away two youths from the interior village of Dongala
Jaggaram in Chintur mandal in Khammam District in the midnight
for questioning in connection with the whereabouts of one of their "targets".
According to sources, the suspected Maoists let them off after questioning
late in the evening of May 22.
May 27: An auto rickshaw driver was
injured when a group of armed extremists opened fire on a siren-fitted
auto rickshaw heading for night patrolling near a paddy field in Charla
town in Bhadrachalam division in Khammam District around midnight. P
Nagendra (22) sustained bullet wounds. However, no policeman was present
in the auto rickshaw.
May 29: Police arrested three Maoist
sympathisers from an area under Mahadevpur Police Station in Karimnagar
District. The arrestees identified as V. Shekhar (30) of Neelampalli
village and A. Satyanarayana (20) and T. Prasada Rao (37) of Mukunuru
village of Mahadevpur mandal (administrative unit)
were directly, involved in the attack on former Congress elected representatives
in Mukunuru village of the mandal in the District on
May 9. The trio were also charged for aiding the Maoists and working
as cover organisation members of the party.
June 4: Police arrested
five Maoists from Gorellametta village under Koyyuru mandal in
Vishakhapatnam District. The arrestees are identified as Tambelu Chinna
Rao alias Buggu, Marri Chinna alias Vishnu,
Pangi Appa Rao alias Judunga, Senderi Benny Babu alias Benny,
Marri Nani alias Polu. Police recovered a landmine,
wire bundles, batteries, detonators and other explosive materials from
the arrested cadres. Buggu admitted that the Maoist leaders had asked
them to store the landmine in the house. A Police official said the
arrested were involved in attack on Police at Balapam and bus looting
in Pedavalasa, GK Veedhi mandal.
June 6: Police unearthed
a dump belonging to the CPI-Maoist from Venkatapur forests in Asifabad mandal in
Adilabad District. The dump consisting of electric wires, torches, audio-video
cassettes, nut-bolts, red flags, soap boxes, tea and green caps was
found buried in the ground on the outskirts of Samitilagundam village.
June 10:The slain CPI-Maoist
Central Committee leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad's
wife Koliparthy Padma alias Seetakka and six others
were arrested at Khanapur village in Narsampet division of Warangal
District. Padma is a member of Maoist party Nallamala division committee.
Sources said Padma, four members of a family, all of whom are hardcore
Maoists and two others were heading to the forests for a 'contact' with
Chhattisgarh Maoist leaders along with courier Kiran. Police also recovered
INR 40,000 from them. Athmakur Ramanaiah, wife Annapoorna, son Sunil
and daughter Bujjamma were among the four other arrested Maoists belonging
to the same family.
June 21: M. Chandram, a Naxalite active
during the 90s and who worked in Girayipalli dalam in Medak District
of Andhra Pradesh, surrendered before N. Koti Reddy, ASP at Siddipet.
According to Reddy, Chandram was underground and took shelter in Mumbai
for the past 15 years.
June 25: The special party Police unearthed
a major CPI-Maoist arms dump, including rocket launchers and its spare
parts, at Palagedda in Y Ramavaram mandal in East Godavari District.
The Police unearthed six to eight main parts of a rocket launcher, iron
rods used as barrels of double and single barrel guns, bolts and nuts.
They also recovered iron rods intended to be made into barrels for guns,
besides other explosive material. According to sources, the rocket launchers
were believed to have been procured from Chennai where the outfit's
technical committee member Madhu established a manufacturing unit.
Two top CPI-Maoist cadres, Vijay Kumar
Arya and V Subramaniam, who were lodged in a high security cell in Bhagalpur
central jail, were taken to Hyderabad by Andhra Pradesh Police after
obtaining their transit remand from a court in Katihar District of Bihar.
June 27: Protesting against bauxite
mining and the Operation Green Hunt, Maoists set ablaze an excavator
being used for laying a 10 kilometres road between Chatrapalle and Galikonda
in GK Veedhi mandal, which is near to the area where bauxite
deposits are present in Visakhapatnam District. The Maoists are
opposing the Government’s plans to exploit the huge bauxite reserve
in the Visakha Agency. About 15 armed Maoists of the Galikonda area
committee, including women, were involved in the incident.
June 28: A landmine weighing 15 kg concealed
under a culvert on Laxminagaram-Maraigudem road in Dummugudem mandal
in Khammam District, in an alleged bid to kill Policemen was recovered
by the Police during a combing operation.
June 29: The Dummugudem Police registered
cases against the CPI-Maoist Khammam District secretary Kiran and other
Maoists on the charges of planting a landmine under a culvert on Laxminagaram-Maraigudem
road in Dummugudem mandal that was recovered by Police on June
28.
July 1: Six cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were arrested by police at Rallagedda in GK Veedhi mandal of
Visakhapatnam District. Sources said that the Maoists were armed and
gathered at a house for a meeting. They were surrounded and with the
Police party far outnumbering the Maoists the latter had to give in.
The Maoist cadres have among them at least one woman member and are
carrying rifles and double barrel guns. Along with the Maoists about
30 villagers were also brought to Narsipatnam. However, a top Police
official here did not go beyond confirming the arrest of the six Maoists.
The arrested cadres were yet to be identified, he added.
July 9: The SFs unearthed a major Maoist
dump in the faraway Duggeru forest area in Makkuva mandal of
Vizianagaram District. The dump contained more than 40 kilograms of
explosive material and other weapons.
The Alwal Police arrested four persons,
including three former Naxalites, for their alleged involvement in extortion
cases in Medak District. Police seized a 6 mm pistol, five live rounds
and two bikes from their possession. The arrestees are identified as
P Anjaiah (32), of Lakdaram village, Ramesh Reddy (34), of Rudraram,
Harikrishna Reddy (35), of Dukampur and Srinivas (31), of Jakkampet
of the District.
July 14: Special task force and CRPF
personnel unearthed a Maoist dump containing 50 country made empty grenades
and its parts, eight empty pressure mines, seventy-one 12 bore cartridges,
one transistor, tape recorder, man pack and dry batteries in the forest
area of YSR Palli in Komarada mandal of Vizianagaram. Police
suspect AOBSZC and Srikakulam-Koraput Joint Division Committee of the
CPI-Maoist have planted the dump with an intention to target combing
parties. This was the second incident in the last couple of days. Recently,
the combing parties chanced upon two landmines planted beneath a road
at Duggeru in Makkuva mandal.
July 16: The Police arrested seven members
of CNM, a CPI-Maoist cultural outfit, and two APCLC leaders from platform
No 53 of Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station in Hyderabad city. The 18-member
CNM team arrived in the city on the invitation of APCLC to perform cultural
programmes for creating awareness among people about the recent encounter
killings of civilians by anti-Maoist forces at Basaguda in Chhattisgarh.
The six minor girls and five minor boys of CNM who have also been taken
into custody were sent to juvenile home and later they were to be handed
over to the family members.
July 17: A former LWE cadre B. Venkanna
(30) belonging to the CPI-ML Praja Pratighatana, and his wife Sunitha,
who allegedly made telephone calls to a top official of the Heavy Water
Plant at Manuguru seeking to extort money, were arrested by the Police
in Khammam District of Andhra Pradesh. The Police seized ten gelatine
sticks and some detonators from Venkanna.
July 20: The Bhadrachalam rural Police
have claimed that they have arrested Bandi Kiran, a B.Tech student,
and the son of the CPI-Maoist leader Bandi Prakash, and two “couriers”
of the outfit under the Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act in Khammam
District. ASP Gajarao Bhupal said Kiran and two Maoist couriers N. Venkat
and Kamesh were detained along with revolutionary literature.
Meanwhile, the first day of the two-day
bandh of the AOB to protest against Operation Green Hunt
failed to evoke any response in Visakhapatnam District. There were no
untoward incidents reported in any of the 11 mandals in the agency
area.
July 22: A suspected woman CPI-Maoist
squad commander of Chhattisgarh was reportedly detained by the Police
in Charla mandal in Khammam District of Andhra Pradesh.
July 24: As many as 148 members of the
CPI-Maoist militia and frontal organisations of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered
en masse before the Police at Bhadrachalam in Khammam District.
The Police arrested nine members of
a ten-member gang of pseudo-Maoists who committed offences claiming
themselves as members of Sambashivudu dalam and Thummala Bhagavanthu
dalam from VLN Poultry farm situated on the outskirts of Arkepally
village of Madgul mandal in Mahbubnagar District.
August 3: Police arrested five dalam
members of the CPI-Maoist during a combing operation in Chelamalla forest
area of the Charla mandal of Bhadrachalam division in Khammam
District. Two guns, ammunition and sharp weapons were also seized from
them. After interrogation, it was revealed that the five Maoists worked
in the Venkatapuram area committee and were members of the Sukhadev
and Sunil dalams.
August 8: Kodapa Ganesh, a deserter
Police constable, who later got to the status of one of the most wanted
Naxalites, surrendered himself to Adilabad District Police. According
to the Police files, the Naxalite is known as a member of Mangi dalam
and carried a reward of INR 20,000. He is believed to have operated
in Chhattisgarh’s Dandakaranya area and Odisha before coming back.
August 9: The Andhra Pradesh Government
extended by one year the ban on the CPI-Maoist and six of its affiliates
while declaring the Revolutionary Democratic Front as an "unlawful
association". The ban on CPI-Maoist has been extended as per the
provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act, 1992 and would
come into effect from August 17, the order said.
August 17: The Venkatapuram area committee
of the CPI-Maoist has given a bandh call for Khammam District
in protest against the alleged oppression of tribals by the Government.
The Maoists pasted wall posters near Dosillapalli and the nearby villages
in Charla mandal of the District on August 15 midnight as a prelude
to the District bandh, sources said.
The Police arrested three alleged Naxalites
belonging to the CPI-ML Praja Pratighatana on the charge of extortion
in Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh. The alleged Naxals were identified
as M Sreenu, Nageshwar Rao and Pittala Ilaiah (all from Warangal District).
Police seized two SBML guns from them. The three were a part of armed
squad under Gampala Raghupathi alias Mohananna alias Damodar.
August 20: T. Anil Kumar, member of
the technical wing of CPI-Maoist, was arrested by the Police at Veluru
area in Chilakaluripet mandal in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh.
Kumar is a member of the Maoists' Dandakaranya committee which is active
in some pockets of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Maharashtra.
August 27: Pothuru Raja Rao alias
Bhupati (32), a top leader of the east division committee of the CPI-Maoist
carrying a reward of INR 300,000 on his head, surrendered before the
Police in Vishakhapatnam District. Bhupati was allegedly involved in
the attack on the Chodavaram Police Station in August 2002, the Balimela
incident of June 2008, exchange of fire at Gunukurai and Rasarai and
killing of five tribals. “East division and the party have been weakened.
Arrogance on the part of some leaders and the decisions taken by them
are the reasons. The party ideology is also getting diluted. I opposed
the killing of Majji Madhava Rao (AP Forest Development Corporation’s
employee) but they went ahead,” Bhupati said.
August 30: Suspected Maoists set ablaze
a BSNL cell tower and damaged a cable box by dousing it with oil procured
from a generator at Yerrasamanthula Valasa village in Makkuva mandal
in Vizianagaram District in protest against the fake encounter death
of Maoist Rajendra at Kommuguda village in Bandhugaon block in Koraput
District (Odisha) on August 18.
About 30 armed Maoists went to the village
and pasted posters on walls and tied banners announcing Andhra Odisha
Border (AOB) bandh on August 31.
September 6: Six cadres of the Communist
Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) surrendered before the Additional
Superintendent of Police A.R. Damodar at Paderu in the Agency area of
the Visakhapatnam District on September 5, reports The Hindu.
The surrendered Maoists were members of the Galikonda, Korukonda and
Pedabayalu Dalams (squads) who were involved in major incidents
such as the Balimela, Gunukurai and Pedavalasa. Some of them said they
were disillusioned with the Maoist party while others claimed they were
leaving it on health grounds. The surrendered Maoists were Pangi Shakeela
alias Chinni (21), Madatakonda Sujata (23), Pangi Anjali (21),
Gemmili Lokesh (26), Korra Radhakrishna alias Ramesh (24) and
Korra Kameswara Rao alias Balti (25).
September 10: Police arrested seven
persons including five on charge of acting as couriers for the CPI-Maoist
and two armed militia members of the outfit for allegedly firing on
a Police official in Khammam District. Police recovered 50 gelatin sticks,
INR 40,000 in cash, some medicines, snake anti-venom, besides five cell-phones
from the possession of the couriers.
Police also arrested two armed militia
members identified as M Chukka and Makkammudda, who were part of a 150-member
militia group from Chhattisgarh which fired on a Police official belonging
to Mothugudem in May.
September 22: A CPI-Maoist leader of
Maharashtra State Committee identified as K. Ashok Reddy alias
Murali and three alleged Maoist couriers identified as Chintapalli Venkateshwarlu
alias Srinu, a native of Chinturu, S.K. Bhikku Bhai alias
Basha of Kurnool District and A. Venkataramana of Kadapa District were
arrested by the Police during a vehicle-checking operation in Charla
mandal in Khammam District. Ashok Reddy was proceeding along
with three Maoist couriers to meet some of the top leaders of the CPI-Maoist
with an objective to strengthen the outfit in the north Telangana area.
September 24: The STF personnel unearthed
a landmine weighing three kilograms placed under the road between Kolleguda
and Balesu villages in G.L. Puram mandal in Vizianagaram District
of Andhra Pradesh. The landmine, concealed in a steel carrier, has one
kilogram of explosive material, two detonators, and 80 crude iron particles.
October 8: Addressing tribal farmers
of Paderu Agency area at Konthili village in Hukumpeta mandal
in Visakhapatnam District, Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam
Ramesh said the Government should be spending more time in development
works than deploying paramilitary forces in the Agency areas of the
District, and called upon the tribal people to participate in developmental
activities and not support the CPI-Maoist.
October 9: Jangu alias Pawan,
commander in-charge of platoon number 23 and his wife Laxmi Aundhi,
who belonged to local operation squads, surrendered before the Adilabad
District Police in Andhra Pradesh. The couple was active in Maoist-hit
Mohla-Manpur and Aundhi area in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh,
Vij said. Jangu was active in Chhattisgarh since 2006.
October 11: CPI-Maoist east division’s
official spokesperson Vijayalakshmi in a press release sent to reporters
in Visakha Agency area has alleged that some statements are being issued
in the name of its leader Azad and a group of persons are extorting
money from people in the Agency and the plain areas, including Visakhapatnam
city, in the name of Maoist party.
October 16: Four suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres killed K. Venkat Reddy (45), a Congress leader at Reddygudem
in Palvancha mandal in Khammam District. The Maoists left behind
a letter at the incidents site in the name of the Badru dalam
of the Kothaguda-Narsampet area.
October 26: Two vehicles comprising
a Bolero jeep and a truck of Essar Company engaged in repair work of
the Essar Kirandul--Vizag pipeline at Digajenaba hamlet were set ablaze
allegedly by the CPI-Maoist cadres under GK Veedhi Mandal limits in
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.
October 29: Punem Saraiah, CPI-Maoist
'militia commander-in-chief' of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, was
arrested by the Bhadrachalam Sub-Divisional Police during a joint combing
operation with CRPF personnel in the Kurnapalli forest area in Charla
mandal in Khammam District of Andhra Pradesh. The Police recovered a
stengun, ten bullets, a claymore mine and other explosive material from
his possession.
November 3: DGP Dinesh Reddy while speaking
to media after inaugurating the CRPF barracks at Kailasagiri in Visakhapatnam
District said, 15 helicopters would be deployed soon to track and flush
out Maoists from the dense forests of AOB which is one of their strongholds
in the country after the Dandakaranya region in Chhattisgarh. The DGP
said the UAV would be available for full-fledged operations within three-four
months.
November 5: Kovasi Eduma (22), and Madakam
Jyothi (20), both Maoist dalam members of Konta area in Chhattisgarh,
were arrested by the Police near Aswapurampadu under Karakagudem Police
Station in Pinapaka mandal in Khammam District. Maoist banners
and pamphlets were recovered from their possession.
November 8: The Fourth Additional District
and Sessions Court in Tirupati in Chittoor District acquitted Maoist
leader Panduranga Reddy alias Sagar and another accused Gangi
Reddy in Alipiri bomb blast case allegedly targeting former Chief Minister
N. Chandrababu Naidu in 2003, on the ground that the prosecution reportedly
failed to prove the charges against them beyond doubt. The court, however,
upheld the seven-year sentence awarded to two other accused Ramaswamy
Reddy and Nagarjuna, both gelatin stick traders.
November 9: Kammella Raghavaiah (38),
a Congress leader in Mahadevpur mandal was killed by CPI-Maoist
cadres at Pankena village in Karimnagar District. The Maoists were suspecting
that Raghavaiah was a Police informer.
Bandarapu Mallaiah alias Chandranna,
heading South division of the CPI Maoist in Gadchiroli of Maharashtra
and his wife Gadhagoni Balavva alias Vijaya, reportedly surrendered
to the Andhra Pradesh Police in Khammam District.
November 10: A group of six former Naxalites
demanded that justice be given to them in the shape of rehabilitation
as promised when they had surrendered themselves to the law.
November 11: The NTSZC of CPI-Maoist
pasted wall posters in Borlagudem, Sthambampalli and Kotharegulagudem
villages of Mahamutharam mandal in Karimnagar District appealing
the people to observe north Telangana bandh on November 15 and
16 in protest against the anti-people policies of the State and the
Central Governments.
November 15: Despite stepped up surveillance
by the Police, CPI-Maoist cadres felled trees at K Kondapuram in Venkatapuram
mandal of Khammam District in broad daylight and disrupted vehicular
movement on Venkatapuram-Bhadrachalam road on the first day of the two-day
north Telangana bandh called by NTSZC of the CPI-Maoist.
November 19 : A top CPI-Maoist leader,
Bandarapu Mallaiah alias Chandranna, who operated in Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra and was allegedly involved in several attacks
including the ambush at Lahiri in 2009 in which 15 Police personnel
were killed, surrendered before the Khammam District Police.
November 20: CPI-Maoist cadres stopped
APSRTC bus plying between Deverapalli and Narsipatnam at Lingavaram
in G.K. Veedhi mandal in Visakhapatnam District and hung banners
and pasted posters on it asking people to observe and make success the
weeklong 12th anniversary of the PLGA week being observed from December
2 to 8.
CPI-Maoist cadres set on fire a road-roller
at Deverapalli in GK Veedhi mandal of Visakhapatnam District.
November 21: A former Sarpanch
of Vanchela Panchayat in G.K. Veedhi mandal of Visakhapatnam
District managed to escape from the clutches of CPI-Maoist cadres.
Six CPI-Maoist sympathisers were arrested
by a Special Combing Party near Deekshakunta forest area in Warangal
District.
December 1: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a tribal man, identified as Madakam Adamal (45), accusing him of being
a Police informer at a habitation of Gutti Koyas near Thatilanka village
in Chintur mandal in Khammam District.
The CPI-Maoist urged the people to join
PLGA, the military wing of the Maoists, to protect the natural resources
of the forests, through posters and leaflets pasted at Sapparla in GK
Veedhi mandal in the name of Galikonda Area Committee
in Vishakhapatnam District.
December 2: The PLGA Week celebrations
began on December 2 and went on smoothly with no major incident being
reported from the region.
December 6: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres
of the Sabari Dalam allegedly poured kerosene on a parked road
roller and set it ablaze at Burkankota village in Chintur mandal
in Khammam District. The Maoists left behind a letter, at the incident
site, demanding stoppage of the road works.
December 11: The Andhra Pradesh State
Government has permitted the intelligence department to hire a Mi-172
helicopter for anti-Maoist operation, at a cost of INR 150 million per
year.
December 17: The CPI-Maoist Central
leadership handed over the responsibilities of AOBSZC to the senior-most
commander among the present lot, Gajarla Ravi alias Uday alias
Ganesh alias Charcharla Ganesh, giving rest to Central Committee
member Akkiraju Haragopal alias Ramakrishna alias RK.
December 24: The MHA has advised LWE
affected States to set up joint task forces while choppers are being
provided for anti-Maoist operations, said V. Dinesh Reddy, DGP, Andhra
Pradesh.
December 26: Andhra Pradesh Government
has announced cash rewards ranging from INR 1 to INR 2.5 million to
encourage the CPI-Maoist cadres to surrender in the State.
December 27: To eliminate the CPI-Maoist
influence in Visakha Agency and to facilitate the safe transit of VVIPs,
the Andhra Pradesh State Government sanctioned INR 2.4 million to construct
six helipads in the District.
Bihar
January 2: Three top CPI-Maoist cadres
were killed and another got injured in an encounter with STF personnel
assisted by CoBRA near Matiyaon village under Chutia Police Station
in Rohtas District. The recovered dead bodies of the slain Maoists were
identified as ‘area commander’ Kashi Kaul (28) of Sonbhadra in Uttar
Pradesh (UP), Guddu Singh alias Prasadji (30) of Chandauli District
in UP and Santosh Yadav (28) of Garhwa District in Jharkhand. The injured
Maoist, identified as Sushil Choudhury, a resident of Madhukutia village
under the Nauhatta Police Station area in Rohtas District, was arrested
during the encounter. Police recovered one SLR, one looted Police rifle,
one automatic semi-rifle, one 315 bore rifle, one walkie-talkie, several
detonators and live cartridges from the encounter site.
January 5: A CPI-Maoist cadre, suspected
to have been involved in a massacre in 2010, was arrested from Kathaura
village in Munger District. SP P Kannan said Sanjay Yadav was arrested
during an anti-Maoist operation in the village under Dharhara Police
Station. Yadav was believed to be having been involved in a massacre
of five tribals at Karaili in the District in 2010, he added.
January 6: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested during search operations in Gaya District. Acting on a tip-off,
a Police team assisted by the STF of Bihar Police raided three places
in the District and arrested the Maoists and recovered five drums (500
quintals) explosives, besides three country-made pistols and cash worth
INR 475, 000 from their possession, City SP Satyavir Singh said. The
Police started combing operation in the area and raids were being conducted
in some areas of the adjoining areas in Jehanabad District, Singh added.
January 7: Four CPI-Maoist cadres, including
two women, were arrested from Sheohar District. Acting on a tip-off,
the Police raided Sultanpur village and arrested the four Maoists, SP
Natasha Guria said. The Police recovered two country-made pistols and
eleven live cartridges from them, the SP said. Those arrested were involved
in several Maoist operations in the District during the past four years,
the SP said.
Shyam Nandan Sharma alias Lota
Singh, a ‘zonal secretary’ of the CPI-Maoist was arrested in Begusarai
District. SP Chhatranil Singh said acting on a tip-off, the Police raided
a place and arrested Sharma, near Bagha rail outpost. The Police recovered
some explosives and a landmine along with a mobile phone from him.
A top Maoist, identified as Kashi Chaudhary,
was arrested from Suarwa Manava village in Rohtas District, Superintendent
of Police, Manu Maharaj said. Acting on a tip-off, the Police raided
the area and arrested Kashi, SP Maharaj said. Chaudhary was wanted in
connection with several Maoist operations, he said. The Police recovered
a stolen Police rifle and 40 cartridges from him.
January 9: Armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist
raided the camp office of a road construction firm and set ablaze four
vehicles on national highway no.77 in Sitamarhi District. DSP Alok Kumar
said, the Maoists after the operation pasted a pamphlet asking the private
firm to stop construction of the road. A combing operation was launched
in the area to arrest the Maoists.
January 10: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
abducted three labourers of a private construction company after setting
ablaze five earthmoving machines at two places in Sitamarhi District.
The Police said about 25 armed cadres raided the construction site of
Rajendra Singh and Brothers Construction (Private) Ltd Company at Maniari
on Sitamarhi-Riga Road around 10.30pm [local time] and held the labourers
captive. The Maoists also fired in the air and hurled bombs to terrorise
the residents, who could not muster courage to challenge them. The Maoists
later escaped from the area abducting three labourers. They also left
pamphlets demanding money from the owner of the company.
Another group of Maoists attacked the
camp office of the same company at Kataujha under Runnisaidpur Police
Station. The Maoists assaulted the company's driver, Sitaram, and set
ablaze a JCB machine. They threatened the proprietor of the firm with
dire consequences if he did not fulfil their extortion demand.
January 11: The Police officers gathered
at the hilly range under the Maoist-hit Tilauthu Police Station area
in Rohtas District to hold a first-of-its-kind review meeting to check
the Maoist menace. SHOs, Inspectors and Deputy DSPs had assembled to
chalk out strategies to curb Maoist activities in the District.
January 13: An alert has been sounded
in Sonepur Railway Division of ECR in the wake of intelligence reports,
that the CPI-Maoist might target railway stations on Republic Day. According
to intelligence inputs received by the RPF in Samastipur, Maoists might
target railway stations on Republic Day, particularly Karpoorigram railway
station under Sonepur division in Samastipur District. The RPF had received
threats from 'sub-zonal commander' Kamleshwari Thakur alias Ranjit,
'area commander' Rakesh alias Bihari and Women squad 'commander' Shila,
the sources said.
January 17: Around 100 armed cadres
of the CPI-Maoist blew up one mobile tower in Sanda village under the
Kutumba Police Station in Aurangabad District. The Maoists also assaulted
Radhe Singh, the guard, before leaving the spot. The Maoists then moved
to Sonarkhap village, around 1.5 kilometres from Sanda village, and
set ablaze another mobile tower. Later, they left the place shouting
anti-government slogans. The incidents happened during the 24-hour bandh
call given by the Maoists in protest against the killing of their cadres
in an encounter on January 2 with the Police in Rohtas District, sources
said.
January 18: The Police official said
a Maoist identified as Dinesh Pandit was arrested from Chiraiya village
in Sheohar District. Acting on a tip off, the Police raided and arrested
Pandit and recovered a semi-automatic pistol from him. SP, Natasha Guriya
said the Maoist was suspected to be involved in several criminal activities
in Sheohar and Sitamarhi Districts.
The Maoists have put a village headman
under house arrest and locked up another’s residence in the Gaya District
amid a bandh call in protest against the killing of Maoist leader
Sushil alias Naresh Bhuian by Police in Rohtas District on December
27. Darogi Singh Bhokta, the mukhiya of Chakarbandha panchayat,
cannot come out of his house, while Mahuri mukhiya Manoj Paswan
cannot enter his house for the past couple of days. Both the panchayats
fall under Dumaria block in Sherghati sub-division of Gaya District.
According to sources, Bhokta and Paswan have faced the Maoists’ wrath
for defying their diktat not to contest the panchayat elections
in the Dumaria block in May and June in 2011.
January 20: Six Maoists were arrested
from two villages under Minapur Police Station in Muzaffarpur District
after a group of 15 Maoists tried to kill a Police informant in Belahi-Lachchi
village. Three Maoists, identified as Vijay Paswan, Mahesh Patel and
Roshan Kumar, were caught by villagers and handed over to the Police
in the early hours. Three others were arrested from a nearby village.
SSP Rajesh Kumar said the Police also recovered a pistol, a crude bomb,
seven cartridges and four cell phones from their possession. Around
6pm, three more Maoists from the group, identified as Mohammed Ishraful,
Prabhu Sahni and Munna Rai were arrested during a raid at Feni Chhapra
village also under Minapur Police Station, about 7 kilometres from Belahi-Lachchi.
Eight pistols, a gun, an AK-47 rifle and 300 rounds of cartridge were
recovered from them.
January 21: The Bihar Police neutralised
six CPI-Maoist bunkers and recovered about one quintal of explosives
and detonators at Harpetta village under the Nauhatta Police Station
during a combing operation code named ‘Operation Vishwas’ in Kaimur
Hills in Rohtas District. The operation was carried out by a joint team
of the CRPF’s CoBRA battalion troopers, the State Armed Police and District
Policemen. Rohtas SP Manu Maharaj said the SFs came across the six bunkers
at the village which were immediately destroyed. A search, thereafter,
led to the recovery of a large cache of ammunition comprising 80 detonators,
12 powerful can bombs and a huge quantity of explosives, besides Maoist
uniforms.
The Police arrested five criminals including
a Maoist ‘area commander’ identified as Chandan Kumar at Ramlakh village
under the Natawar Police Station, in the District. The Police said the
arrests were made following a tip off that some criminals moving around
in a suspicious manner near Ramlakh village to commit a major crime.
A special Police team was immediately formed and rushed to the village
to foil the plan. The Police team recovered one carbine, one rifle,
two pistols and a dozen live cartridges.
Arms licence was issued to 61 tribal
people for self defence against Maoists in Rohtas District. "They
were issued arms licence to instill confidence and enable them to defend
themselves in the event of being attacked by Maoists," DM Anupam
Kumar said. SP Manu Maharaj told the tribal people against the misuse
of the guns else the licences will be cancelled. More than 500 tribal
people left their villages in Rohtas, Nauhatta and Chenari blocks and
took shelter at a base camp at Chenari after a series of attacks in
July last year in Kaimur forest range. Now they have returned to their
villages so arms licence were issued after thorough assessment of the
threats from Maoists, the sources said.
Spiritual leader Sri Ravishankar appealed
to the Maoists to renounce violence and join the mainstream for their
own well being and that of the society. "There can be no solution
to problems through violence ... an atmosphere of peace and brotherhood
can indeed help change the society for the better," he said at
a discourse at Madanpur village in Aurangabad District.
January 24: A Police official was injured
in an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres at Maigara village in Gaya
District. Dinesh Mahto, the SHO of Roshanganj Police Station, while
heading an operation against the CPI-Maoist received a bullet injury
in his thigh. Earlier, the CoBRA battalion, the STF and the local Police
received a tip off about the movement of about 200 Maoists in the area
and launched the operation.
January 25: The SFs neutralised a bunker
and recovered a cache explosives and other materials from a CPI-Maoist
hide-out after an encounter in Sugarmanwa forest in Rohtas District.
Acting on information, SFs launched a combing operation against a group
of armed Maoists hiding in Sugarmanwa forest where a brief encounter
took place, the SP Manu Maharaj said. After forcing the Maoists to retreat,
the SFs neutralised a bunker and recovered a cache of cane bombs, detonators,
Maoists literature and Police dresses from the forest.
January 29: Three CPI-Maoist cadres
wanted in connection with several incidents of Maoist violence and criminal
cases were arrested from Rohtas, Sheohar and Munger Districts. Maoists
'area commander', identified as Arvind Ram alias Kaushalji was arrested
by the Police from Chutia village in Rohtas District, SP Manu Maharaj
said. Ram, a native of Navadih village, was said to be the 'area commander'
of Tilouthu-Nauhatta region of the Maoist-infested District, Maharaj
said.
Maoist 'area commander' Sunil Raut was
arrested from Bashi Jagdishpur village in Sheohar District, SP Natash
Gudia said, adding a country-made pistol and two live ammunitions were
recovered from his possession. Raut was wanted in connection with several
cases of Maoist violence in Sheohar, East Champaran and Sitamarhi District,
SP Natash Gudia added.
Maoist cadre Anil Manjhi was arrested
from Bhangalwa village in Munger District, DSP, Jamalpur, Ranjan Kumar
said. Manjhi was wanted in connection with several cases of Maoist violence
including, the DSP said.
February 4: The Rohtas Police arrested
a Maoist cadre, identified as Babulal Yadav, belonging to Babhantalao
village under Nauhatta Police Station area, and recovered three can
bombs meant for ambushing Police vehicles from him in Taradih village
of the Kaimur Hills in Rohtas District.
The Police detected and seized standing
opium crops on a 10-acre plot in Hasadi village under the Nauhatta Police
Station area in the Kaimur Hills in the District during a combing operation.
February 5: The beheaded body of a villager,
identified as Md Jabbar (45), who was abducted by the CPI-Maoist cadres
a week ago, was recovered from Garhi More in Jamui District. On January
30, the villager had been abducted and two others killed by armed Maoists
at Milantaand village in the District.
The STF arrested Dhudhnath Yadav alias
Birin, a 'sub-zonal commander' of the Barabar Committee of the CPI-Maoist,
near Shahpur under Shahpur Police Station in Patna District.
February 6: A joint team of Bihar Police
and CRPF raided a CPI-Maoist training camp in Bheem Bandh forest in
Jamui District and neutralised two bunkers. Several Maoist literature
and some daily use items were seized during the operation, the Police
said adding the Maoists, however, managed to escape.
February 7: The Police arrested four
CPI-Maoist cadres, involved in the abduction of a businessman Vijay
Nayak, when he was returning from Konch area on February 01, in Gaya
District. The arrested Maoists are identified as Raja Yadav, Taniklal
Yadav, Budhan Yadav and Katlu Sav who are involved in Maoist related
activities like weapon loot and abductions.
February 7-8: In a massive joint combing
operation in Jamui Hills area, the CRPF, STF and DAP personnel neutralised
three CPI-Maoist bunkers, recovered nearly two tonnes of explosives
and a huge quantity of arms and ammunition from Narkol village and adjoining
areas under Barhat Police Station in Jamui District. DIG, CRPF, Umesh
Kumar said though Maoist had left the area after coming to know of Police
advancing towards their hideout, 13 rifles, 500 detonators, hundreds
of Improvised Explosive Devices, 13 magazines of INSAS rifles, ladies
garments, 700 woollen blankets, over 100 plastic sheets used for making
makeshift homes, a large number of condoms, Sintex water tank, sewing
machine, beer bottles, utensils and ration were recovered by the Force.
February 9: Acting on a tip-off, the
Police raided Khejuri village and arrested Satyendra Das alias
Vidhyak, a self-styled 'area commander' of the CPI-Maoist in Gaya District.
Vidhyak was wanted in the 2005 Jehanabad jail break, and in connection
with several Maoist operations carried out in Jehanabad, Aurangabad
and Gaya Districts.
February 21: The CPI-Maoist cadres shot
dead a cadre of the TPC, a splinter group of CPI-Maoist, at Baratetrai
village under Nabinagar block of Aurangabad District. The slain TPC
cadre was identified as Anil Ram. Police said Ram belonged to Rambigha
village under the Japla Police Station in Jharkhand.
February 24: The UMHA has approved construction
of 85 anti-Naxalite Police Stations in Bihar. Bihar had sought 100 Police
Stations under the scheme in which UMHA had approved construction of
400 fortified Police Stations in nine Maoist-affected states.
February 25: A CPI-Maoist cadre was
arrested from Bangalwa village in Munger District. Acting on a tip-off
Police raided the village and arrested Saheb Manjhi. He was allegedly
involved in the killing of six tribals at Kareli village in Munger District
in 2010.
February 28: About 40 armed cadres of
the CPI-Maoist raided the office of a private road construction company
and set ablaze a JCB and a hot mixing plant for not complying with their
extortion demand at Bakhra in Muzaffarpur District. The Maoists also
assaulted company employees when they tried to put up a resistance,
Police said adding that they also snatched two mobile phones from the
labourers.
March 2: In a suspected CPI-Maoist attack,
two Government officials were killed while another was seriously injured,
in Sitamarhi District, Police sources said. The victims were identified
as officials from the Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation. Project
manager G.B. Singh and engineer Vikas Mishra died on the spot while
site in-charge Ramadeen Pandey, was injured.
March 4: 23 CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered
before the Police with arms and ammunitions in Bihar's Muzaffarpur District
in the presence of a large number of local people. The Maoists handed
over 14 rifles, six country-made pistols and 100 rounds of ammunition
to the Police.
March 10: A joint combing operation,
codenamed 'Sarvanash', begun on March 7 by CRPF, Jamui and Banka Police
against CPI-Maoists in the border area of the two Districts ended with
the arrest of Babulal Yadav, a Maoist and the prime accused in the killing
of Prayag Yadav, a former head of Chilkari Panchayat in Banka
in March 2010.
March 11: Ravi Kumar (22), an engineering
student from Ranchi was injured by a stray bullet when alleged CPI-Maoist
cadres opened fire at Habbipur village under Rajpur Police Station in
Rohtas District. Rajesh Sharma, an active member of the now disbanded
MCC, had land dispute with a fellow villager, Lalan Singh which was
intervened by Rajpur block pramukh Rajendra Singh. About six
members of an armed squad of the Maoists attacked the relatives of Rajendra
Singh while they were on their way to the local market where Ravi, who
had gone to the market to buy vegetables, was hit by a stray bullet
which was fired by the Maoists. Police seized 15 cartridges of .315
bore and an empty cartridge during a search at Rajesh's house.
The Police arrested Amarnath Sahni,
a CPI-Maoist cadre from a private nursing home in Tajpur area in Samastipur
District. Sahni, a native of Vaishali District, was wanted in several
incidents of Maoist insurgency in the District, SP Varun Kumar Sinha
said.
March 13: The CRPF and the Bihar Police
personnel seized a haul of arms and ammunition from a CPI-Maoist hideout
in Kumbhi forest of Gaya District. The recovery included three country-made
bombs, four drum-bombs, 17 cartridges and a haul of explosives, SSP,
Vinay Kumar, said.
March 18: Armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist
set ablaze three JCB machines of a private construction firm at Bahadurpur
village under Rafiganj Police Station in Aurangabad District. Sources
said, around 50 heavily armed Maoists raided the office of the private
construction firm, Shakti Constructions, and set ablaze three JCB machines
engaged in road construction in the area. The Maoists also assaulted
the munshi of the firm before setting the machines on fire.
March 21: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered
a blast at a railway track and set afire two mobile phone towers and
a tractor in Jamui District, Police said. A group of heavily armed Maoists
triggered a blast at the railway track near Narganju rail station, disrupting
train services. In Sanowar area, the Maoists set ablaze two mobile phone
towers and a tractor.
March 22: Over 50 heavily armed CPI-Maoist
cadres triggered a dynamite blast to blow up the Khaira Block office,
and later set on fire the official files in Jamui District.
The Maoists set ablaze 12 sand-laden
trucks at Gidheshwar Ghat under the Khaira Police Station area in the
District, during their two-day East Bihar and Jharkhand bandh
agitation to protest the arrest of their five leaders from various places
in Bihar and Jharkhand, Police sources said. No casualties were reported
in these incidents, the sources added.
March 25: A group of heavily armed cadres
of the CPI-Maoist set ablaze two JCB machines of a road construction
company at Kutidih in Aurangabad District. The refusal of the company
to pay money to the Maoists was stated to be the motive for the attack,
the Police said.
March 26: The Bihar Police busted a
hideout of CPI-Maoist leader Dev Kumar Singh alias Arvind in
Aurangabad District and arrested five Maoists and recovered arms and
ammunition. The arrested Maoists were in charge of procuring arms and
ammunition for the Maoists in Bihar and Jharkhand, the Police claimed.
Two Maoists, identified as identified
as Rakesh alias Manoj alias Akhilesh Singh and Udit Kumar Singh
alias Tulsi alias Toofan, were arrested from a building
near Town School in Gandhi Nagar area under Town Police Station in the
District, with a huge cache of arms and ammunition. The Police recovered
3600 cartridges, 1,000 ml of Trio nitrate methane explosive, one packet
of sodium bicarbonate, five packets of naphthalene, two rocket-propelled
grenades (RPG), one rocket launcher, three magazines and 20 litres of
other chemicals. The Police also recovered INR 334,000, 17 cell phones,
a Bolero jeep and 100 gloves, besides Maoist literature from the incident
site.
The SFs arrested two LWEs from Lutuwa
village in Gaya District. The SFs also recovered 17 wireless handsets,
two walkie talkies, 12 chargers, three mobile SIM cards, 100 Police
caps, 12 whistles, 12 belts and 22 mobile set adapters from them.
March 30: Around 20 cadres of the CPI-Maoist
raided the Lutwa village under Imamganj Police Station in Gaya District
and killed Ajay Yadav, a Public Distribution System dealer.
April 1: A top cadre of the CPI-Maoist
identified as Dinesh Yadav was arrested from Belduria village of Rohtas
District.
April 2: A CPI-Maoist cadre identified
as Arjun Chandravanshi was arrested from a hideout in Bishunpur village
in Nauhatta in Rohtas District. Chandravanshi was wanted in about 18
cases, including a landmine blast near Dabua crossing in 2002 in which
several Policemen were killed.
April 3: A top CPI-Maoist cadre identified
as Mohan Rai was arrested from Khatwari village under Khaira Police
Station area in Jamui District. Wires used for landmine explosion, INR
25,000 in cash and several other incriminating articles were recovered
from his possession.
April 4: The CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
a forest guard and three others from Amjhari village under Sono Police
Station in Jamui District. The incident came to light on April 6 when
the Maoists called up the forest guard Naresh Singh's son for ransom
of INR one million.
April 7: Four CPI-Maoist cadres, including
Bihari Sao, a 'self-styled commander' were arrested during a search
operation following a tip-off from a forested area in Gaya District.
Three country-made pistol and five live cartridges were recovered from
their possession.
April 10: Four persons including Naresh
Singh, a forest guard who were abducted by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
from near Batia forest under Sono Police Station on April 4, have been
released. Singh and the labourers - Abul Ansari, Chotu Ansari and Mumtaz
Ansari - were released in Chhabadi forest in Jamui District in the wee
hours of the day.
April 12: In a joint operation, the
CRPF and local Police, arrested a top cadre of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Naresh Paswan, with arms and ammunition from near Jhanda chowk in
East Champaran District. A pistol, two magazines and five ammunitions
were seized from his possession.
April 15: The CPI-Maoist cadres set
ablaze five vehicles of a private road construction company at Dumri
Buzurg village under Nayagaon Police Station in Saran District. Around
15 armed Maoists raided the office of the private road construction
firm and set ablaze four dumpers and another vehicle parked there. Non-payment
of levy demanded by the Maoists from the owner of the firm was probably
the reason behind the incident.
April 19: The Saran District Police
arrested two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as Vijay Ram and Dhaneshwar
Manjhi, from Dariyapur village in connection with setting ablaze of
five vehicles including four dumpers of a private construction firm,
Madukan Construction Private Limited, at Dumri Buzurg village under
Nayagaon Police Station in the District in the night of April 13. According
to Police sources in Chapra, a pistol and 18 live cartridges were recovered
from them.
April 22: Around 25 armed CPI-Maoist
cadres raided a brick kiln and assaulted the labourers and set ablaze
three tractors at a brick kiln at Sahajadpur village in Vaishali District.
The Bihar Government will install satellite
phones at 85 places in Maoist and flood-affected Districts for better
communication in times of emergency. An official of BSNL said satellite
phones will be installed soon after equipment arrives in Patna.
April 23: Ten French tourists, detained
in Nawada District for violating visa rules, were deported from Bihar.
The Police suspected the tourists had been working for a Maoist-sympathiser
voluntary group, claiming to be working for rights of the landless people.
They were sent to New Delhi from where they will have to catch the first
flight home.
April 29: SFs recovered six can bombs
from Kanani forest in Kharagpur Police Station area of Munger District.
The SFs also detained three persons on suspicion of being CPI-Maoist
cadres.
Acting on a tip off, a Police team from
adjoining Purnia District raided a hideout and arrested Mahesh Yadav,
a CPI-Maoist ‘area commander’ in Katihar District.
Six SPs in the State are facing Maoist
threat. While two SPs have been threatened for not attending the Maoists'
(Kangaroo) courts, the other four are on the hit list for launching
operation against the CPI-Maoist. The SPs who are facing Maoist threat
are: Jamui SP Upendra Sharma, Banka SP Vikas Barman, Gaya SP Vinay Kumar,
Gopalganj SP Nitasha Guria, East Champaran SP Ganesh Kumar and Rohtas
SP Manu Maharaj.
April 30: Twenty-seven suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres were arrested during a joint combing operation by the STF of
Bihar Police and CRPF personnel besides DAP personnel at Bhim Bandh
forest in Munger District.
May 3: The Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Sudarshan Bhuian alias Gupta, during a combing
operation in Karbandaria forests in Rohtas District. Gupta was wanted
in several cases including the firing on Policemen in Taradih village
during 2010 assembly polls and attack on the BSF camp in Dansha village
in 2009.
May 5: The SFs arrested Chhabila Sahni
alias Mushar Sahni, an ‘area commander’ of the CPI -Maoist, from
a hideout under Mufassil Police Station area in East Champaran District.
May 6: A Maoist, identified as Nathuni
Sah, was arrested by the SFs from Sishani village in East Champaran
District. Acting on a tip off, the Police and the CRPF in a joint operation
arrested Sah along with a sophisticated pistol and nine rounds of ammunition.
Sah was wanted in connection with 11 cases of bank loot, murder, dacoity
and Maoist-related violence in East Champaran and neighbouring Sitamarhi
Districts.
May 7: A ‘sub-zonal commander’ of the
CPI-Maoist was arrested from Golpatthar in Gaya District. Acting on
a tip off, the Police raided a hide out and arrested Amrit alias
Ajay and seized a country-made pistol from his possession. Ajay was
wanted in over 36 cases of Maoist violence in Bihar and Jharkhand.
A Maoist, identified as Inderadeo Prasad,
was arrested by the Police from Ujhilpur village in Rajepur Police Station
in East Champaran District. Inderadeo was wanted in connection with
several murder cases in the District.
May 9: The Police recovered one kg RDX,
45 grenades, two rifles and two can bombs from a CPI-Maoist hideout
in a forest area near Bagadhsawa village under the Belhar Police Station
in Banka District.
May 11: Twenty-five CPI-Maoist cadres,
including an ‘area commander’, surrendered before the Police in Munger
District. The cadres gave up themselves before the Commissioner of Munger
SM Raju among other officials.
May 18: Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre and seized a pistol from him from Srirampur village in Saran District.
Acting on a tip off, the Police arrested the Maoist when he was going
to deliver a letter demanding levy of INR 800,000, Deputy Superintendent
of Police Dilnawaz Ahmed said. Besides a pistol, Maoist literature were
seized from the Maoist who is wanted in four cases in Muzaffarpur, Saran
and East Champaran Districts.
May 21: Five suspected cadres of the
CPI-Maoist were arrested from Turkwalia village in Rohtas District,
Police said. Acting on a tip off, the Police raided the village and
captured the associates of Rajesh Sharma alias Toofanji, superintendent
of police Manu Maharaj said.Two country-made pistols, five cartridges
and three mobile phones were seized from them, he said.
May 26: Seven can bombs and a cylinder
bomb were seized by the Police from Bakhshudi hill during an anti-Maoist
operation in Gaya District. A day earlier, Police had recovered 56 detonators
and two regular pistols from the place, they said.
An 'area commander' of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Sunil Sonar, was arrested from Bhadoa village under Rajiganj
Police Station in Aurangabad District. His aide Madan Barahi was also
taken into the custody. One country made carbine and 29 live cartridges
were seized from them.
The CPI-Maoist cadres demanded INR five
million from the manager of the rail factory project Sanjay Kumar Singh
under Dariyapur Police Station in Saran District. According to DIG of
Police (Saran range) Alok Kumar said the project manager had lodged
a complaint with Dariyapur Police Station in this regard. Singh claimed
to have received two letters from the outfit on May 7 and a telephone
call on May 23 threatening to kill him if he did not pay the money.
May 28: A CPI-Maoist 'sub-zonal commander',
identified as Tej Bahadur alias Tejwa, surrendered
with arms to Police at Sasaram in Rohtas District. Tejwa operated in
Sone-Ganga and Vindhyachal area. He also surrendered one INSAS rifle,
124 cartridges and nine magazines.
May 29: A TPC cadre, identified as Ram
Pravesh Yadav alias Vikas Yadav, was arrested in Gaya
District.
June 2: Two persons were killed by armed
CPI-Maoist at Basudeopur village of Haveli Kharagpur sub-division headquarters
of Munger District. The Maoists stormed the village and slit the throat
of Bajrangi Paswan (43) and Madan Das (45). The Maoists claimed in some
pamphlets found near the bodies that the duos were punished for pocketing
levy meant for the organisation. Police and Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) suspect the team of Maoist ‘area commander’ Birbal of killing
the duo to settle some old scores over collection of levy.
June 3: Police arrested Ram Pravesh
Yadav alias Radheshayam, a Maoist leader and Prabha
Devi, wife of the CPI-Maoist central committee member Arvind and seized
an amount of INR 127, 000 from them from near the railway station in
Jehanabad District. A pen drive, five mobile phones and designs of bomb
manufacturing were also seized from their possession, Superintendent
of Police Harpreet Kaur said. Yadav was wanted in the three cases of
naxal activities, including the 2005 Jehanabad jail break case.
June3: The Maoists had
abducted two persons, residents of Bokhra and Madhuban villages, suspecting
them to be Police informants from Munger District.
June 4: Three abducted
villagers were killed by Maoists at Rampur village under Haveli-Kharagpur
subdivision of Munger District in the night. Sources said a group of
armed Maoists had abducted five villagers near Basudeopur village on
June 2 and soon after, killed two of them by slitting their throats
on the same day.
SFs destroyed a Maoist
bunker at Bajarmarwa village located on Kaimur hills in Rohtas District
and seized a haul of arms and explosives. The seizure includes 25 detonators,
one quintal explosive, a pistol, five uniforms, besides Maoist literature.
Some applications by villagers to the Maoists to be taken up at their kangaroo
courts were also recovered, the SP added.
June 6: The Police arrested
Madan Ji alias Dinesh alias Sonu,
a CPI-Maoist ‘sub zonal commander’ from the Jogia village in Aurangabad
District. Madan, a resident of the village Kulaya, has 16 Maoist related
cases and was involved in Bihar Police Station attack and murder of
a military soldier, Superintendent of Police Sidharth Mohan said.
June 9: The STF troopers
arrested Birbal Murmu, a ‘sub-zonal commander’ of Bihar-Jharkhand Special
Area Committee (BJSAC), of the CPI-Maoist, in Munger District of Bihar.
Birbal was carrying an award of INR 50,000 on his head as he was wanted
in 20 cases of crime, including the killing of six persons in Dharhara
in Munger District about five-six months back. Birbal used to operate
in Banka, Munger and Jamui Districts, and was in the decision-making
body of the outfit.
June 10: A CRPF trooper
of the 159th battalion and two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed and nine
SF personnel were injured in an encounter between the SFs and armed
Maoists in Balthar forests in Gaya District.
The Police arrested three
Maoists and a dacoit and seized arms and ammunition from them in Muzaffarpur
and Sheohar Districts.
June 10: CRPF trooper Shachindra Sharma
died in the landmine blast while another died due to heart attack during
an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres in Chakarbandha forest under
the Dumaria Police Station in Gaya District. Six CRPF troopers also
received injuries. All of them were out of danger. The Policemen recovered
the body of the two Maoists and overpowered an injured Maoist. The two
killed Maoists have been identified as Kailu Manjhi and Phoolchand Manjhi,
both residents of the area.
June 11: Maoists blew up one mobile
phone tower and set another ablaze of a private company in Aurangabad
District. The Maoists blew up the mobile tower at Jaihind Tandua village
and set ablaze one more at Jantua village during the Bihar bandh
(total shutdown strike) called to protest the death of Madan Yadav,
a Maoist, in Police custody, Superintendent of Police SM Jain said.
June 12: The Security Forces seized
20 kilograms gelatin sticks from a CPI-Maoist bunker in Bhimbandh forest
in Munger District. CRPF, CoBRA and District Police carried out a combing
operation in the forests and seized the explosives from Kanani area.
The Maoists, however, escaped ahead of the search.
June 13: Two Maoists were arrested in
Gaya District. One of the Maoists, Krisha Vallahbh alias Amaresh
Kumar alias Chunnuji, an 'area commander' of Vazirganj area,
was arrested from Maher village in the night. A 'sub-zonal commander'
Surendra Ram alias Maheshji alias Avadhji was arrested
from Pali village. Ram was wanted in connection with several cases of
Maoist violence, including killing of six Policemen at Paraiya Police
Station in 2003.
June 14: The CPI-Maoist organized a
kangaroo court in an unspecified location in. The Maoists along with
a group of locals brought two 'arrested' men and presented them for
'trial' at the kangaroo court. In a rare 'judgment', the Maoists pardoned
the two men for becoming Police informers, however, threatening them
with dire consequences if the mistake was repeated again. Separately,
Maoist cadre Sanjay Sav surrendered to the Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) 159th battalion on June 14, SP Baburam said.
June 17: The Sitamarhi District administration
prevailed upon Union Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh and persuaded
him not to go to Maoist-affected Giddha gram panchayat under
Runnisaidpur block, 35km from the District headquarters, fearing landmine
attack. The minister wanted to visit the village for verification of
rural development work there.
June 17: The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
machines and equipment of a private road construction company in Teosa
village in Gaya District for non-payment of levy. The Maoists had demanded
levy of seven per cent cost of the road project.
June 19: A CPI-Maoist cadre, carrying
a reward of INR 50,000 on his head, was arrested from Katudandh village
in Rohtas District. He was identified as Mangal Chero. A self-loading
rifle (SLR) and a dozen ammunition were seized from the Maoist.
June 20: In a broad daylight operation,
suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist abducted 19 railway employees, including
a station master, in Jamui District. They later released all of them.
The armed Maoists, numbering about 20, took the railway employees hostage
when they were repairing railway tracks, three kilometres from Ghorparan
station located between Jasidih and Simultala stations on Jhajha-Jasidih
section, Simultala station master R N P Yadav said.
Police arrested a Maoist 'sub-zonal
commander' from Ranjita hills area in Gaya District. Acting on a tip
off, Police arrested Vinod Paswan alias Mukaddarji alias
Baban Paswan from a hideout near Ranjita hills.
June 21: A 'zonal commander' of the
CPI-Maoist was arrested from Barkuria village in Rohtas District. Acting
on a tip off, the Police arrested Paswan, the 'zonal commander' from
near a brick kiln. Paswan was said to the 'zonal commander' of Kaimuranchal-Rohtas
CPI-Maoist. Paswan, a native of Yadunathpur village under Chutia Police
Station area was wanted in 36 cases of violence, including encounter
with Police in Rohtas District, he added.
June 23: Police arrested two Maoists
from Tandwa and Kasma Police Station areas in Aurangabad District of
Bihar. Acting on a tip off, Police raided Beni village and arrested
'sub-zonal commander' Kamal Kishore alias Satishji. Another Maoist
identified as Tapeshwar Bhuian was arrested from Bigaha Tola village.
The two Maoists were wanted in over a dozen cases of violence in Aurangabad
District.
June 24: Five CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested at Samhauta village in Rohtas District. Acting on a tip off,
the Police raided a hideout and arrested the five Maoists, identified
as Rajesh Sharma alias Tufani, Mahendra Ram, Birendra Ram, Narendra
Sharma and Amar Kumar. A rifle, a pistol, ammunition, Police uniform
and a haul of Maoist literature were recovered from their possession.
June 25: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
attacked three trucks and set them ablaze after pouring petrol on them
on New Delhi - Kolkata NH-28 near Dumaria ghat under Dumaria Police
Station in East Champaran District in the wee hours during the one-day
Tirhut and Saran division bandh call given by the north Bihar
Maoist Zonal committee. The bandh call evoked mixed response
in East Champaran District while there was little impact of bandh
in western parts of the District.
The Maoists set ablaze three more vehicles
at two different places in Vaishali District. A bus and a truck were
set ablaze at village Asatpur Satpura on NH-77 under Bhagwanganj Police
Station. The third vehicle, a dumper, was set ablaze at Parmanandpur
under Lalganj Police Station in the District. The Maoists left three
pamphlets on the spot demanding that Sitamarhi jail superintendent should
be hanged for his alleged atrocity against a woman Maoist in jail. He
said the pamphlets also demanded political prisoner status to the arrested
Maoists in jails.
Four persons, including three hardcore
Maoists, were arrested from various places in Rohtas District. Acting
on a tip-off, the Police raided a hideout near Gouraila hills area and
arrested three state committee members of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Phulendra Sah alias Navinji, Alok Mehta and Dharmendra Mahto. The
fourth arrested person was an ex-Maoist cadre-turned-criminal Vindhyachal
Kumar.
June 28: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Santosh Bhagat and Bhola Rai, were arrested from Rampur Barahi village
under Riga Police Station in Sitamarhi District. A country-made pistol,
materials used for processing bombs and Maoist literature were recovered
from them. Interrogation of the two arrestees led to the arrest of a
third Maoist cadre, identified as Laxmi Das from Sunaul Subba village
under Majorganj Police Station area in the District, the Police said.
The Maoists also confessed their complicity in damaging circle officer
Anil Panjiar's vehicle on Sheohar-Sitamarhi road during the Maoist bandh
(shutdown strike) on June 25, the Police said.
June 29: The SFs destroyed a CPI-Maoist
camp in Paisra hills of Bhimbandh sanctuary in Munger District. Two
hardcore Maoists, identified as B Koda and Chamru Koda, were arrested
and a musket, four ammunition, blankets, utensils, tarred canvas and
Maoist literature were seized from the camp.
June 30: Two CPI-Maoist cadres were
killed at Milki village in Begusarai District. A Maoist, identified
as Sikandar Tanti shot dead a fellow Maoist Paltan Tanti in the village,
the Superintendent of Police (SP) Kshatraneel Singh said. Upon hearing
a gunshot, the villagers gathered on the spot and chased down a fleeing
Sikandar Tanti and beat him to death, Singh said. The SP said that the
two Maoists had been feuding for a long time over tilling of a 12-bigha
plot of a farmer.
July 1: 71 'waste' cartridges and some
items looking like bombs and half portions of five rocket launchers
were found stacked on the pillar no 2 on rail bridge across river Kosi
at Kursela under East Central Railway (ECR) in Katihar District.
A hardcore Maoist was arrested from
Kaimur hills under Chutia Police Station area in Rohtas District. The
Security Forces arrested Maoist cadre Suresh Paswan during a combing
operation. A printer and scanner were seized from the possession of
the Maoist, who was said to be the ‘sub-zonal commander’ of Rohtas and
Sonebhadra region. A native of Nawadih village, Paswan was wanted in
at least 18 cases of violence and related activities in the District
and adjoining area across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from Adhaura and Chainpur Police Station areas in Kaimur District. The
CRPF's CoBRA battalion and the District Police raided Bahadag and Sirbit
villages under Adhaura and Chainpur Police Station areas respectively
and arrested the three. Nine firearms and eight rounds of ammunition
were seized from them.
July 4: The CPI-Maoist put up posters
in several villages in Munger District announcing 'death sentence' for
four persons, including a mukhiya (headman) and their eviction
from the villages apparently for their failure to abide by the Maoist'
diktats. The Maoists pasted posters at Bangalwa, Jat Kutia and Sakhaul
villages under Dharhara Police Station announcing 'death sentence' to
the mukhiya of Ladaiyatand panchayat Anil Yadav and three
others. Similar posters were also found pasted on the walls of an empty
Government house at Masudan Railway Station, a nearby bridge and the
walls of a rural bank building in neighbouring Lakhisarai District.
The four had played an active role in convincing about 25 Maoists to
surrender before the authorities last month.
July 6: Police arrested Shravan Manjhi,
a CPI-Maoist 'area commander' from Maqsoodpur village under Khikarsarai
Police Station area in Gaya District. An amount of INR 500,000, a country-made
pistol, ammunition and a mobile phone were seized from his possession.
Police arrested two CPI-Maoist cadres
and another Maoist's wife from Aurangabad District. Acting on a tip
off, the Police arrested a Maoist from a hideout at Hulasganj Police
Station area and seized a Bolero jeep displaying the board of District
agriculture officer. INR 70,000 in cash and a diary with details of
collection through extortion were seized. The jeep driver was also arrested.
Police arrested another, the wife of another Maoist and seized a country-made
carbine and three live ammunitions. It was not clear immediately whether
she was also a Maoist cadre. The Police arrested another Maoist from
Bira village and seized Maoist literature from his possession.
July 8: Police arrested a Maoist, identified
as Dhapat Yadav, with a weapon from Mahrana village in Munger District.
July 10: Two Maoists, identified as
Jyoti Paswan alias Lodhi and Kamlesh Yadav alias Umesh
Yadav, were arrested from a hideout in a forest area in Gaya District.
A notebook, two letters, 14 kilograms sulphur power, 800 grams aluminium
power, 2.4 kilograms potassium dichromate, solar plate for charging
mobile phones and six mobile sets were recovered from the possession
of the two Maoists. The Maoist duo was wanted in connection with a dozen
cases of Maoist violence, including the killing of the then Konch Police
Station's Station House Officer (SHO) Mithilesh Prasad in February 2010.
July 17: As part of the exercise to
go in for area domination in CPI-Maoist-hit Districts, the CRPF is going
to set up a Group Centre in Patna, which will comprise of five battalions
spread over different Districts. The five battalions would be strategically
located at Gaya, Jamui, Rohtas, East Champaran and Patna, all Maoist-affected
Districts.
July 22: Eight CPI-Maoist cadres, including
one ‘area commander’ of the outfit, were arrested from Gaya and Rohtas
Districts of Bihar. SSP, Gaya, Binay Kumar said that acting on a tip-off,
raided a house at English village under Mou Police outpost in Gaya District
and arrested three Maoists including its ‘commanders’ Mangal Singh alias
Jitender Singh, Shravan Yadav and Shiv Prakash Singh. An American-made
semi-automatic rifle, a regular rifle and a pistol besides 46 rounds
of cartridge were recovered from them.
The Police also raided a place at Makhdumpur
tola in Gaya District and arrested four Maoists identified as Sanjay
Paswan, Butai Paswan alias Rampravesh Paswan, Kavindra Mahto
and Munariktai. The Police seized a looted Police rifle, a country-made
rifle, a gun and a hand grenade, and live ammunition from them.
A hardcore Maoist, identified as Ram
Dayal Yadav, was arrested from Taradih village under Rohtas Police Station
in Rohtas District.
July 24: Armed CPI-Maoist cadres set
ablaze eight vehicles, including one of a Circle Officer, in Sitamarhi,
East Champaran and Vaishali Districts of Bihar, during their protest
on the alleged rape of a woman cadre in a prison in Sitamarhi District
allegedly by its Superintendent last week.
In Sitamarhi District, about six Maoists
intercepted the Circle Officer Anil Panjiar's vehicle on Singarahia
Bridge near Basantpur-Riga State Highway on Sheohar- Sitamarhi border
and set it on fire.
Around 20 armed Maoists, set ablaze
two tankers and a coal-laden truck on NH-28 near Dumaria Ghat Bridge
on river Gandak in East Champaran District.
About a dozen armed Maoists set ablaze
a bus and a truck on NH-77 in Ashadpur-Satpura village in Vaishali District.
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from Pipra village under Darpa Police Station in East Champaran District.
Three country made pistols and 17 cartridges were seized from them.
July 27: The Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Subodh Singh near Kumhrar railway crossing in Patna
District. Subodh was in jail for three years and was recently released.
July 28-29: Five CPI-Maoist cadres,
including a ‘zonal commander’, were arrested in Jehanabad District.
Acting on a tip-off, a special Police team laid a trap and arrested
Kundan Sharma alias Pradyuman Singh near Rustampur on July 28.
On the basis of information provided by Kundan Sharma, Police arrested
four other Maoists in Hulasganj Police Station area on July 29. Two
pistols, two live cartridges, four cell phones a diary and INR 69,000
were seized from their possession.
July 31: Acting on a tip off, special
squad of Police in Bihar arrested a hardcore CPI-Maoist ‘commander’,
identified as Sudhrir Sharma, and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition
from his hideout in Gaya.
August 1: Police arrested two suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres who were allegedly passing on information about assistant
commandant of the 131st battalion of CRPF, Sadaram Singh, to the Maoists
in Jamui District. Jagannath Yadav was arrested at Kathbazra village,
while Pankaj Singh was arrested from Maheshwari village.
August 9: A joint team of Jamui Police
and CRPF arrested two Maoists identified as Bramhodev Yadav and Madan
Sah from Charkapathar in Jamui District. The Police also recovered a
135-bore musket and five live cartridges from Yadav. The SFs also destroyed
a bunker, he added.
SFs recovered a large quantity of detonators
from a Maoist hideout in Barha Chakarbandha forests between Dumaria
and Imamganj Police Station areas in Gaya District. The detonators were
recovered after half-an hour long encounter with the Maoists in the
area, SSP Vinay Kumar said.
August 10: CRPF troopers and CPI-Maoist
cadres clashed in Kharaun forest under Dumaria block in Gaya District
of Bihar. The encounter started when CRPF 159 Battalion troopers were
out on an area domination exercise. No casualty or injury was reported
from either side.
August 14: Maoist cadres halted trains
at Ismailpur railway station near Gaya District. "Maoists attacked the
railway station and forced the station master to turn the signal red
and stopped all trains including the Rajdhani Express," a railway official
said.
August 15: The CPI-Maoist hoisted black
flags in eight Districts of Bihar to protest Independence Day. The black
flags were seen atop schools and some buildings in Gaya, Aurangabad,
Jehanabad, Arwal, Vaishali, Sitamarhi, East Champaran and Muzaffarpur
District.
The CPI-Maoist hoisted a black flag
instead of the Tricolour in the campus of the Government Middle School
in Barmasia of Jhajha Township in Jamui District of Bihar.
August 20: The CPI-Maoist cadres shot
dead a person near a primary school in Shakarpur village in Gaya District
of Bihar. Perceiving him to be a Police informer, the Maoists shot dead
the man, identified as Pahjan Bharati, a native of Nagowar village and
dropped leaflet on the spot claiming responsibility for the killing,
SP Baburam said, adding that a used cartridge was recovered from the
spot.
The SFs detained 29 persons, including
at least six suspected CPI-Maoist cadres, from Sidhwalia village in
East Champaran District of Bihar. Acting on a tip off, the SFs raided
the village and detained the 29 persons attending a closed-door meeting
convened under the banner of Left Wing outfits like Janwadi Kisan Sangh
and Janwadi Vikas Mazdoor Sangh to discuss problems of the local people.
Naxal literature, mobile phones and several vehicles were seized from
the spot.
August 24: A powerful cane bomb and
a haul of claymore and landmines suspected to be planted by the CPI-Maoist
were seized by SFs from Chakarbandha forest in Gaya District of Bihar.
August 27: A Fast track court-IV in
East Champaran District of Bihar sentenced three CPI-Maoist cadres to
10 years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of INR one million
on each of them in an Arms Act case. The three had assembled at Chheni
Chapra village in East Champaran District on January 20 to plan the
killing of a person when Muzaffarpur and East Champaran Police raided
and arrested them along with an AK-56 rifle, a .9mm pistol, a country-made
pistol and a haul of ammunitions.
August 28: The Patna Police, acting
on a tip-off, arrested three arms dealers from Patna and Nalanda District
of Bihar. They allegedly used to sell arms to CPI-Maoist. One AK-56,
one foreign-made pistol and two .30 bore pistols along with some cartridges
were recovered from their possession. The arrested arms dealers are
Mantu Sharma alias Sanjay Singh alias Gendu Sharma (36),
Rakesh Singh (27) and Bablu Kumar (21).
September 8: A CPRF trooper was killed
and five others were wounded in an armed encounter with the CPI-Maoist
cadres near Panchrukhia forests on the borders of Gaya and Aurangabad
Districts. The encounter took place during a joint combing operation
against the Maoists.
September 10: Six cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were killed and 70 landmines destroyed in an encounter with SFs in Panchrukhiya
forests bordering Gaya and Aurangabad Districts of Bihar, CRPF DIG Umesh
Kumar said.
The CPI-Maoist and illegal miners have
access to Government explosives factories, two suppliers arrested by
Rohtas District Police with a large quantity of electric detonators.
Acting on inputs provided by the arrested suppliers, the Police raided
their godown at Takia Muhalla and recovered 40,000 aluminium short delay
detonators.
September 12: A hardcore CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Kamal Paswan alias Kamalji alias
Vishnuji, was arrested from Giddha village under Dawath Police Station
area in Rohtas District. A register, three envelops, letters to the
brick kiln owners demanding levy of INR 35,000 each, name and mobile
number of 85 persons, besides Naxal literature, were seized from his
possession.
The Kaimur ‘sub-zonal command’ of the
CPI-Maoist, Sitaram Chauhan alias Gabbar was arrested in the
Goraila Pahari forest area under Chutia Police Station in Rohtas District.
Police recovered a .303 bore looted police rifle and 20 live rounds
from Gabbar during a special operation led by SP, Manu Maharaj.
September 13: SFs seized 40 detonators,
besides other materials and defused three cane bombs from a CPI-Maoist
hideout at Hasanbar village in Bihar's Aurangabad District during a
search operation. The articles seized were 200 m wire, five batteries,
glass and iron rods from the spot.
September 15: Seven powerful cane bombs
each weighing 15 kilograms and 60 kilograms of explosives were seized
from a Naxal hideout at Tikua hills in Gaya District of Bihar.
September 16: The CRPF and State Police
officials reviewed the anti-naxal operations in Gaya and Aurangabad
Districts of Bihar and expressed satisfaction in containing CPI-Maoist
activities in the Districts.
September 17: The STF and local Police
in a joint operation arrested two hardcore CPI-Maoist cadres identified
as Shrawan Kumar alias Kapil alias Sudhirji, ‘sub-zonal
commander’ of central Bihar, and Ramesh Paswan alias Jogendraji,
Maoist ‘commander’ of Ismailpur region, from Mahmat village in Gaya
District in Bihar. Police seized a country-made rifle from their possession.
September 18: Three hardcore CPI-Maoist
cadres identified as Pankaj Yadav, Buchru Paswan and Ramashish Ram,
were arrested during a raid in Tiurakhurd village in Rohtas District
of Bihar. They were wanted in the murder case of a farmer Satinder Yadav
two days ago whom they had shot dead after the latter refused to meet
extortion demand.
September 19: SI J K Singh was killed
and three other Police personnel identified as identified as SI Kamlesh
Singh and two SAP troopers were injured after they were fired upon by
the CPI-Maoist cadres near Sidheshwar temple in Jamui District of Bihar.
The Maoists, hiding in the forest, fired at random at the four Police
personnel who were travelling in a jeep on way to Garhi village to investigate
a crime case.
Police seized around 90 quintals of
ammonium nitrate and 3,000 detonators supposed to be delivered to the
mining mafia and the Maoists in the Kaimur plateau at a rice mill at
Amara Talab village in the Sasaram Mufassil area in Rohtas District.
Seven persons were also arrested. Of the seven arrested persons, Indal
Singh alias Indrajeet Singh, Kanhaiya Singh and Munna Tiwary
are suspected to be involved in illegal mining. The four others arrested
were identified as Guddu Kumar, Sandip Prasad Gupta, Vijay Rai and Rajpati
Choudhary. During interrogation the arrested persons admitted to their
involvement in supplying explosives to the Naxalites and the mining
mafia in Rohtas and Kaimur Districts.
September 22: CPI-Maoist cadres killed
Manoj Yadav, a villager by beheading him in Karhara in Jamui District
of Bihar for non-payment of extortion. The Maoists left a leaflet on
the spot to specify reasons for killing the villager, Police said.
The STF arrested two persons, including
a Maoist central zone committee member, in Gaya District. Acting on
a tip off, the STF raided Nagaryawan village and arrested the Maoists'
central zone committee member Shashi Shekhar Singh and Vinay Das for
sheltering the Maoist in his house. Singh, a native of Malhat village
under Goh Police Station area in Aurangabad District, was carrying a
reward of INR 25,000 on his head.
September 28: Forty heavily armed CPI-Maoist
cadres killed Umesh Singh (35), a deputy village head and his son Kunal
(12), and abducted three other persons at Sukki village in Vaishali
district of Bihar.
October 2: Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Fantus Rai from Pokharia village under Kharagpur
Police Station area in Munger District of Bihar while he has gone to
village head Kedar Yadav to collect levy from him.
October 4: Seven CPI-Maoist cadres,
three of whom were identified as Pramod Mahto, Laxman Mahto and Shiv
Sahni, were arrested during a combing operation in Subhaigarh village
in Sitamarhi District. A rifle, one carbine, 12 ammunition, two mobile
phones, INR 57,000 cash collected through levy and a haul of naxal literature
were seized from the house of an absconding Maoist Nawal Sahni on the
basis of revelation by the arrested Maoists.
October 7: A CPI-Maoist base camp located
on Gandak River embankment at Basaiya village in Saran District of Bihar
was unearthed by the Police.
Maoists have dropped handbills in Bajidpur
village in Patepur area in Vaishali District and threatened four villagers
with dire consequences. The Police have seized the Maoists' handwritten
pamphlets and investigating the matter.
October 12: Three suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres were arrested with arms and ammunition from Kowahi village in
Sitamarhi District of Bihar. A sophisticated pistol of US make, eight
magazines, two dozen ammunition and some sharp objects were seized from
their possession.
October 14: A hardcore CPI-Maoist cadre,
identified as Mithilesh Yadav, was arrested from Chilmi village in Aurangabad
District of Bihar. Yadav was wanted in connection with cases lodged
in connection with blowing up a school building in Judahi village twice
in 2009 and 2010.
October 16: During a combing-cum-search
operation, the SFs recovered two powerful cane bombs weighting three
kilograms each, 15 detonators, five liquid explosive gel and 15 helmets
from a CPI-Maoist hideout in Hurmeth forest in Rohtas District of Bihar.
October 18: Six troopers of the 159
battalion of the CRPF were reportedly killed and eight CRPF personnel,
including a deputy commandant were injured, when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered
an IED blast blowing an anti-landmine vehicle near Chakarbandha forests
in Barha village under the Dumaria Police Station in Gaya District of
Bihar. The CRPF troopers were reportedly returning after conducting
a raid on a Maoist hideout.
October 19: The SFs seized nine "pressure
cooker bombs" and six IED from a CPI-Maoist hideout in the Chakarbandha
forest area in Gaya District of Bihar.
October 26: More than 400 village heads,
including 300 in CPI-Maoist-hit Districts and 100 in flood-prone north
Bihar Districts, have demanded security as they are facing threats from
Maoists, gangsters, rivals and others. His demand was supported by Manish
Pathak, Anil Yadav and Guddu Singh, heads of their respective areas
in Aurangabad. Leaders in Gaya, Aurangabad, Jamui, Munger, Sitamarhi,
Rohtas, Nawada, Sheohar and Arwal districts are afraid of threats by
Maoists and others. Heads in Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Ara,
Saran and Siwan have also demanded bodyguards.
October 28: The Police arrested four
hardcore CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as Mritunjaya Mishra, 'area Commander'
of Goh-Rafiganj and his associates Shambhu Yadav, Dinanath Yadav and
Chandrabhushan Sharma, in Aurangabad District of Bihar. A country-made
rifle, ammunition, mobile SIM cards and memory cards were seized from
their possession.
November 6: Around 20 Maoists attacked
the site of Ranjan Construction and set ablaze the office and three
vehicles at Raghopur village in Muzaffarpur District. The proprietors
of the company had apparently failed to pay the levy demanded by the
Maoists, he added.
November 15: Seven policemen were injured
in a landmine attack on a Police vehicle by cadres of the CPI-Maoist
near Banua crossing in the border of Dev and Dhibara Police Station
areas in Aurangabad District of Bihar.
November 17: Four CPI-Maoist cadres
were arrested from Bihar in connection with the November 9 attack on
a prison transit van to free their cadres in Giridih town in Jharkhand.
November 22: The arrested inter-state
cheat, Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, admitted that he supplied firearms in CPI-Maoist
infested areas of Rajepur under Sheohar District and Minapur Police
Station area of Muzaffarpur District besides Chanpatia in East Champaran
and Narkatiaganj under West Champaran District.
November 27: Around 15 armed cadres
of RCC, a splinter group of CPI-Maoist, set ablaze two JCB machines
of a private company involved in road construction work near Banke Bazaar
road in Manjari village under Raushanganj Police limits in Gaya District.
November 29: Dhananjay Kumar Singh,
‘area commander’ of Koyal-Sone zone of the Maoists, was arrested from
Gosaidih village in Aurangabad District.
December 1: Two arms smugglers who supplied
arms and ammunition to CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested by a joint team
of Police and STF during a raid at Makshash Mohalla under Kashim Bazar
Police Station in Munger District. The Police seized 70 detonators,
one revolver and a few live cartridges of AK-47 from them.
December 4: About 19 CPI-Maoist cadres
assaulted two employees of Madhucon, a private road construction company,
and set ablaze a number of their equipment and vehicles, which includes
a road roller, a generator set, a welding machine and four motorcycles,
at Shivharia village under Garkha Police Station in Saran District.
The Maoists left behind pamphlets on the spot before escaping.
December 10: A Maoist cadre, identified
as Md. Naushad, was allegedly killed by his associates at Babhangama
village in Munger District, suspecting him to be a traitor.
December 13: A group of 26 Maoist cadres
surrendered before the Muzaffarpur Zone, ADGP, Gupteshwar Pandey, at
the Zilla School campus in Muzaffarpur District.
December 17: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
pasted coloured posters and distributed several handbills in Panapur
market area in Chhapra of Saran District, inviting people to attend
a rally in Muzaffarpur on December 21.
December 18: Police recovered huge cache
of explosives from a forest area in Bihar's CPI-Maoist infested Gaya
District, following a two-day combat operation.
December 20: Civil rights activists
and CPI-Maoist sympathisers condemned the Bihar Government’s withdrawal
of permission for a rally in Muzaffarpur District, scheduled for December
21.
Chhattisgarh
January 1: Two bombs of 40 kilograms
each were recovered from Bastar region. Officials at Police headquarters
said the bombs were placed on a forested road in Awapalli area of Bijapur
District, 500 kilometres from State capital Raipur. The Police suspect
that CPI-Maoist cadres placed the bombs to target a convoy of the Police
and Paramilitary Forces which was expected to cross the road.
Nine more Districts came into existence
in Chhattisgarh, taking the total number to 27, Chief Minister Raman
Singh said. The new Districts, were carved out to speed up the pace
of development, Singh said while talking to reporters in Raipur. The
new Districts are Sukma, Kondagaon, Balod, Bemetara, Baloda Bazar, Gariaband,
Mungeli, Surajpur and Balrampur. Sukma District has been carved out
of Dantewada District and Kondagaon from Bastar District.
January 4: A Dantewada District court
has granted bail to the Essar general manager, who is one of the accused
in the alleged payouts of the protection money by the multinational
to the CPI-Maoist in Chhattisgarh. Observing that the case of the accused
DVCS Verma is different from that of the other accused, the district
and sessions court judge A K Beck granted him bail saying the Police
have failed to produce enough evidence against him even three months
after his arrest, defence counsel K K Dubey said. The court ordered
Verma's release on two bonds of INR 200,000 each, he said.
January 5: In a joint operation, four
CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested by the CRPF and the State Police near
Madhonar village in Narayanpur District. The arrested four Maoists are
identified as Madhonar, Gangaram Korram, Mayaram and Dasamu Korram.
The Police also recovered a cache of explosives, arms and weapons. They
also seized Maoist literature and posters.
January 12: Top CPI-Maoist leader Deepak
Khalko was arrested by the Raipur Police from the forest areas in Jashpur
District. The Police had received information that Khalko was in his
Lokhandi house and a special team reached the place. After a short round
of cross-firing, the Maoist was arrested by Raipur Police. ACP of Jashpur
District, Sanjiv Shukla, said Deepak had been placed on a wanted list
for his involvement in several crimes. A country-made pistol, two live
cartridges and two empty cartridges were recovered from him.
January 13: The CPI-Maoist cadres set
ablaze the heavy machinery engaged in construction of a road between
Maraiagudem and Chintalnar, near Lingalapalli village in Dantewada District.
According to sources, heavily armed Maoists descended on Lingalapalli
village and set ablaze four hydraulic excavators, two road rollers,
and a tipper and an earthmover, in the afternoon. Following the incident,
Bhadrachalam Divisional Police in Khammam District intensified vigil
in the far-flung areas across the inter-State border with Chhattisgarh.
A suspected CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Pudiyami Mada, reportedly committed suicide at the Sukma Police Station
in Sukma District (recently carved out from Dantewada District). According
to the Sukma Police Station diary, Mada was arrested by a CRPF team
"headed by Assistant Commandant, 2nd Battalion, Ashish Kumar on January
13 morning and handed over to the Police at around 8:30 am. He hanged
himself in the lock-up at around 9:30 pm. The Police blamed the CRPF
of torturing that led the Maoist to commit suicide.
January 15: Four Policemen posted were
suspended, after suspected Maoist cadre, Pudiyami Mada, reportedly committed
suicide at the Sukma Police Station in Sukma District, officials at
the Police headquarters in Raipur said.
January 16: Chief Minister Raman Singh
said that providing all facilities to CPI-Maoist-infested Districts
in the State and bringing back Maoists to the mainstream is on the topmost
agenda of his Government. He was addressing a public gathering to mark
the creation of Sukma District, carved out of Maoist-affected Dantewada.
January 22: Four CRPF personnel, including
Deputy Commandant Diwakar Mahapatra, were killed and two others injured
in a landmine blast suspected to have been triggered by the CPI-Maoist
cadres in Bastar District. They were on their way to Chitrakoot where
President Pratibha Patil was to pay a visit, a CRPF spokesman said.
January 26: Calling CPI-Maoist anti-national,
Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt urged people on the occasion of Republic
Day to help the authorities to crush them. "We have to stamp out anti-national
Maoists to protect our glorious democracy," he said. The State Government
is giving priority to increase morale of the SFs by increasing their
strength, and recruiting local youths from tribal areas, he said. "On
one hand the State is touching new highs in development, on the other
the Maoists have made the life of forested residents worse," he said.
CM Raman Singh hoisted the national flag at Jagdalpur, headquarters
of the Bastar region.
January 27: One top CPI-Maoist leader,
suspected to be the commander of Mahasamund-Bargarh division, was killed
during an exchange of fire in Karramal and Paridhapali forest under
Baramkela Police Station in Raigarh District. According to State DGP
Anil M Navaney, after getting a tip-off that a group of 50 Maoists were
holding a meeting with the local villagers in Karramal forest, a joint
squad of Police Force and STF was sent to the location. After spotting
the SFs, the Maoists opened fire and during the Police retaliation,
one of the Maoists was gunned down, while other escaped from the spot,
DGP Navaney said. "Among other things, an AK 47 was recovered from the
deceased Maoist, who was in Maoist uniform. Besides, a diary, seized
from him, has identified him as DVCM, Ajhade. However, we are yet to
identify the body. But the recovery of AK 47 from him clearly indicates
that he was a high-ranking Maoist leader", Navaney said. Apart from
the AK 47 rifle, three magazines, two detonators, a tiffin bomb and
other material was recovered from the location, he added.
January 29: One personnel of the newly-created
CAAF was injured when he was attacked with sharp weapons by a group
of CPI-Maoist cadres at his native village of Kondru under Jangla Police
Station in Bijapur District. The CAAF has been established recently
to absorb the SPOs - tribal youths recruited by the Chhattisgarh Police
to fight Naxals - following a directive from the Supreme Court to disband
SPOs.
January 29: The Police arrested a Maoist
'area commander', identified as Suresh, from the Pankhajur area. Suresh,
a native of Bhairamgarh, was an active cadre of the outfit for several
years. The Police have recovered self loading rifle from his possession.
January 30: CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
the station master of Bhansi railway station in Dantewada District and
released him unharmed after about an hour, an unnamed senior Police
Officer said.
Seven cadres of the Bastar Divisional
Committee of CPI-Maoist, including four women, surrendered before the
IG Bastar range, TJ Longkumer and SP Rahul Bhagat in Kanker District.
"The surrendered Maoists carry a cash reward of varying amounts from
INR 5, 000 to INR 300, 000 cash. This is the first time that the members
of the divisional committee have surrendered before the Police," Longkumer
said. Among those surrendered include 'platoon commander' of the East
Bastar Divisional Committee, Sunil Kumar Matlam alias Rajesh
Kumar and his wife Jenni alias Jayanti Kutari, who is a 'commander'
of the Maoist cultural division called Chetna Natya Mandali; Jan Militia
'commander' of Pratappur range Ramdas and his wife Panidobir, Koelibera
'deputy commander' Susheela, Sitapur Local Organising Squad 'commander'
Jaylal and his wife Asmani alias Sanay, besides Samo Mandvi,
cadre of the 'platoon number 25' being operational in the Raoghat area
of Kanker.
January 31: The CPI-Maoist are planning
to hold their crucial 10th congress in the Maoist-controlled Abujhmad,
a 6,000-Square kilometres densely forested region extending from south
Bastar in Chhattisgarh to Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, reports received
by the State Police said in Raipur.
February 5: The CRPF is set to intensify
its operations in the CPI-Maoist corridor with the creation of two new
bases for the NTRO and helicopters in South Chhattisgarh, close to the
Maoist hotbed of Dantewada District. CRPF, which has deployed more than
70,000 troops for anti-Naxal operations in various states, is now planning
a large offensive in the dense forests of Abujhmad, a region extending
from South Bastar (Dantewada) in Chhattisgarh to Gadchiroli in Maharashtra.
February 9: Two Policemen were killed
in a landmine blast, allegedly carried out by the CPI-Maoist cadres,
in Polampalli area in Sukma District, recently carved out of Dantewada
District. The Policemen were returning to Dornapal in a Sumo which became
the target of the blast. While Constable Surya Kartam (30) and Police
driver Suryaprakash Sonvani were killed, two others Nanda Sinha and
Rajaram were injured, when the Maoists fired on Police after the blast,
and Police retaliated.
February 11: The ITBP recovered 60 kilograms
of explosives from Rajnandgaon District. The explosives were recovered
when an ITBP patrolling party deployed in the region to counter CPI-Maoist
noticed a patch of asphalt in the middle of the Kohka-Manpur road varying
in colour. "There were two IEDs hidden three feet below the road --
one weighing 20 kg stacked above another weighing 40 kg," ITBP's public
relations officer, Deepak Pandey said. According to Pandey, it is for
the first time that explosives have been found in the middle of a busy
road and the Maoists may be starting a new dangerous trend.
February 17: A joint team of BSF, STF
and Kanker District Police busted a bomb-making unit of the CPI-Maoist
and seized around 300 kilograms of explosives and equipment used for
assembling IEDs. The seized items included Ammonium Nitrate, TNT, a
huge stock of detonators, Codex Wire measuring 200 meters, live cartridges,
a large number of pipes, tiffins, besides other items used by the Naxals
in making bombs.
February 25: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
two Home Guards of the Chhattisgarh Police at a "jan adalat" (people's
court) in a forest pocket in Cherpal area under Bijapur District for
defying their diktat. The dead bodies of Moriyam Mangu and Anand Jasba
were found on the roadside forest pocket in Cherpal area. Both the Home
Guards were missing since January 31 this year. Few leaflets left by
the Maoists said the Home Guards were killed at a "jan adalat" on charges
of teaming up with authorities for anti-Maoist drives and also committing
offences against the public. In one of the leaflets, the Maoists have
asked youths of the 40,000 square kilometre conflict zone of Bastar
region to stay away from joining the Police Force.
The Maoists buried alive a sarpanch
at Kosnar under Gangalur Police limits in Bijapur District for guiding
a team of State Government officials to his village for enumeration
of farmers. The Kosnar sarpanch Kutem Siku (58), and his wife
Gudri Bai (51), were abducted from their village early on February 25
and later produced before a people's court set up by the Maoists in
the nearby forest. The court indicted them for helping the officials
and ordered execution of the sarpanch and assaulting of his wife.
About 150 cadres of the CPI-Maoist raided
a stone-mine in Bastar region for explosives. However, when they could
not find any explosive, they set ablaze eight stone crusher machines
at Partha and Darbha areas of the region.
February 26: Maoists allegedly set ablaze
seven vehicles used for construction of road in Sukma District, the
Police said.
March 4-5: The Raipur and Kolkata Police
raided the premises of two transporters in Raipur after getting inputs
that they were involved in transporting goods for the CPI-Maoist. The
SF personnel seized a huge quantity of materials reportedly meant for
manufacturing rocket launchers and grenades. The preliminary investigation
suggested that the materials seized had the use in making sophisticated
weapons like rocket launchers and grenades, he added. The police recovered
75 wooden boxes containing bolts and pipes from the premises of Pal
Transport company while small motors used for assembling parts were
recovered from on Monday's raid.
March 7: Fourteen vehicles including
four JCB machines belonging to Patil Construction Company engaged in
road construction work in Chhattisgarh's Kanker District were set afire
by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres who have also threatened to stop further
work, Police said.
Three suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were arrested by the CRPF personnel and the local Police in a joint
operation in Keelam region in Narayanpur District. Police recovered
tiffin bomb, bow and arrow, wires and a detonator from them.
March 14: At least three BSF troopers
were killed and four others injured when suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
blew up the vehicle they were travelling in Kanker District. The Maoists
triggered the landmine explosion near Erikbuta village under Pakhanjur
Police Station limits when the mini truck carrying the troopers of the
87th battalion of the BSF was passing.
March 18: A senior most CPI-Maoist leader
Gundeti Shankar, popularly known as Seshanna and Maheshanna, died of
a snake bite in Dantewada District. Shankar was believed to be taking
shelter in the forest areas of Chhattisgarh on the borders of Telangana
Districts of Andhra Pradesh. He was a member of NTSZC and was also appointed
as the secretary of the Adilabad District committee.
March 19: The CPI-Maoist cadres opened
indiscriminate fire in Bijapur District, killing Lachhuram Kashyap,
a prominent Salwa Judum leader of Mirtur. The killing took place
in the District when Kashyap was returning to his village from a Police
Station.
Two CRPF troopers were injured during
a joint operation of Chhattisgarh Police and CRPF in and around in Abujmaadh
region in Bastar District for about two weeks, Chhattisgarh DGP Anil
M Navaney said.
March 22: A CRPF head constable, Om
Prakash, was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres at a weekly market in Sukma
District. Head Constable Om Prakash, of the 150th Battalion deployed
in Chintagufa, was surrounded by about half-a-dozen Maoists who snatched
his AK-47 assault rifle and slit his throat.
March 24: The CPI-Maoist alleged atrocities
by SFs on tribals during the last week's anti-Naxal operations in Abujhmad
area, a densely forested area extending from south Bastar in Chhattisgarh
to Gadchiroli in Maharashtra.
March 26: A CRPF trooper was killed
and another injured in an encounter with the cadres of the CPI-Maoist
in Sukma District. The gunfight broke out between the Maoists and the
CRPF personnel in Alpal Metta village in Sukma District when a CRPF
team along with Chhattisgarh Police force went to the region for area
domination.
March 27: Suspected CPI-Maoist abducted
Palku Ram Mandavi (16), a student of Class 10, along with his classmate
Lalu Tarasi, from their school in Orcha in Narayanpur District. The
Maoists held Palku hostage accusing him of spying for the Police.
March 29: The Maoists released Lalu
Tarasi, who was abducted along with his friend Palku Ram Mandavi on
March 27 from Orcha in Narayanpur District.
March 31: Pakluram Mandavi (16), who
was abducted by CPI-Maoist cadres on charges of acting as a Police informer,
managed to flee from the Maoist captivity in Narayanpur District and
reached safety after a night-long walk through the forest, the Police
said.
April 1: An anti-Naxal operation, codenamed
"Maad", "Kilam" and "Podku," was carried on in the Abujhmad forests,
considered to be the CPI-Maoist headquarters, during March 5-20. IG
(Operations) in Chhattisgarh, Pankaj Singh said that 33 Maoist cadres
were arrested during the operation. The operation began on March 5 and
continued till March 20.
Chief Minister Raman Singh, addressing
a function in Raipur District said, there is an international conspiracy
behind Maoist activities in India, and adds that the motive is to destabilise
and weaken the country economically.
April 2: Several CPI-Maoist cadres were
injured in an encounter with Paramilitary Forces in Bhanupratappur area
in Kanker District. However, the Police source said no BSF personnel
were injured in the attack.
April 5: Aadesh Pal, a STF trooper was
killed in an exchange of fire with CPI-Maoist cadres in Gandharpada
forest area in Sukma District. Police suspect that at least five Maoists
were also killed in the encounter, however, have not recovered a single
body of Maoists from the spot.
The CRPF has successfully used UAVs
to pick up ground conversation and movement of Maoist cadres in terrains
of Chhattisgarh.
April 9: The CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
a tribal youth from his native Toropi village in Kanker District and
shot him dead. The Maoists shot dead the youth on charges of spying
for local Police.
A contingent of DF and the STF arrested
four Maoists in Sukma District during a combing operation in a forest
area.
April 11: Two women, T Koteswari (55),
and her daughter Subba Rao (30), both construction labourers of Tekulaboru
village in Kunavaram mandal in Khammam District of Andhra Pradesh,
were reportedly killed in a CPI-Maoist-Police cross-fire near Timilwada
under Chintaguppa Police Station limits in Sukma District. Sources said
that a group of heavily armed Maoists launched an attack on the base
camp of Police personnel in the early hours of the day. The women were
reported killed in the cross-fire.
Maoists reportedly blew up a bridge
at a forested stretch between Amabeda and Ghanora in Kanker District
in Chhattisgarh, just before State Forest Minister Vikram Usendi's convoy
was scheduled to go to Amabeda. The incident took place around 10am
under Amabeda Police Station area, in which no causalities were reported.
As many as 11 occupants of an ambulance,
including six children among others, had a providential escape when
cadres of the CPI-Maoist opened fire at the vehicle in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh. The ambulance carrying the children was going from
Chintaguppa to Dornapal village for urgent medical treatment.
April 14: The Rajnandgaon District Police
arrested four persons, including a city-based arms dealer-cum-petty
contractor, near Farhad chowk in Manpur for their alleged act of procuring
arms and ammunitions for the CPI-Maoist. A US-made sophisticated pistol
and INR 400,000 in cash were among the materials seized. Mohammed Irfan
Mohammed Samad, a resident of Rose Colony in city, was arrested along
with Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi, Tilak Goyal, and Deepak Talukdar.
April 16: Nearly a dozen persons were
injured when around 60-70 CPI-Maoist cadres wreaked their vengeance
on the Dorla tribe population of Maraiguda village in Sukma District,
bordering Andhra Pradesh, by allegedly molesting women, assaulting elders,
and setting ablaze houses for not handing over to them Haka Mara, a
local sarpanch and Salwa Judum leader.
April 20: Three persons, including two
BJP local leaders, were killed when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a powerful
landmine blast on the convoy of BJP MLA Mahesh Gagda in Bijapur District.
The Maoists blew up one of the eight vehicles of the convoy in a forested
area in Pegrapalli in the District resulting in the killing of Purshottam
Thakur, the BJP District unit vice president, Mahesh Pujari, another
key local BJP leader and Ashwani Sharma, the vehicle driver. One person
is also reported to be seriously injured in the attack.
April 21: The cadres of CPI-Maoist abducted
the collector of Sukma District in Chhattisgarh before killing two of
his bodyguards. The collector, Alex Paul Menon, was meeting a group
of villagers for a Government outreach programme. It is suspected that
the rebels have taken the collector deep inside the forests of Kerlapal
(Dantewada District), some of which are suspected to be heavily mined
by the CPI-Maoist.
April 22: The South Bastar Divisional
Committee of the CPI-Maoist released an audio tape, demanding the release
of their eight top Maoists: Markam Gopanna alias Satyam Reddy,
Nirmal Akka alias Vijay Laxmi, Devpal Chandrashekhar Reddy, Shantipriya
Reddy, Meena Choudhari, Korsa Sunny, Markam Sunny and Asit Kumar Sen
within 72 hours to secure the release of Alex Menon, District Magistrate
of Sukma District. The Maoists also want anti-Naxal Operation Green
Hunt to be cancelled, SFs to be withdrawn from the region and individuals
falsely implicated in Maoist cases should be released from jails. The
Maoists have put up a deadline of April 25 before the Government, after
which, they would take a decision about the abducted Collector in a
Jan Adalat, the Police said. As reported earlier, Menon was abducted
on April 21, 2012.
April 23: An all-party meeting held
in Raipur to discuss proposals to secure the release of abducted Sukma
District Magistrate, Alex P. Menon, concluded with the Chhattisgarh
Government calling off SF operations in Bastar and agreeing to negotiate
with the CPI-Maoist. As reported earlier, Menon was abducted on April
21, 2012.
Maoists named three mediators – Supreme
Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan, former National SC/ST Commission chairperson
B D Sharma and President of All India Adivasi Mahasabha Manish Kunjam
- for negotiations.
April 24: Abducted Sukma District collector
Alex Paul Menon is "safe" but being an asthma patient, he
needs medicines, the CPI-Maoist cadres said and proposed the name of
human rights activist and academic Professor Hargopal as another mediator
for talks with the Chhattisgarh Government. The Maoists also stuck to
their April 25 deadline set to the Government to meet their demands
in exchange for the freedom of Menon, a 2006-batch IAS officer, who
was abducted on April 21.
April 28: A three-member CPI-Maoist
group led by ‘South Bastar Regional Committee secretary’ Ramana, alias
Ravulu Srinivas, reportedly held talks with their two interlocutors
in Tadmetla forest, in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada District to decide the
fate of Sukma District collector Alex Paul Menon, in Naxal captivity.
Alex Paul Menon is in CPI-Maoist custody since April 21.
April 29: Cadres of the Palle Madi dalam
of the Maoists shot dead a villager in Rajnandgaon District.
April 30: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
three villagers whom they had abducted a week back from Tadkoli village
in Bijapur District. The Maoists accused them of being Salwa Judum
members.
The Chhattisgarh Government and interlocutors
for the CPI-Maoist came to an agreement to constitute a high-power official
committee to examine the cases of all prisoners (with a focus on tribals)
in the State and to expedite the release the abducted Sukma District
Collector Alex Paul Menon.
Around 12 armed Maoists set ablaze four
vehicles under Khandgaon Police Station in Rajnandgaon District. The
Maoists set ablaze one JCB Machine, one Faber Machine, one water tanker
and one tractor working under the Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana by the
RK Construction. The Maoists left pamphlets to oppose the Government
and appealed the people to observe May Day [May 1].
May 2: Two Policemen were killed and
four others injured when a group of CPI -Maoist cadres opened indiscriminate
firing on a Police team patrolling the weekly market in Bacheli area
in Dantewada District.
May 3:12-day hostage crisis ended after
CPI-Maoist released Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon. The Maoists
handed him over to their interlocutors G. Haragopal and B.D. Sarma deep
inside Bastar forests.
As per the agreement, the Government
set up a high-power standing committee to ‘regularly review all cases
of undertrials. These include Maoist-related cases too.
A bail petition was moved in a Raipur
court for the release of Maoist leaders Santipriya Reddy, wife of Gudsa
Usendi, a member of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC)
and Malati Chowdary. These two were among the eight whose release was
demanded by the Maoists in exchange for the abducted Collector.
May 4:Two CPI-Maoist mediators virtually
contested Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh’s denial of any swap
deal with Maoists to secure Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon’s
release from Maoist custody, saying that “there was an understanding
to release 3 Maoists” in exchange of Menon’s freedom.
A Chhattisgarh court rejected the bail
application of two women cadres of the CPI-Maoist who the Maoists wanted
to be released in exchange for Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon. Rejecting
the bail pleas of Meena Choudhary and Malti alias Shantipriya
Reddy, Additional Sessions Judge B P Varma said since their crime appears
to be serious in nature, they could not be granted bail. Their lawyer,
however, said that they would now move the high court.
May 13: Six CISF troopers and a civilian
driver were killed near the NMDC iron ore mine at Kirandul town in Dantewada
District when Maoists attacked their vehicle. The Maoists decamped with
five INSAS rifles and a Kalashnikov.
May 13: A contractor, identified as
Suklal Sarkar, was injured when suspected Maoists shot at him in Pankhajur
area in Kanker District.
Tunesh Lakda, a CPI-Maoist ‘sub-zonal
commander’, carrying a reward of INR 25,000 on his head, was arrested
by Police from Chandan Nagar village in Balrampur District.
May 14: Assistant sub-inspector (ASI)
Dilip Kumar Sinha, posted at Bande Police Station, was shot dead by
Maoists in Kanker District.
Sukma District BJP Secretary, Mochaki
Joga, was abducted when he was returning home by a private bus in the
evening.
In another incident in Dornapal area
in the same District, Maoists abducted Mochaki Kacche, a trader.
May 16: Maoists killed two villagers
in Bijapur District suspecting them to be Police informers.
Six Policemen were injured, two of them
critically, in an encounter with the Maoists at Chindgarh in Sukma District.
The Maoists detonated couple of landmine blasts and opened fire on the
force which was on a search operation.
Normal life was affected in interior
parts of Bastar region due to the Bharat bandh call given by
the Maoists.
May 17: Ratanlal Netam (25), a Policeman
standing guard at the house of Chhattisgarh Women and Child Welfare
Minister Lata Usendi house in Sargipalpara in the District headquarters
town of Kondagaon, was killed when two motorcycle-borne Maoists fired
at him from close range. The Maoists then snatched the INSAS rifle and
sped away.
May 22: A constable, Dhan Singh Thakur,
was killed on the spot and his colleague, Hemla Dhasru, sustained serious
injuries as a "pressure bomb", planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres went
off near the helipad in Bijapur District headquarters.
Demanding 32 per cent reservation for
tribals in Government jobs and unemployment allowance, Maoists appealed
to youths to boycott the Army recruitment rally to be held in Kanker
District from May 28 to June 2. In an SMS to The Indian Express,
Uday, secretary of North Regional Committee of the CPI-Maoist said:
"CPI (Maoist) calls upon all unemployed youths of Bastar and Chhattisgarh
to boycott the Army recruitment rally. I also appeal the youths not
to join the police, the paramilitary forces and the military."
May 25: Police busted a CPI-Maoist hideout
under Manpur tehsil in Rajnandgaon District and seized a cache
of illegal arms including crude rockets, capable of launching high-intensity
attacks. The Police also recovered several guns, bullets, cell phones
and 14 calling cards of various networks.
June 2: Two hardcore women CPI-Maoist
cadres were killed by SFs in a shootout in Dhamtari District. The Maoists
are yet to be identified by the SFs.
A Policeman was killed and his five
colleagues were injured, along with 19 prisoners, when a blast triggered
by the Maoists ripped through their vehicle on a bridge on National
Highway No.30 near Joba village in Kondagaon District. The victims were
returning after a court appearance at Kondagaon when the Maoists targeted
the vehicle in which they were travelling.
June 3: In reaction to the “protest
week” called by the Maoists, the Chhattisgarh Government set up special
investigation teams of the Police to keep vigil on top Maoist leaders.
Official sources said that the State Government has tightened security
throughout the ‘Red Corridor’ and put the Paramilitary Forces deployed
in the interior areas of Bastar region on maximum alert. The Maoists’
protest week began on June 1 against Operation Green Hunt, the
deployment of the army and allocation of iron ore mines to business
houses.
Elsewhere in the zone, the Maoists obstructed
vehicular traffic by digging up roads or blocking them with felled trees.
In the interior areas, they distributed pamphlets asking tribals to
protest against “deployment of army in Bastar in the name of training
them in jungle warfare”. Due to the protests, vehicular traffic
remained completely off the road.
June 3: An encounter was
reported between CISF personnel and suspected Maoists near the National
Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) mines in Kirandul town of Dantewada
District in the night. Officials said no one was injured in the incident
and that they managed to abort a possible strike attempt by the Maoists
who were all dressed in “black uniforms”.
June 5: Maoists killed
Chika Mazi, a Salwa Judum (an anti-Maoist vigilante
group) leader, outside his house at Gangapur village in Bijapur District.
Mazi was taking a walk outside his house located near a crowded market
when some armed Maoists fired at him, killing him on the spot, Additional
Superintendent of Police BPS Rajbhanu said. "Mazi had actively
participated in Salwa Judum movement in Naxal stronghold
of Bastar and had built a good rapport with the villagers," Rajbhanu
said.
Maoists are observing a
"protest week" to stop training given to Army in the Bastar
region, and have also announced a bandh (shutdown strike)
in Dandkaranya region on June 7. The Maoists felled trees and dug up
roads as part of their ongoing protests in Dantewada District, the Police
said.
Maoists “expressed regret”
over the recent attack on a vehicle carrying prisoners, saying it was
an “intelligence failure”. They also apologised to the families of those
injured and assured to “set up an inquiry and take necessary action”.
Earlier, it was reported that six Policemen and 19 prisoners were injured
when Maoists blew up their vehicle near Joba village in Kondagaon District
of Chhattisgarh on June 2.
June 6: CPI-Maoist cadres
fired on a CRPF base in Kosnar forest, triggering an exchange of fire
with the Security Force personnel in Narayanpur District. However,
no causalities were reported.
June 8: The CPI-Maoist
cadres killed a labourer, identified as Ramesh Markam of Masuri village,
while he was erecting the boundary of a CRPF camp at Golaband post in
Kondagaon District. The Maoists mistook him as a Policeman.
The Maoists triggered a
powerful blast on a key highway between Ramaram village and Borguda,
six kilometres from Sukma District headquarters. The explosion took
place just a few hours ahead of the weekly market held at Ramaram, the
Police said. No loss of life or property was reported in the incident.
In Konta block of the District,
the Maoists pasted pamphlets on the house adjacent to the house of Maraiguda sarpanch,
Hapsa Masa, threatening to kill the village heads of the areas, who
were earlier leaders of Salwa Judum (an anti-Maoist
vigilante group). The Maoists also put up a banner on Narayanpur-Antagarh
road, near Raoghat, demanding that the SFs be sent back to their barracks.
They also demanded jobs for the unemployed.
June 10: One CPI-Maoist
cadre was killed in an encounter with the BSF at Pamulbaya in Bijapur
District. The encounter started as group of armed Maoists opened fire
targeting the BSF camp at Pamulbaya in the morning. The BSF troopers
later recovered body of a Maoist in uniform at the encounter site. The
Police officer said Maoists also opened fire on other BSF camps at Cherpal,
Gangalur, Reddy and Kendulnar in the District during the day. But the
SFs in the camps successfully repulsed the attacks.
SF personnel recovered
substantial quantities of arms and ammunition following an encounter
with the Maoists at Mohala village in Rajnandgaon District. The recoveries
included two rifles, wireless set, detonator, blasting cable, equipment
required to manufacture tiffin bombs, naxal outfits, four tents, utensils,
ration and Naxal literature. However, the Maoists managed to escape.
June 10: A group of armed CPI-Maoist
cadres allegedly blew up portion of a railway track on Kirandul-Visakhapatnam
section near Bhansi railway station in Dantewada District, affecting
the transportation of iron ore from the mines in Chhattisgarh. According
to Police, the Maoists held the rail staff captive and then damaged
a railway engine parked at the Station and later on blew up a portion
of the track.
June 11: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a woman, were arrested from two different areas in Raipur District,
with arms and ammunition including nearly 300 live cartridges. The Maoists,
identified as Anjali Chauhan (35) and Mujeeb (45), were arrested after
a tip off that arms were being brought to the city from Bastar region,
Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Deepanshu Kabra said.
An AK-47, a SLR and 270 cartridges were seized from the duo, SSP Kabra
said. While Mujeeb was arrested from Ravanbhata area under Tikarapara
Police limits, Anjali was arrested from Sarona railway station. Also,
some Maoist literature and letters detailing the arms exchange, was
recovered from them. Both Maoists are members of the DKSZC, Kabra added.
June 13: Three Maoists were arrested
from Badeshetty village in Sukma District. "Kalmu Sanna, Ravan Sanna
and Kalmu Bundi are wanted in many cases of murder, attempt to murder.
Their names also cropped up during the investigations in connection
with the recent encounter between police and the ultras under Gadiras
police station limits," Sukma Superintendent of Police Abhishek Shandilya
said.
June 14: The Chhattisgarh Police arrested
an alleged Maoist and a journalist and seized 160 rounds of SLR rifle
and pistol in Raipur District. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)
Deepanshu Kabra said that a Maoist identified as Bablu was arrested
and ammunition along with a pistol was recovered from him. Besides,
a journalist identified as Sheikh Anwar who had allegedly procured weapons
and ammunition for the Maoists was also arrested. Kabra said that Anwar
works as a journalist in the Maoist-affected Kota area. He along with
one Ishaq Khan from Andhra Pradesh had procured the rounds either from
Police or the Paramilitary Forces for supply to the Maoists and Police
are on the lookout for Ishaq, the SSP said.
June 15: A CPI-Maoist camp was busted
and a cache of ammunition and explosive material recovered from the
forests of Katulbharora in Rajnandgaon District. Beside ammunition and
explosive SFs seized some school uniforms.
June 23: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a civilian in Sukma District. Local Police say that roughly 20 Maoists
stormed into the house of Marvijoga, a tribal in Arlampalli village
and took him away in a nearby forested area where they beat him to death
on charges of spying for Police and revealing vital information about
activities of local Maoists.
Maoists hacked to death a newly recruited
Police constable in Manpur area in Rajnandgaon District in western parts
of the State, Police said.
The Police arrested five Maoists in
the Bastar region, including two hardcore Maoists carrying cash reward
of INR 25,000 each on their heads. According to the report, of the five
arrested Maoists, three Maoists whose identity is yet to be ascertained
were in charge of the city network and were arrested following a precise
tip off from separate location. The other two Maoists, allegedly involved
in killing of Tansen Kashyap, brother of Tribal Welfare Minister Kedar
Kashyap, were identified as Dasharam and Janglu Korram.
June 25: Chhattisgarh chief minister
Raman Singh said that there was no move to release any of the hard-core
CPI-Maoist cadre, involved in any serious crimes such as murder, through
the high-powered committee reviewing the cases of all under-trials languishing
in prisons of the State.
June 28: The Chhattisgarh Police and
the CRPF claimed to have killed 20 Maoists in two separate incidents
in Bijapur and Sukma Districts in the night. The bodies of 17 men and
a woman were recovered after the encounter in Kotaguda panchayat
(village level local self-government institution) in Bijapur District,
while the bodies of two men were found after a fire-fight near Jagargunda
in Sukma District. “One body was in military green dungarees, the rest
were in civilian clothes,” said Bijapur’s Superintendent of Police,
Prashant Agarwal, adding the several improvised explosive devices, 303
rifles and muzzle-loading shotguns were retrieved from the encounter
site. “We received specific information that senior Maoist cadres were
going to hold a big meeting in the dense forests between Chintalnar,
Jagargunda and Basaguda,” said Agarwal, “Our teams were sent to the
spot, where they were fired upon by the Maoist Jan militia members.
Six troopers were injured and fired back in retaliation.”
Among the Maoists killed in Bijapur
District are ‘platoon commander’ Irpa Samlu and two members of the outfit's
guerrilla army PLGA — Markam Suresh, wanted in a jail break in Dantewada
and Kose Bija, claimed a CRPF officer in Delhi. Further, according to
Ajay Yadav, acting Police chief of Sukma District, the two Maoists who
were killed in the District have been identified as ‘platoon commander’
Sodi Dulla and Markam Lachha, a member of their armed squad.
There was a third encounter near Irpanar
village close to Abujmaad in Narayanpur District. However, there no
was casualty.
July 3: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a 25-year-old trainee Police constable in a crowded market place
at Bhansi town in Dantewada District. Jaikumar Mandavi was shot in the
back by suspected Maoists, dressed as locals, in the village when he
was returning home after buying grocery with his father.
Contractors are too scared to bid for
road development projects in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Road Transport
secretary AK Upadhyay said: "There are issues in Bastar region. Despite
our best efforts, the State Government is unable to award projects of
800 kilometres in the region. We have decided to go to the ground level,
interact with District-level officers and sort out the issue. The main
problem is that contractors are not coming forward to bid for these
projects. We will see if we can break up the bigger projects and engage
local contractors to complete these missing links."
July 4: The Maoists shot at a Policeman
and his son, injuring both critically, in Bastar District. Assistant
Sub-inspector of Police (ASI) Prakash Shukla (52) and his son Punit
(21) were riding a motorbike to Mardum when they were attacked.
Police discovered a 15-kilogram tiffin
bomb suspected to be planted by the Maoists along the roadside between
Badhgaon Police Station and Metagaon area in Kanker District.
July 5: The CRPF engaged in an encounter
with suspected CPI-Maoist cadres at the same spot in Sarkeguda village
where 20 people were killed on June 28. Around 100 CRPF personnel who
were on patrolling duty ahead of the day-long bandh called by
the Maoists in the area to protest against the killings, engaged in
the gunbattle.
July 6: SFs said they had recovered
an operational Global Positioning System (GPS), advanced direction-finder
devices, from a CPI-Maoist hideout in the forest of Barnara and Khursipar
in Rajnandgaon District during a raid in previous week. The other recoveries
included 10 memory cards, two pen drives (each of 4GB and 2GB storage
space), a BSNL SIM card, medicine packets, printers, scanners, fax machines
and few 12-volt photo voltaic cells.
The CPI-Maoist cadres have banished
six families from their village in Bijapur District after finding them
guilty of having one member each in the Police force. The Maoists branded
47 members of the families in Kantulnar village as Police informers
at a "jan adalat" [a kangaroo court] and passed their verdict.
July 17: NIA and Central intelligence
agencies have information that Naxals have set up weapons testing laboratories
in the Abujmaad forests of Chhattisgarh. “We did get some leads during
Techie Anna’s [RK] interrogation but then more intelligence was developed
following which we got concrete information that Naxals were developing
dangerous weapons through R&D at these laboratories. Now we trying
to trace their exact location,” a senior investigating official said.
July 18: A CPI-Maoist couple, identified
as Sonu Netam (21) and Kamla Markam (19), who had decamped with weapons
from a Police Station in Dhamtari District, were shot dead near Chameda
in a Police encounter. One INSAS rifle, 3 SLRs and some cartridges were
recovered from the spot.
The CPI-Maoist has issued a warning
to Policemen - “Quit or face the bullet,” - in Chhattisgarh threatening
that the ‘’entire village will be targeted if the Police personnel or
their relatives continued to reside there’’. The threat comes days after
the controversial killing of 19 people in an encounter with security
forces in the Maoist-affected State.
August 1: The Chhattisgarh Government
has finally pushed ahead with its stalled peace agreement with CPI-Maoist
reached after the abduction of collector Alex Paul Menon, clearing the
way for the release of suspected Maoists from jails, a top official
said. “As per the directive of the state government, the district administration
will not oppose the bail application of the suspected Maoists incarcerated
in Raipur Central Jail,” Raipur Collector Pardeshi Siddharth Komal said.
A constable was hacked to death in a
weekly market in Orchha in Narayanpur District.
August 3: A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an exchange of fire with Para-military troopers assisted by Chhattisgarh
Police in Edanar forest at Tadoki area in Kanker District. The Police
arrested two Maoist cadres and recovered live bombs, arms, detonators
and wires from the encounter site. Also reported that the Police destroyed
the temporary Maoist camp set up there.
August 5: Three months after they abducted
and released Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon, the CPI-Maoist
cadres in Chhattisgarh have accused their own mediators of deceiving
them by not ensuring the release of their jailed cadres in exchange.
“The mediators deceived us. They did not tell us anything about the
agreement and the committee. They told us the government has assured
them that some of our men will be released, so release the collector.
But nothing happened,” Keralapal Area Committee Secretary of CPI-Maoist,
Madkam Bhima alias Akash said. Akash led the abduction of Menon
on April 21. However, the mediators - B D Sharma and Prof G Haragopal
- refuted Akash’s allegations. “Now I don’t remember exactly. Everything
was well-settled then, I do not know from where these things are emerging,”
Sharma said.
August 6: Maoists blew up a Mine Protected
Vehicle killing a CRPF trooper and injuring five others in Dantewada
District. The blast that injured four CRPF and one State Police personnel
occurred when 80-personnel strong contingent of SFs were out on patrol
at a place under Aranpur Police Station of the District.
August
7: Two CRPF commandos were killed in a landmine blast carried out by
the CPI-Maoist cadres near Sarkeguda in Bijapur District. The commandos,
identified as constable KP Singh and Mukul Burman, were carrying rations
for a CRPF camp nearby when the vehicle (a TATA 407) in which they were
travelling was blown up.
August 12: Narayanpur District Superintendent
of Police Mayank Srivastava issued orders prohibiting carrying of weapons
by people especially 'tangia' (axe) in public places after a
constable was hacked to death by Maoists in the 'haat' (market),
official sources said.
August 14: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a primary school teacher identified as Rahman Singh Dhrub (42) at Jholaraw
forest under Sobha Police Station in Gariabandh District, allegedly
for being a Police informer. Local sources said Dhrub serving as a teacher
in Gorgaon primary school in the District, was abducted by a group of
armed Maoists from his home on August 7 for allowing SFs to spend a
night in his school last month.
August 20: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre,
identified as Ramdai, surrendered before Police in Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh. Ramdai had joined the Maoists three years ago and was
working with platoon no. 17 across the District. She was involved in
several incidents of violence including a recent encounter with SFs.
August 23: Chhotu Padha, a self-styled
'platoon commander' and his wife Karuna Usendi, a deputy section commander
of a dalam surrendered before the Police in Rajnandgaon District
of Chhattisgarh. The Maoist couples were actively involved in 2009 Markegaon,
Hatti Gota and Laheri encounters and blasts which had claimed the lives
of as many as 48 Policemen.
August 24: The SF personnel killed two
CPI-Maoist cadres and arrested four woman Maoists during a joint operation
of District Police and 39 Battalion of CRPF in Narayanpur District of
Chhattisgarh. SFs recovered the bodies of the two slain Maoists, 'Bharmar'
guns, ammunition and Maoist literature from the site. No casualty or
injury was reported among the SF personnel.
Dozens of technical and explosives 'experts'
among the CPI-Maoist ranks have sneaked into Bastar region of Chhattisgarh
from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh with a view to step up attacks against
the police and paramilitary. Bastar IG TJ Longkumer said, "Security
forces have been put on high alert in view of the Central investigative
agencies inputs. Andhra Pradesh-based top Maoists are now sneaking into
Bijapur district with a purpose to carry out attacks on police and paramilitary
forces."
August 28: A joint team of District
Police and CRPF destroyed a CPI-Maoist hideout located in the dense
forest of Mardakalan in Gariaband District of Chhattisgarh after an
encounter and recovered arms and ammunition. CRPF claimed that at least
three insurgents were grievously injured in the encounter.
August 29: Markam Somaru, secretary
of Gollapalli Gram Panchayat, was killed and four others
were injured when Maoists attacked the jeep in which the Gram
Panchayat secretary was travelling, along with four others in
Sukma District under Konta Police Station limits. Meanwhile, sources
said the attack was a case of mistaken identity. They said the Maoists
thought that the jeep was carrying Security Forces.
Police sources said a large number of
technical and explosive experts among the CPI-Maoist in Andhra Pradesh
have entered Chhattisgarh with a plan to attack the Security Forces
(SFs).
September 10: CPI-Maoist cadres set
ablaze seven vehicles engaged in road construction work in Temri village
under Gatapar Police Station area in Rajnandgaon District. The vehicles,
including a tractor, a tipper truck and a JCB machine, had been parked
at the construction site where no work was taking place due to heavy
rains.
September 17: The Chhattisgarh Government
has decided to employ five-to-eight-feet-high robots to detect and defuse
explosive devices, to minimise the loss of lives of SF personnel in
the CPI-Maoist stronghold of Bastar. The device has been developed by
the DRDO.
September 19: CPI-Maoist cadres opened
indiscriminate fire at a helipad in remote Gorkha village in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh, killing CRPF constable Mahadev Minj and injuring two
others, head constable Praveen Kumar and constable V Suresh.
September 20: In a major joint operation,
SFs destroyed an arms manufacturing unit of the CPI-Maoist and seized
huge quantity of explosives from a forest area near Neelamdagu at Pharsegarh
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. About 100 kilograms of explosives,
150 detonators, and materials to be used for manufacturing of country
made weapons, China torch, 300 metres of wires, 12 bore and muzzle loaded
guns and Maoist literature were seized during the raids.
September 21: The Bijapur Police arrested
Maoist ‘military platoon commander’ Markami Devi alias Lucky
(27) from Cherla village in Khammam District of Andhra Pradesh while
a joint team of the District Police and STF arrested Mitku Ram, a hardcore
Maoist in Kondagaon District. Markami Devi is wanted in a dozen cases
of heinous crimes and five standing warrants are pending against her
and Police had also announced INR 10,000 reward for her arrest. Mitku
Ram, a resident of Mungwal village, under Bayanar Police Station carried
a reward of INR 5,000 on his head and five permanent warrants were issued
against him.
September 24: An alleged CPI-Maoist
cadre was killed in an encounter with the Police in Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh. The encounter took place when District Police and STF
came under fire during an anti-Naxal operation in the forest near Enmeta
village in the District. The killed Maoist is yet to be identified.
Paramilitary troopers and Police housed
in at least 36 schools and hostels would be shifted out to solve the
problems being faced by students in the insurgency-hit Bastar division
of Chhattisgarh, an official said.
September 25: CPI-Maoist cadres shot
and injured a Police constable, identified as Pritam Singh Rajput, at
a bus stand in Sukma town in Sukma District.
September 26: Maoists have issued a
diktat asking the tribal Policemen serving in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit
Bastar region to pay one third of their salary or quit their job, Police
sources said.
Madkami Devi, ‘commander’ of platoon
number eight of CPI-Maoist, active in Pamed, Basaguda and Usur areas
in Bijapur District, who was arrested on September 21, at Cherla in
Andhra Pradesh’s Khammam District has revealed that the Maoists have
started engaging children aged 12-16 years in combat action with SFs.
September 27: Maoist cadre, identified
Pander Rachla, was arrested from a jungle near Bajrangi village in Kanker
District and a tiffin bomb was seized from him. "During interrogation,
Rachla said Naxals had planned to plant the tiffin bomb in a police
station and he had gone to recce the area when the police team nabbed
him," said Police.
Six CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
in a joint operation by the Police and CRPF near Modakpal weekly market
in Bijapur District of Chattisgarh. The arrestees are identified as
Erma Bhima (19), Kudium Sudru (18), Satyam (25), Hemla Rahu (24), Telam
Badru (25) and one minor.
September 29: Two Policemen were injured
when heavily-armed CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire on the CAF camp located
at Timmalwada village under Chintangufa Police Station in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh.
September 29: The battle against CPI-Maoist
is being won “slowly but steadily”, with SFs having gained control over
more than 5,000 sq km area in the last two years, the outgoing chief
of the CRPF K Vijay Kumar said. However, another 6,000 square km of
area, mostly in south Chhattisgarh and adjoining areas of Odisha, Andhra
Pradesh and Maharashtra, continue to remain almost completely out of
bounds for the SFs.
October 2: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre
was killed by SFs during a gunfight at Outapalli village under Basaguda
Police Station in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The Maoists fired a rocket launcher
at Gollapalli Police Station in Sukma District, which missed the target
and failed to explode. Sukma SP Abhishek Shandilya said since the rocket
launcher missed the target, there were no damage as well as casualties
in the incident.
The Chhattisgarh Police raided a CPI-Maoist
hideout in the forests of Keejing hills and seized huge quantity of
explosives, an EVM, bombs and other materials used for laying landmines
in Kondagaon District. The SF personnel also recovered 20 pipe bombs,
Chinese and Indian made grenades, booby traps, 50 liters of petrol,
wires, batteries, explosives and medicines along with school uniforms
and huge quantity of Maoist literature from the hideout. The recovered
items also included four rocket launchers, two pressure bombs and four
packets of hand grenades.
October 3: A senior Maoist leader and
a Maoist couple surrendered before the Police in Rajnandgaon District.
The surrendered Maoists are identified as Murli alias Budkar
Hidami, commander of local operating squad (LOS), Shantilal and his
wife Deema Salami, an active member of Chetna Natya Manch, the cultural
wing of the CPI-Maoist.
"Maoist insurgents have stepped
up their recruitment drive in Abujhmaad region forcing minor boys and
girls, mostly in their early teens, to join the rebel ranks," Bastar
SP RL Meena said. The rebels are conducting recruitment drives through
posters. The posters put up at Koyalibeda say that the first phase of
the recruitment is expected to commence from October 25 and last till
November 15. In the posters, the rebels have also demanded shutdown
of Rawghat and Chargaon iron ore mining projects strongly opposing displacement
of the villagers in these areas.
October 5: The Union Government has
floated global tenders to procure about 4,000 specialised "human
detecting" night vision devices in the wake of the recent controversial
encounter in Chhattisgarh where allegations of killing civilians were
levelled against the CRPF.
October 9: The SFs foiled a major bid
of the CPI-Maoist by recovering a 10-kilogram tiffin bomb hidden beneath
the soil on a road near Dornapal in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
Bijapur Police arrested four hardcore
CPI-Maoist cadres involved in half-a-dozen cases of heinous crimes,
from two different places in the District. Three Maoists, identified
as Pudiyami Paso, Kawasi Sukhram and Podiyami Budhram, all residents
of Kachraram village under Toyanar Police limit, were arrested from
Nemed weekly market while they were on a recce. The fourth Maoist identified
as Jebe Lachchu, of Rawapalli village under Madded Police limit in the
District was arrested from Bijapur bus stand.
October 10: A temporary CPI-Maoist camp
in the forest area between Jatwar and Karkabeda villages in Narayanpur
District of Chhattisgarh was busted by a joint team of District Police
and STF. Four loaded guns, a country made pistol, live cartridges, explosives
and other items were recovered from the camp.
Police pulled down two memorials built
by Maoists in honour of their slain associates in Kondagaon District.
The first memorial, around 15 feet high, was found in forest near Toyanar
and Madanar villages, while the second memorial, around 20 feet high,
was spotted in jungles of Cherang village in the District.
October 14: The CPI-Maoist cadres intercepted
four trucks involved in road construction work and set ablaze in Surokhi
village in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. A CRPF and Police team
was rushed to the area but as it neared the village, the Maoists triggered
a landmine blast and attacked them, injuring four Police personnel.
The SFs recovered a powerful pressure
bomb during a search at the encounter spot in Surokhi village in Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh.
October 17: Saket alias Rajesh
Pudo (23), an 'area commander' of the CPI-Maoist from Gadchiroli District
of Maharashtra surrendered before the Police at Mohla Police Station
in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh. Saket also handed over 54 live
rounds, three Self-Loaded Rifle (SLR) magazines and a walkie-talkie
to Police. Acting on his information the Police also recovered a SLR
from the forest area bordering Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.
October 19: Armed CPI-Maoist cadres
set ablaze three tractors, one JCB, a road-roller and a matador engaged
in road construction between Antagad and Amabeda in Kanker District
of Chhattisgarh.
October 20: Intelligence officials sounded
an alert that CPI-Maoist were working on a strategy to open a new corridor
between the states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in the coming winter
by taking advantage of freezing cold and foggy situation in the forested
border region.
October 22: A CPI-Maoist cadre identified
as Gote Wanga (30) was arrested by a joint team of District Police and
CRPF during a combing operation from a forest area near Timirguda village
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
Road construction works to the tune
of an estimated INR 3.5 billion are at a standstill in Sukma District,
located on the state's southernmost tip and the tri-junction of Chhattisgarh,
Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, due to Maoists threat.
October 26: The Police arrested two
CPI-Maoist sympathisers and seized a huge stock of medicines from their
possession in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
October 28: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
Malesh (25), a youth of Modakpal village in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh,
in suspicion of being a Police informer and threw his body on National
Highway. A letter found near the body also warned people not to cooperate
with the Police.
A joint team of District Police and
CoBRA troopers recovered two tiffin bombs of five kilograms each, suspected
to be hidden by the Maoists, during a search operation in a forested
location near village Markam in Sukma District. Later, the bomb disposal
squad diffused the bombs.
Two Maoists of 'section commander' rank,
identified as Punnem Sanna of Godampalli village and Bodu Ramesh of
Gaganpalli village of Konta block in Sukma District, had been active
in Malkangiri District of Odisha, for the past five years, surrendered
in Sukma District.
Maoists of the Dandakaranya Committee
pasted several posters and pamphlets at many locations in Sukma District,
and announced to boycott Rajyotsav in protest against the Sarkeguda
encounter and asked people to observe as black day on November 1.
October 29: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres
killed Swayam Inka (50), father of Assistant Constable Swayam Naraiyya
(20), under the Errabor Police Station in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
A note was recovered from the site, in which it was written that in
2006 Inka had allegedly committed atrocities against local tribals.
November 1: Five Maoists suspected to
have been involved in operations against Police forces were arrested
from two locations in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. Potam Shankar
(28), Araiya Dinesh (19) and Araiya Ganpat (19) were arrested from Gauraram
village under Maded area of the District by a joint patrolling team
of District Police, Chhattisgarh Sashastra Dal and CRPF. Another joint
team arrested Pinnapalli Rajesha (22) and Gavdi Nagaiya (20) from Sairkonta
village under Cherpally Police limits.
A Maoist 'commander', identified as
Pandu Ram Aanchala, wanted in 43 cases and carrying a reward of INR
67,000 on his head, was arrested in a joint operation conducted by the
Police and BSF troopers in Krugalmaspi village in Kanker District.
The Maoists have dropped pamphlets in
the areas surrounding Dhaudai in Narayanpur District, opposing President
Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Ramkrishna Mission Ashram on November 7.
November 2: The dead body of an unidentified
CPI-Maoist cadre who was killed in an encounter on October 31, 2012
was recovered from a forest near Murkinar in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The Union Government has decided to
ignore threats from Maoists and go ahead with developing an iron ore
mine in the LWE-affected Districts of Kanker and Narayanpur in the State
that would supply raw material to the iconic Bhilai steel plant.
November 3: Five Maoists, identified
as Tati Sarita (22), Erma Suklu (25), Michhya Banga (20), Michhya Suklu
(30) and Punem Ramesh (30), were arrested during a joint-search operation
conducted by Police and BSF troopers at Modakpal in Bijapur District.
November 4: Two CISF personnel were
killed when heavily-armed CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire at an iron ore
mining area in Baliadila hills of Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
The Maoists, estimated to be up to two dozen in number, also took away
an AK-47 and a self-loading rifle (SLR) which belonged to the killed
personnel.
The Chhattisgarh Police booked three
Maoists for allegedly subjecting two minor girls to repeated sexual
assaults after abducting them from their villages in Bijapur District.
A case has been registered against Kudiam Gujja, Nagesh and Shivaji
on the complaint of two girls who were allegedly raped by them in Muded
area in the District.
November 6: ASI Nilesh Pandey (27),
was abducted by CPI-Maoist cadres and subsequently killed near Chinger
Nala under Kutru Police Station in Raipur District.
A CPI-Maoist leader was killed in a
Police encounter in a forested area in Pusnar village under Gangalur
Police Station in Bijapur District. A loaded gun and other items were
recovered from the encounter site.
Five CPI-Maoist cadres, including two
women cadres, surrendered before the Police in Bijapur District. The
surrenderees are identified as Punem Sanu (20), Subhash Mandvi (25),
Paklu Akali (27), Chaiti Veti (24) and Munni Tati (27).
Chhattisgarh Police arrested three Maoists,
identified as Sarjuram Mandavi (23), Mahesh Usendi (20) and Jhaduram
(30), from the forest of Koilibeda area in Kanker District.
A joint team of the District Police
and CRPF troopers recovered a five kilogram tiffin bomb from a road
in Kanker District.
November 8: Senior Congress leader Mahendra
Karma (62), who led the Salwa Judum movement in south Chhattisgarh
in 2005, had a miraculous escape when a powerful landmine attack triggered
by the CPI-Maoist hit his convoy in Kamalnar, a forested area in Dantewada
District. Karma and the driver, Sukeshwar Jhole and two security guards
were injured.
Five Maoists, including one reportedly
involved in abduction and rape of a two minor girls, were arrested in
Bijapur District in separate operations.
Five active ‘commanders’ of the CPI-Maoist
surrendered before SP Prashant Agrawal in Bijapur District.
A Sessions Court in Kanker District,
sentenced four CPI-Maoist cadres to life imprisonment for killing Kheluram
Darro, a suspected Police informer from Nedgaon village on October 3,
2009.
November 10: SFs repulsed an attack
launched on them by CPI-Maoist inside Chintalnar forest at Morpalli
under Dornapal block in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada District and arrested
a member of the ambush party following an encounter.
November 12: Four Maoists were killed
in the Tarlaguda forest in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh in a Joint
Operation by Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh Police.
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Anila Dhurve, was arrested during a Joint Operation by District Police
and ITBP in Khadgaon area of Rajnandgaon District in Chhattisgarh.
November 18: Cadres of CPI-Maoist attacked
a combing party of Police and killed head constable Afzal Khan at Malnar
village in Kondagaon District in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
SF personnel arrested a Maoist, identified
as Rohit Gond, in Mohela area in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
during a Search Operation, said ASP Vijay Agrawal.
November 19: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres
ambushed a Police party by opening indiscriminate firing near Maragaon
in Gariyabandh District of Chhattisgarh but failed to inflict any casualty.
November 20: A gunfight with CPI-Maoist
cadres in Gariyabandh District of Chhattisgarh led the State Police
to seize large quantity of ammunition and explosive materials from a
forested hideout of the extremists. The SFs confronted the Maoists who
were holding a meeting in the forest of Maragaon village, some 125 km
from Raipur.
November 22: Chhattisgarh Police have
been put in ‘alert mode’ as a massive operation is under way in Odisha
to nab Sabyasachi Panda, Chief of OMP.
November 24: A CPI-Maoist couple, identified
as Hungaram and his wife Mase, wanted in a number of cases including
murder and attempt-to-murder, were arrested from Rengabeda village in
Narayanpur District, in a joint operation by the District Police, Chhattisgarh
Sashastra Bal and Special Task Force.
Five CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as
Hidmu Kohrami (22), Lakhmu Benjam (28), Vacham Raju (26), Madvi Baman
(24) and Padam Muio (23), were arrested from Tungeli village in Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh.
November 25: A joint team of Bijapur
Police and Chhattisgarh Armed Forces arrested a Maoist cadre, identified
as Kalmumi Minoo alias Manoj, near Ghudsakal village.
Four Maoists, identified as Chapa Naraiyya,
Vacham Ramaiyya, Talandi Pavarao and Matti Sukhram, were arrested from
Kottaguda and Kamlapalli forests in Bijapur District.
Police arrested three more Maoists identified
as Santosh Kumar Anchala (25), Birsingh Anchala (38) and Baisakhu Ram
(35) in Etebalka village of Kanker District.
Ramniwas, a 1982 batch IPS officer,
has been appointed as the new DGP of Chhattisgarh succeeding DGP Anil
M. Navaney, an official statement said. He will take charge on December
1.
November 28: SFs have seized fresh
pictures of Prashant Bose alias Kishenda — the No.
2 in the CPI-Maoist hierarchy — during a raid in Chhattisgarh; officials
engaged in anti-Maoist operations believe the pictures, found in a CD,
will help hunt down Bose, who carries a reward of INR 700,000 on his
head announced by the Chhattisgarh and West Bengal Governments.
November 30: Chhattisgarh’s newly appointed
DGP Ramniwas has said in Raipur that the State Police is keen to contain
Naxalism with the cooperation of the people and conduct policing with
sensitivity and professionalism, ensuring protection of Human Rights.
December 4: A group of around 60 armed
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze two tipper trucks used in road construction
work in Tongpal area in Sukma District.
Sanghuram alias Nagesh
Korram, a Jan militia ‘deputy commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested
from a densely forested region of Usari village in Kondagaon District
during a search operation conducted by a joint team of Bayanar Police
and CAF. Police recovered Maoist banner of PLGA week from December 2
to 8, along with posters, battery and wire from his possession.
December 6: CPI-Maoist cadres killed
Maniram Baghel (26), a resident of Kumharras village under Kukanar Police
Station in Sukma District, on suspicion that he was a Police informer.
December 7: CPI-Maoist cadres killed
Chhinnaram Gota, a former Salwa Judum leader and one
of his body guards at Kuprel village under Farsegarh Police Station
in Bijapur District. The other body guard, Budhram Toke, who was also
seriously injured in the attack, was later taken to the District hospital.
Before fleeing from the spot, the Maoists set ablaze the vehicle of
Chhinnaram and also took away three rifles.
Maoists killed a peon, working in a
local school, by slitting his throat at Amapani village in Kanker District.
The Maoists also left a pamphlet, stating that the person was
being punished for being a Police informer.
December 9: Chhattisgarh's new DGP Ramniwas
said the law and order situation in his State has improved and the Naxalite
problem was very much under control. The assistance from the Union Government,
good work done by the Chhattisgarh Government and cooperation from various
quarters are the factors responsible for improvement in law and order
and Naxal scenario in the tribal-dominated State, he added. There was
a need to bring people who have taken recourse to violence into the
national mainstream with the help of all those who believe in democracy,
the DGP said.
December 10: Aiming to further boost
the anti-Naxal operations particularly in Chhattisgarh, CRPF Director
General Pranay Sahay has taken up the issue of non-construction of vital
roads in operational areas with the State Chief Minister Raman Singh.
Maoist cadres opened indiscriminate
fire from a distance when a joint team of CRPF and CoBRA troopers were
on a routine patrolling in Chintalnar area in Sukma District.
A group of six Maoist cadres, in the
guise of local villagers, set ablaze a tractor engaged in road construction
work near Meharbada locality, in Narayanpur District.
Police arrested a dalam 'commander'
of the Maoists from Chotedonger area in Narayanpur District.
December 11: A wanted Maoist cadre,
identified as Sita Ram Salaam (20), was arrested from Nariya village
forest area in Kondagaon District, during a joint search operation conducted
by District Police and CAF.
December 14: Eight Maoist cadres were
killed by SFs in a gun battle during a raid on a Maoists' training camp
in Bande forest area of Kanker District.
SFs recovered explosives from a dump
in Bimagunda forests in Kanker District.
The 170th battalion of CRPF killed a
Maoist cadre, identified as Kawasi Budhram, and recovered 23 detonators,
tiffin-bomb, and ammunition of 315 bore rifle, muzzle gun, daily used
items and 'pitthu' from Kachlaram area of Bijapur District.
December 16: The teachers’ strike in
Chhattisgarh is snowballing into a major concern for the State Government
as well as the local intelligence officials as the CPI-Maoist supported
the strike.
December 19: Chhattisgarh Government
claimed that concerted efforts put in by various security agencies in
the State substantially brought down the number of Naxal related incidents
in 2012.
State Police and paramilitary forces
deployed in Bastar region are planning to launch a big operation against
Maoists in the areas bordering Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Maharashtra.
December 27: Four CPI-Maoist cadres
killed Mudiyam Naga (45), Sarpanch of Hirapur village, in Basaguda
area, at a weekly market of Awapalli village in Bijapur District.
December 30: SF personnel busted CPI-Maoist
training camp, following an encounter with the Maoists during a search
operation conducted, in Jappemarka forests in Bijapur District.
Delhi
May 10: A top CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Pradeep Kumar Singh, was arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch
in Rohini. The Police claim to have recovered a loaded 7.65 mm pistol,
and two live cartridges, from his possession. Pradeep, a resident of
Latehar in Jharkhand, was wanted in connection with an attack on a Police
team in Lohardaga in 2000, in which the then Superintendent of Police
Ajay Kumar Singh was shot dead. He then fled to Punjab, and remained
in hiding for more than five years. At present, he held the position
of an ideologue and recruiter to preach Maoist ideology, and motivate
the youngsters for the Maoist cause, the Police said.
June 6: Police arrested
Shiv Kumar alias Shiva, a suspected CPI-Maoist cadre
from Rohini in New Delhi. Delhi Police said he was involved in several
cases of murder and attacks on Police and Paramilitary personnel. A
9mm pistol was seized along with two live rounds. Shiva belongs to Narkopi
near Ranchi, Jharkhand. He was the ‘area commander’ of the Lohardaga
CPI-Maoist guerrilla squad. He was putting up with his brother-in-law
in the city since December after escaping a CRPF-Jharkhand Police encounter
in the forests of Sarayu.
August 8: While there has been no incident
of violence by the CPI-Maoist in Delhi, the Union Home Ministry has
admitted that this year they have assessed influence of front organisations
of Maoists in its six districts. "The influence of Maoists in areas
is assessed on the basis of both overground activities by front organisations
and violent activities by underground cadres," Minister of State
for Home Jitendra Singh told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
The Home Ministry has also said the CPI-Maoist operates in Delhi through
the city committee of the outfit and that Left-wing extremist groups,
such as CPI (ML) New Democracy and CPI (ML) Liberation, are active in
the Capital.
August 9: The Union Government ruled
out involvement of CPI-Maoist in July 18, violence in Maruti Suzuki’s
Manesar plant in Gurgaon. A top official of the Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA) said this conclusion has come after a probe looked into all angles,
including the possibility of a Maoist link to the violence.
November 12: Various terror charges
were framed by a Delhi Court against Yogender Singh Bhokta alias
Soren, a self-styled commander of CPI-Maoist, involved in several attacks
on Police teams and rival Naxal groups in Jharkhand.
Gujarat
October 3: SOG of Navsari Police arrested
Rajesh alias Pavan Dhanraj Rai, a sub-zonal 'area commander' of CPI-Maoist
from Chikhli village in Navsari District of Gujarat. Rajesh was arrested
following a tip-off by Bihar Police along with two of his accomplices
identified as Dhanaikumar Sahani of Muzaffarpur District and Sanoj Sahani
of Chhapra city in Saran District of Bihar, for providing local help
to him in Gujarat.
October 5: Suhag Paswan (23), an alleged
CPI-Maoist leader hailing from Muzaffarpur District of Bihar, who wanted
to set up the organisation's base in Gujarat, was arrested in Ahmedabad
District.
Jharkhand
January 1: A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Ganesh Lohra, a member of Guddu Singh squad of the outfit, and three
of his aides were arrested from a rented house in Pandra under Sukhdevnagar
Police Station on the outskirts of Ranchi District. The three aides
were identified as Mukeshan Soni, Satyendra Kumar and Abhishek Anand.
The Police recovered a bike, a four-wheeler and a mobile phone from
their possession.
Two additional CRPF battalions, earmarked
for the Saranda forest area that was freed from over 10 years of Maoist
dominance in a month-long offensive last August, will take guard in
February. At present, three battalions of Paramilitary troopers are
already stationed in Saranda. DIG, CRPF, Bhanu Pratap Singh said, “Though
the basic idea behind deployment of more CRPF jawans in Saranda is to
bolster the security apparatus in the area that had been home to Maoists
for about a decade, the troopers will also have to perform a major role.
They will have to provide full security cover to official machinery
that will be stationed in the forest under the Centre’s integrated action
plan (IAP),” Singh said.
January 3: The CPI-Maoist cadres beheaded
one youth, identified as Sukhram Munda, at Gamaria Raja Bazaar under
Adki Police Station limits in Khunti District after branding him as
a ‘Police informer’. "The headless body was recovered near a river
bridge at Gamaria Raja Bazaar and the victim's head was found after
a search of the area during the day," SDPO AK Sinha said. A leaflet
left by the Maoists read that similar would be the fate of Police "informers",
SDPO Sinha said.
A joint operation of the Khunti Police
and CRPF led to the recovery of 40 kilograms of IED planted by suspected
Maoists on a non-tarred road between Bhandra- Jilenga forests in the
District, the Police said. The Police unearthed the IED and recovered
around 200 meters of wire connected to it.
January 5: CPI-Maoist cadre, Balram
Sahu alias David (30), who was arrested near Jamui Railway Station
in Bihar on January 3, was brought back to the jail in Ranchi District.
Sahu, one of the six under trials who had escaped from a prison in Saraikela
District in 2011, is an accused in half-a-dozen cases, including robbery
of INR 50 million and two kilogram gold from an ICICI van and murder
of two State Government functionaries, DSP Pramod Kumar and Minister
Ramesh Singh Munda. David has reportedly told the Police that he had
paid INR 700, 000 as bribe to the jail staff to escape from the prison.
He is also learnt to have told the Police that after the jailbreak,
he had been shuttling between Jamui and Moktama in Bihar.
The Jharkhand Government appealed to
CPI-Maoist cadres to make a fresh beginning in the New Year by surrendering
to the rule of law, as it responded to feelers from a section of cadres,
but did not promise any let-up in ongoing anti-Maoist operations. The
Government gave a month’s time to active members of CPI-Maoist to return
to the mainstream, through an advertisement in local dailies on December
31. The notice also had on display the rehabilitation package a rebel
was entitled if they gave themselves up under the state’s surrender
policy approved in February 2009. Explaining the reasons behind the
renewed appeal, home secretary J.B. Tubid said the State had received
feelers that a large number of Maoists wanted to surrender, particularly
in Ranchi and Khunti, but they were being threatened by their leaders.
“So, we gave them a month to avail the opportunity and join the mainstream,”
he reasoned.
January 6: Several posters written in
red, blue and green ink were pasted by the CPI-Maoist cadres at public
places and Government offices in Dandai and Chinia areas of Garhwa District
asking the villagers, Government officials and newly elected panchayat
representatives to change their modus operandi. A day before [January
5], the Maoists also posted similar posters on the walls of Ranka and
Ramkanda block offices, Ranka market, passenger shed, pramukh office
and Udaypur bazaar of Ramkanda block. The posters also warned the TPC
to stop its activities. However, Police removed all the posters. Garhwa
Superintendent of Police Michael Raj S said, "We have information
that Maoists have been active in some parts of the district in a bid
to consolidate their support base." Police are aware of the recent
activities of the Maoists.
January 9: BJP MLA Gurusaran Nayak escaped
a bid on his life when CPI-Maoist cadres fired indiscriminately a few
metres away from his car near Harta village in West Singhbhum District.
The legislator was returning after inaugurating the chief minister's
Kanyadan Yojana at Harta Middle School in the District when the incident
took place. "I was the target of the Maoists, but I am safe," Nayak
said when contacted.
According to Palamu SP A T Mathew, Forces
will not be withdrawn from Palamu for the Uttar Pradesh polls, which
will have no impact on the ongoing operations against the Maoists. "We
expect some forces of JAP to be taken out from here for UP polls, but
this will not come in the way of anti-Maoist operations here," he said.
However, JAP personnel have been moved out of Jharkhand to Manipur for
assembly election in the north-eastern states slated to be held in February.
"Palamu division shares its borders with Chandauli and Sonebhadra in
UP, where there is a heavy presence of Maoists," said the CRPF DIG adding
that extremism in these places was on the wane.
January 10: The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
an excavation site owned by Panem Coal Mines Limited at Katahaldih in
Amrapara in Pakur District and killed a security guard. Over two dozen
Maoists armed with sophisticated firearms and traditional weapons stormed
the coal excavation site and fired indiscriminately on security guards
posted there. One of the guards, Pramod Yadav, was killed in the firing
while at least four others sustained bullet injuries. Before leaving,
the Maoists set ablaze an earthmover, though company sources said three
vehicles had been burnt.
During a special operation carried out
by the CRPF and District Police at Hunterganj locality in Chatra District,
a CPI-Maoist 'sub-zonal commander', identified as Madanji alias
Tiwariji alias Basudeb Bhuyan, was arrested. Chatra SP Anup Birtheray
said Madanji was wanted in about ten cases. A rifle, a pistol and 20
detonators were recovered from him.
January 11: The CPI-Maoist cadres shot
dead Makheran Ganju, a former 'area commander' of the outfit, in Chatra
District, for quitting the outfit. The bullet-riddled body was recovered
at Roshan village of the District along with a Maoist note.
A group of 15 railway employees cleaning
railway tracks found a can bomb weighing 20 kilogram on the line at
Banaso between Jarangdih and Bokaro Thermal stations in Bokaro District.
Bokaro SP Kuldeep Dwivedi said, "The bomb weighed 20 kilogram. We have
launched a search in the area after the recovery of the bomb. No other
bomb was found." The place where the bomb was found falls under the
Coal India Cord section in Dhanbad division through which many passenger
and goods trains pass everyday. Fortunately, the bomb was old and did
not explode. "The bomb was possibly planted by the Naxalites in 2009
at the spot where a landmine blast was triggered by the Maoists during
the Red bandh. The wires attached to the bomb were damaged. However,
we have defused the bomb," a Police officer said.
A CRPF team arrested Gambhir Singh Bhumij
(38), an armed Maoist and active Maoist propagandist from Indurbati
village in Patamda Police Station area in East Singhbhum District. The
Police recovered his katta, a country-made pistol from his possession,
East Singhbhum SSP Akhilesh Kumar Jha said. "We nabbed one of them,
who turned out to be Bhumij. Interrogation revealed that he was a resident
of Amjore village in Patamda and was attached to the Ayodhya Pahad squad
in Balrampur block in Purulia District of West Bengal," CRPF's Battalion
VII commanding officer Sanjay Kumar Singh said, adding rebels operated
simultaneously in Dalma-Patamda, Ayodhya Pahad and Dampara.
January 12: Two close accomplices of
sub-zonal 'commander' Kundan Pahan were arrested from Tamar area in
Ranchi District, during an raid. The two Maoists have been identified
as Sukhlal Munda alias Suresh Munda alias Badaku alias
Chattan and Etwari alias Vidramani alias Shakuntala alias Suku
from Hurugdih village. During interrogation the duo it came to light
that Pahan was injured in the encounter in Saranda forest of West Singhbhum
District on December 21, 2011.
A close associate of top Maoist 'commander'
Kundan Pahan, identified as Chattan Singh, was arrested along with his
girl friend Aitwari alias Shanuntala from Ruragdih village under
Tamar Police Station in Ranchi District. Giving the information SSP
of Ranchi S.K. Singh said that Chattan Singh is involved in the killing
of a former MLA, the bank van loot and many other criminal incidents.
January 15: An injured CPI-Maoist cadre
died in a hospital in Jamshedpur a few hours after his arrest from an
area under Gurabandha Police Station in West Singhbhum. Gulach Munda,
an accused in the abduction of a block development officer in 2010 besides
15 other offences, died in the M G M Hospital. Munda sustained injury
while he was trying to escape from the clutches of the Police.
January 15-16: The SFs arrested two
CPI-Maoist cadres from separate places during anti-Maoist operations
in Latehar and Bokaro Districts. The two arrestees are identified as
‘area commander' Janaki Mahato and Maoist cadre Moti Mahato from villages
situated near Jhumra foothills, ASP Prasant Karn said. As many as seven
IEDs were recovered at Barwadih in Latehar District during search operation.
Besides four IEDS, the SFs recovered 500 grams of gun powder, 15 metre
black wire, 20 kg ammonium nitrate, a double barrel gun and one country-made
gun, the ASP said.
January 16: One person was killed and
another got injured when SFs allegedly fired at their car after they
ignored a warning to stop for checking during a CPI-Maoist State-wide
bandh in Palamu District. "The CRPF and the District Police
who were patrolling after the Maoists called a state wide shutdown last
night [January 16] opened fire on the car after the occupants ignored
their call to stop for checking at Sultani Ghati," SP Anup T Mathew
said. "Dara Singh alias Devendra Singh, who was driving the car,
died in the car while Ajit Singh suffered bullet wounds and was referred
to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi," the SP
said. The duo hailed from Jangop village in Aurangabad District in Bihar,
Mathew said and added they were returning home when the incident happened.
An armed group of CPI-Maoist, shot dead
a cadre of the TPC, identified as Avdhesh Yadav (45), in Palamu District.
The slain TPC cadre was a resident of Jhargada village under Hussainabad
subdivision of the District.
January 17: Amidst speculations about
the possible dates and venues of the tenth Congress of the CPI-Maoist,
sources said the Maoists have begun their secret conclave at a place
in Saraikela District, bordering the State’s capital Ranchi. There have
been various reports about the meeting scheduled to be held this month.
While earlier reports said it would be held in Jharkhand, some reports
said it was scheduled to take place in their Abujhmad stronghold in
Chhattisgarh. Sources said “the meet began in Saraikela District from
January 12.” The ninth CPI-Maoist Congress was also held in Jharkhand.
East Singhbhum Police launched a massive
combing operation at Ghurabandha in Ghatshila following intelligence
inputs on infiltration of armed Maoists from West Bengal. According
to intelligence sources, an armed squad of Maoists from West Midnapore
District in West Bengal had taken shelter at Kudian and Hariyan pahads,
in Ghurabandha. During the combing operation at the hillocks in Ghurabandha,
Police and CRPF troopers rounded up a suspected Maoist from Gian village.
The Police refused to disclose the name of the villager. A senior officer
said the armed Maoists, reportedly hiding in the hilly terrain, might
have given Police the slip and sneaked into Odisha while the combing
operation was on. Five companies of CRPF, besides two of JAP, took part
in the operation that began at around 6am and lasted for over 12 hours.
East Singhbhum Senior Superintendent of Police Akhilesh Kumar Jha said
that though the intelligence network had recently alerted the forces
on the movement of Maoist ‘area commander’ (Ghurabandha) Kanhu Singh
Munda and his assistant Puttu Singh Munda, information on the fresh
infiltration of the rebels prompted them to launch the operation.
Work on setting up as many as 21 CRPF
camps, as a part of the Saranda Action Plan, a development initiative
in West Singhbhum, is yet to start, awaiting clearance from the forest
department, while the state is yet to form a Saranda Development Authority
as advocated by Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh after
visiting the forest early December, 2011. Moreover, two additional CRPF
battalions that came from Jammu & Kashmir have not been deployed
in Saranda for lack of infrastructure support. Currently, these battalions
are undergoing training at a jungle warfare school in Netarhat (Latehar)
and at Hazaribagh Districts.
The teaching fraternity in Latehar District
held a sit-in rally to protest the frequent abductions of teachers in
the State. Interacting with media persons, teachers said that often
abducted teachers are tortured and threatened by Maoists which has created
a fear in the mind of the entire teaching fraternity in the region.
"Teachers are often abducted by Maoists in forest areas and brutally
beaten, tortured and threatened. Maoists also say that if we tell anything
to media or state authorities, they would kill us. We are scared about
our existence," said Ramesh Kumar, a primary teacher.
January 18: Security arrangement has
been beefed up in view of the 24-hour bandh in Ghatshila sub-division
in East Singhbhum District called by the Maoists from midnight of January
18, the first bandh after night train services resumed in the
Tata-Kharagpur-Rourkela section of South Eastern Railway. The bandh
call has been given in protest against the killing of a Maoist, Gulach
Munda, on January 15. The services resumed on January 12, which had
remain suspended since the Jnaneswari Express derailment incident near
Jhargram, in West Bengal on May 28 2010.
January 19: A day after seven unidentified
bodies were recovered in the afternoon of January 18 from near Gagra
village in Khunti District, the Police identified the victims and ruled
out Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) involvement. The dead
are identified as Akash Hassa (20), Puno Hassa (21), Fudu Hassa (20),
Kande Munda (22), Redan Munda (50), Teknath Munda (38), and Fagu Munda
(20). Khunti Superintendent of Police M. Tamil Vanan said “After primary
investigations, we are 99 per cent sure that the rebels did not orchestrate
the killings. Personal rivalry appears to be the main motive.”
The daylong Maoist bandh in Ghatshila
subdivision in East Singhbhum District evoked mixed response. Amid heightened
security arrangements in six blocks of the subdivision, the bandh
witnessed mixed response with commercial establishments and markets
in Ghatshila, Musabani, Gorabandha and Dhalbhumgarh blocks, which remained
closed for a large part of the day. However, in Baharagora and Chakuliya,
the effect of bandh was relatively less with markets reporting
brisk business. Transportation was largely affected with passenger buses
scheduled for Jamshedpur, Chaibasa, Musabani, Seraikela, among other
routes, remaining off the road for the day.
January 21: As many as 50 – 60 armed
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a landmine blast and blew up an armoured
vehicle, killing 13 Police personnel on board in a forest of Garhwa
District. Led by OIC of Bhandaria Police Station Rajbali Chowdhary,
troopers of VII battalion of JAP were accompanying local BDO Vasudev
Prasad and Garhwa zilla parishad chairperson Shushma Mehta, who
were on way to Bargarh village in separate cars to resolve a dispute
over a health centre due to which villagers were observing a shutdown.
Vasudev, whose vehicle was ahead of the armoured van carrying the Policemen,
survived the attack. “Thirteen Policemen, including Officer-in Charge
of Bhandaria Police Station, have died. The rebels took away 11 INSAS
rifles, one SLR and two AK 47 rifles from the Security Forces,” said
State Police spokesperson and IG (Provision) RK Mallick. According to
information as many as 50 – 60 armed Maoists were involved in the attack
that lasted for nearly 30 minutes. CM Arjun Munda, who was in Gumla,
said the Maoists attack was an act of cowardice. “They killed innocent
Policemen by planning an ambush. So far reports of 13 deaths have been
confirmed,” he said.
January 22: The CPI-Maoist have listed,
the immediate halt to the security offensive and withdrawal of Security
Forces from Saryu, Kone, Oraiya and other areas in Latehar, Palamu and
Garhwa Districts, as pre-conditions for the release of hostages. Garhwa
zilla parishad chairperson Sushma Mehta, Akhtar Ansari [State
(CPI-ML) Liberation member], her bodyguard Suresh Ram and driver Mehboob
Ansari were abducted on January 21 after a landmine blast that killed
13 Policemen. “First stop harassing the poor in the name of a security
offensive against us and remove security build-up in these areas. We
will consider their release only after that,” said Maoist spokesperson
Sudhir. “We are in touch with our Chhattisgarh counterparts. Borders
have been sealed. We are working on specific intelligence input to trace
these four who are being held captive by the Maoists,” said DGP GS Rath.
Further, local journalist Satish Kumar Sinha was also abducted. However,
they released Sinha after two hours of captivity and after holding a
press conference in his presence.
January 23: The CPI-Maoist cadres triggered
an explosion in the forest area along the Jharkhand- Chhattisgarh border
in Garhwa District. The explosion took place somewhere in the forests
at Chatia-Matgari, 20 Kilometres away from Bariganwa forest. Search
operation by the SFs continued in the forests in the District, according
to sources in Bhandaria Police Station of the District.
January 24: The Police arrested two
persons, including a village sarpanch for their alleged involvement
in the landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist on January 21 that
claimed 13 lives, in Garhwa District. "Bargarh village sarpanch Ramdas
Minz and his aide Fida Hussain were arrested after we got evidence against
them. They are charged under various Sections, like murder and criminal
conspiracy," SP Michael S. Raj said.
The Garhwa District committee of the
CPI-ML called for a bandh to protest the Police failure to trace zilla
parishad chairperson Sushma Mehta, and three others, 48 hours after
they were abducted from Lalmatia by Maoists. Later on the day, one Sudhir,
who claimed to be the Maoist spokesperson, informed over telephone in
Latehar that the Maoists had released zilla parishad chairperson
Sushma Mehta and two other abducted persons. He said they would reach
Garhwa by the evening.
In a letter written to the Chief Minister
Arjun Munda, the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram expressed his dissatisfaction
with the performance of Jharkhand Government in combating Maoists. The
letter, according to sources, also contained an advisory pointing to
the possibility of Maoist-engineered attacks on Police vehicles. The
State Government played down the importance and timing of the letter,
saying such communications was being sent to States regularly. Chidambaram
pointed out Jharkhand had not been able to prevent rampant extortion
by, and violence among, Maoist splinter groups.
January 25: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
killed their former cadre at Jangi-giri in Giridih District. The cadre,
identified as Khublal Mandal, recently released from jail after completion
of his two-year jail term, was taken away to Jaridih and shot dead by
the Maoists. His dead body was recovered in the morning of January 26,
the Police said.
January 26: The Police averted a possible
CPI-Maoist attack in the State on the Republic Day with the recovery
of 32 landmines from a forest in Latehar District. The landmines, each
weighing five kilograms, were planted in a row in Laap forest in the
District, some 130 kilometres from State capital Ranchi. An unnamed
Police officer said the landmines were planted beneath an unpaved road
used by Police vehicles.
Jharkhand Governor Syed Sibte Razi urged
CPI-Maoist to shut violence. Taking part in the 63rd Republic Day celebrations
in Ranchi, the Governor hoisted the national flag and asked the CPI-Maoist
to join the mainstream of the society. CM Arjun Munda hoisted the tricolour
in the State's second capital Dumka.
January 27: A Policeman, Constable Amitabh
Barla, was killed and his friend was seriously injured after suspected
cadres of the PLFI, a break away faction of the CPI-Maoist opened fire
on them at a marriage party in a Ranchi village in Ranchi District.
Constable Amitabh Barla died on the spot after being shot from close
range. SP (rural) Asim Vikrant Minj said that it was because of "personal
rivalry" that Barla was attacked by suspected PLFI cadres. Barla is
known to have links with the Jitendra Nayak gang active in the region
before joining the Police Force in 2009. "He was a member of the nexus
led by Nayak and worked against the Jainath Sahu gang," Minj said.
The CPI-Maoist cadres fired at a make-shift
camp of the SFs, triggering a gun battle at Barwadih in Latehar District.
However, there was no report of any loss of life, Latehar SP Kranti
Kumar said, adding the two sides were exchanging fire intermittently.
The encounter followed a special drive launched by the District Police
and the CRPF in the stronghold areas of the Maoists in Maoist-infested
parts of the District, Kumar said.
Maoist splinter group, the JPC, hoisted
an inverted national flag in Palamu District to mark their protest as
the country celebrated the 63rd Republic Day. Cadres of the JPC chose
the occasion to raise protest against Government apathy by hoisting
two national flags, one of which was inverted. "We would have had jobs
had we reaped the benefits of freedom. We would not have been compelled
to choose the path of violence. Maoists are hoisting black flags. So
we are respecting the tricolour flag and rejecting the black flag, all
children in the area are hoisting the tricolour," said Avinash, a JPC
leader.
January 28: Anti-CPI-Maoist operations
were halted for a day in the hope that the Maoists would release abducted
Policeman Suresh Ram, who has not returned home after the January 22,
2012 landmine blast in Jharkhand's Garhwa District. The operations were
halted for a day after Ram's family made a request on the basis of media
reports that he would be released if they were halted, Garhwa SP Michael
S Raj told the reporters in Garhwa.
The Ranchi Police arrested six PLFI
cadres, including PLFI 'leader' Aditya Kumar Gope from Pandra Bazar
in the District. Gope was wanted in a number of cases registered with
the Gumla Police; antecedents of his aides are yet to be verified. "We
suspect all five members of his group - Mantu Kumar Singh, Kundan Kumar
Chandravanshi, Rahul Dayal, Vishal Kumar and Nadim Ansari -to have links
with the PLFI," said city SP Ranjit Prasad. Gope was identified as a
wanted criminal who was released on bail recently," Prasad said. The
Police recovered one SUV and one stolen motorcycle from their possession.
Five Maoists surrendered before the
Khunti Police in Khunti District. Khunti SDPO Ashwini Kumar said that
Maoist Ranjit Bodra and PLFI cadre Sundar Pahan alias Nageshwar were
in contact with Khunti SP Tamil Vanan and were convinced to surrender
with two Maoists - Rohit Oraon and Narua Tirky of Nagri - whereas PLFI
activist Arjun Singh surrendered with Pahan who was accused in many
cases of arson, abduction and killing. Pahan was designated as area
commander of the banned PLFI. The Naxalites also surrendered four single
barrel guns, one 9mm pistol, live cartridges and five landmines weighing
between 15-20 kilogrammes.
January 30: The SFs recovered a landmine under the
road from Manoharpur to Digha in West Singhbhum District, the venue
of Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's visit. The landmine
weighing around 15 kilograms was placed at the centre of the road, around
3.5 kilometres away from the venue in Salai village.
Union Rural Development Minister Ramesh
released funds of INR 2.5 billion rupees for 'Saranda Action Plan' (SAP).
The Action Plan which was prepared after recovering the area from the
CPI-Maoist in 2011, targets 900 square kilometres of the Saranda forest
range in West Singhbhum District of the State. Speaking to the media,
Ramesh said that Maoists will be defeated with development, security
and political participations of the people.
January 31: The SFs neutralised a CPI-Maoist
bunker and a training camp in Latehar District. Latehar SP Kranti Kumar
said the bunker and the training camp were neutralised during search
operation by CRPF and the Police near Lawarnuri village under Barwadih
Police Station. The SFs recovered explosives and other materials from
there, SP Kranti Kumar added.
The Police recovered 150 double detonator
boosters, which are used in exploding landmine blasts, near Koradag-Tolsandih
village under Bundu Police Station in Ranchi District. The Police also
recovered two country-made revolvers, one pistol, a gun and one 15 kilogrammes
can bomb from there, the Police said.
February 1: Three Policemen, including
an ASI, were killed and five others got injured when CPI-Maoist cadres
triggered a landmine blast near an under-construction diversion on National
Highway-99 close to Balumath Police Station in Latehar District. The
Policemen were going in two jeeps from Chandwa to Balumath, around 75
kilometres from Ranchi. Since it was dark and the Maoists continued
to fire at regular intervals it was difficult for the SFs to launch
a rescue operation. The condition of one of the injured is said to be
serious.
The SFs neutralised a Maoist training
camp and four bunkers at different places in the Saniya forest in Latehar
District and recovered a huge cache of explosives, Maoist literature,
uniform, slings, detonators, ready-to-eat-food and food grain from the
training camp and bunkers. The recoveries include 12 Chinese grenades
and 36 IED, 100 kilograms of gun powder kept in two bags, a couple of
country-made pistols and equal number of rifles. Around 1,400-metre
wire, a detonating cord generally used in mining, electric wire and
detonators were also recovered during the operation. "The amount of
ready-to-eat-food and food grain seized from the training camp and bunkers
show that at least 50 rebels used to stay there," said a source.
February 2: The bodyguard of the Garhwa
zilla parishad chairperson, Suresh Ram, was released after being
held captive by the CPI-Maoist cadres since January 21. The Maoists
handed Ram over to human rights activist Shashi Bhushan Pathak who was
requested to mediate in the matter.
February 3: The Jharkhand Police found
the CPI-Maoist making profits from illegal coal trade through private
coal companies when they conducted raids on companies in Bokaro District.
"After watching their work for 12 days, Police conducted raids on three
private coal companies and seized 2000 tonne of illegally dumped coal,"
DIG LP Singh said. Stating that the companies were situated near Maoist-affected
areas near Lugu Pahar at Jhumra Hills, he said the Maoists were indulged
in illegal coal trade allegedly through these companies. However, there
were no arrests yet as the Police is still trying find the owners of
the company.
February 4: The CRPF personnel recovered
two IEDs during search operation planted by the CPI-Maoist in East Singhbhum
District The IEDs were strategically planted at separate places at Chaukila
and Mushabani with an aim to target the Police, SDPO Naresh Kumar said.
February 5: The CRPF personnel in the
CPI-Maoist-hit area of Bundu District organized a community-policing
programme to win the confidence of local people. The strategy has been
adopted to bridge the gap between SFs and the public, especially youths,
who are easily lured by the Maoist cadres. Residents from eight villages
of the area were provided agricultural equipment, fogging machine, anti-malaria
medicine, medicated mosquito nets, water filter and sports items as
part of the civic action programme.
The Bokaro Police launched a massive
hunt in an effort to check monetary flow to the Maoists from illegal
coal-miners. In the past few days, the Police have seized around 2,200
tons of illegal coal from different places in Chandankyari and Nawadih
areas of Bokaro District. The Police sources said a large part of the
earnings from illegal coal mining went to Maoists. In case the miners
defy the diktat of the Maoists, their business operations stopped.
"Every year, at least INR 20-30 million goes to the Maoists and other
Maoist groups from illegal mining in the area," said a source.
February 6: A fresh offensive against
Maoists has been launched in Latehar District and it is being led by
zonal IG Rezi Dungdung. As many as 15 to 20 companies (about 1500 to
2,000 personnel) of CRPF and State Police are taking part in the operations,
Police sources said. The operation follows intelligence input about
a large Maoists presence in the area. According to sources, the SF personnel
had moved deep into the forests in and around Balumath and Manika Police
Stations areas. Simultaneous operations are on in Saryu, Kone and Oreya
area.
February 7: About 25 suspected cadres
of the TPC, a break away faction of the CPI-Maoist, stalled the ongoing
construction work of Tahley diversion on the Garhwa-Daltonganj road
and shut down a brick kiln located near the Tahley river in Garhwa District.
At both places, the TPC cadres assaulted the persons engaged in work.
They also robbed of six cell phones from the labourers.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said
that despite alarming escalation in CPI-Maoist violence in Jharkhand,
no serious effort has been made by the State Government to deal with
the LWE. In a letter to Chief Minister Arjun Munda, Chidambaram said
Jharkhand became the most affected State in Naxal violence in 2011 and
the situation there was a "major cause for concern". He asked Munda
to galvanise the State Police leadership to take more pro-active steps.
"Anti-Naxal operations in 2011 have been unfortunately ineffective.
No serious efforts appear to have been made to launch a counter offensive
when security forces personnel were killed by the CPI (Maoist)," Chidambaram
said in the recent letter. Further, Jharkhand is the only LWE-affected
State which has reported more snatching of arms in 2011 compared to
the previous year. "Two top CPI (Maoist) leaders - Prashanto Bose alias
Kishan da and Mihir Besra - are very active in the State, according
to intelligence reports," the letter said. Chidambaram told Munda that
the increase in Maoist activities were manifested by the alarming increase
in the number of 'Jan Adalats' (so called people's courts) - 53 in 2011
compared to 25 in 2010. Through these Jan Adalats, the extremists have
created a wave of terror amongst the people by publicly punishing those
who 'disobey' their 'writ' in the State, he said.
February 10: An exchange of fire took
place between the SF personnel and the CPI-Maoist cadres at Patung in
West Singhbhum District. The incident took place after the Maoists opened
fire on SF personnel, who were on long-range patrolling in the Maoist-dominated
pockets. However, no casualties were reported from either side.
Three cadres of the PLFI, a breakaway
faction of the CPI-Maoist, including an 'area commander', were arrested
from Dhodhtritoli under Raidih Police Station in Gumla District. Gumla
SP Jatin Narwal said the arrested PLFI cadres have been identified as
'area commander' Durjan Singh, Surendra Pal Singh and Bandhan Oraon
- all residents of the same Police Station areas of the District. "Police
recovered a country-made pistol, eight sim cards, a cell phone and four
live bullets besides a dairy containing names of the persons from whom
PLFI activists extorted levy," said the SP.
February 11: The SFs arrested five LWEs
and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition in separate operations
from across Gumla District. "We have arrested Durjan Singh, who is an
agent of the banned outfit PLFI and was dreaded in several areas. In
another incident, we have also taken into custody two criminals who
had come here to kill a witness. We have also seized arms from them.
We arrested them after they fired at us following a chase," Gumla SP
Jatin Narwal said.
February 13: The two-day joint operation
against the CPI-Maoist by the CRPF and District Police in the Pipra
area, close to Bihar border, ended forcing the Maoists to escape.
February 16: Around 50 cadres of the
JJSM, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, attacked the Tori railway
siding of the CCL in Latehar District.
Garhwa District Police arrested five
cadres of the JPC, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, and recovered
a country-made gun, seven cell phones, 12 sim cards and hand-written
pamphlets from them. The arrested JPC cadres are identified as Ravi
Kumar, Sanoj Kumar and Kamlesh Kumar, residents of Majhigawan village,
and Bimlesh Yadav and Lal Chand Yadav, both from Honhey village of Ranka.
February 17: Anup Bhuyan, an alleged
cadre of JJP, a LWE group, was killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Latehar
District. Bhuyan was picked up by the Maoists from his house at Kurungkhata
village under Manika Police Station and shot dead, the Police said.
Maoists exchanged fire with cadres of
the PLFI, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, for about two hours at
Karamtoli in Gumla District. However, there was no report of any casualty.
CPI-Maoist reportedly called a state-wide
bandh in protest against the alleged killing of a deaf and mute
youth by a CRPF troopers engaged in anti-Naxalite operations in Latehar
forests.
Jharkhand Governor, Syed Ahmed expressed
concern over LWE in the State and stressed the importance of curbing
it.
February 18: The armed cadres of the
CPI-Maoist abducted six labourers engaged in construction of a road
under the PMGSY at Bengabad, under Bengawar Police Station near Baghmara
in Giridih District. Rampati Kushwaha, the contractor of the Parditand-Sariya
road project, said that a group of about 100 armed Maoists reached the
makeshift camp shortly before midnight where the labourers were resting
with their families and set ablaze four vehicles of the project and
later, the Maoists abducted the six workers - identified as Nirmal Singh,
Congress Das, Pravin Verma, Umesh Singh, Alam Ansari and Siraj Ansari
- all from neighbouring Bihar at gunpoint.
February 20: The TPC, a splinter group
of the CPI-Maoist pasted posters in Balumath area of Latehar District,
warning the upcoming power plants of dire consequences if they did not
stop felling trees and give adequate compensation to the displaced families.
The rebels pasted posters at Balumath to send a message to the displaced
families to come forward for help from the organization.
February 21: The CPI-Maoist cadres released
all the six labourers they had abducted in the night of February 18,
the Giridih Police said. Giridih SP Arun G Onkar denied any ransom paid
to the Maoists.
February 22: A total of 1300 powerful
detonators were seized from a truck at Padma area on the NH-33 in Hazaribagh
District. The driver and cleaner of the truck were arrested. The Police
were investigating whether the consignment was meant for the Maoists.
The UMHA asked the State Government
to identify top-five CPI-Maoist leaders active in the State and intensify
operations in Saranda forests in West Singhbhum District. The directives
were issued by UHM P. Chidambaram during a meeting of Chief Secretaries
and Directors- General of Police of the Naxal-affected States in New
Delhi.
February 23: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist
fired indiscriminately at Balumath Police Station and a nearby camp
of SF personnel in Latehar, leaving a man dead. The man was sleeping
on the roadside when he was hit by a bullet fired by attacking Maoists.
The Maoists were forced to retreat after retaliatory action by the SF
personnel. No casualties have been reported from either side.
The Maoists blew up the vacant house
of panchayat member, Rajendra Sahu in Latehar District.
February 25: The cadres of the PLFI,
a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist, killed a schoolboy and his grandfather
in Khunti District. According to Police, the PLFI cadres attacked the
house of B.Y. Toppo, situated in Thunku village in the District, around
45 kilometres from Ranchi. The PLFI cadres killed the two of them and
set their house on fire.
February 27: The one-day bandh called
by the CPI-Maoist in all the 24 Districts of the State was largely peaceful.
The bandh was called by the Maoists who are not in favour of changes
in the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act (CNT).
February 28: Five top cadres of the
CPI-Maoist, including four accused in the January 21 Bariganwa landmine
blast that killed 13 Policemen, were arrested from Chatania and Parswar
villages during a three-day anti-naxal operation in Garhwa District.
The arrestees were identified as Arjun Yadav alias Arjan, Mohan
Yadav, Surendra Prasad, Manish Prasad Gupta and Deb Sagar Yadav. All
of them belong to Garhwa District and are wanted in murder and kidnapping
incidents in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, SP Michael S Raj said.
March 3: Five cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
including a woman, were arrested from a forest in Arki in Khunti District
during a joint operation by the Police and the Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) troopers. Four firearms, including a rifle, along with
ammunition and some Maoist literature, including books on Maoist ideology
and posters and a map of CRPF camp were recovered from them.
Two top Maoists, active in Jhumra since
last 10 years, were arrested in another joint operation near Konar dam
at Jamnijara village in Gomia block in Bokaro District. The arrested
Maoists have been identified as Jatu Manjhi alias Nilamber and
Naresh Manjhi alias Suresh. They both are residents of Simrabeda
village of Gomia and close to Maoist leaders Navin Manjhi and Mithilesh
Singh and are members of armed squad of the outfit.
The 197 battalion of CRPF recovered
an Improvised Explosive Device hidden in a tiffin box and wires near
an iron-ore loading point of Kiriburu railway station in West Singhbhum
District.
12 villagers who were abducted by a
group of 30-40 Maoists on March 2, were freed after holding them captive
for more than 12 hours, at Keri Piprahi forest of Chouparan block in
Hazaribagh District.
March 5: Four suspected cadres of the
CPI-Maoist were killed and a CISF officer was injured in an encounter
in the Central Coal Fields' Ashok project, close to the Pipawar Police
Station in Chatra District. Police identified the dead as Tapeswar Ganju
and Anil Ram. Two rifles, two hand grenades, two IEDs, two walkie-talkies
and cartridges were recovered from the spot.
Bishnu Munda, a cadre of the PLFI, a
break away faction of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested from Dwarseni village
in Gumla District. A country-made pistol and Naxal-literature were recovered
from him, he added.
March 9: The house of a 'zonal commander'
of the CPI-Maoist was set ablaze at Kusmai village in Chatra District.
A group of armed men went to the house of the Maoist, Dharmendra Yadav,
asked the members to vacate their house before setting it on fire, the
Police said. The arsonists also looted some property before setting
ablaze the house, the sources said.
March 13: The CPI-Maoist cadres triggered
two simultaneous land-mine blasts, targeting the vehicle carrying troopers
of the IRB, at Tailyadeeh Mor in Chhatarpur block of Palamu District.
ASP operations, Ronald Hansda, said the blasts at 12.24pm badly damaged
the front portion of the vehicle, in which more than six IRB personnel
were on their way to Devnar where an encounter had taken place between
SFs and the Maoists at 9.45am. The IRB troopers, who were part of the
reinforcement team, escaped unhurt.
March 17: A joint team of District Police
and CRPF arrested CPI-Maoist 'sub-zonal commander' Phoolchand Soren
alias Praveel Da, who was wanted in over 32 cases and carried a
reward of INR 300, 000 on his head, along with his accomplice Bahdur
Turi in a raid at Jamania village in Nawadih District. The joint team
recovered one country-made revolver, cartridges, mobile handset, dairy
and INR 2,300 cash from them.
March 19: The SF personnel recovered
an IED, weighing five kilograms, hidden in milk can near Hutar village
on Barwadih-Morbai road in Latehar District. Latehar SP G. Kranti Kumar
confirming the recovery said, "It was defused within minutes and with
that an attempt by Maoists to target security personnel was averted."
March 22: Cadres of the JJP, a splinter
group of CPI-Maoist, reportedly attacked a railway construction site
camp near Dhodhorha Pool at Dubang village in Lohardaga District, injuring
more than four workers and technicians.
Two Maoist top cadres who had masterminded
the killing of Bihar Policeman Lucas Tete (September 3, 2010) were arrested
from Tisri forests under Belatand Police Station in Giridih District
during a joint operation of the Police and CRPF.
March 23: The Police in Gumla District
arrested three men with large quantities of explosives, detonators,
arms and ammunition which were to be sold to the CPI-Maoist cadres in
the State. Gumla District SP Jatin Narwal said: "We have recovered four
weapons from these three accused. We have also recovered ammunition,
30 gelatin sticks, 100 kilograms ammonium nitrate and 130 detonators.
This way we have recovered quite a good amount of explosives and arms
and ammunitions".
March 30: A Koderma Police team foiled
an attempt made by the CPI-Maoist cadres to enter the Hazaribagh District
through Rajwar forest under Satgawan Police Station. The Police later
arrested a Maoist, identified as Ranjit Razak alias Pramod hailing
from the Lakhisarai District of Bihar, after a massive exchange of fire
between the Maoists and the Police. The Police recovered two rifles,
175 live cartridges, three cell phone and several military uniforms
from him.
March 31: The Jharkhand and West Bengal
Police launched a combing operation in East Singhbhum District on the
border between two States on information that a Maoist squad was in
the area. "We have launched a massive combing operation jointly with
the CRPF at Amdapahari under Naxal-hit Patamda Police Station bordering
West Bengal for the Maoist squad," SSP Akhilesh Kumar Jha said. The
Jharkhand Police was engaged in the operation in the State and the West
Bengal Police was combing in the bordering area of Bandwan in Purulia
District.
April 2: Pradeep Oraon (35), a former
CPI-Maoist cadre was gunned down by cadres of the PLFI, a breakaway
faction of the CPI-Maoist, in Duko village under Ghaghra Police Station
in Gumla District. According to Police, Pradeep, formerly with CPI-Maoist,
who later joined PLFI, had formed his own group after parting ways with
PLFI some time ago which did not go along with 'area commander' Sukra
Oraon and was killed.
April 3: A top CPI-Maoist and self-proclaimed
'area commander' of Jamui-Banka zone, Heera Yadav (40) surrendered before
the Police in Giridih District. Yadav surrendered with a rifle, ten
cartridges and some money in cash.
April 4: M Sanjeev Singh, a CRPF trooper
of the CRPF's 26th Battalion, was injured during an encounter between
the SFs and the CPI-Maoist cadres at Bouwa Pahari in Dongapani village
under Tundi Police Station in Dhanbad District. The SFs had gone to
the spot early in the morning after getting a tip-off about Maoists
presence.
The armed cadres of the JPC, a splinter
group of CPI-Maoist, set ablaze two bauxite trucks on fire at Modsirwa
on Kisko-Richughuta road in Lohardaga District. One of the drivers was
also assaulted. In a handwritten pamphlet, one Samir of JPC has claimed
responsibility for setting the trucks on fire.
April 5: A constable of CoBRA, Satya
Prakash Deswal, succumbed to bullet injuries and Jharkhand Jaguar havildar
Sanjay Paswan was injured in an encounter with the CPI-Maoist deep inside
the forest in Labhar picket under Burwadih Police Station in Latehar
District.
April 6: The SFs recovered four IEDs,
including three cylinder bombs, during search operations in Latehar
District. The operation was launched in the District's Barwadih and
Sarju area following an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres on April
5 in which one SF personnel was killed and another was injured.
April 8: Suspected cadres of the PLFI,
a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist, attacked the project site of
the PGCIL at Jargaon village under Bero Police Station in Ranchi District
and set ablaze three heavy machines, including an earthmover, after
assaulting the workers on duty. The cause of the attack was explained
in a letter written by one Jetha of Rajdhani zonal committee of the
PLFI, allegedly left at the site, saying that work there was started
without the permission of the PLFI.
April 9: Seven SF personnel, engaged
in anti-CPI-Maoist operations, sustained bullet injuries at Chemo Sanya
forest under the Bhandaria Police Station in Garhwa District.
Palamu IG Deepak K Verma said that the
anti-Maoist operation, code named 'Operation Octopus', launched since
April 4 in Latehar District would continue. He refused to divulge any
detail about the duration and the areas that would be covered under
Operation 'Octopus'.
April 11: Suspected cadres of the PLFI,
a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, set ablaze three vehicles, including
two passenger jeeps and one tractor, near Binda village under Murhu
Police Station of Khunti District. The extremists led by 'area commander'
Munna stopped two passenger jeeps in the morning and ordered the passengers
to alight and set the vehicles afire.
The BSF Helicopter which was fired upon
by the CPI-Maoist cadres on April 5 has been grounded now as it was
damaged in the firing. The advance light helicopter - Dhruv - used by
the CRPF in anti-Maoist operations, which was flying from Latehar to
Ranchi with two injured SF personnel, had landed safely though. As reported
earlier, an encounter had taken place between Maoists and the SFs in
Latehar District on April 5.
April 13: The East Singhbhum District
Police recovered posters and banners, allegedly put up by the CPI-Maoist,
demanding hike in tendu leaves procurement rate and support to the two-day
bandh call given by CPI-Maoist in the bordering areas of three
States, Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand from April 14 midnight. The
posters and banners were found in two different Police Station areas
of Ghatshila Sub-Division - Chakulia and Dhalbhumgarh.
Police arrested Jetha Lorenz Toppo,
a 'self-styled zonal commander' of PLFI, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist,
in Ranchi District. The Police recovered a carbine from his possession.
April 15: The two-day bandh called
by the CPI-Maoist in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha affected the
State's public transport. The bandh was called to demand 20 per
cent increase in the rate of kendu leaves.
April 16: Speaking at the Chief Minister’s
meeting on internal security chaired by Prime Minister in New Delhi
CM Arjun Munda asked the Central Government to bear a portion of the
cost of modernization of Jharkhand Police to help it effectively tackle
Naxalism in the state. UHM P. Chidambaram has agreed to give Jharkhand
two Indian Air Force choppers to combat LWE in Jharkhand.
Speaking at the meeting of Chief Ministers
in New Delhi, Chief Minister Arjun Munda demanded a special development
package for CPI-Maoist-hit Latehar and Garhwa Districts in the line
of ongoing Centre-sponsored Saranda Development Plan.
April 17: The two-day CPI-Maoist bandh
called to raise procurement price of kendu leaves - used to make
beedi - affected life in rural areas Jharkhand, especially in bordering
areas of West Bengal, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. The Maoists had called
a two-day bandh that ended at April 16 midnight in the three
States – Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.
April 19: Three CPI-Maoist cadres involved
in the killing of a SPO were arrested from Badraiya forest in West Singhbhum
District. The SF personnel also recovered a 30 kilogram claymore mine
planted beneath a kutcha road in the forest. All the three cadres were
involved in the killing of SPO Sushil Aian in Chotanagra in February
2012.
April 20: The SFs arrested Maoist leader
Bitka Marandi alias Bitka Manjhi from Harli forest in Churchu
tehsil in Hazaribagh District. Manjhi was wanted by Police for
killing 13 SF personnel including 11 CRPF troopers in 2001.
April 21: An armed group of the CPI-Maoist
cadres set ablaze 10 vehicles belonging to a private construction company
and held 14 of its employees hostage for sometime in Bandguda in Giridih
District.
April 22: CM Arjun Munda laid the foundation
stone for a building to house the 40th Battalion of ITBP
at Sukuruhutu, on the outskirts of Ranchi. The new location of ITBP
would help providing logistic and administrative support to units/formations
of the ITBP in North-East and Maoist-affected states, an ITBP release
said.
April 28: A dozen inter-state buses
plying from Rourkela to Jharkhand, Bihar and Chhattisgarh remained suspended
in the wake of the CPI-Maoist-48-hour bandh. There was, however,
little or no impact at the vulnerable areas of Sundargarh District,
close to Saranda forest in Jharkhand.
April 29: A Police team of the Bishnugarh
Police Station arrested a top Maoist cadre, identified as Shiv Charan
Manjhi, along with arms in Hazaribag District during raids in the dense
forests near Konar Dam. Maoist literature, posters and arms, including
revolver, six live cartridges, was recovered from him.
April 30: A ‘sub-zonal commander’ of
the CPI-Maoist, identified as Mohit alias Manoj Yadav, was arrested
from Matauli village in Palamu District. The Police recovered 105 live
cartridges and a landmine weighing 10 kilograms.
May 3: A former ‘squad commander’ of
the CPI-Maoist, identified as Sandeep Mishra, was arrested by the Police
from Nagfeni on NH-23 in Gumla District. Mishra joined the outfit in
2001 and remained a part of it till 2009. Despite parting with the organization
he was in regular touch with Maoist leaders Buddheshwar Oraon and Vishwanath.
May 6: Deputy inspector general (DIG)
of coal belt region, Laxman Prasad Singh, and his CRPF counterpart,
Rajeev Ranjan, conducted aerial surveillance of CPI-Maoist-hit Jhumra
hills where SF personnel have recently launched Operation Thunder in
search of Maoists. This was the third day of the anti-Maoist search
operation in the area led by Bokaro Superintendent of Police Kuldeep
Dwivedi under Gomia block. More than 1,000 district police personnel,
Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) and CRPF personnel have been pressed into
action to carry out the operation.
May 8: In a joint anti-Maoist drive
the SF personnel of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were engaged in an encounter
with the Maoists near Latu village in Latehar District, bordering Chhattisgarh
and the state's Garhwa District.
May 14: Maoists beheaded a villager,
Ramlal Kayam, at Kudaburu under Sonua Police Station in West Singhbhum
District dubbing him a Police informer.
Palamu District Police and CRPF arrested
Satender Paswan, a ‘sub-zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist at a house
in Polpol village in Palamu District. The SFs recovered a country-made
revolver of 315 bore from him.
May 15: Maoists detained Tata-Bilaspur
passenger train at Posaita station in West Singhbhum District for nearly
20 minutes with a one-kilogram bomb hung from the front of its engine,
ahead of the Bharat bandh on May 16. The train travelled
for another 15 kilometres with the bomb dangling from the engine to
Manoharpur station where it was removed and defused.
May 16: Normal life in the urban areas
remained unaffected in East and West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan
Districts during the Bharat bandh call given by the Maoists.
May 20: A principal aide of late CPI-Maoist
leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji was arrested from
Ranchi railway station. The arrested Maoist has been identified
as Nanduji alias Ramdas, who has worked as a secretary in Jammui
zone and as a member of Bihar-Jharkhand-Odisha-North-Chhatisgrah special
area committee. He was working as a member of sub-committee on political
education. Police said Nanduji was engaged in training new recruits
in various parts of Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha and Chhattisgrah.
May 21: Jharkhand Police recovered a
cache of arms, including two guns, 32 bullets, four cell phones and
14 SIM cards of various networks from PLFI cadres after a shootout.
PLFI is a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist. The shootout started
when Police personnel raided a meeting place of the outfit near Karra
village in Khunti District.
May 22: Two LWEs were arrested by the
Police from two different places in Garhwa District. Sanjit Singh alias
Sujit Singh alias Jamuna Singh, an 'area commander' of TPC, a
breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist was arrested from Nagar Untari in
Garhwa District.
A Maoist cadre, identified as Santosh
Vishwakarma, of Tali village was arrested by the Police from an area
under Bhawnathpur Police Station in the Garhwa District. Vishwakarma
was the right hand of Maoist 'zonal commander' Munna Vishwakarma.
The Maoists had stopped the construction
works of the road on Rukki valley in Ghaghra block of Gumla District
for over two months, despite the project having the backing of 25 villages
located in the area.
May 26: Launching an anti-Naxal operation
in the mining belt of Jharkhand, Security Forces, arrested seven suspected
cadres of the PLFI, a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist, in Ranchi.
The Police said the arrested PLFI cadres operated in and around the
open cast mines of the Central Coalfields in Khelari near Ranchi and
were wanted in more than half a dozen cases of murder, arson, illegal
possession of arms. The arrested cadres include Kargil Yadav, identified
as 'zonal commander' of the outfit, who was out on bail.
May 27: A powerful IED suspected to
have been planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres was recovered by SFs in Jaranga
village in Khunti District. The IED, weighing 25 kilograms, was found
hidden during routine search at a spot falling under Adki Police Station.
May 29: Ranvidar Bhuinya, ‘zonal commander’
of the PLFI, and his associate were arrested from Daltonganj in Palamu
District. Bhuinya had earlier worked with the CPI-Maoist and later joined
the PLFI. Two country made pistols were also seized from them.
A joint team of CRPF and Bishnugarh
Police team CPI-Maoist ‘Zonal Commander’ Navin Manjhi alias Banshi
in the dense Gidhania forest under Bishnugarh Police Station in Hazaribagh
District. Manjhi carried a reward of INR 500, 000 on his head and was
involved in more than 100 Maoist related violence in the state.
Chief Minister Arjun Munda approved
the proposal of the State Home Department to announce reward on 10 Maoist
leaders operating in the State. The reward money ranges from INR 300,
000 to INR 500, 000 on each Maoist depending on his involvement in illegal
activities. The 10 Maoists on whom the Government announced the reward
include two ‘zonal commanders’ and three ‘sub-zonal commanders’. The
‘zonal commanders’ carrying a reward of INR 500, 000 each are Sushil
Bhuiyan and Indel Yadav. The three ‘sub-zonal commanders’ with INR 300,
000 reward each are Satyendra Paswan, Pramod Paswan and Vinod Yadav.
May 30: Cadres of the TPC-1 set ablaze
65 sacks of kendu leaves worth INR 100,000 in Hetla village in Latehar
District. TPC-1 is a breakaway group of TPC, which in turn
is a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist. Sources said the consignment
belonged to a contractor, who refused to pay extortion.
Police arrested a Maoist sympathizer,
Janeshwar Yadav, and recovered INR 878,000 from his possession in Chiniya
Police Station limits in Garhwa District. He had collected the money
from tendu leaf contractors. Garhwa Superintendent of Police Michael
Raj S said that Police also recovered 10 detonators and a good number
of Maoist literature from him.
During a joint operation against Maoists
in Gumla District, Police and Paramilitary Forces arrested a Maoist
identified as Gauri Shankar Pandey. Police officials also seized large
quantities of arms, ammunitions and ration from his possession.
May 31: Sitaram Manjhi alias Sitaram
Soren (40), the president of Jharkhand Mukti Manch, a frontal organization
of CPI-Maoist and his close aide Mehboob Ansari alias Karu
Ansari (38) were arrested by a joint team of CRPF and Police from a
roadside hotel at Goniyato village in Gomia tehsil in
Bokaro District. Sources said Manjhi and Ansari were residents of Barsabeda
and Kacho villages in Nawadih Police Station area. Both were in the
Maoist fold for over 10 years. The rebels were involved in over two
dozen cases of violence in Bokaro and Hazaribagh, including a landmine
blast that killed eight Special Task Force troopers at Sarubeda, five
kilometres from Nawadih, on June 12, 2009.
Police intercepted a consignment and
recovered cash worth INR 1.48 million at Panki in Palamu District of
Jharkhand in the evening. The money was to be handed over to a CPI-Maoist
cadre identified as Manoj Ganjhu. Sources said two persons identified
as Ram Jatan Yadav and Shailender Singh have been arrested and one pistol
of 7.65 bore was recovered from one of them. Police also seized a white
car.
An action-squad member of the CPI-Maoist
identified as Kamlesh alias Indrajit Yadav was arrested
from a place at Damaran under Ranka Police Station in Garhwa District. Yadav
was one of the Maoists involved in the two attacks that had killed 23
Policemen in Garhwa and Latehar Districts in December 3, 2011 and January
21, 2012, Superintendent of Police (SP) Michael S Raj said. A 9mm pistol,
which he had looted after killing Police official Rajbali Choudhary
on January 21, was recovered from him, the SP added.
June 1: Fogra Munda (37), a ‘commander’
of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested by Police from Ghatshila in East Singhbhum.
Munda was wanted in over 12 cases including eight murder cases and he
carried a cash reward of INR 40,000 on his head. Police also recovered
firearms and explosives from him. Munda is said to be the close aide
of another top Maoist leader Kanu Munda, the squad leader of the Gurabanda
area.
June 2: Maoists killed Bhuneshwar Yadav,
a contractor, in Latehar District for refusing to give extortion money.
21 landmines, planted serially on the
Kurung-Ganeshpur path in Latehar District, were recovered during an
anti-Maoist operation. The landmines, weighed between one kg to 10 kg.
SFs arrested two top Maoists, a ‘sub-zonal
commander’ and an ‘area commander’ from Goindi village in Latehar District.
While the former was identified as Pramod Kumar, the later was identified
as Akul Singh. Pramod carrying INR 300, 000 on his head, faces 24 Maoist-related
cases in Palamau division. A 9mm pistol and seven bullets were recovered
from them.
DGP G S Rath said 308 newly selected
Sub-Inspectors (SIs) would start receiving training from June 10 at
the Police Academy set up recently in Hazaribag. In the newly constructed
police academy, the SIs would be given training in the most scientific
ways using all the latest equipment, he said. The training is designed
especially to combat terrorists, Maoists.
June 3: Two suspected Maoists were arrested
after a failed attempt to abduct Pitabasa Mahto (75), a former sarpanch of
Bansa village in Kandra in Seraikela-Kharsawan District. The arrestees
have been identified as Rakesh Lohar and Sushen Mahto alias Naren,
both residents of Kandra.
June 5: Maoists set ablaze
machines that were being used at an under construction railway expansion
project site, and stalled development projects undertaken by the state
government in Lohardaga District.
June 6: Maoists killed
two persons at Kuitopa village under the Keraikela Police Station area
in the West Singhbhum District, suspecting them to be Police informers.
Sources said a group of about 15 armed Maoists raided the house of village
head Yugal Kishore Tanti and Jeevlal Swansi, dragged out of their houses
and took them to the Kuitopa culvert before they were shot dead. While
Tanti was the traditional village head of Kuitopa, Swansi was the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha president of Bandgaon block.
June 8: A mini gun factory
was unearthed from Pinjani village under Kunda Police Station in Chatra
District. Police arrested two persons, identified as Ramdhani Mistry
(45) and Ram Chandra Mistry (30), repairing guns in the factory. Chatra
Superintendent of Police (SP) Anup Birthary said five country-made guns,
one pistol, three mobile phones, two cameras, firing pins and other
machines were recovered from the spot. "Those arrested are not
Naxalites but they provide support to the rebels. The arrested are being
interrogated," said the SP.
June 11: The District Police
arrested five cadres of the TPC-1 from Daltonganj in Palamu District.
TPC-1 is a breakaway group of TPC, which in turn is a breakaway faction
of the CPI-Maoist. SP Anoop T Mathew said Rang Bahadur Singh, the TPC-1
leader, had been arrested and along with four other cadres.
June 15: A top cadre of
the 'Hooghly Zonal Committee' of the CPI-Maoist was arrested while collecting
INR 400,000 as levy from an accomplice at Narga in East Singhbhum District
of Jharkhand. The Maoist accomplice was also arrested by the Police.
June 16: A Maoist, identified
as Pragti Da, fell prey to a tiger in Bundu forest, around 35 kilometres
from Ranchi District. This was confirmed by Maoist 'zonal commander'
Kundan Pahan in his letter to the fellow comrades.
Ram Mohan Singh Munda,
a close aide of Pahan was arrested from Tamar block in Ranchi District.
June 18: Two suspected Naxals were arrested
in Gumla District. One of them was a Maoist, identified as Ibrahim Mian
who was arrested at Chenpur. The other extremist belonged to PLFI and
was identified as Kuleshwar Sahu. He arrested from Lawakera village
under Palkot Police Station. One locally-make gun was seized from each
of the extremists, besides some bullets.
Charges were framed by a local court
against CPI-Maoist Politburo member Narayan Sanyal for looting arms
from a home guard camp in Giridih District. Giridih District and Sessions
Court judge A K Singh framed the charges in Sanyal's presence. 193 weapons
were looted from the camp under Nagar Police Station in 2005.
June 19: Jharkhand Police announced
a cash reward of upto INR 1.2 million on the heads of hardcore CPI-Maoist
cadres. "The upper limit is Rs 12 lakh and the lowest is Rs 30, 000,"
Inspector General of Police S N Pradhan said. Out of 150 hardcore Maoists
in the State, a list of 111 Maoists, including 30 from other State,
was released by the Police headquarters, Pradhan said.
After successful operations against
the Maoists in West Singhbhum and Latehar Districts, Jharkhand Police
said they would mount pressure on the Maoists despite the monsoons.
"Operation will continue even during the monsoon. The Security Forces
had carried out the successful Saranda operation (in West Singhbhum)
by flushing out the Maoists in July last year. If we can do it in Saranda
in monsoon, we can do it anywhere," Inspector General of Police (Operation)
S N Bhagat said.
June 23: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested by the SF personnel during the ongoing anti-Maoist operation
from Ranka forest in Seraikela-Kharsawan District of Jharkhand. The
arrested Maoists were identified as Thumba Paharia, a hardcore Maoist
and his accomplices John Purty and Bhudu Munda. The Police recovered
three country-made pistols, two magazines, wire and explosives.
June 24: In a change of strategy, the
CPI-Maoist has decided to call off violence against armed outfits, including
their splinter groups, for three months. The Maoists have invited leaders
of other groups to come together on one platform and fight against the
unified command of the Centre and the State Governments carrying out
Operation Green Hunt. Bihar Jharkhand North Chhattisgarh Special
Area Committee (BJNCSAC) spokesman Gopal in a statement issued on June
24 said the decision of unilateral ceasefire was taken to invite the
other armed groups working in individual capacity for the common people
to work from a unified and stronger front. "We can set aside our personal
differences in ideology for the betterment of common people and when
the government is harassing villagers and trying to suppress their movement
for neo-democracy, all the groups must understand the need of the hour
and join hands," the release reads. The appeal has been issued in the
name of the People Liberation Front of India (PLFI), Jharkhand Liberation
Tigers (JLT), Jharkhand Janmukti Parishad (JJMP), Tritiya Prastuti Committee
(TPC), Shashtra People's Morcha (SPM) and any other such armed group
working for people's cause.
Maoists in Hazaribagh and Giridih are
distributing pamphlets among rural youths for a week asking them to
refrain from applying for jobs in the Police. The pamphlet, which has
been distributed widely in Pirtanda area of Giridih and Vishnugarh,
Hazaribagh, has urged people to prevent their sons from joining the
Police Force, claiming security personnel were killing innocent lives.
June 24: A PLFI ‘sub-zonal commander’
who was involved in at least 20 cases of extortion and killing was arrested
from Kutasi village on the Koel river in Gumla District by a Police
team. The arrested extremist has been identified as Gobardhan
Singh alias Rajendra, a resident of Kedli village in Basia, in
Gumla.
June 25: Seraikela-Kharsawan Superintendent
of Police (SP) Upendra Kumar gave out kits containing a bow, 10 arrows,
shoes, socks and a torch to around 100 members of rural vigilante group
Dalma Anchalik Suraksha Samiti (DASS).
The Police seized over 13,000 detonators
and one ton of explosive material in Ranchi District ahead of the bandh
called by Maoists on June 27. Three suspected Maoists and four arms
suppliers were arrested in the case. Acting on a tip-off, the Police
raided some places at Tupudana on the outskirts of Ranchi and recovered
the explosives. A total of 3,795 electronic detonators, about 9,800
ordinary detonators, one ton explosives, including nine quintal ammonium
nitrate, 1,900 metre fuse wire, six gelatin pieces, INR 20,000 in cash,
four mobile phones and a motorcycle were seized during the search operation.
Police said, “The arrested persons were preparing to hand over the explosives
to Kundan Pahan, the most wanted Maoist.”
June 26: One policeman was killed and
12 other were injured when CPI-Maoist cadres ambushed their mini-bus
near Topchachi Police Station in Dhanbad District. Two of the injured
are said to be in critical condition.
June 27: Maoists blew up railway tracks
between Taitulmuri and Nisitpur railway stations under Dhanbad railway
division.
Maoists also blasted a bridge near Chhatapur
village of Giridih District that connects Giridih with Dhanbad.
The Maoists observed bandh (shutdown
strike) in five States to protest the conviction of five Maoists by
a court in Uttar Pradesh.
Three civilians were injured as cadres
of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) fired on passengers
of an auto-rickshaw that was passing through Nathbalwa village in Manika
area of Latehar District in the night.
The Maoists, then, struck again, blowing
up the Pochara Panchayat (village level local self-government
institution) building. According to sources, a group of 20-25 armed
Maoists orchestrated the blast, but since the building was empty, no
one was injured.
Policemen posing as farmers arrested
Ravi Ghodai (20), an armed cadre of the CPI-Maoist Ghurabandha squad,
while he was crossing a bridge over the Subernarekha at Dalbhumgarh
in Ghatshila sub-division in East Singhbhum District. He was part of
a two member squad heading for Dalbhumgarh to carry out a poster campaign
and a recce for planting explosives. The other Maoist managed to escape.
The Police seized a loaded pistol and an empty cartridge from Ghodai’s
possession. Ghodai divulged that he belonged to the 15-member squad
led by Maoist ‘zonal commander’ Kanhu Munda, which is active in Ghurabandha.
June 30: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
killed three civilians, including an elderly woman, and injured another
woman over a land dispute between two families in Sehal-Tetartoli village
under the Ghaghra Police Station in Gumla District. The victims have
been identified as Jaipal Yadav (50), his brother and retired army man
Jagdish Yadav (48) and his mother-in-law Batti Devi while, the injured
woman has been identified as Jaipal's wife Sumitra Devi.
The Maoists set ablaze a drilling machine
of a coal survey team in Latehar District. The Maoists had also picked
up a munshi engaged to oversee construction of a panchayat building
before letting him off during the day.
July 4: Police recovered two kilograms
of ammonium nitrate and five detonators which were being supplied to
Maoist 'sub-zonal commander' Budheswar Oraon and arrested one person,
identified as Mohammad Imitiaz, at Toto village in Gumla District.
July 12: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were
injured and two arrested in a five-hour long encounter between Police
and Maoists at Jamdaha in Pirtanda of Giridih District, on the Dhanbad-Giridih
border.
July 15: The Police arrested a suspect,
Manoj Kumar Sinha of Patamda in the East Singhbhum District, for carrying
200 pieces of detonators and 50 kilograms of ammonium nitrate on his
car a during surprise checking on National Highway-33 in Seraikela-Kharsawan
District. Sinha tried to escape while seeing Police, claimed to be the
owner of a stone crusher machine and was ferrying the explosives on
industrial purpose. Police suspecting Sinha to be in nexus with the
CPI-Maoist and that he might have been ferrying explosives either to
Dalma or Chilku forest cover arrested him.
July 17: Vaisakhi Munda, a CPI-Maoist
sympathiser and wife of hardcore Maoist leader Kanu Munda, was arrested
from Dalbhumgarh in Ghatsila sub-division in East Singhbhum District
of Jharkhand.
July 18: Getting input of a huge gathering
of armed guerrillas of the CPI-Maoist in forests of Palamu and Latehar
in Jharkhand, the Centre asked the State Police and Paramilitary forces
to urgently induct additional troops and carry out sustained search
for “either engaging them in operations or disintegrate them".
SFs have launched a major operation
in the forests bordering Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh after it was reported
that a large group of Maoist commanders have been spotted in the area.
July 19: Two cadres of the PLFI, a breakaway
faction of the CPI-Maoist, were lynched by residents of Siyang village
under Sisai Police Station in Gumla District of Jharkhand. The slain
cadres have been identified as Indrajeet Oraon of Dahutoli and Rama
Oraon from Shivnathpur village.
Ajay Ganjhu alias Parasji (45),
a top CPI-Maoist leader, was killed in a joint operation by the Jharkhand
Police and the CRPF in Kunda forest in Chatra District of Jharkhand.
Ganjhu, who had been heading the Bihar-Jharkhand regional committee
of the CPI-Maoist, carried INR 1.7 million on his head. Apart from the
body of the Maoist, a 9mm pistol and two hand grenades were also recovered
from the spot.
The Police engaged in an encounter with
the Maoists after raiding a Maoist hideout in Asandera forest area of
Simdega District. Four can bombs, three cylinder bombs, 25 rounds of
ammunition, Maoist literature and household utensils were recovered
from the spot.
Bamboo plantation work at Temrai in
Palamu District’s Chainpur forest range has come to a standstill since
July 16 following resistance from TPC, a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist,
over collection of ransom.
July 20: Children are migrating from
Jharkhand's Lohardaga region to avoid being abducted and coercively
recruited by Maoists. "Maoists ask us to get involve with them
and force us to take up arms," Dinesh Nageshiya, a student, claimed.
SDPO Ram Gulam Sharma said that social policing has helped them to keep
a track of Maoists who forcibly recruit children for armed conflict.
July 23: Armed Maoist cadres ambushed
SFs in Khunti Districts, killing two CRPF personnel and leaving an officer
and four others injured. A 100-strong squad of Maoist ‘sub-zonal commander’
Matiyas targeted a troop of 80 CRPF personnel — culled from the elite
CoBRA force and the 94th and 60th battalions near a government school
in Bokob village in Khunti District while the personnel were preparing
to cordon off the village following a tip-off on Maoist presence.
In a Maoist attack two labourers were
killed and some buildings were damaged in Giridih District. Maoist opened
attack on an under-construction building of Police line and destroyed
the roof under which the labourers were on duty. The two labourers who
died were part of other labourers working under the roof. An unexploded
IED weighing 30 kilograms was also recovered and defused.
SFs and Maoists were involved in an
encounter in a forest in Chowka, in Seraikela-Kharsawan District. "No
casualty was reported in the operation but we have collected empty cartridges
that were fired by the rebels," said ASP, operation, Deepak Kumar
Sinha.
July 25: To take minor away from the
CPI-Maoist way, Jharkhand Government has decided to provide conditional
free education in private institutions to Maoists, who surrender, and
to their children in addition to the existing surrender policy. The
decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arjun
Munda.
July 26: An encounter between SFs and
CPI-Maoist cadres took place at Bandu forest in West Singhbhum District
of Jharkhand. According to Police, the Maoists may have suffered injuries
in the encounter as bloodstains were found on the side from where they
were firing. No casualty was reported from the Paramilitary Forces.
July 30: The Hazaribag District Police
arrested three cadres of the JLT, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
Hazaribag SP Manoj Kaushik said the gang was responsible for stalling
coal production at Tapin South opencast coal mining project of the CCL
under the Charhi Police Station of the District recently. Those arrested
include the hotel owner Rajeev Vishwakarma, kingpin Anuj Vishwakarma
alias Badalji alias Pintu of Navraga village under the
Lesliganj Police Station of Palamu District. The others arrested are
Mannu Kumar Singh of Charhi. Police said it was Mannu's plan to demand
INR 15 million as extortion from the coal company.
Tribal students are migrating from villages
of Simdega, Lohardaga and Gumla Districts to towns fearing forceful
induction by the CPI-Maoist and the PLFI, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
Police sources said around 100 students had already migrated from villages
of these Districts in the past one year fearing the Maoists and PLFI.
July 31: Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were arrested while allegedly planting landmines underneath a road bridge
at Revet village in Latehar District to target SFs, Police sources said.
Ten more persons have also been detained by SFs during the anti-Maoist
operation for interrogation.
August 1: Two CPI-Maoist camps were
busted by the SFs and five Maoist cadres arrested during the three-day
operation 'Rain Storm' against the CPI-Maoist in Garhwa District on
Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh borders. Twelve landmines, two hand grenades
and Maoist literature were recovered from the two camps, which were
destroyed during the joint operation carried out between July 27 and
30.
August 2: The CPI-Maoist cadres began
a poster campaign at Chowka in Seraikela-Kharsawan District of Jharkhand,
amid their ongoing martyrs’ week [July 28-August 3]. The posters, bearing
anti-CRPF messages in red ink, were pasted on the boundary walls of
school buildings and at marketplaces as well as in Chaulibasa and Ghagri
villages in the interiors of Chowka, known to be an industrial hub and
also a Maoist stronghold. According to intelligence sources, the Maoists
were also holding small meetings at a number of places in West Singhbhum
and Seraikela-Kharsawan Districts.
August 3: The bullet-ridden body of
a youth identified as Maqbool, a resident of Girda village in Bano Police
Station area in Simdega District of Jharkhand was found near his village.
While, it was not sure who killed Maqbool, a Police source said cadres
of the PLFI, a break away faction of the CPI-Maoist, with whom he had
some links, might have killed the victim, possibly over levy collection.
A CRPF trooper was injured in a gun
battle between joint Forces and Maoists in Telipati forest in Panki
Police Station area in Palamau District. The Police claimed that several
Maoists were killed in the encounter, though not a single body has been
recovered yet. The Police seized five powerful landmines and over 1,000
metres of electric wires from the encounter site.
August 4: SFs recovered 130 can bombs
planted on a 500 meter stretch at Raka under Chowka Police Station area
in Seraikela-Kharsawan District, suspected to be planted by the Maoists.
Each bomb weighed about one kilogram. It took more than six hours to
pull out the landmines from beneath the earth.
SFs launched an operation on the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh
border to flush out CPI-Maoist cadres. The operation has been dubbed
'Operation Marangdeo'. The offensive, which would also be carried out
at night, was launched to prevent Maoists from entering Jharkhand particularly
through the border of Palamu and Garhwa Districts, said Anil Minz, Commandant
of the 34 battalion, CRPF. The CRPF would be assisted by the Police
in the operation, he said.
August 7: A CPI-Maoist cadre identified
as Vikash, allegedly involved in an attack on Police party that had
killed two personnel in Dhanbad during Maoist bandh a few weeks
ago was arrested at a place under Muffasil Police Station in Giridih
District of Jharkhand.
August
8: A special Police team from Rajasthan launched joint operations with
the Palamu District Police and arrested two persons, including a CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Vinay Ram in connection with a dacoity incident
in Jaipur [Rajasthan, in July] and recovered jewellery worth INR 7 million,
Police said.
August 9: Chander Ganjhu alias
Johnson, ‘zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist was arrested along with
his wife, Anita alias Budhni, about a kilometer away from the
Posaita railway station near Rongo village from Manoharpur Police Station
area of West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand. Johnson a mastermind of
several Maoist-related incidents hails from Keredari area in Hazaribag
District and was wanted in over 30 cases, including the Manoharpur rail
track blast case, 2009 while his wife Anita, a resident of Ranchi District,
also a hardcore Maoist, too is co-accused in several criminal incidents.
A country-made revolver, two live cartridges and a cash of INR 17,100
was recovered from the arrested Maoists.
The Sonuwa Police arrested suspected
Maoist sympathizers Tooti Barjo and Bidrai Soy; both are active members
of the Krantikari Kisan Committee (KKC).
August 10: At least three Naxalites
are reported to have been killed in a gun battle between CPI-Maoist
cadres and the JPC in Arabhusai forest of Katkamsandi, Hazaribagh District
of Jharkhand. Unconfirmed sources said that among those killed in the
turf war was JPC supremo Kaljit. The gun battle might have been spurred
by the death of a Maoist cadre who was killed by JPC in an encounter
in Panki forest area of Palamau District in the night of August 9, Police
said.
August 17: JPC, a splinter group of
the CPI-Maoist, pasted posters warning the Maoists that they would be
rooted out from Jharkhand and the country. Police sources said the posters
appeared in Katkamsandi, Ichak and Barkagaon Police Station areas in
Hazaribagh District, which were later removed, read 'Jharkhand ke nav
nirman liye maowadion ko khatam karo, maowadi desh ka dushman hai, maowadi
ko Jar se khatam karo (Maoists will be rooted out as they are the enemies
of Jharkhand and the country)'.
August 21: Two cadres of the TPC, a
breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Mohit Mahto and Kamlesh
Mahto, were arrested during joint operation conducted by the SF personnel
of Giddi and Urimari Police Stations in Hazaribag District of Jharkhand.
The Police recovered two single barrel rifles, four 8 mm live cartridges,
two cell phones and six set of brand new olive green uniforms with names
of members inscribed on them.
August 22: Charku Pahan alias
Budhu Munda, 'area commander' of the PLFI, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist,
surrendered with a 9mm pistol and three bullets before SP M Tamilvanan
in Khunti District.
August 24: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested, one of whom was wanted for attack on the convoy of former
chief minister Babulal Marandi, and explosives were seized at separate
places in Jharkhand's Bokaro and Giridih Districts. Jailal Mahato and
Mahendra Mahato were arrested in Bokaro's Patharwa village and explosives
were seized from their possession. The other two Maoists, Ravi Marandi
and Deep Chand Kisku were arrested at a place under Dumri police station
of Giridih District.
August 25: SFs recovered one can-bomb
and one pipe bomb suspected to be planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres between
Ramatandi and Namolepo villages under Ghorabandha Police Station in
Ghatsila sub-division of East Singhbhum District. SFs also seized 200
meters of wire from the spot.
August 24: Director General of Police
G S Rath praised Policemen saying that seized documents from Naxalites
revealed that the outfit has suffered maximum loss in Jharkhand.
August 25: PLFI cadres killed an unmarried
couple for maintaining a live-in relationship in Atheldih village in
Khunti District. The victims were identified as Sanjay Purty
and Itwari Oriya.
The PLFI cadres also allegedly killed
one of their colleagues who apparently opposed this sort of moral policing.
A body, suspected to be that of the killed PLFI cadre, was recovered
from a nearby jungle.
August 26: Police arrested Shyamlal
Yadav alias Dhananjayji, a ‘sub-zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoists,
and one of his aides, identified as Prem Sahu. Dhananjayji carried a
reward of INR 300,000 on his head. A 7.65 bore country-made pistol,
a country-made firearm, several bullets and three mobile phones were
recovered from Dhananjayji’s possession.
August 29: Anil Yadav, the head of the
CPI-Maoist 'armoury' section in Bihar and Jharkhand, and a arms supplier
Prafulla Malakar alias Pankaj were arrested form Silodar forests
on the border of Chouparan tehsil in Hazaribagh District Jharkhand
and Barachatti in Gaya District of Bihar. On a tip-off, a special task
force first arrested Malakar and seized arms from him and later arrested
Yadav when he arrived at the spot with INR 800,000 to purchase the weapons,
Hazaribagh SP Manoj Kaushik said. The seizure included a US-made rifle
inscribed Colt M-16 and 14 ammunition of 5.56 mm cartridges, used by
the US Army, a 9-mm Italian-made pistol, one bullet-proof jacket worth
INR 400,000, manufactured by a company of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
Malakar informed the interrogators that he had recently supplied four
AK-47 rifles, two AK-56 rifles and three other Self Loading Rifles to
Yadav.
August 30: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Tribhuvan Singh Munda and Ganesh Singh of the Ramu alias Machchar
group in Kolad village under Bundu Police Station, were arrested by
the Ranchi Police along with a 20kg can-bomb and several detonators
in Ranchi District. The police also recovered a 9mm pistol from their
possession.
It came to light that children in Maoist-affected
areas of East Singhbhum District carry bows and arrows to school, fearing
attacks from the Maoists.
September 2: A three-member team of
NIA from Delhi visited Silodar forest located on the border of Barachatti
Police Station of Gaya District (Bihar) and Chouparan Police Station
in Hazaribag District (Jharkhand) from where foreign made weapons were
recovered on August 29.
September 4: Two women CPI-Maoist cadres,
wanted in connection with the ambush of six Policemen in 2009, were
arrested in Latehar District. The arrested Maoists, identified as Somanti
and Sunita, were part of the firing squad led by Maoist 'sub-zonal commander'
Lokesh.
September 5: Three Naxals, associated
with two different organizations, were arrested from Khunti District.
One of them belonging to Village Republican Guard of India was arrested
with one rifle, around 55 pieces of live ammunition, three mobile phones
and some cash. The two other arrested extremists belonging to PLFI were
identified as Harduban Hansoi and Mansid Hansoi.
September 12: As part of its drive against
the CPI-Maoist, the Jharkhand Police has replaced all the .303 rifles
with INSAS for its combat forces. Informing that the State Police were
being equipped with modern gadgets every month, ADGP (Training &
Modernisation) Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan said recently a few new anti-landmine
vehicles were added to the already over 100 such vehicles to scourge
into the deep forests during anti-Maoist operations.
Development work would be expedited
in Saranda, Asia's largest saal forest, after it was freed from Naxal
activities, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said. Addressing
a public meeting at Digha in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand, Ramesh
also apologized to the people for the tardy pace of development work
due to the Naxal activities.
Three extremists, who escaped from the
TPC, a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist, were arrested in Ganjhar
under Giddi PS of Hazaribag District.
The State Police are now working on
the modalities to start using CRPF in operations against the PLFI, a
banned LWE outfit, as they have been doing in case of the CPI-Maoist.
September 17: The Police foiled a major
plot by the CPI-Maoist cadres to target SFs by recovering 125 inter-connected
IEDs in Khunti District in Jharkhand. The IEDs were recovered after
inputs were provided by Sunil Kerketa, a Maoist arrested in the morning
of the same day at Bano in the neighbouring Simdega District.
Police arrested two hardcore Maoist
cadres in Hazaribagh District.
September 18: Jeetendra, a CPI-Maoist
cadre was killed and three SF personnel were injured during a gun battle
at a forest in Judigaon village under Pratappur Police Station area
in Chatra District of Jharkhand. On a tip off that a 30-member Maoist
squad of Banarasi Yadav alias Raghuvanshi had taken shelter in
the area, a joint team of JAP personnel and CoBRA troopers rushed to
the spot, where the Maoists opened indiscriminate fire and in the ensuing
encounter, deputy commandant of CoBRA battalion P.R. Mishra, trooper
Mukesh Bunker and a Policeman, Sanjay Yadav suffered injuries while
the Maoist was killed. Chatra SP Anup Birtheray said his team later
recovered an AK-47 rifle, two country made rifles, one pistol, 200 live
cartridges, INR 40,000 in cash, Maoist literature and four cell phones.
September 20: The interrogation of four
PLFI cadres, who were recently arrested in Simdega District, revealed
that PLFI used to manufacture arms in the jungles. SP Prabhat Kumar
of Simdega District, said: "PLFI cadres bring weapon manufacturing
experts from outside and produce weapons by setting up small camps in
forests. Police revealed that the names of Naxal leaders Gujju Gope
and Dinesh Gope were inscribed on the weapons recovered by them.
September 22: The Police claimed to
have shot dead four CPI-Maoist cadres during an hour-long encounter
near Gurdag village in Latehar District of Jharkhand. Acting on a tip-off
that some extremists had assembled near the village, CRPF personnel
and the District Police cornered them and in the ensuring encounter
four of them were killed. Three rifles, 33 cartridges, INR 2,500 and
some other materials were recovered from the encounter spot.
September 23: Prabil Ganjhu alias
Prabilda alias Palamau Da, a CPI-Maoist ‘area commander' was
arrested in a joint operation by Hazaribagh and Ranchi Police in Ranchi
District of Jharkhand. On a tip-off that Ganjhu had opened a ration
shop at Ladgaon under Sikidri Police Station of Ranchi District, the
Police of the two Districts arrested him. Ganjhu was wanted in 35 cases,
including killing over a dozen villagers and Police personnel in Hazaribagh
and Chatra Districts since 2005 and carrying a reward of INR 50,000
on his head.
September 26: Two persons identified
as Enu Ohdar (16) and Rajendra Singh (18), were killed allegedly by
the cadres of PLFI, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, in Khunti District
in Jharkhand. The PLFI cadres reportedly dragged out the duo from their
homes at gunpoint and killed them at the village chowk in Gadsitam in
the District.
September 29: Kalawati Devi (39), zilla
parishad member and vice-president of the District BJP’s women’s
wing was abducted from her home apparently for refusing to pay levy,
and was subsequently killed by the cadres of the PLFI, a break away
faction of the CPI-Maoist in Gumla District of Jharkhand.
September 30: The Police recovered a
bag with 20 to 25 kilograms of explosives from a tunnel in Bokaro District
of Jharkhand.
October 2: Manoj Mahto (24), a youth
with links to several LWE factions was picked by a group of unidentified
men from his home at Kedli around 30km from Ranchi and shot dead.
October 3: Jharkhand DGP G S Rath addressing
at a press conference, in Hazaribagh District said, "Though Maoist
activities are contained, more has to be done as they are waiting to
strike if there is any negligence. He also asked all the District Police
Chiefs to remain on vigil and thwart the CPI-Maoist from indulging in
any violence.
DGP Rath said that the Maoists arrested
with US-made weapon, Colt M-16 in Hazaribagh District on August 29,
got it from the Myanmar route.
October 5: Five persons, including an
area commander of PLFI, a break away faction of the CPI-Maoist, were
arrested and their arms and ammunition seized from in two Police Station
areas in Gumla District. The arrested ‘area commander’ was identified
as Devpal Gope and two other associates of him are Basant Gope of Satpara
Ghatta village and Bali Gope, a resident of Dhangaon Karamtoli village
in town Police Station. Two country-made pistols, six cartridges and
two pamphlets of PLFI were seized from their possession. Two persons
Chhote Singh and Narayan Gope, both residents of Nathpur village, were
arrested under Palkot Police Station in Gumla District. Both were involved
in the killing of Kalawati Devi (39), zilla parishad member of
the same village, led by ‘area commander’ Parmeshwar Gope on September
29.
The Jharkhand Government is planning
to launch an all-out-war against PLFI, a break away faction of the CPI-Maoist,
before Durga Puja in October. The operation against PLFI has been approved
at a high level meet.
October 6: Three persons were abducted
by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres in Laved village under Arki Police Station
area in Khunti District. The Maoists have demanded that the Police hand
over informers to them in return for freeing Surendra Munda (20), Kishore
Munda (43) and Hind Munda (53).
Three Maoists started an indefinite
hunger strike inside the Hazaribagh Central Jail to press for their
two demands - shifting an ailing inmate to a Ranchi hospital and shifting
back Maoist Rahul Munda, who was at Chaibasa Jail before being shifted
to Hazaribagh, be sent back to the Chaibasa jail. Later on they called
off their hunger strike when their demands were met.
October 7: Bhokta Neeraj Ganjhu, a ‘zonal
commander’ of TPC, a break away faction of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested
from Pelawal area in Hazaribagh District. Bhokta, a resident of Hurnali
village in Chatra, was in charge of collecting levy in the Districts
of Hazaribagh, Ramgarh, Chatra and Ranchi.
The CPI-Maoist cadres killed P.C. Sharma
(83), manager of a Jain trust in Giridih District of Jharkhand, for
sacking a married woman labourer of the trust indulging in an illicit
relationship.
October 8: In Latehar District, in villages,
including Garu, Mahuadanr and Netarhat, people are registering Police
complaints against the Maoists in large numbers. "People were scared
of Maoists and were hesitant to file a police complaint. But, now we
have police support and other security support which has strengthened
our faith in the policing system. This is why people are going to the
police stations without any hesitation to register complaints,"
Suraj Dev Gupta, a villager, said.
Bhawnathpur Police arrested Naxal leader,
identified as Sevak Ram alias Amarnath, a former ‘area commander’
the CPI-Maoist and the present member of underground squad of CPI-ML,
during a raid at the Kaylan forest in Garhwa District. Police recovered
a country-made rifle and 15 cartridges from him.
The Jharkhand Government launched an
offensive against PLFI, a break away faction of the CPI-Maoist in Khunti,
Simdega, and Gumla District. Battalions of CRPF, Jharkhand Jaguar and
JAP reached Khunti, Simdega, and Gumla, the strongholds of the PLFI.
October 9: Three mobile handsets, five
SIM cards, a transistor and a numbers of diaries containing contact
numbers were recovered during a surprise raid by the Hazaribagh District
and Police administration at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Central Jail.
Sources said the team recovered two mobile phones— one from CPI-Maoist
leader Narayan Sanyal (82) and the other from former sub-zonal commander
of the outfit Sunil Ganjhu — both of who are lodged at high-security
wards.
October 11: Suspected Naxalites set
ablaze a bus in Gumla District. The driver and the helper, who were
sleeping inside the vehicle, managed to escape.
Eight cadres of the CPI-Maoist, headed
by politburo members Narayan Sanyal and Ravi Sharma, went on an indefinite
strike to protest against the raid in the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan
Central Jail in Hazaribagh District on October 9.
October 13: Police arrested a Maoist
sub-zonal ‘commander’ from his residence in Palamau District of Jharkhand.
Bhuiyan had also been named main accused in the December 8, 2011 attack
on Chatra MP Inder Singh Namdhari in which a number of CRPF had been
killed.
October 15: Four cadres of the PLFI,
a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist were arrested during a joint operation
by the District Police and CRPF's CoBRA in Ranchi District. Three rifles
and two pistols were recovered when a Maoist training camp was busted
atop Soparan hill under Namkum Police Station area.
October 17: The Jharkhand Government
plans to recruit surrendered CPI-Maoist cadres in the State Police.
Jharkhand IG and Police spokesperson S N Pradhan said the Government
is working on the amendment to ensure better rehabilitation of surrendered
rebels.
October 19: The State Police and CRPF
launched a fresh offensive against the CPI-Maoist in Chatra and Palamau
Districts of Jharkhand, after calls from Bihar to fight the Maoists
together following landmine blast in Gaya District on October 18, that
claimed six CRPF troopers. Sources said 10 companies of the joint forces
have been deployed in the operation in Chatra and Palamau, which share
borders with Gaya.
October 20: Two persons identified as
Rajdev Kherwar and Lakshan Lohra were killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres
in a Maoist Jan Adalat held in Gumla District of Jharkhand, on being
found to have stolen goats. Maoists went to Jori, Banalat Jaritaand
and Kaththokwa villages and held Jan Adalats to deliver justice.
They brutally assaulted 13 persons who were accused of being Police
informers, of whom two of them sustained serious injuries.
October 23: A hardcore CPI-Maoist cadre,
Tulsi Mahto, was arrested from Chakulia area of Ghatsila sub-division
in East Singhbhum District.
The CPI-Maoist issue diktats saying
those who do not heed them get either their hands chopped off, or limbs
amputated or even have their throats slit. The Maoists are calling all
the villagers of the state, hold public meetings or kangaroo court and
are announcing the punishment.
October 24: The woman, Sanjhali Devi
alias Churki, wife of one Sirka Majhi of Jobhitola Taratand area under
Nimiyaghat Police Station in Giridih District was arrested for her involvement
in the killing P.C. Sharma (83), manager of a Jain trust on October
7, along with the Maoists.
October 26: The Police arrested 'sub
zonal commander' Surya Don and 'area commander' Seyan Topno of the People's
Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a break away faction of the CPI-Maoist,
after an encounter at Orga under Jaldega Police Station in Simdega District.
12 rifles, including an US make, were recovered from their possession.
A 'sub-zonal commander' of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Biren Munda alias Maheshji, was arrested from Angara area
under Bundu Police Station in Ranchi District. The Police also recovered
landmines and other explosives during the raids.
October 28: The Police arrested two
suspected CPI-Maoist couriers, identified as Mumtaz Ansari (26) and
Samuel Oriya (20), carrying explosives, on the road between Rankadih
and Podakocha under Chowka Police Station area in Seraikela-Kharswan
District of Jharkhand. As many as 70 black uniforms, 40 detonators,
15m-long wire meant for Improvised Explosive Device (IED), a 12 volt
battery, a DVD player and five mobile phones were recovered from the
spot.
The SF personnel recovered posters pasted
by the Maoists appealing to the people to unite against the "pro-corporate
government" and anti-naxal Operation Green Hunt. The posters
were pasted at Nakti, Kankua, Pongra, Kansra villages under Karaikela
Police Station and Anandpur in West Singhbhum District, said Police.
October 29: Two workers of a contractor
were assaulted by about 50-60 Maoists at Kurun village in Bhandaria
area in Garhwa District of Jharkhand, for not complying the Maoists'
diktat to stop construction of a bridge over the Saphi River.
Maoists have resorted to poster campaign
in Bandgaon and Anandpur blocks in West Singhbhum District warning the
top leaders of the State Government including Chief Minister Arjun Munda
to take immediate steps administrative corruption.
November 1: The Police fired 90 rounds
during an hour-long encounter in the forests of Prem Nagar located at
Bishrampur village under Ranka Police Station in Garhwa District and
recovered a five kilogram IED and 20 detonators. The recovery also included
Maoist literature, documents, pittu (back pack), used cartridges,
cooking utensils and a letter addressed to the Jharkhand legislators
demanding an end to all the operations in the state against the Maoists.
The CPI-Maoist criticized its breakaway
faction TPC for violating 'ceasefire' norms and for frequently attacking
its cadres and their family members. 'Spokesperson' for the Bihar-Jharkhand
North Chhattisgarh frontier regional committee of the CPI-Maoist, Manas,
said despite responding to their call for "unilateral ceasefire", the
TPC has been attacking their cadres and their family members almost
regularly. The Maoists had extended a call for unilateral ceasefire
with the splinter groups on June 26 for three months. The call was responded
by the TPC.
A woman was sexually tortured by a Maoist
'zonal commander' for more than five years and she allowed it in order
to save her husband. The victim's husband is a Police officer. Salomi
approached Police with her son and said that she was staying with the
Maoists to save her husband and his brothers who are Policemen.
The Maoists have launched recruitment
drive in bordering areas of Garhwa and Latehar Districts. They have
launched the drive in Bargarh, Madhgarhi, Marda, Tiharo, Binda villages
in Bhandaria block in Garhwa District. Their activities have also been
reported from Baligarh, Birajpur and Tetardih villages of the adjacent
Ramkanda Police Station area. The recruitment drive has been launched
under the leadership of Vikasji, a senior Maoist leader to counter Operation
Green Hunt against them.
November 2: Cadres of the PLFI, a break
away faction of the CPI-Maoist killed Ranjit Dungdung, deputy sarpanch
in the Rampur village in Gumla District of Jharkhand.
November 4: An encounter broke out between
SFs and the CPI-Maoist cadres at Sirinya village under Hariharganj Police
Station in Palamu District, following a tip-off that about 25 Maoists,
including three 'sub-zonal commanders' had assembled near the village.
A Maoist identified as Raj Kumar (35) of Japla village surrendered with
his weapon. An American gun, carbine, a 303 bore rifle, a pistol and
two 315 bore guns with 250 live cartridges, cell phones and other objects
were recovered after the encounter.
November 6: Two villagers were killed
by the CPI-Maoist cadres in separate incidents in Gumla District. Zuber
Ansari was shot dead by the Maoists at Jairagi village in the District
while Florence Tirkey was killed at Poretoli village.
The Maoists targeted and killed a farmer,
identified as Sitaram Khaiya, in Raidih village in Gumla District.
November 7: A cadre of CPI-Maoist, identified
as Birendra Singh Kharwar, was arrested and four guns were recovered
during anti-naxal operation in the Baharaha forests in Garhwa District.
Four guns and 31 bullets were seized during the operation.
November 9: Three Policemen and a prisoner
were killed when about 100 armed CPI-Maoist cadres, including women
cadres, attacked a Police van carrying 32 prisoners from Giridih court
to the divisional jail at Mahadev Chauk in Giridih District. The Maoists
succeeded in freeing eight of their comrades from the prison van. One
prisoner, Sanjay Mahto, who refused to alight from the van, was gunned
down by the Maoists. DGP, G S Rath confirmed that three Policemen including
ASI Prabhu Nath Singh, Constable Raj Kumar Das, driver Sadanand Gagarai,
lost their lives while six Policemen and three prisoners were injured
in the attack. The Maoists triggered blasts on a truck to disrupt traffic
and hurled bombs on the Police van. The eight Maoists who escaped after
the attack have been identified as Baijnath Tiwari, Mithilesh Mandal,
Nemchand Mahto, Sahdeo Soren, Chotaka Marandi, Bipin Mandal, Pantosh
Hembrom and Rampravesh alias Ramesh Mandal. Four prisoners Ramesh
Mandal, Surendra Hajra, Arjun Yadav and Babloo alias Sanjay Verma
returned to the jail on their own.
November 10: Two of the eight CPI-Maoist
cadres, who fled while being taken from court to jail after the Maoists
fired on a transit van in Giridih town on November 9, have been found.
While one of the Maoists returned on his own, another was found admitted
to a nursing home. Three of the ten weapons looted during the attack
were also recovered.
November 15: Suspected Maoists dragged
out one Narayan Munda from his house at Barihada under Arki Police Station
of Khunti District and killed him, charging him of acting as a Police
informer.
At Seramdih village under Khunti Police
Station, para-teacher Wiliam Nag was killed in an identical manner.
November 16: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres
beat up two women and put a lock on their house after they failed to
find a male member of their family, identified as Rampyare Sao, a local
BJP worker, at Bhaugadi-Patratu in Latehar District of Jharkhand, police
said.
November 18: Six fugitive CPI-Maoist
cadres who had escaped on November 11 following an attack on the transit
van claiming the lives of four Policemen in Giridih town of Jharkhand,
if surrender would not be charged with hatching the plot, a top police
official said.
It has been learnt that two persons
arrested for allegedly killing a 65-year-old man in Lapung area in Ranchi
District in Jharkhand had links with PLFI ‘area commander’ Suber Singh
alias Surya.
The Seraikela-Kharswan District Police
arrested two suspected CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as Parakshit Mahato
(31) and Sadaquat Ali alias Abdul Gaffar (34), from Gurma village
under Ichagarh Police Station area of Jharkhand.
November 20: Para-military Forces arrested
a 23-year-old "Sub-zonal Commander" of CPI-Maoist, identified
as Prabhu Yadav, at Madhya village of Palamau District in Jharkhand,
when he came to meet his family. Later Yadav guided the Police to two
places under Manatu Police Station where the SFs found a five kg IED,
seven gelatin sticks, 25 detonators and a 100-mt wire. A country-made
pistol and Maoist literature was also seized from the extremist. Commenting
on the arrest District Police official said "Yadav had killed three
persons of rival extremist factions this year - two members of the JLT
on April 16 and one JPC member on May 22."
Pawan Gope, a cadre of PLFI was arrested
from Doranda in Ranchi city of Jharkhand. A pistol and live cartridges
were seized from Gope.
November 21: Two and a half years after
the Jnaneswari Express tragedy, superfast trains will once again ply
at their normal speed between Kharagpur and Rourkela on the Howrah-Mumbai
mainline at night, bringing down travelling time by 45 minutes on the
stretch.
With CPI-Maoist cadres regrouping in
Saranda forest region of West Singhbhum District in Jharkhand, as they
used to do every winter, the SFs personnel this time are taking the
help of an UAV "Netra" to track their movements.
CPI-Maoist politburo member Sushil Roy
was granted bail by Jharkhand High Court as Roy's kin had met UMHA
Sushil Kumar Shinde around a fortnight ago, seeking amnesty on his behalf
on account of his terminal illness and old age.
Maoist posters were found pasted at
Birbandha village under the Sadar Police Station area in Garhwa District.
The Maoist's posters which were in the form of letter containing three
paragraphs and released by Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand Special Area
Committee appealed to all state legislators to extend cooperation to
end the ongoing Operation Green Hunt against the outfit.
November 23: A Maoist ‘area commander’
identified as Mukhlal Yadav, was arrested in Garhwa District.
JAP will gradually replace CAPF deployed
in various CPI-Maoist-prone areas in the State. K S Meena, ADG, JAP,
said JAP personnel are being provided special training so that they
can replace CRPF and assist State Police in anti-Maoist operation and
other tasks related to maintenance of law and order.
November 24: Two persons, identified
as Krishna Sahu (35) and Arun Sahu (20), both marginal farmers, were
killed by cadres of PLFI at Hulsu village under Lapung Police Station
in Ranchi District.
November 25: Maoists set ablaze six
heavy vehicles, including a road-roller and dumper, involved in the
road construction work under Saranda Action Plan (SAP) in Chota Nagra
Police Station area in West Singhbhum District.
November 26: A villager, identified
as Dasrath Malhar, was killed in crossfire between the CPI-Maoist and
SFs in Bhalmara forest of Upperghat area under Nawadih Police Station
in Bokaro District.
Pelawal Police arrested three persons
identified as Arun Ganjhu alias Ramavtar Ganjhu from Chordaha
forest of Simaria, Jasgdish Ganjhu of Siladag and Gyan Kumar Bhogta
of Jehra village of Pathalgada in Chatra and recovered three revolvers
and 10 cartridges from them in Hazaribagh District.
November 27: During a combing operation,
Police seized a cache of arms, including two rocket launchers, more
than a dozen grenades and 5,000 bullets and live cartridges, of the
CPI-Maoist from a forest in Ramgarh District.
November 28: Cadres of CPI-Maoist killed
three members of the JPC, a breakaway faction of CPI-Maoist, in a gun-battle
in Palamau District. The dead bodies of the trio identified as Babulal
Bhuiyan alias Avinash, the local JPC ‘zonal commander’,
and ‘area commanders’ Pradip Bhuiyan alias Prashant
and Butan alias Vikram, were recovered the next day,
from a dense forest near Tal village under Panki Police Station in the
District.
The State Government has come up with
a mega development action plan concentrating on two Red Zones of Bokaro
District, 80 villages of Jhumra and 39 villages of Upperghat, with a
budget of INR 5.5 billion.
November 29: The cadres of PLFI, a breakaway
faction of the CPI-Maoist, killed a woman identified as Jiten Devi (48), and
manhandled her two daughters, accusing them of being Police informers
at Kombakera Devatoli under Koelibera Police Station in Simdega District.
30 to 35 Maoist cadres attacked the
office of a private company involved in road construction work and set
ablaze eight vehicles including dumpers and tractors of the company
near Jamni village in Dumka District.
Top Maoist Shivnandan Sahu and his three
associates, including a woman cadre identified as Seema Kumari, were
arrested from the Senha forest area in Lohardaga District.
November 30: Police recovered banners
put up by Maoists on the roadside of Pilpilo forest under Bokaro Thermal
Police Station in Bermo sub-division in Bokaro District.
December 1: Cadres of the PLFI, a break-away
faction of the CPI-Maoist, killed two villagers identified as Samnichar
Khadia (35) and his nephew Chaitu Khadia (30) at Kulbir-Ambatoli Village
in Gumla District. The Sanjay Tiger group of PLFI is suspected to be
involved in the killing, a Police officer added.
Huge quantities of explosives were recovered
from the premises of an ancient building in Musaboni block of Ghatshila
sub-division in East Singhbhum District.
Chowka Police recovered anti-Maoist
operation posters from the market area in Seraikela-Kharswan District.
December 2: The CPI-Maoist in Jharkhand,
through posters put up in two districts, Ranchi and Khunti, during Martyrs'
Week, has urged the youth not to support the Police and join their ranks.
They warned the youth to either support them or else incur their wrath.
December 5: Suspected cadres of the
PLFI, a break-away faction of the CPI-Maoist killed Sambal Pradhan (52),
the secretary of BJP's Khunti District committee, near a weekly market
in Sondari village under Torpa police station. The PLFI cadres also
set ablaze two vehicles parked in the vicinity.
December 7: Three CPI-Maoist cadres,
identified as Dinesh Rai alias Babu, Shashi Murmu and
Deewan Marandi alias Yadav, involved in setting ablaze
about a dozen vehicles belonging to a road construction company were
arrested in Dumka District.
December 9: With the success of the
anti-Naxal operation 'Anaconda 1' [which began on July 31, 2011 and
continued till September 2011] in the dense Saranda forest areas of
West Singhbhum District, the SF have launched a fresh offensive titled
'Anaconda 2' in the Saranda forest areas.
December 12: Four cadres of the PLFI,
a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist, were arrested during a raid in
Koelibera and Bano Police Station areas under Koelibera Block in Simdega
District.
Panchayat representatives in
Jharkhand are on the target list of Maoists as a number of them are
alleged sympathisers of different rebel outfits or involved in liasoning.
December 13: The Ranchi District Police
of Jharkhand along with CRPF and other SF arrested 59 Naxals so far
in 2012.
A cadre of the PLFI, a breakaway faction
of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Alwan Murmu, was arrested after an
encounter with SF personnel at Katinkel forest under Murhu Police Station
in Khunti District.
December 16: Maoists set ablaze about
a dozen of vehicles belonging to a construction company at Deruwan village
in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
Maoists, set ablaze portions of an under-construction
house of a fellow zonal 'commander', identified as Phoolchand Soren
alias Prabeel Majhi, currently in Police custody in Bokaro District
of Jharkhand.
December 16: Maoists set ablaze about
a dozen of vehicles belonging to a construction company at Deruwan village
in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
Maoists, set ablaze portions of an under-construction
house of a fellow zonal 'commander', identified as Phoolchand Soren
alias Prabeel Majhi, currently in Police custody in Bokaro District
of Jharkhand.
December 17: Jharkhand Police acquired
advanced 3D mapping software which would help them track and chase the
CPI-Maoist cadres.
Police arrested two LWEs belonging to
JSJM, from Patratu town of Ramgarh District, and recovered two 9mm bullets
and a pistol from them.
December 20: A CPI-Maoist squad killed
one of their former comrades at Chhipadohar market under Barwadih Police
Station in Latehar District, after branding him as Police informer.
The Jharkhand Government decided to
give INR 1,500 allowance to surrendered LWEs till they get a plot to
construct house as per the State’s 2010 surrender policy.
Barring incidents of setting ablaze
of vehicles, Maoist activities have been contained to a large extent
in Jharkhand, DGP G S Rath said in Jamshedpur.
December 24: The CPI-Maoist cadres and
the Police exchanged fire at Ghurabandha in Ghatshila Sub-Division of
East Singhbhum District.
December 25: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a villager in Gumla District.
A suspected ‘area commander’ of the
PLFI, identified as Ajit Sahu, was killed by a mob when he had gone
to collect ‘levy’ at Renghari Mundatoli under Thetaitanger Police Station
in Simdega District.
The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze two
earthmovers at Chapalsi village under Bhandaria Police Station in Garhwa
District.
The Paramilitary Forces are contemplating
to install CCTV cameras in West Singhbhum forest area to strengthen
their offensive against the CPI-Maoist in Saranda forest.
December 27: The Railway Authorities
announced precautionary measures to prevent any untoward incident which
may arise because of the 24-hour bandh, with effect from December
3, called by the CPI-Maoist in the Saranda forests of West Singhbhum
District.
Despite securing bail, Maoist leader
Narayan Sanyal (82), who has been lodged in the Jai Prakash Narayan
Central Jail in Hazaribag for the past three years, will have to remain
in custody for an indefinite period because the Government has booked
him under the National Security Act (NSA) on the recommendations of
the Hazaribag District administration.
December 30: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre
who was allegedly raped and sexually exploited by her party cadres was
rescued by Police in Latehar District. The rescued woman belongs to
Bihar's Chhapra District, and many cases are registered against her.
Latehar Superintendent of Police (SP) said the woman was abducted by
the Maoists and was forced to be a part of their group for the last
six months. The arrested woman cadre said that two to three more women
cadres have been forced to stay with the Maoists.
Karnataka
January 5: The Karnataka DGP Shankar
Bidari said that as many as 100 youth, mostly tribals, from Karkala,
Sringeri, Tirthahalli and Beltangadi regions would be recruited into
the Police to combat CPI-Maoist cadres in the Western Ghats. Nearly
30 youth from Karkala, Tirthahalli and Sringeri region and around 10
from Beltangadi region would be recruited by March 2012. Priority would
be given to tribals in recruitment as they had knowledge of the forests.
The Karnataka Government offered INR
300,000 solatium to the family of Sadashiva Gowda, who was allegedly
gunned down by the CPI-Maoist in Hebri forests on December 28.
January 6: The cadres of the CPI-Maoist
engaged the ANF personnel in an exchange of fire in Barkana Falls region
near Agumbe in Shimoga District. No casualties were reported from either
side. The suspected Maoists fled the spot after the firing. Following
the incident, the Police have intensified the combing operations in
the forest around Agumbe and Mastikatte. The Police had tip-off on the
movement of the armed group in the forest around Agumbe and Malandur.
A team of ANF personnel from Agumbe camp had stayed in Malandur in the
previous night anticipating the visit of Maoists to the village. During
combing operations in the surrounding forest on Friday, ANF personnel
had noticed suspected Maoists camping near Barkana Falls.
January 9: In a letter received by certain
local dailies in Udupi District, a person who claimed himself to be
Vishwa representing the CPI-Maoist, confirmed that they were involved
in the killing of Sadashiva Gowda (50) near Kabbinale Tingalamatti in
Karkala. The letter however, claims that they had not tortured Gowda
as reported by the media.
At the Karnataka State Senior Police
Officers' Annual Meeting, chaired by chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda,
DGP, Shankar M. Bidari said that only 30 cadres of the CPI-Maoist are
operating in the State. "We will ensure that Karnataka is free of naxals
by 2012-end," he said. He also added that the intelligence network in
Maoist- affected areas had been strengthened and would show results
soon.
Speaking at the Karnataka State Senior
Police Officers' Annual Meeting held at the Police chief's office, Karnataka
CM, D.V Sadanand Gowda observed that there was no co-ordination between
the Anti-Maoist Force and the local Police. "If they work together,
better results can be expected. We have plans to depute young and energetic
staff to the ANF," he added. Home Minister, R. Ashok said that the Maoist
activities in the State were curbed and there was information that supari
killers from Tamil Nadu were operating with the CPI-Maoist.
January 12: A gang of CPI-Maoist cadres
visited Nadpal village near Hebri in Udupi District and collected food-
stuffs, grains etc from some houses there. The gang had nine members
including two women.
January 13: The Karnataka Government
decided to hire qualified locals on contract basis to fill vacancies
in nine taluks, where there is "Naxal activity", as "fearful"
Government servants transferred there have refused to join. Briefing
reporters after a Cabinet meeting, chaired by CM, D V Sadananda Gowda.
Law Minister, S Suresh Kumar said there are vacant posts in different
Government departments (in these nine taluks) as officials transferred
there are hesitating to report. "This has resulted in adverse impact
on administration and development," he said. The nine taluks in the
three Districts of Tumkur, Chikmagalur and Udupi are: Karkala, Kundapura,
Sringeri, Mudigere, Koppa, Hosanagara, Tirthahalli, Beltangadi and Pavagada,
where 107 villages and 709 sub-villages have been "identified" for Naxal
activity. He said the nine taluks have not been declared as Maoist affected
and Government employees willing to go those places on transfer would
be given first priority.
January 27: The CPI-Maoist cadres from
Tamil Nadu have reportedly infiltrated Karnataka and are strengthening
the hands of their comrades in Agumbe region of Udupi District, according
to a recent intelligence report. According to Police sources, there
has been no new recruitment of local people in the CPI-Maoist in Karnataka.
"We have been keeping track of villagers in the Naxal-affected districts
and no one in the last two years has gone missing or has been abducted
by the Maoists," said an officer from Udupi. On January 6, in a fire
exchange between the ANF and the Maoists in Barkana Falls region near
Agumbe in Udupi District, the ANF for the first time found Maoist literature
in Tamil from the site where the Maoist cadres were camping in the forest.
Till then, the Police believed that a majority of the Maoist cadres
in Karnataka were from the Malekudiya tribe from the Kudremukh National
Park area.
January 28: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist
should give up their guns as the State Government is ready to rehabilitate
and provide employment to them, said State Home Minister R Ashok at
a function in Mangalore. He remarked, "As guns will not yield anything,
naxals should bid goodbye to arms. The government has been providing
packages to the naxal-affected areas. Considering this, naxals should
surrender." Compared to other states, Maoist activity is less in Karnataka.
Only in some places such as Chikmagalur and Udupi Districts, are they
in operation, he clarified, when reporters sought to know why the Union
Government has not marked Karnataka as a Maoist affected State.
February 6: State Home Minister R Ashoka
said that those CPI-Maoist cadres who want to surrender would be given
a compensation of INR 100,000 and a loan of INR 100,000 from a co-operative
society to ensure they are self-employed. If the Maoists surrender their
weapons, the government will pay the worth of the weapons to them.
State Home minister R Ashoka said that
there are 15-20 cadres of CPI-Maoist in Karnataka and a survey had been
taken up to identify their antecedents. The Home minister added that
the State has a unit of 500 Police constables and 80 commandos to combat
them. He added that another team of commandos was undergoing training.
Further, he informed that the office of the head of ANF would be shifted
to Karkala from Bangalore.
February 10: The Maoists from the neighbouring
Andhra Pradesh and other States often use the Karnataka a hideout. Karnataka,
which claimed to have ended the menace of CPI-Maoist, has a fresh problem
on its hands. CPI-Maoist cadres from Tamil Nadu have reportedly infiltrated
the jungles of the Western Ghats since January 2012. The ANF, during
its routine combing operations, came across Maoist literature in Tamil
Nadu at an abandoned Maoist camp in Udupi District recently. The Maoists
were first spotted in the State in 1998 in Kudremukh National Park.
February 29: The second JMFC court,
through a judgment delivered, absolved six youth, who had been arrested
by Policemen of Doddapet Police Station in Shimoga District in 2009,
on charges of being involved with the CPI-Maoist activities. Anita,
Jagannath, Devendrappa, Asha, Gangamma, and Mallesh, had been arrested
on the allegation of being suspected Maoists, and getting involved with
illegal activities.
March 9: The Karnataka Rajya ABSS State
convener, P Bharath demanded that journalism student Vittal Malekudiya
and Linganna, who were recently arrested on the charges of abetting
CPI-Maoist, should be released immediately as "the duo did not support
Naxalism."
March 10: The ANF and DP reportedly
exchanged fire with 20 to 25 CPI-Maoist cadres at Mittabagilu in Bolle
forest in Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada District during
a combing operation. One Police constable Sadashiva Choudhary (25) of
Jamkhandi taluk in Bagalkot District got injured in the exchange
of fire. The ANF also found 10 separate camps set up by Maoists, spread
over a large uneven patch of land. With the exception of one or two
camps, one camp could not be sighted from the other. Each camp also
contained ammunition and weapons, including 140 rounds of SLR ammunition,
30 grenades, a U.S. made auto pistol and a double-barrel rifle.
March 11: The ANF recovered literature
in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. The recovered items also included
training manuals, bags, clothes, rations such as rice and sugar, audio
recorder, laptop bag, radio and clothes.
March 14: Chief Minister D V Sadananda
Gowda warned stringent action against CPI-Maoist cadres operating in
the Malnad region of the State. Steps would also be taken to provide
basic amenities to people in the Maoist affected areas, Gowda added.
March 16: The Police took into custody
a person named Vijay Kadamane from Kolli village in Belthangady taluk
in Dakshina Kannada District for questioning. They suspect that Vijay
had extended support to CPI-Maoist cadres in holding programme at Malavantige
village.
March 26: State Home Minister R. Ashok
told the Karnataka Legislative Council that some Sri Lankans have joined
the CPI-Maoist cadres operating in the five Districts of the State.
The Minister said there are an estimated 25 to 30 Maoists in Karnataka.
"Most of them are those who have come from the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh
and Sri Lanka," he noted.
April 12: As a part of its carrot-and-stick
policy in the fight against the CPI-Maoist cadres in Karnataka, DGP,
A R Infant said the that the Maoist surrender package would be made
more attractive to enable misguided youths rejoin social mainstream.
April 16: LWE is steadily increasing
in the five Districts of Karnataka, Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda
said demanding support from the Centre in training and provision of
infrastructure to tackle it.
April 20: The ANF and cadres of the
CPI-Maoist exchanged fire in Panjalbetta of Kuthlur village in Belthangady
taluk in Dakshina Kannada District during routine combing operations
by the ANF. The Maoist group allegedly opened fire on the ANF team,
who retaliated. The Maoist group then escaped, he said. No one was injured.
June 11: The Karnataka High Court rejected
the interim bail plea of Vittala Malekudiya, a student of Mass Communication
of Mangalore University, who has been arrested for his alleged links
with the CPI-Maoist.
June 21: Intelligence agencies have
warned Karnataka that the CPI-Maoist cadres are attempting to regroup
in Malnad area benefiting from Police's reluctance to initiate action
against them and growing discontent among the villagers living close
to the thick jungles of the Western Ghat over their land ownership.
The Maoists are giving high priority to increasing their footfalls in
the about 100-kilometre stretch of Malnad area - comprising seven Districts
of Chikmagalur, Shimoga, parts of Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan and
Kodagu - and have deputed central committee member Kuppu Swami to establish
a base and recruit cadres.
Swami, who hails from Bangalore, has
been tasked with supervising the expansion plan as he is familiar with
the territory and knows the local dialect. Masquerading under assumed
identities such as Kuppu Devaraj, Ramesh, Rayanna, Balaji, Jogesh and
Yogesh, Kuppu Swami carries a reward of INR 700,000 and INR 1 million
announced by Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh Governments respectively. Intelligence
inputs with the SF suggest that the cadres from neighbouring Tamil Nadu
and Kerala are camping in the Western Ghats along with local Maoists
belonging to groups led by Vikram Gowda, Latha, Mahesh and Sundari.
July 10: A team of suspected Maoists
were spotted near Sisila in Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada District.
July 15: Following the visit of some
Maoists to a home at Sudegundi in Shishila village in the District,
DIG, ANF, Alok Kumar and other officials visited the region. “Though
the team tried to collect information on the Naxal movement, they drew
a blank,” sources said.
July 16: A poster seeking support for
the CPI-Maoist was found pasted at a bus stop in a busy place in Karyatadka
near Nidle village in Uppinangady Police Station limits of Dakshin Kannada
District.
July 18-19: A team of Naxals were spotted
in the villages of Shiradi region in Puttur taluk of Dakshina
Kannada District. A team of five cadres including four men and one woman
visited a house in Addahole in Shiradi Ghat, requested for food and
borrowed two kilograms of rice, sugar and onions from the house owner.
News of Naxals’ visit to Honnakoppala
and other villages in Kabbinale in Karkala taluk of Udupi District
on June 16 came to light on July 19. Sources said, when the ANF and
the District Police focused their combing operation in Belthangady taluk,
the Naxals seem to have fled from the taluk and have moved to
Karkala taluk. It was suspected that Kodlu resident Naxal leader
Vikram Gowda leading the team.
August 16: Letters were addressed to
media houses in Chikmagalur purportedly by one CPI-Maoist state committee
secretary Gangadhar. The letters justified the Naxal team's visit to
Shishila in Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada District on
July 10 and said that that they held discussions with the locals about
politics and problems faced by the locals.
August 18: A CPI-Maoist camp was found
by the Police at Talavanthakudige near Sringeri in Chikmagalur District
of Karnataka. However, the Maoists managed to escape from the camp.
At the camp site, prepared food, utensils, soup and vegetables were
found. Also, a bag containing Maoist pamphlets were seized.
September 2: Police are yet to get any
conclusive evidence about the reported sighting of CPI-Maoist cadres
at Kulkunda near Kukke Subramanya in Dakshina Kannada District on August
31. A Gram Panchayat member informed the Police on August 31
that five people, who identified themselves as Maoists, visited a house
in the village. However, when the Police visited the village, the residents
said only some of their relatives had come over.
September 2: Anti-Naxal Police fired
at a group of CPI-Maoist cadres at Palligadde in Dakshina Kannada District
but they managed to escape. The Police team was maintaining vigil on
an information that a group of Naxals visited some houses in the village
on August 30 and August 31, a fact confirmed by locals. It was not known
whether any Naxal was injured or whether they returned the fire.
September 5: A suspected cadre of the
CPI-Maoist was killed in an encounter in the forests around Kulkunda,
near Kukke Subramanya, in Dakshina Kannada District. The slain Maoist
was yet to be identified.
After the brief encounter, the ANF intensified
combing operations and unearthed a camp. Though only a country-made
rifle was found at the camp - and a weapon seized from the slain person
- the forces also found pamphlets about Maoist ideology in Tamil and
Kannada.
September 7: The Police identified the
suspected Maoist, who was killed in an exchange of fire in Cheru Forest
in the Dakshina Kannada-Hassan Border on September 4, as Yellappa alias
Dinakar, an area committee member of the CPI-Maoist. Yellappa, a native
of Raichur, had been associated with the Maoist organisation since 2004.
Materials recovered from the place of encounter showed Yellappa had
knowledge of making improved explosive devices. He might have come to
the region in a capacity of trainer, he said.
September 14: ANF personnel and suspected
cadres of the CPI- Maoist reportedly exchanged fire near Kinkeri-Balehalla
in the Kaginahare forests in Sakaleshpur taluk in Hassan District.
The ANF personnel recovered a 20-kg rice bag that was being carried
by the suspected Maoists.
September 15: Karnataka CM Jagadish
Shettar announced a week-long ceasefire from September 17 in anti-Naxal
operations to facilitate surrender of the CPI-Maoist cadres.
September 21: The State Cabinet approved
a proposal to sanction INR 450 million for taking up development works
in nine Naxalite-infested taluks— Pavagada, Tirthahalli, Hosanagara,
Sringeri, Mudigere, Koppa, Karkala, Kundapura and Belthangady in Karnataka.
Each taluk would get INR 50 million. INR 1790 million project for providing
514 houses to State government officers in the B and C groups and 171
houses for those in the D group at the NGEF Factory at Byappanahalli
on Old Madras Road has been approved. Similarly, the Cabinet approved
INR 180 million project to build six-storeyed quarters for providing
60 houses C and D employees at Kumara Krupa on Crescent Road.
October 1: Inaugurating a Police Station
in Amasebailu in Udupi District, Karnataka CM Jagadish Shettar said,
"No more extension of the ceasefire, which has already expired.
Naxals have failed to utilise the opportunity given by the government.
The Government had announced a ceasefire of its anti- naxal operations
from September 17 to 23 in the backdrop of reports that some naxals
wanted to surrender. The Government would soon release funds for implementing
the special package announced for Naxal-affected areas in parts of Dakshina
Kannada, Udupi, Chikmagalur and Shimoga.
October 16: Eluru Range DIG G. Suryaprakasa
Rao during his visit to the District Police Office in the town said,
there is no Naxalite activity in East and West Godavari Districts of
Andhra Pradesh.
November 27: The Anti-Naxal Force of
Karnataka raided a CPI-Maoist camp at Charmadi-Somanakadu forest area
in Mangalore District and arrested an extremist.
December 18:Dy. CM R Ashok, who also
holds the Home portfolio, said the Naxal problem in the State is on
the wane.
Kerala
December 29: Five persons were arrested
on suspected CPI-Maoist links from a lodge in Mavelikara taluka
in Alapuzzha District.
Madhya Pradesh
January 22: The Police recovered detonators,
grenade and explosive material from the CPI-Maoist-affected forest area
near Balaghat District. Acting on a tip-off, a Police team reached the
forest area under Sulsuli Police Post and recovered two hand-grenades,
two detonators, four pencil cell and 2.5 kg high grade explosive hidden
inside a pit, IG UR Netam and Sachin Atulkar told media persons. It
appears the Maoists were planning to execute a blast in the District,
he said, adding the Police have intensified search operation in the
area.
February 1: An exchange of fire took
place between the CPI-Maoist cadres and the Police at Ghagra village
in Balaghat District. Acting on a tip off that a meeting of Maoists
of Davari Dalam of Gadchiroli District, was taking place at Lodhiwara
village, close to Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra border, the Hawk Force
personnel rushed to Ghagra village - a transit route to Chhattisgarh
and waited the whole night in the thick of the forest to ambush Maoist
dalam, Balaghat IG UR Netam said. However, the Maoists got wind of the
ambush plan of the Police as a trained country dog accompanying the
Maoists barked at the hiding Police. Alerted, the Maoists escaped to
Chhattisgarh even as they kept firing at the Police.
April 24: A group of 20 to 25 CPI-Maoist
cadres, including four women, allegedly set ablaze a JCB machine in
a bid to stop the construction of a 13 kilometres road stretch under
the Prime Minister Gramin Sadak Yojna at Gaighat under Hatta Police
Station in Balaghat District. The Maoists left behind a pamphlet stating
that Ganpath Patel, the contractor hired for the construction of road,
was a Police mole and had betrayed people. The leaflet stated that the
cutting of trees for road construction was prohibited as the Maoists
were against development works in forest.
April 27: The Madhya Pradesh Police
Headquarters deployed two teams of SAF to the CPI-Maoist-infested Balaghat
District in view of increased Maoist activities in the region. IG Anvesh
Mangalam will deal with the situation.
May 16: A labourer, Sunil Bawre, working
at a road construction site was nailed to a bridge allegedly by Maoists
at Kundekata village in Balaghat District. The Maoists threatened labourers
working at the site of dire consequences if they work for construction
of the road and the bridge.
May 18: Police arrested a person, identified
as Amar Singh Bhalavi, associate of Dilip alias Guha,
‘Commander’ of Guerrilla Dalam (armed squad)
of the CPI-Maoist, from Borki forest area under Roopjhar Police Station
in Balaghat District. According to Police Sources, they had received
a tip-off that Dilip was going to visit Borki forest last night, following
which Police raided the area. However, instead of Dilip, Police arrested
Bhalavi from the forest along with items like food grains, edible oil,
bathing soap and a Maoist banner. During the interrogation, Bhalavi
revealed that Dilip had already paid him to buy these items and had
asked him to come to the forest, Police said.
May 26: SFs killed a hardcore woman
cadre of the CPI-Maoist after seven hours of gun battle near Bamni village
under Roopjar Police Station area in Balaghat District. The body of
the slain Maoist was recovered with a .315 bore rifle and 45 cartridges.
Police have also recovered a computer hard disc, explosives, medicine,
rifle cleaning equipment, rice, torch, paper cutting, FM radio and other
stuff from the encounter site left behind by the fleeing Maoists. The
deceased was accompanied by around 49 reds, who had melted into the
forest.
May 26: SFs killed a hardcore woman
cadre of the CPI-Maoist after seven hours of gun battle near Bamni village
under Roopjar Police Station area in Balaghat District. The body of
the slain Maoist was recovered with a .315 bore rifle and 45 cartridges.
Police have also recovered a computer hard disc, explosives, medicine,
rifle cleaning equipment, rice, torch, paper cutting, FM radio and other
stuff from the encounter site left behind by the fleeing Maoists. The
deceased was accompanied by around 49 reds, who had melted into the
forest.
June 25: Police recovered CPI-Maoist
pamphlets which talk about the killing of their woman comrade in a Police
encounter in Balaghat District. The pamphlets, both hand-written and
printed, were found in the forest near Songudda Police Station under
Baihar sub-division of the District. Issued by the Maoist Malajkhand
Dalam (squad), the pamphlets say “the sacrifice of Sugna will not go
in vain”. Balaghat Superintendent of Police Sachin Atulkar confirmed
the recovery of pamphlets but said the identity of the deceased could
not be verified.
August 7: Admitting to presence of LWEs
in Balaghat and Singrauli Districts of Madhya Pradesh, the state DGP
Nandan Dube said the Naxal movement in that region is far from being
significant. "There is definitely a Naxal movement in Balaghat
and Singrauli districts but it is not very effective," Dube told
reporters.
December 10: In a bid to reassert their
presence in central India, the CPI-Maoist has carved out a new zone
for their operations comprising Gadchiroli, Gondia and Balaghat areas
in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The Maoists have also appointed a
separate leader, Pahad Singh, to look after the unit.
Maharashtra
January 7: CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a 47-year-old civilian, Suresh Erra Alam, in Nandigaon village in Aheri
tehsil of Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. “Suresh Erra Alam
was picked up by Naxals from his house in the night and was taken to
a place near the village, where he was stabbed in the chest with a sharp
weapon,” ASP Sudhir Hire math said.
January 11: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres
opened fire on a Police team in Gadchiroli District, Police said. The
team, consisting of personnel from C-60, a special anti-Naxal unit,
came under fire while patrolling near Kosni village in Etepalli taluka,
they said. The police promptly returned the fire and the encounter lasted
for 15 to 20 minutes, but there was no report of any casualty on either
side, they said. The entire area has been cordoned off and a search
launched to arrest the Maoists, the Police added.
January 12: An alleged CPI-Maoist cadre
was killed during an encounter with the Police in Bezarpalli area in
Sironcha taluka of Gadchiroli District. The shoot-out between
a group of Maoists and a Police platoon lasted about 45 minutes before
the Maoists fled, said the Police. A body of a Maoist was recovered
from the site. The Police also claimed that at least four to five Maoists
must have been wounded seriously. The Police also recovered a 303 rifle,
a country-made pistol and 29 rounds besides a grenade.
January 17: The SFs have claimed that
the CPI-Maoist cadre shot dead on January 12 in an encounter near Beijurpalli
in Gadchiroli District was Mangru Michcha, alias Linga (22), 'sectional
commander' of Platoon 14. The slain Maoist allegedly led the military
wing in the Aheri-Sironcha division of the CPI-Maoist. Miccha was earlier
with Bhamragarh local guerrilla squad and worked for platoon 7. Police
said that there were around 20 offences against Miccha.
January 28: CPI-Maoist struck a blow
to the Zilla Parishad polls in Gadchiroli District by killing the Bhamragarh
Panchayat Samiti Chairman and Bhamragarh tehsil Congress Unit
Chief Bahadurshah Alam. Three members of Maoists' Quick Action Team
came to a tea stall in the town square where Alam was having his morning
tea and shot him dead from close range, said the Police. They ran away
shouting, "Alam Murdabad, Lal Salaam Zindabad". "He was reportedly
warned by the Naxals not to contest. We had also recovered pamphlets
that called him as a traitor," said SP Veeresh Prabhu.
A high ranking Naxal leader, Maruti
Kurwatkar (31), was arrested from Talodhi in Chandrapur District by
a Special Team. Kurwatkar was a member of the CPI-Maoist State Committee
and Secretary of Chandrapur Committee of CPI-Maoist.
February 1: The Police recovered a small
cache of arms and ammunition along with electronic equipments, which
on assembling could help make explosive devices, in two separate raids
in villages Talodhi-Balapur and Bolegaon. The first raid was carried
out at the residence of one Mithun Surpam in Talodhi-Balapur village
on the basis of information given by CPI-Maoist cadre Maruti Kurwatkar
(31), who was arrested on January 28. The recoveries included a small
laptop, a USB pen drive, a computer hard disc, electronic fuses, transistor
divot, rechargeable batteries, two magnetic compass, Maoist' literature
along with a book detailing how to handle the explosives. In the second
raid, the Police recovered two loaded 9mm pistols from the house of
one Prakash Sayam at Bolegaon.
The plans of Maoists to form a dalam
in forests of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) seem to have failed
due to lack of people's support and patches of villages in the jungles
around the area, according to Police sources. Strong evidence of Maoist'
plans to constitute a dalam for villages in and around TATR to
regain their lost foothold in Chandrapur had surfaced after the arrest
of state committee member of CPI-Maoist Bhimrao alias Bhanu alias Bhaskar
Bhowate by Gondia Police in December 2010.
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Ramamurty
Kishtya Boing (38), suspected to be involved in an encounter with Police
in Gadchiroli District was arrested from his hideout in Sironcha town
of the District. Boing was allegedly engaged in the skirmish with Police
on January 12 in Bezarpalli area in which one Maoist was killed. Some
Maoist literature was also recovered from his possession, the Police
said.
February 7: State Election Commissioner
Neela Satyanarayan said in a press release, "A total of 65 per cent
voting was recorded in the State. Naxal-affected Gadchiroli District
recorded 67 per cent voting." Polling was being conducted in Maharashtra
for 27 Zilla Parishads and 305 Panchayat Samitis.
February 12: Two separate incidents
of exchange of fire between the cadres of the CPI-Maoist and Police
took place in Gadchiroli District. However, no one was injured. According
to Police, Maoists opened fire on a polling party near Repanpalli village
when it was returning to its base camp. However, security personnel
accompanying the polling staff retaliated following which the Maoists
fled away, they said, adding the polling staff reached its base-camp
safely.
An exchange of fire between the Maoists
and Police took place near Ghotsur village in Etapalli Taluka
of the District, but no one was injured. The second phase polling in
Aheri, Etapalli, Bhamragad and Sironcha Taluka for 16 Zilla
Parishad and 32 Panchayat Samiti seats was held on February
12. Maoists had appealed people in the region to boycott the polls and
had dropped posters in this regard at various places.
February 14: Around 40 armed CPI-Maoist
cadres threatened 20 truck drivers in Piparkhari village in Gondia District
with dire consequences if they transport wood from the forest to the
depots.
February 18: Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist
surrendered before the Police in Gadchiroli District. The Police identified
them as Somi alias Nirmala Lalu Kulmethe (25) and Jagat alias
Sukhram Sonu Madavi (19). According to the Police, Somi became a Maoist
cadre in 2000, and worked with Aheri, Bhamragarh, Kohkaneta (Chhattisgarh)
dalams over the last decade. Jagat was an active Maoist since 2000,
and worked in Chhattisgarh. Both of them were involved in a number of
crimes and taught in schools run by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, Police
said.
February 20: The Police and the CRPF
arrested two cadres of the CPI-Maoist, including a woman, at Etapalli
in Gadchiroli District. While Prakash alias Devidas alias
Adve Mura Gawde (30) hails from Mardahur in Gadchiroli, Rammi alias
Janni Narsu Kovase (25) is from Neltola in Pankhajur, Kanker (Chhattisgarh).
February 21: In a joint operation, the
anti-Naxal branch of Gondia Police, C-60 commandos, the bomb detection
and disposal squad and Gadchiroli Police unearthed 45 kilograms of gelatin
and four detonators, packed in a plastic drum and buried about four
feet underground in Baswi ghat, about 4 kilometres from Chichgarh Police
Station in Gondia District.
February 28: The CPI-Maoist threat is
looming large on the rescheduled polls for the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat
Samiti in Korchi taluka of the highly sensitive Gadchiroli District.
Some candidates have reportedly got threatening letters from Maoists
asking them not to contest the polls.
March 1: The Police seized several castings,
believed to be used by CPI-Maoist cadres for making hand grenades, rockets
and other materials used for fabricating rocket launchers, during raids
on their weapon fabrication units, being run in the guise of workshops,
in Mumbai. The Mumbai Police, who conducted the raids following information
furnished by the Andhra Pradesh Police, took into custody four Maoist
cadres including two women. The arrestees were identified as Arka Paru
Bai alias Laxmi, wife of Chekka Sivaramakrishna (arrested during raids
on a Maoist workshop in Bhopal in 2007); Dinesh Wankhede, a Maoist District
Committee member of Maharashtra; his wife Kalam Sumanta, and Asim Kumar
Bhattacharya. While Arka Parun Bai is a native of Beersaipet of Adilabad
district in Andhra Pradesh, Dinesh hails from Nagpur and Sumanta from
Gadchiroli, Police sources said.
March 10: The Gadchiroli Police busted
a CPI-Maoist arms and ammunition factory at Neral in Raigad District.
Parts of rocket launchers, guns and magazines were also found besides
some damaged pieces and samples.
March 12: State Home Minister R R Patil
said that intelligence activity was being beefed up across the State
to monitor suspected Maoist movements. He also expressed the need for
a special board that would undertake recruitment of Police personnel
and provide employment opportunities in Maoist areas as well as deprived
areas in the State.
March 15: The CPI-Maoist cadres belonging
to Deori Dalam killed a farmer, identified as Jagdish Walwe,
in Kawalewada area of Sadak-Arjuni tehsil in Gondia District.
SP Chandrakishore Meena said that the deceased had no Maoist links.
March 16: Two constables were injured
in an exchange of fire with CPI-Maoist cadres in the Jimalgatta forest
in Gadchiroli District. "Around 11 a.m., during the 'area domination
exercise,' which we normally do by frequenting hideouts in jungle areas…the
constables were shot at unexpectedly in the Jimalgatta jungle. Suresh
Gawde, 32, and Kankaiya Durgam, 30, were injured. SP Viresh Prabhu confirmed
that a firearm, bullets, detonators and wire along with bulk of clothes,
shoes, pittus (back packs), water bottles and Naxal literature were
found. "It suggests that Naxals might have been camping at the site,"
Prabhu said.
March 24: Stressing the need for political
parties to mobilise masses into joining them, Union Urban Development
Minister Jairam Ramesh urged villagers of Gadchiroli District to bar
Naxals from entering their villages "since peace is necessary for development."
March 27: Twelve CRPF troopers belonging
to the CRPF's 192nd Battalion were killed and 28 injured when suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a landmine blast at Pushtola village under
Dhanora Police Station in Gadchiroli District. A total of 40 troops
were travelling in a bus from Pushtola to Gatta, for an operational
duty when the blast took place, killing 12 of them, Gadchiroli SP Viresh
Prabhu said.
Ramesh Parteti, an aide of CPI-Maoist
sympathizer Dilip Nagpure of Pangaon village in Salekasa tehsil,
was arrested by the Police in Gondia District. Parteti hails from Marartola
village in the District.
March 28: The State Government vowed
to give a "befitting reply" to the CPI-Maoist and said the SFs will
be equipped with best landmine detection technology. "The best available
anti-landmine technology in the world will be brought in," State Home
Minister R R Patil told the media.
Roshan Tekam, an aide of CPI-Maoist
sympathizer Dilip Nagpure of Pangaon village in Salekasa tehsil,
was arrested by the Police in Gondia District. Tekam hails from Murdoli
village in the District.
April 2: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
killed two persons identified as deputy sarpanch Bapu Yenka (60)
and Arjana Talandi (55), in Joganguda village under Aheri tehsil
in Gadchiroli District, on suspicion of being Police informers. Maoists
had reportedly warned them to refrain being close to the Police.
The Gadchiroli Police said that the
Naxal dalam 'commanders' manage to raise around INR 50 million
to INR 70 million every year by means of extortion and other such activities.
April 3: The death toll in the landmine
blast triggered by CPI-Maoist cadres at Pushtola village under Dhanora
Police Station in Gadchiroli District on March 27 went up to 13 after
a CRPF trooper died in a private hospital in Nagpur. SP Viresh Prabhu
said that the Police have so far arrested five persons in connection
with the blast case. They hail from Pushtola and Bhapda villages in
Gadchiroli District.
April 9: The Maharashtra Police arrested
a villager from Pakenjur near Kanker in Chhattisgarh, suspected to be
the supplier of the battery that was used in the landmine that killed
13 CRPF personnel in Gadchiroli District on March 26.
April 11: Six suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
were arrested in connection with the landmine blast near Gadchiroli
District which had claimed the lives of 13 CRPF personnel on March 27.
Those arrested were identified as Motiram Naitam, Suresh Atla, Shalik
Naitam, Parimal Mistry and Kamal Biswas. One of the six was a minor.
April 12: The CPI-Maoist cadres set
ablaze four tractors and three trolleys in Keshori tehsil of
Gondia District. Around 50 Maoists intercepted four tractors and three
trolleys in the forest patch between Rajoli and Keshori and set them
afire.
April 13: A CPI-Maoist action squad
killed Raju alias Kewalrao Atkamwar (42), a prominent NCP leader,
and injured Prashant Kukkalwar, also an NCP worker, barely 300 metres
from the Police Station of Etapalli town in Gadchiroli District. According
to sources, said Atkamwar, former member of Gadchiroli Zilla Parishad
and former Chairman of Etapalli Panchayat Samiti, was on the
Maoist hit-list for his proximity to Police.
April 15: A pro-Maoist poster was found
pasted on the rear side of the board of Samasta Solapur Bazaar Rickshaw
Stand in Pune District. The poster of CPI-Maoist Maharashtra State Committee
demanded the release of its Maoist cadres unconditionally. It also called
for a bandh in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and
Odisha.
April 19: The CPI-Maoist cadres shot
dead a SRPF trooper in Gadchiroli District. Ramkobal Ramdavar Pandey
(50) of the SRPF group IV, Nagpur, was on escort duty and accompanying
an ailing colleague to a local health centre at Fulbodi Gatta village
in Dhanora tehsil when a group of Maoists opened fired at him,
killing him on the spot.
April 20: The CPI-Maoist cadres shot
dead a former dalam ‘commander’ of the outfit at Arewada village
in Bhamragarh tehsil in Gadchiroli District. Pawan Bhalavi (50) was
going to his field when the Maoists shot him dead.
April 3rd week: SG Kawadgade,
the tehsildar of Bhamragarh tehsil was abducted and was
released after one day by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Gadchiroli District.
April 22: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
sarpanch Chamru Kulle Joi (40) of NCP, in Gardewada village under
Etapalli tehsil of Gadchiroli District. Sources claimed that
the Maoists abducted Joi and shot him dead.
April 23: Maoists set ablaze a forest
vehicle and assaulted the forest labourers in Talwada village on Bhamragarh-Allapalli
road in Aheri tehsil in Gadchiroli District. The Maoists also
left a pamphlet at the site urging the forest employees and the labourers
to discontinue their work of clearing and cutting the jungle or face
dreadful consequences.
April 24: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
Rainu Juru Kowse (40), deputy sarpanch of Wangeturi gram panchayat
in Todgatta village under Gatta Police outpost in Gadchiroli District.
The Maoists dragged Kowse out of his house and killed him in the village
square.
Raju Gedam, a C-60 commando was injured
in an encounter with Maoists inside Nalgonda forests along the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh
border, under Bhamragad tehsil, in Gadchiroli District. On receiving
a tip-off about a Maoist camp, C-60 commandos launched a combing operation
in the area. The Maoists triggered a mine blast in which Raju Gedam
was injured. Two claymore mines, a pipe-bomb, wire, detonator and other
material used by the Maoists were recovered from the encounter site.
April 25: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
two of their former cadres who had surrendered in 2006, in Dhanora tehsil
in Gadchiroli District. The victims have been identified as Devrao Usendi
(37) and Ramsai Narote (45).
The Maoists have abducted at least 12
villagers. However, SP S Veeresh Prabhu denied any abduction.
Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh said
that the repeated abductions and killings by the CPI-Maoist is part
of the TCOC launched by the outfit in March.
April 29: The CPI-Maoist cadres set
ablaze a private carrier on the Allapalli-Etapalli road near Tondel
village in Aheri taluka of Gadchiroli District. The vehicle was
carrying teakwood and was engaged in the forest department's work. The
Maoists have been ‘asking’ the forest department to stop felling trees.
May 1: A zilla parishad member
and five panchayat samiti members in the Maoist affected Bhamragarh
tehsil of Gadchiroli District submitted their resignations, citing
threats from the CPI-Maoist. The panchayat members who resigned
are Gangaram Bhandekar, Vijay Kudyani, Subrato Haldar, Khushal Madavi
and Bharat Zhade. The Congress’ zilla parishad member from Nelgunda
Arewada sector of the Bhamragarh area Madni Bogami also resigned from
her post.
May 4: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
two persons, identified as Madhukar Kapgate (40) and Vinayak Lombare
(45), in Kurkheda tehsil (administrative unit) in Gadchiroli
District. Sources in Gadchiroli claimed that Kapgate, native of Kurkheda,
was an insurance agent, while Lombare from Jambhulghat village worked
for him. Maoist pamphlets alleging them of being police informers were
recovered from the spot.
Two Gadchiroli zilla parishad
(ZP) (district level local self-Government institution) members from
Etapalli tehsil - Karu Rapanji and Geeta Hichami - submitted their resignations
in wake of ultimatum by the Maoists to every elected representative
of civic bodies and office bearers of the political parties. Sources
said that Hichami was also taken away into the forest by the Maoists
but later released.
May 7: Maoists abducted Ghanashyam Koreti,
the head of the Istari village in Deori tehsil in Gondia District,
from his residence.
May 9: Subhash Walke, a self-styled
‘deputy commander’ of Potegaon dalam (squad) of the CPI-Maoist,
suspected to be involved in the Pushtola blast, was arrested in Gadchiroli
District by Security Forces during an operation.
May 10: The body of Ghanshyam Koreti,
sarpanch of Istari village in Deori tehsil of Gondia District,
who was abducted from his residence on May 7 by the Maoists, was found
near the tank of village Dhamni Tola.
The Mumbai city Police formed a special
intelligence unit to tackle the Maoist menace in the city. Till now,
the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) and the anti-Maoist operation wing of
the State Police were dealing with the menace. However, this new unit
will report to the Police commissioner and provide information to other
agencies. The unit will be part of the special branch which is supposed
to collect intelligence for the city Police.
May 11: Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Chaitu Naitam, in Gadchiroli District. Naitam had
earlier worked in Kurkheda, Korchi and Khobramendha dalam.
May 13: Gondia Police unearthed 20 kilograms
of explosives stacked in two stainless steel vessels between Dhamni
tola and Istari villages under Chichgarh Police Station in Gondia District.
May 14: Three persons, including two
politicians, were allegedly abducted by CPI-Maoist cadres from two different
villages in Aheri tehsil of Gadchiroli District. The
abducted politicians are ex-zilla parishad member Ramanayya
Yadawar and ex-sarpanch Pullayya Veladi from Jimalgatta
village. The other person is Bapu Durgam from Malagudam village. Official
spokesperson of Police in Gadchiroli, however, denied of having such
reports.
Around 150 Maoists set ablaze the forest
depot near Jimalgatta village. They set 1,075 pieces of chopped wood
on fire.
May 16: Observing ‘Bharat bandh',
the Maoists set ablaze a mobile tower (BSNL) at Jamakado and vandalised
a gram panchayat office at Toyagondi in Gondia District. They
blocked roads near Malewada road and put up banners and posters at various
places in Gadchiroli District.
May 18: In a thick forest near Jimulgatta
in Aheri tehsil (revenue unit), around 160 kilometres from Gadchiroli
town, the CPI-Maoist organized a massive Jan adalat. The Jan
adalat's location was within 10 kilometres of Jimulgatta sub-police
station. It was learnt that Aheri-Jimulgatta area committee 'commander'
Shankar Anna, South Gadchiroli division committee Bhaskar Hichami alias
Prabhakar, and 'platoon commander' and divisional committee member Laxman
led the proceedings, comprising 250-300 Maoists.
The Maoists released two of the three
public representatives, whom they had abducted on May 19 in Gadchiroli
District. The village sarpanch (head of village level local self-Government
institution) Jawaharlal Ledhiya from Murumgaon and Murari Halami from
Pannemara were set free on Murumgaon-Sawargaon road in the District,
villagers said. However, the whereabouts of the third hostage Meatarsing
Usendi, former Deputy Chairman of Dhanora panchayat samiti (block
level local self-Government institution) who too was abducted by the
Maoists were still not known.
May 23: The SFs killed a Maoist and
arrested two women Maoists during an encounter near Pourvel village
in Gadchiroli District. The slain Maoist, Rahul Dhurve alias
Dinesh, was part of the Maoist's Potegaon Local Guerrilla Squad (LGS).
The two arrested women Maoists have been identified as Vanita Dhurve
alias Shushila, and Lacchi Gawde alias Nimmi. According to Police
information, Vanita was a member of the Chatgaon LGS and Lacchi belonged
to Company no. 4. One .315 rifle and 41 live rounds were recovered from
Rahul while the women cadres had 12-bore rifles with them. Around 32
rounds of ammunition were also recovered from the women cadres.
May 26: A group of armed CPI-Maoist
cadres set ablaze a JCB machine and a tipper at Yermanar village in
Aheri tehsil of Gadchiroli District late in the night. These
vehicles were deployed on construction work of Government ashram school.
June 5: The Maoists stormed
the residence of a bootlegger and damaged his vehicle at Perimili under
Aheri taluka in Gadchiroli District.
The Gadchiroli Police made
more than 100 preventive arrests of CPI-Maoist sympathisers in the wake
of the Jan Fituri Saptah (the week for elimination
of enemies within) bandh, which is called by the CPI-Maoist
in the Dandakaranya area from June 5 to 12 in protest against the Police
deployment and a training centre coming up in Chhattisgarh.
June 5-6: Two different
teams of SFs carrying out anti-Naxalite operations in Mayalghat jungles
in Korchi tehsil and Padaboriya jungle in Dhanora tehsil
were ambushed in Gadchiroli in intervening night of June 5 and 6. SFs
sustained no casualty, but in one instance SFs have claimed of injuring
a few Naxalites in encounter.
June 7: The bandh (shutdown
strike) called by the CPI-Maoist in Gadchiroli District received a partial
response. The response was visible in places like Korchi, Kurkheda and
Dhanora in north Gadchiroli. The southern part of the District remained
quite peaceful.
June 11: A civil contractor was allegedly
killed by a group of Maoists at Pendhari village in Dhanora taluka
in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra in the night. Police said
that the Maoists picked up Sanjay Mandal (37), the civil contractor,
from his house and fired three bullets at him from close range killing
him on the spot.
June 12: Maoists in Gadchiroli District
have struck fear in the hearts of 68 elected representatives of civic
bodies, forcing them to give resignation. Eighteen of the 68 Panchayati
Raj institutions' representatives are heads of villages, 44 are panchayat
samiti (block level local self-Government institution) members and
one is from the zilla parishad (district level local self-Government
institution) at Bhamragarh. The State administration is reportedly trying
to convince them to take back their resignations.
June 12-13: Maoists killed one person,
identified as Rama Madavi (35), at Pattigaon village under Aheri tehsil
in Gadchiroli District in the night. His body was recovered on June
13 by Jimalgatta Police. It is allegedly said that Madavi was extorting
money from contractors in the name of Maoists.
June 16: The Central Paramilitary Forces
and District Police arrested an alleged CPI-Maoist 'action squad' member
from the outskirts of Pendhari village in Dhanora tehsil in Gadchiroli
District. The arrested Maoist, identified as Anil Minje alias Sidhu,
a member of the Kasansur local area squad, was part of the team that
killed civil contractor Sanjay Mandal on June 11. Minje, active in Maoist
movement since 2009, confessed of participating in several offences
in the last couple of years. Apart from Maharashtra, Minje also took
part in Maoist offences in Chhattisgarh too.
June 20: Talking to reporters in the
evening, CEO of Gadchiroli Zilla Parishad (District level local self-Government
institution) Sumant Bhange said 71 elected representatives in Gadchiroli
District have resigned in the last one month. Of these representatives,
one is ZP member, four Panchayat Samiti (block level local self-Government
institution) members and 66 village Panchayat (village level local self
government institution) members, he said.
June 22: No nomination has been filed
in 132 out of 139 gram panchayats going for polls on June 24
in Maoist-affected Gadchiroli District. Only candidates in five wards
in four gram panchayats (GPs) have dared to contest the elections
in entire District. Three other gram panchayats have elected
their members unopposed. By-elections were announced in 139 GPs in eight
tehsils (revenue units) of Gadchiroli recently. Nominations were called
for 19 GPs in Gadchiroli tehsil, 34 in Dhanora, 2 in Korchi,
6 in Kurkheda, 20 in Bhamragad, 19 in Etapalli, 17 in Sironcha and 22
in Aheri. Aspiring candidates were asked to file their nominations between
June 5 and 9. However, nominations came in two GPs in Aheri and one
each in Sironcha and Kurkheda tehsil. Apart from this, members in Anglekheda
and Chikli GPs in Kurkheda and Vitthalpeth GPs in Sironcha tehsil
have been declared unopposed winner for lack of contest.
June 24: The CPI-Maoist gave a call
for bandh in Gadchiroli District on June 25 to protest against
Operation Green Hunt launched by the Police. The Maoists dropped
leaflets at some places in the District appealing people to make the
bandh a success. The leaflets were circulated by the North Gadchiroli-Gondia
Divisional Committee of CPI-Maoist.
June 25: The CPI-Maoist slammed Maharashtra
Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam for the plan to expand Navegaon national
park. The Maoists issued a pamphlet through the North Gadchiroli-Gondia
division committee of the CPI-Maoist, which is controlled by the Maharashtra
state committee. They claimed that the ambitious project of extending
the periphery of the national park would displace 30 hamlets in Deori
tehsil (revenue unit) of Gondia District. Apart from opposing
the national park expansion plan, the Maoists have also urged the elected
representatives to resign from their posts as they have so far played
an indifferent role in addressing the grievances of people who voted
them to power.
Concerned over mass resignations of
panchayat members in Gadchiroli District, the Centre has asked
the Maharashtra Government to ensure safety and security of elected
representatives from CPI-Maoist threats in the Naxal hotbed. Union Home
Minister P. Chidambaram spoke to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan recently
and asked him to do the needful to protect the elected civic body members
in Gadchiroli, many of who have put in papers after the Maoist intimidation.
Official sources said during last one
month, two Gadchiroli zilla parishad (district level local self-Government
institution) members from Etapalli tehsil (revenue unit) quit
their posts following Naxal ultimatum. Four panchayat and one
zilla parishad member in Bhamragarh in the District had also
resigned from their respective posts. The sources said of late Maoists
have abducted many panchayat or zilla parishad members
in Gadchiroli and released them only after they agreed to abide by the
Naxal diktats. The Maoists, they said, do not want any development in
rural areas of Gadchiroli as under-development and lack of connectivity
give them free run in these remote areas.
The bandh call given by CPI-Maoist
received partial response in Gadchiroli District. The markets in Dhanora
and Korchi, both Maoist-affected talukas, remained closed. Vehicular
traffic was missing and Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation
(MSRTC) did not ply buses in these talukas, causing inconvenience to
people. However, no any untoward incident was reported during the bandh,
Police sources said. The bandh was, however, not effective in
south Gadchiroli. The bandh was called by Maoists to protest
the anti-Maoist offensive "Operation Green Hunt" and "police
excesses" on tribals.
June 29: Some CPI-Maoist cadres were
injured in an encounter with the joint forces of CRPF and Police in
Fulbodi forest in Korchi tehsil in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra.
Official sources said the CRPF and Gadchiroli Police were carrying out
joint operations in the forest when they were ambushed by Maoists. The
Police recovered a detonator, a pittu (back pack), medicines and Maoist
material from the spot. Blood stains were found at the site suggesting
some Maoists were injured in the gun battle.
July 5: The day-long bandh called
by the CPI-Maoist remained by and large peaceful in Gadchiroli and Gondia
Districts. The Maoists had called the bandh to protest two encounters
of South Chhattisgarh in June 28-29, where the Maoists have accused
Security Forces (SFs) of gunning down villagers in the name of action
against armed guerrillas.
The Maoists used the opportunity of
the bandh to appeal to the tribal population to make their 'Shaheed
Saptah' or martyr's week between July 28 and August 3 successful.
July 18: The Sarpanch association
of Korchi tehsil in Gadchiroli District decided to observe a
day-long hunger strike protesting District administration's alleged
neglect of developmental issues. On July 25, the village headmen association
and other organizations are to observe 'chakka jaam' in a follow
up action.
As many as 25 Sarpanches and 135 members
of Gram Panchayats from Korchi area of Gadchiroli District in
Maharashtra, who had resigned in protest against non-implementation
of developmental works and Police excesses, withdrew their resignations.
July 20: An encounter broke out between
CRPF personnel and CPI-Maoist cadres in Kaneri forest in Dhanora taluka
of the Gadchiroli District. The firing between the two sides began at
around 7.30am when CRPF personnel raided the forest area, acting on
a tip-off.
The Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre
identified as, Anil Raju Gawde alias Suraj alias Sampat
(22) from Morawahi village under Etapalli taluka in Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra.
July 21: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a farmer in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. The Maoists suspected
Kishor Bhimrao Atram of Kamalapur village in Aheri tehsil of
Gadchiroli to be a Police informer had abducted him three days ago and
subsequently killed him.
The Maoists will be observing martyr’s
week from July 28-August 3.
July 27: The CPI-Maoist have appealed
to the masses to observe martyr's week from July 28 to August 3 in memory
of 150 colleagues who lost their lives, including around 40 in Central
India's Dandakaranya, in the fight against Government forces. The Maoists
have also called a bandh during the period. The Maoists have
urged people to erect memorials in villages across areas dominated by
them to remember the sacrifices of martyred comrades.
In another press release by the Gadchiroli
divisional committee of CPI-Maoist, the Maoists have launched a strong
attack on Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, who had
visited the District earlier this year. The Maoists have called Ramesh's
attempt to help tribals of Menda Lekha village a farce and demanded
suspension of existing forest rights.
A Maoist press release of Korchi area
committee of the CPI-Maoist condemns the withdrawal of resignations
on July 18 by the village headmen and elected representatives. The Maoists
also claimed that the elected representatives and Police patils
tried to mislead the masses, but have been exposed. They have also warned
against starting any Government sponsored works in villages.
July 29: The Police and CRPF personnel
came under fire from CPI-Maoist in Gadchiroli District. Police said
the incident occurred in the Kumarganda forests near Bhamragad during
a joint search operation by a team of the Gadchiroli Police and the
CRPF. On searching the spot, Police found a country gun, a magazine
and 12 live rounds of an AK-47 rifle, a detonator, a wire bundle and
a flashlight.
July 31: The Police and the civil officials
have practically stopped from visiting villages to implement development
and welfare schemes, as well as attending to people's grievances in
Gadchiroli District due to fear of the CPI-Maoist. Panchayat Samiti
officials frankly admitted that there is always a threat to their
lives due to Maoists presence, while Police officers said that they
cannot move in Maoist-affected areas without following the SOP.
Speaking on the sideline of a function
in Mumbai, CM Prithviraj Chavan stated that the 'spread of Maoist and
terrorism' is a concern in the country. Terming the situation in Naxal-hit
Gadchiroli as 'serious', CM Chavan has said that the State Government
and the Centre have been taking a number of steps to curb the menace
of Naxalism from the State.
August 1: A joint team of anti-Naxal
cell and C-60 squad, on July 30, arrested Chandrapur in-charge of the
CPI-Maoist Pramod Godghate (30). Godghate was arrested from the court
premises adjacent to district collectorate in Chandrapur.
The Maoists in State have banned locally
manufactured liquor 'Gudumba', prepared from jaggery or 'gud'. A banner
of the Maoists, found at Jimulgatta in Aheri taluka in Gadchiroli
District on the occasion of their July 28-August 3 Martyrs' week, warned
the local tribal against making or trading the brew.
August 2: Gadchiroli SP Mohammed Suvez
Haque has called upon the people to come forward and take the initiative
to eliminate the Naxalite problem from Gadchiroli District. Haque was
addressing an anti-Naxalite peace rally at Armori tehsil; he
said that Gadchiroli District has been plagued by Naxalism. "Several
innocent people are being killed by them unnecessarily and the development
of the district has also been stalled. To end this problem, citizens
should come forward," he said.
August 3: The CPI-Maoist has asked members
of the SHGs, village committees and forest management committees in
Gadchiroli District to step down. The Maoists have given them a deadline
of August 15 to step down, warning them of severe consequences if they
did not follow the diktat, sources said. The Maoists also called some
of the members in the forest somewhere in Aheri taluka and pronounced
their diktat, sources said.
August 9: The CPI-Maoist in Gadchiroli
District hit out strongly at leaders who have been using the “Gandhian”
ideal of non-violence in spearheading the CFR movement in tribal areas.
They charged Mohan Hirabai Hiralal, who pioneered the model in Mendha-Lekha
village, with “waylaying the tribals from the path of conflict”. “Hiralal
is a follower of Vinoba Bhave, who had sought land from the rich. He
is trying to cover up the violence by capitalists against the poor by
professing non-violence,” says a press note released by the Gadchiroli
divisional committee of CPI-Maoist.
August 12: With two panchayat samiti
members from Etapalli having withdrawn their resignations, senior officials
felt that the democratic machineries would soon return to normalcy.
August 15: The Kasansur Police foiled
an ambush bid by the CPI-Maoist by unearthing explosives hidden under
an anti-Independence Day banner in the village market adjacent to Kasansur
Gram Panchayat in Etapalli tehsil in Gadchiroli District
of Maharashtra. Police deactivated the booby trap and recovered two
steel boxes full of IEDs along with a detonator and electric wire.
Maoists hoisted a black flag on Independence
Day at Sawargaon village in the District, one kilometer from an ITBP
camp on the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border.
Maoists built a 'martyr statue' at Nadekal
village under Korchi tehsil in the District during the martyrs'
week observed by Maoists from July 28 to August 3.
August 23: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a father-son duo in Tambada village in Etapalli tehsil of Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra, on suspicion of being Police informers. Sources
claimed that over 50 Maoists barged into the house of Baju Gota (52),
reportedly shot his son Raju Gota (35) in front of family members and
took Baju with them and shot him dead from close range near a poultry
market of the village.
August 24: Seven Naxals including two
Dalam 'commanders' had surrendered before the Gadchiroli Police of Maharashtra
this year so far, the Police said. The two 'commanders' are Nirmala
Lalu Kulmethe (25) and Platoon 'commander' Damji Dugga (23). The others
who surrendered this year are Sonu Madavi, Mangesh Atram, Kisan Madavi,
Chandu Vilas and Renuka Jagan, according to a release issued by Gadchiroli
Police. The Maharashtra Police also appealed to CPI-Maoist cadres to
surrender and assured them of all possible help.
August 27: The Security agencies engaged
in anti-Naxal operations seem to be viewing the audio-visual propaganda
of Naxals, presently making the rounds in the form of clippings on mobile
phones in the Maoist stronghold of Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra,
as nothing different than regular party activities. The clippings highlight
the Maoists’ dream to capture power in the country and also see their
red flag fluttering atop the Red Fort.
August 28: Nine alleged CPI-Maoist cadres,
including a few senior leaders, were produced before the District Judge
in Gadchiroli District and charges under sections of Indian Penal Code,
Indian Arms Act and Damage to Public Property Act were framed against
them. Prabhakar Suryadeora, Arun Parera, Anjela Sontakke, Anuradha Sonule,
Mayuri Bhagat, Jyoti Chorghe, Bhimrao Bhowate, Sushma Ramteke and Siddhartha
Bhosale are accused of murder, attempt to murder, damage to public property
and arson in connection with various incidents in the District. Next
date of hearing is September 13, prosecution sources said. All the accused
were arrested in the last one year.
August 31: A Police team exchanged fire
with alleged Naxals in the forest near village Gangin and Betkathi under
the Korchi Police Station limits in Gadchiroli District. There were
no reports of casualties.
September 3: An IED weighing 20 kilograms,
two detonators, and a booster were recovered by the Police from a canal
near the Kumarguda forest on the Bhamragad-Lahiri road in Maoist-affected
Gadchiroli District. The haul came when Gadchiroli Collector Abhishekh
Krishana, Superintendent of Police Suvez Huque and Additional SP of
Naxal operations Rahul Seth were visiting Bhamaragad, according to informed
sources.
September 6: A team of CRPF and District
Police officers were stranded in a remote village for four days due
to heavy rains and floods. The team, which included Gadchiroli Superintendent
of Police Mohd Suvez Haque, set out on a tour of Naxal-affected Bhamragad
village on September 3. They had to stay put in the village till September
6 due to floods in Perlkota river flowing adjoining Bhamragad and heavy
downpour.
September 15: The Maharashtra DGP Sanjeev
Dayal met with senior officials engaged in anti-Naxal operations and
discussed on the rebels' issue and law and order situation in the Naxal-affected
Districts of Gadchiroli and Gondia.
September 21: Mahadev Mangaruji Waghade,
an officer of the BDDS was injured when a detonator exploded while defusing
land mine explosives planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra. The Maoists had put up a red banner on the
main road to Kamalapur village in Rennaplli sub-division in front of
Bhagvantrao School. “Peoples War Group (PWG) and NCCI unity day Jindabad
by CPI (Maoist)” was written on the banner.
The CPI-Maoist call for bandh
to observe the foundation day of their organisation, evoked good response
at Korchi taluka and some remote parts in Gadchiroli District
of Maharashtra. Sources said the Maoists had not publicised the bandh
call across the District and pamphlets were distributed only at select
places.
September 20: Maoists abducted two villagers
identified as Ramaji Madavi of Kumarganda village and Kopa Durva of
Tekala village in Bhamragad division in Gadchiroli District in Maharashtra.
September 21: Nagpur University officials
received a letter from a Naxal organization called 'Lal Salaam' allegedly
threatening to take action against colleges and universities for unnecessarily
harassing the students, NU sources disclosed. Though the letter was
addressed to State Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, it was sent to
vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal at his office address.
September 25: A 12-bore gun and live
cartridges were recovered from a spot where suspected cadres of the
CPI-Maoist had gathered for a meeting near tribal village of Ramayyapetha
in Aheri taluka in Gadchiroli District.
September 27: A few CPI-Maoist cadres
were reportedly injured and huge quantity of explosives was seized after
firing between the Police and the Maoists near Darrekasa in Salekasa
tehsil in Gondia District of Maharashtra. Police found huge quantity
of explosives in a buried plastic drum containing two steel boxes in
which explosive rods were hidden along with polythene sheets.
Gadchiroli Police arrested Meera alias
Sarita Devaji Kolha (20), a member of platoon number three of the CPI-Maoist
from a forest near Gandepalli village in Etapalli division of the District.
October 8: A team of Gondia District
Police had a brief encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres at Kemul village
in the District, after a team went to the village on a tip-off that
Maoists were holding a secret meeting there. Three rifles and 25 live
rounds were among other things recovered from the spot.
Two teenage girls identified as Anjali
alias Rani Zaduram Kumbre (19) and Divya alias Baiji Ilani,
a minor girl (17), both residents of Lavari village under Purada Police
Station were arrested in Lavari village in Gadchiroli District. The
girls are allegedly active Maoist members in Korchi Dalam.
October 9: Two teenage girls identified
as Laxmi alias Radhika Halani, an 18-year-old and Kasari alias
Sunita Tawade, a 15-year-old, were arrested from their home in Lavari
village in Gadchiroli District. The girls are allegedly active Maoist
members in Korchi Dalam.
October 12: The Gadchiroli Police arrested
a hardcore CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Karan alias Umesh
Wadde (19), in Kasansur forest, under Etapalli division of Gadchiroli
District. He was involved in multiple encounters and blasts. A resident
from Jhuri village, Umesh was inducted to the Kasansur local operating
squad (LOS) in 2010.
October 16: At least four CPI-Maoist
cadres were injured in an encounter with Police near Lankachen village
in Gadchiroli District. The Police recovered twenty SLR rounds, ten
detonators, 20 pistols, utensils and Naxal literature in Telugu language
from the spot. The cache of ammunition included a rifle bearing the
Indian Ordnance Factory mark on it.
At least 4-5 CPI-Maoist cadres were
reported injured in an exchange of fire with the Police in the mountains
between Venkatapur and Reguntha outpost, south of Aheri in Gadchiroli
District. A loaded rifle, SLR rounds, Pittu, utensils, and Naxal literature
were seized from the encounter site.
A buried dead body of a Maoist cadre
was recovered from the Devgad Jangal area of Gadchiroli. The body supposedly
covered in a red flag is believed to be that of a Maoist who was killed
in the Khobramendha encounter which took place on an unspecified date.
A Police team from Gondia District found
twenty kilogram of gelatine explosives from Piparkhari village and 20
kilogram from Parsodi Dhamditola forests, with some detonators as well,
in Gadchiroli District.
October 20: The SFs arrested Somli Potem
alias Vasanti alias Savita (25), a former ‘commander’
of Gangloor Dalam of the CPI-Maoist, during an anti-Naxal operation
in Koindur forest of Bhamragarh in Gadchiroli District.
October 31: Around 30 CPI-Maoist cadres
and the anti-Maoist squad of Gadchiroli Police reportedly exchanged
fire in Kospundi forest area in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra.
Police later conducted a search in the area and recovered two bicycles,
a Chinese pistol with 6 live cartridges, a magazine, 100 grams of gun
powder and other material from the spot.
November 7: Three women CPI-Maoist cadres
including a dalam ‘commander’ have been arrested from Charvidand
village in Gadchiroli District. The three arrested Maoists have been
identified as Khobramendha dalam ‘commander’ Rajita alias
Sukri Weladi (35), Suman alias Sumitra Lekhami (23) and Tunge
Hedo (22).
November 11: Three CRPF troopers were
injured in an encounter with CPI-Maoist cadres in Jarawandi jungles
near village Ropi under Etapalli tehsil of Gadchiroli District
in Maharashtra.
November 18: CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a 70-year-old farmer and dumped his body in a field at Devgaon village
in Aurangabad District.
November 20: CPI-Maoist cadres killed
an ex-Sarpanch, identified as Narayan Srirangi (33) suspecting
him to be a Police informer, in Motala-Tekdi village under Sironcha
Taluqa of Gadchiroli District, bordering Andhra Pradesh.
November 23: The DG of CRPF, Pranay
Sahay, visited an interior location, Pendhari, a tribal village in Dhanora
taluka, in the Naxal affected Gadchiroli District to review
anti-Naxal operations along the state's border with Chhattisgarh.
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Bamu
alias Monu Dewa Miccha (20), accused of his involvement in an
attack on a Police team in Bhamragarh tehsil on July 4, 2010,
has been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by the Gadchiroli
District Court.
November 25: The Gadchiroli Police killed
a woman CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Riki alias Rakhi alias
Lakhsmi Likami (25), in an encounter in Ambapur forest under Chamorshi
tehsil in Gadchiroli District.
November 29: Unidentified CPI-Maoist
cadres set ablaze three vehicles deployed on road construction site
near Watra village in Aheri tehsil of Gadchiroli District.
December 4: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre
was killed in an encounter near the Hikker forests in the Etapalli division
of Gadchiroli District. Police have recovered one rifle, two pittus
(back packs) and some Naxal literature from the encounter spot.
December 7: An encounter took place
between SFs and CPI-Maoist cadres in the forests near Kakadyeli village
under Dhanora taluka in Gadchiroli District. The Police
recovered a rifle and some Maoist literature from the spot.
December 9: Anti-Naxal cell and C-60
squad arrested a top Maoist cadre, identified as Sanjay alias
Bandu Bawne (34), in a joint operation, from his residence in Bhatala
village under Shegaon Police Station in Warora tehsil in Chandrapur
District.
December 10: In a bid to reassert their
presence in central India, the CPI-Maoist has carved out a new zone
for their operations comprising Gadchiroli, Gondia and Balaghat areas
in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The Maoists have also appointed a
separate leader, Pahad Singh, to look after the unit.
The Ministry of Home Affair has taken
a serious note of the resignations of 127 Gram Panchayat leaders
and other public representatives under threat from the Maoists. “The
Maoists are coalescing smaller rebel groups with bigger ones and carrying
out fresh recruitment in Gadchiroli area. In the last couple of months
we have had good contacts with the Maoists and are giving them a tough
fight,” said CRPF DG Pranay Sahay. In the last three months, the CRPF
had 10 encounters with the Maoists. The CRPF has deployed around 6,000
men in the state, including a battalion of the CoBRA commandos.
Deepak alias Milind Teltumbde,
the Secretary of the Maharashtra State Committee of the Maoists, is
believed to have had a narrow escape, when Police swooped down on a
camp in North Gadchiroli near Gondia border.
Police recovered 573 live musket rifle
cartridges and 14 rounds of .22 airgun from Lekurbodi village forest
under Bedgaon AOP of the Kurkheda Police Station in Gadchiroli District.
A Maoist cadre, identified as Vivek
Bhoyar alias Bandu (34), surrendered before the Yavatmal District
SP.
December 13: Following a severe reprimand
by Bombay HC, the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, J.S. Banthia, issued
a circular directing all government departments to fill up vacancies
in tribal-dominated and LWE affected talukas of Melghat, Chikhaldara
and Dharni in Amravati District, within two weeks.
December 16: CRPF personnel and the
Naxals had a brief encounter in the forest of Kucher under Dhondraj
armed outpost in Bhamragarh tehsil of Gadchiroli District.
December 22: The Pranhita-Chevella Irrigation
Project, a joint venture of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, came under
the scanner of SF personnel following the arrest of a manager of one
of the private companies engaged in the work for close links with CPI-Maoist.
December 24: State Home Minister RR
Patil assured to upgrade the Maoist surrender policy of the State to
encourage Maoist cadres to surrender in Maharashtra.
December 26: A senior CPI-Maoist leader
and lone female member of the Maoist Central Committee, Narmadakka,
is believed to have been killed in an encounter, near Hiker village,
in South Gadchiroli.
December 28: Two Policemen and a woman
were injured in firing by CPI-Maoist cadres at the main square of Gatta
(Jambhiya) village in Etapalli taluka in Gadchiroli District.
Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre,
identified as Bandu alias Tukaram Pungati, from Mangota village
in Aheri taluka of Gadchiroli District.
Odisha
January 1: The CRPF, BSF and the State
Police have decided to step up operations against the CPI-Maoist in
Southern Odisha soon. The CRPF DG K. Vijay Kumar accompanied by his
Odisha Police counterpart Manmohan Praharaj and DIG Soumendra Priyadarshi
arrived at Sunabeda in Nuapada District and visited CRPF camp and under
construction 202 CoBRA battalion training camp there. Later, they went
to Koraput and held an hour long close door meeting at BSF camp with
BSF DIG S. K. Baruah, Koraput SP Anup Kumar Sahu, Malkangiri SP Anirudha
Singh, CoBRA battalion commandant M. L. Rabindra and IRB commandant
to chalk out the strategy for a massive anti-Maoist operation in Koraput
and other Districts bordering Andhra Pradesh.
January 4: One person was killed in
a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Kandhamal District.
The Maoists set ablaze three mobile
communication towers in Baragada area of Ganjam District on the first
day of the two-day bandh called by the Maoists in the State from
January 4. According to SDPO Binay Kamila, the Maoists set ablaze two
mobile communication towers at Goudagotha village and another at Barada
village, located near Ganjam-Gajapati-Kandhamal border where Maoists
are trying to increase their hold. The Maoists also pasted posters asking
people to make the bandh a success and to protest anti-Maoist
operations. The Maoists also threatened the company officials and staff
of the Vedanta Alumina Refinery to immediately give up their jobs and
leave the area.
January 5: Three constables of the Odisha
Police were killed and as many injured when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered
a landmine blast at Badarpanga village in the Kotagarh area in Kandhamal
District. The landmine went off when the team with two trained dogs
was proceeding in a vehicle on Kotagarh-Srirampur road to the site of
the blast that had taken place on January 4 in the area, State Home
Secretary UN Behera said. The blast came on the second day of the two-day
bandh called by the Maoists to protest the recent Police arrests
and attacks on Maoists during Operation Saranda to flush them
out of the forests on the Odisha-Jharkhand border. The deceased are
identified as Sunasir Mohanty, Umakant Jani and Sangram Lenka. The three
injured were identified as Noha Panda, Basanta Behera and Padmanav Dehuri.
January 6: Kandhamal District observed
a bandh to register its protest against CPI-Maoist violence and
as a mark of homage to the three Policemen, who died in the landmine
blast on January 5. Several towns of Kandhamal, including Raikia, G
Udayagiri, Khajuripada and Baliguda joined the bandh, with traders
downing their shutters. Schools and colleges were closed for the day
as well.
January 7: As the filing of nominations
for the panchayat elections began on January 7, CPI-Maoist posters
were found in Nuapada District where the Maoists claimed that they would
participate in the polls. The posters, written both in Hindi and Odia,
were found in Nuapada and Komna blocks. However, in both the areas,
the posters carried different messages. Posters written in Odia - issued
by CPI-Maoist Chhattisgarh-Odisha division - were found in gram panchayats
of Komna block, Bhainsadani gram panchayat of Boden block and
Nangelbeda and Ghatmal gram panchayats of Sinapali block asking
aspirants to take their consent for contesting in the polls. The Maoists
also stated that those daring to contest the polls without intimating
the outfit, would face dire consequences. In the posters written in
Hindi - issued by CPI-Maoist Mainpur division and found in Dharambandha
and Bharuamunda gram panchayats of Nuapada block - the Maoists
have asked people to stay alert for the polls. The Maoists stated that
those willing to contest ‘should be poor, committed for the cause of
the poor, be truthful and honest’.
The CPI-Maoist cadres killed a villager,
identified as Enkana Kadranga (35), at Tolopalesu village under Bandhugaon
Police Station in Koraput District. Maoists suspected him to be a 'Police
informer'. According to sources a group of armed Maoists waylaid Kadranga,
who along with three other villagers, was returning to Tolopalesu from
Elgawalsa, within Bandhugaon Police limits, and killed Kadranga by slitting
his throat with a sharp-edged weapon. The two companions of Kadranga
were assaulted before being freed. Sources said the Maoists belonged
to the Jhanjabati Committee of the outfit.
January 9: Junesh Pradhan, panchayat
samiti chairman of Daringbadi block in Kandhamal District, was arrested
by the Police for his alleged involvement in the Maoist triggered landmine
blast that killed three Policemen near Badarpanga village on Kotagarh-Srirampur
road on January 5. DIG, southern range, R. K. Sharma said during interrogation
Junesh has confessed of his links with Maoists and involvement in the
landmine blast.
January 10: The Police arrested another
Maoist cadre, identified as Sukadev Digal, from Sipazu in Raikia Police
Station area in Kandhamal District. At least six Maoist posters were
recovered from him, the Police said.
January 11: A 45-year-old CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Somanath Pradhan of Janabadi village under Daringibadi
Police Station, was arrested on charges of being involved in the landmine
blast at Srirampur under Kotagarh Police Station in Kandhamal District.
Somanath was the second person arrested in connection with the January
5 Maoist attack, which killed three Policemen and injured as many. Kandhamal
Superintendent of Police J N Pankaj said both he and Junes Pradhan,
the chairman of the Daringibadi panchayat samiti, were involved
in the landmine blast.
During combing operation, SF personnel
recovered two more landmines near Srirampur, the same place where the
blast happened on January 5.
January 13: State Authorities in Gajapati
District, in association with private companies, decided to undertaken
a vocational training programme in Maoist-inflicted Districts to provide
employment to tribal youth to bring them into the mainstream. The authorities
set-up training centres to provide vocational training, in order to
aid the rural youth to become self-sufficient and earn a livelihood.
January 16: Kandhamal Police arrested
Manmohan Pradhan, the husband of the sarpanch of Sonepur panchayat
in Daringibadi block and two others identified as Suneswar Baladamajhi
and Petaguluduka for their reported involvement in CPI-Maoist violence
in various places in Kandhamal District. Pradhan was arrested from his
home. The two other accused were arrested during anti-Maoist combing
operations. While Baladamajhi is a resident of Malliguda near Kotagarh,
Petaguluduka hailed from Dembaguda in Chandrapur area in Rayagada District.
Security was intensified in the Maoist-affected
areas in Ganjam, Gajapati, Kandhamal and Rayagada Districts after intelligence
inputs on Maoists pitching camps there.
Suspected Maoist, Andharu Gadaseth,
had been arrested in Kandhamal District in relation to the same double
murder case. Andharu was a student of Netaji Subhash College at Tumudibandh
in the District. According to Police sources, he had escaped to Kerala
after the double murder. CRPF, CoBRA, SOG and District Police are conducting
joint anti-Maoist operations in Srirampur, Kotagarh, Daringibadi and
Brahmanigaon areas in the District.
With just a few weeks to go before panchayat
elections, Maoists have started campaigning against the polls in Koraput
District. The Maoists have put up posters and banners in various parts
of the District, urging voters not to participate in the poll process.
A number of such posters were spotted at Dandabadi and Ramagiri areas
under Boipariguda Police limits and at several areas under Narayanpatna
Police limits. Maoist fear in Narayanpatna is evident given that single
candidates have filed nominations in six out of nine panchayats in the
block for the post of sarpanch. Similarly, seven out of nine posts of
samiti members are uncontested in the block. Sources said people preferred
not to file nominations in the Maoist-dominated panchayats in Narayanpatna.
"It is quite possible that the rebels might have selected the candidates
where single nominations have been filed and no other candidate dares
to contest the election against the candidate chosen by the Maoists,"
said a block level official, engaged in the election process at Narayanpatna.
January 17: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadre,
identified as Ruman Baliarsingh, was arrested from a lodge in Baliguda
in Kandhamal District. Ruman is alleged to be involved in the murder
of two civilians by Maoists at Jubagada village under Kotagarh Police
Station limits in the night of August 4, 2011. The murdered persons
were Sitaram Uthansingh (48), a panchayat member and Peter Mallik (30),
a social activist.
January 18: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a civilian on charges of being a Police informer in Malkangiri District.
The victim was, identified as Guru Khillo (48), of Tonkoguda village
under Mudulipada Police limits of the same District. According to sources,
a group of armed Maoists reached Tonkoguda and forcibly took Khillo
away from his house. Villagers later spotted the dead body of Khillo
in Bododural village. "The deceased was shot at. Maoists had tied his
hands prior to pumping bullets into him. We are trying to retrieve the
body," said an unnamed senior Police officer in Malkangiri.
A Maoist letter written by Malkangiri
Divisional Committee of the CPI-Maoist found at the spot mentioned Khillo
was 'punished' for passing information to the Police about them. The
letter also warned of similar consequences for anyone who tries to act
as a Police informer.
A cadre of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Dhoba Digal (36) of Gajalabadi village under Sorada Police Station,
was arrested in Ganjam District. He was involved in setting ablaze of
at least five mobile towers of private operators, three at his village
and two at nearby Asurabandha on December 16.
Two more Maoists were arrested in Kaudi
forest bordering Keonjhar-Sundargarh-Angul and Deogarh Districts during
combing operation and as many country made guns were seized from their
possession. The arrested Maoist duo was identified as George Kamal and
Hanukjiban Hangs who belonged to Silukana in Angul District, Police
said at Keonjhar. However, the duo claimed before newsmen that they
were not involved in any Maoist activities and had been to the forests
for carrying out poaching.
Biramitrapur Police in Sundargarh District
arrested Jaspal Singh, a resident of Rajgangpur, for illegal trafficking
of detonators. The Police found 450 detonators in his sports utility
vehicle. Singh did not have any license to carry the explosives, said
SDPO Suman Dutta.
As part of anti-Maoist measures, Koraput
District is set to get at least seven model Police Stations, the first
of its kind in the State, very soon. The new Police Stations, likely
to come up in the next couple of months, would help the ongoing anti-Maoist
operations in the region, officials said. Funded by the Centre, the
three-storey buildings would be constructed at a cost of Rs two crore
at Semiliguda, Laxmipur, Kakirgumma, Sunabeda, Boipariguda, Kotpad and
Pawda. "Site selection for the new police stations is complete and the
work will begin soon. We hope that the police stations will be operational
within a few months", Koraput SP Anup Kumar Sahoo said.
The Odisha High Court rejected the bail
plea of Subhashree Panda, alias Mili Panda, the wife of Maoist leader
Sabysachi Panda, in the Gudari Police Station case in Koraput District.
Justice S C Parija, while rejecting the bail of Mili Panda, now in Police
custody, asked the lower court to complete the trial of the case, filed
in 2003, as soon as possible.
January 19: During raids at different
places in MV-79, SFs arrested four Maoists. The arrestees were identified
as Sambam Era, Bandami Suba, Bikram Bhumiya and Talem Naga, all from
MV-79. "We were tipped off about their presence in MV-79. We subsequently
raided the area and arrest them. No arms were found in their possession
at the time of the arrest," said IIC Malkangiri Police Station R K Pati.
"The quartet had joined the Maoist organization four years ago. They
were presently members of the armed squad of Motu Dalam," the officer
said. "At least seven cases, including two murders, are pending against
them. Inquiry is on to find out their involvement in other Maoist offensives
in the district," he added.
January 21: The Odisha Police killed
a senior CPI-Maoist leader, identified as Subash alias Satish (45),
from Chhattisgarh, wanted in several cases in an encounter in Mukhiguda-Majhiguda
forest under Chandrapur Police limits in Rayagada District. Satish was
the second in command of the Bansadhara Committee of the CPI-Maoist,
headed by Nikhil. The bullet-ridden dead body of Satish was recovered
from the encounter site along with his AK-47 rifle. However, no Policeman
was injured in the incident. The Police recovered a SLR, Maoist literature
and country-made guns from the spot.
The SF personnel, arrested an armed
Maoist cadre, identified as Mani Purty alias Munda, from the Roxy reserve
forest under K Balang Police Station in Sundargarh District during a
combing operation that ensued following a tip-off that he was moving
along with five to six other Maoist cadres in the forest. While Purty
was arrested, others managed to flee, the Police said. Purty was involved
in seven murder cases including that of a Police constable. He was also
involved in four other cases. Purty was the mastermind behind the ARSS
camp burning case in Sambalpur. The group was making plans to create
disturbance during the Panchayat polls, the Police said.
In an attempt to intensify Maoist operation
in Odisha, the MHA has sanctioned one more battalion of CPMF to State.
After attending the meeting of Home Secretaries of five Maoist- affected
States- Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Maharashtra, the
State Home Secretary UN Behera said the MHA had agreed to provide one
more BSF battalion. The new battalion would be deployed soon, he added.
January 23: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a civilian on charges of being a Police informer in Narayanpatna in
Koraput District. Local villagers spotted the dead body of Bidyut Bisoi
(33) near a temple in the outskirts of Narayanpatna. Sources said that
a group of Maoists waylaid Bisoi, returning from the temple, around
9 am and attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon in broad daylight.
The Police recovered the body of a Maoist
cadre hanging from a tree at Suliapada forest in Mayurbhanj District.
The dead Maoist was identified as Bhagabat Marandi of Palo village in
Suliapada Police Station and a close associate of Maoist leader Kishore,
the Police said.
January 24: The Police arrested Girish
Mahato alias Mangru Mahto alias Uttam alias Dhiren
alias Dhirendra (45), a State organising committee member of
the CPI-Maoist, along with one of his close associate, identified as
Shankar Munda, from Kharmunda village near canal road area under Attabira
Police Station in Bargarh District.
January 25: A woman cadre of CPI-Maoist,
allegedly involved in several criminal activities, surrendered before
the Police in Gajapati District. "The Maoist cadre Tabita Mallick of
Gangamunda village in Adaba Police Station area of the District was
active in Maoist activities since 2009," SP Sarthak Sarangi said.
CM Naveen Patnaik reiterated Odisha's
demand for inclusion of Nuapada, Bargarh, Bolangir and Kalahandi Districts
in the centrally sponsored SRE scheme. In a letter to Union Home Minister
P Chidambaram, Naveen pointed out that there has been a significant
rise in Naxal violence in parts of Chhattisgarh bordering Odisha as
well as Nuapada, Bolangir and Bargarh Districts. "Maoists are building
up a base in Sunabeda reserve forest of Nuapada and its adjoining areas.
They are also trying to spread their network along the Odisha-Chhattisgarh
border by creating and consolidating bases in Nuapada, Bargarh, Bolangir
and Kalahandi Districts of western Odisha," he said. Naveen said there
was an urgent need to include the four Districts under the purview of
the SRE scheme to strengthen security infrastructure so as to effectively
curtail and contain the spread of the LWE.
January 26: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a woman cadre, were killed in an exchange of fire with SFs in Koraput
District. Acting on an intelligence input, troopers of DVF conducted
a combing operation in the Bandhugaon area where a group of Maoists
were spotted. As the Maoists and SF personnel came face to face, an
encounter erupted in which two Maoists were killed and their bodies
recovered, DIG, south-west, Soumendra Priyadarshi said. One of the slain
Maoists, was identified as Chitrakam Reddy alias Sitru (30), an 'area
commander' of Jhanjabati division of CPI-Maoist while the other one
was his wife, a woman cadre whose identity was yet to be ascertained,
he said. Some arms and ammunition were also recovered from the spot.
January 29: The SFs arrested two suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres from a forest area in Malkangiri District. The duos,
identified as Pabitra Nayak alias Pati and Bhagaban Bhumiya alias
Deba, were arrested during a combing operation in Rajgiri forest based
on intelligence input. The SFs also recovered some arms and ammunition
from their possession.
January 31: SFs arrested two CPI-Maoist
cadres from the Saranda forest, under Rourkela Police Station in Sundargarh
District. The arrested Maoists, identified as Birbal Gudia (23) and
Chandradeb Tirkey alias Charo (24), both members of the bomb
squad under the Dakshin Chhota Nagpur Zonal Committee (DCNZC), were
reportedly engaged in several Maoist activities in Odisha-Jharkhand
border area and were involved in at least three Maoist-triggered incidents
which had occurred on January 9, 2011.
February 3: A CPI-Maoist cadre, serving
as the bodyguard of top Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda, surrendered
before Police in Chhatarpur in Ganjam District. The Maoist, identified
as Rajendra Kumar Ratia alias Suraj alias Sangram (23),
from Kutuniganda village in Adaba Police Station area, was reportedly
involved in several major Maoist offensives in Ganjam, Gajapati and
Rayagada Districts in the last two years, including the firing incident
at Kerubadi. Sources said Ratia was an active member of the Ghumusara
division of the CPI-Maoist. He also imparted training to new cadres
about the Maoist ideology and the party's social and political views.
February 4: The SF personnel recovered
huge quantities of explosives dumped by CPI-Maoist during a combing
operation from a forest in Koraput District. According to Police, at
least 282 gelatin sticks each weighing 125 grams, 10 bundles of live
wires, 28 tiffin boxes used to make landmines, among other Maoist belongings,
were found in a forest under Macchkund Police limits. The explosives
were dumped in the forest in a plastic drum.
Maoist threat is reportedly affecting
poll campaign in Bolangir District. Sources said except the poll candidates,
no star campaigner of any political party is venturing into the area.
In the Patnagarh subdivision, most part of which is under Maoist threat,
party workers are facing a tough time with their political bosses insisting
them to stay in touch with people since they are not able to visit the
area themselves.
February 7: Acting on a tip-off, a team
comprising BSF and SOG troopers conducted a combing operation in Tekguda
forest in Kalimela area in Malkangiri District and recovered a huge
CPI-Maoist explosive dump. The recoveries include 12 electronic detonators,
seven gelatine sticks, more than 30 metres of codex wire and electric
wires used in landmine blast. Maoist literature, posters, banners and
leaflets were also recovered from the spot.
February 9: Three CPI-Maoist cadres,
identified as Sitaram Durua, Jagannath Durua and Lukuna Durua, were
arrested by the DVF from Malipadar village under Baipariguda Police
Station limits in Koraput District. Three SBML guns and huge quantity
of material of day-to-day use meant for supply to the Maoists were recovered
from their possession. Apart from it 10 bundles of wires used to detonate
landmines were also recovered from them.
One Prashant Meher (18), a student of
Bindhyabasini Junior College at Paikmal, was arrested for intimidating
and trying to extort money from his college principal in the name of
Maoists in Paikmal area in Bargarh District.
February 10: Four personnel of the BSF
including a commandant were killed in an ambush by the cadres of the
CPI-Maoist in Malkangiri District. Two other BSF personnel and two officials
of the Irrigation Department were also injured in the attack, which
came a day before the first phase polls of the panchayat elections.
According to the District Police, the BSF personnel were on their way
to Chitrakonda from the BSF camp at Balimela. They were travelling in
a SUV to oversee security arrangements for the polls. At 1 p.m., their
vehicle overturned in a landmine blast about nine kilometres from Balimela.
No one was seriously injured or killed, but the personnel fell victim
to indiscriminate firing by Maoists hiding in the nearby dense forest.
February 13: Three women cadres of CPI-Maoist
- one from Odisha and two from Chhattisgarh - were arrested by Police
near Soroda area in Ganjam District. The Odia Maoist, identified as
Malati Majhi alias Lata (28) of Bujuli village under Daringbadi
Police Station in Kandhamal District, was in charge of personal security
of Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda. The other two Maoists, identified
as Kadame Bulu (19) and Telam Soni alias Ratna (22), are from
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The latter two were originally part
of Gangalur Area Division of West Bastar Division under Dandakaranya
Special Zonal Committee.
February 14: Around 20 suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres snatched away ballot papers and polling boxes from officials
at two booths in Trilochanpur village in Kalahandi District. The Maoists
also took away mobile phones from the polling personnel.
February 16: Protesting against recent
arrest of three cadres, the CPI-Maoist called a two-day bandh on February
16-17 in Ganjam and Kandhamal Districts. Vehicular traffic was disrupted
in Maoist-hit areas in Kandhamal. However, it evoked little response
in Ganjam.
The MHA has told the State Government
to look for all possible legal "solutions" to avoid a situation in which
Maoist groups end up seizing Government funds meant for development
works, since a large part of these funds are routed through panchayat
bodies. According to initial MHA estimates, at least 14 or 15 of 33
sarpanchs who have been elected unopposed in Maoist-affected
blocks are known supporters of Maoist groups. The MHA has asked the
State Government to look into the election of others as well. The elections
are likely to be completed by the end of February.
February 21: Addressing to the State
Assembly, Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare said the Government
had taken strong steps to intensify anti-Naxal operations, with addition
of 1,066 posts in the SOG. The number of deaths of SF personnel has
come down from 22 in 2010 to 15 in 2011, Bhandare said and added that
there had been considerable success with regard to surrender of Maoist
leaders in 2011. The number of incidents of Naxal violence too has dropped
significantly from 130 in 2010 to 100 in 2011.
70 Police Stations with an investment
of INR 1.4 billion, INR 200 million per Police Station, are under construction
in the Naxal-affected areas, Bhandare said and added that two engineering
battalions will be commissioned in Odisha Police to take up construction
activities in these areas. The Governor said 1,384 constables, 3,127
sepoys and 99 group-D personnel were recruited to strengthen the Police
force. Recruitment of 511 sub-inspectors/deputy subedars and sergeants,
20 fire station officers and 12 assistant jailors is under process.
Besides three Police training institutes at Bayree, Sambalpur and Koraput
are being established, he added.
February 24: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
shot dead a woman near the weekly market at Sunabeda in Nuapada District.
The woman was identified as Rita Das (25), the daughter of Subal Das,
who is a Maoist.
February 25: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a civilian, identified as Salu Prusta (50), in Laxmipur area
of Koraput District. The deceased Prusta had gone into the Perijhola
forest area along with his wife Salme Praska to brew liquor, when a
group of around 20 armed Maoists caught and killed him. The Maoists
destroyed the material the couple left behind and left two handwritten
letters at the spot.
February 28: A CPI-Maoist cadre identified
as Roshan Munda of Chaibasa area in Jharkhand and involved in many violent
incidents was arrested during a joint combing operation by CRPF and
SOG from Gariakhaman forest in Kisinda area of Sambalpur District.
March 1: Toffan Sahu alias Akash
alias Bangara (19), a close associate of the top associate of
Sabyasachi Panda, the top leader of the CPI-Maoist surrendered to Ganjam
SP in Chhatrapur in Ganjam District.
March 2: A critically injured youth,
identified as Srikrishna Mahato (26) of Panchpia village under Jareikela
Police Station in Jharkhand, succumbed to bullet injuries at the Ispat
General Hospital in Rourkela in Sundargarh District during treatment.
March 3: Armed CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
a stone-crushing unit of a private-builder and set ablaze 15 of its
vehicles in Nuapada District. Over 40 cadres from Bargarh-Mahasamund
division of the CPI-Maoist came to Baleshbahali village of Nuapada District
where building firm DB is working on a canal extension project. The
Maoists set ablaze eight dumpers, five tractors, a trawler and a van.
Khariar SDPO, S.B Satpathy said.
A suspected Maoists belonging to JLT
shot at and injured a truck driver and set ablaze the rice-loaded vehicle
in Sorada area under Bisra Police Station limits in Sundargarh District
bordering Jharkhand. A group of armed cadres attacked the truck injuring
its driver, Mohammad Bablu.
March 7: The DVF during a routine combing
operation arrested two cadres of the CPI-Maoist from Chhattisgarh-Odisha
bordering Mahupadar village under Mathili Police limits in Malkangiri
District. The duo was identified as Anda Majhi (27), a resident of Guruguda
village and Mangaraj Durua (25), a resident of Mahupadar village. Both
the cadres were active members of Darava division of the CPI-Maoist
operating in Odisha-Chhattisgarh Border.
March 10: The Police arrested a Maoist
sympathizer, identified as Ram Khillo, from Haldikund under Boipariguda
Police limits in the District. The arrested Maoist sympathizer was providing
logistical support to the Maoists and used to make necessary arrangements
to hide weapons and other explosive material of the Maoists at villages.
March 11: A telephone exchange and a
mobile communication tower of BSNL were set ablaze by a group of around
six to seven armed CPI-Maoist cadres at Onakadelli under Macchkund Police
Station limits in Koraput District.
March 12: The SFs unearthed an explosive
dump of the CPI-Maoist at Mattamput on Matchkund-Lamataput main road
in Koraput District. The dump included 20 kilograms of explosives, detonators
and gelatine sticks.
March 13: After the Maoist violence
[setting ablaze of mobile towers] at Onkadelli on March 11, SFs of Odisha
and Andhra Pradesh launched a massive combing operations by deploying
two choppers.
March 17: Two Italian tourists, identified
as Bosusco Paolo, functioning as a tour operator in Puri, and Claudio
Colangelo, who were on a trekking tour on the Ganjam-Kandhamal border,
were reportedly abducted by the Maoists. There are reports that the
Italians may have been abducted on March 14 itself. A driver and cook
who were accompanying them and their vehicle were released by the Maoists
subsequently.
March 18: Two constables, identified
as Sasikanth Rout and Sunil Singh, of OSF, who were part of a bomb disposal
squad, were killed and two others critically injured in an explosion
while defusing a landmine at Alangapada near Lamataput in Koraput District.
According to the Police, the incident took place around 9.30am at Alangapada
near Ongelguda Ghat Road in the District's Macchkund Police Station
area.
The Maoists killed a contractor, identified
as Mohd Itar Mahamad in Bargarh District. Mahamad - was entrusted with
the construction of a check dam at Patrapali, under Paikmal block in
the District. Itar hailed from a neighbouring Badtunda village.
March 19: The cadres of the CPI-Maoist
triggered a blast at an under-construction godown of a panchayat
building in Malkangiri District. According to sources, a group of around
50 Maoists accompanied by local supporters swooped down on the building
on Bonda hills and planted explosives to destroy the building. Though
no injury or casualty was reported, the attack completely damaged the
godown of Mudulipada panchayat, under Khairput block.
March 20: Odisha Police registered cases
at Daringibadi Police Station in Kandhamal District against Maoist leaders,
Sunil and Manoj, along with 24 others on March 20 in connection with
the abduction of the two Italian nationals and two Odia youths, Santosh
Kumar Moharana and Kartika Parida, on March 14 from a jungle on Ganjam-Kandhamal
border.
March 22: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed)
a SI, Krushna Chandra Rath (55), at Khairaput under Mudulipada Police
Station limits in Malkangiri District. At around 6.15pm when he went
to a roadside kiosk in the nearby market to have tea, the Maoists waiting
there, who are suspected to be three or four in number, shot him dead.
March 24: More than 50 armed cadres
of the CPI-Maoist abducted Jhina Hikaka (34), a MLA from Laxmipur belonging
to the ruling BJD from a hilly area between Koraput and Laxmipur in
Koraput District. While the PSO and driver of the MLA were allowed to
leave, Hikaka was taken away into the nearby forest, by the Maoists
at gunpoint.
The abduction of two Italians, the murder
of a SI in Malkangiri and the abduction of a MLA, is being seen in security
circles as the outcome of a tussle between the Andhra and Orissa factions
of CPI-Maoist operating in the state. The Orissa State Organizing Committee
had claimed responsibility for the abduction of the Italians while the
AOBSZC said they had kidnapped MLA Jhina Hikaka.
A group of 10 armed CPI-Maoist cadres
set ablaze a country liquor manufacturing unit at Jamki village under
Tureikela block in Bolangir District. However, no one has been injured
in the incident.
March 25: The cadres of the CPI-Maoist
released Claudio Colangelo, one of the two Italians abducted in Kandhamal
District on March 14. The hostage crisis, however, remained unresolved
as the other Italian national, Bosusco Paolo, and Biju Janata Dal legislator
Jhina Hikaka were still in the clutches Maoists.
Speaking to the visiting newspersons
while releasing Colangelo top Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda admitted
that there was lack of unity among the division that he was heading
and divisions that were at work in Malkangiri and Koraput Districts
in the southern parts of the State.
March 26: Two days after Laxmipur MLA
Jhina Hikaka was abducted, the CPI-Maoist cadres of Koraput sent a wish-list
that included immediate halting of combing operations and release of
CMAS activists lodged in jails. The letter on the CPI-Maoist letterhead,
signed by 'secretary of Koraput-Srikakulam divisional committee' Daya
alias Chemmala Krishnamurthi and one Jagabandhu, a representative
of AOBZSC, demanded that the Government stop Operation Green Hunt
immediately.
March 27: Abducted ruling BJD MLA, Jhina
Hikaka, was 'produced' before a kangaroo court organised by the CPI-Maoist
at an undisclosed site at Narayanpatna in Koraput District. Hikaka answered
questions at the kangaroo court put at him by the tribals who attended
the court at the Maoists' invitation.
March 29: Two CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested by SFs during combing operation inside Tekpadar forest in Malkangiri
District. According to Police sources the arrested duo was Tapan Saha
(28) and Ghasi Pangi (30). Both of them are residents of Malkangiri
District. A country made gun, four detonators, a tiffin-bomb and Maoist
materials were seized from them.
March 29: The State Police organisation
did not procure adequate number of modern weapons while issued only
a fraction of procured weapons to operational forces, said Comptroller
and Auditor General, report of which was tabled in the State Legislative
Assembly.
The mediators threatened to pull out
of the talks if the Government did not give its response to the Maoists'
demands by the evening of March 30. The mediators claimed that the Maoists
were now ready to release Italian tour operator Bosusco Paolo if the
State Government agreed to fulfil three of the 13 demands raised by
the abductors.
A group of about 25 CPI-Maoist cadres
set ablaze a jeep and a motorcycle near Kattulapeta village under Bandhugaon
block limits in Koraput District. Sources said one Prakash Debarpulli,
an illicit liquor vendor, was transporting a huge quantity of country
liquor by plastic jerkins to Bandhugaon by a Commander jeep when the
Maoist intercepted and set ablaze the Jeep.
March 30: The Police arrested four Maoists
identified as identified as Lala Nag (52), Birendra Nag (20), Lesua
Tenwa (26), and Obey Dhanwar (24) near Kaliaposh area under Bisra Police
Station in Sundargarh District, during a combing operation on the Jharkhand-Odisha
border. "We have recovered one land mine, weighing about 15kg, kept
in a steel container, two dry cell battery, 100 meters of wire, one
crowbar and one mobile phone from their possession," said Rourkela SP
Himanshu Lal.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
invited the CPI-Maoist-backed CMAS for talks to secure the release of
BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka. "As the demands by the abductors seem related
to the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha, the State Government is open to dialogue
with the Sangh members. Therefore, we invite the Sangh to nominate their
representatives for talks," Patnaik informed the State Assembly in the
evening. Hikaka was abducted by the Maoists on March 24, 2012.
April 1: Divya alias Santhi alias
Wallasi (26), a CPI-Maoist 'commander' was arrested by BSF troopers
from near Chitrakonda in Janbai area of Malkangiri District. A laptop,
believed to contain information on the movements of Maoists, a diary
containing phone numbers of various leaders and a 9mm pistol were recovered
from Divya who was a member of the women's organisational team, later
serving as a member of the local organisation squad (LOS).
April 2: The State Government and Maoist-nominated
mediators resumed negotiations after the CPI-Maoist released an audio-tape
saying hostage Italian national Paolo Bosusco would not be released
till their demands are met. Earlier in the day, the new audio-tape released
by Sabyasachi Panda, secretary of the CPI-Maoist Odisha State Organising
Committee, demanded that the 36 people whose names have been given to
the Government should be released forthwith. There was uproar in the
State Legislative Assembly over the safety of abducted MLA Jhina Hikaka
as MLA Amar Satpathy alleged that he was ill.
The Maoist-affected tribal Districts
of Koraput and Rayagada have imposed a ban on the entry of foreign nationals
into the Districts.
April 3: A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an encounter during a joint operation by Central Reserve Police Force,
Special Operations Group, Keonjhar and Angul Police near Mundatopa village
within Kanjipani Police limits in Keonjhar District. Police have recovered
three guns, three kitbags, tiffin box, posters and leaflets from his
possession.
An 'area commander' of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Sanyasi Pujari alias Pravin, surrendered before
the Police in Malkangiri District.
The Maoists fixed April 5 as the deadline
for the Naveen Patnaik Government to fulfil their demands to secure
the release of ruling Biju Janata Dal legislator Jhina Hikaka who was
abducted on March 24.
The AOBSZC 'secretary' Chandra Mauli
issued an audio tape declaring April 5 as deadline for release of the
CMAS leaders and members incarcerated in jails under fabricated charges
in lieu of Hikaka's safe release.
The negotiation for the release of Italian
tour operator Bosusco Paolo was scheduled to continue on April 4 (today).
Paolo has been in the hands of a different group of Maoists since March
14.
April 4: A top CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Pandu Panki Ray (22), was arrested from Sundergarh District. The
Police recovered a landmine weighing about 15 kilograms along with wires
from the site.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
said his Government had decided to facilitate the release of as many
as 27 persons to secure the freedom of BJD legislator Jhina Hikaka and
Italian tour operator Paolo Bosusco from the CPI-Maoist. Making a statement
in the State Legislative Assembly, Patnaik said that in the case of
Hikaka, the Government had decided to facilitate the release of 15 members
of the CMAS and also eight Maoists from Koraput and Malkangiri jails.
Four other Maoists are to be released in lieu of Paolo Bosusco. While
the Maoist group headed by Sabyasachi Panda, the CPI-Maoist OSOC secretary,
abducted Italian tour operator Paolo Bosusco along with Claudio Colangelo
on March 14, another faction of the Maoists abducted Jhina Hikaka on
March 24. As reported earlier, Colangelo was released on March 25.
April 5: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik announced
the names of 27 persons whose release the Government will facilitate
through legal steps to ensure the release of BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka and
Italian tour operator Bosusco Paolo from the hands of the CPI-Maoist.
The four persons who would be released for securing Paolo's freedom
include Subhashree Das alias Mili Panda, wife of Sabyasachi Panda,
'secretary' of the Odisha State Organising Committee of CPI-Maoist.
The Maoists have extended the deadline
for the Odisha Government to meet their demands till April 7 for the
release of BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka. Earlier, the deadline was April 5.
Tipila Hesa (17), a woman Maoist cadre,
surrendered before the Police in Jajpur District.
April 6: Sabyasachi Panda, the 'secretary'
of OSOC of the CPI-Maoist rejected the Odisha Government's swap offer
for the release of Italian national Paolo Bosusco. The other group of
Maoists who had taken the BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka hostage also did not
respond to the Government's offer to facilitate release of 23 persons
to secure his release.
April 8: Sabyasachi Panda, 'secretary'
of the OSOC of CPI-Maoist, asked the State Government to clarify the
names of his followers to be released in exchange for abducted Italian
tour operator Paolo Basusco. The fresh audio tape by Panda followed
a day after the Government claimed to have reached a pact over Basusco,
agreeing to free five of the six whose release had been sought by the
Maoists.
CM Naveen Patnaik had announced the
release of 15 activists of CMAS and eight Maoists (including two hardcore
Andhra Maoist) in exchange for BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka, the AOBSZC, which
holds Hikaka hostage, has demanded the release of five more Maoists
and their sympathisers, including Chenda Bhushanam alias Ghasi.
AOBSZC spokesperson Jagabandhu sent
a letter to the Government demanding that all Maoists in the list in
exchange for the MLA's freedom should be released in Balipeta village
of Koraput District by April 10. "There should not be any police or
intelligence personnel present," the letter says.
April 9: The AOBSZC of the CPI-Maoist,
which has kept BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka hostage, wrote a letter to his wife
to reach Balipeta village in Narayanpatna block of Koraput District
on April 10 along with 30 prisoners to pave the way for his release.
The OPA has threatened to go on strike
if any hardcore Maoists are released in a swap deal.
More than 1,000 tribals of Narayanpatna
block organised a rally under the banner of CMAS demanding that all
CMAS activists lodged in Koraput jail be released forthwith.
A Maoist, identified as Bhagirathi alias
Nagesh, was arrested by Police in Adaba Police Station area under Rayagada
District during a combing operation, when a passenger vehicle was being
searched.
April 10: Subhashree Panda, wife of
CPI-Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda who is holding an Italian tourist
as hostage, got acquitted by a Fast Track Court in Rayagada District
in the case of 2003 Kutinguda encounter between police and Maoists in
Gudari block of Rayagada District.
CM Naveen Patnaik appealed to the abductors
to release Italian citizen Bosusco Paolo and legislator Jhina Hikaka
unharmed and without delay. Patnaik said certain legal procedures had
to be followed to facilitate the release of 27 prisoners demanded by
the Maoists.
April 11: A group of family members
of Maoist-backed CMAS activists who are in jail gathered at Balipeta
in Narayanpatna block of Koraput District to sit on indefinite dharna
demanding the release of the latter. The agitators, mostly women, said
they came to the place with the hope that their jailed relatives would
get released at the spot.
April 12: The OSOC of the CPI-Maoist
has finally released Italian hostage Paolo Bosusco who was in their
captivity since March 14. The Maoists released Paolo in Mohona village
in Gajapati District.
The fate of BJD legislator Jhina Hikaka
who has been in the captivity of AOBSZC of the CPI-Maoist since March
24 remains uncertain as the Maoists refused to release him unless their
demands were met.
April 15: The CPI-Maoist in Odisha set
April 18 as the date for the State Government to meet their demands
for the release of abducted BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka. Hikaka was abducted
from Koraput on March 24. The CPI-Maoist has demanded the release of
29 prisoners.
Paolo Bosusco, who was held hostage
by OSOC of the CPI-Maoist, is said to have revealed vital information
about Sabyasachi Panda, the secretary of OSOC. Paolo estimated Panda
has just about 20 cadres, including 10 women, each armed with a gun.
The unit has one VHF set, one walky-talky, two tiffin bombs, one laptop
with data card and one generator. He described the OSOC leader as "sick".
Nikhil, spokesman of Bansadhara Division
Committee of CPI-Maoist in his letters to the media said, "They [Telugu
cadres] torture Oriya cadres. They give poor food, torn uniforms and
damaged shoes to Oriya cadres." bringing factionalism among Maoists
to the fore.
April 15: The Centre has accepted Odisha's
demand to include four more CPI-Maoist-affected Districts under the
SRE scheme, official sources said. The State Government had demanded
inclusion of Nuapada, Bolangir, Bargarh and Kalahandi Districts under
SRE scheme. With the latest inclusion, 19 out of 30 Districts in Odisha
would benefit under the SRE scheme, official sources said.
April 17: A group of about 20 CPI-Maoist
cadres held a meeting at Kanimohuli village in Suliapada tehsil
in Mayurbhanj District of Odisha, located at the West Bengal-Jharkhand
border, a few days back to reorganise themselves. Sources said Maoist
leaders like Akash and Bikash had attended the meeting along with some
local leaders of the CPI-Maoist.
April 18: The Odisha Government agreed
to withdraw cases against as many as 13 persons, including a few CPI-Maoist
cadres, to secure the release of abducted legislator Jhina Hikaka.
Major-General (retd.) Gagandeep Bakshi,
a retired Army officer approached the Supreme Court to restrain the
Odisha Government from meeting the Maoists' demand of releasing the
Naxals as they had been captured by SFs while putting their lives at
stake.
Two CISF troopers were injured when
suspected CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire at a CISF vehicle at the Panchpatmali
bauxite mining hills in Damanjodi in Koraput District. "We recovered
at least seven empty bullet cases from the spot. The bullets were fired
from either an AK 47 or a 303 gun. Two bullets hit two CISF personnel
present in the vehicle," DIG Soumendra Priyadarshi said.
The 13 names the State Government announced
against whom cases would be withdrawn in exchange of the MLA's release
didn't have the names of Linga and Gananath Patra, adviser of CMAS who
is now in jail.
April 19: The Maoists began their praja
court to decide whether or not to release abducted BJD MLA Jhina
Hikaka. Sources said the court was held at a place about 2 kilometres
from Balipeta in Narayanpatna area in the District. The Maoists may
delay Hikaka's release by a few days.
The ADJ (Fast track) Dilip Kumar Mishra
of Jeypore granted bail to Rabi Tadangi arrested for his involvement
in a 2009 loot case in Narayanpatna Police Station area, taking the
total number of CMAS activists released (since April 17, 2012) on bail
to five. Earlier on April 17 and April 18, the court had granted bail
to Argu Sirika, Dora Hontal, Dhana Hontal and Wadeka Walsi.
The Gajapati District and session’s
court rejected the fresh bail petition filed by Maoist leader Arati
Majhi. Arati was one of the Maoists whose release was demanded in exchange
of abducted (now released) Italian Paolo Bosusco. Arati was arrested
on February 10, 2010.
The SC wanted to know “what was happening”
in the Odisha Maoist hostage crisis. The Centre told the SC it had “no
idea”, while the Odisha Government, the primary respondent in a public
interest petition seeking to prevent it from succumbing to the “blackmail
tactics” of Maoists, was not represented.
The Maoists had blocked several roads
connecting Narayanpatna block with the outside world. The roads had
not been cleared till evening. The Narayanpatna-Laxmipur road was blocked
at several places by the Maoists by felling trees and digging up the
road. The Narayanpatna-Bandhugaon-Parvathipuram road was blocked near
Bagam square. The Narayanpatna-Podapadar road was blocked near Podapadar.
April 20: The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
a site where works were being undertaken under PMGSY near Pendajam under
Semiliguda Police Station limits in Koraput District. According to sources,
the Maoists set ablaze and damaged two road rollers, one tipper, one
excavator and a motorcycle.
The AOBSZC of the CPI-Maoist who have
been holding Odisha legislator Jhina Hikaka hostage since March 24,
said they would organise a ‘people's court' on April 25 to take a final
decision on his release.
April 23: The Gajapati District and
Session Court in Paralakhemundi granted bail to eight CPI-Maoist cadres,
including Arati Majhi (22), in the two cases related to burning of OSRTC
bus and damaging a mobile communication tower at Raipanka in Gajapati
District in 2009.
April 26: The CPI-Maoist cadres released
BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka in the forests of Narayanpatna in Koraput District.
Hikaka was abducted by the Maoists on March 24 near Toyapet in Koraput
District, while he was returning home to Laxmipur from Semiliguda.
April 27: The State Police raided a
camp belonging to Sabyasachi Panda, secretary of the OSOC of CPI-Maoist,
in Sorada area in Ganjam District. An exchange of fire took place between
the Police and Maoists. The Police seized the generator and some other
items after the encounter.
Nirmala alias Nande Sodi (30),
‘deputy Commander’ of Paplur and Kalimela dalam, surrendered
before the DIG (South-Western Range), Sunabeda, Soumendra Priyadarshi
at Malkangiri District. Nirmala, native of Kurup village in the District,
reportedly worked for nearly 10 years for the CPI-Maoist. Nirmala also
handed over her country-made pistol and a .303 rifle to the Police.
May 2: Maoists killed two villagers,
identified as Gobardhan Pande (20) and Kailash Agrawal (31), at Luhasingha
village near Patnagarh in Bolangir. Police said Kailash was the owner
of a Mahua flower godown where Gobardhan was working as a night watchman.
A group of armed Maoists abducted and
killed Balaram Naik (35), a marginal farmer, at Tentuligumma under Boipariguda
block (administrative division) in Koraput District, suspecting him
to be a Police informer.
May 5: Police took custody of five German
tourists from Khaprakhol block in Bolangir District. Officials warned
them to never to venture into the Maoist-affected area again. "The
new guidelines don''t allow foreigners to visit tourist spots without
prior permission. The entry of five Germans amounts to flouting of rules,"
District Tourist Officer Goutam Nag said.
May 4: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Sini Sai (50), who happens to be a former Sarpanch (head of
Gram Panchayat, village level local self-Government institution)
of Gobaraghati Gram Panchayat under Kalinga Nagar Police Station
in Jajpur District, allegedly involved in the killing of security men
and many crimes, was arrested from the dense forest bordering Jajpur
and Keonjhar areas. Sini was involved in the attack on Daitari Police
Station, abduction of a Police officer Umesh Marandi and other crimes
and violence in Jajpur and Keonjhar Districts.
May 4: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a contractor in Malkangiri Village-55 (MV-55) area within Kalimela Police
limits in Malkangiri District. Villagers found the dead body of Subalo
Sil (48), on the canal embankment near Saplur Chowk, a few metres from
MV-55. Sil, who was undertaking repair work of canal embankments and
village roads, belonged to nearby MV 55 village was earlier warned by
the Maoists through posters pasted on the canal embankment asking him
not to undertake repair works without their permission.
Prasant Majhi alias Susanta (22),
the personal bodyguard of top Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda alias Sunil,
since 2007, surrendered before the local Police in Gajapati District.
Susanta, a school dropout from Guluba village in the District, joined
the Maoists in 2005, in his teens. Initially, he worked as a courier
and later went on to become one of the most trusted members of the outfit,
eventually getting the job of Panda's bodyguard. Susanta underwent training
in at least six camps in Gajapati and Kandhamal District in jungle warfare
and handling of weapons like INSAS rifle, AK-47, sten gun and 9mm pistol.
May 7: A ‘deputy commander’ of central
regional committee of AOBSZC, Section 1 of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Ramesh alias Raiman Pangi (28), surrendered before Police
in Malkangiri District. Ramesh was wanted in several cases, including
attack on Police Stations and explosions.
May 8: CPI-Maoist cadres abducted Krupa
Ram Majhi, an ASI of Police, and shot him dead in Nuapada District.
Majhi, posted in Dharmabandha Police outpost, was escorting a water
tanker to a CRPF camp at Goudha near Sunabeda sanctuary when the incident
took place. The Maoists, however, did not harm Constable Debnarayan
Sahoo who was accompanying Majhi. Police suspect that the incident was
the handiwork of the Maoists' Mainpur division, headed by one Sujatha,
which operates in Nuapada and bordering Districts of Chhattisgarh.
May 11: A contractor, Jami Rajendra
Prasad (40), from Narayanpatna block in Koraput District was killed
by CPI-Maoist cadres at Gechela under Laxmipur Police Station on Narayanpatna-Laxmipur
road. The Maoists also left some posters at the spot owning up to the
murder. Maoists suspected him to be a Police informer.
A hardcore Maoist, Narendra Bridika
(32), was arrested in Muniguda Police Station area in Rayagada District
during a raid by a joint team of Police and CRPF on a meeting spot of
Maoists at Belundi village. Two country-made SBML guns and some posters
opposing anti-Maoist operations were seized. Bridika is an active member
of Bansadhara division of the Odisha State Organising Committee of the
CPI-Maoist. He used to be personal bodyguard of D. Keshav Rao alias
Azad, a Maoist leader who has surrendered. According to Police sources,
at present he was working as an associate of Maoist ‘commander’ Nikhil.
May 12: Police claimed to have arrested
a suspected woman cadre of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Rebati Nayak,
from a forest in Naktideula area in Sambalpur District. Police sources
said Rebati is an active cadre of Sambalpur-Deogarh-Sundargarh Zonal
committee of CPI-Maoist.
The Koraput-Srikakulam divisional committee
of the CPI-Maoist gave a bandh (shut down strike) call in Koraput
District on May 16. The Maoist division functions under the Andhra-Odisha
Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBSZC). Through a letter written in
Telugu, Daya alias Chemmala Krishnamurthi, ‘secretary’ of Koraput-Srikakulam
divisional committee, informed newsmen that the bandh call is
given to protest against NCTC and anti-Maoist operations like Operation
Green Hunt. He also demanded withdrawal of BSF personnel from Narayanpatna
area of Koraput District.
May 15: A trooper of the DVF, Ajay Kumar
Sahoo, was killed by Maoists during a joint combing operation by the
CRPF, SOG and DVF at Birikala reserve forest under Nayakote Police Station
in Keonjhar District. The area is on the Keonjhar-Angul border, sources
said.
May 16: The Bharat bandh call
given by the CPI-Maoist had its impact in some pockets of south Odisha.
May 17: Three powerful tiffin bombs,
each weighing six kilograms, buried on the road between Bharuamunda
and Lodra in Nuapada District by Maoists were detected.
The Gajapati District and Sessions Court
in Paralakhemundi acquitted woman Maoist Arati Majhi (22) in the case
related to burning of Odisha State Road Transport Corporation (OSRTC)
buses at Raipanka in Gajapati District on December 28, 2009. Five others
identified as Babula Behera Dalai, Lazor Majhi, Shyam Majhi, Manas Majhi,
and Jacob Majhi were also acquitted in the same case.
May 19: Three motorcycle-borne Maoists
of the AOBSZC shot a contractor dead at Khairaput in the Mudulipada
Police Station limits of Malkangiri District. The deceased was identified
as Budra Dhangada Majhi (38). Maoists suspected him to be a Police informer.
May 20: Sabyasachi Panda, the secretary
of the OSOC of the CPI-Maoist, threatened of "revolutionary violence"
if the State Government continues to attack the Maoists. In a fresh
audio tape circulated to media houses, Panda alleged the State Government
has not fulfilled its promises to secure the release of Italian nationals
Claudio Colangelo (on March 25) and Bosusco Paolo (on April 12), who
he had abducted from Kandhamal-Ganjam region on March 14.
May 22: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Mita Paltasingh alias Sunita, was arrested during a joint combing
operation by personnel of the CRPF and SOG from Kutiguda village under
Kotagarh Police Station in Kandhamal District. Some Maoist literature
was seized from her possession.
May 23: A group of about 25 armed Maoists
killed Deba Bagaranga (40), the husband of sitting sarpanch of Hanumanthpur
Panchayat, at Hanumanthpur village in Chandrapur block of Rayagada District.
Deba was also a former panchayat samiti member of the area. Maoists
left the spot leaving behind a hand-written poster alleging that Deba
was a Police informer. The killing was carried out by Bansadhara Division
of CPI-Maoist headed by Nikhil alias Niranjan Rout.
May 24: The CPI-Maoist called for a
bandh in Andhra-Odisha border on May 30 protesting implementation
of globalization policies of Central and State Governments.
May 25: Four CPI-Maoist cadres, including
two women of the Kalinga Nagar division of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered
in Keonjhar District. The arrestees have been identified as Sambari
Munda (18) of Rebana village under Daitari Police limits, Rambati Hembram
(20) of Asanbahali village under Ghasipura Police limits, Aiban Tiu
(20) of Panga village under Telkoi Police limits and Dharani (22) of
Tungurubahali village under Telkoi Police limits. Sambari surrendered
with a gun and 18 rounds of bullets in the presence of Deputy Inspector
General of Police (western range) Y K Jethwa and Superintendent of Police
(Keonjhar) Ashish Kumar Singh.
May 27: A day ahead of the scheduled
visit of the Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh to Malkangiri
District, three SOG personnel were injured in a landmine blast by CPI-Maoist
cadres at Kanaguda under Kalimela Police Station in the District. An
exchange of fire also occurred at the spot between the Security Forces
and Maoists after the landmine blast.
Ahead of their proposed 24-hour bandh
on May 30, Maoist supporters held a meeting at Gumphakonda in Kalimela
Police Station limits in the District. Tribal people armed with their
traditional weapons attended the meeting.
May 27: A team of National Investigating
Agency (NIA) arrested Asem Ibotombi Singh alias Angou,
external affairs wing ‘secretary’ of Manipur-based People's Liberation
Army (PLA), from Gopalpur in Ganjam District. The NIA suspects that
Angou was camping there to resurrect PLA's ties with Maoists in Odisha's
tribal areas after the arrest of the outfit's important leaders. An
NIA official said, "Angou had replaced N Dilip Singh alias Wangba,
in the PLA hierarchy after his arrest from Delhi last year. We suspect
in his absence, Angou was trying to rebuild the broken partnership between
PLA and Maoists." Angou was produced before Berhampur court and
was taken on five-day remand by the NIA, Police sources said.
May 28: Maoist cadres, suspected to
be of Bargarh-Bolangir and Mahasamund division of the outfit, set ablaze
two collection centres (Paharighars) of 'kendu' leaf in Khariar kendu
leaf division in Nuapada District. They demanded upward revision of
wages to kendu leaf pluckers.
May 30: The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
three tractors being used in Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
road work from Lathore to Dholmandal at Halanbhata village in Tureikela block
in Bolangir District in the night. The Maoists left behind posters
where they claimed to be members of Bolangir-Bargarh-Mahasamund divisional
committee and directed the contractors to stop works on various roads
and bridges.
May 31: A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Kesab Bhimadika, wanted for murder and other crime was arrested during
an operation on the outskirts of Narayanpatna in Koraput District.
June 3: Police arrested PLFI’s Odisha
chapter head, Dhananjaya Bhuyan, from Kuanrmunda in Sundergarh District.
Police arrested Arjun Thakur (50) and
two of his associates Guddu alias Jayaram Prasad and
Jaggu alias Bijay in Roulkela District. The trio on
May 20 demanded Rs 2 crores from Rajalaxmi Construction which is engaged
in work on Jhirpani Bridge in the name of PLFI.
June 8: A person, identified
as Nabaghan Wadeka is suspected to have been abducted by CPI-Maoist
cadres in Bissamkatak block of Rayagada District. According to sources,
Wadeka is suspected to have faced wrath of Maoists as he was involved
in the construction of a school building in the area, which was sponsored
by the Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL). Maoists are also opposing the
mining and refinery projects of VAL.
Maoists also targeted a
kendu leaf godown in Chandupalla village near Khariar under Nuapada
District in the night.
June 9: Maoists killed
a 50 year-old tribal person at a remote village in Koraput District,
suspecting him to be a Police informer. The dead body of the person
was found today with his throat slit and a letter left near it saying
that he was killed after being identified to be a Police informer, said
Y J Rao, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Laxmipur. However, Rao
rejected the Maoist allegation that the person was a Police informer.
The victim, identified as a resident of Manasdapadar village, was also
accused of extorting money from people by posing to be a Maoist agent.
Maoists set ablaze nearly
a dozen of kendu leaf godowns in 12 villages situated over 20-km-long
stretch in Khaparakhol block in Bolangir District. The villages included
Khairpani, Rengali, Chaulbanji, and Jamunabadi.
June 11: A tribal labourer, identified
as Subra Huika (30) of Odia Pentha village in Narayanpatna block, was
killed in cold blood by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Koraput District in
the night. Huika's body was found on Narayanpatna-Laxmipur road at distance
of two km from Narayanpatna. The assailants had slit open the throat
of the victim with some sharp weapon. A letter left on the spot by Koraput-Srikakulam
Division of CPI-Maoist, signed by Daya, alleged that Huika was a Police
informer.
Continuing their operations in Balangir
District for the second and third consecutive day, the Maoists set afire
five more kendu leaf godowns - three in June 10 and two in June 11 -
in Khaprakhol area. Balangir District earns INR 700 million revenue
by selling Kendu leaves every year. After the third day of arson,
the State Government sustained a loss of INR 2.56 million as 17 godowns
had already been burnt. Divisional forest officer (DFO) Rohit Singh
said in the latest arson, the Police camp was near the godowns. He said
the two villages, Beherapani and Turla, where Maoists burnt down the
godowns on June 11 are not very remote.
June 12: CMAS advisor Gananath Patra
was released from Choudwar circle jail after his release orders reached
the jail authorities from a court in Koraput District. The 73-year-old
leader is suffering from acute diabetes with vision and cardiac ailments.
Facing as many as six criminal cases, the CMAS leader had been in custody
for past 30 months. Although, he was acquitted in four of the cases
and had got bail in the remaining two cases, he was refusing to come
out of the jail on bail. Speaking to The Hindu, he said he had
changed his idea of leaving the jail following advice of his friends.
June 13: Two hardcore CPI-Maoist cadres,
identified as Arjun Meleka and Musuri Wateka, allegedly involved in
about eight cases, were arrested by SF personnel during a special operation,
from Kanchanpadu village under Narayanpatna area in Koraput District.
The arrested duo, active in the area for quite a long time, was involved
in about eight criminal cases including murder, landmine explosion,
extortion and attack on attach on SFs in the area, Koraput Superintendent
of Police Awinash Kumar said.
June 14: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, who
had been planning a big operation, were arrested early in the morning
from Lungra Ghati in the K. Balang Police Station limits on Sundargarh-Jharkhand
border. The duo, Sudhir Bhuiyan (24) alias Bishram, and Habil
Horo (23), both from West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand, were arrested
by a joint team of CRPF and local Police. They also recovered a double
barrel gun and some live ammunition from the Maoists, who were involved
in a number of cases, including killing of Police Sub-Inspector Ajit
Bardhan in 2009.
June 15: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested by the SOG troopers in Koraput District after an encounter
at a place on a forested road near Chinakhemu within Bandhugaon Police
limits. The arrested Maoists are identified as Puala Sargu, Puala Lachayya,
Puala Ashu and Huika Sulaya. The SOG troopers also seized three guns,
one soap case bomb, a gun barrel and huge quantities of Maoists literature
and belongings from them.
Members of the Maoist-backed Chasi
Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) of Narayanpatna block took over some
25 to 30 acres of land in possession of non-tribal people near Kumbhariput
in adjoining Bandhugaon block. This is seen as a move of the
Narayanpatna-based CMAS led by Nachika Linga to extend activities of
their outfit outside Narayanpatna.
June 18: The SFs claimed to have killed
a suspected woman CPI-Maoist cadre and busted a Maoist training camp
in Saranda forest in Sundargarh District. SFs rushed to Langalakanta
village in the deep forests of Saranda under K Balang Police limits
after getting a tip-off that over 30 Maoists, which included top cadre
Anmol, had gathered nearby. However, by the time they reached the spot,
the Maoists had retreated into the forests. The SFs followed their trail,
but met with heavy fire from the Maoists at Mundatola. The SFs said
they saw a woman cadre fall to the bullets. But, they could not retrieve
the body as her comrades took it away, leaving bloodstains at the spot.
During the operation, the SFs recovered a sten gun and a 303 rifle from
the camp. "They have also found a few drums full of diesel, raw food
material and prepared food, uniform, large amounts of medicine, posters,
leaflets and magazines and Maoist literature from the camp," said Sub-Divisional
Police Officer S.S. Sethy.
Two Maoists identified as Janaki Saya
alias Tulasi (35) and her younger brother Admond Saya alias
Sadhu (30) of Totasahi village under Harichandanpur Police limits, surrendered
before the District Police in Keonjhar District. Janaki was the commander
of the women's military wing of the local Kalinga Nagar division, while
Admond was actively working for the expansion of the Maoist activities
in the region. Janaki was accused of several crimes, including the ransacking
and burning of liquor shops, and firing at a Police patrol in the District.
June 23: SOG personnel engaged in anti-Naxal
operation in Koraput District found Maoist dump in the District. According
to Police, one telescope, one digital camera, one country-made gun,
three mobile phone sets, Maoist literature, letters, medicines, electric
wires and switches, power sockets, two bags, biscuits, bidis, and batteries
were dumped in a forested road near Kumbikhari village under Boipariguda
Police Station area.
A landmine planted by the Maoists was
defused by Security Force personnel in Nabarangpur District. Following
a tip off, Police rushed to the spot near Jodenga village in Raighar
block and defused it.
A primary school teacher was arrested
in Ganjam District for his alleged links with Maoist leaders, including
Sabyasachi Panda. The arrestee was identified as Jhikania Sabara of
Jharakona village under Badagada Police Station area in the District.
Police have seized a Maoist poster, two photo identity cards of his
with different father's names, a VHF set, charger, mobile set, several
other papers and a new motorcycle from him. Sabara was working as a
teacher in Barada, near his village, since the past seven years, the
Police said. He was working as an over-ground worker and transporter
for the Maoists in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal Districts and was
a courier to top Maoist leader Sabyasachi, the Police said. Sabara was
working for Maoists, including supplying grocery items and medicines
to them, for the past three years, the Police added.
June 25: The CPI-Maoist cadres damaged
a telephone tower by blasting it under Khaparakhol block in Bolangir
District, during their 24-hour bandh. The Chhattisgarh-Odisha
State Committee of the CPI-Maoist on June 25 called a 24-hour bandh
call demanding halt to Operation Green Hunt. The bandh affected
normal life in Bolangir, Bargarh, Nuapada and other western Odisha Districts.
The Maoists also set ablaze Kendu leaf
godown in Khaparakhol block during the bandh.
June 25: A former ward member, Pidika
Sarbo (55), was killed by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres in Gumudaguoda
village under Bandhugaon Police limits in Koraput District. A Maoist
letter left at the spot reads that Pidika was punished as he was cheating
people in the area by working as a Police informer and being involved
in liquor trade.
June 26: The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
two tendu leaf godowns in Kantabanji forest range in Bolangir
District. Earlier, they had burnt down 20 godowns within Khaparakhol
range in the month of June causing the state exchequer a loss of INR
2.8 million.
July 4: Allegedly pressurised by the
CPI-Maoist, elected panchayat body members of Kalimela block
in Malkangiri District stated that they would resign if some long-standing
demands of their area were not fulfilled. According to sources Maoists
had called up a meeting inside Gomphagunda forest which was attended
by a large number of elected members of panchayat bodies of Kalimela
block. Around 1,000 Maoist sympathisers were said to be present at the
meeting. One Zilla Parishad (ZP) member, 18 sarpanches and 15
panchayat samiti members were present at this meeting. According
to a sarpanch around seven Maoist cadres were present there.
But they were in plain dresses without any arms. The Maoists ordered
the elected panchayat body members to resign if administration
and Government did not take steps to fulfil a promise related to extension
of an irrigation canal. The elected panchayat body members eventually
provided a statement to the local media claiming that they would resign
if the demand related to the canal did not show any positive sign within
15 days.
July 5: The day-long bandh called
by Maoists in the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) area to protest against
the recent encounter in Chhattisgarh failed to evoke any response.
July 6: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
Gangadhar Chalan, former deputy Sarpanch of Madulipada panchayat
in Malkangiri District in the night, suspecting him to be a Police Informer.
His bullet ridden body was found in a forest near Atalaguda under Mudulipada
Police Station limits.
Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Setu Kendruka of Dandabadi village and Naga Kendruka of Chintaguda
village, were arrested by SOG personnel in Maoist-affected Narayanpatna
block of Koraput District. According to Police, the arrested Maoists
have more than eight major cases related to murder, attempted murder
and other incidents of Maoist violence pending against them. They were
allegedly involved in the attack on Narayanpatna Police Station in November
2009.
July 8: The CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly
abducted two persons in Bandhugaon block in Koraput District, for being
Police informers, following the arrest of one of their sympathizers.
The arrested Maoist sympathizer is Kadraka Puala of Elangawalsa village
and the two abducted fellow villagers are Kadraka Lachana and Kadraka
Mali. The Maoists had abducted five villagers but freed three of them
sometime later. However, no Police complaint was lodged by the family
of the abducted duo and Police are gathering intelligence inputs about
it.
July 10: The CPI-Maoist set ablaze five
vehicles, including a JCB proclainer and a tractor, at Nakamamudi village
under Chitrakonda Police Station limits in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
The vehicles belonging to a Pune-based construction company were being
used in laying a road from Balimela junction to Malkangiri. Malkangiri
division committee of the CPI-Maoist led by Gajarla Ravi alleged that
the road-widening works were being taken up as part of Operation
Green Hunt to target them. The Maoists opposing road works in interiors
are now targeting major road works from Balimela to Malkangiri, which
could provide road link to 40 villages, Police said.
July 11: The Maoists killed the son
of a ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader at Sana Gunjibhata in Khaparakhol
Block of Bolangir District. The Police said about 30 armed Maoists went
to the house of BJD leader Ganeshram Bhoi, forced his son Sashiram (42)
to accompany them, tied him to a pole and assaulted him before killing
him with a bayonet, as his family, including his father, watched helplessly.
Sashiram had worked as a contractor in neighbouring Nuapada District.
Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist were
arrested by Security Force personnel during a joint combing operation
in Barigaon under Laxmipur Police limits in Koraput District. They were
identified as Dasaratha, Kamburu and Chintamani, in the age group of
30 to 40 years. Dasarath has about 13 criminal cases were pending against
him. Though no specific charges were pending against Kamburu and Chintamani,
both were close associates of Dasaratha.
Alleging harassment from Andhra Pradesh
(AP) leaders and cadres, a CPI-Maoist 'area commander', identified as
Deba Padiami (30), surrendered before Malkangiri District. Padiami served
as 'area commander' of Kalimela-Motu dalam (squad) and has several cases
pending against him.
July 13: Around 40 Maoists set ablaze
a vehicle engaged in road construction and assaulted the site supervisor
and driver at Badacheka village within Rayagada Police limits in Rayagada
District.
Strongly protesting the Odisha Government's
plan of launching night operation against Maoists, the CPI-Maoist alleged
that the State has failed to keep its promises made during the abduction
of Laxmipur Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Jhina Hikaka.
July 16: During a joint operation, personnel
of SOG and CRPF seized a CPI-Maoist dump of 20 kilograms of ammonium
nitrate from a remote location near Ganjam-Kandhamal border. Four barrels
were also seized from the area.
A woman Maoist cadre of OSOC of the
CPI-Maoist, identified as Sabita Mallick alias Peti (22), known
as Sukanti in the rebel camp, surrendered before SP Pandit in Ganjam
District. Sukanti hailed from Mankadakhari village under Sorada Police
Station limits in the District.
July 17: The SFs unearthed a CPI-Maoist
arm and explosives dump during a raid on a Maoist hideout in the forested
area in Rayagada District of Odisha. The dump was located, following
information given by ‘deputy commander’ of CPI-Maoist, Ramesh Tama alias
Dasarath, who was arrested along with two other Maoists in Koraput District
on July 11. The arms and explosives seized from the spot included six
landmines, one country made revolver, 10 rounds of 8mm ammunitions,
and electronic detonators.
July 20: A group of around 25 to 30
Maoists swooped down on the construction site near MPV-13 (Malkangiri
Pottery Village) under Kalimela Police Station and set ablaze a road
construction project vehicle in Malkangiri District. No assault or casualty
was reported in the incident.
July 21: Top CPI-Maoist leader and main
accused in VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati’s murder, Sabyasachi Panda,
said he won’t surrender as is being speculated.
Meena Palka, a Maoist and Laxmi (19)
and Saraswati Palka (17), his two daughters, who had surrendered in
Rayagada District on August 10, 2011, have alleged that the State Government
has failed to rehabilitate them as per the package promised for surrendered
Maoists.
July 26: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested by the SF personnel in Koraput District of Odisha. Police said
while BSF troopers arrested two Maoists identified as Allaya Musika
and Kumbha Mandangi, SOG personnel arrested another Maoist identified
as Mangra Sirika. A country-made gun was seized from Mangra.
The Maoists have stepped up their poster
campaign ahead of the observance of martyrs' week from July 28 to August
3. Posters were found at Lamataput, Onakadelli, Narayanpatna, Bandhugaon,
Laxmipur and Pottangi areas in Koraput District. Sources from Malkangiri
said this time the Maoists have constructed nine martyrs' pillars at
Tentulipadar and Kalimela areas and have conducted a massive poster
campaign.
July 27: The CPI-Maoist has launched
a poster campaign in Malkangiri and Koraput Districts to seek support
for the Martyrs’ Week from July 28 to August 3. "We appeal to everyone
to observe Martyrs' Week by paying homage to the deceased Maoist leaders
at your respective villages," read a Maoist poster pasted at Kalimela
in Malkangiri.
July 29: A SPO was killed and another
injured in a CPI-Maoist attack in Malkangiri District. Police said a
group of Maoists fired at the two SPOs while they were on patrolling
duty at a local market at Padia under Kalimela Police Station on the
second of the Martyrs’ Week [July 28-August 3] being observed by the
Maoists.
Police arrested 11 cadres of the PLFI,
a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, operating both in Jharkhand and
Odisha, from Rourkela in Sundergarh District.
On the second day of Martyrs’ Week,
movement of vehicles was disrupted in different parts of southern and
western Odisha. Long and short-distance passenger buses did not run
for security reasons. The worst affected District were Malkangiri, Koraput,
Rayagada, Gajapati and Kandhamal.
In Koraput District, Maoists assembled
at the ‘martyrs' pillar’ erected at Borgi in Narayanpatna Police Station
area to pay homage to their deceased leaders. According to sources,
a large number of villagers also attended the meeting which continued
for a couple of hours. Revolutionary songs were sung by Maoist cadres
and the Maoist leaders urged villagers to join the Maoist movement to
get their legitimate rights over land, forest and water.
July 30: In a CPI-Maoist poster found
pasted in Hanumanthpur area of Rayagada District, one Pradeep, who has
got the backing of Odia Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda, claiming to
be the secretary of Bansadhara division of the CPI-Maoist has alleged
that Nikhil, who earlier claimed to be leader of Bansadhara Division,
was involved in extortion, exploitation of women and activities contrary
to principles of Maoist organisation. As per the posters fate of Nikhil
would be decided in a praja court. Bansadhara division of the CPI-Maoist
is active in Rayagada, Gajapati, Kandhamal and Ganjam Districts of south
Odisha. Earlier, on July 28, Nikhil had come up with a statement in
which he had openly criticised Odia Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda and
Pradeep. In his statement sent through audio tape, Nikhil had claimed
that while he was away on some organisational work, Sabyasachi had whimsically
declared Pradeep as the secretary of Bansadhara Division.
August 1: Hundreds of posters prepared
by the Union Home Ministry have been put up in Rayagada District of
Odisha to wean youths away from the CPI-Maoist. The posters were spotted
in villages of Muniguda block and focus on the sufferings of
those involved with the Maoists. "Maoists target rural youths because
they can be easily lured into the extremist movement. So to make the
rural youths aware about the evils of the Maoist organization, the posters
have been put up," said a senior Police officer posted in Rayagada
District.
August 5: A CPI-Maoist cadre, involved
in stopping SFs from launching a search for abducted Laxmipur MLA Jhina
Hikaka in March was arrested in Koraput District. Bhima Huija of Maudivalasa
village within Bandhugaon Police limits was involved in road blockades
in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks during that time.
According to a report, Maoists
are setting up parallel governments, janata sarkars, in the interior
pockets of AOB, buoyed by the success of a similar exercise in the Dandakaranya
region of Chhattisgarh. The Gumma area committee in Malkangiri District
set up a janata sarkar in the interior villages of AOB when the
Maoists distributed rice to 800 tribal families.
August 7: A huge cache of arms and ammunition,
purportedly stocked by the CPI-Maoist, were seized during a special
operation by Police in Aradapal forest that spreads over Jajpur and
Keonjhar Districts. Two rifles, a pistol, 146 rounds of ammunition,
seven boosters, 100 aluminium detonators, a screwdriver set and explosive
materials were seized during the operation by the Police.
A 17-year old girl, who had joined the
Maoists two years ago, surrendered before Angul Police after being disillusioned
at the camp. "Life is quite boring in the Maoist camp," said
Budhuni Munda alias Shanti, who used to carry luggage of other
members.
August 8: The SF personnel found three
landmines near Sikhapalli weekly market within Malkangiri Police limits
in Malkangiri District.
Security was tightened in Malkangiri
District for Kranti Diwas that the Maoists celebrate in memory
leader Kranti Ranveer, who was killed in Police firing while attacking
Motu Police Station on August 9, 2001.
An anti-Maoist cell was inaugurated
at the Ganjam District Police headquarters.
August 9: DG of CRPF K Vijay Kumar said
extreme measures were not resorted to unless it was unavoidable in dealing
with the CPI-Maoist. "We have told our people, number one try to
get surrender, number two, try to get arrest. Only when you are about
to be shot, then you resort to firearms," Kumar told reporters
here on the sideline of a function in Bhubaneswar.
August 10: The latest situation report
on the CPI-Maoist prepared by the State Government indicates that the
Maoists are importing cadres from neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand
to the Sambalpur-Deogarh-Sundargarh (SDS) Division to revive the SDS
Division.
August 11: The CPI-Maoist expelled its
top Odisha leader, Sabyasachi Panda alias Sunil, saying he betrayed
the group and the “great cause of the toiling masses”. The 43-year-old
Panda, who has a bounty of INR 2 million on his head, was the secretary
of the OSOC of the CPI-Maoist and operated in Rayagada, Gajapati, Kandhamal
and Ganjam Districts.
Sources said a Telugu cadre may replace
Panda to bring cohesion in the Maoist rank and file in Odisha. Police
sources said Panda, however, may have already severed his ties by forming
the Odisha Maovadi Party.
August 12: Gopu Gopikrishna alias
Sandesh alias Suryam, a CPI-Maoist leader, was arrested by the
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) rural Police from Malkangiri District
in Odisha. According to sources, Suryam was the division committee member
(DCM) of Malkangiri District. Sources also reported that Suryam is being
taken to Visakhapatnam District.
August 12: Two days after the CPI-Maoist
said it had expelled him from the party, Sabyasachi Panda, former secretary
of the OSOC of the CPI-Maoist said the party should "review its actions,
admit mistakes and mend itself". "The party will be doomed if it doesn't
do so," he warned. In an audio tape circulated to media persons, Panda
said he had no ties with the CPI-Maoist since last seven months and
had formed a new outfit, Odisha Maoist Party. "We don't believe in violent
confrontation with adversaries," he said, condemning the "mindless violence"
being perpetrated by the CPI-Maoist.
Fear of the Maoists is keeping contractors
away from the repairing work of an 18-km road between the block headquarters
of Lamataput and Macchkund in Koraput District. Further, the Maoists
have stalled three other vital road projects in Koraput District.
August 13: Narayan Suna (46), a Police
home guard, was shot dead by the CPI-Maoist cadres at Majhipalli village
in Paikamal area in Bargarh District of Odisha.
Odisha Police will request their Jharkhand
counterparts to hand over Maoist 'area commander' Johnson Munda for
interrogation in connection with certain cases in the state.
August 14: The SF personnel destroyed
a CPI-Maoist camp in Daringibadi area in Kandhamal District and seized
some belongings of the Maoist. The items seized from the camp include
blankets, jackets, woollen caps, sweaters, T-shirts, hand gloves, a
plastic drum, around 50-metre wire, a stabilizer, jars of petrol and
kerosene, polythene sheets and a camera, Police said.
August 15: Maoists unfurled black flags
in some remote pockets of Koraput and Malkangiri Districts on Independence
Day. According to reports, Maoists hoisted black flags in many remote
areas of Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks of Koraput District. They
also reported to have put up banners against Independence Day and black
flags in remote areas of Kalimela block in Malkangiri District.
Odisha Maoist Party (OMP), the new Maoist
outfit formed by Sabyasachi Panda in the State after his expulsion from
the central Maoist organization, also tried to show up its presence
in the areas under AOBSZC through posters and banners against Independence
Day in the remote areas of Koraput and Malkangiri Districts.
The members of the Maoist-backed CMAS
boycotted the Independence Day celebration by singing revolutionary
songs, organizing a rally holding black Flags as well as hosting black
flag at their meeting place at Tentulipadar village in Koraput District.
August 17: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
demanded deployment of additional battalions of CAF and more helicopters
for the State to tackle the Naxal threat. "Our requirement of two more
battalions of central armed force for the state should be urgently met
and deployed in some Districts of Odisha," Patnaik said after meeting
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in New Delhi. He said the State
has also demanded "two more helicopters" for operation in Naxal hit
areas. Patnaik also demanded release of the pending claims of INR 1.26
billion for reimbursement for security related expenditure quickly besides
seeking enhancement of funds under the integrated action plan programme.
August 19: Teli Kadraka alias
Rajendra, the 'commander' of Jhanjabati area committee of CPI Maoist,
was killed in an exchange of fire with SFs in Bada Mathur forest under
Bandhugaon Police station limits in Koraput District. Rajendra was a
resident of Tala Pottesh Village of Bandhugaon Block. However, some
other Maoists escaped from the spot taking advantage of the dense forest.
A 303 rifle and kitbags were recovered from the encounter site, where
the Maoist group had set up a temporary camp, Police sources said.
August 19: A hardcore CPI-Maoist cadre,
identified as Maran Piyusika, was arrested by the Police in Gunupur
area of Rayagada District of Odisha. Maran hailed from Bakaguda village
of Hanumanthpur panchayat under Chandrapur Police Station limits.
Several non-bailable warrants related to Maoist activity were pending
against him in different Police Stations of Rayagada District.
August 21: A former Gram Panchayat
member was killed by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres in Padia area in Malkangiri
District of Odisha. The body of Sukra Khurami (45), who had been missing
since August 20 evening after he went to the village market, was found
with his throat slit near Modiguda village.
More than 3000 activists and supporters
of Maoist-backed CMAS protested in Bandhugaon block of Koraput District
against the killing of Maoist 'commander' Rajendra alias Teli Kadraka
in police encounter on August 19. They alleged that the District Police
killed Rajendra in a fake encounter. They also maintained that Rajendra
was an innocent and had no connection with any Maoists activities.
Odisha Government sanctioned 6,384 new
posts for appointment of Gram Panchayat Development Officers (GPDO)
and Gram Panchayat Technical Assistants (GPTA) in 18 Maoist-infested
districts where the centrally assisted IAP is being implemented.
August 22: Eight persons were convicted
for their involvement in CPI-Maoist activities by a court in Paralakhemundi
tehsil in Gajapati District of Odisha. Each person was awarded seven
years of rigorous imprisonment and fined INR 500 by S K Behera, chief
judicial magistrate-cum-assistant sessions judge, Gajapati.
August 24: Around 60 BSF personnel returning
from a combing operation in Bejangwada to their base camp at Kalimela,
narrowly escaped when a landmine planted by CPI-Maoist exploded on a
forest road near Gumphakonda in Malkangiri District.
August 29: A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
and two others were seriously injured when a landmine they were trying
to plant exploded on a road near Tekguda in Kalimela area in Malkangiri.
According to reports the victim was Muka Madkami. But the Police are
yet to confirm his identity.
Parvati Majhi (25), a ‘deputy commander’
of the Paplur Dalam (armed squad) of the CPI-Maoist surrendered
before Malkangiri SP Akhilesh Singh. Parvati hailed from Bodinga village
under Chitrakonda Police Station limits in the District. She was involved
in exchange of fire in Sudha Kunda forest on November 24, 2008, in which
a trooper of SOG K. Anand Patnaik had been killed by Maoist bullets.
Gananath Patra, adviser of the Maoist-backed
CMAS, and an alleged Maoist sympathiser was acquitted in a murder case
pending against him by the fast track court of Koraput District. The
case was regarding the killing of Piniti Suresh, a supporter of Bandhugaon
based CMAS, at Basnaput under Bandhugaon Police Station limits of Koraput
District on September 7, 2009.
Three home guards of the State Police
have recently resigned from their job following the brutal murder of
a fellow home guard by Maoists in Bargarh District's Padmapur sub-division
on August 13. The three home guards are Gajendra Bagh, Subash Sahu and
Kishore Deep. They resigned on August 22, 24 and 28, respectively.
September 1: A BSF trooper, J Kundu,
was killed and another, Dhiren Sahu, injured when a landmine planted
by the CPI-Maoist cadres exploded on a forest road in Koraput District.
The two troopers were members of a unit of the BSF stationed at Palur
in Koraput.
September 3: In a written reply in the
Assembly, Chief Minister (CM) Naveen Patnaik said that 99 Left-wing
extremists had been killed in a duration of six-and-half years. Rejecting
criticism from opposition parties, he also claimed to have spent 35
nights in Left-wing extremism (LWE)-hit areas during the last 12 years.
The CM added 959 rebels had been arrested till August this year from
2006. Apart from this, 134 Maoists have surrendered before the Police,
he said. On the allegation of failing to control Maoist violence, Patnaik
claimed that LWE activities had considerably reduced in nine of the
19 Maoist-hit Districts. The Districts are - Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam,
Nayagarh, Jajpur, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Sambalpur and Deogarh.
September 5: Seven Maoists, including
three women were arrested from forest near Kamalapada in Koraput District.
Two guns, 20 kg of gelatine sticks, three pairs of Maoist uniform and
a large quantity of leaflets were also seized by the SFs. The arrested
women cadre were Rupayi Mandangi, Singali Tadingi, and Juroka Huika.
The arrested male cadres were Sigro Mandangi, Kenda Chakra, Rajarao
Waleka, and Ramesh Sidaripu.
The Maoists told media in Malkangiri
about their decision not to oppose the road construction works in Malkangiri
District.
September 7: A powerful landmine planted
on a road by CPI-Maoist cadres was seized by SF personnel in Kandhamal
District. The explosive device was found between Kotagada and Srirampur.
Altogether nine explosive devices including landmines and tiffin bombs
were seized from Baliguda sub-division from the Maoist-affected District
in the last one year.
A Maoist was arrested during anti-Maoist
operations in Koraput District. The arrested Maoist, Karna Minsal, is
a member of AOBSZC of the CPI-Maoist and was arrested from his village
Kumbhariput within Bandhugaon Police limits. No arms or Maoist belongings
were recovered from his possession.
September 11: In an assessment of armed
cadres of the CPI-Maoist in the State, the Odisha Police has found that
between 70 and 80 per cent of them do not belong to the State. Around
50 per cent of the total armed cadres belong to the AOBSZC operating
in Koraput and Malkangiri Districts, a senior paramilitary officer said.
The study also put the total number of armed Maoist cadre in Odisha
at a little over 500. While many of them joined the outfit as recently
as six months ago, some have been members for 30 years. The firearms
they use range from single barrel muzzle loader to AK-47 and 9 mm pistol.
The AOBSZC is the biggest, with an estimated 240-250 cadre. The second
biggest committee is Dandakaranya Zonal Committee, which has around
100 armed cadres, mostly from Chhattisgarh. The third biggest zonal
committee is the Orissa State Organising Committee, which has around
80 armed cadres. Officials said Odisha Maovadi Party formed by the recently
expelled Sabyasachi Panda may not have more than 20 armed cadres.
SFs seized a huge cache of weapons and
explosive materials stocked by the CPI-Maoist in a forest near Matikeda
in Kotaguda area in Kandhamal District. The articles recovered from
the hidden dump included 79 detonators, five gelatin sticks, three wire
bundles, four electric switches and several other devices used to make
landmines. Eight rifles, one air gun, knives and other sharp weapons
were also seized from the site besides volumes of Maoist literature
including leaflets, pamphlets, posters, audio cassettes and Naxal flags.
September 14: SFs unearthed secret explosive
dumps of the CPI- Maoist in Kandhamal and Malkangiri Districts of Odisha.
In Kandhamal District the Maoist dump was located inside the forest
near Targabali village under Gadapur Panchayat near Brahmanigaon
Police Station limits. The seized items included three powerful landmines
as well as electric wires, electrical switches and batteries used to
detonate landmines. A digital multi-meter was seized from the spot,
which was suspected to be used by Maoists for making the wiring of landmines.
A generator set was also unearthed from the spot.
The other seizure of Maoist explosive
materials occurred inside forest near Porkel under Orkel Police Station
limits in Malkangiri District. The seized items included gelatine sticks,
liquid and semi-liquid explosive chemicals, nitrates, wires etc used
by Maoists to manufacture IED. Other items seized from the spot included
air mattresses, Maoist literature and equipments like cameras used by
Maoists for logistic support.
A hardcore Maoist, Jihuda Patamajhi
(27) was arrested in Kandhamal District. Patamajhi, was bodyguard of
Nikhil, top leader of the Maoist group of OSOC now active in Kandhamal
after expulsion of Sabyasachi Panda from the Maoist organisation.
At least eight employees of a Hyderabad-based
private construction company were arrested after a huge cache of explosive
materials were seized in Malkangiri District.
September 18: Two powerful landmines,
weighing about 25 kilograms each, planted by CPI-Maoist were seized
by SFs from a road in a forest area near Tanginiguda near Boipariguda
Police station in Koraput District of Odisha.
A CPI-Maoist poster pasted at a high
school at Badbanki village in Tureikela block in Bolangir District in
Odisha, has caused panic and led to the school’s closure. The institution
has remained closed for the past 12 days, as teachers, parents and officials
did not dare to open the school, for fear that the Maoists would attack.
September 19: The Maoists killed a local
trader, identified as Sattar Khan, by hacking him to death at Nangalbaoard
in Sinapali area in Nuapada District, suspecting him to be a Police
informer. According to the Police, a group of about 25 Maoists, including
women, barged into the house of Sattar Khan and attacked him with sharp
weapons and rifle bayonet. A note left by the Maoists stated that Sattar
Khan was passing on information about Maoist activities to the Police.
Odisha Police arrested five persons
and seized around 6,000 detonators which was being transported in a
private bus at Lanji palli bypass road on the national highway in the
AOB region. The detonators were packed in two containers consisting
of 120 bundles. Each bundle had 50 detonators.
September 20: Rohidas Gond, an elected
tribal ward member of a Panchayat was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres
at Rajpur village in Nabarangpur District of Odisha. In a note left
at the scene, the Maoists branded him a Police informer. Mainpur division
of adjoining Chhattisgarh carried out the killing.
September 23: A landmine manufacturing
unit of the CPI-Maoist was unearthed by SFs near the remote Jhumuka
village under Bandhugaon Police Station limits in Koraput District.
Around 18 kg of explosive material in gel form, 28 large steel pots
called ‘gara’ and wires with plugs, a camera flash to detonate explosive
devices and a Maoist uniform were seized from the spot.
Acting on a tip off, Police arrested
a woman Maoist, Munguli Purti, during an anti-Maoist operation in forest
area of Topadihi in Sundargarh District.
September 20: Former Sarpanch
Mistu Khara and a Naib Sarpanch Raju Khara were abducted in Malkangiri
District of Odisha.
September 23: Armed CPI-Maoist cadres
set ablaze two vehicles of Mohd Rice, a contractor in Badtunga village
under Paikamal Police limits in Bargarh District of Odisha and threatened
him with dire consequences.
Seven village guards launched a search
for Former Sarpanch Mistu Khara and a Naib Sarpanch Raju Khara
but they were also taken hostage in Malkangiri District of Odisha. Five
of the village guards were later set free.
September 24: Two Maoists identified
as Rout Wadeda and Braja Sirika of Podapadar village under Narayanpatna
Police Limits surrendered in Koraput District of Odisha.
Two suspected Maoists, identified as
Mochi Lugun alias Mochi Munda (32) of Murusuan village and the
woman cadre Munikshi Munda alias Muni (30) of Jhirpani in Sundargarh
District, surrendered to the Police in Keonjhar District of Odisha.
The duos were operating in the Chhota Nagpur division of the CPI-Maoist
of Jharkhand.
September 25: Two village guards identified
as Manik Khilo and Jagabandhu Khilo were killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres
in the cut-off area of the Chitrakonda reservoir in Malkangiri District
of Odisha.
September 26: A CPI-Maoist ‘commander’
Srinath Brekbada alias Raju (21) was arrested during a joint
raid by the Rayagada District Police of Odisha and the CRPF. One landmine
and an SBML rifle were seized from the possession of the arrested Maoist.
He used to be the bodyguard of Maoist leader Azad.
The Koraput District Police and the
BSF arrested nine Maoist militia members in Bandhugaon block of the
Koraput District of Odisha. Of the nine arrested militia members, eight
were arrested from Elangvalasa village while one was arrested from Potesu
village.
Maoists released a former Sarpanch
and a Naib Sarpanch who were abducted from the Chitrakonda area
of the Malkangiri District of Odisha on September 20.
The Odisha Government has decided to
create an Auxiliary Police Force (APF) to regularise the services of
SPOs. “The government has decided to create an Auxiliary Police Force
to accommodate SPOs who have completed three years in service,” chief
secretary B K Patnaik said. Of the 4,000 SPOs, 1,791 have completed
three years in service.
September 27: Three persons, identified
as Badadural Gram Panchayat Sarpanch Vikram Krishani alias
Bhikari, Laxman Sisa and Sonu Pangi were arrested from Mathili in Malkangiri
District of Odisha, for their alleged links with CPI-Maoist. Two landmines
and one pistol were seized from the trio who were allegedly involved
in murder, encounter with SF personnel and other violence activities
in the area.
Gananath Patra, adviser of the Maoist-backed
CMAS of Narayanpatna block, was acquitted in a case pending against
him in Koraput District of Odisha. The case was related to the attack
on the Narayanpatna Police Station on September 20, 2009 in which two
cadres of CMAS Kendruka Singanna and Andrew Nachika died in Police firing.
September 28: SF personnel arrested
six CPI-Maoist cadres belonging to different Maoist outfits in Nabarangpur
and Ganjam Districts of Odisha. While the Police in Nabarangpur District
arrested Prafulla Kumar Chetti (32) of Hatabharandi, K Suresh Patnaik
(26) and Manoj Dakua (26), of Raighar area, the Police of Ganjam District
arrested Sanjiv Nayak, Debendra Nayak and his younger brother Madan
of Balinala village under Badagada Police Station limits. The Police
also seized 6.3 kg of explosive, cash of INR 63,000, five mobile phones,
Maoist literatures and banners from the three arrested Maoists in Nabarangpur
District. The three Maoists arrested by Ganjam Police were putting the
posters in market area of Badagada in the District.
Expelled Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda
who has gone on to form his own outfit, Odisha Maoist Party (OMP) has
ruled out any possibility of his giving up violence and returning to
the mainstream in the near future. In a seven-minute audio tape he released
to the media, the former CPI-Maoist leader said he would consider returning
to mainstream life once the Government stopped adopting "violent
methods to exploit and harass innocent poor people".
October 1: Two suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres were arrested during a combing operation by CRPF and Police personnel
inside the forest near Chhadakia village in Daringbadi area in Kandhamal
District of Odisha. Seven country-made guns, two soap case bombs, some
IEDs; two detonators and a bundle of wire were seized from the arrested
Maoists. Some other materials including Maoist uniform, caps and bags
were also recovered from the site.
October 4: Rajesh Mallick (30), a suspected
CPI-Maoist supporter, who was arrested by Police on July 6, 2010 and
was out on bail recently, was allegedly beaten to death by two of his
relatives and the body was thrown into the turbulent Padma river near
Pipalapanka in Ganjam District's Sorada Police Station limit. Though
Rajesh was killed on September 24, the incident came to light, after
Police arrested Bansi Mallick, uncle of the deceased who is one of the
two accused.
18 gram rakshis or village guards
of remote villages in Kudumulu Gumma block in Malkangiri District are
reported to have expressed their desire to resign due to threat from
Maoists. Copies of a common letter in which these guards have expressed
their desire to resign have reached media personnel in the District.
All of them are posted in villages of Panasput, Andrapali, and Jodamba
Gram Panchayats of the cut off area of Chitrakonda reservoir
under Chitrakonda Police Station limits.
October 8: A group of over 10 Maoists
disrupted a Palli Sabha (hamlet level body) meeting and detained
officials for several hours before freeing them in Kankurukonda panchayat
within Kalimela Police Station limits in Malkangiri District. Before
leaving the meeting spot, the Maoists handed over a list of their demands
to officials and freed them on a warning not to hold palli sabha meetings
again. The State Government is conducting Palli Sabha meetings
as a part of its state-wide campaign titled "gram sabha shashaktikaran
karyakram".
A petrol refill station manager was
arrested for providing logistic support to Maoists at Raighar in Nabarangpur
District. A Police team raided his house and also seized eight made
in China walkie-talkie sets and a few mobile sim cards meant for Maoist
cadres.
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Budda
Gumitanga (25) of Dangasorada panchayat under Chandrapur Police
Station limits, was arrested along with an IED, from Rupakana square
under Chandrapur Police Station in Rayagada District. Along with the
IED two detonators were also seized from his possession. Gumitanga was
an associate of Maoist leader Nikhil.
October 12: A 23-year-old third year
B.Tech student allegedly posed as a CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested in
Odisha's Mayurbhanj District for allegedly making extortion calls demanding
INR 1 million from a Lok Sabha member Laxman Tudu who represents Mayurbhanj
constituency.
October 16: The CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
three persons identified as Padiami Lachha and Kunjami Singh and a student,
identified as Ramesh Salda from Budaguda village under Kalimela Police
Station in Malkangiri District.
October 17: Gram sabhas
could not be held in four panchayats of Malkangiri District due
to threat of Maoists.
A joint team of DVF and CRPF arrested
a Maoist, identified as Sanatan Deep (30), during a combing operation
in Arhwal reserve forest range of Paikamal in Bargarh District.
All the three persons abducted by Maoists
under Kalimela Police Station area in Malkangiri District, were released.
The trio had been abducted from Budaguda village in the District in
the night of October 16.
October 18: A group of around 20 cadres
of the CPI-Maoist killed Bhagaban Naik (40) a gramrakhi of Girliput
village under Boipariguda Police Station in Koraput District of Odisha,
two days after the Maoists had abducted him from his village. The Macchkund
dalam of the CPI-Maoist, which claimed responsibility for the
offensive, said in a letter left at the crime spot the gramrakhi
was slain for acting as a Police informer.
October 20: The CPI-Maoist cadres were
suspected to have abducted four persons, including a gramrakhi,
in separate incidents in Malkangiri and Koraput Districts of Odisha.
October 21: A tribal civilian, identified
as Gumpha Kadraka (50), was killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres under Bandhugaon
Police Station area in Koraput District of Odisha. Maoist Posters left
on the spot claimed that the deceased had been killed as he was a Police
informer.
Maoists are reported to have launched
a massive recruitment drive in Malkangiri and Koraput District where
sustained Police operations had depleted their cadre strength.
October 23: After keeping three persons
as hostage for three days, the CPI-Maoist cadres freed them near Patraput
in Koraput District. Those released are, gramrakhi (village guard)
Lachhman Pangi, a former Maoist cadre Daya Challan and L S Jagan. While
Pangi and Challan were abducted by the Maoists from Mudulipada Police
limits in Malkangiri District, the Maoists had abducted Jagan from Onakadelli
in Koraput District on October 20.
October 25: Commercial vehicles in Narayanpatna
area of Koraput District and Kalyansinghpur area of Rayagada District
stayed off the roads, due to a state wide shutdown called by the CPI-Maoist
against the Union Government's economic policy, particularly hiking
diesel prices and putting a cap on subsidised cooking gas cylinders.
A CPI-Maoist poster, found in Lakhna
area in Nuapada District, threatened to kill SP of Bolangir, Nuapada
and Bargarh Districts. The poster, while dissuading people not to help
Police launch combing operations in the area, said the SPs of the three
Districts deserve death punishment. Sources said the Maoists have planned
to call a bandh in the three Districts on November 5 for which
they have sought help from locals.
October 27: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a village head by slitting his throat for not heeding to their diktats
in Malkangiri District of Odisha. Around 50 Maoists lifted Pandu Madkami
(50) of Parsanpalli under Padia Police Station when he was sleeping
in his house and slit his throat at a nearby place.
Around 40 Maoists swooped down on the
worksite of a contractor at MPV-22, near Kangrukonda and set ablaze
a vehicle engaged in bridge construction work of Rural Development Department
in Malkangiri District.
The CPI-Maoist have formed a new unit,
Chhattisgarh-Odisha Border Committee (COBC), to strengthen their operation
across the border areas of the two States and counter the expelled Maoist
leader Sabyasachi Panda's new party. According to sources, the newly
formed Maoist unit has prepared its blueprint to counter Panda in the
areas of Kandhamal, Gajapati, Rayagada and Ganjam District. Around 60
persons have been engaged in the mission.
October 29: About 40 BSF troopers and
Policemen had a narrow escape when a landmine planted by the CPI-Maoist
cadres exploded during the clearance of a road blockade at Erakonda
in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
October 30: Bipin Kumar Sahani alias
Lambu, 'area commander' of Bhalulata-Digha region of the CPI-Maoist
was arrested by the Rourkela Police during a combing operation in Tala
Ginia area in Sundargarh District of Odisha. A German-made revolver
and three rounds of bullets were recovered from him.
November 1: A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Abraham Singh alias Siladitya, was arrested during a joint
operation by the personnel of CRPF and the personnel of Badagada Police
Station near his village Balinala in Ganjam District of Odisha. Some
Maoist posters were recovered from his possession.
November 2: Police arrested four suspected
Maoists for their links with the CPI-Maoist in Bolangir District. The
suspects were identified as Ram Singh Bariha, a panchayat samiti
member in Tureikela block, and his two sons, Debraj and Ganesh.
The fourth, Tulsiram Jagat, was a social worker in Khaparakhol block.
Police recovered INR 150,000 from them.
Maoist posters were found pasted in
several villages of Nuapada District. Police said the posters were put
up by Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda alias Sunil, urging villagers
not to support Telugu Maoists. The posters alleged that Telugu cadres
were exploiting Odia villagers. Every poster was signed by Sunil of
Odisha Maobadi Party.
November 3: A group of 30 armed CPI-Maoist
cadres barged into the house of one Murali Meher of Rengali village
in Khaparakhol block in Bolangir District of Odisha and gunned him down.
The Maoists left a leaflet at the spot, saying that the deceased was
a liquor trader and Police informer.
Following the incident, the Police began
a combing operation in the nearby forest of San Banjipali village in
the District and spotted a Maoist camp. After a brief exchange of fire,
the Maoists fled. The Police recovered two tiffin bombs, gelatine packets,
detonators, live wires, two tents, medicines, clothes and utensils from
the spot.
Maoists set ablaze five tractors, one
JCB and a mixture machine at Palli Munda village in the Paikmal Police
Station in Bargarh District.
DGP Dinesh Reddy while speaking to media
after inaugurating the CRPF barracks at Kailasagiri in Visakhapatnam
District said, 15 helicopters would be deployed soon to track and flush
out Maoists from the dense forests of AOB which is one of their strongholds
in the country after the Dandakaranya region in Chhattisgarh. The DGP
said the UAV would be available for full-fledged operations within three-four
months.
November 14: Three months after Sabyasachi
Panda was expelled from the CPI-Maoist, five cadres of the Panda-led
OMP were killed and a few others were injured during an encounter at
Bhaliagada forest in Gobindpur Panchayat area under Mohana Police
Station limits in Gajapati District. One person was arrested following
the encounter.
Ganjam District, SP, Ashish Singh said
Police seized four country-made guns, two 9 mm pistols, around 80 kg
of explosives and 35 rounds of live cartridges from the spot.
SFs unearthed explosive materials belonging
to CPI-Maoists in Kandhamal and Koraput Districts of Odisha during separate
combing operations. The items seized from Samna village under Narayanpatna
Block, Koraput District, included 129 gelatine sticks, 15 metres of
codex wire and 20 metres of flexible wire, one tiffin bomb, maps, a
steel container used to prepare IED, materials of day to day use, Maoist
uniforms, leaflets and literature. Kandhamal District SP Jayanarayan
Pankaj said that they seized three land mines, of the size of 20, 15
and five kg respectively, in a forest near Singaranga village.
November 16: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre,
Sushila alias Toda alias Sumita Mallick, working for the
Ghumusar Division of the extremists, surrendered before the SP of Ganjam
District, Asish Singh.
November 17: A hardcore CPI-Maoist cadre,
identified as Raja Rao Hontal (35) of Phulpadar village within Chitrakonda
Police limits, surrendered before Police in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
November 19: Cadres of CPI-Maoist killed
a tribal civilian, Bhima Sisha (35), at Sishaput village under Mudulipada
Police Station in Malkangiri District at midnight.
November 20: Security was tightened
across Odisha in view of the bandh call given by CPI-Maoist and
Sabyasachi Panda-led OMP, protesting against the recent encounter of
five Maoists at Bhaliaguda in Gajapati District. While Panda called
for state-wide bandh, the Bansadhara Division of the CPI-Maoist
called for bandh in four Southern Districts of Ganjam, Gajapati,
Kandhamal and Rayagada to protest against the November 14 encounter.
The four Maoists, who were arrested
in the Bhaliaguda jungles on the Ganjam-Gajapati District border, confirmed
injuries to the expelled Maoist Sabyasachi Panda and some other members
of his group in the exchange of fire with SF personnel on November 14.
The bandh call given by OMP and
CPI-Maoist in Odisha had partial response. Some commercial vehicle remained
off the road in some places of Gajapati, Rayagada, Ganjam, Koraput and
Kandhamal Districts fearing attacks.
November 22: Two aides of Sabyasachi
Panda, Chief of OMP, identified as Dedy alias Samasan Mallick
(25) and his associate Aruan Sonamaji (22) of Kandahamal Distrct, surrendered
before SP, Asish Kumar Singh, at Chhatrapur, in Ganjam District.
DGP, Odisha, Prakash Mishra said Maoist
activities have been contained in the State and the menace was now confined
only to five Districts.
November 24: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a gram rakhi, identified as Goura Chandra, in Koraput
District, suspecting him to be a Police Informer.
Six gram rakhis (village guards)
working in Boipariguda region of Koraput District have resigned in the
last three days. While three village guards of Boipariguda put in their
papers on November 24, three from Batriput, Kathopoda and Koraput resigned
on November 25.
November 25: Two CPI-Maoist cadres,
identified as Lingama Habika (35), a top leader, and Kameya Habika (30),
allegedly involved in the abduction of Laxmipur Member of Legislative
Assembly (MLA), Jhina Hikaka, were arrested in Narayanpatna Block of
Koraput District.
OMP Chief and expelled CPI-Maoist leader
Sabyasachi Panda through an audio statement condemned the hanging of
Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab and further said that he has kept open
the door for talks with the government.
CPI-Maoist cadres stopped 'vulgar' dance
performance and assaulted the organisers of the show in Malkangiri District
of Odisha. The Police said dancers from Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
were dancing 'semi-nude' at "Jagadhatri Puja" (local deity)
celebrations at MPV-12 village when about 20 Maoists stormed the show
and assaulted 15 persons including the organisers who were Bangladeshi
settlers.
November 27: A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Dalu Mandingi (32), was arrested by BSF personnel during a combing
operation in Narayanpatna block in Koraput District.
Three Maoists, identified as Laxman
Raita alias Patu of Tudukapanka village in Gajapati
District, and two women cadres, Mamita Gamang alias Manjula
and Ester Raita alias Mamata of Patasala village in
the same district, associated with Sabyasachi Panda led OMP, surrendered
before the Ganjam, SP, Ashis Kumar Singh at Chhatrapur.
In Odisha 780 Gram Rakhis working
across Koraput District threatened to resign en masse if the Government
doesn’t act on their three-point charter of demands like provision of
payment `10,000 for cremation and `10 lakh as ex-gratia and employment
to any of the family members in case of death.
November 29: SF personnel recovered
a secret dump belonging to CPI-Maoist cadres during a Joint Combing
Operation by the District Police, SOG and CRPF in Badabanga forest near
Kerubadi in Daringbadi Police Station area of Kandhamal District.
November 30: The CPI-Maoist put up posters
in Koraput and Malkangiri Districts ahead of the PLGA week starting
December 2.
December 2: Vehicular movement was badly
hit in the CPI-Maoist dominated areas of Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur
and Rayagada Districts on the first day of PLGA week.
The Koraput District Police have started
awareness-building measures to allay fears of village guards or ‘gram
rakshis’. In the past one week, several village guards from Baipariguda
block of Koraput District have expressed their desire to resign due
to fear of Maoists.
December 3: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
the battery rooms of two mobile towers at Boipariguda in Koraput District.
During the PLGA week, the Maoists have
also launched a publicity campaign by plastering the walls of towns
and villages in Malkangiri, Koraput and Gajapati Districts with “revolutionary”
posters. The posters urged the people to support Maoists’ war against
Odisha. One of the posters said the PLGA would soon be renamed as PLA
(Peoples Liberation Army).
The State Government has spent close
to INR 3 billion on for taking both long term and short term actions
to fight Maoists during past three years, according to reply furnished
by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the State Assembly in Bhubaneswar.
Patnaik also replied that situation was improving in Naxal-afflicted
Districts due to strong actions taken by Security Forces. “Districts
such as Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Nayagarh, Deogarh, Mayurbhanj, Sambalpur
and Gajapati Districts have not witnessed any Maoist violence this year
while ultras were active in Koraput, Malkangiri, Nuapada, Bolangir,
Bargarh, Kalahandi and Nabarangpur District,” he informed. Patnaik said
as many as 10 LWEs were killed while 137 Maoists and their supporters
were arrested by the Police this year.
December 4: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Jadu Rai Soi alias Chamara (36) and Bijay Honhaga alias Rakesh
(30) of Jharkhand, and close aides of senior Maoist leader Samarji,
surrendered before the Rourkela Police in Sundargarh District.
SF personnel arrested three Maoists,
including two women cadres, identified as Tulsa Praska alias Sunita
(23), Relini Mandingi (24) and Uje Sirika (35), all residents of Narayanpatna
Block, following a raid on a camp in dense forests of Narayanpatna in
Koraput District. Police seized huge materials used by Maoists including
a county made gun and musical instruments of Jana Natya Mandali.
Representatives of gramrakshis from
Maoist-infested areas of undivided Koraput District deferred their mass
resignation after holding discussion with DIG, South-West range S. Devadutta
Singh on November 04. Around 150 gramrakshis met at Nisanimunda
which was also attended by the General Secretary of Nikhila Utkala Gram
Rakkhi Sangh, Fakir Mohan Mallik.
SF personnel intensified anti-Maoist
combing operation in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon areas of Koraput District
since November 3, with the extremists observing the PLGA week from December
2.
December 5: Gajapati Police in Odisha
arrested Kailash Mandal and Sangram Mohanty, son of Maoist sympathiser
and Jan Adhikar Manch convener Dandapani Mohanty, with
weapons and Maoist literature apart from some cash near Kamlapur Square
in Mohana in Gajapati District. The arms seized from Sangram included
two US-made revolvers, 95 rounds of 7.62 ball ammunition and 500 gram
explosive materials.
December 6: The CPI-Maoist cadres pasted
posters at various places within Boipariguda Police limits asking the
locals of Boipariguda tehsil in Koraput District, working in
Odisha Police and Central Forces, to resign from their jobs.
The traffic movement in several LWE-affected
pockets of Koraput, Rayagada and Malkangiri Districts was hit following
the PLGA week [December 2 – 8].
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Hira
Pangi of Palankarai village, involved in many violent activities, was
arrested by the BSF troopers and SOG personnel in a joint raid conducted
at his house, along with huge quantity of arms and ammunition at Paparmetela
in Malkangiri District. The arms and ammunition recovered included two
tiffin bombs, one pipe bomb, five electronic detonators, four gas cylinders,
12 sets of bows and arrows, explosive materials and some fuse wire used
to blast the landmines.
Maoist interlocutor Dandapani Mohanty’s
son, Sangram Mohanty went on hunger strike in R Udaygiri Sub-jail in
Gajapati District, protesting his arrest by the Police.
December 10: Police arrested Basanta
Ram, an 'area commander' of the PLFI, a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist,
from Rourkela in Sundargarh District.
At least 47 IAS and 82 IPS officers'
posts are lying vacant in the State against the sanctioned strength
of 226 IAS and 188 IPS posts respectively, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
informed the State Assembly.
December 12: An activist of the Maoist-backed
CMAS of Narayanpatna block of Koraput District, identified as Dumuri
Miniaka (35), was arrested during a joint operation by the District
Police and CRPF from Bajragada area under Rayagada Police Station in
Rayagada District.
December 17: The CPI-Maoist Central
leadership handed over the responsibilities of AOBSZC to the senior-most
commander among the present lot, Gajarla Ravi alias Uday alias
Ganesh alias Charcharla Ganesh, giving much needed rest to Central
Committee member Akkiraju Haragopal alias Ramakrishna alias
RK.
SF personnel engaged in anti-CPI-Maoist
operations recovered a huge arms dump in Musilimunda forest in Narayanpatna
block of Koraput District.
December 19: BSF personnel recovered
four big iron pipes used to make claymore mines, about 40 kilograms
of gun powder and a few metres of wires belonging to CPI-Maoist, during
a combing operation inside Sapalguda forest in Narayanpatna block of
Koraput District.
December 20: Four powerful landmines
were recovered by SF personnel from an abandoned CPI-Maoist camp at
Nipapidi forest in Ganjam District.
December 22: BSF jawans recovered seven
landmines and explosives materials during a combing operation from Mankindi
forest in Narayanpatna Block.
December 23: The CPI-Maoist reacted
strongly to the media statement of Jana Adhikar Manch convener
Dandapani Mohanty that the government had paid INR 60 million to Maoists
for the release of Laxmipur MLA, Jhina Hikaka, and former Malkangiri
DM R. Vineel Krishna from their captivity.
To avert a possible clash between tribals
and non-tribals, Koraput District Administration clamped prohibitory
orders under CrPC 144 at Podapadar and its peripheral areas under Maoist-hit
Narayanpatna block.
December 27: One personnel of SOG was
injured when a landmine planted by CPI-Maoist cadres exploded, at Sanadengli
village under Kalyansinghpur Police Station in Rayagada District.
December 28: The SF personnel unearthed
a CPI-Maoist arms dump between Kumbari and Narikeluva village of Narayanapatna
block in Koraput District.
December 29: Basudev Bhoi, a Left Wing
Extremist (LWE) and an aide of Sabyasachi Panda, the leader of the Odisha
Maobadi Party (OMP) surrendered before Police in Kandhamal District.
Bhoi from Kandhamal's Kambanaju village had joined the OMP about eight
months ago and received gun training in a Maoist camp. But he escaped
from a Maoist camp just two days before the encounter at Bhaliaguda
on November 14.
December 30: Prakash Mishra, the Director
General of Police (DGP), dismissed rumours that any top Maoist leader
was still present in the State, and claimed that Maoist problem in the
State would be under control in the next two years. The DGP said in
Rourkela (Sundergarh District), “All the Maoist leaders are from outside
Odisha. Sabyasachi Panda (is) not a big leader as such. His position
in the Maoist set up is known to all." The DGP claimed that out
of the 17 Maoist-affected Districts in Odisha, eight have been freed
from Maoist activities and now the focus would be on the rest. In the
coming days the forces would concentrate on Districts including Bolangir,
Bargarh, Nabrangpur, Gajapati and Rayagada, however the main thrust
would be on Koraput and Malkanagiri. Mishra further said, "Efforts
are on to enhance the staff by inducting more constable level personnel."
Present strength of Odisha Police is 60,000 which was doubled from 30,000
a few years back but main thrust is to create more armed personnel keeping
in view Maoists problem.
December 31: Two CPI-Maoist cadres,
identified as Shrabana Gardanaka and Picha Gagaranda, were arrested
while planting landmines on Siriguda-Gumi road in Rayagada District
during a combing operation. They were close to Maoist leaders
Gobind and Nikhil. Police recovered two landmines weighing around eight
kilograms each, 50 metres of live wire and two electronic detonators
from them.
Suspected Maoists attempted to set ablaze
two towers of private telecom companies at Ganjam's Ashurabandh village.
Police recovered two hand-written posters from the spot. However, the
towers have not been damaged.
Punjab
August 19: Punjab Police confirmed the
arrest of Manvir Singh alias Kedi alias Lajpat Rai, a Maoist
working with top leader Jaiprakash Dubey, and was absconding since 2009,
from Muktsar in Phillaur in Jalandhar District of Punjab.
September 25: The remand of Daljit Singh
Bittu, Shiromani Akali Dal (Panch Pardhani) leader, was produced in
the court for having connections with the CPI-Maoist cadres of Jharkhand,
Bihar and Chhattisgarh and for being regularly in touch with them over
phone. The court extended his Police remand by two days.
Rajasthan
July 28: An ASI of the intelligence
department of Rajasthan Police sent his resignation letter to authorities
citing threat to his life by the CPI-Maoist. According to the ASI, his
reports about activities of the Maoists in villages adjoining Chhattisgarh,
was leaked by certain Police officials to Maoists elements even before
it reached the Police Headquarters in Jaipur following which he began
receiving threats from the Maoists. An inquiry into the whole episode
has been ordered.
Uttar Pradesh
January 23: A top CPI-Maoist cadre,
Samjhawan Chero, carrying a cash reward of INR 112,000 on his head,
has been arrested in Harriya under Robertsganj Police Station area in
Sonebhadra District following an encounter in which three Policemen
were also injured. The SFs arrested Samjhawan Chero after a two-hour-long
encounter. Some other Maoists, Munna Vishkarma, Lalbrat Kol, Ajit Kol
and Mangal Chero among others, managed to escape under the cover of
darkness. One hand-grenade, one Government rifle, one DBBL gun, a country-made
revolver, 146 empty cartridges and 50 live cartridges were recovered
from the arrested Maoist.
February 13: In 2010-11, several bunds
and check-dams were built in Jugail gram panchayat with INR 13.I
million from MGNREGS funds. Since then, most of these have been washed
away or developed large cracks. And many of those who worked on the
construction are still waiting for their wages.
February 15: Around 57.25 per cent voters
cast their votes in the third phase of polling held in 56 Assembly constituencies
of Uttar Pradesh. Significantly, maximum polling was reported from the
CPI-Maoist affected Districts of Chandauli (62.5 per cent) and Mirzapur
(62.4 per cent). Another Maoist affected District Sonbhadra polled 58.25
per cent votes.
April 3: A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Ram Kewal alias Guddu Oraon, was arrested following an encounter
near Patwadh village under Chopan Police Station limits in Sonbhadra
District. Guddu who had taken shelter in this village tried to escape
and was arrested along with a country-made revolver and live cartridges.
Police said that Guddu belonged to Bhabhua District in Bihar and was
operating with 'commander' Munna Vishwakarma.
May 8: Acting on a tip-off that CPI-Maoist
cadres were purchasing bulk SIM cards from a gang of miscreants on fake
identification proofs, crime branch of Lucknow Police busted a SIM supplying
racket, arresting two persons. The crime branch sleuths also recovered
over three-dozen activated SIM cards and 82 customer application forms
from their possession. The arrested persons were identified as Ram Kumar
Kannaujia, a resident of Bazaarkhala Police Station area and Kapil Dixit,
a resident of Alambagh Police Station area.
May 24: Munna Vishwakarma, a self-styled
'zonal commander' of Sone Ganga Vindhyachal Zonal Committee (SGVZC)
of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested by the Police and the CRPF following
a gunbattle after receiving a tip-off about his presence in the Kanch
forest area of Sonebhadra District. Another Maoist leader, identified
as Ajit Kole alias Harishankar alias Abhishek, was also
arrested, Sonebhadra Superintendent of Police Sri Krishna said. A large
quantity of arms and ammunition including, four rifles, two pistols
and a walkie-talkie set, has been recovered, Police said.
Vishwakarma was wanted in about 24 cases
registered against him in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and carried a cash
reward of INR 300,000 on his head. Kole carrying a reward of INR 50,
000 has about 20 cases registered against him, Police said.
May 29: The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested
a Maoist leader after ambushing a group of Maoists in a forest in Chopan
area of Sonebhadra District. The Maoist leader identified as Lalvrat
Kol alias Kamalji carried an award of INR 100, 000
on his head. A carbine and ammunition were seized from his possession.
December 19: Charges were framed against
20 accused in the Jnaneswari Express derailment case in which 148 passengers
were killed on May 28, 2010.
Tamil Nadu
February 20: The Q branch of Tamil Nadu
Police arrested a CPI-Maoist State committee member, Manivasakam, near
Thanjavur. Manivasakam had been absconding since 2008.
April 9: Following the finding of suspected
training centres of CPI-Maoist in Karnataka in March 2012, the Tamil
Nadu Police, including STF, Q branch and District Police, have launched
a combing operation in the Western Ghats. Police teams from 12 Districts
are involved in the combing operation in the hilly terrain.
April 23: Tamil Nadu is free of any
extremist menace, especially Naxalism, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa
said in the State Assembly. She stated, “We have no fear of Naxals or
extremists at all here and we are head and shoulders above all other
States in the country in this regard”.
May 19: The ‘Q' branch of Tamil Nadu
Police arrested J. Vivek alias Balan (46), State secretary of
the CPI-Maoist, from Shenoy Nagar. However, Padma alias Sathyamary
(37), who belongs to the women's empowerment wing of the CPI-Maoist
managed to escape. Padma was last apprehended by police in 2008. “Padma
was on her way to West Bengal as part of a fact finding team. She was
nabbed by police then. After that incident, there has been no news about
her,” added the police source. Vivek was allegedly involved in arms
training organised by the Maoists in Periyakulam, Theni District in
2007.
June 7: J. Vivek alias Balan
(46), State secretary of the CPI-Maoist, has embarked on a hunger strike
since June 6 inside Cuddalore Central Prison in support of his demands.
Vivek, allegedly involved in arms training at Periyakulam in Theni District
in 2007, was nabbed by the ‘Q' branch sleuths at Shenoy Nagar in Chennai
on May 19. He was lodged in a Madurai jail and, on May 21, shifted to
Cuddalore Central Prison. Ever since he was brought to Cuddalore, he
has been complaining to the jail authorities about the lack of freedom
to move around in the prison and “inadequate” breakfast.
October 6: Chennai City Police arrested
13 persons including a woman who are suspected to be part of a banned
outfit, Makkal Jananayaga Kudiyarasu Katchi. Police sources said
the group including prime suspects Palani alias Manickam (48),
Duraisingavel (51), both from Kundrathur and Baskar (40) from Minjur
along with a woman member Ragini (40) and nine other men gathered in
the building of a private school in Neelakandan Salai in Kundrathur
on the day.
December 11: The Andhra Pradesh Police
arrested a Naxalite, identified as Peda Mallu Swami, a former dalam
'commander' of a Local Guerrilla Squad of the erstwhile PWG, in Chennai
in Tamil Nadu.
West Bengal
January 2: The State Police’s recruitment
drive in CPI-Maoist-affected Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore Districts
has received a strong response. The Government has fast forwarded
the process of recruitment of constables and home guards in the wake
of the killing of Maoist politburo member Mallojula Koteswara Rao on
November 24, 2011. According to official records, in 28 Police Stations
across Bankura, West Midnapore and Purulia districts, 93,285 tribal
men and women have submitted forms for the post of special Police Constable.
The government in its notification issued in September announced that
5,000 youths will be recruited as special police constables while another
5,000 to be recruited as national volunteer force.
January 12: Four CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered
before CM Mamata Banerjee in Jhargram in West Midnapore District. The
four surrendered cadres are identified as Lambodar Majhi, Bhajohari
Mahato and Karan Kaibarta and Sukhdev Mahato. While was involved in
Maoist activities in the West Midnapore District, the other three were
active in Purulia District. The Maoists surrendered at an event marking
the culmination of a two-day youth festival organised by the State Government
on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
January 14: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
announced that her Government would prepare an employment bank for the
youth in Junglemahal comprising three Maoist-hit districts of West Midnapore,
Purulia and Bankura. She promised that development would help her gain
political and administrative control in the Maoist-hit regions. Mamata,
who recently went to Jhargram to join the 'Junglemahal Festival', coughed
up INR.25, 000 each for 710 football clubs that participated in the
yearlong football tournament in the troubled forest belt. More than
INR.4 crore was used from Government coffers to wean the people away
from extremism.
January 17: From paying off an ailing
father's medical bills and eliminating sworn enemies to death threats
- the CPI-Maoist resorts to every tactics to rope in new recruits. And
if the accounts of four surrendered Maoists are any indication, it's
everything but ideology that forced them to take up arms against their
own people. Squad members Lombodar Majhi, Bhojohari Mahato, Karan Koiborto
and Sukdeb Mahato had surrendered before Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
in Jhargram on January 12 and were allowed by police to speak to the
media in Midnapore on January 16. They said they were quickly disillusioned
with the Maoists.
One of the main accused in the derailment
of the Jnaneswari Express that claimed 148 lives on May 28, 2010, identified
as Joydeb Mahato, was arrested from West Midnapore District. A District
Police officer said the leader of CPI-Maoist-backed PCPA was arrested
near Midnapore town by a joint team of West Bengal Police and CID. The
CBI had announced a reward of INR 100, 000 for any information to capture
Mahato alive. Joydeb is the fourth top functionary of the organisation.
January 19: The CPI-Maoist has for the
first time admitted that the death of its politburo member Mallojula
Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji has dealt a heavy blow to the outfit
and called upon the youth to join the outfit. Kishanji was killed in
an armed encounter with the Joint Forces in Jungle Mahal in West Bengal
on November 24, 2011. In a release circulated among some TV channels,
the CPI-Maoist central committee said that Kishanji's killing in Jungle
Mahal had come as ''a great blow'' to the organisation and appealed
to the youth to join the outfit ''to fulfill Kishenji's cherished dream''.
The central committee asked its State unit in West Bengal to initiate
efforts to draw more youth to the organisation.
January 21: The Police claimed to have
uncovered a CPI-Maoist plot to target the Nimpura Police Camp near the
Indian Air Force base at Kalaikunda in West Midnapore District as “revenge”
for Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji’s death. According
to sources, some documents including the “blueprint” of the plot were
recovered when the Police, acting on a specific tip-off, raided a Maoist
shelter at Akrashol village in Jhargram in the night of January 20.
Nobody has been arrested so far.
January 24: Md Khaleque alias
Bablu, reportedly a close aide of State secretary Akash of the CPI-Maoist
of West Bengal and Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji, was
arrested from village Khokra near Harishchandrapur in Maldah District.
Bablu was reportedly the prime suspect in the killing of CPI-M supporter
Sridam Das (49), of Dubrajpur on April 22 of 2008 and Primary school
teacher and CPI-M leader Nandalal Mistri (53), of Rajnagar village of
Birbhum District on September 22, 2011.
January 29: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a worker of the TMC party in Jhargram area in West Midnapore
District. The worker was picked up by the Maoists late in the night
from his home and was shot dead. Namita Mahato, a local woman, said
that the body of the TMC worker was found near the railway tracks.
February 4: The STF of Kolkata Police
arrested a senior member of the RPF, the political front of the Manipur-based
PLA; from the Maidan area in Kolkata, for his alleged links with the
CPI-Maoist in West Bengal. Dhiren Singh alias Raghu alias
Macha (37), was living in South Kolkata posing as a medical representative,
an unnamed senior STF officer said. The Police recovered 30 rounds of
live cartridges of 7.62 bore from him. "He was supplying arms and sophisticated
communication sets to Maoists for the past two years," the officer said.
"Dhiren is the self-styled captain of the PLA. He had been travelling
across West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh for the past three years,
with Kolkata as his base, for fixing deals with the Maoists," an STF
source said.
February 5: A CPI-Maoist 'squad leader',
Yudhistir Mahato alias Arjun, was killed during an encounter
with joint SFs in Jamtal forest in West Midnapore District. Yudhistir
Mahato was killed when SFs purportedly opened retaliatory fire after
Maoists attacked them during the combing operation in the area.
February 7: A CPI-Maoist couple, identified
as Chiranjit Mahato alias Nirmal Mahato alias Lambu and
his wife Anima Mahato alias Usha, surrendered to the West Midnapore
District Police. Chiranjit primarily operated in Madhupur and Kanta
Pahari area of Lalgarh. Anima was part of the armed group led by Badal.
February 8: After getting information
from two surrendered CPI-Maoist cadres Chiranjit Mahato and his wife
Anima Mahato, the Police recovered 11 landmines, 10 kilograms of explosives,
several detonators, Maoist posters and leaflets and other material needed
to make landmines from Kanyabali forest at Salboni in West Midnapore
District.
February 9: Phulmani alias Bela,
a female squad member of the CPI-Maoist was arrested by the joint SFs
from Jangalmahal region under the Lalgarh Police Thana area in West
Midnapore District.
February 11: The joint SFs launched
an operation against CPI-Maoist in the forest belt near Jharkhand border
in West Midnapore District. Combined forces of CRPF, SAP, and CoBRA
troopers began inching towards Kanaisol Hills, 15-20 kilometres from
Belpahari Police Station, close to the inter-state boundary, Police
sources said. The operation was launched after the administration put
up posters in several parts of the belt with pictures of seven 'area
commanders' of CPI-Maoist, urging them to come forward and lay down
arms.
One person identified as Sahadeb Hansda
(28), an alleged Maoist linkman, was arrested from Bikrampur village
under Simlapal Police Station in Bankura District.
In an attempt to persuade members of
the CPI-Maoist to lay down arms and prevent their movement in the Maoist-affected
Jangalmahal region of West Bengal, the State Police have put up posters
with the photographs of seven prominent Maoist leaders in the Jhargram
area in West Midnapore District. Each poster has the name and photograph
of an important Maoist leader, including the party's State secretary
Akash, squad 'commander' Bikash, Suchitra Mahato, Tara and Jayanto,
with a message urging them to join the mainstream.
February 12: An encounter took place
between SFs and CPI-Maoist cadres in a forest in West Midnapore District.
Following intelligence input that a group of Maoists from Bandwan and
Odisha had come to Gopiballavpur to hold a meeting, a team of SFs raided
the area. There was no report of any injury or casualty during the 20-minute-long
encounter, said Jhargram SP Gaurav Sharma. "After the initial firing,
the Maoists seemed to have fled away to Odisha. We found a bag and a
polythene sheet," he added.
February 18: Speaking at the inauguration
of the Regional Hub of National Security Guard at Badu in the State's
North 24 Parganas District, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram lauded
the efforts of the newly elected State Government for bringing Maoist
activity under considerable control.
February 26: Two persons seated on the
roof of a bus were hit by bullets fired by the CPI-Maoist cadres at
Purnapani in West Midnapore District. Later, the Maoists abducted one
of them.
February 29: Sadanala Ramakrishna alias
RK, stated to be the head of the Central Technical Committee of the
CPI-Maoist, was arrested in Kolkata. Four other Maoist cadres were also
arrested. A city court remanded all the five in Police custody till
March 13. Ramakrishna had been arrested along with associate Dipak Kumar,
a resident of Chhattisgarh, from the College Street area. The three
others - Sukumar Mondal, Bapi Mudi and Sambhu Charan Pal, all said to
be residents of the State - were arrested from the Beniapukur area and
seized materials used in making rocket launchers and other explosives
from a workshop in the same area. The accused were involved in acquisition
and manufacture of firearms, rocket launchers and grenades. They supplied
firearms to Maoist outfits across the country. "Subversive documents",
Maoist literature, drawings of machine parts and INR 500, 000 in cash
were seized from the accused. Twenty-five pieces of six-holed metal
sockets used in making rocket launchers were recovered from the Beniapukur
workshop.
Mumbai Police arrested Aswin Kumar Bhattacharya
from Mumbai. Bhattacharya, a senior member of the CPI-Maoist, is also
a part of the arms supply chain, said Police sources.
March 4: Based on the information provided
by five CPI-Maoist cadres who were arrested on February 29 in a joint
operation of West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh Police, STF officers of
Kolkata Police raided an apartment in Birati, located in the eastern
fringe of the city, and seized INR 3.5 million in cash, instruments
used for manufacturing rocket-launchers, and some Maoist documents.
March 8: In a surprising revelation,
the STF and IB officers interrogating five arrested CPI-Maoist learnt
that the Maoist movement in Chhattisgarh is mainly controlled from various
parts of the city. "Kolkata not only provides the logistics, financial
and other support to their counterparts in Chhattisgarh but it also
arranges for a safe hideout for important national level leaders. As
per our information, at least three to four Central Committee members
live in the city throughout the year," a top STF officer said.
March 9: Senior female CPI-Maoist action
squad 'commander' Suchitra Mahato (35), a close aide of killed CPI-Maoist
Politburo member Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji, surrendered
in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, along with her newly
married husband Prabir Gorai at the State Secretariat in Kolkata.
March 13: The Kolkata Police approached
a Court in Kolkata to frame charges against Sadanala Ramakrishna alias
RK, the head of the Central Technical Committee of the CPI-Maoist, and
four other members of the outfit, arrested on March 1, under the UAPA.
March 20: Joint SF's found a laptop
and a printer, believed to be used by the CPI-Maoist leader Mallojula
Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji just hours before his death. Six
powerful IEDs and more than 150 kilogram of explosives, detonators and
some ammunition were also seized from the hideout in Kushaboni forest
of Jhargram in West Midnapore District.
March 31: The Jharkhand and West Bengal
Police launched a combing operation in East Singhbhum District on the
border between two States on information that a Maoist squad was in
the area. "We have launched a massive combing operation jointly with
the CRPF at Amdapahari under Naxal-hit Patamda Police Station bordering
West Bengal for the Maoist squad," SSP Akhilesh Kumar Jha said. The
Jharkhand Police was engaged in the operation in the State and the West
Bengal Police was combing in the bordering area of Bandwan in Purulia
District.
April 23: Mangal Mahato, a leader of
the PCPA, a frontal organisation of the CPI-Maoist, was shot dead by
unidentified assailants in the West Midnapore District. The bullet-
ridden body of Mahato was found in the morning near Banstala railway
station in the Jhargram sub-division of the District.
May 4: A hardcore cadre of the CPI-Maoist,
who supplied arms to other extremists, has been arrested by the Special
Task Force of Kolkata Police, sources said. Ajay Chanda, known as Jhulan
in Maoist circles, was caught from Esplanade bus stand a few days ago,
after which a city court remanded him to police custody for 14 days.
During interrogation, Ajay who hails from Burdwan District admitted
that he had links with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and was a
key man in bringing arms for Maoist activities from outside. STF sources
said based on leads from his statement, they have raided many places
in the city and adjoining areas to seize laptops, hard disks, documents
and cash worth INR 53,000.
May 15: One landmine was recovered by
SFs from the side of a road in a forest near Barabari village in Jhargram
area of West Midnapore District. The landmine was diffused later.
May 17: The Maoists blew up the main
railway tracks between New Delhi-Howrah route near Gurap Railway station
in Hooghly District during wee hours.
May 23: Seven CPI-Maoist cadres, including
those who were part of the security ring around the slain Politburo
member Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji, laid down their arms before
senior officials of the State Police at Jhargram in West Midnapore District.
According to senior police officers, the Maoists who surrendered were
all close to Kishanji and had remained active in the Jhargram area even
after the Maoist leader was killed in an encounter with security forces
in the Burisole forest of Jhargram on November 24. Jagannath Soren alias
Hero who served as bodyguard to Kishanji was the first to lay down his
arms, followed by six others who were part of various Maoist squads
in the District. Among the arms surrendered were a 5.56 Insas Rifle
and .315 and .303 rifles and country-made firearms with more than a
hundred rounds of ammunition. Over the past year, since the Trinamool
Congress-led government came to power in the State, 23 Maoists have
surrendered.
May 26: A hardcore CPI-Maoist squad
leader, identified as Tota Hembram, was arrested from his hideout near
Lalgarh area under the Jhargram subdivision of West Midnapore District
in the evening. Hembram, belonged to the Bikash squad, was wanted in
several cases of murder, abduction and landmine attacks. Hembram was
hiding in Jhatiyara village in Lalgarh's Dharampur when Police raided
the house on specific intelligence.
May 31: SFs recovered a cache of arms
and explosive from Bagjhapa village in Kolaboni area in Jhargram sub-division
in West Midnapore District. Acting on a tip off, the Forces raided the
village, and dug out from a field 17 landmines, 12 detonators, 33 kilogrammes
explosives, 9 socket bombs, two pistols and 30 live cartridges, suspected
to be hidden by the CPI-Maoist.
June 9: SFs arrested a
Maoist, identified as Ranjan Tudu (30), from the Jamboni Police Station
area of Jhargram region in West Midnapore District. Senior police officials
said Tudu was a trusted and close aide of slain CPI-Maoist politburo
member Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji.
June 25:According to Police, the CPI-Maoist
have come back to the villages taking advantage of the monsoon rains,
holding meetings and threatening leaders of rival political parties.
“Maoists are trying to launch recruitment and training programmes, as
movement of security forces inside the forests during monsoon is restricted
and there is lesser vigilance. However, we are working on counter strategies,”
IG, Western zone, Gangeshwar Singh.
June 26: The CPI-Maoist is said to be
spreading its influence across the industrial zone, specifically collieries,
where they are wooing young workers and sending them for arms training,
Police said. “We have got some reports, which tell us that Maoists are
trying to spread their wings in this area through some frontal organisations.
Sometimes, the area is also used as a transit point. However, we are
keeping a close eye on the situation,” Commissioner of the newly formed
Asansol-Durgapur police Commissionerate Ajay Nanda.
June 27: After a detailed search a total
of 90,000 detonators were seized from a car, intercepted in East Midnapore
District. Police managed to arrest driver Guddu Singh and his accomplice
Suvo Singh and produced both in court. Police said a possible Maoist
link is being probed too.
June 29: There was a significant improvement
in law and order in the three Maoist-affected Districts of West Bengal
with the number of violent incidents and killings of civilians declining,
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said. She said 235 Left wing extremists
have been arrested while 20 of them surrendered to the Police since
the Trinamool Congress (TMC) Government came to power last year. Presenting
the budget for the home department, Banerjee asserted that there was
a significant improvement in law and order in the Jungle Mahal - forested
stretches of three western Districts West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia
where Maoists have a base. She said Police recovered 86 firearms, 1,491
pieces of ammunition, 386 kg of explosives and 39 improvised explosive
devices (IEDs) from the affected areas. The figures are based on the
data available in the first ten months of the Trinamool regime which
has been in office since May 20, 2011.
July 4: A CPI-Maoist cadre suspected
to be involved in several incidents of violence was arrested from his
house in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. The Maoist cadre identified
as Bashishtha Mahato alias Bullet was arrested from his home
in Talpal under Binpur Police Station of Dumaria, in the District, an
officer of the Binpur Police Station said.
July 13: A Maoist couple, identified
as Raju Murmu and Sujata Kumar, was arrested from Onda forest located
in the border of Purulia and Bankura Districts. The Maoist couple was
accused of killing of Trinamool workers Jeetu Singh Sardar and Baku
Singh Sardar at Bersa village in Balarampur area in Purulia District
in 2011.
West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan
said that the Mamata Banerjee Government had been able to contain the
threat from Maoist forces in West Bengal.
July 16: Senior CPI-Maoist leader Arnab
Dam alias Bikram was arrested at the Biramdih railway station
in Purulia District. An AK-47 rifle, some rounds of ammunition and some
Maoist literature were recovered from him. Bikram, a State Committee
member and secretary of the Bihar Jharkhand Odisha Border Regional Committee
of the CPI-Maoist, was the biggest achievement of the joint SFs after
the elimination of Polit Bureau member Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji
in a November 2011 encounter in West Midnapore District.
July 18: Sleuths dealing with the CPI-Maoist
in West Bengal fear that the Maoists in Jungle Mahal are trying to regroup
again. In order to prevent their regrouping, the state is planning another
phase of joint operations. Senior officers of State Police and CRPF
held a coordination meeting with their Jharkhand counterparts.
Keshore Mani Hansda, a woman sarpanch
of Kapgari gram panchayat and member of the Jharkhand Party (Naren)
from the Jomsoro village in West Midnapore District was arrested by
the CID for providing shelter to cadres of the CPI-Maoist.
July 22: Aduri Murmu alias Deepa,
a woman CPI-Maoist leader was arrested during a raid at Prakendu village
in Gopiballavpur in West Midnapore District of West Bengal. Murmu was
the ‘deputy commandant’ of a squad of Maoist guerrilla led by Ranjan
Munda and had fought a pitched gun-battle with SFs in the forests of
Burishole and Mohulbani in West Midnapore District in February.
July 26: Mohan Vishwakarma (60), a senior
member of the TRAM unit of the CPI-Maoist was arrested by the STF personnel
of Kolkata Police from Watgunge Police Station area in south Kolkata.
Huge quantities of grenade manufacturing materials, including 83 pieces
of spare parts of grenade, were seized from him.
July 27: The City Police arrested CPI-Maoist
leader Arjun Ganju from Jharkhand in Kolkata. Arjun was allegedly involved
in procuring arms from the city and smuggling them to different armed
squads in Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
July 29: Based on intelligence inputs
the West Bengal Police have warned CM Mamata Banerjee and some of her
party colleagues against moving in the CPI-Maoist areas, particularly
at night, anticipating that they might become soft targets for Maoists.
July 30: Two women CPI-Maoist cadres
of the Ayodhya squad surrendered before DGP Naparajit Mukherjee at the
State Secretariat in Kolkata of West Bengal. According to Police, Sikha
Hansda and Champa Hembram were active in the State’s Purulia District,
along the West Bengal-Jharkhand border for nearly four years. Both Hansda
and Hembram laid down two firearms and a few rounds of ammunition at
the time of surrender.
August 3: The joint SFs arrested two
wanted CPI-Maoist leaders identified as Ranjan Munda and Baneshwar Murmu
along with an SLR and a rifle, from Gopiballpur in West Midnapore District.
Munda, an ‘area commander’ in-charge of the Nayagram squad, was arrested
from Chilkathi village in Jhargram during an operation led by ASP (operations)
Alok Rajoria. Involved in the abduction of OIC of the Sankrail Police
Station, Atindranath Nath Dutta in October 2009, Munda had carried out
subversive activities in Jharkhand and Odisha apart from Jangalmahal.
Murmu, an action squad leader of Jhargram, had accompanied Munda during
the operation.
August 4: SFs arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre from Sarenga area of Bankura District. Biswajit Hansda, against
whom several cases of murder and extortion were pending, was caught
after SFs got information about his movement in the area.
Chandi Sarkar, alleged to be a Maoist
leader arrested from Kathgara village under Chapra Police Station in
Nadia District on 23 September, 2005, was released from jail after being
granted bail in all the cases against him. There had been six cases
against Sarkar who had been slapped with sedition and other charges
including under the Arms Act.
August 8: The Calcutta High Court granted
the status of political prisoners to seven CPI-Maoist cadres, including
senior leader of the outfit, Venkateswar Reddy alias Telugu Dipak
and Chhatradhar Mahato, convenor of the Maoist-backed PCPA. Subhashish
Roy, counsel for the Maoists said that under the West Bengal Correctional
Services Act, 1992, these prisoners were entitled to the status of political
prisoner. Besides Reddy and Mahato, others who were granted the status
are Gaur Chakrabarty, former spokesperson of the CPI-Maoist and the
first person to be arrested under the Unlawful Activities Prevention
Act (UAPA), Sukhshanti Baskey, Shambhu Soren, Sogun Murmu and Prasun
Chatterjee.
Cautioning the Maoists that her Government
will not tolerate any violence, CM Mamata Banerjee said that West Bengal
had outperformed all other States in ensuring development of areas where
Maoists are present. She was addressing a rally at Belpahari in West
Midnapore District, once the hotbed of Maoist activities. Banerjee,
who became the first Chief Minister to visit the area in four decades,
handed over cheques to family members of people killed by Maoists, even
as a Maoist cadre, Rabi Murmu, publicly surrendered before her. He is
the 37th Maoist to surrender before the Trinamool-led administration.
Only eight Maoists had surrendered during the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
regime.
Banerjee said that cadres were being
brought over from Jharkhand and Odisha to foment trouble in the Jungle
Mahal region of the State.
She promised a Government job for one
family member of all the people killed in Maoist violence, adding that
those who stand up to the Maoists should register their names with local
authorities so that they could be provided jobs in the future. She also
announced that surrendered Maoists will be given government jobs — home
guards at that.
August 9: Tribals in the CPI-Maoist-infested
Jungle Mahal region (Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore Districts)
of West Bengal are planning a “peaceful agitation” to wrest autonomy
from the state, much like what the Gorkhas have in the Darjeeling hills.
“Our main demand will be autonomy in the form of a Jangalmahal Territorial
Administration,” Ashok Jiban Ghosh, who was a secretary of the Maoist-backed
PCPA, said.
August 11: The West Bengal Government
is contemplating joint operations with neighbouring states against the
CPI-Maoist in Jungle Mahal. "Yes, we have a plan for joint operations
in Jungle Mahal," DGP Naparajit Mukherjee told reporters when asked
if joint operations were being planned with Odisha and Jharkhand against
Maoists.
August 17: The Police recovered arms
hidden by the CPI-Maoist in the forests of West Midnapore District in
West Bengal. Jhargram SP Bharati Ghosh said based on leads provided
by arrested Maoist Ranjan Munda, they searched a forest area near Nayagram
village along the Odisha border and found the arms and ammunition hidden
inside a plastic bag. The arms include a number of cartridges, an AK-47
rifle, 18 detonators and other ammunition.
August 20: A CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
by joint forces from Sarenga area in Bankura District of West Bengal.
Abhiram Tudu (31) is an accused in the killing of a CPI-Marxist leader
in January 2010.
August 28: CRPF authorities have appealed
to the West Bengal home department to ensure that the CRPF personnel
get the monetary incentive which was announced for catching or killing
top Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji. A reward
of INR 3.1 million was announced for Kishanji's head by Odisha (INR
700,000) and Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh (1.2 million each). Home
Ministry sources said even though the cash reward was announced by Andhra
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, it was the duty of the West Bengal
government to coordinate the reward-giving procedure for Kishanji's
death took place on its soil.
September 3: A CPI-Maoist cadre in Jamshedpur
Jail, when interrogated by Jharkhand Police, confessed to handing over
INR 200,000 to Choton Das, a human rights activist who was named by
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee as one of six interlocutors
in July 2011 and whose job in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was
also restored by her order. Das is also state secretary of the Bandi
Mukti Committee in West Bengal, and the money Pradip Gayen handed over
to him was extorted from a contractor working on a project on Subarnarekha
River. Police maintain that Gayen alias Benoy Das was formerly
a member of Bandi Mukti Committee. However, Das denied having taken
any money from Gayen, whom he denied knowing, or any Maoist whatsoever.
September 11: The STF of Kolkata Police
arrested three cadres of the CPI-Maoist including the secretary of the
Kolkata City Committee of the outfit, Abhishek Mukherjee on the northern
fringes of the city. The others arrested along with him have been identified
as Sunil Mondol and Subhas Roy. Maoist literature, two improvised fire
arms including a semi-automatic gun and several rounds of ammunition
were recovered from their possession.
Maoist Kantiran Murmu was arrested from
the Barikul Police Station area of Bankura District. Murmu was wanted
in connection with a murder case in January 2011.
September 17: Sushil Roy, ideologue
and politburo member of the CPI-Maoist who is in jail since 2005 and
is currently undergoing treatment in Delhi's AIIMS hospital, told Times
of India that ahead of 2011 assembly polls in West Bengal,
Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji had reached
out to the TMC keeping the CPI-Maoist leadership in the dark. Roy said,
"He (Kishanji) did not obey party line. He thought he was next
to Mao." "The party did not know about his (Kishanji's) meeting
with Mamata (Banerjee) before the polls. It was not the party's decision,"
said Roy.
September 25: CPI-Maoist Politburo member
Sushil Roy has said Mamata Banerjee first “posed as a supporter of the
Maoists’ cause but did a quick somersault after becoming Chief Minister”
of West Bengal. Roy, 76, arrested in 2005, is undergoing treatment for
a kidney ailment at AIIMS.
September 26: The latest report of the
CAG has slammed the West Bengal Police and the State Government for
buying two troop carriers for anti-CPI-Maoist operation at a cost of
over INR 9 million “without considering their suitability”. In its report
that was tabled in the Assembly, the CAG states the two troop carriers
have been lying idle for the past three years as they were found unsuitable
for use. The West Bengal Police had made the procurement in 2009 “without
considering their suitability resulting in the vehicles not being used
in anti-terrorist operations for more than two years and consequent
blockage of funds,” it stated.
September 28: Girish Sahis (42), a TMC
supporter from Kismat Jambera village was killed by suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres at Jhargram in West Midnapore District of Jungle Mahal area of
West Bengal. Handwritten posters demanding withdrawal of joint SFs from
Jungle Mahal and warnings to the TMC-led Government were strewn near
the body.
September 30: The Police arrested two
top Maoist cadres, identified as Dinu Chalak and Toofan Mahato, during
an anti Maoist drive in Jhargram area in West Midnapore District. Both
the Maoists had been booked in heinous crimes, including murder.
October 1: Two CRPF troopers were seriously
injured after being shot at by the CPI-Maoist cadres during a combing
operation in the forests of West Midnapore District.
October 6: A CPI-Maoist cadre identified
as Mansingh Murmu alias Sujoy, wanted in a number of murders
in West Bengal and Odisha was arrested by the joint forces from Kandasole
forest in West Midnapore District.
October 9: Acting on an IB missive that
warned of CPI-Maoist launching attacks ahead of Kishanji's first death
anniversary on November 24, joint Security Forces raided Jhitka and
Helibiha forests in Jangalmahal in West Midnapore District and seized
a huge cache of ammunition and explosives. Some 1,019 cartridges, including
those of AK-47, INSAS rifles, 9-mm and single-barrel guns, along with
seven flash guns and 84 detonators were dug out of a pit.
October 13: The UHM has advised the
West Bengal Government to challenge the Calcutta HC judgment that granted
political prisoner status to arrested CPI-Maoist cadres. The high court’s
judgment is feared to have opened a possibility for the Maoists to exploit
a State specific act to justify even the act of waging war against the
nation.
October 18: Sanatan Sardar, suspected
to be an important local leader of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested by the
Police in the Binpur Police limits in West Midnapore District of West
Bengal. Sanatan is believed to be the landmine and explosives expert
of the Madan Mahato squad of the CPI-Maoist and was active in the Belpahari
area of Jangalmahal.
The West Bengal DGP Naparajit Mukherjee
warned that the CPI-Maoist have links with Pakistan spy agency ISI.
He said that the ISI was supporting Maoists in the State. He also said
that the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), groups had also
joined hands with the Maoists.
October 28: A CPI-Maoist leader identified
as Saheb Ram Soren was arrested from his village at Shingpur under Binpur
Police Station in West Midnapore District of West Bengal.
The SFs recovered 18 challenger mines
from a forest near Chotojharia in Gopiballavpur in West Midnapore District.
The raid was conducted after specific information about two Maoist groups
having entered from neighbouring Jharkhand, Police said.
November 3: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Chiranjeet Saha and Sukhdeb Mahato, were detained by the Police under
Kalighat Police Station in Kolkata of West Bengal, who came to complain
that they are yet to get the entire rehabilitation package they are
entitled to on surrendering. The CM Mamata Banerjee after meeting the
duo assured that they will get all the rehabilitation benefits as soon
as possible.
November 5: Mangal Mura (49), a CPI-Maoist
cadre was arrested by the Joint Forces from Bindra village in Belpahari
in Jangalmahal area in West Midnapore District of West Bengal. Mura
is said to be an important member of Maoist leader Madan Mahato's guerrilla
squad.
During another search operation, Joint
Forces recovered 69 socket bombs and 136 caps of similar bombs in West
Midnapore District.
November 24: About 50 CPI-Maoist sympathisers
gathered at a community hall in Kolkata to observe the first death anniversary
of politburo member Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji.
November 26: Ahead of their call for
bandh in the region, a group of CPI-Maoist cadres attacked and
disrupted a function at Jamuna village in Jhargram block of West Midnapore
District in West Bengal. They left after injuring a couple of people
while the locals managed to nab one of the Maoists and handed him over
to the Police. The incident took place when villagers were engaged in
offering prayers to the deity of their goddess and the Maoists attacked
them.
A Naxalite, belonging to Bikash Squad
of Lalgarh, a splinter group of CPI-Maoist, was arrested by the Police
from his residence at Dangrasole village in Taldangra region in Bankura
District.
Police conducted raid on the Secretary
of CPM’s Aguibani local committee in West Bengal, Prashanta Das, on
November 26, suspecting him to be having links with CPI-Maoist.
November 27: The West Bengal State Government
promised to the Central Government to amend a State law in the upcoming
Assembly Session to disallow the terrorists and the Maoists from claiming
political prisoner status.
November 30: The CRPF personnel recovered
a landmine and a computer belonging to CPI-Maoist cadres in Jhargram
area in West Midnapore District.
December 2: CPI-Maoist inmates, including
those who have political prisoner status, have gone on an indefinite
hunger strike at Presidency Correctional Home in Kolkata, demanding
immediate release of ailing Maoist inmates Gour Chakraborty and Sushil
Roy.
December 3: The CRPF launched a 'Community
Interactive Programme' in Naxal-afflicted Lalgarh region in West Midnapore
District to inculcate a sense of security by developing cordial relations
and harnessing co-operation with the villagers living in the CPI-Maoist
dominated region.
December 5: The Central Government said
that front organisations of CPI-Maoist have developed close nexus with
certain fundamentalist Islamic groups in West Bengal and forged common
platform on certain issues. The Union Minister of State
for Home Affairs R P N Singh said in Rajya Sabha that
the Government was closely monitoring the situation. He, however, said
no concrete inputs are available to indicate that the LWE have forged
direct ties with ISI of Pakistan.
December 8: West Bengal Finance Minister
Amit Mitra, said the State has successfully tackled the problem of Maoist
insurgency and that not a single civilian death has been reported so
far this year from the LWE-affected Districts. “A year before we came
to power (2010) there were 143 civilian deaths (by Maoists) reported
from different areas of Junglemahal [West Midnapore, Purulia and some
areas of Bankura Districts]. This came down to 12 last year. So far
this year, there has been no incidents of civilian killings by the Maoists,”
Mitra said during a seminar at the PanIIT, a global conference of IIT
alumni.
December 9: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre,
identified as Manasi Baske alias Sita, was arrested from Jhasuli
village under Salboni Police Station in West Midnapore District.
December 10: West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee has said that the State will not oppose the bail petition
of ailing senior Maoist leader Sushil Roy.
December 12: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
announced in Kolkata that the State would deploy "village police" in
every village of the State's Maoist-affected Jangalmahal region.
December 24: Two CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered
before the Purulia District Police in West Bengal.
December 26: West Bengal State Government
will utilise the services of surrendered CPI-Maoist cadres for snooping
on their former comrades.
December 29: The NIA filed a supplementary
chargesheet against four CPI-Maoist cadres in Kolkata for trying to
manufacture rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and 51 mm mortars.
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