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Left-Wing Extremist Attacks Involving
People’s Militia
2004
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February 6
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Over 1000 armed People's War Group (PWG) cadres
launched an attack on the district headquarter town of Koraput
in Orissa and looted a large cache of arms from the district armoury
and other key police installations. According to police sources,
Maoists looted approximately 200 weapons. The cache, according
to a PWG press release, however, included: "weapons, ammunition,
grenades valued at INR 500 million." 500 sophisticated weapons
of different types (.303, LMG, SLR, Mortars, Stens, Revolvers,
Pistols), along with more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition, number
of Mortar shells and Grenades were lost to the Naxalites.
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DATE |
INCIDENT |
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1
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November 11
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Over a hundred cadres of the Communist Party of
India – Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
attacked a home guard training centre at Pachamba in the Giridih
district of Jharkhand and shot dead five persons, including four
home guards, and injured 16 persons. Maoists also looted 183 rifles,
two pistols and 2500 cartridges.
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2
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November
13 |
Approximately a thousand cadres and activists
of the CPI-Maoist launched simultaneous attacks on the jail, police
lines and a paramilitary camp at Jehanabad in Bihar, killing four
persons and injuring five others. Two Maoists were also killed
in the incident. 341 of the jail's 600 odd prisoners, several
other cadres of the outfit were set free and approximately 12
activists of the Ranvir Sena, a private army of upper-caste landowners,
were abducted.
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3
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December
30 |
A group of nearly 50 CPI-Maoist cadres raid Gorna
village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh and killed two
villagers for participating in an anti-Maoist campaign.
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2006
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DATE |
INCIDENT |
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1
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February 9
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Eight Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
personnel were killed and several others injured as a large group
of Maoists attacked the National Mineral Development Corporation
store in the Hirauli area of Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh
and looted 17 rifles and close to 50 tonnes of ammonium nitrate,
an explosive used to detonate iron ore mines.
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2
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February 15
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Over 50 CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the Cherli
village in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh and shot dead three
tribals, accusing them of helping the police in anti-Maoist operations.
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3
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March 20
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About 50 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
one of its former activists, Vishwanath Rai Yadav, and his son
Sunil Rai at Champapur village in the East Champaran district
in Bihar.
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4
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March 24
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Approximately 200 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist
shot dead three police personnel and took hostage at least two
Government officials in attacks on a police station, a camp of
the Orissa State Armed Police, the local jail and a bank at Udayagiri
in the Gajapati district of Orissa.
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5
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April 6
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100 suspected armed Maoists attacked Central Reserve
Police Force personnel and injured nine of them while they were
traveling in the Samalehwari Express at Kalunga railway station
between Jharsuguda and Rourkela in the Sundargarh district of
Orissa.
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6
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April 18
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Close to 2500 CPI-Maoist cadres and activists
besieged Usur village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh,
in retaliation for the tribals' support to Salwa Judum, the anti-Maoist
campaign.
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7
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May 13
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About 300 Maoists attacked a refugee camp in the
Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh and shot dead four Special
Police Officers and wounded five people.
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8
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June 12
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About 150-armed Maoists attacked a police station
at Durg Kondal in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. However,
no police personnel were injured in the attack that lasted over
an hour.
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9
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August 1
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About 70 CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the India
Reserve Battalion camp at Chhurimara in the Belpahari area of
Midnapore district of West Bengal.
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DATE |
INCIDENT |
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January 31
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A large group of CPI-Maoist cadres carried out
an attack on the the explosives depot of the state-run National
Mineral Development Corporation at Hiroli in the Dantewada district.
Security forces foiled the attack.
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2
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March 15
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At least 55 persons, including 16 personnel of
the Chhattisgarh Armed Force and 39 Special Police Officers (SPOs),
were killed and 12 persons were injured in an offensive by the
CPI-Maoist cadres on a police base camp at Rani Bodli village
of Bijapur Police District in the Bastar Division of Chhattisgarh.
Maoists took away 39 weapons including self-loading rifles, AK-47
rifles .303 rifles and a mortar from the police camp. According
to reports, only 11 of the 79 police personnel and SPOs posted
at the camp managed to escape
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3
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March 26
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Maoists attacked the Maraiagudem Police outpost
in the Konta division in Chhattisgarh. About 300 Maoists and Sangham
members surrounded the station, hurled grenades at it and then
opened fire. There was heavy firing from both sides; however,
no casualties were reported in the incident.
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4
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:April 6
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Six people, including two security force personnel,
were killed when an armed group of approximately 300 CPI-Maoist
cadres attacked the Central Industrial Security Force camp and
the adjoining Gandhinagar police station building in the Bokaro
thermal power city area of Bokaro district of Jharkhand.
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5
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April 21
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Nearly 200 CPI-Maoist cadres seized the Narganjo
railway station in the Jamui district of Bihar for several hours
after abducting the cabin master and porters to enforce a bandh
(strike) called by them. The incident led to suspension of
train services on the Howrah-Patna section of the Eastern Railway.
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6
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April 22
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Heavily armed CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a brick
kiln owned by one Maan Singh at village Thatwar under Dumaria
police station in the Gaya district of Bihar. At least 200 activists
of the CPI-Maoist encircled the brick kiln and asked the labourers
to go away before they detonated a dynamite to blow it up.
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7
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April 29
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Nearly 200 CPI-Maoist cadres raided the construction
site of a river over-bridge near Dubba Ghat in the Sheohar district
in Bihar exploding bombs, opening fire and setting ablaze nine
huts of labourers. Deputy Inspector General of Police (Tirhut
range), Gupteshwar Pandey, informed that the Maoists also damaged
some machines, including a generator set. They had pasted posters
near the place of occurrence a week ago directing the contractor
of the Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation Limited to
meet the representatives of the banned outfit.
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May 9
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One Special Auxiliary Police (SAP) personnel was
killed in an encounter between the SAP personnel and CPI-Maoist
cadres at Chikni village in the Khagaria district of Bihar. More
than a hundred Maoists reportedly surrounded a police outpost
in Khagaria and opened fire towards the SAP personnel inside the
police outpost building. In the ensuing encounter, in which more
than two hundred rounds were fired from both sides, one SAP personnel
was killed while another sustained shrapnel injuries. Maoists
also looted a police rifle.
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May 24
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A group of 100 CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire towards
the CRPF personnel who were traveling to Koyalibeda from Tadokee
village for a combing operation near Kandari village in the Kanker
district of Chhattisgarh. The CRPF personnel opened fire in retaliation
and subsequently recovered the dead body of one Maoist, identified
as Ashok Kumar Ushendi, along with a loaded rifle from the incident
site. Police also arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Chamarsingh.
The other Maoists managed to escape.
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10
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May 29
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The CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a bomb blast blowing
up the control room of the Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation's
24 Mega Watt mini hydel power station at Donkarai village in the
East Godavari district. According to police, about 50 armed Maoists
came to the control room and using explosives blasted it and later
escaped. An assistant engineer of the plant sustained injuries
in the blast.
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11
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May 29
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Over 200 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist raided
the Satgharwa village in the Munger district of Bihar and killed
two persons, including a political activist of the Janata Dal-United,
by slashing their throats. Another person who was also pulled
out of his home was, however, assaulted but spared by the extremists.
The victims were believed to be police informants.
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12
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May 31
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Two persons, Kuwar Bhulla and Narayan Pandit,
were killed and six others injured when hundreds of Maoists raided
Dumerjhahri village in the Giridih district of Jharkhand. The
Maoists also burnt houses of at least five villagers in the attack
to reportedly send a message to the former Chief Minister Babulal
Marandi.
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June 14
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Police retaliated and foiled an attack carried
out by a group of about 100 CPI-Maoist cadres at the Cherpal police
camp in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. The Maoists reportedly
exploded a bomb and also opened fire towards the police personnel.
However, when police opened fire the Maoists retreated and managed
to escape.
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14
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June 30
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A group of 250 CPI-Maoist cadres carried out simultaneous
attacks on the Rajpur police station and Baghaila outpost in Bihar's
Rohtas district killing six police personnel and seven civilians.
Eight persons, including four policemen, were injured in the attack.
The Maoists looted four self-loading rifles, eight .303 rifles,
two INSAS rifles and three carbines, besides hundreds of rounds
of ammunition. The Maoists also blew up the police station and
outpost using dynamites before escaping.
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15
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July 1
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Two villagers were beaten to death and another
injured on orders issued by a kangaroo court (‘people’s court’)
held by the CPI-Maoist at a village in the Champaran district
in Bihar. Nearly 100 Maoists pronounced three men guilty of being
police informers. Subsequently, two of them were lynched to death
while the third villager, a septuagenarian man, escaped with injuries.
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July 13
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Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres looted the house of
a businessman at MV-72 village in the Malkangiri district in Orissa
and set two of his vehicles ablaze. Police sources said that nearly
500 extremists forcibly entered the house of the businessman and
looted paddy and other crops stored inside, besides, valuables.
They also disconnected telephone link and power supply to the
house. Fear of landmines prevented the police from reaching the
spot immediately.
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17
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August 6
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About 100 Maoists attacked the Chainpur police
station in the Gumla district of Jharkhand. However, security
forces retaliated and foiled the attack forcing the Maoists to
retreat without any damage.
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18
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August 8
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Three Maoists were injured in an exchange of fire
with the police near Jarabandi village in the Gadchiroli district
of Maharashtra. A group of 70-80 Maoists blew up three claymore
landmines, lobbed hand grenades and fired indiscriminately at
a police patrol party. The Maoists were reportedly led by ‘divisional
commander’ Joganna of the Etapalli dalam. While the injured
Maoists were taken away by their colleagues, none of the police
personnel suffered any injury.
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August 19
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CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the house of the block
chief Guddu Sharma and shot dead his wife, uncle and a private
bodyguard in the Maker village of Saran district in Bihar. Over
50 Maoists surrounded the house of Sharma and opened indiscriminate
fire killing three persons. Before fleeing they set a private
vehicle, a tractor, and a motorcycle on fire.
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August 26
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400 cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked a government
relief camp at Patarpara village near Bhairamgarh in the Dantewada
district of Chhattisgarh and killed four Salwa Judum activists
and injured seven more. Maoists also destroyed the houses and
looted food grains.
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August 29
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At least 12 SF personnel were killed in an ambush
by the CPI-Maoist cadres near Jagargunda forests of Dantewada
district of Chhattisgarh. About 200 armed Maoists ambushed a convoy
of the SF personnel while it was en route to secure an area at
Tarmekla village in Jagargunda, where the Maoists had blocked
construction of a road. "The team comprising Chhattisgarh Armed
Force, SPOs and cops was divided into two groups. The Maoists
hiding in the area ambushed the rear party and opened fire on
them," Director General of Police (DGP), Vishwaranjan said.
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September 30
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the house of a transporter
branding him a police informer in the Gaya district of Bihar.
Police sources said that a group of 200 Maoists raided the house
of Sanjay Yadav at Nawadih under Mohanpur police station. Sanjay
was not present in the house. They ordered the family to come
out of the house and then blasted the vacant house with dynamites.
Before fleeing, the Maoists left pamphlets that described Yadav
as a police informer.
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23
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October 9
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One CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Devnnaka,
was killed in an encounter with the police near Chiklimenta village
under Jagargunda police station limits of Dantewada district in
Chhattisgarh. The encounter erupted when around 100 Maoists opened
fire towards a group of 52 SF personnel who were on a combing
operation in the area. The dead body of the slain Maoist along
with one bomb, one axe and bow and arrow was recovered from the
incident site. However, the other Maoists managed to escape.
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24
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October 14
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About 60-70 cadres of the CPI-Maoist belonging
to the Gatta dalam came to the Jangiya village of Gadchiroli district
in Maharashtra and killed two youngsters, Ranjit Baju Hodi and
Santosh Navadesh Navadi,. The Deputy Superintendent of Police,
Santosh Pradhan, said that the killing might have been an attempt
to avert the leaking of information regarding the landmine blasts
on October 12 in the same area.
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25
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October 20
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About 250 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist stormed
into Murdanda village of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh and
damaged three school buildings. Maoists also set ablaze books
and papers at the schools and took away food grains stored in
one of the schools.
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October 21
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Five SF personnel, identified as Suresh Kowase,
Bhayyaji Kulsunge, Harishchandra Pawar, Sudhakar Ishtam and Babarao
Padda, sustained injures in an attack carried out by around 150
CPI-Maoist cadres in a dense forest near Roppi village in the
Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. The encounter occurred when
two special squads of the police were combing the dense forest
in Jarawandi post following information that Maoists belonging
to the Platoon, Etapalli and Gatta dalams were hiding there. The
Maoists first triggered a landmine explosion and simultaneously
started firing. In the ensuing encounter, police personnel killed
two Maoists and injured an unspecified number of others. The Maoists
took away the bodies of their slain colleagues.
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October 26
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Around 400 cadres of the CPI-Maoist stormed in
Bharanda village in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh and damaged
a primary and middle school, a government-run health centre and
a forest guard room. Some pamphlets, written in Gondi (local tribal
language) have reportedly recovered from the incident site saying
‘’all-India strike on October 30’’. One of the pamphlets, in protest
against the Tata, Jindal, Reliance and Nikko companies, was written
and addressed by Salawa Judum and Displacement Protest Manch,
Dandkaranya.
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October 29
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Five Special Police Officers (SPOs) were killed
and three seriously injured when around 250-300 CPI-Maoist cadres
surrounded a police party near Pamulavayi village in Bijapur district
of Chhattisgarh and opened indiscriminate fire. Bastar Inspector
General, R K Vij told, "The incident took place when a police
team, including 16 SPOs and four constables, was going to Gangaloor
where road construction was being carried out. When the team reached
near the village, the Maoists opened fire at them, killing five
SPOs and injuring three." Police sources said that the attack
was well-planned, as the rebels opened fire from all corners,
not allowing the police party to retaliate. Maoists have also
decamped with some weapons of the police party.
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29
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November 1
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Around 50 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot
dead Bhagirath Karmakar, a local committee member of the Communist
Party of India -Marxist (CPI-M), at Morapdihi village in the Purulia
district of West Bengal. The Maoists also set ablaze his house
and exploded a bomb near his dead body.
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30
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November 2
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Around 100 cadres of the CPI-Maoist ambushed a
police party near Pamedu police station of Bijapur district in
Chhattisgarh and killed 16 policemen, including six CRPF personnel.
The Maoists first triggered a landmine explosion and then indiscriminately
fired on the policemen killing 16 of them. However, five injured
policemen managed to escape and reported the ambush in Pamedu
police station. The incident occurred when the police party was
on its way to receive a team of department officials coming from
Gollapalli with money drawn for salary disbursement.
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November 4
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About 50 armed cadres of CPI-Maoist raided the
Cheridhan village under Imamganj police station of Gaya district
in Bihar, and abducted one Yogendra Mahto from his residence.
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November 7
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A civilian, Lalmohan Singh, was killed in an attack
by around 100 cadres of the CPI-Maoist at Rabedatoil near Ramrekha
in the Simdega district of Jharkhand. Police subsequently recovered
two bombs near the incident site. The Maoist cadres also decamped
with 11 rifles and few axes from the houses of one Fuleswar Singh.
They also set ablaze eight houses in the village.
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November 19
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A prominent Salwa Judum leader, Budhram
Rana, and his son were killed after being chased by about 500
cadres of the CPI-Maoist at Musalur village in the Bijapur district
of Chhattisgarh. The Maoists raided the Musalur village to attack
a contractor. Rana was one of the founder members of Salwa
Judum and was a close associate of the Leader of Opposition,
Mahendra Karma, who spearheads the movement.
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November 21
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Around 50 cadres and Sangham (a group of
hardcore over-ground cadres) members of the CPI-Maoist has beaten
to death one school teacher, Girdhari Manjhi, in the weekly market
at Bhaisasur village in the Kanker district, accusing him to be
a police informer.
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November 23
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Around 1000 CPI-Maoists attacked Gangaloor village
in Bastar district and looted paddy crops of amount INR 25000,
from the house of a Salwa Judum leader Hemla Sikka. Subsequently,
the Maoists moved towards the house of Hemala Mangu and took away
nine cattle, four goats, five pigs and few hens with them.
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December 2
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About 150 armed CPI-Maoists stormed the Rokel
market of Chhindgarh police station area in Dantewada district
of Chhattisgarh. However, no casualty was reported. All the attacks
came as the CPI-Maoists are celebrating the People's Guerrilla
Army (PGA) week from December 2-8 in memory of their comrades.
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December 10
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Around 100 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
four persons at Sukki village in the Vaishali district in BIhar.
Maoists reportedly surrounded the village from all sides and stood
guard while their comrades carried out the attack. The extremists
also attacked the house of the village head and tried to set it
ablaze. Official sources said that Sukki village dominated by
landed upper caste-Bhumihars has been a traditional target of
the Maoists.
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December 17
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Around 500 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist raided
the office of a private construction company engaged in laying
rail lines between Rajgir in Bihar and Tilaiya in Jharkhand and
injured 11 workers at Dhansura in the Gaya district of Bihar.
They also damaged eight tractors and an earth mover machine, Deputy
Inspector General of Police (Magadh range), A. Bashishtha stated.
Official sources indicated that the attack is the result of the
construction company failing to abide by the extortion demand
of the CPI-Maoist.
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December
18 |
Around 100 cadres of the CPI-Maoist
destroyed a primary school building at Kudoor village under Mardapal
police station in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh.
Around 50-60 Maoists
attacked the houses of two Salwa Judum supporters and set
it ablaze at Bechala village in the Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh.
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December 23
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The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked Kamalur
railway station in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. "About
100 Maoists cordoned off Kamalur railway station and took hostage
all the staff members," officials of Bhanshi police station said.
The Maoists fled after taking away a walkie talkie set, three
pieces of magnet phones, two pieces of control phones, one WLL
phone, signal torch and other equipments from the railway station.
However, none of the railway staff were harmed.
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December 28
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Around 200 armed cadres and Sangham
(a group of hardcore over-ground cadres) members of the CPI-Maoist
destroyed a under construction primary school building and a primary
health centre at Morlle village in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
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December 31
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Police destroyed 15 Maoist training
camps and recovered about 10 ‘can bombs’ and ‘clamour bombs’ following
an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres near Parasnath hills under
Pirtand police station in the Giridih district of Jharkhand. According
to the Inspector General of Police (Bokaro range), B B Pradhan,
about 250 Maoists exchanged fire with the police before fleeing
into the forests. He added that the tents were being used as training
camps by the Maoists. A truck-load of food grains, utensils and
other items were also recovered from the camps.
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INCIDENT |
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January 1
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At least four policemen were killed and another
sustained injuries in an attack by the Communist party of India-Maoist
(CPI-Maoist) cadres on Bariapur police post in the Munger district
in Bihar. More than 100 Maoists attacked the police post, which
was keeping a vigil over a picnic spot in Rishikund, where hundreds
of people had gathered to celebrate the New Year. According to
sources, the Maoists did not disturb the tourists and opened indiscriminate
fire on policemen killing four on the spot.
A police constable, identified as Sunil Kumar,
was killed and three others wounded when armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist
attacked a police outpost at Bansjore in the Simdega district
of Jharkhand. "Nearly 500 Maoist rebels surrounded the outpost
and hurled petrol bombs before firing indiscriminately around
midnight last night. Policemen retaliated and the gunfight lasted
till three in the morning," said Sergeant Major J.K. Jha. Police
have claimed some fatality on the Maoists side on the basis of
bloodstains found at the encounter site. A civilian was also injured
in the attack. Before launching the attack, the Maoists reportedly
cut a tree at Keriaghati and also planted landmines to block police
reinforcements from reaching the outpost.
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January 8
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Around 200 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist raided
Muktma village under Simaria police station in the Chatra district
of Jharkhand and abducted three persons to the nearby forest.
Subsequently, the Maoists killed two of them, identified as Indradev
Singh and Shambhu Singh, and released the third one Manoj Kumar.
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January 14
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Five soldiers of the para-military Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF) were wounded in an ambush by armed Maoists
in a forest in the Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh. About
150 Maoists attacked a joint police party of the CRPF and district
forces when the security force personnel were on a de-mining and
area dominance operation in the Jharghati jungle, about 350 kilometers
from State capital Raipur, the District Superintendent of Police
Ajay Yadav said. "It was a well-laid ambush by the Maoists and
the subsequent gun battle went for over three hours, in which
five of the CRPF personnel were injured," Yadav said.
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5
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January 29
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CPI-Maoist cadres dragged out two businessmen from
their houses and shot them dead in the Jamui district of Bihar,
the police said. The victims, identified as Vishnudeo and Sukdeo,
were killed on January 28-night at Bamdah Bazaar under Chandramandi
police station in Jamui, about 150 km from the State capital Patna.
"Over 100 armed Maoists stormed Bamdah Bazaar locality and surrounded
the houses of Vishnudeo and Sukdeo. They were then dragged out
and shot dead," the police said. Jamui, which is located close
to the border with Jharkhand, is considered to be a stronghold
of the CPI-Maoist.
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January 30
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At least nine villagers were abducted by a group
of CPI-Maoist cadres in the Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh,
police sources said. About 70 Maoists, including armed rebels,
stopped a jeep carrying the villagers near Bhogamguda village
and asked for each one’s identity. Subsequently, nine villagers
were taken away to a forest area.
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February 15
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14 police personnel and a civilian were killed
and four policemen were wounded when around 500 heavily armed
cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked a Police Training School (PTS),
the district armoury and district police station in co-ordinated
attacks near Daspalla in the Nayagarh district of Orissa at around
10:45pm (IST). They also took away a cache of arms and ammunition
in a bus they had hijacked in the district, about 100-km from
State capital Bhubaneswar. Police sources claimed that three Maoists
were also killed in the incident. However, their bodies have not
been recovered and it is suspected that the Maoists before fleeing
took away the bodies of their slain comrades. Before launching
the attack, the Maoists, speaking in Hindi and Telugu, and suspected
to be from neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, announced
that they would not harm the public as their target was the police.
The police suspect it to be the handy work of Sabyasachi Panda,
the CPI-Maoist Andhra-Orissa ‘secretary’. Meanwhile, a red alert
has been sounded in the State and the police have started combing
operations in the neighbouring districts of Phulbani, Gajapati,
Rayagada and Malkangiri in Orissa. The attack was the first of
its kind in coastal Orissa. The district armoury and PTS were
virtually emptied by the Maoists, the police said. Though Nayagarh
district had been unaffected by the Maoist insurgency, the extremists
are active in the neighbouring Gajapati and parts of Kandhamal
district. Nayagarh is also reportedly the home town of Maoist
leader Sabysachi Panda.
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February 18
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Three CRPF head constables and an equal number
of constables were killed in an encounter with the Maoists in
Tadkel hill of Mirtur police station area of Bijapur district
in Chhattisgarh, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range), Rajinder
Kumar Vij, said. Three Maoists were also killed during the encounter,
which began when a group of 60 CRPF personnel on a search mission
were attacked by the Maoists with landmine blasts and machinegun
fire in the area. "There were about 300 ultras," Vij said. Maoists
escaped with the guns of the slain CRPF soldiers, he added.
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February 26
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Around 50-60 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked
the Bande police station in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh.
However, the attack was foiled by the security force personnel
and no causality was reported.
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February 28
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The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked three strategic
positions of the Jharkhand Police - Netarhat police station, Special
Task Force camp at Vivah Mandap and Jharkhand Armed Police camp
- in the Netarhat forest area of Latehar district. However, no
loss of life or injury was reported. "No one sustained injury
in the incident as the rebels fled under the cover of darkness,"
police spokesperson R.K. Mallick said. "Around 500 rebels attacked
to loot arms and ammunition," an unnamed police officer said.
"While the rebels fired 800 rounds on the camps, we fired 500
rounds on them in the two-hour face-off," said another police
official at Netarhat.
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March 27
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A group of 55 armed CPI-Maoist cadres raided the
Mahamaya iron ore plant of the Steel Authority of India Limited
(SAIL) in Gajurao village of Durg district in Chhattisgarh. They
fled with 200 bags of pottassium nitrate explosive after loading
them onto six trucks parked at the plant. The Maoists also abducted
the manager of the unit and seven other staff members.
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April 2
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Over 200 CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the house
of a member of the State Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Kala
Pahar village of Aurangabad district in Bihar. They set ablaze
three vehicles being used by the MLA’s construction company and
abducted four labourers. The MLA, Vijay Kumar Singh alias Dabloo
Singh of the Lok Janshakti Party, was not present at his residence
during the attack. Police suspect that the Maoist attack is linked
to an extortion demand on the construction company.
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April 13
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Six persons, including five security force personnel
and a porter, were killed in an attack by the CPI-Maoist cadres
at Jhajha railway station in the Jamui district of Bihar. A group
of 200 Maoists attacked the crowded railway station, and looted
27 3.15 rifles, six self-loading rifles, two carbines and 898
rounds of ammunition from the GRP armoury. The Maoists also damaged
an ATM of the State Bank of India in an attempt to loot cash,
but had failed. They had also made an unsuccessful attempt to
loot cash from a locker in the railway station.
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April
18 |
The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a petrol station
at Kahudag on National Highway-II in the Gaya district of Bihar.
According to police sources, over 200 heavily armed Maoists attacked
the petrol station, belonging to the former Gaya district board
chairman Bindeshwari Prasad Yadav, and abducted its two employees.
Later they triggered a dynamite blast, blowing up the pump equipment
and the building. Both the employees were released after the blast.
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April
24 |
CPI-Maoist cadres set fire to 47 vehicles of a
private company, Essar Steels at Korandul in the Dantewada district
of Chhattisgarh. The vehicles burnt included 33 dumpers, four
earth moving equipment, two diesel tankers and one bus. Some 400
Maoists including over 100 women stormed into the company premises
at Kadampal locality in the town around 11.30 p.m, doused the
vehicles with diesel and set them afire by keeping the guards
and drivers away at gun point. Maoists subsequently fled the scene
leaving behind a pamphlet issued in the name of the Dandakaranya
Special Zonal committee of the outfit. The pamphlet warned the
Essar Steels and another private company against continuing their
operations in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
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April
29 |
CPI-Maoist cadres destroyed houses of four persons
whom they described as police informers in the Nawada district
of Bihar. Police sources said that an armed squad of nearly 200
Maoists raided Jamunia village and asked the occupants of the
four houses to come out before using dynamites to destroy the
houses.
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May
7 |
A wireless supervisor of the police was killed
and three other police personnel were wounded in an attack by
the CPI-Maoist cadres at Holong Ghati near Hazaribagh of Jharkhand.
The Hazaribagh district Superintendent of Police told that a vehicle
carrying five police personnel from Giridih was attacked by a
group of 50 Maoists, who opened fire and lobbed explosives targeting
the vehicle, thus, killing the police wireless officer Oliver
Purti.
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May
8 |
Three policemen were killed when the CPI-Maoist
cadres triggered a landmine blast and opened fire at a police
party near Chhindpal village in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh.
The slain police personnel were identified as platoon commander
Sangram Singh, Assistant Sub-Inspector Shayamlal Ambali and Constable
Mahulal. Police sources said that the attack by an estimated 150
Maoists occurred when a police party comprising 26 personnel were
visiting the site to clear a tree felled by the Maoists to block
the road.
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May
24 |
Cadres of CPI-Maoist killed a Nagarik Suraksha
Samity (NSS) activist, Sushen Murmu, at Mucchrisole village in
the Ghatshila sub-division of Jamshedpur district in Jharkhand.
Reports said that at around 2am (IST), about 70 Maoists came to
Muchhrisole village and raided Murmu's house taking hostage his
father as he was sleeping outside. Subsequently, they entered
the house and dragged the 26-year-old youth to an open field and
slit his throat.
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May
26 |
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a watchman in Batwari
village under Dharhara police station of Munger district in Bihar
accusing him of being a police informer. According to the report,
about 100 Maoists stormed the residence of the slain watchman,
tied his limbs, dragged him out to the street and slit his throat
in public.
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June 2
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CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze two
private buses on the Nerli ghat road and torched four tippers
at Bachali area in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. Dantewada
Superintendent of Police Rahul Sharma said that 50 armed Maoists
stopped the buses travelling on the Raipur- Kirandul route, asked
the passengers to alight and then torched the vehicles. Before
fleeing under the cover of darkness, the Maoists also fired upon
the Police, who had rushed to the area.
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June 9
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CPI-Maoist cadres set 22 tipper
trucks of Essar Steel plant and removed a stretch of the Kirandole
rail line in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, resulting
in the derailment of two engines. A group of 200 armed Maoists
stormed the industrial pocket at Bacheli village near Kirandole
and burnt the trucks meant for transporting iron-ore. The attack
continued till late in the night and the loss was said to be quite
extensive.
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June 21
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Two persons, identified as Pankaj
Singh alias Pintu and Bhuvaneshwar Ganjhu, were taken hostage
and subsequently killed in an attack by around 70 CPI-Maoist on
a school classroom, a cluster resource centre and four rooms of
a Jain dharamsala (pilgrim house) at Vashisth Nagar in
the Chatra district of Jharkhand. The Maoists also left pamphlets
on the spot labelling the victims as police informers and warning
others of similar consequences. The dharamsala’s caretaker,
Nemichand Jain, was also assaulted.
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July 1
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up house
of a suspected police informer and abducted his brother in the
Gaya district of Bihar. According to the report, nearly 100 Maoists
used dynamites to blow up the house of one Shivbachan Yadav and
abducted his brother Bindeshwar Yadav as Shivbachan was not present
there at the time of attack. The Maoists also looted valuables
worth over INR 100,000.
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July 15
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Around 100 armed Maoists along
with 500 supporters had carried out an attack on the house of
a contractor and local BJP leader at the MV-41 village of Malkangiri
district. They had also blocked the roads leading to the village
by felling trees at MV-126 and MV-96 villages. The contractor’s
house was ransacked, his relatives assaulted and a jeep, a tractor
and two bikes owned by him were set ablaze. The contractor was
saved as he was away and could not return back due to the road
blockade by Maoists.
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August
19 |
CPI-Maoist cadres looted a provisions store and
beat up the guards of a coffee plantation run by the Andhra Pradesh
Forest Development Corporation (APFDC) in Teemulabanda village
of GK Veedhi mandal area in the Visakhapatnam district.
Police sources said that a group of 20 armed Maoists along with
nearly 70 sympathisers looted rice and essential commodities from
the provisions store owned by a non-tribal, Pula Reddy, and also
decamped with his TV, some cash and other articles from his house.
Later, they entered the Teemulabanda and Marripakala Coffee Plantation
and beat up the guards for not having heeded their warning last
year that non-tribals should not enter the plantation.
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