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Maoist Timeline - 2006
Andhra
Pradesh
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Incidents
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January 3
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Senior CPI-Maoist
'Polit Bureau' and 'central committee' member and chief of its
'central-eastern regional bureau' monitoring the political affairs
in Orissa and Chhattisgarh, B. Narayan Sanyal alias Navin,
is arrested at Bhadrachalam in the Khammam District.
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January 13
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CPI-Maoist cadres
trigger a series of landmine blasts targeting a Police party combing
the forests of Murmur village in the Wajeedu area of Khammam District.
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January 18
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CPI-Maoist cadres
kill the driver of a mechanised boat and blasted three boats used
for fishing in river Krishna at Kayavardha in the Guntur District.
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January 25
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CPI-Maoist cadres
shot dead a civilian, Boya Kadireppa, at Bandameedipalli village
in the Rapthadu area of Anantapur District.
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February 4
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CPI-Maoist cadres
shot dead a civilian, Chetawat Gopal, a native of Usmankunta in
the Chandampet mandal (administrative division) of Nalgonda District.
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February 6
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Three CPI-Maoist
cadres, including a woman, are killed in an encounter with the
Police at Malakondapenta in the Racharla mandal of Prakasam District.
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February 7
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Police kill two CPI-Maoist
cadres near Karampudi village in the Guntur District.
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February 8
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A CPI-Maoist cadre
belonging to the Krishnapatti dalam (squad) is killed during an
exchange of fire with the Police at Morjhampadu village in the
Machavaram area of Guntur District.
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March 8
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Maoists kill Police
head constable M. D. Jahangeer Ali, while he was on duty at Kondanagul
Government Junior College for Intermediate Public Examinations.
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March 9
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Three Naxalites of
the CPI-ML Praja Prathighatana group are killed in an exchange
of fire with the Police in the forests of Singaram village in
the Adavi Mutharam mandal of Karimnagar District.
Two CPI-Maoist cadres
were killed in an encounter with the Police near Banala village
in the Nallamala forests of Mahabubnagar District.
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March 11
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Four Maoists were
killed during an encounter with the Police conducting combing
operations in the Bukkapatnam forest area of Anantapur District.
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March 15
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A surrendered CPI-Maoist
cadre was hacked to death by Maoists near Pandimadugu village
in the Nizamabad District.
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March 19
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CPI-Maoist cadres
shot dead two minor children, alleging that they acted as 'coverts'
at Pedda Bommalapuram village of Dornala mandal in the Prakasam
District.
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March 24
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Two cadres of the
CPI-Maoist, Managalla Venkati and Manda Kanakalashmi, surrendered
before the Nizamabad Police.
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March 28
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17 Naxalites belonging
to various groups, including five of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered
to the Police in Warangal.
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March 30
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A left-wing extremist
of the Adivasi Liberation Tigers, Tholem Papa Rao alias
Nuthan, was killed in an exchange of fire with the Police at Elukurthy
village in the Warangal District.
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March 31
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A group of CPI-Maoist
cadres blasted a portion of the Panchayati Raj department’s deputy
executive engineer office at Eturunagaram village in the Warangal
District.
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April 2
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Five CPI-Maoist cadres,
including three women, were killed in an encounter with the Police
in a forest near the Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border.
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April 4
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Anantapur District
Police arrested a Maoist, Venkatrami Reddy, and seized Rs 300,000
in cash.
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April 7
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Three CPI-Maoist
cadres were killed at Katapur forest in the Warangal District.
Another Maoist, identified
as Manthani 'area action team commander' Tholem Bapu alias
Devender, was killed in an exchange of fire with Police personnel
on the outskirts of Nimmagudem village in the Karimnagar District.
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April 8
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Police shot dead
Atram Hanmanthu alias Karan, ‘commander’ of the Narnoor
squad of the CPI-Maoist, in an exchange of fire in the Adilabad
District.
A Legislator belonging
to the Congress party, Udumula Sreenivas Reddy, escaped a landmine
attack by the CPI-Maoist at Kakarla in the Ongole District.
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April 13
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Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister Y.S. Rajashekara Reddy, participating in the second meeting
of the Standing Committee of the Chief Ministers of the Naxalite-affected
States in New Delhi said that the problem of Naxalites was by
and large under control in the State and claimed that the policy
of treating it both as law and order and socio-economic problem
was appreciated.
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April 21
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Four Naxalites belonging
to the CPI-ML Praja Prathighatana group were killed in an encounter
with the Police in the Katapur forest area of Warangal District.
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April 23
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Two Police personnel
were injured in three landmine blasts in the Pedapadu forest area
in G.K. Veedhi mandal of Visakhapatnam District.
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April 24
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres,
Konda Mavula alias Azad, aged 20, and a 15-year-old girl,
were arrested during a joint combing operation by the Andhra Pradesh
and Orissa Police near Pedabayalu in the Visakhapatnam District.
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April 27
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Two persons, including
a former Mandal president linked to a former chairperson of the
Mines and Minerals Development Corporation, were arrested while
carrying cash, communication equipment and explosives meant for
Maoists on the outskirts of Khammam town.
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April 28
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11 cadres of the
CPI-Maoist, including some women, were killed by the Andhra Pradesh
Police deep inside a forest on the border of the Cuddapah and
Chittoor Districts.
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April 30
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Five CPI-Maoist
cadres hijacked two motorised launches along with nine crew-members
from the Nagarjunakonda reservoir, but four of them were later
killed in an encounter at Maddimadugu in the Mahbubnagar District.
Two Maoists were
killed in encounter between Srisailam-Dornala road and Pedaarutla
village in the Prakasam District.
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May 2
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Three buses were
set ablaze by the CPI-Maoist cadres near Farahabad in the Amrabad
mandal of Mahabubnagar District.
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May 3
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Police unearthed
four landmines near Tadvai village on the Atchampet-Madipadu Road
in Guntur District.
CPI-Maoist cadres
blasted the house of a primary agricultural credit societies employee
at Polishettypally village in the Mahabubnagar District.
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May 7
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Maoists of Suhakar
dalam (squad) raided the houses of CPI-ML (New Democracy) supporters
in Bironimadava village in the Khammam District and assaulted
20 villagers.
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May 9
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Mahabubnagar District
Police arrested two irrigation contractors in a case relating
to the handing over of Rupees Five million and a box of 200 gelatin
sticks to the CPI-Maoist in April 2006.
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May 21
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A woman CPI-Maoist
cadre, Kothapalli Chandrakala alias Jaya, was killed in
an exchange of fire with the Police at Magaturthanada in the Prakasam
District.
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May 22
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Union Home Minister
Shivraj Patil, speaking in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament)
that there will be no dialogue with the Maoists unless they agreed
to abjure violence and give up arms.
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May 28
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CPI-Maoist cadres
fired on a Central Reserve Police Force contingent at a weekly
market at Sileru in the Vishakapatnam District, killing one CRPF
personnel.J
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une 1
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist
triggered a bomb blast targeting a telephone exchange at Satyanarayanapuram
in the Khammam District.
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June 6
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Three suspected
cadres of the CPI-Maoist, believed to be members of the Andhra-Orissa
Border Committee, were killed in an encounter with the Police
between Tangana Kota and Singana Kota hamlets of interior Patakota
in the East Godavari District.
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June 16
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A member of State
and Central Committees of the CPI-Maoist leader, Mattam Ravikumar
alias Sridhar alias Anil, was killed in an encounter
with the Police in the interior Nallamala forest area.
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June 17
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Three Maoists were
killed in an encounter with the Police at Somamdepalli village
in the Prakasam District.
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June 18
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CPI-Maoist Palnadu
‘platoon commander', identified as Suresh, was killed in an encounter
with a special Police party team at Ramapuram crossroads near
Dachepalli in the Guntur District. Two Maoists were killed in
an encounter with the Police near Marrimalla village, close to
the banks of the Godavari in the Khammam District.
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June 19
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Maoists set ablaze
one jeep and two mini buses and broke two Andhra Pradesh State
Regional Transport Corporation buses at China Arutla near Srisailam
in the Kurnool District following the killing of the Maoist ‘central
committee member’, Mattam Ravikumar.
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June 21
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Two CPI–Maoist cadres,
including ‘District committee secretary’ Jagadeesh, were killed
in an encounter with the Police at Edugurallapalli forest near
Chintoor in the Khammam District.
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June 25
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Maoists triggered
an explosion damaging the residence of a former State Legislator
and Congress party leader, Pasupuleti Balaraju, at an unspecified
place under G. K. Veedhi Police station in the Vishakapatnam District.
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June 27
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At least eight CPI-Maoist
cadres were killed in an encounter with the Police personnel at
Amrabad near Mallayyapenta village in the Mahabubnagar District.
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July 3
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‘Commander’ of Atchampet
‘local guerrilla squad’ of the CPI-Maoist, Outu Kurumaiah alias
Murali, was killed in an exchange of fire with Police near Rayavaram
village in the Mahabubnagar District.
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July 10
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CPI-Maoist cadres
shot dead a Congress party leader at Gangavaram village in the
Prakasam District.
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July 13
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A former Maoist,
Nimmala Durgaiah, was shot dead by CPI-Maoist cadres in Kalvapalli
village in the Warangal District.
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July 14
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Police arrested
CPI-Maoist ‘Sabari area committee’, Mudraboina Sampath alias
Saleem alias Suryam along with his wife Jadi Sammakka alias
Shakuntala, ‘commander of the Chintoor local organisational squad’,
in the Bhadrachalam division of Khammam District.
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July 15
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CPI-Maoist ‘Nallamala
Area Committee member’ Telugu Pochaiah alias Venu was shot
dead in an encounter with the Police at Nallakalva in Kurnool
District.
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July 18
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CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a Police personnel near Ravulapuram village of Bollapalli
mandal in Guntur District when he was on his way to issue summons
to some persons in the village.
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July 13
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CPI-Maoist ‘Andhra
State Secretary’, Burra Chennaiah alias Madhav was killed
in an encounter along with seven Maoists, including five women,
near Davaboyinapenta village in the Nallamala forest of Prakasam
District.
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July 26
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CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a Congress party activist at Vaddimatla village in the
Nalgonda District.
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July 31
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The Telangana Rashtra
Samithi District committee leader Rupu Reddy Ravinder Reddy was
shot dead by armed Naxalites of the CPI (ML)-New Democracy in
Gandhamapalli village under the Bayyaram Police station limits
of Khammam District.
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August 2
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A Congress party
activist was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres near Kanchipalli village
in the Prakasam District.
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August 5
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In fierce fighting
between Greyhounds personnel of the Andhra Pradesh Police and
CPI-Maoist cadres near Ahobilam in the Nallamala forest of Kurnool
District, a Police personnel and a Maoist were killed.
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August 6
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Following the encounter
on August 5 in the Kurnool District that resulted in the death
of a Maoist cadre and a security force (SF) personnel, another
encounter between the fleeing Maoists and the SFs took place in
the same area leading to the death of one more Maoist.
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August 8
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M. Ramani, a CPI-Maoist
cadre belonging to the ‘Nagavali Area Committee’ that is active
along the Andhra Orissa Border, was taken into custody by the
Police from a private hospital at Palasa in the Srikakulam District.
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August 11
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The Andhra Pradesh
Government decided to extend the ban on the CPI-Maoist and six
of its frontal organisations by another year till August 16, 2007.
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August 18
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CPI-Maoist cadres
attacked the Atmakur Police station in Nalgonda District and killed
a Sub-Inspector (SI), an Assistant SI and a home guard.
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August 19
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A ‘Local Guerilla
Squad (LGS) commander’ of the CPI-Maoist and two dalam (squad)
members surrendered before the Police in Karimnagar District.
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August 25
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Two dalam members
of the CPI-Maoist surrendered before the Anantapur District Superintendent
of Police Sanjay Kumar Jain.
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August 28
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The Nizamabad District
Police arrested three persons for extorting money for the CPI-Maoist.
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August 30
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Union Home Secretary
informed that Andhra Pradesh witnessed declined levels of Naxalite
violence during the first seven months of 2006 as compared to
the same period last year. As against only 20 civilian deaths
till July 31, 2006, the State reported 126 deaths during the same
period in 2005, he said. There were 24 casualties in 119 incidents
till July 31, 2006 as compared to 114 casualties in 376 incidents
till July 31, 2005 in Andhra Pradesh.
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August 31
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Communist Party
of India (Marxist Leninist) Janashakti ‘Central Committee secretary’
Kura Rajaiah alias Rajanna and four other ‘State Committee’
leaders of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh were
arrested from a bus stand in the Barabanki District of Uttar Pradesh.
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September 2
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Armed cadres of
the CPI-ML Praja Pratighatana group killed a former Naxalite,
Cheema Bakkaraju of Pagideru village in the Bayyaram area of Khammam
District, accusing him of being a Police informer.
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September 5
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Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy said that during the last three
years, over 8,000 Maoist cadres had surrendered and Maoist violence
was under control with security forces gaining the upper hand.
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September 8
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In one of the biggest-ever
haul of weapons in the country, the Andhra Pradesh Police recovered
600 unloaded rockets, 275 unassembled rockets, 27 rocket launchers,
70 gelatine sticks and other explosive material belonging to the
Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) from the Mahabubnagar
and Prakasam Districts. While 16 rocket launchers and 600 rocket
shells packed in 53 gunny bags were seized at Jangireddypalli
village in Mahabubnagar District, another 275 rocket launchers
packed in 27 bags were recovered from an unclaimed consignment
in Kranthi Transport company, a private cargo mover, in the Giddalur
town of Prakasam District.
CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a youth, Sunder Rao, in the Mummuru village of Khammam
District, accusing him to be a Police informer.
Kiran alias
Kantaiah, a left wing extremist of the CPI-ML Praja Pratighatana,
was killed in an encounter with the Police in the Kachanapalli
forests of Khammam District.
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September 10
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In Mahabubnagar
District, Police recovered 19 landmines buried under a road between
Molachintalapally-Pedduti in the Nallamalla forest area during
search operations.
Police recovered
1200 gelatin sticks from the Puttaparthy area of Anantapur District
which was transported in Tamarind bags through Kranthi parcel
service.
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September 11
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Police at Vijayawada
in Andhra Pradesh recovered 297 rocket shells, six rocket launchers
and other material from four scrap dealers in Autonagar.
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September 13
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Two Naxalites belonging
to the CPI (ML) Janashakti were killed in an exchange of fire
between a 12-member Naxalite squad and a Police party in the forest
near Yarravaram in West Godavari District.
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September 14
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Special team in
the Tamil Nadu’s Q Branch Police identified the industrial unit
in Ambattur that manufactured the arms consignment seized in Mahabubnagar
in Andhra Pradesh on September 8 and arrested an employee of the
unit, Anthony.
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September 15
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CPI-Maoist’s ‘Karimnagar
East Division Maoist Committee secretary’ Alwala Saraiah alias
Madhu was killed along with three women cadres, Nirmala, Padma
and Prameela alias Geetha, in an encounter with the Police
inside the Tadvai forest area of Warangal District.
A special team of
the Nalgonda Police killed two Maoists, a ‘District Committee
member’, Cherukuri Rattaiah alias Murali and member of
the Kanagal dalam (squad) Veeraswamy alias Dayanand, at
Teldevarapally.
Special Police parties
and Greyhound teams arrested a CPI (ML) Janashakti Naxalite Konda
Sanjeeva Reddy in the Eluru area of West Godavari District and
based on the information given by him, two more Naxalites were
arrested in Mamidivalasa.
Police unearthed
three powerful landmines, planted by Maoists on the road between
Kollapur and Somasila in the Mahabubnagar District.
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September 16
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Seven persons were
arrested in Tamil Nadu in a case relating to the seizure of empty
rocket shells and launchers in Andhra Pradesh. These included
the agent of a lorry transport company that moved the arms consignment.
However, two persons, Raghu, who booked the consignments in the
name of Srinivas Reddy, and his wife Sudharani of Nellore, both
belonging to a Naxalite group in Andhra Pradesh, evaded arrest.
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September 18
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CPI-Maoist ‘deputy
commander’ of its Penna Ahobilam dalam (squad), Venkatesh alias
Babu, was killed in an encounter with the Police near Korrakodu
in the Kuderu area of Anantapur District.
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September 22
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Three Naxalites
of the CPI-ML Praja Pratighatana faction were killed in an encounter
with the Police in the core area of the Kinnerasani wildlife sanctuary
in Khammam District. Some of the other Naxalites managed to escape.
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September 22
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Five CPI-Maoist
cadres, including two girls, surrendered before the Police in
Visakhapatnam.
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September 27
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A CPI-Maoist cadre,
Kunjam Venkateswarulu alias Sampat, surrendered before
the East Godavari District Police in Rajahmundry.
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September 28
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The CPI-Maoist ‘Dandakaranya
Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) combat platoon commander’ Tappetla
Devender alias Mogili alias Jalandhar and ‘deputy
commander’ Modium Laxmi surrendered in the presence of Superintendent
of Police, Soumya Mishra, in Warangal on September 28.
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October 2
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Three cadres of
the CPI-Maoist ‘Local Organised Squad (LOS)’ of Charla and Venkatapuram
surrendered to the Police in Khammam.
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October 6
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The secretary of
Nallamala Forest Division Committee and member of four-man state
committee of the CPI-Maoist, Samala Venkatesu alias Sudarshan
or Satyam, was killed in an encounter with the Police in the forest
area of Nallamala in the Anantapur District. Another State Committee
member, Obulesu alias Zaheer, was injured in the incident.
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October 7
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A member of East
Division Gurtedu Area Committee of the CPI-Maoist, K Ramulu alias
RK, was killed in an encounter with the Police near Gorlagondi
village in the Visakhapatnam District. After the encounter, a
Maoist identified as Sindri Giri, who was accompanying Ramulu,
surrendered to the Police.
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October 7
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Maoist ‘deputy commander’
belonging to the Manmgi Dalam, Jungnaka Jaithu alias Amruth
alias Vinod, surrendered before the Adilabad District Superintendent
of Police, Kripanand Tripathi Ujela.
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October 8
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Nalgonda District
Police arrested a cadre of the CPI-Maoist, Mohammad Abbas alias
Ramesh, in connection with the attack on Atmakur (M) Police station
on August 18, 2006.
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October 8
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Police unearthed
a Maoist dump and recovered eight landmines near Kaligote forest
area in the Nizamabad District and arrested three Maoists, including
a TDP Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency member.
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October 12
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The CPI-Maoist called
for a bandh (general strike) in the Nallamala forest areas extending
across the Prakasam, Kurnool, Mahabubnagar and Guntur Districts
to protest against the killing of a top leader, Sudarsan, in an
alleged fake encounter with the Police in Anantapur District on
October 6.
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October 12
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CPI-Maoist cadres
abducted and subsequently killed a contractor and a Sarpanch (village
head) of Anantaram in the Manguru sub-division of Khammam District.
The Maoists had branded both as Police informers.
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October 14
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An unidentified
woman CPI-Maoist activist was killed and a Police constable injured
in an exchange of fire in the Mangi forest area of Adilabad District.
One 303 rifle, a DBBL gun and six bags were recovered from the
incident site.
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October 15
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Commander of the
CPI-Maoist Kalwakurthy dalam, Raju alias Kiran, was killed
in an encounter with the Police near Lingasanipalle village in
the Kalwakurthy area of Mahabubnagar District.
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October 15
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Kone Kedandam, secretary
of the Konadabaridi Dalam, surrendered before the District Police
chief in Srikakulam due to ill health.
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October 17
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A top CPI-Maoist
operative, Srinivas Reddy, the mastermind behind the fabrication
of rocket launchers being used by extremists, surrendered to the
Police along with his wife Sudharani in the Warangal District.
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October 18
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Four CPI-Maoist
cadres were killed in an explosion, while trying to assemble a
landmine using slurry, salt, iron wires and other material, at
Amudalapalli village in the Warangal District. One of the dead
was identified as Pothuraju Rayakomru alias Ramakanth,
the Chityala local organising squad commander.
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October 18
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Arika Rama, a member
of the Local Guerilla Squad of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered before
the Srikakulam District Superintendent of Police Manish Kumar
Sinha.
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October 21
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CPI-Maoist extremists
killed the elder brother of Member of Legislative Assembly from
Achampet, C. Vamsi Krishna, at Elmapally in the Amrabad area of
Mahabubnagar District.
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October 24
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Police recovered
three directional mines, each weighing 400 kilograms, from a huge
dump in the forest near Peddavalasa of GK Veedhi area in the Visakhapatnam
District.
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October 28
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Bandi Hema, a ‘squad
area committee’ (SAC) member and a ‘local guerilla squad deputy
commander’ of the Maoists, surrendered before the Superintendent
of Police, D.S. Chauhan, in the Karimnagar District.
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October 29
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CPI-Maoist cadres
set ablaze a poclain at Lingavarigudem in the Nalgonda District
in protest against "the series of encounters in the State."
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October 30
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Pagadal Rangaiah,
brother of a sitting Congress party legislator of Giddulur, was
killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres in the Prakasam District.
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October 30
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Police personnel
exchanged fire with the Maoists near Narlapur forest area in the
Warangal District.
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November 3
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Nalgonda District
Police arrested four CPI-Maoist collaborators who had set ablaze
a poclain at Lingamvaarigudem in the Samsthan Narayanapur area
on October 29.
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November 9
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CPI-Maoist cadres
shot dead a Congress party leader, Sreemanthula Seetarama Rao,
at Marrugudem village in the Khammam District.
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November 9
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A special Police
party defused nine landmines placed on the highway between Marrigudem
and Kamaram villages in the Warangal District.
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November 10
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Nine CPI-Maoist
cadres, including the State Committee member and Rayalaseema divisional
committee secretary Obulesu, were killed in an encounter with
the Police in the Gopavaram reserve forests of Kadapa District.
The others include Obulesu’s wife, Prasanthi, who was Guntur District
secretary and Mallkarjuna, Anantapur District secretary.
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November 10
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Two Naxalites belonging
to Prathighatana group were killed near Polakonda hillocks in
the Warangal District. They were identified as Ghanapuram Seenu,
the Warangal Nalgonda zonal committee secretary and K. Kondaiah,
the Jangoan area committee secretary of the outfit.
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November 11
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Eight Maoists belonging
to various left-wing extremist groups surrendered before the Police
in the presence of Superintendent of Police Soumya Mishra in the
Warangal District. The surrendered included three from the CPI-Maoist,
one from the Praja Prathighatana, one Praja Prathighatana (Godavari
Valley) cadre, two from the Prathighatana and one ‘deputy commander’
of New Democracy.
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November 19
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A teacher was injured
after three CPI-Maoist cadres fired shots at him, suspecting him
to be a Police informer, at Devanapeta in the Warangal District.
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November 20
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Telugu Desam Party
leader Gottipati Srinivasa Rao of Amannagudipadu village in the
Ongole District was shot at and wounded by five CPI-Maoist cadres.
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November 21
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The Nalgonda District
Police uncovered a huge arms dump of the Maoists at Rachakonda
hills under the Narayanpur Police station limits. The seizure
included five SBBL guns, 11 grenades, 6 'tiffin bombs', 36 detonators,
four directional mines, one claymore mine, two packets of explosives,
15 SBBL cartridges, three bundles of electrical wire, a camera
flash, a multimeter, a battery and two pairs of olive-green uniforms.
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November 24
|
CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a leader of the ruling Congress party, Rami Reddy, president
of Bollapalle Mandal Praja Parishad, at Vinukonda in the Guntur
District. Police killed a Maoist during an encounter in the East
Godavari District. Two grenades, one 9 mm pistol and Maoist literature
were recovered from the encounter site.
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November 25
|
A top CPI-Maoist
leader, Gautam alias Bandareddy Subba Rao, was killed in
an encounter with the Police near Bandigadda village in the East
Godavari District.
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November 28
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre
was killed in an encounter with the Police in the Battenapalli
forest area of Khammam District, bordering the State of Chhattisgarh.
Police recovered a 303-rifle, one SBBL gun and 20 rounds of ammunition,
besides one camera flash from the incident site.
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December 4
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres,
including a woman, surrendered before Police in the Medak District.
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December 2-5
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The Anantapur District
Police recovered a large number of rockets, landmines and claymore
mines by unearthing four dumps of the CPI-Maoist. Giving details
to the media on December 6, Superintendent of Police, M.S. Ravindra,
said the dumps were unearthed during the combing operations by
Police in the Palyam forest area in Mudigubba mandal (administrative
division), near Payakati cheruvu in Nallamada mandal and Batrepalli
forest area in Kadiri mandal. Landmines and claymore mines were
found on the Mudigubba-Bukkapatnam road, in Puttaparthi mandal
and near Bilvampalli village.
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December 5
|
A huge arms dump,
reportedly belonging to the Maoists, was recovered by the Police
in Srikakulam District. According to Police sources, the arms
dump consisted of mainly blasting material.
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December 8
|
Three left-wing
extremists belonging to the CPI-ML Praja Pratighatana were killed
in an encounter with the Police on the Basigutta hillocks near
Kothagudem in the Khammam District. The killed extremists included
District secretary of the outfit, Subash alias Badida Rammurthy,
and another important member of the party, Mankidi Lakshmaiah
alias Nagulu.
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December 8
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Police arrested
three couriers working for different left-wing dalams in the Bayyaram
area of Khammam District and recovered a pistol from them.
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December 9
|
Eight CPI-Maoist
cadres surrendered in the Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh.
They were identified as Pattabhi alias Mahesh, E. Narayana
alias Bhupathi, Muthyalu alias Chandra, Muthyalamma
alias Geeta, Nagesh alias Anji, B. Manjunatha alias
Prasad, T. Malati alias Bhagya and Rajasekhar alias
Vasu.
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December 12
|
Police personnel
unearthed an arms dump, belonging to the CPI-Maoist, on a huge
hillock at Chittapur Kancha in Ibrahimpatnam near the State capital
Hyderabad. Four quintals of gelatine sticks, six loaded claymore
mines, eight empty claymore mines, two hand grenades, 100 electrical
detonators and wires, 33 live SLR rounds and 19 live .303 rifle
rounds were hidden in drums at three places in the forest.
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December 14
|
Two Naxalites, including
Rachakonda Narayana alias Kiran, commander of Yellandu
dalam (squad) of the Praja Prathighatana group, were killed in
an encounter with the Police near Moddulagudem village in the
Warangal District.
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December 16
|
A special party
of the Guntur District Police unearthed an arms dump belonging
to the CPI-Maoist in the forest area between Papaipalem and Veerammakunta
Thanda of Bollapalli mandal.
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December 22
|
Anantapur District
Police recovered three powerful landmines laid under the road
between Nadimigaddapalli and Bilvampalli villages of Dharmavaram
rural mandal.
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December 28
|
The ‘eastern division
commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, Varkapur Chandramouli alias
Devanna, and his wife Jyothakka were killed during a shootout
with the Police in the forests of Visakhapatnam District.
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December 31
|
Three CPI-Maoist
cadres were killed in an encounter with Police in the forests
of Khammam District.
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Jharkhand
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Date
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Incidents
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January 1
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze six
dumper vehicles and injured six labourers engaged in the laying
of a railway track between Parmatand and Marham villages in the
Hazaribagh District.
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January 4
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a wall
at an under construction Police quarters' site in the Lesliganj
area of Palamau District.
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January 7
|
4000 gelatine sticks, weighing
about three quintal packed in 20 boxes, were seized from a vehicle
and five persons were arrested in this connection in Ranchi District.
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January 15
|
A Railway Protection Force personnel
is killed in an encounter with cadres of the CPI-Maoist in the
Chaibasa area of West Singhbhum District.
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January 26
|
CPI-Maoist cadres exchange gunfire
with Police in the Manoharpur area of West Singhbhum District.
Bodies of two Police personnel and two Maoists were recovered
from the forests.
In Chatra District, one Police
personnel and a villager were killed after Maoists blew up a culvert
on the Simria main road.
In the Giridih District, two villagers
were killed in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists.
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January 26
|
In Palamu District, an unspecified
number of CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the Hariharganj Police station
and Chattarpur Deputy Superintendent of Police’s bungalow-cum-office.
10 Maoists were killed or injured in the subsequent encounter
between the two sides.
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January 31
|
A Special Task Force (STF) personnel
is killed and three others were injured in an exchange of fire
with CPI-Maoist cadres at Manjhipara village under Kunda Police
station in the Chatra District.
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February 1
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre is killed and
three woman cadres are arrested during an encounter with the Police
in the Lalgara forest area under the Chhatarpur Police station
of Palamu District.
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February 6
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blow up a portion
of the Karampeda railway station in the West Singhbhum District.
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February 8
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre is killed while
five Police personnel are injured during an encounter at Horli
village in the Bokaro District.
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February 28
|
Two civilians were killed by CPI-Maoist
in Chatra District.
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March 3
|
CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a Central
Industrial Security Force (CISF) camp and a Police outpost near
Chandrapura in the Bokaro District, killing seven SF personnel.
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March 4
|
Police shot dead Maoist 'zonal
commander', Jagannath Koira, and arrested another Maoist in an
encounter at Khukhuma under Bisanpur Police station of Palamu
District.
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March 13
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist captured
the 628 Down Barwadih-Mughalsarai passenger train carrying more
than 100 passengers near the Heyagarha station in Latehar District.
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March 17
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed four
Jharkhand Armed Police personnel, after burning down a passenger
bus near Kalimati village in the Panki Police station jurisdiction
of Palamau District.
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March 20
|
Police killed ten CPI-Maoist cadres
in an encounter on the Jharkhand-Bihar border.
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March 22
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot
dead a forest guard and injured another one on the Hazaribag-Bagodar
National Highway in Hazaribagh District.
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March 26
|
Five CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered
in Giridih before the District Superintendent of Police Arun Kumar
Singh.
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March 29
|
Six Police personnel, including
the officer in-charge of the Dumaria Police station, sustained
injuries when cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered a landmine blast
near Bakrakota hills in the East Singhbhum District. The Police
claimed to have killed five Maoists in an hour-long encounter
with the Maoists following the blast, although no bodies could
be recovered from the spot.
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April 12
|
A group of 40 Maoists abducted
six persons engaged in a bridge construction at Dasligaon, on
the National Highway number 23 bordering Gumla and Simdega District.
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April 18
|
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered three
powerful explosions damaging three buildings under construction
in the Police Line, a kilometer away from Chatra town. The incident
occurred during the 24-hour bandh (shutdown) called by the Maoists
in the Garhwa, Seraikela-Kharsawan and East Singhbhum Districts.
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April 19
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze a
machine and two vehicles of a construction company at Gola in
the Hazaribagh District.
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April 20
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the
ancestral house of Jharkhand Water Resources Minister Kamlesh
Kumar Singh at Kamgarpur village in the Palamau District.
Jharkhand Home Minister, Sudesh
Mahto, announced a surrender policy claiming that Jharkhand is
the first State in the country to formulate such an attractive
scheme.
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April 22
|
Maoists set ablaze a contractor’s
truck near Tubet river in the Latehar District.
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April 23
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed one of
their former activists, Jagdish Sao, at Bagra village in the Chatra
District.
Police recovered two bombs along
the railway tracks between Jonha and Kita railway stations in
Ranchi.
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April 24
|
Maoists blew up of a Police picket
at Mcluiskieganj under Khelari Police station area.
Hazaribagh District Police arrests
a Maoist, Ramvikash Yadav, from Chouparan.
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April 27
|
Police seized 1818 detonators,
773 gelatin sticks, 180 fuse wire, 13 kilograms of explosive material,
two to three kilogram of chemicals and other explosives from a
Maoist hideout in the Khunti village of Ranchi District.
A senior CPI-Maoist leader, Marshal
Tuti, was arrested during a raid conducted in Tamar, Arki and
Bundu Police station areas of Ranchi District.
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|
April 30
|
A woman cadre of the CPI-Maoist
was killed and another injured in an encounter between security
forces and Maoists at Sukhnadi village in the Garwah District.
Maoists blew up a Police picket
at Khukra village in the Giridih District.
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|
May 1
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a house
at Muktama village in the Chatra District.
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May 2
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the
Panchayat (local self-government) building and community centre
with six rooms at Khukhra village in the Giridih District.
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|
May 4
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested from Nawadih.
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May 12
|
Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Prakash Orang alias Deepak, and recovered
Rupees 90,000 in cash from his possession from Helsalong area
under Khelari Police station in the Ranchi District.
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|
May 13
|
A suspected Maoist was reportedly
shot at and injured while another was arrested after a shootout
at Ranka in the Garwah District.
|
|
May 21
|
Police arrested four CPI-Maoist
cadres along with three Police rifles, 14 live cartridges and
Naxal literature from the Garhwa District.
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|
May 24
|
At Meghania village in the Chatra
District, a group of suspected Maoists blew up a school building.
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May 28
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres set
ablaze four trucks and construction equipment belonging to a Jamshedpur-based
firm near Ghorebandha in East Singhbhum District, for failing
to pay up the ‘levy’ demanded.
Police arrested four CPI-Maoist
cadres while they were going to attend a jan adalat (kangaroo
court) in Bajto village under Muffassil Police station of Giridih
District.
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|
June 1
|
At least 12 Police personnel
were killed when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a landmine explosion
in the West Singhbhum District.
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June 3
|
Maoists kill three civilians
in the Hadian village under the Ghorabandha Police station of
Jamshedpur District.
Bokaro Police arrested a member
of the Maoist central Jharkhand area committee, identified as
Sukhram Manjhi, from the Khirachatar village in Kasmar block.
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June 12
|
Security forces neutralised a
Maoist hideout in the Jhumra hills between Aman and Beltharwa
village and reportedly recovered a diary, that contained information
about the donors and supporters of the ‘Red brigade’, along with
Rupees 1.37 lakh, detonators, gelatine sticks and Maoist literature.
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June 14
|
CPI-Maoist gives a two-day economic
blockade call beginning from June 14 in the State of Jharkhand
while threatening to punish those who defy it.
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|
June 20
|
A postman, Digvijay Singh, was
shot dead by the CPI-Maoist cadres at an unspecified place in
the Bokaro District.
|
|
June 22
|
CPI-Maoist kills five unidentified
cadres of its splinter outfit, Maoist Communist Centre (MCC-TC),
in a factional clash at Bhuiandih village in the Chatra District.
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|
June 26
|
At least 400 Maoists attacked
a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp killing one CRPF personnel
in the Hazaribagh District.
|
|
July 15
|
Two sympathisers of the extremist
group, Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC) were killed by cadres
of the rival CPI -Maoist in Gogo village of Palamu District.
|
|
July 20
|
An ‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist
is arrested at Latehar with three guns and ammunition from his
possession.
|
|
July 26
|
Jharkhand Police arrest Phul
Kumari alias Phulo, the 25-year-old chief of the CPI-Maoist
women’s wing in Chhattisgarh.
|
|
August 6
|
Security force personnel killed
three Maoists at Garmorwa near Lohawat Pahaad, between the Hazaribagh
District of Jharkhand and Gaya District of Bihar.
|
|
August 14
|
Security force personnel claimed
to have shot dead at least two Maoists during an encounter near
Bitikilsoya inside Saranda forest in the West Singhbhum District.
|
|
August 22
|
Two Police personnel were killed
and another injured in six landmine blasts triggered by the CPI-Maoist
cadres at two different places under Barwadih Police station of
Latehar District.
|
|
August 31
|
Jharkhand Police reportedly arrested
a hardcore Maoist cadre, Pradeep Mondal alias Mahesjee
alias Gopalji, from Itwa under Ghatshila Police station
in the East Singhbhum District.
The State Government sought additional
funds from the Union government to augment its delivery mechanism
and development initiatives to deal with the Naxalite problem.
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|
September 6
|
Three Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) personnel were injured in a Maoist-triggered claymore
mine explosion at Jhumra hill in the Bokaro District.
|
|
September 17
|
Police arrested ten people, including
five minor girls, for allegedly helping CPI-Maoist cadres from
a forest under Manika Police station area in the Latehar District.
|
|
October 15
|
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered an
explosion on a railway track at Chegdo in the Giridih District
damaging four metre-long track.
|
|
October 19
|
Security force personnel seized
500 detonators, about 55 kg of explosive materials and landmine
laying materials belonging to the Maoists from a house at Batdigha
village in the Hazaribagh District.
|
|
October 22
|
CPI-Maoist cadres abducted and
killed a couple at Vishnugarh in the Hazaribagh District on suspicion
that they were Police informers.
|
|
October 31
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a vacated
building close to two security force personnel camps, one belonging
to the Border Security Force and the other to the Central Reserve
Police Force near Madhuban Police outpost in the Giridih District.
Two landmines, each weighing 15 kilograms, were subsequently recovered
from an adjacent building.
|
|
October 31
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a building
close to two security force personnel camps near Madhuban Police
outpost in the Giridih District. Two landmines, each weighing
15 kilograms, were subsequently recovered from an adjacent building.
|
|
November 24
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a school
building in the Latehar District. Superintendent of Police Ravikant
Dhan said, ''The naxalites had targeted the Herhanj primary school
under Balumath Police station area earlier on two occasions".
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|
November 26
|
Two persons, Ajay and Hemant,
were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres at Richughuta village in the
Latehar District.
|
|
November 27
|
A team of security
personnel recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including
hand grenades, detonators, gelatin sticks, binoculars and Maoist
literature from the Lugu Pahadi region of Bokaro.
|
|
December 2
|
Fourteen Police personnel belonging
to the Special Task Force of the Jharkhand Police were killed
and three injured in a landmine blast detonated by suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres at Kanchkir in the Bokaro District.
|
|
December 2
|
A CPI-Maoist was killed in an
encounter with the Police near Chat village in the Palamau District.
|
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December 4
|
Jharkhand sought an additional
50 companies of paramilitary forces to combat Maoist insurgents
in the State. The demand was made to a team of Union Home Ministry
officials who visited the Bokaro District where 14 security force
personnel had been killed in a landmine blast on December 2.
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|
December 10
|
CPI-Maoist cadres stopped the
346 Tata-Kharagpur passenger train near the Kanimouli station
on the Gidhni-Chakulia line in the East Singhbhum District bordering
West Bengal for about two hours. Maoists also looted two rifles
and cash from the Railway Protection Force personnel escorting
the train, snatched walkie-talkie sets from the guard and driver
of the train.
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|
December 13
|
Suspected cadres of the Sangharsh
Jan Mukti Morcha (SJMM), a breakaway faction of the CPI-ML, abducted
a Deputy Manager of the Hindustan Aluminium Corporation Limited,
Yashwant Kumar, along with his private security guard, when they
were returning to the Bagdu mining township of the company.
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December 20
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres carried
out simultaneous raids at Bakulacocha checkpoint of the Dalma
foothill and Pinderbera forest guesthouse atop the hill, around
10-km from Jamshedpur.
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December 27
|
A CPI-Maoist leader, identified
as Malayjee alias Malay Singh alias Preetam da,
believed to be the ‘area commander’ of the region was arrested
in the Ranchi District.
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Bihar
|
Date
|
Incidents
|
|
January 3
|
CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a
former Member of the Legislative Assembly, Hari Prasad, in the
Chainpur area of Bhabua District.
|
|
January 15
|
Seven CPI-Maoist cadres, including
an ‘area commander’, all suspected to be involved in the Jehanabad
District jail attack, are arrested from separate places in the
Patna District.
|
|
January 18
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze 12
tractors of a contractor engaged in constructing a canal at Cherthu-Parbalpur
village in the Nalanda District.
|
|
January 24
|
Maoists attacked a Police outpost
in the Banka District by exploding bombs and stabbed a Police
personnel, critically injuring him.
|
|
January 25
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blow up a culvert
near Azad Bigaha village between Paraiya and Guraru railway stations
in the Gaya District.
|
|
March 5
|
Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist
are killed and two SF personnel sustain injuries as Police foil
an attempt by the former to loot firearms from the Umaria Police
station in Gaya District.
|
|
March 14
|
A 'zonal commander' of the CPI-Maoist,
Satyendra Yadav, who was wanted in connection with the Jehanabad
prison attack, and his associate, Kesar Yadav, were arrested from
Murgiachak village under Bhagwanganj Police station in the Jehanabad
District.
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March 16
|
Armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist
shot dead a former activist of the outfit near Nonpur village
of Begusarai District for allegedly working as a Police informer.
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|
March 20
|
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.
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|
March 27
|
An Assistant Sub-Inspector of
Police and a CPI-Maoist cadre were killed in an encounter near
Nanoura village under Ghorasahan Police station near the India-Nepal
border in East Champaran District.
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|
April 2
|
Armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist
laid siege to the Nadaul railway station in the Patna District
for nearly two hours.
|
|
April 3
|
A Deputy Superintendent of Police,
Akhileshwar Prasad, was killed during an encounter with cadres
of the CPI-Maoist in the Rohtas District.
|
|
April 5
|
CPI-Maoist called for a chakka
jam (transport strike) in Jehanabad District to protest the recent
arrest of its leaders, including the ‘commander’ of the ‘Magadh
zone’ Guddu Sharma alias Arjun, and the ‘Patna rural District
area commander’, Brinda Singh.
The State Auxiliary Police was
formed with around 2,000 ex-army personnel being despatched to
different crime-infested areas to step-up Police operations against
organised crime and Naxalites.
|
|
April 9
|
Maoists blew up a railway station
and portions of a railway track in the Gaya District to enforce
a strike called by them to protest against the arrest of their
top leaders.
|
|
April 21
|
11 suspected activists of the
CPI-Maoist were arrested at Kevari village under Kudra Police
station in the Kaimur District.
|
|
April 24
|
Madanpur block Janata Dal (United)
president Ashok Singh and six of his supporters were killed by
CPI-Maoist cadres near Devjada village in the Aurangabad District.
|
|
April 26
|
Maoists abducted three railway
staff of Narganjo station, eight kilometers from Jhajha under
Kiul-Asansol section of the Eastern Railway, soon after demolishing
the cabin in the halt station.
Maoists blew up railway tracks
near Dashrathpur railway station on the Kiul-Bhagalpur loop section.
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|
May 5
|
In a joint operation, the Special
Task Force, the Bihar Military Police and Jamui Police shot dead
five CPI-Maoist cadres in the Lenin Nagar under Sikandara Police
station of Jamui District.
|
|
May 14
|
An ‘area commander’, Shivshanker
Yadav, of the CPI-Maoist was killed in an encounter with the Police
at Dirheta village under Atri Police station of Gaya District.
|
|
May 25
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres blew
up a rest house at Bhimbandh, a popular tourist destination around
60 kilometers from the Munger District headquarters.
|
|
June 14
|
Police arrests four Maoists,
including an ‘area commander’ wanted by both Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Police in the Phulwarisharif area of Patna city and seized a large
cache of arms and Maoist literature from their possession.
|
|
July 4
|
Hundreds of armed CPI-Maoist
cadres attacked the Tankuppa Police outpost in Gaya District and
blew up the building using dynamites killing an Assistant Sub-Inspector
of Police and a Police constable.
|
|
July 23
|
Three persons were killed and
five others injured by the CPI-Maoist at Khaira village in Lakhisarai
District.
|
|
July 25
|
CPI-Maoist cadres attacked Rafiganj
station on the Gaya-Mughalsarai section in Aurangabad District
and killed a Railway Protection Force personnel.
|
|
July 29
|
Two persons were killed and six
others injured in an explosion that occurred in a bus between
Dobhi and Barachati on Grand Trunk Road in the Gaya District.
|
|
August 14
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from a village under the Konch Police station in Gaya District.
|
|
August 18
|
Ten suspected CPI-Maoist cadres,
including an ‘area commander’, were arrested from a village under
the Mufassil Police station of Gaya District.
|
|
August 31
|
Security forces recovered 125
new uniforms, bombs, bullets, empty cartridges and party literature
from a Maoist hideout at Matgaddha under Mohanapur Police station
in the Gaya District.
|
|
September 26
|
A senior CPI-Maoist leader, Keshwar
Yadav, was arrested at Namkom near Ranchi.
|
|
October 3
|
CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a
civilian, identified as Uday Ram, at Nageshwar village in the
Palamu District.
|
|
October 3
|
A Maoist, Jai Masih Charad alias
Raghu, who was involved in the Baliba massacre of April 7, 2004,
was arrested from Sonua Police station area of West Singhbhum
District.
|
|
October 3
|
A Maoist was injured during an
encounter in a forest area near Itkhori in the Chatra District.
A rifle, a pistol, 20 cartridges, uniform and Maoist literature
were recovered from the encounter site.
|
|
October 3
|
In a raid at Nanaikela village
in the Chatra District, Police arrested four Maoists and recovered
two pistols and 20 cartridges from them.
|
|
October 8
|
Three villagers were killed by
CPI-Maoist cadres after alleging them of being Police informers
at Itkhori in Chatra District.
|
|
October 11
|
Police arrested Nirmal Oraon,
an ‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, near Jairagi village under
Dumri Police station in the Gumla District subsequent to an hour-long
encounter.
|
|
October 14
|
Two CPI-Maoist members, wanted
in several criminal cases, were arrested from the Town Police
station area of Jehanabad District.
|
|
October 12
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres, including
an ‘area commander’ identified as Sahu, were arrested from an
unspecified village under Nasriganj block in the Rohtas District.
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October 16
|
A MCC cadre was arrested while
planting an explosive on the railway tracks near Karbandia railway
station in the Rohtas District on the Gaya-Mughalsarai section
of East Central Railway.
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October 24
|
An encounter was reported between
cadres of the Third Conference faction of the Revolutionary Communist
Centre (RCC) and the CPI-Maoist at an unspecified location in
the Latehar District.
|
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October 30
|
Bihar Police sounds a high alert
in the Maoist–affected north and southern parts of the State and
intensified patrolling in view of the bandh (general strike) called
by the CPI-Maoist on October 30 in protest against the arrest
of its top leaders.
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|
October 30
|
CPI-Maoist extremists triggered
two blasts in West Champaran District targeting an office of the
Forest Department in Ramnagar, a mine near Chamua railway station
on the Narkatiaganj-Gorakhpur section under the Samastipur division
of the East Central Railway.
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October 30
|
Police recovered a number of
fake bombs planted at strategic locations in Mahua in the Vaishali
District.
|
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October 31
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
three buses at Balua-Gausnagar village under Runni Saidpur Police
station in the Sitamarhi District. They also assaulted the cleaner
of the bus.
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November 5
|
Ten CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from an unidentified location under Lakshmipur Police station
in the Jamui District. Police sources said that the arrested included
some Maoists involved in the killing of Munger District Superintendent
of Police, K. C. Surendra Babu, in January 2005.
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November 10
|
CPI-Maoists cadres blew up a
truck and a jeep near Tekari Police station in the Gaya District.
|
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November 11
|
A weapons cache meant for the
Maoists, including 585 INSAS rifle cartridges and Ordnance Factory
products exclusively used by the Army, were seized from arms smugglers
at Hamzapur in Bihar. Three persons were arrested in this connection.
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November 14
|
The Ranvir Sena declared that
it would expand its network and that it would be using trained
former army personnel to counter the Maoists. In a strategy meeting
held in an unspecified village in the Patna District, the Ranvir
Sena chose leader Trayambakeshwar as the new chief and declared,
"Now Sena strategy, activities and plans would be guided by the
new chief."
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December 19
|
A CPI- Maoist central committee
member, Arun Paswan alias Gautam, carrying a reward of
INR 1 lakh on his head, was arrested from Chandauti Police station
area of Gaya District.
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December 28
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
five teenaged boys form Jagjivanpur village in the Bhojpur District.
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Maharastra
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Date
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Incidents
|
|
January 1
|
Six CPI-Maoist cadres are killed
in an encounter with Police personnel near Pendhri on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh
border in Gadchiroli District.
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January 15
|
CPI-Maoist cadres kill a Border
Roads Organisation engineer and assault an overseer near Jimmalgatta
in the Gadchiroli District.
|
|
January 20
|
One CPI-Maoist cadre is killed
and five others are wounded in an encounter with the Police in
the Dodi Tola forest of Gadchiroli District.
|
|
January 22
|
At least 15 CPI-Maoist attacked
a Police check-post at Bonde village in the Gondia District.
|
|
January 24
|
CPI-Maoist cadres burnt down a
mobile relay unit section of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
at Korchi in the Gadchiroli District.
|
|
January 26
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set on fire
furniture of a Public Works Department rest-house at Deovardha
village in the Gadchiroli District.
|
|
March 14
|
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a
landmine explosion near Pendhari forest in the Gadchiroli District,
injuring four Police personnel.
|
|
April 19
|
Two Police personnel were killed
following a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist in the
Gadchiroli District.
|
|
May 15
|
Gadchiroli Police claimed to
have killed at least three CPI-Maoist cadres in an encounter at
Madveli in the Gadchiroli District.
|
|
May 16
|
In a landmine explosion triggered
by the CPI-Maoist, 12 members of a marriage group were killed
between Halebada and Patha villages in Gadchiroli District.
|
|
May 25
|
At least six CPI-Maoist cadres
were killed in a shootout with Police near Kasampalli village
in the Gadchiroli District.
|
|
June 11
|
Two Maoists were killed in an
encounter with Police personnel at Mulundmatha area in the Gadchiroli
District.
|
|
June 30
|
An unidentified Maoist was killed
in an encounter with Police personnel at a place between Botanfundi
and Kudkeli in the Gadchiroli District.
|
|
August 12
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
killed in an encounter with the Police at Sohgam forest in the
Etapalli area of Gadchiroli District.
|
|
September 18
|
A Police personnel was killed
and another injured in an encounter with the Maoist cadres at
Chaandsuraj village in the Gondia District.
|
|
October 1
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in an encounter with the Police near Pendhari village in the Gadchiroli
District. Police also said that two to three Police personnel
sustained minor injuries in the exchange of fire that broke out
in the area.
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|
October 12
|
Police in Nagpur said that seven
Maoists were arrested from the Vidarbha region in two separate
operations on October 11 and 12. Four Maoists were arrested in
Gondia and three Maoists were arrested from the Gadchiroli District.
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October 27
|
Eight Maoists, including a 17-year-old
girl, laid down their arms at Nagpur.
|
|
November 24
|
The Maharashtra government decided
to award INR Three lakh to every village in the Maoist-affected
areas of the State which have banned entry of the Maoists. Under
the scheme, INR Three lakh each would be given to 122 villages
in the Gadchiroli District and three villages in the Gondia District.
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|
November 26
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in an encounter with Police, between Mayalghat and Kalagaon on
Gondia-Gadchiroli District border.
|
|
December 10
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist stopped
a Mumbai bound goods train between Bortalao and Darekasa railway
stations in the Gondia District, bordering Chhattisgarh, and set
ablaze its engine. They also pasted posters near the railway crossing
announcing a bandh (general strike) in Gondia and Gadchiroli Districts
on December 15.
|
|
December 22
|
Three Maoists conducting an undercover
training camp along the Maharastra’s border with Chhattisgarh
were killed in encounter with the Police in the Wangetura forest
area of the Gadchiroli District. Among the three killed was a
‘deputy commandant’ of the Maoist’s Platoon Dalam, Shamru Samru
alias Chaitu, and two of his trusted lieutenants.
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|
December 28
|
The Nagpur Police recovered a
cache of arms and ammunition that were stashed away inside the
door cavities of a car and which are believed to have been meant
for delivery to Naxalite groups in southern India. The Police
arrested the three occupants of the car.
|
|
December 29
|
CPI-Maoist cadres slit the throat
of a 30-year-old forest guard, identified as Rajkumar Perchelwar,
on suspicion of being a Police informer, at Jambia village in
the Gadchiroli District.
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Chhattisgarh
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Date
|
Incidents
|
|
January 9
|
A villager is killed and another
sustained injuries when a bomb, hidden in a transistor by the
Maoists, exploded at Bhairamgarh in the Dantewada District.
|
|
January 20
|
A former sarpanch (village headman)
is beaten to death by CPI-Maoist cadres at Mohli village in the
Surguja District.
|
|
January 26
|
Two people were killed and 15
vehicles set ablaze at Ghat Pindari near Wadrafnagar in the Surguja
District by the Maoists.
|
|
January 30
|
Eight civilians and three CPI-Maoist
cadres are killed during a Maoist attack on a Government camp
in the Dantewada District.
|
|
January 31
|
CPI-Maoist cadres trigger a landmine
blast causing extensive damage to the Bijapur-Avapalli road in
Dantewada District.
|
|
February 6
|
CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead three
Police personnel and injured five others in an attack on a Police
station in the Jashpur District.
Ten Nagaland Armed Police personnel
are killed and eight others sustained injuries when a powerful
landmine was exploded by CPI-Maoist cadres as their vehicle was
moving through a forest in the Dantewada District.
|
|
February 9
|
CPI-Maoist cadres kill at least
three people in the Cherakdodi village of Dantewada District.
Eight Central Industrial Security
Force (CISF) personnel were killed and several others injured
when a large group of CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the National
Mineral Development Corporation store in the Hirauli area of Dantewada
District.
|
|
February 12
|
CPI-Maoist cadres attack the Cherli
village in Dantewada District and shot dead three tribals.
|
|
February 15
|
Over 50 CPI-Maoist cadres attack
the Cherli village in Dantewada District and shot dead three tribals,
accusing them of helping the Police in anti-Maoist operations.
|
|
February 20
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed two tribal
villagers at Thothapara village in the Dantewada District.
|
|
February 26
|
Two people are killed and 25 others
sustain injuries when cadres of the CPI-Maoist raided a Government-run
relief camp in the Dantewada District.
|
|
February 27
|
An anti-Maoist Jan Jagaran Abhiyan
group leader, Mohan Mandavi, was shot dead by the Maoists at Tular
village in the Dantewada District.
|
|
February 28
|
At least 25 tribals are killed
and 40 others sustained injuries in a landmine blast triggered
by the CPI-Maoist near Eklagoda village, in the jurisdiction of
Arabore Police station of Dantewada District.
|
|
March 4
|
CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a
Police personnel, constable Jaisingh Thakur, at a weekly market
in the Bainur area of Dantewada District.
Police recovered the mutilated
body of an anti-Maoist tribal leader, Markam Shanku, from Inzaram
area in the Dantewada District.
|
|
March 6
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist raid
Basaguda village in the Dantewada District targeting activists
of the anti-Maoist campaign Salva Judum and kill six of them.
|
|
March 8
|
CPI-Maoist cadres kill four civilians
and injure an unspecified number of them at Diwarpali village
under Dornapal Police station in the Dantewada District.
|
|
March 12
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed two villagers
at Chikaguda village in the Dantewada District after alleging
that they were supporting the Salva Judum campaign.
|
|
March 15
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed two tribal
villagers in the Dantewada District.
|
|
March 16
|
Suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
killed two tribals in the Bijapur area of Dantewada District.
|
|
March 19
|
Two Police personnel were killed
and 13 others injured when CPI-Maoist cadres detonated a landmine
near Dongargarh in the Rajnandgaon District.
|
|
March 20
|
Police killed five Maoists in
the forest area near Balrampur, 510 km northeast of State capital
Raipur.
|
|
March 22
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blasted a railway
track in the Bailadila-Vishakhapatnam section and exploded a bomb
at a National Mineral Development Corporation (installation at
Kirandul in the Dantewada District.
|
|
March 24
|
Maoists killed two tribals by
slitting their throats in the Chhote Dongar village of Dantewada
District.
Police recovered bodies of two
local Salwa Judum leaders from Bijapur locality of the same District.
|
|
March 25
|
11 persons are killed and four
others sustained injuries in a landmine blast triggered by the
CPI-Maoist in Kanker District.
Police killed five Maoists, including
a 'deputy commander', in an encounter in the Dhanora forest area.
|
|
March 26
|
Security force (SF) personnel
killed eight CPI-Maoist cadres at Telipenta village in the Dantewada
District.
In Kanker District, a Central
Reserve Police Force personnel was killed and another wounded
in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists near Gorbinapal village.
|
|
March 29
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a Special
Police Officer, P. Nagesh, at Arabore Police station limits in
the Dantewada District.
|
|
March 30
|
A tribal participating in the
anti-Maoist Salwa Judum programme was shot dead in the Geedam
locality of Dantewada District.
|
|
March 31
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
two local Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in the Rajnandgaon District.
|
|
April 7
|
Three Salwa Judum tribals were
killed by the Maoists in Dantewada District.
CPI-Maoist cadres set free eight
tribals in the Dantewada District after holding them captive for
two days.
|
|
April 9
|
Three Salwa Judum activists were
killed by the Maoists in Dantewada District.
|
|
April 11
|
Chhattisgarh Government suspends
the anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign.
|
|
April 12
|
Chhattisgarh Government bans the
CPI-Maoist and the Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, Krantikari
Adivasi Balak Sangh, Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh, Krantikari
Kisan Committee and Mahila Mukti Manch under the Chhattisgarh
Special Public Security Act, 2005.
|
|
April 15
|
Police killed a Maoist ‘commander’
and his wife under the Ramanujganj Police station in the Surguja
District.
|
|
April 16
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked
the Murkinar Police outpost in the Bijapur area of Dantewada District
and killed 11 Police personnel.
|
|
April 18
|
Close to 2500 CPI-Maoist cadres
and activists besieged Usur village in the Dantewada District,
in retaliation for the tribals' support to the now suspended anti-Maoist
Salwa Judum campaign.
|
|
April 20
|
CPI-Maoist cadres made an abortive
attempt to rescue fellow Maoists lodged at Narayanpur prison in
the Dantewada District, triggering three landmine blasts.
|
|
April 24
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed Kowasi
Mangru, a local tribal leader associated with the now suspended
Salwa Judum campaign, in a village under the Bhairamgarh Police
station in the Dantewada District.
|
|
April 25
|
One personnel of the India Reserve
Battalion was killed in an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres
in the Bijapur area of Dantewada District.
|
|
April 27
|
The bullet-ridden bodies of two
tribals, among the 52 abducted by the Maoists were recovered from
Manikonta village in the Dantewada District.
|
|
April 28
|
Six Police personnel were injured
in a landmine explosion triggered by the Maoists at Bhuski village
in the Kanker District.
|
|
April 29
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed 13 of
the 52 abducted villagers and released 37 others in Dantewada
District.
|
|
May 3
|
Two Special Police Officers and
a civilian were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres in the Usur area of
Bijapur Police station in the Dantewada District.
In the same Police District, two
Maoists were killed in an encounter with Police personnel.
|
|
May 9
|
Five CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
by security forces in an encounter in the Dantewada District.
In a separate encounter in the
same District, two more Maoists were killed.
|
|
May 13
|
About 300 Maoists attacked a
refugee camp in the Dantewada District and shot dead four Special
Police Officers and wounded five people.
|
|
May 20
|
CPI-Maoist cadres attacked National
Mineral Development Corporation, Railways and private steel company,
ESSAR and left pamphlets saying it was done so that these institutions
will not function on Sunday and Monday during the two-day Dandakaranya
strike call.
|
|
may 21
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
four passenger buses and two vans near Gollagudem in the Dantewada
District during a two-day shutdown called by them.
|
|
may 22
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up electrical
transformers at Kurusnar and Bhairamgarh, plunging seven blocks
of the Dantewada District into darkness on the last day of their
two-day shutdown.
|
|
May 26
|
Three Central Reserve Police
Force personnel were injured in two separate Maoist-related incidents
in the Bastar region.
|
|
May 28
|
CPI-Maoist ‘sub-zonal commander’,
Ramesh Nageshia, was killed in an encounter with the Police in
the Surguja District.
|
|
June 8
|
Ten Maoists were killed and five,
including two women cadres, were arrested in the Dewapalli area
of Dantewada District.
In the Chando Police station area
of Balrampur Police District, on information of the movement of
a large group of armed Maoists, Police cordoned off an area near
Jalbotha village and asked them to surrender. The subsequent encounter
led to the killing of nine Maoists.
|
|
June 12
|
A Police personnel, Basant Netam,
was injured in an ambush by Maoists in the Dantewada District.
About 150-armed Maoists attacked a Police station at Durg Kondal
in the Kanker District.
|
|
June 14
|
Maoists abducted seven villagers,
including six women, in Dantewada District.
|
|
June 17
|
Maoists killed four tribals working
for the anti-Maoist movement Salwa Judum in the Farsegarh Police
station area of Dantewada District.
|
|
June 18
|
Two Maoists were killed during
a joint operation by the Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh Police
near Madimalai village in the Dantewada District.
|
|
June 20
|
Maoists killed seven persons
and injured two others at Chikuarguda in the Konta region, following
their refusal to accompany the insurgents to attack a relief camp
in the Dantewada District.
|
|
June 22
|
Maoists abducted at least nine
tribal villagers from Basagura in the Dantewada District, suspecting
them to be Salwa Judum activists and killed three of them the
following night. However, six other villagers were released. Elsewhere
in the District, another tribal was shot dead by the Maoists at
Gangloor.
|
|
June 23
|
Maoists killed three persons,
including a contractor involved in the collection of tendu (tobacco)
leaves, in the Basuguda area of Dantewada District.
|
|
June 26
|
A tribal leader of the Congress
party, Lalit Markam, was killed by Maoists at Dudhiras village
in the Dantewada District.
|
|
June 28
|
Personnel of the Central Reserve
Police Force killed at least six Maoists and arrested three others,
including a woman cadre, in an encounter in the Bhairamgarh area
of Dantewada District.
|
|
July 2
|
Five CPI-Maoist cadres were shot
dead in an encounter with the Police personnel at Anjarel forest
in the Narayanpur area of Bastar District.
|
|
July 4
|
A Congress party leader is shot
dead by CPI-Maoist cadres in the Nilbhaya area of Dantewada District.
|
|
July 7
|
Central Reserve Police Force
personnel raided a CPI-Maoist hideout under Basaguda Police station
in Dantewada District and shot dead seven Maoists.
|
|
July 8
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed two
Special Police Officers and abducted five people, including three
students, in the Dantewada District.
Chhattisgarh Police recover a
multi-purpose sophisticated telescope from Toyapad jungle in the
Dantewada District following a shootout with the Maoists.
|
|
July 13
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
killed in an encounter with the security force personnel in the
forested Phuladi village under Mirtoor Police station of Dantewada
District.
Two people who were putting up
at Dornapal relief camp were also axed to death by the Maoists
in the same District.
|
|
July 17
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed 33 villagers
and injured 70, besides abducting over 20 people at Arrabora village
in the Dantewada District.
|
|
July 21
|
Security force personnel shot
dead five CPI-Maoist cadres in Dantewada District.
|
|
July 27
|
One paramilitary personnel was
killed and three others sustained injuries in a landmine attack
triggered by the CPI-Maoist on the Narainpur-Orchha road in Bastar
District.
|
|
August 22
|
Five villagers were abducted
by the CPI-Maoist in two separate incidents in Dantewada District.
In the first incident, armed Maoists stopped a jeep near Gaganpalli
village under Errabore Police station area and abducted four passengers.
Later, in a similar incident close to the same spot, Maoists stopped
a truck and abducted another person.
|
|
August 25
|
23 villagers were abducted by
the CPI-Maoist cadres in the Dantewada District but Police rescued
them after a subsequent gun-battle.
|
|
August 28
|
Police arrested six CPI-Maoist
cadres from the Narayanpur area in the Dantewada District.
|
|
August 30
|
Union Home Secretary Vinod K.
Duggal, who presided over the 21st coordination meeting of Chief
Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of 13 Naxalite-affected
States, said, "Barring Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, violence
has come down in rest of the Naxal-affected states." "This
year, till July, 84 anti-Naxal counter operations took place in
Chhattisgarh and 35 Naxal cadres have been neutralized. Last year,
the number of counter operations was 64,’’ said Duggal, adding
that 13 battalions have been deployed in the State.
|
|
September 6
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
killed and several others injured in an encounter with the Police
in the Jhaleria forest belt of Surguja District.
CPI-Maoists cadres killed three
civilians in the Dantewada District. Police said the Maoists had
abducted four people from Basaguda last week and killed three
of them by slitting their throat.
|
|
September 7
|
In the Kanker District, Maoists
abducted two Police personnel of the Koyilibeda Police station.
|
|
September 10
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
and six others arrested after a gun-battle with the security force
personnel in the Tekmeka forest near village Sentra under Pharsegarh
Police station of Dantewada District.
|
|
September 14
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed two
tribals in the Bastar District.
Superintendent of Balrampur Police,
Shivram Prasad Kalluri, said that two Maoist ‘area commanders’,
Sachin and Gautam, wanted in dozens of criminal cases and carrying
a cash reward of Rupees 150,000 were arrested in Koria District.
|
|
September 16
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including
‘Gadchiroli Divisional Secretary’ Vikasanna, was killed in an
encounter with the Police in the Kodakhuri forest area under Durkondal
Police station of Kanker District.
|
|
September 24
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre shot dead
a Congress party activist, Santram Usedi, near Ghanora village
in the Narayanpur Police District of Dantewada District.
|
|
September 25
|
Five CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
by security force personnel in an encounter in the Udchali forest
area of Narayanpur Police District in Dantewada District.
|
|
September 25
|
Superintendent of Police of Kanker
District, Pradeep Gupta, said that two Maoists were arrested during
an operation.
|
|
September 30
|
Three villagers, including a
former sarpanch (village head) were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres
for their involvement in the anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign
at Bijapur Police District of Dantewada District.
|
|
October 2
|
Three villagers were killed when
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered landmine blasts near Nakanpal village
in the Bijapur Police District of Dantewada District.
|
|
October 2
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a 45-yr-old
person after dragging him out of his house in an unspecified village
under Usoor Police station area of Dantewada District.
|
|
October 3
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
during an encounter with security forces in the Sarkeguda forest
area of Dantewada District.
|
|
October 18
|
Women CPI-Maoist cadres detonated
explosions targeting four Government buildings in the Kanker District.
|
|
October 22
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed three
abducted civilians, two men and one woman, in the thickly forested
Abujhmad area in the Bastar District after holding them captive
for at least 10 hours.
|
|
October 22
|
Two Maoists, belonging to a Maoist
frontal organization, Keskal dalam, were killed by Police personnel
in the Ghanora forest of Bastar District.
|
|
October 27
|
Three people were killed by suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres in Bastar region. Two bodies of tribals were
recovered from a roadside in the Narayanpur area while a middle-aged
anti-Maoist Salwa Judum activist was beaten to death in a nearby
area.
|
|
October 27
|
Police claimed to have arrested
three Maoists from the remote northeast Surguja region.
|
|
October 31
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
and several others injured after Police personnel raided a hideout
in the Narayanpur area of Bastar region.
|
|
November 1
|
Maoists called for a week-long
strike to counter official celebrations to mark the anniversary
of the founding of the State that began on November 1. Maoists
put up banners and posters to demand a boycott of the celebrations
and have threatened to ‘try’ anyone attending Government celebrations
in their jan adalat (Kangaroo court).
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November 2
|
A CPI-Maoist woman cadre was
killed and three others were arrested following an encounter with
the Police at an unspecified location in the Kanker District.
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November 10
|
A Special Armed Reserve constable,
Vishnu Mishra, was killed in a landmine blast triggered by the
CPI-Maoist cadres near Darbaguda in the Dantewada District. Another
constable, Abdul Shaheed, was injured. The Maoists reportedly
decamped with a rocket launcher and a .303 rifle from the Police
party.
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November 22
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres from Jharkhand,
Sanjay Singh and Lal Bihari, were killed in the Joba forest near
Manikpur village of Sarguja. A 'zonal commander' of the outfit,
Ram Singh Cherwa escaped with bullet injuries.
A Maoist was killed in an encounter
with the Central Reserve Police Force personnel in the Bhairamgarh
area of Bijapur Police District in Dantewada. Five other Maoists
were arrested during the operation.
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November 28
|
Police personnel neutralised
a Maoist hideout at Bailadila hills in the Dantewada District
of Chhattisgarh and arrested an 'area commander', identified as
Sonu Telam.
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December 2
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
and several others injured during an encounter with the CRPF personnel
in the Cherpal forest area of Dantewada District.
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December 5
|
Security forces shot dead two
Maoists and injured another near Basin village in the Bastar District.
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December 5
|
A group of Maoists made an unsuccessful
attempt to target a patrol party in the Munga village of Bijapur
District. The Maoists reportedly detonated four landmines without
causing any casualties.
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December 9
|
Home Minister Ramvichar Netam
informed that security has been tightened in prisons across Chhattisgarh
to prevent any attempt of jailbreak by the CPI-Maoist cadres.
The move follows intelligence inputs that Maoists would target
cities and prisons in order to create panic in the State.
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December 13
|
Three special Police officers
and a Police constable were killed by a group of 250 CPI-Maoist
cadres at a relief camp in Bansaguda of the Bijapur area in the
Dantewada District. The Maoists took away arms and ammunition
of the Police personnel.
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December 15
|
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman
Singh, in an interview with the IANS, said that he is open to
peace talks with Maoists if they shun violence. Singh said, "Leftist
insurgency is an inter-state problem as the militants have terror
network in 13 states and peace talks by any single state will
not solve the problem. But Chhattisgarh will not mind holding
discussion with the rebels if they express keen interest to bring
peace and return to democracy."
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December 20
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, Lachchinder
alias Sobha Nareti and Chetu Salam, were arrested by the
Chhattisgarh Police from Bhanupratppur forest in the Kanker District.
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December 28
|
A Police party raided a Maoist
camp in the Jagargunda jungle of Dantewada District and killed
two CPI-Maoist cadres in the shootout that followed. Police also
seized seven transistor bombs, four rifles, ammunition and other
explosive materials from the site of encounter.
At least four CRPF personnel were
injured when Maoists opened fire on a bus in the Bijapur locality
of Bastar region.
CPI-Maoist cadres opened indiscriminate
fire at a bus in the Bijapur District, injuring four passengers.
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Orissa
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Date
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Incidents
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|
January 13
|
CPI-Maoist cadres blow up a farmhouse
at Titlepalli village under Dhama Police station in the Sambalpur
District.
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January 26
|
In Sundergarh District, armed
CPI-Maoist cadres intercepted a truck laden with iron ore between
Jamadih and Toda and set it ablaze.
|
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March 4
|
Six CPI-Maoist cadres are killed
in an encounter with the Police near Kanaguda village in the Malkangiri
District.
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March 11
|
Special Operations Group of Malkangiri
District Police arrested three cadres of the CPI-Maoist after
an exchange of fire in Kanaguda under the Kalimela Police Station.
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|
March 20
|
In a written reply to the Legislative
Assembly, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said no insurgent outfit,
other than the CPI-Maoist, is operating in Orissa. It is assessed
that about 500 hardcore cadres are operating in parts of 14 Districts,
Patnaik disclosed.
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|
March 24
|
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.
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April 4
|
Two Police officials abducted
by the CPI-Maoist from the Ramagiri Udayagiri town of Gajapati
District on March 24 were released.
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April 6
|
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.
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April 13
|
Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik,
participating in the second meeting of the Standing Committee
of Chief Ministers of Naxalite-affected States in New Delhi, said
that 16 out of 30 Districts were affected by Naxalite activities.
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|
April 18
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in an encounter with the Police in the Hilanga forest area of
Deogarh District.
CPI-Maoist cadres assaulted a
contractor and damaged a road-roller by triggering a landmine
in Telrai village under Kalimela Police limits of Malkangiri District.
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|
May 30
|
Two cadres of the ‘Kalimela Local
Guerrilla Squad’ of the CPI-Maoist were killed in an exchange
of fire with a combined team of the Andhra Pradesh and Orissa
Police at Tekuguda.
|
|
June 3
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
the officer-in-charge of Motu Police station at a weekly market
in the MV 88 village of Malkangiri District.
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|
June 9
|
Government proscribed the CPI-Maoist
and seven pro-Maoist organizations, Daman Pratirodh Manch, Revolutionary
Democratic Front, Chasi Mulia Samiti, Kui Lawanga Sangh, Jana
Natya Mandali, Krantikari Kisan Samiti and Bal Sangam.
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|
June 12
|
Two Maoists were arrested following
an encounter at Karlapat under the Gudari Police station in the
Rayagada District.
|
|
July 13
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
and a couple of others injured in an encounter with a team of
the Special Operation Group and local Police near Raniguda village
of Deogarh District.
|
|
August 11
|
Two Government officials, who
were abducted by armed CPI-Maoist cadres from Gudipanka in the
Gajapati District on August 9, were released.
|
|
September 11
|
A group of CPI-Maoist cadres
indulged in arson at Kamarda mines area under Tamka Police limits
of Jajpur District.
|
|
October 7
|
Sobha, an ‘area commander’ of
the CPI-Maoist, was arrested along with two accomplices, Rajan
Munda and Bijoy Munda, from the Lathikata market area in the Sundergarh
District.
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|
October 8
|
During a joint combing operation
of Police and CRPF personnel in the Gajapati District, 12 CPI-Maoist
cadres, including a few involved in the March 24, 2006, R Udaygiri
jailbreak incident, were arrested. A huge quantity of explosives
and ammunition, including live cartridges and hand grenades, were
recovered from them.
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|
October 13
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed
the head of an unspecified village in Malkangiri District.
|
|
October 15
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
three diesel locomotives at Topadihi railway station in the Sundargarh
District.
|
|
October 30
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a trader
for defying the call of general strike in Malkangiri.
CPI-Maoist cadres entered into
the Chadheipahada gram panchayat (village council) office in the
Mayurbhanj District, ransacked it and burnt a National flag that
was kept there.
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|
November 2
|
Indian Express reported that
suspected CPI-Maoist cadres have entered into the forested region
of Mayurbhanj District from Ghodabundh Police station areas in
neighbouring Jharkhand.
|
|
November 6
|
Golak Nayak, convenor of the
All Orissa Un-aided Lecturers’ and Employees’ Coordination Committee,
in a statement, said that teachers of un-aided colleges in the
tribal-pockets of Orissa are being lured by left-wing extremists
to join their outfit.
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|
November 7
|
An encounter between CRPF personnel
and CPI-Maoist cadres was reported from the Biligura forest area
under Motu Police station in the Malkangiri District.
|
|
November 8
|
CPI-Maoist cadres put up posters
and pamphlets asking people of several Districts of southern Orissa
to stop using mobile phone. Director General of Police, Amarananda
Pattanaik, informed that Police arrested three Maoist cadres from
the Malkangiri District.
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|
November 9
|
A Police team recovered 60 kg
of explosives kept in three sealed containers and 200 metres of
wire from Jangudi village under Adaba Police station in the Gajapati
District.
|
|
November 13
|
Replying to a question on left
wing extremism in the state, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said
in the State Legislative Assembly that 33 civilians and 36 Police
personnel had lost their lives in Maoist violence so far since
2000.
|
|
November 13
|
The Orissa Government has decided
to recruit 1,652 retired army personnel for deployment in the
Maoist-affected areas of the State. The State Government has made
a provision of INR 50 million in the first supplementary budget
placed in the legislative Assembly for such recruitment. Provision
of INR 7.5 million has been made for a dedicated intelligence
security wing. Another INR 6 million has been provided for strengthening
the secret service under the Intelligence.
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|
November 27
|
An encounter between Police personnel
and CPI-Maoist cadres was reported from the Pankadihi forest area
of Sundergarh District.
|
|
December 1
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed
an employee of the revenue department at Kalimela in the Malkangiri
District. Police sources said that the Maoists fired two bullets
at Sibananda Jena, whose dead body was found in front of his office.
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|
December 8
|
Two CRPF personnel were injured
in a landmine explosion detonated by the Maoists in Rellatu area
under K Ballang Police station in the Sundergarh District.
|
|
December 10
|
CPI-Maoist cadres obstructed
the movement of vehicles by cutting trees and laying them on the
roads near village 126 under the Kalimela Police station in the
Malkangiri District.
|
|
December 20
|
Pioneer reports that Orissa
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would set up fast track courts to
expedite the trial of Maoist-related cases. While the Centre has
agreed to fund these courts out of Security-Related Expenditure,
the State Government is in the process of identifying the location
of these courts.
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|
December 22
|
The joint Special Operation Group
of the State Police and Central Reserve Police Force killed three
CPI-Maoist cadres and arrested two others following a combing
operation at Tandimetal village area under Motu Police Station
in the Malkangiri District.
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|
December 24
|
A Special Operation Group team
neutralized a CPI-Maoist camp in the Puluguda reserve forest area
of Malkangiri District. The SOG personnel subsequently recovered
huge amount of detonators, transistor systems and Maoist literature
from the camp.
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|
December 25
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were injured
during an hour-long encounter with the security forces at Ghatiduba
in the Mayurbhanj District.
|
|
December 27
|
State Home Secretary T.K. Mishra,
while addressing the quarterly meeting of Naxalite-affected States
in Bhubaneswar, stated that the Orissa Government had requested
the Centre to provide assistance to set up a sophisticated anti-Naxalite
training centre on the lines of the Greyhound training institute
in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
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|
December 29
|
A minor girl and two Maoists
were injured in an encounter between Police and CPI-Maoist cadres
at Jhilniguda village under Motu Police station in the Malkangiri
District.
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Uttar Pradesh
|
Date
|
Incidents
|
|
January 3
|
'Sub-zonal area commander' of
the CPI-Maoist, identified as Bhola Pal alias Rakesh, is
arrested from Alinagar Police circle area in Varanasi.
|
|
January 5
|
Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre,
Raj Narayan alias Raju, from Jamsoti Chuvar village in
the Chandauli District.
|
|
February 12
|
A CPI-Maoist ‘area commander’,
Sukhari Chaudhary, is arrested from Naikaha village in the Sonebhadra
District.
|
|
March 25
|
Mahangu alias Chiru, a
Maoist 'Deputy Area Commander', was arrested near Karail Bandhi
village in the Sonebhadra District.
Police recovered 250 kilograms
of explosive material and 1500 detonators from a jeep at Lalganj
area in the Mirzapur District. According to the State Home Ministry,
the explosives were brought possibly by the CPI-Maoist from Bihar.
|
|
March 30
|
An ‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist,
Giri Nath Kol, was killed in an encounter with the Police at Varanasi.
|
|
October 12
|
Pappu Bind, a criminal of Bihar
linked to the MCC, was killed near the railway track in the Lohardaga
area under the Sigra Police station in Varanasi. An accomplice
of the killed Maoist, however, managed to escape.
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West Bengal
|
Date
|
Incidents
|
|
January 16
|
CPI-Maoist cadres
detonate a landmine to blow up a CRPF camp at Jamtalgara on Belpahari-Banspahari
road in the Midnapore District.
|
|
January 23
|
CPI-Maoist cadres
blow up a tourist bungalow under construction at Bandwan in the
Purulia District.
|
|
February 7
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres
were killed in an encounter with the Police near the Akuldoba
forest area of West Midnapore District.
|
|
February 26
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist
detonate a landmine blowing up a Police vehicle that killed four
persons, including two security force (SF) personnel, at Naakrachhara
in the West Midnapore District.
|
|
March 4
|
One Police personnel
was killed and another injured in a Maoist attack on the National
Highway 34 at Chakulia in the North Dinajpur District.
|
|
March 5
|
Maoists herded out
nine Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists to a field in
West Midnapore District and shot dead the group leader, Kartik
Sinha, and released the others.
|
|
March 9
|
Two Communist Party
of India (Marxist) cadres are hacked to death by Maoists in the
Dangardihi area of Midnapore District. Another person was injured
in the attack.
|
|
March 17
|
A fast-track court
at Jhargram in the Midnapore District sentenced two leaders of
the CPI-Maoist, Patit Paban Halder and Santosh Debnath, to life
imprisonment. Sushil Roy, ‘politburo member’ of the CPI-Maoist,
was awarded five years’ imprisonment.
|
|
July 2
|
CPI-Maoist cadres
shot dead a Communist Party of India (Marxist) local committee
member at Lalgarh in the West Midnapore District.
|
|
August 1
|
About 70 CPI-Maoist
cadres attacked the India Reserve Battalion camp at Chhurimara
in the Belpahari area of Midnapore District.
|
|
September 19
|
A Communist Party
of India (Marxist) leader and his bodyguard were dragged out of
a bus and killed by suspected Maoists near Joypur in the Midnapore
District.
|
|
September 21
|
Two Police personnel
of the Bomb Disposal squad were killed and 29 others, including
some senior Police officers and journalists, were injured when
a land mine planted by the Maoists exploded in the Lalgarh area
of West Midnapore District.
|
|
September 21
|
Hindustan Times
reported that a new Maoist organisation - the Darjeeling Gorkha
Maobadi Sangthan - has been found to be operating in the Darjeeling
hills of West Bengal and is forcefully collecting 'revenue' from
local people.
|
|
October 16
|
Police recovered
18 empty containers of hand grenade, 18 springs, six grenade levers,
chemicals and Maoist literature and receipt books from a trunk
inside a hut in Rangapukur village in the Malda District.
|
|
November 5
|
A senior Maoist
leader Kartik Mondal was arrested near Zahanabad village in the
Habibpur Police station area of Malda District. During separate
raids, a cache of arms and ammunition, including two carbines,
a rifle and one 9 mm pistol, were recovered from the nearby Yadpur
village.
|
|
November 20
|
Over 679 Maoist supporters, including
125 women, were arrested during a 'law violation programme' by
two former wings of the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist-
Liberation against 'forcible' occupation of agricultural land
by the West Bengal government.
|
|
November 21
|
One paramilitary force personnel
was wounded when the CPI-Maoist cadres exploded a landmine at
Hatidoba in the West Midnapore District.
|
|
November 23
|
CPI-Maoist cadres
set ablaze eight vehicles, opened fire on the para-military India
Reserve Battalion camp and on the huts of workers engaged in a
road-building project at Belapari in the West Midnapore District,
across the border with Jharkhand.
|
|
November 29
|
Armed CPI-Maoist
cadres shot at and injured five Police personnel in the Purulia
District.
|
|
December 15
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres
and a para-military personnel were killed during an encounter
in the Bogdoba village of Bankura District. The encounter occurred
after a group of 70 Maoists, led by Sabita Kumari from Andhra
Pradesh, attacked the house of a ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist
leader Nabin Hembram and were challenged by the para-military
personnel patrolling the village.
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KARNATAKA
|
Date
|
Incidents
|
|
May 5
|
A landlord was abducted
by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres under Tirumani Police station limits
in the Tumkur District, on the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border.
|
|
May 13
|
A group of 12 to
15 Maoists attacked the house of a schoolteacher and damaged a
television set at Nadapal in the Hebri Police station limits of
Udupi District.
|
|
August 25
|
A group of CPI-Maoist
cadres attacked the Divisional Forest Office (Wildlife), about
13 km from Sringeri on the border of the Chikmagalur and Udupi
Districts, and destroyed documents and furniture, besides setting
a vehicle on fire.
Home Minister M.P.
Prakash stated that Maoist activities in the State have been contained.
He added that their presence in the State was limited to a few
Districts such as Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Raichur and Bellary
unlike in Andhra Pradesh where they had spread over 16 Districts.
|
|
September 5
|
Speaking at the
Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security in New Delhi,
the Karnataka Chief Minister, H.D. Kumaraswamy, disclosed that
13 Districts had been affected by left-wing extremism and there
were about 200 Maoist cadres, with 60 operating in two or three
armed groups in the Malnad region.
|
|
September 13
|
Udupi District Police
and the Anti-Naxalite Force exchanged fire with a group of Naxalites
about eight kms from Hallihole village.
|
|
November 16
|
Maoists exchanged
fire with the Police and the Anti-Naxal Force in the Kaasikaanu
forest area of Udupi District. No fatalities were reported in
the incident.
|
|
November 16
|
Anti-Naxalite team
and Police personnel in the Shimoga District were sounded alert
after an encounter between Police and Naxalites cadres at a village
under Shankaranarayana Police station limits of Udupi District.
Shimoga District Superintendent of Police Arun Chakravarthi Jeji
said that the anti-Naxal teams operating particularly in Hosanagar
sector, bordering between Shimoga and Udupi Districts, had also
taken up combing operation in their area.
|
|
November 22
|
Karnataka Home Minister,
M. P. Prakash, said that the State government will establish three
more Police stations in the Maoist-affected areas in the State.
"We will spend INR 5 crore to improve Police infrastructure in
these areas", he said. December 25
A Naxalite, identified
as Vikram Gowda, was killed in an encounter with the Anti Naxal
Force at Kigga-Magebailu, 15-km away from Sringeri in the Mangalore
District.
|
Tamil Nadu
|
Date
|
Incidents
|
|
November 8
|
Director General of Police D.
Mukherjee, speaking to media personnel in Madurai, said that the
Special Task Force in Tamil Nadu would extend its anti-Maoist
operations to two more border Districts of Tiruvallur and Vellore.
|
|
November 16
|
The Director General of Police,
D. Mukherjee, stated in Chennai that the Tamil Nadu Police has
increased surveillance in four Districts of the State bordering
Andhra Pradesh to prevent the infiltration of Maoists. Special
surveillance teams have been posted in the Vellore, Thiruvallore,
Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri Districts, which are considered areas
where Maoists operate.
|
|
Date
|
Incidents
|
|
December 10
|
CPI-Maoist cadres
put up posters announcing a bandh (general strike) in the Balaghat
District in protest against alleged Police excesses.
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