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Maoist Timeline - 2007
Andhra
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Incidents
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January 1
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An alleged arms supplier to the
Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist),
identified as Ravi Kumar Chevori, was arrested from Cyberabad
near Hyderabad. He had entered into a deal with the Maoists to
supply arms and ammunition worth INR 40 lakh, which the city Police
seized on December 28, 2006, and arrested three persons.
Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara
Reddy said that the door for talks with Naxalites is open even
now, subject to condition that they lay down arms. He denied a
charge that the Government has issued orders to the Police to
shoot Naxalites at sight.
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January 4
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The CPI-Maoist Manpur Division
Committee secretary, Dussa Gouri Shankar alias Prabhakar
alias Vikram, and his wife and commander of Madaneveeda
in Chhattisgarh, Udutha Laxmi alias Shoba, surrendered
before Devendra Singh Chouhan, Superintendent of Police in the
Karimnagar District.
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January 6
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The CPI-Maoist cadres blasted
coffee pulping units at Teegalabanda and Pedavalasa villages in
G.K. Veedhi mandal and took away nearly 350 bags of graded
coffee beans with them. The attack was carried out in protest
against the December 27, 2006-killing of its top leaders, Wadkapur
Chandramouli and his wife Karuna, in the agency area.
Police recovered about INR 32
lakh cash from the Lachagudem forest area after a brief exchange
of fire with the Maoists.
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January 7
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Police personnel unearthed a
CPI-Maoist arms dump near Koyyuru and recovered a large quantity
of material used for making landmines and gadgets to set the mines
off along with some medicines.
East Godavari Police unearthed
two claymore mines at Gurtedu-Bodlanka road near Irlavada, bordering
Visakhapatnam. Even as the Maoists managed to escape, Police arrested
two contractors -- Mohammed Rasool and Sreedhar Varma -- in connection
with the seizure.
18 Maoists belonging to four different
groups surrendered in the Khammam District. Those surrendered
belonged to – CPI-Maoist (4), Janasakthi (2), Prathighatna (4)
and Prajapratighatna group (8).
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January 9
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Five Naxalites surrendered and
a Maoist courier was arrested in the Khammam District. Of the
five surrendered Naxalites, one belonged to the CPI-Maoist, one
to the Prajapratighatna and three to Pratighatna factions. Separately,
Police arrested Bojja Boddaiah, a Maoist courier, near Bodu village
and recovered two weapons from his possession.
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January 11
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Andhra Pradesh Police killed
two CPI-Maoist cadres during an encounter in the Kotapalli forest
area near the Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border in the Khammam
District.
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January 13
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The Nalgonda District Police
killed four CPI-Maoist cadres in an encounter on the outskirts
of Yelamanagudem village in Gurrampodu mandal (administrative
division). Unconfirmed sources said that a senior second rung
leader, Betharaju Narasimha alias Mukku Ravi alias
Janardhan, was among those killed. Superintendent of Police Vijay
Kumar said that two to four Maoists might have managed to escape.
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January 16
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres, ‘central
technical committee’ member Ivvi Mohan Reddy alias Umesh
alias Mahesh alias Prakash and Jade Venkati alias
Suresh alias Manganna, were arrested by the Police from
Bhadrachalam in the Khammam District.
Five left-wing extremists, including
Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) Praja Prathighatana
group political secretary, the deputy commander and two dalam
(squad) members and another commander of Sikasa (a
front organisation of the Maoists), surrendered along with their
weapons to Superintendent of Police Devendra Singh Chauhan in
Karimnagar.
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January 23
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Ranga Reddy, a functionary of
the youth wing of the ruling Congress party in Prakasam District,
was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres in Laxmipuram village near the
Nallamalla forest area.
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January 29
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A Police constable was killed
and two others were injured during an encounter between Police
personnel and CPI-Maoist cadres near Wajeda forest area in the
Khammam District.
Two CPI-Maoist women cadres, working
in the Mahbubnagar District, surrendered before the Kurnool District
Superintendent of Police, B. Malla Reddy.
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February 1
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in an encounter with the Police personnel in the forest areas
of Peruru in the Khammam District.
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February 2
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CPI-Maoist cadres killed a former
colleague suspecting him to be a Police informer at Kukumpudi
village in the Visakhapatnam District. The slain extremist, Gemmeli
Venkatrao, had surrendered to the Police in 2006.
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February 10
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Six Naxalites belonging to the
Janashakti dalam (squad) were arrested at Jeevakona in
the Chittoor District while holding a meeting. Charu Sinha, Superintendent
of Police of Chittoor, informed that the Janashakti dalam was
virtually wiped out from the District with the arrests.
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February 13
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A woman Naxalite of the Janashakti
group, Royyala Rajita alias Lalita, surrendered before
the Nizamabad Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, V Anjani
Kumar, and Superintendent of Police (SP), D. L. Sujata Rao.
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February 18
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Ten Naxalites surrendered to
the Police in the Warangal District. The surrendered extremists
include, A. Srinivas alias Babanna, who was a member of
Warangal and Khammam Districts area committee of the Janasakti
group and P. Ravinder alias Sampath, a self-styled deputy
commander of Praja Prathighatana.
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March 2
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Three CPI-Maoist cadres including
a woman cadre were killed during an encounter with the anti-naxal
squad Police at a remote place between Marriguda and Thangalkota
in the East Godavari District. The slain Maoists are not yet identified
and are believed to be top Maoist leaders of Orissa.
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March 3
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CPI-Maoist cadres detonated an
explosion targeting a bridge on route connecting Andhra Pradesh
and Chattisgarh near Rontentha in the Khammam District.
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March 5
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A Mandal Parishad Territorial
Constituency (MPTC) member belonging to the Congress Party, identified
as Prem Prakash, was shot dead by CPI-Maoist cadres near Marikal
village in Pedda Kothapally mandal of Mahbubnagar District.
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March 12
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CPI-Maoist cadres detonated an
explosion targeting a gram panchayat building in the newly-constructed
model housing colony for the Polavaram project-displaced at Rallapudi
in Velerpadu mandal of Khammam District. The building,
which was constructed at a cost of INR Two lakh a few months ago,
collapsed completely.
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March 16
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Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a woman cadre, surrendered before the Karimnagar Superintendent
of Police Y. Gangadhar. The surrendered cadres include Khammam
District Charla LOS commander Pitchi Samakka alias Jhansi,
her husband and dalam member Bore Lachaiah alias
Lakshman and Mahadevpur special guerilla squad deputy commander
Kode Shyamsunder alias Shyam.
The Andhra Pradesh Police found
a large arms dump belonging to the CPI-Maoist from the Nallamalla
forest. The arms and explosives recovered include more than 270
rockets and launchers with equipments to assemble another 100
rockets, grenades and launchers, 112 rocket pipes, which are basic
components of rockets, and 101 empty war heads. The dump also
had a large number of smaller parts like rocket propeller nuts,
propeller caps and fins. In addition the dump contained 47 anti-personnel
claymore mines, mine springs and spare parts used for pressure
mines. It also had one double barrel gun, a country made pistol,
380 grenade strikers, 360 detonator caps, 0.30 rifle ammunition,
as well as walkie-talkies and camera flashes.
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March 17
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An Assistant Sub-Inspector of
Police was seriously injured in a landmine blast triggered by
the CPI-Maoist cadres at Singamkota village of Y Ramavaram mandal
in the East Godavari District.
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March 18
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A senior CPI-Maoist leader, Merugu
Sambaiah alias Naganna alias Suranna surrendered
before the Warangal District Police. Sambaiah was working as the
outfit’s West Bastar division committee secretary and was a member
of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC). Sambaiah
carried a reward of INR 2 lakhs on his head.
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March 23
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A Police constable was killed
and two others were injured when CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire
on a combing party after setting off an explosive near Nelajartha
village in the Visakhapatnam District.
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March 25
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A top Maoist leader, identified
as Durgam Ramanaiah, involved in the Koraput jail break in Orissa
in 2004, and attacks on other security establishments surrendered
in Warangal. Another top leader, the West Bastar division committee
secretary and Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) member,
Merugu Sambaiah aka Suranna aka Naganna, also surrendered. Another
leader, identified as Ramanaiah surrendered along with his wife
Bellamkonda Sarakka aka Kala, who is commander of the Chaitanya
Natya Manch of the Maoists in DKSZC operating in Chhattisgarh.
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March 29
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Two Maoists were killed in an
encounter with the Police in the Nalgonda District. A Police party
was combing areas near Noothankal, on a tip-off that some extremists
were forcibly collecting money from building contractors, when
the exchange of fire occurred near Mukundapur village.
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April 6
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Soyam Ansu Bai alias Godavari
alias Deepa, deputy commander of the Jimmalgatta dalam
of the CPI-Maoist in the Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra,
surrendered to the Adilabad District Police. The extremist who
belonged to the Gangannapet village of Kadem mandal carried
a reward of INR 100,000 from Maharashtra government and INR 50,000
from Andhra Pradesh government.
The Warangal District Police arrested
two civilians, P. V. Kondal Rao and Ch. Prabhakar, and recovered
a huge amount of money reportedly belonging to the CPI-Maoist.
Police sources said that Maoist leader Gajerla Ravi alias
Ganesh had sent INR 5, 00,000 to the arrested persons for procuring
items, including party literature.
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April 19
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A top CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Gasikanti Rajamouli alias Shekhar, surrendered before
the Superintendent of Police Y. Gangadhar at Karimnagar. He had
joined the Naxalite ranks in 1991 and worked in various positions
as member in the Vikarabad dalam (squad), Special Action
committee member in Tiger project dalam in the Nallamalla
forests, Mahanandi dalam and deputy commander of Uravakonda
dalam in Anantapur. In 2006, he was shifted to the Dandakaranya
special zone committee to work in the Maoists `Kranthi' magazine
and went to Chhattisgarh region also.
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April 20
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A Naxalite, identified as Jogu
Venkateswarlu, was killed in an encounter with the Police in the
Warangal District. The Police subsequently recovered a loaded
pistol and a two-wheeler from the incident site. Venkateswarlu
was reportedly a member of the Janashakthi District committee.
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April 26
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A ‘deputy dalam commander’
of the CPI-Maoist, Madari Korke alias Mohan, surrendered
before the Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar in the Adilabad
District.
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May 2
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Police arrested two persons and
recovered 110 live rounds of .303 pistols, 110 live rounds of
8 mm revolver, 35 live rounds of 410 muskets, 25 charge clips
and one magazine of .303 pistol from them during a search operation
at Mulugu mandal in the Warangal District.
In the same District, Police recovered
eight landmines, weighing two kilograms each, in steel cans planted
by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres targeting the Police engaged in
combing operations in Kothaguda mandal. According to Police
sources, four landmines were recovered between Konapur and Potlapur
villages on the cart track and other four were recovered from
a junction leading to Alligudem, Pochapur and Chouledu villages
near Damerathogu.
Police recovered one spring field
rifle, 10 live rounds and one 8 mm rifle from a dump belonging
to the Praja Prathighatana near Kambalapally in the Mahabubabad
area of the Warangal District.
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May 3
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Six left wing–extremists belonging
to different outfits surrendered before the Superintendent of
Police, Soumya Mishra, in the Warangal District. They were identified
as K. Santosh of Buttaigudem at Eturunagaram mandal, who
worked as ‘commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, P. Kamala alias
Sadhana of Basagudem in the State of Chhattisgarh, who worked
as ‘deputy commander’ of 15th platoon of the CPI-Maoist, Midium
Suresh of Kondai, who was a dalam member of Damodar squad
of the CPI-Maoist, Bathula Suresh alias Srikanth, who was
Kishore, dalam member of Prathighatana group, Matte Laxmi
alias Anitha and Dobe Sharada , members of the Praja Prathighatana.
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May 5
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CNN-IBN quoting intelligence
agencies reported that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR Reddy
is in a ‘hit list’ prepared by the Naxalites.
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May 6
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Police recovered 10 landmines
from Bandirevu, Gollaguppa and Doragutta forest areas in the Bhadrachalam
mandal of Khammam District. The landmines were intended
to be used to kill Police personnel on combing duty. The Police
also recovered four bundles of electric wire and pamphlets opposing
construction of Polavaram project.
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May 15
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as E. Gattaiah, ‘central organizer’ of Manthani local guerrilla
squad, and E. Narayanaand, and one Praja Prathighatana member,
identified as N. Ramlal Nayak, surrendered before the Superintendent
of Police Y. Gangadhar in Karimnagar.
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May 26
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Five Naxalites belonging to various
outfits surrendered before the Superintendent of Police of Warangal
District. The surrendered extremists include the CPI-Maoist Gadchiroli
divisional committee member of Dandakaranya special zonal committee,
K Rajamouli alias Ravi and his wife Sushila alias
Naveena, deputy commander of Sironcha dalam.
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May 27
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Two suspected naxalites, identified
as Sudhakar and Radha alias Sunnam Nagamani of the Communist
Party of India-Marxist-Leninist-New Democracy (CPI-ML-New Democracy)
were killed in an encounter in a forest area of Vararamachandrapuram
in the Khammam District. Police recovered three weapons including
an SBBL gun and some kitbags from the incident site.
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May 28
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CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a
tribal leader, S. Ravi Shankar, at Hukumpeta in the Visakhapatnam
District. The incident occurred when about ten armed Maoists emerged
from the forests and shot at Shankar at close range in the presence
of hundreds of devotees during a local festival called Modakondamma
Jatara and escaped.
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May 29
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The CPI-Maoist cadres triggered
a bomb blast blowing up the control room of the Andhra Pradesh
Power Generation Corporation’s 24 Mega Watt mini hydel power station
at Donkarai village in the East Godavari District. According to
Police, about 50 armed Maoists came to the control room and using
explosives blasted it and later escaped. An assistant engineer
of the plant sustained injuries in the blast.
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June 5
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Armed cadres of the Venkatapuram
local guerrilla squad led by their leader Renuka and accompanied
by a large number of Gotti Koya tribals, killed K. Satyam, a Congress
party leader, at Chinnamidisaleru village in the Khammam District.
The same group of extremists attacked the house of a trader, Soyam
Somaraju, in the nearby Pedamidisaleru area of Khammam District.
They also set a tractor ablaze in the Togugudem forests, on the
border with Chhattisgarh.
Police arrested a top CPI-Maoist
leader and Mahabubnagar ‘District committee secretary’, Kodavati
Kumara Swamy alias Naganna alias Sahu, carrying
a head money of INR 300,000 in Warangal. According to Police,
Swamy is also a member of the South Telangana Zonal Committee
and one of the prime accused in the killing of the Indian Police
Service officer, Paradeshi Naidu, the then Superintendent of Police
of Mahabubnagar District. Warangal Superintendent of Police, Soumya
Mishra, said that Swamy was involved in several cases, including
the killing of eight Police personnel.
The Warangal District Police recovered
13 landmines, four claymore mines, 16 detonators and 200 meters
of wire bundle which were planted by Maoists between Kowshettivai
and Chowledu villages.
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June 6
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Two Janashakthi cadres were killed
in an exchange of fire with Police in the reserve forest area
near Gattupalli in the Kadapa District.
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June 13
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A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Konapuri Ramulu, brother of the CPI-Maoist ‘State secretary’
Sambasivudu, surrendered at the office of Deputy Inspector General
of Police (Hyderabad Range) in Hyderabad
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June 16
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Police recovered two powerful
landmines connected with wires on the G.L. Puram - Kedaripuram
Road at Savarakotapadu in the Vizianagaram District. Parvatipuram
Sub-Divisional Police Officer N. Sudershan Rao said that while
combing the area Elwinpet Sub-Inspector Rajulu Naidu and his team
found steel cans filled with gelatine sticks, each weighing about
five kilograms. A bomb disposal squad subsequently defused them.
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June 17
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Police arrested a supporter of
the CPI-Maoist, identified as Kota Anand alias Kishore,
a member of the Bellamkonda Dalam (squad) of the erstwhile
People’s War Group (PWG) and a close associate of ‘Tech’ Madhu,
who was arrested on the charge of manufacturing rocket launchers
under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act,
in Vijayawada. The Police seized revolutionary literature from
Anand and charged him with continuing his association with the
Maoists by taking up repair of their weapons.
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June 20
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres threatened
the husband of Joolakallu Gram Panchayat (local administrative
body) Sarpanch (village head) in the Piduguralla area of
Guntur District with dire consequences if he did not ‘mend his
ways’. The Maoists alleged that he had swindled INR 3,00,000 in
a road contract. They also warned five surrendered left-wing extremists
for their alleged links with the Police to face dire consequences.
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June 22
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Two cadres of the CPI-ML Praja
Pratighatna outfit, Bhaskar alias Srinivas, 'dalam (squad)
commander’ of the Mahabubabad area, and Srinivasulu, 'dalam' commander’
of the Tirmulgery area, were killed in a gun-battle with Police
near Mallampalli in the Warangal District.
A top Maoist leader, Sande Rajamouli
alias Prasad - the State Committee Secretary of Karnataka,
a Central Committee Member and Central Military Commission member
of CPI-Maoist - was reportedly killed in an encounter with the
Police near the railway station at Dharmavaram in the Anantapur
District. A statement by the CPI-Maoist Karnataka State committee
subsequently said that Rajamouli was in fact arrested near a bus
stand at Kollam in the State of Kerala on June 22 and killed later
on.
A Salwa Judum activist,
identified as Srinivas, was shot dead by cadres of the CPI-Maoist
at a weekly tribal market at Edugurallapalli in the Khammam District.
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June 25
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A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Palaka Raja Rao alias Kiran, a member of Kondabariki
dalam (squad) of the outfit, surrendered to the Police
at Palakonda in the Srikakulam District.
A red alert was declared in the
agency area of Visakhapatnam District in view of the Maoists’
economic blockade programme on June 26-27, during which it was
expected to target major projects and installations.
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June 26
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The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
a state-run Road Transport Corporation bus at R.V. Nagar in the
Visakhaptanam District. Maoists also set ablaze the records of
Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation and Coffee Board
Research Centre in the same area.
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June 28
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Police personnel recovered eight
landmines laid on the Kaluvapally road in the Tadvai mandal of
the Warangal District by CPI-Maoist cadres.
Police recovered a .30 carbine
along with 32 live rounds from cadres of the Janashakti outfit
at Lingala forest area in the Warangal District. Another .30 carbine
with 12 live rounds, one 3.2 pistol with four rounds belonging
to the Prathighatana outfit was recovered at Musuku Thanda in
the Palakurthy mandal.
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June 29
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A claymore mine weighing about
12 kilograms was spotted by farm workers and subsequently defused
by the Police on the rail track near Gate Karepalli village in
the Khammam District. The mine was reportedly planted by the CPI-Maoist
as part of their economic blockade programme on June 26-27.
A CPI-Maoist activist, identified
as Polam Narasaiah alias Ramanna, carrying head money of
INR 50,000, was arrested by Police from the Mancherial division
of Adilabad District.
Police arrested a courier of the
Praja Prathighatana outfit, identified as Bandaru Bhadraiah alias
Bhaskar, in Warangal.
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July 1
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A member of the North Telangana
Special Zonal Committee (NTSZC) secretariat of the CPI-Maoist,
Chettiraja Papaiah alias Somanna, carrying head money of
INR 1000000, was killed in an encounter with Police in the Medaram
forest area under Tadavai mandal (administrative division) of
Warangal District. Police also recovered an AK-47, a pistol and
four kit bags from the incident site.
A member of the Galikonda local
organising squad of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Korra Pandanna,
was arrested while he along with three others were reportedly
fixing landmines on a road near Lanka Pakala village in the G.K.Veedhi
mandal (administration division) of Visakhapatnam District. However,
the other three managed to escape.
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July 4
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A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Pongi Subba Rao, was arrested by a Police team during a search
operation at Pedavalasa village in the G.K. Veedhi mandal of
Visakhapatnam District. Police also recovered a SBBL gun from
his possession.
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July 9
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Four left-wing extremists belonging
to different outfits surrendered to the Police in the Warangal
District. They were identified as Alem Nageswar Rao alias
Seshu, the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) fifth
platoon ‘commander’ of the CPI-Maoist; Vallapu Mallesh alias
Jeevan alias Ramesh, ‘secretary’ of the CPI (ML)-Janashakthi
Warangal and Khammam District area committee, E. Venkata Swamy
alias Devanna, the Manuguru ‘area commander’ of the same
outfit; and B. Yakaiah alias Ramakanth, the Krishna dalam
member of the CPI (ML)-New Democracy.
Maoists have reportedly threatened
to carry out attacks against the Police and ruling party politicians
to avenge the killing of two of their important leaders, Sande
Rajamouli and Chettiraju Papaiah, in the Anantapur and Warangal
Districts respectively, claiming the killing as fake encounters.
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July 11
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a tower
of the Doordarshan, the government television network, using detonators
at Chintapalli village in the Visakhapatnam District. The Maoists
also blasted a government quarter situated near the tower.
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up an electric
sub-station in the Chintapalli mandal (administrative division)
of Visakhapatnam District. The incident disrupted the power supply
to several villages in Chintapalli and G K Veedhi divisions.
The Maoists blew up the house
of a former Member of the State Legislative Assembly, Balaraju,
in the Chintapalli mandal. The Maoists also tried to attack
the Chintapalli Police station but fled after Police opened fire.
The CPI-Maoist cadres also set ablaze a large number of tyres
at a bus complex in Chintapalli and put up red flags, banners
and posters all over the area.
Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Aluvala Swamy alias Suryam, a leader wanted
in Orissa and Chhattisgarh, and P. Ramana alias Uma, a
‘commander’, surrendered before the Warangal Police. They
were active in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
Nannepogu Ravindra Babu alias
Sudarshan, a former ‘commander’ of the Nallamala Platoon Section-A,
surrendered before the Guntur Police.
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July 12
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a local leader of the ruling Congress party, identified as Ram
Reddy, at Velerpadu mandal of Khammam District.
Maoists set ablaze a lorry at
Pocharam village in the Vararamachandrapuram mandal of
Khammam District.
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July 14
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One tribal was killed and another
wounded when cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked them in the Vizianagaram
District. The Maoists suspected them to be Police informers.
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July 22
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A ‘deputy commander’ of the special
guerrilla squad of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Kiran, carrying
a head money of INR 50000, was killed in a encounter with the
Police at Rachakonda village in the Prakasam District. The Nallamala
Forest Division committee secretary, Nagireddy Panduranga Reddy
alias Sagar alias Pratap, was also injured in the
incident. Two other woman dalam members were reportedly
arrested at the same place. The encounter occurred when 12 Maoists
assembled near a stream at Rachakonda and were planning to observe
a martyrs week from July 27 to August 3. Police also recovered
two .303 rifles and two tapanchas (country made rifles)
from the encounter site.
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July 24
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CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a
former colleague, 22-year old Nomula Mariadas, at Kallagunta village
in the Guntur District accusing him of being a Police informer.
The killed extremist had joined the Maoist fold four years ago
and had surrendered to the Police at Veldurthi Police station
in April 2005.
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July 25
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One CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Gopi alia Nageswara Rao, was killed in an exchange of fire
with Police at Birubulanarva in the Prakasam District. However,
five others managed to escape. Two tapanchas (country-made
revolvers) and a kit bag were recovered from the incident site.
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July 26
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as P. Dasaradh alias ‘Tech’ Srinu alias Azad, and
Anand Kumar alias Shyam, were killed in an encounter with
the Police in the area between Ravulapalem and Manepalli Thanda
of the Bollapalli mandal in Guntur District.
Seven CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a woman, surrendered before the Police at Rajahmundry in the East
Godavari District. They were identified as G. Chittibabu, G. Sathibabu,
G. Bhupati, Mudu Gopalakrishna alias Gopal, Sema Reddy
Pall, K. Kosai and K. Dombe.
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July 27
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A CPI-Maoist couple, M Venkateswarlu
alias Balanna alias Naveen and Vengalamba alias
Shyamala, former dalam (squad) ‘commanders’ and carrying
head money of INR 200000 each, surrendered to the Police at Ongole
in the Prakasam District.
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July 29
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist blew
up the cabin of a railway signal system at Kuneru railway station
in the Vijayanagaram District and damaged railway property worth
INR 3,000,000. The Maoists also set ablaze the records of the
railway station. They left a note pasted on the wall of the railway
station demanding their leader Dharma alias Bhupati, who
was arrested on July 23, to be presented before a court immediately.
A pressure mine planted by the
Maoists near the Mallikarjunaswamy temple on the outskirts of
Koyyuru exploded accidentally. However, no loss of life or injuries
was reported.
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July 30
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A former woman cadre of the Chandravanka
dalam of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Gajula Nagamani
alias Suneeta, carrying head money of INR 50,000 surrendered
to the Ongole Police. Suneeta was reportedly involved in two murder
cases.
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July 31
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A ‘deputy commander’ of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Kammula Ilaiah alias Rajesh of Mantoor village,
surrendered before the Medak Police. Ilaiah joined the Maoist
outfit in 2004 and was involved in several cases including murder,
exchange of fire with the Police in Kakulagutta, and attack on
Mannnanur Police station in the Mahbubnagar District.
The East Godavari District Police
arrested seven cadres of the CPI-Maoist and neutralized two arms
dumps. Police neutralized the first dump at Choppakonda hamlet
near Buradakota and the second at Tarniwada hamlet near Patakota.
They also recovered one generator, 150 kilograms of gelatine,
25 electric detonators, solar panels with fuses, wire bundles,
flashes and revolutionary material from the two arm dumps.
In the Visakhapatnam District,
Maoists, observing the ‘martyrs week’, established memorials and
hung banners at some villages in the agency area during the last
few days. Separately, a mine was planted near the memorial established
at Sivarajapuram village.
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August 1
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The State Government extended
the ban on six front organisations of the CPI-Maoist, by another
year effective from August 16, and also offered to hold talks
with them if they laid down their arms. The organisations are
Radical Youth League, Rythu Coolie Sangham, Radical Students’
Union, Singareni Karmika Samakhya, Viplava Karmika Samakhya and
the All-India Revolutionary Students’ Federation. The government
took the decision to extend the ban under the Andhra Pradesh Public
Security Act in view of the continuing Maoist violence in the
State.
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August 2
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Police recovered 20 kilograms
of gelatine sticks in a dump at Kondareddypally village under
Veldanda Police station limits in the Mahabubnagar District.
During combing operations at Amvrabad
Mannanur Vatvarlapally in the Nalamalla forest area of Mahabubnagar
District, the Police found diaries and some papers that had vital
information about the CPI-Maoist.
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August 3
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A CPI-Maoist couple, Madduri
Gattaiah alias Gagnaram and Madduri Madanakka alias
Shobha, surrendered before the District Police at Nalgonda. Superintendent
of Police, Vijay Kumar, informed that Gattaiah served as ‘area
committee member’ of the Madded committee and ‘commander’ of 11th
platoon while Madanakka worked as ‘deputy commander’ of Bhopalapatnam
in the west Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
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August 6
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The ‘Andhra-Orissa Border action
committee Deputy Commander’, A. Chandrashekar, surrendered before
the Chittoor District Superintendent of Police Shashidara Reddy.
Addressing a press conference, Reddy informed that the 30-year-old
Maoist hailed from Yerpedu in Chittoor. He had worked in various
squads of the CPI-Maoist, including the Talakona squad. He surrendered
due to pressure from his parents, Reddy added. The Andhra Pradesh
government had earlier announced an INR 20,000 reward on his head.
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August 7
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A member of the Nallamala Forest
Division Committee of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Talari Krishna
alias Pochaiah of Medak District, was killed in an exchange
of fire near Pacharla in the Nallamala forest area of Kurnool
District. A Police personnel, identified as Bala Ankaiah, was
also injured in the exchange of fire. However, some other Maoists,
including CPI-Maoist ‘state secretary’ Sambasivudu, escaped from
the incident site. The Police recovered an SLR and .303 gun from
the incident site.
A woman cadre and ‘platoon member’
of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Turlapati Tanuja, surrendered
before the Guntur District Police. Superintendent of Police, Mahesh
Chandra Laddha, said that Tanuja was involved in several incidents,
including the attack on the Chilakaluripet Police station in December
2005, exchange of fire at Marrivemula in Prakasam District.
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August 8
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Janardhan, a member of the CPI-Maoist
frontal organisations, Virasam (Revolutionary Writers Association)
and Human Rights Forum, surrendered before the Prakasham District
Superintendent of Police, Vinit Brijlan. Janardhan, who had attended
the CPI-Maoist meeting in Mumbai, Guttikonda Bilam and Hyderabad,
during the peace talks between the outfit and State government
in 2004, surrendered before the Police due to ill health and disillusionment
with the extremist ideology. He was carrying a reward of INR 20,000
on his head and was absconding since the Maoist attack on Superintendent
of Police Mahesh Chandra Laddha.
The Andhra Pradesh government
announced a reward of INR One million on Dubash Shankar, a leader
of the CPI-Maoist who reportedly draws strategies for attacks
on orders from the top leadership of the outfit. Shankar, a native
of Chetlatimmaipalli in the Sangareddy District, is now working
in the Andhra-Orissa border as a ‘special zone committee member’.
Anyone who would inform about Shankar’s movement or help in capturing
him would be given the reward. In case, Shankar himself surrenders
to the Police, he will get the reward amount. In addition to Shankar,
the Government also announced rewards on nearly 40 Naxalites (left-wing
extremists) belonging to the Sangareddy District.
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a
landmine explosion, injuring Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation
security officer Satya Murthy and his assistant Ramage Prasad
at Sileru in the Visakhaptnam District. Superintendent of Police
A. Sabarwal told that the landmine attack was to protest against
the arrest of tribals who were in Police custody on the charges
of abetting Maoist activities in the agency areas. The Maoists
also attacked a check-post at Sileru and burnt the office records.
They dropped letters and pamphlets protesting against the arrest
of the tribals, he added.
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August 12
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Times of India reported
that the Andhra Pradesh Police have included 650 new names to
its hit-list of 1,200 Maoists. The reward amount on each of these
extremists too has been increased. Most of these names are reportedly
from Districts where the Police have been claiming that the Maoist
movement has been on the downslide. Visakhapatnam Rural District,
which registered a steep rise in Maoist violence over the past
five months, has 113 new names, the highest in the list. This
is followed by Warangal with 103, Guntur and Anantapur with 67
each, Adilabad with 48 and Mahabubnagar with 43 names. Nellore
District ranks last with only four wanted Maoists. Earlier, there
were only 18 Maoists in Visakhapatnam Rural and nine Maoists in
Anantapur District who carried reward amounts. The State has increased
the reward amount on all these wanted Maoists and their leaders
by nearly INR 162 million.
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August 12
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Police seized a CPI-Maoist arms
dump near Maradugu village in the Amrabad Police station area
of Mahabubnagar District. A large number of explosives, including
70 grenades, several components of grenades, a claymore mine,
grenade launcher cups, Maoist literature, some CDs and cassettes
were recovered from the dump.
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August 20
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New Indian Express reported
that the Police department will utilise the services of the CRPF
in the Khammam District. Superintendent of Police DS Chouhan told
that nine CRPF platoons, comprising 400 personnel would arrive
in the District by the end of August and would take part in anti-Maoist
operations with the Greyhounds, a specialised commando unit of
the state Police. The move comes in the wake of intelligence reports
that the Maoists have formed action teams to assassinate political
leaders and officials and attack public properties in the region.
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August 20
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Four senior cadres of the CPI-Maoist
surrendered before the Mahabubnagar District Superintendent of
Police Charu Sinha. They were identified as Baddela Balaiah alias
Sagar, a dalam (squad) commander, his wife, Chigulla Guruvamma
alias Latha, Tokala Lingaiah alias Prasad and Katraju
Lingaiah alias Narayana.
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August 27
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Ten Maoists, including five women,
surrendered before the Police in the Warangal District. The extremists
belonging to different groups surrendered before the District
Superintendent of Police Soumya Mishra.
Maoist Khammam District ‘Charla
Local Guerilla Squad commander’, M. Punnam, who carried a reward
of INR 50,000 on his head, surrendered along with his wife Kavitha,
a ‘deputy commander’ of the Vezedu squad in Khammam District.
Another Maoist, identified as L. Vasantha, who was active in the
Badegaon area of Chhattisgarh and carried a reward of INR 20,000
on her head, also surrendered.
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August 29
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The Mahaboobnagar District Police
recovered an infrared thermometer, three self-loading rifles,
two .303s, one 8-mm rifle, a tapancha (locally made firearm),
three rocket-launchers, 18 grenades, a telescope, ammunition for
various weapons, a gas wielding machine, and detonators reportedly
belonging to CPI-Maoist from the Nallamala forest under Amrabad
Police limits. "Probably, this is first time Police seized an
infrared thermometer from the Maoists," Superintendent of Police
Charu Sinha said.
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September 4
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Police recovered a cache of arms
and ammunition from the Bollapalli Reserve Forest area under Bandlamotu
Police station in the Guntur District. The recoveries include
.303 rifle, three 12 bore tapanchas, explosive material
weighing 20-kilograms along with two country-made hand grenades,
300 rounds of ammunition for several arms like .410 muskets, .303
Dual Band Radar rifles, .303 Light Machine Gun, a binocular and
three olive green uniforms. The Superintendent of Police, Mahesh
Chandra Laddha, disclosed that 15-kilograms of landmines and five-kilograms
of claymore mines were recovered from various important routes
targeting the VIPs and Police personnel.
Police unearthed a huge dump of
the Maoist’s consisting of weapons, repair instruments, including
a lathe machine, drilling machine, 1 HP motor, gas welding cylinder,
three hexablade frames, seven bench vices, empty grenade shells,
ten coupling bombs, ammunition and spares of guns and one tapancha
from an area between Chenganikota and Mangampadu under Donkarai
Police station in the East Godavari District.
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September 6
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Commander of the Telakapally
local guerilla squad and area committee secretary of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Lenkala Devendramma alias Rajitha, surrendered
before the Police at an unspecified place in the Mahububnagar
District.
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, Uppalapally
Yadaiah alias Ramaswamy alias Obulesh and Kodangi
Kalamma alias Srujana, surrendered before the Police at
an unspecified place in the Nalagonda District.
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September 7
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The former Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister, N. Janardhan Reddy, and his wife, N. Rajyalakshmi, who
is also Minister for Women Development and Child Welfare in the
Andhra Pradesh cabinet, escaped unhurt while three Congress party
workers were killed and five others sustained injuries in a CPI-Maoist-triggered
landmine blast near Chitwedu village in the Nellore District.
The remote controlled blast targeted the convoy of 21 vehicles
of Reddy, who is a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), damaging
the bulletproof car in which the couple was traveling. Reddy was
the Chief Minister when a ban was imposed on the Maoists (then
known as People’s War Group or PWG) for the first time in May
1992. He has been on the Maoist hit-list since then. He had earlier
escaped an assassination attempt in 2003.
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September 11
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The CPI-Maoist claimed responsibility
for the attack on the former Chief Minister N. Janardhana Reddy
and expressed regrets for the death of three other persons in
the landmine blast near Vakadu of Nellore District on September
7. In a statement released in Hyderabad, Janardhan, the CPI-Maoist
spokesman in the State, said that a special action team of the
People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army had blasted the landmine, but
it had missed the target, as Reddy and his wife, N. Rajalakshmi,
had moved into another car. A four-paragraph statement in Telugu
justified the attack on Reddy saying he was the first to impose
a ban on the left-wing extremists in 1992 and was responsible
for "killing of over 400 revolutionaries" during his tenure.
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September 12
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A former ‘secretary’ of the Rachakonda
Area Committee of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Bhavanam Sreenivasa
Reddy alias Bhaskar alias Prabhakar alias
Diwakar, surrendered to the Police for the second time due to
ill-health in the Nalgonda District. The Superintendent of Police
Vijay Kumar said that Reddy, who had surrendered and availed of
the rehabilitation package on August 9, 2003, went underground
after Maoists attacked Atmakur Police station in the same District
in 2006.
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September 13
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Police arrested a former CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Bhaskar alias Munaiah, at Gudur in
the Nellore District. Police said that Bhaskar was arrested in
connection with the landmine blast at Chendodugutta on September
7.
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September 17
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Condemning the alleged arrest
and illegal detention of Santosh, a senior member of the central
technical committee of the CPI-Maoist, who was believed to be
taken into custody in Mumbai on August 24, Azad, CPI-Maoist spokesperson
in Hyderabad demanded that he be produced in a court of law immediately.
Apprehending threat to the life of Santosh, Azad, warned of retaliatory
attacks if any harm was done to him. He also warned that the ruling
party leaders would have to pay a price for any harm done to Santosh.
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September 20
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Police unearthed three landmines
and six electrical detonators planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres,
on a road between Peepalpahad and Devulamma Nagaram in Choutuppal
mandal in the Nalgonda District.
Police recovered a cache of arms
and ammunition, including six claymore mines, five live cartridges
of 12 bore tapancha and 25 electrical detonators at Eddugundubodu
area on the outskirts of Chandampet mandal in the Nalgonda
District. The Superintendent of Police, Vijay Kumar, said that
the mines were planted by Kavali Yadagiri alias Pandu,
Divisional Committee member of Nalgonda-Mahabubnager Division
and Boda Anjaiah alias Bhaskar, member of Kanagal, to attack
the Police and other targeted political leaders.
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September 23
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Police arrested one CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as, Tamtenki Ashok, who was reportedly involved
in enrolling youths into the outfit, from his residence at Brahmanwada
in the Hanamkonda town of Warangal District.
Police recovered 83 rounds of
AK-47, 41 rounds of Springfield, 108 rounds of KF-92, 67 rounds
of 9-mm, 88 rounds of .22 and 11 rounds of calibre weapons belonging
to the Praja Prathighatana faction of the CPI-ML near Sudda Vagu
on the outskirts of Chalvai village in the Govindaraopet agency
mandal of Warangal District.
Police recovered seven landmines
at Chelpaka forest area in Eturunagaram of Warangal District.
Police recovered three single
barrel breach load guns at Komatlaguda forests in the Kothaguda
mandal of Warangal District.
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September 25
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Four suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
killed a civilian, identified as V. Krishna Rao, at Bannavaram
village in the Chintapalli mandal of Visakhapatnam District.
The Maoists killed Rao suspecting him to be an informer of the
Police.
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September 26
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Police killed four Pedabayalu
dalam cadres of the CPI-Maoist, including three women cadres,
in an encounter at Amidala village in the G. Madugula mandal
of Visakhapatnam District. Police also recovered two .303 rifles,
two double barrel breech loading guns, five kit bags and a tapancha
from the incident site.
Police recovered three huge land
mines, each weighing about 50-kilograms, near Lambasingi village
between Chintapalli and Narsipatnam areas in Visakhapatnam District.
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September 30
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Five ‘action team’ cadres of
the CPI-Maoist were arrested by the Police in Vepalagadda forests
of Yellandu sub-division in the Khammam District. A 303 rifle,
an 8 mm rifle with 15 live rounds, a 9 mm pistol, 8 mm carbine
with 15 live rounds and a landmine weighing 18 kilograms were
seized from them. Superintendent of Police, D. S. Chouhan, said
that the Police were on the lookout for the leader of the team,
Kommu Ramaswamy, and another member, Avudoddi Sreenu, who managed
to escape.
A CPI-Maoist leader of the Gurthedu
Area Committee, Kurra Manga alias Sirimi alias Kavithakka,
surrendered to the Police in Kakinada. Kavithakka was working
as secretary of the Andhra-Orissa Border (AOB) committee - East
Division - and was wanted in several cases. She carried a reward
of INR 200,000 on her head. Her husband, Bhushanam, is working
as AOB divisional committee member.
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October 5
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Police personnel recovered two
powerful landmines planted by the banned CPI-Maoist near Vantala
village on the Chintapalli-Jerrela road in Visakhapatnam District.
The explosives, weighing 30 kilograms, were packed in two steel
vessels and planted at a bend on the road. The Sub-Divisional
Police Officer of Chintapalli, Ram Nayak, informed that the landmines
were unearthed during a special drive being conducted by the District
Police to identify and defuse landmines, claymore mines and directional
mines planted by the Maoists on the roads being used by people
in the agency area.
The Police confirmed that the
nine tribals, who were taken into custody during a combing operation
in Palakonda division of Srikakulam District, were CPI-Maoist
cadres. A special Police party from Vizianagaram arrested Arika
Raja Rao, Govinda, Suresh, Chinna Rao, Baapaiah, Balaiah, Mangu,
Uyaka Sarang and Mandangi Bosiyelu. On the basis of information
provided by the Maoists, the Police also recovered an arms dump
near Sankiligudam including explosives, three empty steel carriages,
20 SLR rounds, four cartridges, a pistol and a grenade.
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October 7
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Suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
shot dead a youth, M Venkata Ramana Raju, suspecting him to be
a Police informer at Nurmati village in the G. Madugula mandal
of Visakhapatnam District. Raju was abducted up from his
house and later shot dead in the forests.
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October 12
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A top CPI-Maoist leader and Mahabubnagar
District secretary, Ramakanth alias Gunduru Sreenu alias
Ashok, carrying head money of INR 500000, surrendered before the
District Police in Mahabubnagar. Ramakanth was involved in several
cases, including eight murders and the killing of Congress MLA
from Makhtal, C. Narsi Reddy, two years ago. Ramakanth, resident
of Ajilapoor village of Veldanda mandal, joined the outfit
in 1995. He severed various positions in the outfit as dalam
(squad) member of Kalwakurthy, ‘deputy commander’ of upper plateau,
‘commander’ of Nallamala dalam and ‘platoon commander’.
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October 15
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Police arrested a top CPI-Maoist
leader and Guthikonda ‘area commander’, Mydukuri Raoof alias
Rabbani alias Jaheer, carrying head money of INR 300000
at Janapadu village in the Piduguralla mandal of Guntur
District. He was reportedly wanted in connection with 58 offences,
including six murders and exchange of fire with special Police
parties. Two other sympathisers, Borra Venkaiah and Lanjapalli
Koteswara Rao, were also arrested on charges of providing shelter
to the Maoists.
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October 19
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Four left-wing extremists belonging
to the CPI-ML- Janashakthi group were killed in an encounter with
Police near Gattumalla village in Kothagudem mandal of
Khammam District. According to the Police, the gun battle occurred
during a combing operation by the special Police squad in the
area. When the Police ordered them to lay down arms and surrender,
the extremists opened fire and got killed in the retaliatory fire
by the Police.
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October 22
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Around 20 cadres of the CPI-Maoist
killed a village elder, Vantala Satyanarayana, and a homeguard
at Bonangipalli village in the G.K. Veedhi mandal of the
Visakhapatnam District. Before leaving, the Maoists left a note
saying that Satyanarayana was killed for co-operating with the
Police and warned that all Police informers would meet the same
fate. CPI-Maoist cadres are also reported to have assaulted the
family members of Satyanarayana.
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October 24
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Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Oggu Santosha alias Nagamani and Bomma Govindu
alias Azad, surrendered before the Police at Nalgonda.
According to Police, Santosha was allegedly involved in the attack
on the then Member of Legislative Assembly, Ragya Naik, at Maddimadugu
and Govindu was involved in three murder cases.
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October 26
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Kokkera Srinu alias Sudhakar,
action team member of the Guthikonda Area Committee of the CPI-Maoist,
surrendered before the Superintendent of Police in Guntur. The
Maoist confessed that he had taken part in 10 offences, including
five murders and two incidents of exchange of fire. The SP said
that the Maoist joined the movement in July 2004 as an armed platoon
member and worked with the Guthikonda Area Committee, Chandravanka
dalam, and Pullalacheruvu dalam.
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October 28
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Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
Dasari Madhav, his wife Sandhya (carrying head money of INR 20000
each) and another woman K Erramma alias Aruna (carrying
head money of INR 50000), a member of the Nallamala forest division
committee of Palavanka dalam, surrendered before Police
in the Prakasam District. According to Police, Erramma worked
in the Tiger Project dalam and was involved in several
actions, including the attack on Yerragondapalem Police station,
the killing of two children in Bommalapuram village and the blasting
of a crusher and a vehicle at Kunta village. Madhav and his wife
Sandhya were involved in providing shelter to several underground
Maoists.
Police recovered two arms dumps,
including two .303 rifles, one rifle and over 300 rounds of different
weapons, at Gandicheruvu village of Yerragondapalem mandal
in Prakasam District.
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October 30
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The CPI-Maoist cadres triggered
a landmine explosion targeting a Police party who were engaged
in a combing operation near Pedapadu village of GK Veedhi mandal
in the Visakhapatnam District. While an unspecified number of
Police personnel sustained injuries in the incident, the Maoists
managed to escape after the subsequent exchange of fire.
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November 1
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Two Police personnel sustained
injuries when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a landmine blast at
Kundrangi village in the Pedabayalu mandal of Visakhapatnam
District on No casualties were reported in the simultaneous exchange
of fire between the Police and the Maoists.
Maoists triggered another landmine
blast, targeting the Police who were engaged in a combing operation
near Kunukuru village in Koyyuru mandal in Visakhapatnam
District. Subsequent to the blast, an exchange of fire occurred
between the two parties but no casualties or injuries were reported.
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November 3
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Police recovered a huge cache
of arms and ammunitions including rifles, revolvers and also some
literature, wire bundles and a camera flash from the CPI-Maoist
stronghold in a forest area at Andhra Pradesh-Orissa border in
Vizianagaram District.
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November 6
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A top leader and 'commander'
of state action team of the CPI-Maoist, Anantha Sivasankar alias
Jagan (carrying head money of INR 3,00,000) along with his wife
Sujatha surrendered before Superintendent of Police, Sankabratha
Bagchi, at Nandyal in Kurnool District. According to Police, Sivsankar
joined the outfit in 1999 and worked in Kurnool, Prakasam, Visakhapatnam
Districts in the state and in Orissa in several capacities and
took part in many Maoist activities.
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November 11
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Suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
shot dead a home guard, identified as Subhash, at G. Madugula
in Visakhapatnam District.
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November 13
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The CPI-Maoist reportedly issued
a press release at Chintapalli village in the Visakhapatnam District,
blaming the Police for turning the Girijans (local tribals)
into informers by spending huge amounts of money and warned that
the properties acquired by the surrendered Maoists, after taking
up the job of Home Guard, would be destroyed. The CPI-Maoist east
division secretary Jagadeesh said in the press release that surrendered
Maoists are helping the Police, were not leading a normal life
and were always with the Police who provided them with all luxuries
and used them in combing operations. They wanted that the surrendered
Maoists to lead a normal life and not help the Police.
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November 14
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Police recovered two powerful
landmines, each weighing about 20-kg, from a stretch of road from
Kolluru to Chityala in the Bellamkonda mandal of Guntur
District. They were recovered on the basis of information reveled
by the recently arrested Maoists. "We have information that the
landmines are planted by militants belonging to Krishnapatti dalam
and were planted targeting either the public representatives
or the Police parties traveling on the road enroute Chityala,"
said an unnamed senior Police official.
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November 15
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a civilian, Pangi Nageswara Rao, in the Dumbriguda mandal of Visakhapatnam
District, near the Orissa border. The Maoists had also left a
letter near his dead body but its contents were not known yet.
The incident occurred after the surrendered Maoists and family
members of those killed by Maoists held a demonstration in Visakhapatnam
on November 14 criticising the violence and seeking Police protection.
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November 16
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Three persons, including two
migrant tribals from the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, were killed
by cadres of the CPI-Maoist in Narsingpet village of Chintoor
mandal in Khammam District. Before the killing, the Maoists
reportedly grilled them in the presence of the villagers by organising
a panchayati (village level meeting) and branded them as
Police informants.
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November 19
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The Police unearthed two arms
dumps, including country made fire arms manufacturing material,
of the CPI-Maoist in the Chandampet area of Nalgonda District
and recovered a 7.62 SLR, two .410 muskets and one 30-M1 rifle
carbine without magazines.
A young CPI-Maoist cadre, M. Koteswara
Rao alias Seshu alias Raghu, carrying head money
of INR 50000, surrendered before the Police at Ongole in the Prakasam
District. According to Police, he was involved in six offences,
including two murder cases and participation in two exchanges
of fire with the Police. After the surrender, Koteswara Rao revealed
that while studying ninth class in a school at Tharigoppula village
in the Guntur District, he was attracted by revolutionary songs.
He joined the CPI-Maoist outfit in 2005 and held various positions,
including as a protection squad member, a platoon committee member
and a member of the Gundlakamma dalam.
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November 20
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist detonated
three landmines and opened fire towards a Police party in a remote
place in the G.K. Veedhi mandal of Visakhapatnam District.
However, no causalities were reported on either side. Police also
recovered three kit bags of the Maoists near the incident site.
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November 22
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a tribal man, identified as Gemmili Sanyasi Rao, at Maddilaveedhi
in the Chintapalli mandal of Visakhapatnam District.
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December 1
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A leader of the Congress party,
identified as Panthu Nayak was killed by suspected cadres of the
CPI-Maoist on the outskirts of Amangal town in the Mahaboobnagar
District. Nayak was the president of Amangal mandal in
the District. He was about to enter in a temple when the Maoists
opened fire on him killing him on the spot.
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December 3
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The CPI-Maoist announced a week-long
economic blockade in the Maoist-affected areas in the north of
the State. According to sources, the Maoists are planning attacks
during the week to make their presence felt in the three north
coastal Districts of Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam and
East and West Godavari Districts. Maoists announced that they
would target government properties and warned the tribals against
helping the Police and acting as informers. Meanwhile, an unnamed
senior Police official said more security force personnel were
being deployed to give special protection to government properties.
Some leaders were also warned to avoid staying in their native
villages during this week.
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December 4
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Disillusioned with party ideology
and ill-health, CPI-ML Prathigatana group Manair dalam (squad)
‘commander’ Jangam Potti Rajaiah alias King alias
Shivaji and dalam member Bandam Naresh alias Sumanth
surrendered before the Superintendent of Police, Y. Gangadhar,
in Karimnagar District. Both carried 8 mm rifles and were involved
in some extortion cases.
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December 5
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Three suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
were killed during an exchange of fire with Police near Edupulamma
forest area in the Mampa Police station limits of Visakhapatnam
District.
Mucherla Ramudu, a top ‘platoon
commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, carrying head money of INR 20000,
surrendered before Police in Mahabubnagar. Ramudu, who joined
the Pangal dalam (squad) in 2003, was involved in 15 cases,
including the killing of Maktal Member of Legislative Assembly
C. Narsi Reddy, murder of Charakonda Pandaiah and G. Veeraiah
at Vatvarlapally village. He was also involved in the killing
of Masaiah at Inole village in the District, according to the
Police. Ramadu disclosed that he surrendered to the Police due
to continuous counseling of parents and relatives.
The Warangal District Police arrested
two persons for allegedly trying to supply arms to the Prathighatana
group of Naxalites and seized six revolvers and 20 live rounds
of ammunition from them.
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December 6
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The CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead
a villager, identified as Jinkala Shankar, branding him as a Police
informant, at Yelimonigudem in the Gurrampode mandal of
Nalgonda District. Maoists reportedly held Shankar responsible
for an encounter in which four senior cadres had been killed by
the Police in an operation earlier this year.
CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the
Police near Vaadamamidi in G.K. Veedhi mandal of Visakhapatnam
District, leaving one Police constable, M. Venkata Ramana, seriously
injured.
At Chintapalli in Visakhapatnam
District, the District Police arrested Kamalamma, divisional committee
member of the Jana Natya Mandali, the CPI-M’s cultural wing, and
‘commander’ of the Korukonda dalam (squad).
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December 8
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Police and CPI-Maoists exchanged
fire near Yedukalammakonda under Pampa Police station limits in
the Visakhapatnam District. However, no one was injured in the
gun battle. A .303 rifle, and kit bags were recovered from the
site of the encounter.
The Maoists' call for an economic
blockade has reportedly failed to disrupt life in the State. "The
last two days of the formation week of People's Liberation Guerrilla
Army (PLGA) were declared as economic blockade by the CPI Maoists.
We have seen that there has been no such effect in common life
and the area has been peaceful," said Akun Sabarwal, Superintendent
of Police in the Visakhapatnam District.
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December 9
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Police recovered an AK-47, two
magazines and 60 live ammunition of the CPI-Maoist from Pamulapadu
village of Podili mandal in Prakasam District. According
to Superintendent of Police, V. Navinchand, the recovery was done
on the basis of information given by the arrested Maoist, N. Panduranga
Reddy alias Sagar alias Pratap on December 5. During
interrogation, Sagar also revealed that the State secretary of
CPI-Maoist had handed over to him the cash and jewels looted in
Vemavaram and Morjampadu famine raids in Guntur District, Chaitanya
Grameena Bank branch at Pedakonamgundla village also in Guntur
District and State Bank of Hyderabad branch at Dondapadu in Nalgonda
District for dumping. Police recovered the 9.475-kg gold and INR
741000 in cash, from Chintala Chenchugudem in the Nallamala forest
area, in the same District.
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December 12
|
About 15 armed cadres of the
CPI-Maoist set ablaze road construction machinery and a tractor
at Gouraram village in the Khammam District. They also threatened
the driver with dire consequences if he continued with the road
construction work.
Maoists intruded into the house
of Midium Balaraju, sarpanch (village head) of Pydigudem
village in the Khammam District, and assaulted him holding responsible
for the road construction works sanctioned under the Prime Minister
Sadak Yojana.
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December 14
|
Two left-wing extremists, Penuka
Rama, ‘commander’ of the Mahabubabad area dalam, and Malothu
Naveen, member of the Mohananna dalam of the Praja Pratighatana
group, surrendered before the Police in Warangal. Rama reportedly
joined the outfit in 2002.
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December 16
|
Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Singa Prasad alias Ravi, member of the Prakasam
District committee and secretary of Gundlakamma area committee,
and Jathavath Ramsingh Naik alias Kesava, the Gundlakamma
area committee member, were arrested by Police while they were
searching for food near the Kurchedu forest area on the border
of Guntur-Prakasam District. However, four other Maoists, Ashok,
Murali, Vimala and Bharathi, who were camping in the same area,
managed to escape. Prasad joined the outfit in August 2000 as
a District member in Tiger Project, moved to Palavanka dalam
(squad) in 2003 and was elevated as ‘deputy commander’. Police
sources said that Prasad was accused in 10 murder cases and was
a key member who was monitoring operations in the Prakasam District.
Kesava joined the outfit in 2002 and was reportedly involved in
four murders.
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December 18
|
Chetti Prameela alias
Swarnakka alias Vidya, a commander of the Venkatapuram
Special Guerrilla Squad of the CPI-Maoist in the Khammam District,
surrendered before the Warangal District Superintendent of Police,
Soumya Mishra.
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December 21
|
Two unidentified women cadres
of the CPI-Maoist were killed in an encounter with the security
forces in the forests near Tiger Camp under Maredumilli Police
station limits of East Godavari District. The Police recovered
three .303 guns, two 12 bore guns and nine kit bags from the encounter
site.
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December 27
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres of Korukonda
dalam killed a tribal, identified as Tambeli Beturu Siddhu,
branding him as a Police informer at Peddagedda junction in Chintapalli
mandal of Visakhapatnam District. The Maoists left a letter
in the name of Korukonda Area Committee which stated that the
tribal was killed as he was passing on information about Maoists
to the Police after taking training for three months as home-guard.
In the Visakhapatnam District,
the Maoists stopped a lorry going to Chintapalli from Narsipatnam
and set it ablaze.
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as L. Rambabu of Pedabayalu dalam, was arrested at Chodavaram
in the Visakhapatnam District.
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December 28
|
Police recovered 429 live rounds,
four landmines, each weighing five kilograms, from Thani rivulet
in Ootai forest area of Kothaguda mandal in the Warangal
District.
Eight landmines, each weighing
four kilograms, were recovered from Bhupatipur forest area in
Eturunagaram mandal in the Warangal District.
One directional mine from a dump
at Pochapur forest area in Narasampet mandal was seized
in the Warangal District.
Another landmine was recovered
from a dump near Medaram village in Tadvai mandal of Warangal
District.
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December 29
|
Eighty per cent of the CPI-Maoist
cadre in Andhra Pradesh was neutralised, Director General of Police
S.S.P. Yadav said in Hyderabad. According to him, "Cadre strength
dwindled from 850 last year to 400 this year." He also stated
that the total loss of life on account of Maoist attacks on both
sides - Maoists and Police - had come down from 194 in 2006 to
87 during 2007. He added that "There is a decline of 42 per cent
in the crime rate during 2007 when compared to last year. 1061
extremists were arrested, 119 had surrendered and 43 died in 46
exchange of fire. Out of 43 deceased, four are Policemen." As
many as 178 arms dumps of Maoists that contained a large quantity
of arms and ammunition were found during combing operations in
2007, he stated.
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December 30
|
Armed cadres of the Madhu dalam
of the Communist Party India-Marxist-Leninist-New Democracy (CPI-ML-New
Democracy) shot dead a sympathizer of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Banothu Kolia, in Polaram village of Khammam District. The
attack was in retaliation of the killing of Pulusu Venkanna, a
village secretary of the CPI-ML-New Democracy, at Polaram in the
same District on December 29-night by the CPI-Maoist cadres. Two
other CPI-ML-New Democracy cadres, Vankudothu Venkanna and a woman
activist, had sustained bullet injuries in the attack.
A Praja Prathighatana cadre was
killed in an exchange of fire with the Police in Lachigudem forest
area in Yellandu Police station limits of Khammam District.
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December 31
|
A member of the Kadavendi zonal
committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakthi
group, identified as Jogu Srinu alias Kumar, was killed
during an encounter with the Police in the Ramavaram village of
Kodakandla mandal in the Warangal District. Three other
extremists managed to escape from the site of encounter. Police
recovered a tapancha (locally-made firearm), a kit bag
and a cellular phone from the encounter site. The slain extremist
was reportedly a former member of the CPI-Maoist.
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Jharkhand
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Date
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Incidents
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January 23
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A consignment containing spares
for arms, including assembling mortars, sent from Indore (Madhya
Pradesh) to the CPI-Maoist ‘area commander’ Rajendra Oraon was
seized from a private transport firm in Ranchi. A man, identified
as Prabhu Sao, was arrested in this connection.
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January 30
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Security forces engaged the Maoists
in an encounter near Satbahani river in the Chatra District.
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February 5
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A civilian was killed and two
others were injured as CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire targeting
a security force picket at Lawalong in the Chatra District. An
estimated 200 CPI-Maoist cadres, following a three hour encounter
retreated into the forest areas.
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February 27
|
CPI-Maoist cadres detonated an
explosion targeting an under-construction building of the state
tourism department at Madhuvan of Giridih District. There was
no casualty in the explosion which damaged the interior of the
building.
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March 4
|
Naxalites shot dead Sunil Kumar
Mahato, a member of parliament (MP) belonging to the Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha (JMM), who was witnessing a football match organised
to mark Holi festivals at Bakuria village in the East Singhbhum
District. Two of his bodyguards, a civilian and two party colleagues
were also killed in the attack.
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March 6
|
The CPI-Maoist claimed responsibility
for the killing of JMM Member of Parliament Sunil Kumar Mahato.
The claim was made in posters put up by the outfit in villages
of Hadia and Lango areas under the jurisdiction of Ghorabandh
Police station in the Dhanbad District. The outfit said that Mahato
was killed to avenge the killing of 11 Naxal cadres at Lango a
few years ago.
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March 12
|
Eight persons, including two
CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested following a raid in Ghatsila sub-division
of East Singhbhum District in connection with the killing of the
Member of Parliament Sunil Mahato on March 4. The two Maoists
were identified as Rajan Mahto alias Santosh and Nirmal
Mahto alias Vikash.
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April 6
|
Six people, including two security
force personnel, were killed when an armed group of approximately
300 CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the Central Industrial Security
Force (CISF) camp and the adjoining Gandhinagar Police station
building in the Bokaro thermal power city area of Bokaro District.
Maoists exploded a series of bombs and also blew up the Pilpilo
road bridge connecting the Central Coalfields Limited’s Khashmahal
project with the main highway.
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April 8
|
The CPI-Maoist, in a letter,
threatened the Deputy Chief Minister Sudhir Mahato of dire consequences
if he does not stop speaking against the outfit. The letter said,
"You have been issuing false statements from time to time. Your
aim and motive is clear to the people. However, we feel it right
to challenge your statements and warn you against letting loose
a barrage of lies."
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April 9
|
Eight left-wing extremists belonging
to a breakaway group called Tritiya Prastuti Committee (Third
Preparatory Committee), a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist,
were killed in a clash with 100 CPI-Maoist cadres near Bhadgao
under Balumath Police area, in the Latehar District. One CPI-Maoist
cadre was also killed and several others injured in the gun battle.
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April 14
|
Dumka District Police arrested
a CPI-Maoist cadre and recovered 3000 detonators and 400 bags
of explosives from his possession. Police arrested one Sapan Ravi
Das of village Rajgram under Suri subdivision of Birbhum District
of West Bengal along with the explosives.
CPI-Maoist pasted posters at Silingi
village in the Kathikund Block of Dumka District.
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April 18
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A joint team of Police and the
CRPF recovered 18 landmines, laid by the CPI-Maoist, at Manatu
Police station area in the Palamau District.
Police arrested one CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Mahender Ganjhu, along with arms and ammunition
under the Manatu Police station area in the Palamau District.
The Central Bureau of Investigation
claimed to have identified two hardcore CPI-Maoist cadres, Pramod
Mahto and Ram Chandra, who were involved in the murder of the
Communist Party of India – Marxist-Leninist [CPI-(ML)] legislator
from Bagodar, Mahendra Singh, on January 16, 2005, in the Durgidhavaya
village of Giridih District.
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April 21
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Birsa alias Bitesh Ganghu, was arrested near Navadih
village in the Bokaro District. Police initially arrested Daso
Hasanda, an associate of the Maoist, and then with his help arrested
Birsa.
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, Shankar
Da alias Jitu Mahto, ‘area commander’ of Nimiaghat-Dumri,
and Kumji Mistri, were killed in an encounter with the Police
near Chandli forest area in the Giridih District. Police also
arrested six CPI-Maoist cadres, Ritlal Mahto, Ramchgandar Pandit,
Nirmal Manjhi, Budhan Manjhi, Nirmala and Monika, and recovered
over 40 rounds of ammunition, two pistols, two country-made revolvers,
one Police rifle, uniforms and Maoist literature and INR 33,000
in cash from the incident site.
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April 22
|
A Police personnel was killed
and six others injured when Maoists triggered a landmine blast
near Urdango village in the Giridih District. The incident occurred
when Police personnel were returning after attending a community
service programme organised to create confidence among the people
about security.
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April 24
|
Two brothers were killed at Tamba
village by the CPI-Maoist cadres on suspicion of being Police
informers. Police sources told that 20 CPI-Maoist cadres raided
the home of Jagmohan Singh and killed him and his brother after
tying them to a tree. The Maoists left a pamphlet terming the
brothers as Police informers. More than 20 Police informers have
reportedly been killed in the last one year in Jharkhand.
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
and assaulted a tribal Catholic priest, Father Isidore Toppo of
the Daltonganj Diocese, in the Daltonganj District for allegedly
teaching Indian classical dance in a Missionary school. Later,
he was left unconscious inside a nearby forest.
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May 2
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
while they were planting a landmine at Mukti village under Bhandariya
Police station in the Garhwa District. According to Police, the
landmine accidentally exploded killing the insurgents on the spot.
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May 9
|
Police in the Hazaribagh District
arrested Mithilesh Kumar Verma, a member of the CPI-Maoist central
committee and secretary of its Chhattisgarh unit. Police said
they recovered INR 200, 000 in cash, Maoist literature, a pistol
and other incriminating documents from Mithilesh. The Chhattisgarh
government had announced an INR 200,000 reward for Verma's arrest.
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May 11
|
Police recovered a
300-gram 'directional clamour bomb' in the forest near Banala
in the Gumla District following information that four such explosives
were hidden in the area. "We got only one. Perhaps, the Naxalites
got wind of the Police movement, prompting them to take away the
rest," Gumla Superintendent of Police J. D. H. Guria said.
The CPI-Maoist threatened to 'teach
a lesson' to the former chief ministers of Jharkhand, Arjun Munda
and Babulal Marandi, and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party
chief, Shibu Soren, for suppressing their 'revolutionary movement'.
Jharkhand Police said the audiocassette - issued by the Bengal,
Orissa and Jharkhand Regional Committee of the CPI-Maoist - was
seized along with pamphlets and other material during a raid in
Jamshedpur on May 9. "This is the first time Maoists have issued
a threat to politicians through an audiocassette," an unnamed
Police official told.
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May 12
|
CRPF personnel killed five CPI-Maoist
cadres, including two women extremists, during an encounter in
the jungle of Tutitola village of Garwah District. Four self loading
rifles, one AK rifle and some other objectionable material were
recovered from the site of encounter.
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May 17
|
In a joint operation by the Police
in Ranchi and Gumla Districts, four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from Kamdara Police station in the Gumla District. The Police
also seized incriminating documents from the arrested Maoists.
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May 20
|
Members of the Jharkhand Liberation
Tiger, a criminal outfit with Naxalite dropouts, killed two brothers,
Shiv Prakash Yadav and Jai Prakash Yadav, who reportedly used
to work for the organisation, at two different villages, Gorai
and Balsirin Chowk respectively, under Karra Police station in
the Ranchi District. According to Police sources, the killing
was the result of internal rivalry.
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May 25
|
In a joint operation carried
out by the Jharkhand Police and CRPF, approximately 800 kilograms
of explosive material, including gelatine sticks, were recovered
from a Maoist hideout in the forest area of Latehar District.
The raid was carried out on the basis of information given by
an arrested Maoist ‘zonal commander’ Abhishek. However, the CPI-Maoist
cadres managed to escape after a fierce encounter. 12,000 rounds
of ammunition, 15 rifles (SLR and AK-47), a huge quantity of detonators,
incriminating documents and a bagful of Maoist literature - comprising
details of their recently held congress – were seized by the Police.
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May 26
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed Keshav
Ram Dangi, a trader, in the Pathalgada area of Chatra District.
The Maoists also damaged his house by detonating an explosion.
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May 27
|
Two women CPI-Maoist cadres,
identified as Malti Kumari and Chand Muni alias Khushboo
alias Suparna alias Kanaklata, along with a minor
girl, were arrested from Satbeda village in the Bokaro District.
According to Police sources, both cadres in their confessional
statements revealed that they were involved in the Giridih arms
loot case, attack on Bokaro-Jharia outpost and recent attack on
the CISF camp at Khas Mahal in the Bokaro District.
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May 28
|
CPI-Maoist cadres abducted and
subsequently killed four members of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee
(TPC), a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist, with sharp edged
weapons in the Latehar District. Jharkhand Director General of
Police, J. B. Mahapatra, said, "The killing is outcome of fight
for collection of levy from the coal traders. Earlier members
of CPI-Maoist were abducted by the TPC over fight for levy collection.
And the killing is outcome of retaliation of CPI-Maoist".
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May 29
|
Cadres of the Jharkhand Liberation
Tigers (JLT), a left-wing extremist group, shot dead four supporters
of the rival TPC outfit, identified as Arjun Ganjhu alias
Tasala Ganjhu, Jahru Ganjhu, Sukhan Ganjhu and Paras Ganjhu, at
Barwa Toli near Salechnawa village under Balumath Police station
area in the Latehar District
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May 30
|
TPC cadres reportedly killed
two JLT sympathizers in revenge of the killing of four of its
supporters by the JLT on May 29, in the Latehar District.
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May 31
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Two persons, Kuwar Bhulla and
Narayan Pandit, were killed and six others injured when hundreds
of Maoists raided Dumerjhahri village in the Giridih District.
The Maoists also burnt houses of at least five villagers in the
attack to reportedly send a message to the former Chief Minister
Babulal Marandi.
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June 2
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested by Police at Chapkali village under the Meral Police
station in the Garhwa District. Police also recovered one 303
Police rifle, two 305 rifles, two 12-bore rifles, one double barrel
pistol and 83 live cartridges, including 38 of 315 rifle and 45
of 12 bore rifle.
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June 3
|
Ten persons suspected to have
links with the Naxalites were arrested and three tonnes of opium
worth INR 4 crore was recovered from them by the Jharkhand Police.
According to Police, an inter-state gang with Naxalite links is
responsible for the cultivation and sale of opium in Jharkhand.
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June 7
|
A local Bharatiya Janata Party
leader, Bishamber Singh, was shot dead by cadres of the JLT, a
group comprising CPI-Maoist dropouts, in the Simdega District
The JLT cadres left behind a pamphlet warning other politicians
of a similar fate if they continued to work against them.
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June 8
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
the house of a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader in the East Singhbhum
District, injuring a family member.
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
by the Police from Baghima village in the Gumla District. The
Police also seized eight rifles, two pistols and more than 300
cartridges and Maoist literature. One of the seized rifles was
a .303 Police rifle, stolen earlier by the Maoists.
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June 16-17
|
Four cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Diwakarji alias Dinakarji alias Biseshwar
Yadav, ‘sub-zonal commander’, Nirmalji alias Magan Singh
‘area commander’, Vimal Singh, a member of the CPI-Maoist’s Bal-Dasta
(child wing) and a squad member were arrested by a joint team
of of Manika Police and CRPF personnel in the Latehar District.
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June 22
|
Two Police personnel, identified
as Christopher Minz and Ram Uday Mahto, and four others, three
of them identified as Prakash Khalkho, Prakash Minz and Dwarka
Prasad, sustained injuries in an ambush by CPI-Maoist cadres near
Milmili river in the Gumla District. The Police personnel were
carrying one Mohammad Juluk, arrested on charges of being a CPI-Maoist
activist and on their way to the Raidih Police station in a jeep
when the Maoists opened fire and freed Juluk.
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June 25
|
CPI-Maoist cadres abducted the
driver and guard of a goods train after blowing up railway tracks
and subsequently damaging the train at Latehar. However, no casualties
were reported. Another length of the track was blasted between
Mangra and Barwadih near Latehar.
Maoists set ablaze six vehicles
in the Dumka area.
Maoists parked a heavy truck across
the rail track and deflated its tyres, leading to traffic disruption
in the Giridh District.
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June 26
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist blew
up railway tracks between Gomia and Dania in the Bokaro District.
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June 28
|
A truck driver was killed and
two others sustained injuries when cadres of the CPI-Maoist opened
fire towards three trucks on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway under
Tamar Police Station area in the Ranchi District.
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July 4
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A split is reported in the CPI-Maoist
in the Saranda forest area of West Singhbhum District. Senior
Maoist ‘commander’, Masi Charan Purty, reportedly has deserted
the organisation along with several cadres to join the Jharkhand
Liberation Tiger (JLT). The split follows the formation of JLT
in the Palamu, Daltonganj and Latehar Districts. According to
sources, the JLT is now making inroads into Maoist strongholds
inside the Saranda forest and adjoining areas stretching up to
the State capital Ranchi.
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July 6
|
CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the
Railway Protection Force barrack at Manoharpur railway station
in the West Singhbuhm District. However, no causalities were reported.
The Tritya Prastuti Committee
(TPC), a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist, claims that it has
expanded its organisation across Jharkhand. In an interview, the
outfit’s sub zonal commander of Palamau District, Girij, claimed
that the outfit has established units in each of the 22 Districts
of Jharkhand. He said, "Our main enemy is not the Police machinery,
but the CPI-Maoist. They have diverted from their original principle
and are involved in petty activities. And to successfully wage
armed struggle against the Maoists, there is an imperative need
to strengthen our own organisation. The results of our expansion
would give us positive results in near future."
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July 10
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Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres,
armed with modern firearms and hand grenades, attacked the Goelkera
Police station in the West Singhbhum District. The Deputy Inspector
General of Police (Singhbhum-Kolhan region), Ram Lakhan Prasad,
while confirming the attack said, "About 20 armed rebels attacked
the Police station last night but the timely assistance of the
special task force forced them to retreat. The Maoists were not
able to reach even close to the Police station’s boundary."
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July 17
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the
office of the Block Development Officer in Gomia block of Bokaro
District. Maoists also called for a strike on July 18 in the District
to protest against Police repression. Maoists alleged that some
Policemen raped a tribal girl, Phulmani Devi, last month, after
officials branded the girl and her father as Maoist.
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July 19
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Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a ‘sub-zonal commander’, were arrested from Dandua village of
Chatra District. Police also recovered one 9 mm pistol, live cartridges,
Maoist literature, explosives and others materials from the arrested
Maoists cadres.
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August 1
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Maoists detonated explosions
in two railway stations- Demo railway station between Latehar
and Richuguta and Bendi railway station between Barwadih-Barkakana-
in the Latehar District.
The CPI-Maoist called for a 24-hour
bandh (general strike) to protest against the arrest of
three of their cadres on July 28.
Two bauxite loaded trucks on their
way to Garwah from Chhattisgarh were attacked by the CPI-Maoist
cadres near Bhaduaghati in the Garwah District. In the indiscriminate
firing, the driver of one of the trucks, identified as Anuj Paswan,
was killed.
Maoists opened fire from both
sides of the road targeting two buses coming to Daltonganj from
Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh. Around 25 passengers of the two buses
were injured in the incident. The driver of one of the buses,
identified as Arvind Pandey, sustained bullet injuries, but managed
to drive the vehicle up to Ranka Police station. Later, the bus
driver succumbed to his injuries later.
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August 3
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked
a goods train between Demo and Richugta railway stations in the
Latehar District and set ablaze the engine of the train. They
also set ablaze another engine, stationed nearby. The incident
led to disruption of train movement on this section.
Maoists attacked a Police team
at Amjharia Ghati in the Latehar District. Maoists also laid an
ambush on a Police patrol party, who were escorting private vehicles
near Siskaria under the Chandwa Police station area. However,
no one was reportedly injured in the exchange of fire between
the two sides.
Maoists blew up a forest department
guesthouse and damaged a transmission tower of the Reliance Communications
in different Maoist-affected areas of the State.
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August 5
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Maoists blew up a forest beat
office and set ablaze two forest guard quarters at Ramgarh in
the Hazaribagh District. However, there was no report of any loss
of life. The Maoists reportedly carried out the attack to protest
the arrest of their top leaders Yugal Pal and Sushila along with
two more hardcore Maoists.
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August 6
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Two civilians, identified as
Hero Singh Munda and Rajesh Singh, were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres
at Arki village in the Ranchi District. Both were killed after
Maoists held a jan adalat (people’s court) in the village
and declared them guilty of rape and of extorting money in the
name of the CPI-Maoist. Both had been picked up from their homes
on August 5 and their throats were slit as the jan adalat gave
them death sentence for their crimes. The Maoist court also ‘punished’
four people charged with petty crimes like theft but they were
freed after being assaulted.
The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up
a forest guest house in the Chainpur village of Daltanganj District
and left behind leaflets threatening more such attacks.
About 100 Maoists attacked the
Chainpur Police station in the Gumla District late August 6-night.
However, security forces retaliated and foiled the attack forcing
the Maoists to retreat without any damage.
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August 7
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Karlos alias Ashish and his female associate Varsha,
were arrested by Police in the Ranchi District. Police said that
Karlos was a CPI-Maoist ‘commander’ in charge of five Districts.
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August 10
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ANI reports that the CPI-Maoist
is collecting INR 10,000 from each farmer as ‘tax’ in the Jamatara
District. The farmers are being forced either to pay up or to
stop tilling their fields. Mani Mandal, a farmer, said "They have
been demanding for money, if that did not happen, they threaten.
They would not let us work in the farms."
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August 12
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Police in Jharkhand said that
they have arrested five CPI-Maoist leaders including the prime
accused in the killing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist
(CPI-ML) Member of Legislative Assembly Mahendra Singh, Jayant
alias Kunal alias Tuddu, who was arrested along
with his accomplice Prakash while receiving treatment at Sankara
Nethralaya in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu. Others were identified
as Prayag Mahto alias Prahlad of Nawadih in Bokaro, Basudev
Mahto of Madhupur in Girdih and Arup Tuddu of Degagaddha in Nawadih.
Pappu Jain, an arms supplier-cum-businessman from Madhupur in
the Girdih District, besides two youths of Patna, who are arms
dealers, were also arrested during separate raids. Without specifying
the circumstances or dates of these arrests, Police said that
more than INR 950,000 in currency notes, 250 cartridges, two laptops,
few cell-phones, Maoist literature and training materials were
recovered from Ranchi, Giridih, Patna and bordering areas of Jharkhand
and Bihar. The laptops reportedly contained names of the donors
which include several top politicians of Jharkhand and Bihar.
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August 12
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Two left-wing extremists, identified
as Jeedan Gudia, a top leader of the Jharkhand Liberation Front,
and his accomplice Sunita, were arrested from Gorbeda jungle,
around 45 kilometres from the State capital Ranchi. Police recovered
a pistol, live cartridges and INR 4,000 in cash from them.
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August 17
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CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a
jeep belonging to security personnel of the Central Coalfield
Limited (CCL) while they were on patrol duty at the Swang coalmines
in the Bokaro District. The security personnel reportedly surrendered
to the Maoists and handed over their rifles to save their lives.
The Maoists then set ablaze the jeep before escaping. According
to official sources, non-payment of extortion money was the reason
behind the attack.
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August 20
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Police recovered four containers
of explosive materials, two containers of gun powder, 700 rounds
of live cartridges, three chargers and three walkie-talkies from
the forest under Manoharpur and Sonua Police station areas in
the West Singhbhum District. The raids were conducted on the basis
of information provided by Akhilesh Mahali, a CPI-Maoist cadre
arrested in the Bokaro District recently. The Police also recovered
236 pieces of detonators, gelatin and a large quantity of wire.
Two persons were arrested on charges of illegal possession of
the explosives.
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August 22
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The CPI-Maoist pasted six poll
boycott posters on the walls of a public lavatory at Narshighpur
under the Dhalbhumgarh Police station in the East Singhbhum District.
Elections are to be held to fill the vacancy arising out of the
death of Sunil Mahto, who was assassinated by the Maoists in March
2007.
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August 24
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist raided
and set ablaze the irrigation department guesthouse at Banaso
West under Vishnugarh Police station area of Hazaribagh District.
They also took hostage three persons who were later released on
August 25.
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August 26
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The South Chhotanagpur Zonal
Committee of the CPI-Maoist called a Jharkhand bandh to
protest the arrest of Nibhaya of Giridih, commander of Platoon-22
of the CPI-Maoist, in Chaibasa of West Singhbhum District.
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister
Babulal Marandi pleaded for a dialogue with extremist organisations
to end the increasing Maoist problem in Jharkhand. "Bloodbath
or repressive measures are not the solution to the problem, but
a dialogue with the ultra outfit can bring about an amicable solution,"
Marandi, Member of Parliament and Chief of the Jharkhand Vikas
Morcha (Democratic), told a press conference in Jamshedpur.
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August 28
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Three landmines were recovered
from the Ghatsila sub-division of East Singhbhum District. The
explosives weighing between five to 10-kilograms were hidden near
Kasiabeda forest area adjacent to Ghorabandha, a left-wing extremist
affected area. A bye-election to the Parliament from the Jamshedpur
constituency will held on August 29.
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August 29
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During a high-level meeting at
Hazaribag, Police forces of the two neighbouring States, Jharkhand
and Bihar, discussed strategies to jointly counter the Maoists.
Bihar’s Deputy Inspector General of Police, Praveen Bhaskar, superintendents
of Police (SP) from Gaya and Nawada (both Bihar), Chatra, Hazaribag
and Giridih (all Jharkhand) participated in the meeting. The two
sides stressed the importance of exchange of information on the
movement of the Maoist daasta (attack squad).
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August 30
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The Bihar Police from the Jamui
side and the Jharkhand Police from their operating areas in Giridih
conducted joint raids against the Maoists, the Giridih Superintendent
of Police, Arun Kumar Singh, informed.
Voters defied the CPI-Maoist boycott
call as by-elections for the Jamshedpur parliamentary constituency,
with an overall voter turnout of 48-50 percent in the blocks of
East Singhbhum Districts. A large number of people reportedly
turned out to cast their votes in the villages, including Baghuria,
where the Maoists had assassinated Sunil Mahto on March 4, whose
death caused the election.
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September 12
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Cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti
Committee abducted four supporters of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Amit Jaiswal, S Sao, Raj Kishore Pareiha and Mahesh Ram and
killed them in Barwadih village of Lather District. The bodies
were reportedly recovered from Balumath area on September 14.
Jharkhand Liberation Tigers (JLT)
cadres, a left-wing extremist group, killed three supporters of
the TPC in Bano forest area of Simdega District.
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October 6
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The CPI-Maoist called for a bandh
to protest against alleged anti-people policies of the State government.
Normal life across the State was partially affected as a result.
Several passenger trains passing through Maoist pockets in Barakakhana-Garwah
Road under Dhanbad division of East Central railway were either
cancelled or diverted. Also, vehicular movement was disrupted
as transporters kept their commercial vehicles and long-distance
buses off the road anticipating violence in the Maoist strongholds.
However, other than the Maoists strongholds in Palamu, Chatra,
Latehar, Garwah, East and West Singhbhum Districts, where shops
also downed their shutters, normal life in other areas of the
State remained largely unaffected.
Ramkrishna Chik, Sudhir Ram and
Arvind Ram, members of the Jharkhand Liberation Tigers (JLT),
a breakaway group of the CPI-Maoist, were reportedly arrested
near Basia College in the Gumla District. The arrests were made
when the JLT activists came to the spot to extort INR 50000 from
a villager. Three mobile sets and a motorcycle were also recovered
by the Police.
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October 7
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The CPI-Maoist cadres led by
‘area commander’ Krishna Yadav, set ablaze the cellular phone
tower of Airtel, a private telecom company, in the Dhotawa area
of Hazaribagh District. Consequently, mobile phone connectivity
was severely affected in the area. According to the Deputy Superintendent
of Police, Naushad Alam, Maoists had targeted Airtel as the management
had reportedly refused to pay them a levy of INR 100000 over the
last two years.
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October 9
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked
Shailen Baske, member of the Nagrik Suraksha Samiti (NSS), near
Kasiabeda village in the Jamshedpur District in which he sustained
injuries and his security guard, Jogeshwar Murmu was killed. The
NSS was floated by villagers five years ago with the support of
the District Police to fight Maoists. Since then the Maoists have
been targeting NSS leaders and in March 2007, they killed Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha Member of Parliament, Sunil Mahto, as he was also
a supporter of the NSS.
Nine suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were arrested at Kuiani village in the Patamda block of East-Singhbhum
District. Police is verifying the identities of some of the arrested
Maoist for alleged involvement in murder of Jamshedpur Member
of Parliament, Sunil Mahto. "We are interrogating them for involvement
in assassination of Sunil Mahto," said East Singhbhum Superintendent
of Police, Navin Kumar Singh. He added that the arrested include
Saratji alias Mansaji, Isha alias Jayanti, Binay
alias Pradeep alias Rahulji, Bappa Devnath, Bijay
alias Nishikant and Sureshji, all residents of West Bengal.
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October 10
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In the East-Singhbhum District,
the Police arrested five suspected CPI-Maoists who were suspected
to be involved in the October 9 attack at Kashiabera under Ghurabandha
Police station in which a constable was killed and Shailen Baskey,
a leader of anti-Maoist Nagarik Suraksha Samity, was injured.
Two Maoists were caught and handed
over to the Police by villagers at a stone crusher unit at Rampur
in the Lohardaga District, when they came to the unit to collect
levy. However, two other Maoists managed to escape.
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October 15
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The East Singhbhum District Police
recovered and subsequently defused nine ‘cans bombs’ near Digha
village under Ghatshila Police station. "Two of the can bombs
weighed 10kg, whereas the remaining seven bombs were of comparatively
lesser power, ranging from 2kg to 3kg," said the East Singhbhum
Superintendent of Police, Navin Kumar Singh. He also said that
the ‘can bombs’ were planted by the left-wing extremists to cause
damage to the Police and paramilitary forces.
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October 17
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Police personnel recovered explosives,
including two powerful can-bombs and a cylinder bomb, from the
Naxalite-affected Chatra District. The explosives were planted
in the middle of the Sikid-Potap Road near Kanhachatti village.
Superintendent of Police Akhilesh Jha said that the can-bombs
weighed 20 kilograms each and the cylinder bomb was of 15 kilograms.
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October 21
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Cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti
Committee (TPC), a left-wing extremist group, shot dead a local
Congress party leader Ram Narayan Yadav at Mangalpu in the Palamau
District. The dead body was recovered on October 22.
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October 22
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Police recovered four quintals
of gelatine sticks at Chak village in the Palamau District, following
information given by the CPI-Maoist, Vikasji alias Ravi.
The Police also arrested the owner of the house from where the
gelatines were found.
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October 24
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The ‘area commander’ Soma Munda,
and her associate of the JLT, were shot dead by Police in an encounter
that took place inside Tengria forest area in Khunti District.
One Police person also sustained bullet injuries in the encounter.
While other cadres of the JLT managed to escape, Police recovered
arms and ammunition besides a TVS-motorcycle from the incident
site.
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October 25
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CPI-Maoist cadres destroyed a
school building by exploding landmines at Sobaranpur in Giridih
District According to Superintendent of Police, Arun Singh, Maoists
blasted the structure as security personnel often used it as rest
house during nights.
An encounter was reported between
Police and CPI-Maoist cadres in the forest under Patamda block
of East Singhbhum District. However, no causalities were reported
on both side and the Maoists managed to escape.
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October 26
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Police recovered four firearms,
including two rifles, and a huge cache of ammunition and Maoist
literature from a forest under Patamda block of East Singhbhum
District.
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October 27
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18 persons, including the son
of former Jharkhand Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, were killed
by armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist at Chilkhadia village in Giridih
District. According to the Additional Superintendent of Police
(ASP), Arun Kumar Singh, around 25-30 Maoists mingled with the
crowd at a cultural programme in the village and later around
1 am, they suddenly opened indiscriminate fire and exploded bombs
killing 14 people on the spot, while three others succumbed to
their injuries later. Four people were wounded in the attack.
Babulal Marandi disclosed that his son, Anup, was among those
killed but his brother had escaped the attack. He stated "My family
has been a target of the naxals... they should be more careful.
As per my information the Maoists were in CRPF uniform, sat with
the crowd watching the cultural programme and attacked during
the closing part."
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October 28
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Five people were killed by the
CPI-Maoist cadres in the Boda village of Latehar District.
According to Police, the five people were abducted from their
villages and subsequently killed in the nearby forest. Lathehar
Superintendent of Police, Ravikant Dhan, said that the bullet-ridden
bodies of the four persons were recovered near a culvert at Boda
village. The whereabouts of the fifth one is yet to be ascertained.
A hand written note reportedly found near the bodies accused that
the victims are supporters of Trititya Prastuti Samiti, the Police
said.
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
by the SFs in an encounter when Maoists opened fire on the SFs
who were raiding certain areas in the Latehar and Lohardaga Districts.
Latehar and Lohardaga District Superintendents of Police, Ravikant
Dhan and Subodh Prasad respectively, said the bodies of the three
slain cadres were recovered from the spot. "The Police party stumbled
upon the rebels near Bijubaithan hamlet in Lohar-daga this morning.
There was a fierce gun battle where the Police were able to kill
three Maoist rebels," said Deputy Inspector General of Police
(personnel), R.K. Mallick. The Police also claimed to have recovered
one self-loading rifle, one carbine and two rifles from the spot.
Normal life and movement of trains
- including three Rajdhani Expresses (New Delhi-Howrah, New Delhi-Bhubaneswar
and New Delhi-Sealdah) - and public transport was adversely affected
in large parts of the State due a strike called by the Jharkhand
Vikas Morcha to protest against the Chilkhadih massacre in which
19 people, including former Jharkhand Chief Minister Babulal Marandi's
son Anoop Marandi, were killed. The strike was total in the rural
areas of Giridih and Koderma, which is part of Marandi's Lok Sabha
constituency.
Two Police officers were suspended
for alleged negligence of duty following the Chilkhadiah massacre.
According to the Inspector-General of Police (Bokaro range), B
B Pradhan, the Tisri Circle inspector, Bidu Bhusan Dewedi, and
the officer-in-charge of Deori Police station, Virender Kumar,
were suspended.
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October 30
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The CRPF has launched Operation
Vikram to flush out CPI-Maoist cadres holed up on either side
of the Jharkhand-Bihar border. A combined force of the Jharkhand
Armed Police, the CRPF, the India Reserve Battalion and the Jharkhand
and Bihar Police of the respective border Districts is conducting
house searches in the border villages of both the States.
The CPI-Maoist claimed responsibility
for the massacre of 18 persons, including the son of former chief
minister Babulal Marandi, in the Chilkhari village of Giridih
District. Avinash, secretary of Banka, Bhagalpur, Jamui and Munger
area committee, in a statement said "Our main target was Nunulal
Marandi, the brother of Babulal Marandi. Nunulal was instrumental
in the killing of several CPI-Maoist members and he has been raising
his voice against our revolutionary movement."
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November 4
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The JLT cadres, a left-wing extremist
group, shot dead a local Bhartiya Janata Party leader, Ganga Prasad
Jaiswal, in Simdega. According to reports, the JLT cadres first
abducted Jaiswal and then shot him dead near Kinkel square. The
JLT cadres had also left a pamphlet near the dead body claiming
responsibility of the killing.
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November 2
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The CPI-Maoist has reportedly
threatened villagers in Jharkhand with dire consequences if they
join an anti-Maoist campaign launched by former chief minister,
Babulal Marandi. "We will destroy the Gramin Surakasha Samiti
(GSS). Do not join the GSS otherwise you (villagers) meet the
fate of people killed in Chilkhari village," said some posters
put up by Maoists in rural areas of Giridih District. GSS is a
community policing initiative launched by Marandi two years ago
to counter Maoist attacks.
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November 3
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The CPI-Maoist cadres had put
up posters seeking second language status for Santhali
(local tribal language) in the state. The Maoists put up red-lettered
handwritten posters all along the National Highway-33. In some
posters, the Maoists alleged that while Hindi, the language of
outsiders, was being promoted in every walk of life, language
like Ho, Mundari and Santhali (local tribal languages)
were neglected and gradually destroyed by the State's apathy.
The Maoists have warned against the trend of alien languages on
the people at the cost of development of indigenous languages.
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November 7
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A civilian, Lalmohan Singh, was
killed in an attack by around 100 cadres of the CPI-Maoist at
Rabedatoil near Ramrekha in the Simdega District. Police subsequently
recovered two bombs near the incident site. The Maoist cadres
also decamped with 11 rifles and few axes from the houses of one
Fuleswar Singh. They also set ablaze eight houses in the village.
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November 8
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
and about three quintals of explosive material were recovered
during a combing operation carried out jointly by the Police and
Central Reserve Police Force from the Maoist-affected Patamda
block of the East Singhbhum District. "The seizure was made following
the arrest of CPI-Maoist activist Wagambar Singh," Superintendent
of Police, Navin Kumar Singh said. Police recovered the three
quintals of explosives materials, including pure gelatine sticks,
250 pieces of detonators and 30 live cartridges from two bunkers
in the Koira and Kankadosa villages.
The Tritiya Prastuti Committee
cadres abducted a doctor couple, identified as Amar and Pratima,
near Kuru block of the Lohardagga District. Subsequently, the
TPC cadres released the duo after six hours in captivity. "An
intensive Police combing operation forced the Maoist rebels to
release the abducted doctors. The doctors are safe and they have
been taken to the Lohardagga District headquarters," said G.S.
Rath, the Additional Director General of Police.
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November 10
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres were injured
in an encounter with the security forces near Barunia in the Ghatsila
sub-division of East Singhbhum District. The encounter occurred
after Police and CRPF personnel raided a forest area where the
CPI-Maoist cadres had gathered. Both the injured Maoists were
taken away by their colleagues. A rifle, two pistols, can bombs,
detonators, uniform and other articles left by the Maoists were
recovered from the site of the encounter.
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November 11
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The CPI-Maoist have issued a
fresh threat to kill former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi and
his family members for his campaign against the extremists and
also eliminate the eyewitnesses to the Chilkhari village massacre
in Giridih District on October 27. "The Maoist rebels are moving
from one village to another, asking people not to support Mr Marandis'
campaign against them. They have threatened to kill the former
chief minister as well as the eye-witnesses to the Chilkhari massacre",
Police said. Marandi is on the forefront of the anti-Maoist movement
in the State.
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November 15
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Suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
shot dead a contractor, Balram Pal, in Kulapathar village under
Ramgarh Police station in the Dumka District. The exact cause
behind the killing was yet to be ascertained. Earlier, Pal had
escaped a Maoist attack three months ago but his motorcycle was
burnt in the incident.
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November 18
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The CPI-Maoist cadres, abducted
and shot dead one Mumtaz near an embankment situated 18 kilometers
from Panki Police station in the Palamu District. The Maoists
accused him of being a sympathiser of their splinter group Tritiya
Prastuti Committee, said Police.
Maoists engaged the Police in
a fierce encounter in the Saranda forests near Chaibasa in the
West Singhbhum District.
The security forces in two separate
incidents recovered explosives from Maoists, on the eve of the
48-hour strike called by the insurgents in West Bengal, Bihar,
Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh. SFs on patrol duty attacked
a group of CPI-Maoist cadres at Hindburu area inside Saranda forests
in the West Singhbhum District and recovered explosives, firearms
and Maoist literature from the spot. "Two powerful cane bombs,
two rifles and a large quantity of cartridges were recovered,"
an unnamed senior Police official added. A Police team led by
the Hazaribagh District Superintendent of Police, Praveen Kumar
Singh, raided six villages in the Keredari block, a stronghold
of the CPI-Maoist, and recovered explosives from a bunker. The
recovered explosives comprise 100 kg power gel, 100 kg nitric
acid, wires and detonators in huge quantities. Singh revealed
that the Maoists planned to target at least 20 bridges in Chatra
and Hazaribagh by making cane bombs from the explosives. He also
confirmed that the power gel was brought from the Indian Explosives
Limited at Gomia in Bokaro distict.
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November 19
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up an
office of the Jharkhand Agriculture Marketing Board in the Hussainabad
block of Palamau District while enforcing a 48-hour shutdown to
protest the violence in West Bengal's Nandigram region. After
bombing the building in Hussainabad, Maoists left pamphlets claiming
responsibility for the blast, said a Police official. Meanwhile,
the shutdown evoked a mixed response in the State. While there
was no impact on life in the urban areas, rural areas were affected.
Long distance buses did not ply and although no train was cancelled,
railway stations wore a deserted look. Mining activities were
also affected. 'No untoward incidents, except the blowing up of
a marketing board building, have been reported in the state. This
time Maoists have not damaged railway properties,' said Gauri
Shankar Rath, Additional Director General of Police.
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November 20
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Police arrested a senior 'zonal
commander' of the CPI-Maoist Dhiren Da alias Mahru, at
Chaura in the Bokaro District. Wanted by the Police of six States
for 16 years, he admitted to having killed more than 106 persons,
including two dozen Police personnel in 47 cases, said Police.
The cases which he spearheaded include two dozen cases of Police
killings and arms loot of Kisinda, Naktali Dual, Jujumura, Jamunkira,
Charmal and Sambalpur, in which more than two dozen Policemen
were killed. He also led the Bagodar mass killing in 1998, Churchu
Policemen blast case in 2000, in which 13 Policemen died and dozens
of arms were looted, killing of six Policemen and loot of rifles
at Barhi in 2000 and killing of four persons at Ichak I and several
others.
Maoists in the State have reportedly
come out with audio and video CDs against the Tata and Mittal
Steel Companies. Sources said around 50,000 copies of the video
CDs and around 20,000 copies of this audio CD have been prepared.
The audio CD has seven songs in Khotha (a local tribal language).
The first song calls the steel majors plunderers of the state's
resources. Arcelor Mittal has signed a memorandum of understanding
to set up a 12 million tonnes steel plant in the State with an
investment of INR 400 billion. Tata Steel has been in the State
for the last 100 years and is working on an expansion plan.
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November 22
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Suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
killed a village head and one security guard at Titlighat village
under Gua Police station in the West Singhbhum District. The dead
bodies of the victims, identified as Ledia Munda and Pandu Champia,
were found near a school in the village on November 23. Sources
said Munda, who was the village head, and Champia were on the
Maoist hit-list for double-crossing. They allegedly worked for
both the Police and the extremists. The Police officer said the
Maoists did not leave any leaflets, which they usually do after
executing such action, while leaving Tetlighat village but the
style of the killers' functioning hints at a Maoist connection.
Around 24 suspected cadres of
the CPI-Maoist killed a local Rashtriya Janta Dal party leader,
Nand Kishore Singh, at Chatra. The Maoists also reportedly assaulted
his brother Binod.
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November 24
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The CPI-Maoist is reportedly
making its presence felt at Bengabad block in the Giridih District.
Its cadres were seen sticking posters near Chilkkhari where the
Maoists had killed 20 people in October 2007. Through the posters,
the Maoists have threatened three local Jharkhand Vikas Morcha
(Prajatantrik) leaders, Chintamani Singh, Lilo Singh and Niraj
Chaudhari, to keep them away from the party or get punished. The
Maoists also asked people to crush the Police rule and establish
people's liberation army and also save the forests.
The Jharkhand Police have decided
to form motorcycle squads equipped with the latest weapons to
fight the Maoists. "The cops manning the squad will be given special
training to fight the rebels. In hilly areas, Maoists take advantage
of jungles while escaping. Bikes will be helpful as it is difficult
to chase any one on four wheelers inside jungles," an unnamed
Police official told. "In jungles, Maoists detonate vehicles by
triggering landmine blasts. But it will be difficult to blast
bikes," he added. Each squad will have at least 24 Police personnel
on 12 bikes. There will be at least two bike squads in each of
the Maoist-dominated Districts. Latest bikes with the maximum
horsepower will be purchased and Police personnel selected for
the squads will be trained to fight Maoists in the forests. So
far Jharkhand has constituted five special teams to fight the
insurgents. They include personnel of the Special Task Force,
Indian Reserve Battalion and Grey Hound Force.
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November 25
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CPI-Maoist cadres killed a civilian,
identified as Chhkauri Ganjhu, at Bendi village in the Hazaribagh
District. Maoists killed Ganjhu, accusing him to be an informer
of the Jharkhand Prastuti Committee, a rival left-wing extremist
group. He was also blamed for some recent setbacks the outfit
suffered, especially the killing of Binod Dubey in 2006.
CPI-Maoist cadres abducted four
persons from Awsane village under Chainpur Police station limits
in Gumla District. According to the Superintendent of Police,
Deepak Verma, all the abducted persons were engaged in contract
working in different village level development works and the Maoists
abducted them because they have not paid the levy.
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November 28
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Cadres of the Jharkhand Liberation
Tigers (JLT), a left-wing extremist group, shot dead two civilians,
Prem Kunj and Rajkumar Sahu, under Murhu Police station limits
in the Ranchi District. The JLT claimed responsibility for the
killing and said that both the persons have brought Police in
civil dress with them while they came to pay levy to the organization.
They also warned other Police informers of dire consequences.
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December 7
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The dead body of a timber trader,
identified as Chappu Sao, was recovered from a forest in the Khunti
District. He was abducted by cadres of the Jharkhand Liberation
Front (JLT), a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, from Murhu village
on December 6-night. Police officials said that the JLT cadres
who had demanded INR 1000000 from the timber trader were responsible
for the killing.
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December 8
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A youth was injured when a group
of CPI-Maoist cadres opened indiscriminate fire on residents of
the Anjan village in Gulma District. Around 15 Maoists raided
the village in search of some youths who the extremists suspect
were involved in the activities of Shanti Sena, an anti-Maoist
force formed by the villagers. While fleeing, the Maoists planted
a five kg ‘cane-bomb’ under the culvert of the approach road.
A Police team on December 9 recovered the ‘cane-bomb’.
In a bid to prevent youth from
joining the CPI-Maoist, Jharkhand Police are organising street
plays to show the hollowness of the extremist way of life. "Bhatke
Rahi (Misguided Traveller)", a 30-minute play written by Superintendent
of Police in Ranchi, M S Bhatia, is reportedly aimed at stopping
youths from joining the extremists. Bhatia said, "The play shows
how Naxalites rob happiness and deny development to common people
by illusory dreams." The play directed by Dilip Palwle, a graduate
of Delhi School of Drama, will be performed in the Maoist-affected
villages till December 20.
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December 8
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The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
a machine at a bridge construction site at Ranpur village in Garhwa
District and severely assaulted its operator. Maoists also looted
the mobile phones of the supervisor and some other workers present
at the site. It is believed that ‘zonal commander’ Mahendra Singh
Kharwar and ‘area commander’ Sarita, along with 40 Maoist cadres
from Chhattishgarh were involved in the incident.
In Bardari village of Garhwa District,
Maoists assaulted the supervisor of a private construction company
and stopped the road and bridge construction work there.
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December 9
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Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
leader, Ashoka Nagesia alias Ashokaji who was visiting
his sister’s marriage ceremony at Navatoli village under Mahuadand
Police station limits in Latehar District. During interrogation
Ashoka revealed that he was involved in several incidents in the
State and in bordering Chhattisgarh.
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December 13
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Jharkhand government will raise
a special task force to combat the growing threat of Maoists in
the State. The State cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Madhu
Koda, has sanctioned INR 104.89 crore to create the special force.
The force would come up on the lines of a special force in Andhra
Pradesh (Greyhound) which has been successful to a considerable
extent in curbing left-wing extremism, a senior Police officer
said. A Police officer in the rank of inspector-general will command
the 1,989-personnel strong force. A Deputy Inspector of Police,
two Superintendents of Police and 22 Deputy Superintendents of
Police will assist him in the campaign to crush Maoists in Jharkhand.
The force would also comprise 155 Sub-Inspectors, 54 Assistant
Sub-Inspectors, 315 Havildars, 1,295 Constables and other staff.
The special task force will be provided with automatic weapons
and other gadgets and will mainly remain engaged in neutralising
Maoist hideouts in the jungles and difficult terrains of Jharkhand.
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December 16
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Police arrested a woman cadre
of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Seema alias Ranjeeta alias
Geeta, from a lodge at the District headquarter of Garhwa. Police
also arrested Shravan Vishwakarma, an ‘area commander’ of the
outfit, from the house of one Vinay Kumar Soni on the basis of
information provided by Seema on December 17.
A political activist of the Jharkhand
Vikas Morcha (Democratic), identified as Krishna Bhagat, was abducted
and killed by suspected JLT cadres at Karanja in the Latehar District.
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December 20
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The Chief Minister Madhu Koda
demanded 40 additional companies of the Central Para Military
Force (CPMF) to fight left-wing extremists in the State during
the Chief Ministers' Conference chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh in New Delhi. Koda cited the instance of the neighbouring
Chhattisgarh, which has 72 such companies vis-a-vis 30 available
in Jharkhand. "Our strategy to combat and demolish the naxalites
menace through enhancing border surveillance, increasing patrolling
in areas of extremists' dominance and launching intensive combing
operations is being jeopardised for want of adequate forces,"
the Chief Minister said.
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December 23
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Police arrested Lalan Yadav,
an area commander of the CPI-Maoist, from his home at Rahadiya
village in the Chatra District. Police recovered one 9-mm loaded
pistol and five cartridges from his possession. Subsequently,
Police also arrested a Maoist supporter, Isteyaq Khan, from the
nearby Charka Kala village and recovered one motorcycle without
number plate and extremist literature following the information
provided by the arrested Maoist.
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December 24
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JLT cadres killed two contractors,
identified as Ram Lal Tuti and Mahadeo Mahto, in the Khunti District.
Sources said that the contractors were killed when they failed
to pay the levy demanded by the JLT.
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December 29
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Two Maoists were killed and a
Special Task Force trooper was injured in an encounter between
security forces and Maoists in Hazaribag.
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December 31
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Police destroyed 15 Maoist training
camps and recovered 10 can bombs and clamymore mines following
an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres near Parasnath hills under
Pirtand Police station in the Giridih District. According to the
Inspector General of Police (Bokaro range), B B Pradhan, about
250 Maoists exchanged fire with the Police before fleeing into
the forests. He added that the tents were being used as training
camps by the Maoists. A truck-load of food grains, utensils and
other items were also recovered from the camps.
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Bihar
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Date
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Incidents
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January 20
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CPI-Maoist cadres killed a civilian
and detonated an explosion inside the house of a panchayat
samiti (local self-government) member in the Gaya District.
Maoists drove away the family members of Ram Chandra Yadav before
detonating the explosion.
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January 22
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A Police personnel was killed
and at least two people were injured when CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
the Police picket at Erahi in Bihar's Buxar District. The Maoists
reportedly decamped with 10 rifles.
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January 31
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Six CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered
to the District Magistrate Mihir Kumar Singh and Superintendent
of Police Vikas Baibhav in the Bagha town of West Champaran District.
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February 11
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Police recovered 1,500 kilograms
of explosives from Kushatand forest in the Mohanpur Police station
area of Gaya District. The explosives, suspected to belong to
the Naxalites, were concealed in two plastic tanks and buried
under the ground. Superintendent of Police Amit Jain informed
that the explosives were used by the Naxalites for manufacturing
can bombs and landmines.
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February 25
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Police in Gaya District killed
two Naxalites and injured six others in an encounter in the Bigha-Kharhari
Pahari area under Wazirganj Police station. Gaya Superintendent
of Police Amit Jain said that following an hour-long encounter
an SLR, two Police rifles stolen earlier, a live bomb, hundreds
of rounds of live cartridges, one detonator, a cell phone, two
walkie-talkie instruments and literature were recovered from the
encounter site. While an injured naxalite was arrested, the rest
managed to escape.
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February 27
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CPI-Maoist cadres killed four
Police personnel and blew up railway tracks at two places in the
Lakhisarai District. Police sources said that the Maoists attacked
a camp of Bihar Military Police at Khaira village and killed four
Policemen besides wounding three others. The extremists decamped
with one carbine, three self-loading rifles and ammunition.
Maoists blasted the railway track
near the eastern cabin of Dhanauri station on Kiul-Jamalpur section
of Eastern Railway. They also uprooted the track at Urain station
in a stretch of about 10 metres.
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March 13
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Five CPI-Maoist cadres including
an area commander, identified as Vijay Ram and suspected to be
involved in the Jehanabad jailbreak in 2005 were arrested. While
the area commander was arrested from a village in Jehanabad District,
four other extremists were arrested from a village in the Darbhanga
District, during a search operation by a special task force (STF)
team.
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March 26
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A CPI-Maoist leader, Krishna
Sardar, believed to be one of the masterminds of the jailbreak
operation in the Jehanabad District in November 2005, was arrested
in the Nawada District. Three other associates of the arrested
extremist were also arrested during the raid on a hotel.
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March 31
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CPI-Maoist cadres launched an
attack in the Riga block of Sitamarhi District in north Bihar
bordering Nepal. Hundreds of Maoists reportedly raided the local
Police station, block headquarters and two branches of banks.
One Police personnel was killed and a bank employee injured in
the attack.
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April 2
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Sitamarhi District Police arrested
a CPI-Maoist leader, Shivchandra Paswan, from Barahi village under
Riga Police station. Sitamarhi Superintendent of Police M. R.
Nayak said that Paswan had taken part in the March 31-attack on
a bank and a Police station in Riga.
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April 8
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CPI-Maoist cadres killed two
personnel of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and injured five
others on the Howrah-Mokama passenger train near Narganjo railway
station on the Jasidih-Jhajha section under the Asansol division
of the Eastern Railway. The Maoists looted an SLR, two carbines
and two pistols from both the slain and injured RPF personnel
and detrained at Rajla Halt after pulling the alarm chain.
Another CPI-Maoist squad attacked
a CRPF platoon near Hassanpur village under the Atri Police station
of Gaya District. The CRPF platoon was returning after a combing
operation to flush out Maoists from villages under the Konch Police
station of the District. The CRPF personnel retaliated and in
the encounter that lasted about 30 minutes neither side suffered
any casualties. A large cache of arms and ammunition including
three rifles earlier looted from a Police station, an SLR, a country-made
rifle, and over 300 live cartridges of various calibers were recovered
from the fleeing Maoists. CPI-Maoist area commander Hridaya Ravi
Das was subsequently arrested by the security forces.
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April 10
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up two
adjacent schools that housed a CRPF picket at Banahara village
under Haveli Khadagpur Police station in the Munger District.
Confirming the incident, Munger Superintendent of Police Ravindran
Shankaran told that the Maoists used dynamite to blow up the schools.
He also said that a couple of ‘can bombs’ has been recovered from
the places of the attack. No casualty, however, has been reported
as the attack took place in the wee hours when no one was present
at the spot.
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April 16
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The Bihar Government, following
a high-level meeting of top bureaucrats, asked the Union Government
to provide a special package of INR 19 crore to counter extremism
saying the money would be utilized to initiate various development
schemes as that was the only way to end radicalism in the State.
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April 21
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Nearly 200 CPI-Maoist cadres
seized the Narganjo railway station in the Jamui District for
several hours after abducting the cabin master and porters to
enforce a bandh (strike) called by them. The incident led
to suspension of train services on the Howrah-Patna section of
the Eastern Railway. Contingents of security force personnel were
rushed to the spot following which the Maoists retreated without
causing any damage to the station or personnel. The cabin master
and porters were also set free subsequently.
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April 22
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Heavily armed CPI-Maoist cadres
blew up a brick kiln owned by one Maan Singh at village Thatwar
under Dumaria Police station in the Gaya District. At least 200
activists of the CPI-Maoist encircled the brick kiln and asked
the labourers to go away before they detonated a dynamite to blow
it up.
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April 28
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Police in the Hazaribag District
recovered two rifles and around 80 rounds of ammunition following
an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres in the forest area along
river Kahudag. While Naxalites managed to flee following a half
an hour encounter, subsequent search operations yielded the arms
and ammunitions. One of the rifles recovered had ‘Jehanabad’ inscribed
on it, indicating that it was looted during the Maoist raid on
the Jehanabad jail on November 13, 2005.
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April 29
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Nearly 200 CPI-Maoist cadres
raided the construction site of a river over-bridge near Dubba
Ghat in the Sheohar District exploding bombs, opening fire and
setting ablaze nine huts of labourers. Deputy Inspector General
of Police (Tirhut range), Gupteshwar Pandey, told that the Maoists
also damaged some machines, including a generator set. They had
pasted posters near the place of occurrence a week ago directing
the contractor of the Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation
Limited to meet the representatives of the banned outfit.
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May 1
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Ram Raj alias Azad, a
‘zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested from a beer
bar in Gaya. Superintendent of Police of Gaya, Amit Jain, informed
that Azad was under electronic surveillance for quite some time.
Azad was involved in a number of Maoist operations, including
attacks on the Tekari and Paraiya Police stations.
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May 8
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Shankar Ram alias Roshan,
a CPI-Maoist ‘area commander’, was arrested at Dhanpurua village
in the Rohtas District. Roshan, who carried a reward of INR 100,000
on his head, was wanted in connection with several offences, including
a landmine blast in which 11 Policemen were killed at Dobua More
in the same District in 2003. He was also involved in the killing
of K N Sharma at Nauhatta in 2000, after which the state government
had announced the reward for his capture.
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May 9
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One Special Auxiliary Police
(SAP) personnel was killed in an encounter between the SAP personnel
and CPI-Maoist cadres at Chikni village in the Khagaria District.
More than a hundred Maoists reportedly surrounded a Police outpost
in Khagaria and opened fire towards the SAP personnel inside the
Police outpost building. In the ensuing encounter, in which more
than two hundred rounds were fired from both sides, one SAP personnel
was killed while another sustained shrapnel injuries. Maoists
also looted a Police rifle.
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May 15
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Police in the Rohtas District
and suspected Naxalites exchanged fire at Dumarkho village under
the Chutia Police station. No casualty has been reported from
the Police side. Home Commissioner of Bihar, Afzal Amanullah,
said that the extremists, numbering between 20 and 25, first opened
fire at the Police party during a routine search and combing operation
in the area. The Police fired 40 rounds in retaliation forcing
the Naxalites to flee into the jungles of adjoining Sonebhadra
District in Uttar Pradesh.
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May 17
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A large quantity of explosive
material, suspected to have been hidden by the CPI-Maoist cadres
for making landmines and bombs, was unearthed at Pusatadh forest
in the Gaya District. Superintendent of Police, Amit Jain, told
that acting on a tip-off from arrested Maoist ‘commander’ Ajay
Kanu, security forces conducted a search and found 10 bags, each
containing 50 kilograms of ammonium nitrate.
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May 23
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Two civilians were killed and
two others wounded in an attack by cadres of the CPI-Maoist at
Maniyarpur village in the East Champaran District. Over 100 armed
Maoists attacked the village near the Nepal border and set ablaze
vehicles and looted some houses.
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May 29
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Over 200 armed cadres of the
CPI-Maoist raided the Satgharwa village in the Munger District
and killed two persons, including a political activist of the
Janata Dal-United, by slashing their throats. Another person who
was also pulled out of his home was, however, assaulted but spared
by the extremists. The victims were believed to be Police informants.
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May 30
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In a press release, the CPI-Maoist
denied reports that they issued death threats to the Indian cricket
team captain Rahul Dravid, team member Mahendra Singh Dhoni and
cricket board president Sharad Pawar. "No such threat to the life
of cricketers has been issued by Maoists", signed by Agni, spokesperson
of the CPI-Maoist’s North Bihar-Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand Special
Area Committee. He described the widely circulated reports - based
on a letter alleged to have been written by Maoists in Chhattisgarh
- as a fraud by the State's Police to defame Maoists and paint
them as "mindless killers".
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June 17
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres, Kamlesh
Ram and Nanhak Yadav, were arrested from two different villages
in the Arwal District. District Superintendent of Police, G. P.
Bhadoria, said that while ‘zonal commander’ Kamlesh Ram was arrested
from Jhikatia Bara village, Yadav was arrested from Kurbi village.
Both of them are wanted in over a dozen cases of loot, murder
and kidnapping for ransom.
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June 20
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Two personnel of the Government
Railway Police were killed and seven persons, including three
passengers, were injured when a group of Naxalites attacked the
Kathgodam Express train at a railway crossing near Sonepur station
in the Saran District. The extremists reportedly opened fire as
soon as the train reached the station.
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June 30
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A group of 250 cadres of the
CPI-Maoist carried out simultaneous attacks on the Rajpur Police
station and Baghaila outpost in Bihar's Rohtas District killing
six Police personnel and seven civilians. Eight persons, including
four Policemen, were injured in the attack.The Maoists looted
four self-loading rifles, eight .303 rifles, two INSAS rifles
and three carbines, besides hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
The Maoists also blew up the Police station and outpost using
dynamites before escaping.
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July 1
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Two villagers were beaten to
death and another injured on orders issued by a kangaroo court
(‘people’s court’) held by the CPI-Maoist at a village in the
Champaran District. Nearly 100 Maoists pronounced three men guilty
of being Police informers. Subsequently, two of them were lynched
to death while the third villager, a septuagenarian man, escaped
with injuries.
Bihar Home Secretary Afzal Amanullah
demanded 10 companies of Central Para-military Forces to carry
out an intensive operation against the Maoists in the State. "The
Maoists’ attack on the Rajpur Police outpost in Rohtas District
is the result of growing despondency among the Naxalites due to
continued Police crackdown on them," he said.
The Central Reserve Police Force
repulsed an attack on its camp at Madanpur in the Aurangabad District
by the CPI-Maoist. The Maoists reportedly launched the attack
in an apparent bid to divert the attention of the Police which
had engaged another group of Maoists in an encounter in the nearby
Obra locality. In a combing operation that followed, Police detained
19 people from the neighbouring villages for interrogation.
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July 5
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
called for a concrete action plan combining development initiatives
with strong Police action and intelligence gathering to check
Maoist activities in the State.
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July 6
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All the jails in Bihar were put
on alert following an intelligence report that the CPI-Maoist
may attack prisons to free its hardcore cadres. Inspector General
of Police (Prisons) Sandip Paundrik said that the District magistrates
and the superintendents of Police had been asked to beef up security
of jails under their jurisdiction.
State home department sources
said the government was preparing a fresh list of Maoists operating
in the 14 affected Districts, while a separate list of hardcore
Maoists is also being prepared.
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July 26
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Over two dozen Naxalites set
ablaze a brick kiln and a tractor in Hajipur after the owner of
the kiln failed to pay an extortion amount of INR 25,000. Police
sources said that the Naxalites surrounded the chimney, locked
the clerk and other employees in a room before setting the chimney
and the tractor parked outside on fire. Before leaving, they threatened
to come back and kill the owner if the money was not paid soon.
District Magistrate Lallan Singh said Naxalite literature and
posters were recovered from the incident site.
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July 30
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Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Madan Pal, self-styled commander of the Bihar-Jharkhand
special area committee, and his two associates, Prabhat alias
Kiran and Navi, were arrested by Bihar Police from Ashok Rajpath
locality of the capital Patna. Pal, a native of Palamu District
in the neighbouring State of Jharkhand, was wanted in several
cases of violence in Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh.
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July 31
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist detonated
an explosion targeting the house of senior Communist Party of
India leader Dinesh Singh at Nonpur village in the Begusarai District.
Police sources told that the extremists surrounded the village
and used dynamite to blow up the house. Singh’s relatives had
fled when they came to know about the raid. No casualties were
reported in the incident.
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August 1
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Police arrested three CPI-Maoist
cadres, including ‘sub-divisional commander’ Shubhashji alias
Subhash Prasad, from the Gaya District. Amit Kumar Jain, Superintendent
of Police, said that a regular Self Loading Rifle, Carbine, 25
detonators, Maoist literature, a mobile phone and a walkie-talkie
set were recovered from their possession.
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August 6
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The villagers of Mohanpur in
the Begusarai District have taken up arms against the CPI-Maoist
cadres, days after a Police outpost was removed from the area
without prior notice. "We are trying to guard our village. There
was a Police outpost for about 15 years, which was removed from
here, and its removal has made us vulnerable," claimed Arvind
Kumar, a villager. Mohanpur village, situated on the border with
the Maoist-affected Jharkhand, has received threats of dire consequences
from Maoists, said villagers. According to villagers, their relations
with the Maoists turned sour in 1989, when they helped the Police
to neutralise the Maoists in the area.
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August 13
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Police in Patna arrested two
CPI-Maoist cadres who reportedly were in the State capital to
disrupt the Independence Day celebration on August 15 at Gandhi
Maidan. Mahendra Prasad and Vinod Kumar, both wanted by the Bihar
Police for over a decade for their roles in a number of incidents
including killing of Police officials, were arrested as the two
returned to their hideout on foot from the Beur Jail after holding
a meeting with their comrades in the prison. Senior Superintendent
of Police Kundan Krishnan said the arrests were the result of
an intelligence input which warned of a possible Maoist attack
at Gandhi Maidan during the Independence Day celebration.
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August 19
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CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the
house of the block (administrative division) chief Guddu Sharma
and shot dead his wife, uncle and a private bodyguard in the Maker
village of Saran District. Over 50 Maoists surrounded the house
of Sharma and opened indiscriminate fire killing three persons.
Before fleeing they set a private vehicle, a tractor, and a motorcycle
on fire.
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September 4
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Six CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from Barauna village in the Gaya District of Bihar. Superintendent
of Police, Amit Jain, stated that the arrested extremists were
wanted by the Police for their involvement in several cases, including
one related to the burning of a tractor of self-styled Ranvir
Sena (private army of the upper caste) commander Ajgaibi Sharma.
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September 11
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The West Bengal Police arrested
a left-wing extremist from Gaya. The extremist, identified as
Promode Singh, was on the most-wanted list of Delhi Police and
had escaped from a Police lockup in Howrah (West Bengal) in 2005.
Singh, who used to supply funds to the Maoists, had switched to
hijacking cars after 2004. Police sources said that Singh has
around 50 murder charges against him.
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September 19
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Police arrested a top CPI-Maoist
leader, Tushar Kant Bhattacharya, along with his associate Uma
Rai from a rented house at Dujra locality in Patna. Police recovered
a huge quantity of Maoist literature, explosives, pen drive and
training equipment from Tushar who was staying in Patna for the
past two months. According to Police officials, Tushar was involved
in a number of murder cases in Naxal-affected Karimnagar, Prakasam
and Adilabad Districts of Andhra Pradesh between 1974 and 1980.
Apart from Andhra Pradesh, he was also wanted in connection with
several cases in Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Chhattisgarh and Delhi. At present, Tushar was the underground
CPI-Maoist ‘chief’ for Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and North Bihar
and also a member of the international department of South Asian
forum of Naxalite organisations. During interrogation he
admitted that the he was in the city to strengthen the Naxal organization
in Bihar.
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September 20
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The CPI-Maoist called for a 24-hour
bandh in Jharkhand, Bihar and Chhattisgarh to protest against
the arrest of Tushar Kant Bhattacharya.
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September 23
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Three persons, including a Police
personnel was killed and another was injured during a 24-hour
bandh called by the CPI-Maoist in Bihar. Police sources
said that the armed Maoists set ablaze six trucks and two buses
on the Grand Trunk (GT) Road and seven trucks at another place
in the Gaya District. Encounter between the Maoists and the Special
Auxiliary Police (SAP) personnel occurred on the GT Road resulting
in the death of a SAP personnel, a private bus driver and the
helper of the bus. Another injured truck driver was subsequently
hospitalised in Gaya. The Maoists took some passengers of a bus
hostage while retreating, but later released them.
The Maoists blew up a 50-metre
stretch of railway tracks at Pahleja on the Mughalsrai-Gaya section
of the East Central Railway in neighbouring Rohtas District, disrupting
movement of trains for over five hours. A can bomb weighing five
kilograms was seized from the spot. National highways in Maoist
stronghold areas in Gaya, Aurangabad and Rohtas Districts were
deserted as private bus and trucks stayed off the roads. The bandh
call was given in Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to protest
the recent arrest of CPI-Maoist chief of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand
and north Bihar, Tushar Kant Bhattacharya.
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September 30
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the
house of a transporter branding him a Police informer in the Gaya
District. Police sources said that a group of 200 Maoists raided
the house of Sanjay Yadav at Nawadih under Mohanpur Police station.
Sanjay was not present in the house. They ordered the family to
come out of the house and then blasted the vacant house with dynamites.
Before fleeing, the Maoists left pamphlets that described Yadav
as a Police informer.
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October 21
|
A ‘zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Yogesh Yadav alias Ravi Ji, was arrested
by Police during a special checking of vehicles on the highway
near Kothi in Gaya District. According to the Superintendent of
Police Amit Jain, Yogesh was wanted in several cases in Jharkhand
and Bihar. Police also recovered INR 95000 from his possession.
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October 22
|
A ‘zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Bachu Rajwanshi, was arrested from his hideout at
Rawna village under Koch Police station of Gaya District. According
to the Superintendent of Police, Amit Jain, Rajwanshi was, wanted
in connection with three major attacks on Police stations in Bihar,
including the July 2003 attack on Paraiya Police station in the
District in which four Policemen were killed and six firearms,
besides a huge quantity of ammunition were looted. He was also
wanted in connection with the attacks on Rajpur and Baghaila Police
stations in the Rohtas District in which seven Policemen were
killed and several firearms and ammunition were looted.
Another ‘zonal commander’ of the
CPI-Maoist, Ramji Manjhi, carrying head money of INR 25000, was
arrested from Kenarchatti village under Wazirganj Police station
in Gaya District. He was wanted in about two dozen cases in Bihar
and Jharkhand. Police also recovered a country-made carbine, pistol,
can bomb, camera, mobile phone and 28 rounds of ammunition from
his possession.
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October 29
|
Over 400 kilograms of explosives,
including high powered gelatin sticks reportedly kept by the CPI-Maoist
cadres, was recovered by the Police from a hut in Ghurenabandh
forest under Barachatti Police station of Gaya District. "Acting
on a tip-off, that the naxalites were clandestinely transporting
the explosives in two bullock-carts to the jungle for a major
operation, Police raided the hut and seized the explosives," said
Superintendent of Police, Amit Kumar Jain. Police also arrested
one Ramswaroop Bhuiyan in this connection.
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October 30
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist, during
their one day nation-wide strike, blew up a railway track near
Tilrath railway station in the Begusarai District and disrupted
the railway traffic for some time on the Barauni-Katihar section.
The Railway Protection Force personnel
recovered a ‘can’ bomb from the tracks near Nawada and a country-made
bomb from a platform at Barauni railway station. One person was
arrested in connection with the recovery of the bomb at Barauni
station. Maoists have called the strike to protest Police action
against their colleagues following the killing of 19 persons,
including a son of former Jharkhand Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi,
by the CPI-Maoist on October 27.
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October 31
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
in the Gaya District. Suchita Devi, a resident of Paroria village,
had visited Deputy Superintendent of Police Saurabh Kumar on October
30 to lodge a complaint against her husband Raj Ballabh for allegedly
torturing her. A Police team later found out that the woman had
Maoist links and was wanted in connection with incidents of violence
at places under Chauparan and Barhi Police stations of Hazaribagh
District in Jharkhand.
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November 4
|
About 50 armed cadres of CPI-Maoist
raided the Cheridhan village under Imamganj Police station of
Gaya District, and abducted one Yogendra Mahto from his residence.
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November 5
|
The Hyderabad-based Engineering
and Construction Inc. (ECI), building roads in Rohtas District,
had received an extortion demand of INR 220 million through a
letter, from CPI-Maoist. According to Police, in the letter, Maoists
have demanded 10 percent of the total cost of the INR 2.12 billion
project to be paid to them. Officials of other companies engaged
in road construction across the state also have reportedly received
extortion threats.
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November 8
|
One CPI-Maoist cadre, Sanjit
Sah, surrendered before A. K. Singh, Officer-in-Charge of Adhaura
Police station, in the Kaimur District. Sah was wanted in several
cases of violence, including murder. He laid down a rifle looted
from Police, 88 rounds of ammunition and a hand grenade. According
to Police sources, he would be produced before a court.
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November 12
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres exploded
a 'can bomb' at the Kesath block office in Buxar District and
damaged the building. However, no causalities were reported as
nobody was present at the block office at the time of the incident.
Before leaving the spot, the Maoists pasted a pamphlet on the
wall which said the action was to protest "misappropriation" of
funds by Block Development Committee Chairperson.
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November 20
|
CPI-Maoists cadres blew up a
railway track between the Jamui and Bhalui stations in Lakhisarai
District. The blast severely disrupted the rail network and dozens
of trains were either delayed or cancelled, railway officials
and Police said. The Maoists had called for a 48-hour strike on
November 19 and 20 in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal against
the violence in Nandigram.
Eighteen CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested and a cache of firearms and ammunition were recovered
from their possession at Sakri village in the Nalanda District,
according to. Eight rifles, three country-made carbines, three
pistols, a double barrel gun and 50 bullets were recovered from
them, Superintendent of Police, P. Amit Kumar informed.
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November 22
|
A top CPI-Maoist 'commander',
identified as Bhaskar Ji, and one of his associates, Tirthankar,
was arrested from a rented house in the Nayatola locality of capital
Patna following. A huge cache of arms and explosives, including
over 50 claymore mines, hand grenades, detonators, wire and other
explosive materials, were seized from their possession, Inspector
General of Police (Operations) S.K. Bharadwaj disclosed. "Preliminary
enquiry suggests that Naxalites were planning a massive operation
in north Bihar. Where and when this operation was to take place
will be known after thorough interrogation," Bharadwaj added.
Several Police uniforms and Maoist literature were also recovered
from the incident site.
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November 23
|
Four cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
reportedly involved in several attacks on the Police, were arrested
in the Banka District. Acting on a tip-off, Police arrested the
insurgents who were on their way to Jasidih in the State of Jharkhand
to board a train, Police said.
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November 24
|
The railway Police recovered
six large packets containing detonating fuses wires from the Lokmanya
Tilak Express stationed at platform number 4 at Patna junction
after arriving from Mumbai. The Railway Superintendent of Police
(SP) Ajitabh Kumar informed that the fuse wires were recovered
during a security check on trains prompted by the recovery of
large cache of explosives in Kumhrar and the arrests of two CPI-Maoist
cadres recently. The packets recovered from the train bears the
same logo that was found on the packages found in Kumhrar, the
SP added. However, no one has been arrested in the case.
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December 2
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up
a railway track at Rajapatti station in the Chapra District while
protesting the recent arrest of its secretary Lal Babu Sahni alias
Bhaskarji. While no loss of life or injuries was reported, railway
traffic on the Chapra-Gopalganj sector of the Northwest Railway
was disrupted for hours.
The CPI-Maoist organised a 24-hour
shutdown in the Districts of Chapra, Tirhut and Champaran to protest
against the arrest of Bhaskarji and the alleged ill-treatment
given to him in the high security Beur Central Jail in capital
Patna. He was arrested along with an associate from a hideout
at Nayatola in the Kumhrar locality of Patna on November 22 with
hundreds of claymore mines, hand grenades and other explosives.
The shutdown call is reported to have evoked a mixed response,
with urban areas unaffected, and normal life in some rural pockets
was disrupted.
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December 6
|
A local court in Banka awarded
death sentence to five CPI-Maoist cadres in connection with the
killing of three Policemen at Gaura village in the Banka District
on November 3, 2005. Additional District and Sessions judge of
a fast track court, Gangotri Ram Tripathi, awarded capital punishment
to Umesh Yadav, Naresh Yadav, Dhaneshwar Yadav and Suresh Yadav,
all of Gaura village, and Ashok Yadav of the Sahiya village in
Jamui District, for killing the then officer in-charge of Anandpur
Police station, Bhagwan Singh, and two constables, Braj Bhushan
Prasad and Nityanand Kumar. All of them were deployed for maintaining
law and order at Gaura village during the Kali Puja celebrations
on November 3, 2005, when a large number of Maoists carried out
an attack and killed them. Many civilians had also sustained injuries
in the incident. The Maoists had also looted four rifles, a revolver
and 80 rounds of ammunition from the Policemen. Public prosecutor
Mohammad Mansoor Ali told that Police had submitted charge sheet
against 12 accused in the case. However, seven of them are still
at large.
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December 8
|
the CPI-Maoist cadres blew up
the building of an abandoned Police outpost at Mahindwara under
Runnisaidpur Police station in the Sitamarhi District. The force
deployed at Mahindwara outpost had been shifted to Koahi village
about five months ago due to threats from Maoists, said the Superintendent
of Police, M R Naik.
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December 10
|
Around 100 armed cadres of the
CPI-Maoist killed four persons at Sukki village in the Vaishali
District. Armed Maoists reportedly surrounded the village from
all sides and stood guard while their comrades carried out the
attack. The extremists also attacked the house of the village
head and tried to set it ablaze. Official sources said that Sukki
village dominated by landed upper caste-Bhumihars has been
a traditional target of the Maoists.
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December 12
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up
railway tracks near Bhalui station in the Lakhisarai District,
disrupting railway traffic on the Patna-Howrah mainline. Maoists
blasted railway lines near Bhalui and also fired upon villagers
who rushed to the spot on hearing the explosion. However, no causalities
were reported.
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December 17
|
Around 500 armed cadres of the
CPI-Maoist raided the office of a private construction company
engaged in laying rail lines between Rajgir in Bihar and Tilaiya
in Jharkhand and injured 11 workers at Dhansura in the Gaya District.
They also damaged eight tractors and an earth mover machine. Official
sources indicated that the attack is the result of the construction
company failing to abide by the extortion demand of the CPI-Maoist.
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December 18
|
The prime accused in the October
27 Giridih massacre, identified as Anil Ram, an ‘area commander’
of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested following a Police raid on a village
under Govindpur Police station in the Nawada District. Anil Ram
was later handed over to the Jharkhand Police.
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December 19
|
Three CRPF personnel, including
Assistant Commandant B K Kapil, were killed during an encounter
with the CPI-Maoist cadres near Kadma village under Rajepur Police
station in the East Champaran District. A joint team of Bihar
Police and the para-military CRPF personnel engaged the Maoists
when they were retreating from Lakhsminia village in the adjoining
Sheohar District following a Police raid there. Three Maoists
were also killed during the encounter although body of only one
of them was recovered during the subsequent search operations.
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December 20
|
Police arrested the self-styled
divisional commander of the Ranvir Sena, identified as Ajgaybee
Sharma, along with five associates from Pokhwan village under
Shakurabad Police station in the Jehanabad District. Police recovered
two pistols and live cartridge from their possession. Ajgaybee
was wanted in two dozen cases of extortion, murder and massacre,
registered with the Tekari, Konch and Belaganj Police stations
of Gaya District and Goh and Uphare Police station of the Aurangabad
District. He was also involved in the massacre at Miyapur village
in the Aurangabad District when he and his associates reportedly
shot dead 34 persons and injured 20 others. He was also charged
for co-ordinating the activities of the outfit in the Magadh division.
The CPI-Maoist called for a general
strike in protest against the suicide committed by their jailed
leader Nagina Manjhi.
A fast-track court of additional
District and sessions judge V S Pathak sentenced Dilip Ram, a
cadre of the CPI-Maoist, to life imprisonment in connection with
the abduction of a businessman Ajit Kumar from Gadapar locality
in the District headquarter Nawada on April 14, 2004. The businessman
is reportedly still untraceable in spite of the payment of a ransom
of INR 120,000 to the abductors. The Maoists had initially demanded
INR 500,000 for his release.
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December 25
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
from Tekpur in the Nawada District.
The Bihar Government decided to
shift hardcore Naxalite inmates from one central jail to another.
This decision was taken following the repeated case of trouble
in the prisons all over the State, including the recent revolt
in the Beur Model Jail in capital Patna. This move was aimed to
preventing the prisoners from developing proximity and organizing
themselves. According to an official estimate, there are around
700 hardcore Naxalites in the Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Bhagalpur
and Buxar central jails.
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Chhattisgarh
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Date
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Incidents
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January 3
|
At least 79 Maoists surrendered
before the Chhattisgarh Police.
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January 8
|
Four cadres belonging to the
CPI-Maoist, including two women cadres, were killed during an
encounter with the Police in the Chhinari forest area under Chhote
Dongar Police station in the Narayanpur District.
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January 16
|
Seven Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) personnel were killed in an Improvised Explosive
Device (IED) blast in the Kanker area of Bastar District. A team
of 30 CRPF personnel were on a joint patrol when the explosion
occurred.
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January 21
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
killed in a gun battle between Maoists and the joint team of the
local Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in the forest
area of Timarpur in the Bastar District.
Two CPI-Maoist cadres and a Police
constable were killed during a two-hour encounter in the Bhejji
area of Dantewada District. The Police also claimed to have arrested
two women Maoists.
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January 31
|
Two senior CPI-Maoist cadres
were killed in a forested stretch of Bijapur in the Bastar District,
near the Andhra Pradesh border, in an hour-long encounter.
Police shot dead a Maoist during
a shootout in the Dantewada District.
Security force personnel foiled
an attempt by the Naxalites to loot an explosives depot of the
state-run National Mineral Development Corporation at Hiroli in
the Dantewada District.
A Naxalite was caught by the villagers
of Temrupani village in the Kanker District and was subsequently
handed over to the Police.
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February 6
|
Two women CPI-Maoist cadres were
killed during an encounter near Jagargunda in the Jagdalpur area
of Bastar District. A few other cadres, including ‘area commander’
Papa Rao, were reported to have been injured during the encounter.
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February 8
|
Six security force personnel
and a civilian were killed in a powerful landmine explosion at
Bhairamgarh in Bijapur. The SF personnel were trying to defuse
explosives earlier recovered in the area, suspected to have been
planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres.
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February 11
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a tribal
in Ader village, under the Faresgarh Police station in the Bastar
District.
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February 12
|
Police officials said that they
have arrested six CPI-Maoist cadres and recovered explosives during
an overnight raid in the Narayanpur area near Abujhmad locality
in the Bastar region.
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February 14
|
CPI-Maoist killed three activists
of the anti-Maoist vigilante movement, Salwa Judum, in
the Bijapur area.
In a separate incident, a CRPF
personnel was killed and another injured when a tiffin bomb went
off during defusing process in a forested stretch of Dantewada.
Police arrested 11 Maoists, including
five women cadres, from Dornapal in the Dantewada District.
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February 24
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A Naxalite, belonging to the
Abujhmad dalam was killed and a Policeman was injured during
an encounter at Pedametta village in the Bijapur District. Bijapur
District Superintendent of Police Ratan Lal Dangi told that the
Police recovered 25 landmines, three hand grenades and one weapon
from the encounter site.
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March 1
|
Eight persons, including six
security force personnel, were killed in a landmine blast triggered
by CPI-Maoist cadres at Mettagudem near the Injaram base camp
in the Dantewada District on the Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border.
The incident occurred when SF personnel of the Naga battalion
were returning to the base camp along with a group of civilians
in a lorry after the night-long combing operations in the forest
area.
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March 12
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed two
tribals in an overnight attack in the Kanker District. A senior
Police official told, "A group of armed Maoists raided a forested
village late night Monday. They took away two youths aged around
30 years, killed them with sharp-edged weapons and then dumped
the bodies on a road." 'The youths were killed as the rebels suspected
they were Police sympathisers and had been assisting local Police
to target militant hideouts,' Police further said.
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March 15
|
55 persons, including 16 personnel
of the Chhattisgarh Armed Force and 39 Special Police Officers
(SPOs), were killed and 12 persons were injured in an offensive
by CPI-Maoist cadres on a Police base camp at Rani Bodli village
of Bijapur Police District in the Bastar Division. The Maoists
took away 39 weapons including self-loading rifles, AK-47 rifles
.303 rifles and a mortar from the Police camp. According to reports,
only 11 of the 79 Police personnel and SPOs posted at the camp
managed to escape. Chhattisgarh Inspector General of Police Girdhari
Naik said on March 16 that, from the forensic reports, the Police
has pegged the casualties in the Maoist ranks at 10 to 12.
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March 16
|
In the Kanker Police personnel
recovered a body in the Chindpal village of Badgaon Police station
area. When the Police party was trying to shift the body, landmines
attached to the body blew up, injuring two Policemen seriously.
CPI-Maoist cadres assaulted a
villager of Bansari to death, under Ambagarh Police station of
Rajnandgaon District.
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a person
in Pandey Para under Bhairamgarh Police station area of Bijapur
Police District. In another case in the same area a villager was
shot dead and another injured by the Maoists.
Chhattisgarh government said an
expert committee would be set up to firm up a new strategy to
deal with left-wing extremism. Chief Minister Raman Singh told
the state assembly, "We want a new strategy on Naxalites (left-wing
extremists) to end the menace for which a committee will be formed
of experts on the Naxal issue." Subsequently, the Chief Minister
speaking to the media said that the committee would have senior
officers, who are familiar with the Naxal issues, as members.
"There is every need to change the current Naxal policy, for which
the state government is taking several steps," he said.
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March 17
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Police personnel during an encounter
killed five CPI-Maoist cadres in the forested Farsegarh area of
Bijapur Police District of southern Chhattisgarh. Following the
encounter that lasted for two hours, "one body was recovered while
the ultras carried away four bodies into the forest", a Police
official said.
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March 25
|
The CPI-Maoist owned responsibility
for the March 15 Rani Bodli incident in which 55 security force
personnel were killed in the Bijapur District. The People's Liberation
Guerrilla Army of the CPI-Maoist had killed 55 Policemen in Rani
Bodli camp and it was an answer to the Salwa Judum and
anti-Naxal operation in Bastar region, the statement claimed.
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March 26
|
Maoists attacked the Maraiagudem
Police outpost in the Konta division. About 300 Maoists and Sangham
members surrounded the station, hurled grenades at it and
then opened fire. There was heavy firing from both sides; however,
no casualties were reported in the incident.
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March 27
|
Maoists threatened of "bigger"
attacks if the Salwa Judum movement was not stopped. A
two-page statement signed by "Azad", a Maoist spokesman, released
in Hyderabad, called the Maoist attack on Police Station in Rani
Bodli a "heroic and tactical counter-offensive by the People’s
Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) against state-sponsored reign
of terror".
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March 28
|
The CPI-Maoist gave a call to
boycott the bye elections for the Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha constituency
expressing "lack of confidence on the democratic system of the
country."
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March 29
|
CPI-Maoist cadres decamped with
an electronic voting machine from the Hathrel polling booth under
the Rajnandgaon constituency.
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April 1
|
Two farmers were killed by suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres for having handed over their land for an upcoming
steel plant in the Dantewada District. Over 40 armed Maoists raided
Bhansi village and allegedly slit the throats of two villagers
who had surrendered their land to Essar Steel for setting up the
plant.
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April 2
|
Two security force personnel
belonging to the Mizo battalion were injured in an attack by the
CPI-Maoist cadres at Golapalli in the southern Bastar region.
The incident occurred when the SF personnel passing through the
area were attacked by the Maoists hiding in the hills.
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April 8
|
Four Special Police Officers
were injured in a "pressure-cooker bomb" explosion triggered by
the CPI-Maoist near Belnar camp under Bhairamgarh block, in the
Dantewada District.
One more SPO was injured in "radio-bomb"
explosion in the forest near Belnar.
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April 10
|
Three senior activists of the
Salwa Judum movement were reportedly abducted last week
and then killed by the CPI-Maoist in the Dantewada District. The
victims' bodies were recovered from a remote forested part of
the Dantewada District.
A truck loaded with wood belonging
to forest officials was blown up by CPI-Maoist cadres near Naghur
forest area in the Kanker District.
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April 13
|
The Chhattisgarh Government extended
the ban on six Naxalite organisations, including the CPI-Maoist,
for one year for "unlawful" activities; under sub-section 1 of
section 3 of the ‘Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act’. Besides
CPI-Maoist, the banned organizations included five of its frontal
organizations, Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, Krantikari
Adivas Mahila Sangh, Krantikari Adivasi Bala Sangh, Krantikari
Kisan Committee and Mahila Mukti Manch.
A CPI-Maoist ‘area commander’
of the Karkabada region was killed in an encounter with the Police
near a forested region of Dantewada District. An AK-47 riffle,
one pistol, 20 cartridges and 4 Chinese grenades were recovered
from the incident site.
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April 15
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were shot
dead by security force personnel in the forested area of Pollampalli
locality in the Dantewada District. Police recovered an unspecified
quantity of foreign-made pistols and explosives from the slain
Maoists.
One Police personnel was killed
and four persons, including three security force personnel, were
injured in three successive landmine blasts triggered by the CPI-Maoist
in the Dantewada District. The incident occurred when a Police
party was on an operation near Aranpur in the Jagargunda Police
station area.
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April 17
|
Two bundles (700 copies) of Maoist
literature were found in a parcel office at Durg railway station,
in the Durg District. Official sources said the senders’ name
and address has not been mentioned in the parcel booked for Durg
by Durg - Danapur express, ten months back. Only when it was open
for bid on April 17, as nobody came to receive it, officials found
Maoist literature in Hindi language inside.
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April 19
|
Two civilians were abducted by
the CPI-Maoist cadres from Surangi village in the Kanker District.
They were identified as Madhavalal and Suman, close relatives
of the vice-chairman of Bastar Development Authority, Vikaram
Usendi. The Maoists also carried away a tractor, two tractor drivers
and INR 50,000.
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April 20
|
A CPI-Maoist ‘zonal commander’,
identified as Iqbal Pal alias Awadesh Pal, was arrested
in the Sarguja District. During interrogation, he confessed to
having worked at Gumala, Palamu and Chatra in Jharkhand, Aurangabad
in Bihar, Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh and Balarampur and Jaspur
in Chhattisgarh.
In the Sarguja District, ‘commander’
of the women’s wing of CPI-Maoist, Pushpa alias Kavita
alias Savita, was arrested by the Police along with Maoist
papers, photograph of Maoists and a Compact Disc. She is reportedly
involved in several cases of murder.
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April 21
|
The CPI-Maoist released two civilians,
Madhav and Suman, who were abducted earlier on April 19 from the
Kanker District.
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April 22
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Hemla Sukka and Ayut, were arrested near Aranpur village in
the Dantewada District while attempting to lay a landmine on the
road. The Police recovered two Improvised Explosive Devices, two
detonators and iron rods from their possession.
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, ‘deputy
commander’ Ramcharan alias Ranjeet Khirwar and his wife
Sunita Khirwar, each carrying a head money of INR 5000, surrendered
to Police at Jajawal in the Surguja District. Police also recovered
one .303-riffle and one twelve-bore gun from the near by forest
following information revealed by them.
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April 23
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
during an encounter with the Police in the Torasi area of Bastar
District. According to the Bastar District Superintendent of Police,
one of the slain Maoists has been identified as Ram Das, a local
guerrilla squad commander.
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April 24
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were shot
dead by Police in a retaliatory fire in the Dantewada District.
Police claimed that four CPI-Maoist
cadres were injured in a joint operation by the Chhattisgarh and
Maharashtra Police near the forested region of Korchi village
on the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border, 25 kilometers away from
the Ambagarh Police camp of Rajnandgaon District.
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April 26
|
Four Police personnel were killed
and 16 others injured when CPI-Maoist cadres detonated a landmine
blast targeting a Police vehicle at Michgaon village near the
forest belt of Durgkondal in the Kanker District. Three of the
victims were identified as Assistant Sub-Inspector Najgir Baksh,
Lokesh Sahu and the vehicle driver Asharam Dugga. Subsequently,
another security force personnel succumbed to his injuries taking
the toll to five.
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April 28
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an encounter with the Police at Lenpalli village under Jargunda
Police station in the Dantewada District. CPI-Maoist cadres opened
fire on the joint group of Special Police Officers (SPOs), District
Police personnel and Chhattisgah Armed Police Force who were conducting
a search operation, forcing them to retaliate. The Police recovered
one detonator, one tiffin-bomb and huge amount of Maoist literature
from the incident site.
Police recovered one .303 riffle
and 7 live-cartridges from Ghuidih in the Surguja District.
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May 3
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman
Singh is reported to have invited the CPI-Maoist for talks, saying
the Government was very concerned about the safety of those driven
to relief camps by the violence and that in the long term the
insurgents could not possibly win. "The government is highly concerned
about the safety and future of 50,000 relief camp settlers. They
will return to their native villages once the situation improves
and peace returns," the Chief Minister said in an interview with
IANS. He further said, "I am inviting the guerrillas through the
press. If they respond, our top Police officials will engage in
dialogue."
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May 4
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Top CPI-Maoist leader, identified
as Gopanna, was arrested by Police from the forested area of Gariabandh
in the Raipur District. He was a top functionary in the Dandakaranya
Special Zonal Committee of the CPI-Maoist, said Police sources.
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May 6
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A CPI-Maoist leader, identified
as Piyush Guha, a resident of the State of West Bengal, was arrested
from a railway station in Raipur, capital of Chhattisgarh. Guha
was arrested while carrying a letter meant for a top Maoist leader
currently in a Chhattisgarh jail who is in charge of masterminding
dozens of major landmines blasts in India. Police recovered three
letters addressed to the Maoist leader, INR 49,000 and some Maoist
literature from the possession of Guha.
In an initial probe ordered by
the Chhattisgarh Director General of Police O. P. Rathore into
the alleged killings of five to seven civilians by a group of
Policemen in the tribal village of Ponjer, the Police have admitted
that some of Police personnel were involved in the incident in
March 2007,. But Police officials said that murder charges will
be registered against the concerned Police personnel only after
a proper investigation.
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May 8
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CPI-Maoist cadres removed two
rail tracks causing derailment of an iron ore-laden goods train
at Nareli in the Dantewada District. The CPI-Maoists also abducted
four staff of the train, later released them unharmed after looting
their wireless sets.
CPI-Maoist cadres blocked vehicular
traffic to iron ore-rich Raoghat area from the rest of the state
by felling trees at many points on Raoghat- Kanker road of Kanker
District.
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May 8
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Police recovered 10 kilograms
of explosives and 70 feet detonator wire from the area between
Sitagao and Madanwada villages under Aunndhi Police station area
in the Rajnandgaon District. The recovery was made following information
revealed by the arrested CPI-Maoist ‘deputy commander’ Suresh
alias Raju.
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May 9
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The Chhattisgarh government has
said it would not arrest the Police personnel who were reportedly
involved in the killing of tribals on March 31 at Ponjer in the
Bijapur District, even as an official probe confirmed that the
villagers were branded as Maoists and killed. Home Minister Ramvichar
Netam told that Police personnel are fighting a battle in the
interior Bastar region in extremely difficult situations and the
government will not arrest the Police personnel involved in the
killings of some civilians.
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May 12
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The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a Police constable, Khubchand Sahu, a personal security officer
to the Public Health Engineering Minister Kedar Kashyap, at a
weekly market in the Mardapal village of Bastar District. A woman
standing nearby also sustained injuries in the incident. The CPI-Maoist
cadres took away the constable’s AK-47 rifle and left behind a
bag containing three hand grenades, two knives and several rounds
of ammunition, when they were challenged by ten other constables.
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May 15
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Two Police personnel were injured
in a landmine blast triggered by CPI-Maoist cadres at Phuladi
in the Bijapur Police District.
Police and CPI-Maoist cadres exchanged
fire in the Madphul forest area of the Bijapur Police District.
No Police personnel were injured in the encounter.
Binayak Sen, national vice-president
of the People's Union for Civil Liberties, a human rights organisation,
was arrested in Chhattisgarh on charges of alleged Maoist links
under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Chhattisgarh
Special Public Security Act 2005.
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May 17
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Police personnel opened fire
on a group of six CPI-Maoist cadres at Nayapara area in the Dantewada
District, killing two of them. Police also arrested one Maoist
while three others managed to escape. Some arms were recovered
from the slain Maoists.
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May 18
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One CRPF constable, identified
as Hoshiyar Singh, was killed and three others, identified as
K. N. Pathak, V.K. Tiwari and T. Hanumant Rai, sustained serious
injuries in a CPI-Maoist-triggered landmine explosion near Masundi
village in the Dantewada District.
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May 19
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Police recovered three landmines,
spray machine and petrol from the Rani Bodli forest in the Bijapur
District. The recovery is reportedly linked to the March 15, 2007-incident
in which 55 security force personnel were killed by the CPI-Maoist,
according to the Police sources.
Meanwhile, Police reportedly seized
several incriminating documents to prove that the PUCL Chhattisgarh
general secretary Vinayak Sen's link with the CPI-Maoist leaders.
"Besides papers, some digital documents and a computer were seized
by Police and that all are being examined and the details regarding
these will be given only after the examination is complete," the
sources said.
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May 22
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A Salwa Judum member was
killed and six others sustained injures in a CPI-Maoist-triggered
landmine explosion along the Jargunda-Arangpur road in the Dantewada
District. According to Police, the incident occurred when 250
Salva Judum members were on their way to Arungpur from Jargunda
to purchase food grains.
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May 24
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A group of 100 CPI-Maoist cadres
opened fire towards the CRPF personnel who were travelling to
Koyalibeda from Tadokee village for a combing operation near Kandari
village in the Kanker District. The CRPF personnel opened fire
in retaliation and subsequently recovered the dead body of one
Maoist, identified as Ashok Kumar Ushendi, along with a loaded
rifle from the incident site. Police also arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Chamarsingh. The other Maoists managed to
escape.
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May 27
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A local Bharatiya Janata Party
leader Yadunandan was shot dead by CPI-Maoist cadres in the Sarguja
District.
The CPI-Maoist triggered landmines
blasts blowing up a railway bridge between Bacheli and Kirandul
and derailing three wagons of a goods train in the Dantewada District
during a general strike called by the outfit. The Maoists were
observing bandh in the Dandakaranya area of Bastar region of Chhattisgarh
and parts of Orissa, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh to protest
against the alleged fake encounters by the Police. According to
Police, Maoists took away wireless sets of the guards and left
behind pamphlets demanding a probe into the "fake" encounter in
Bijapur District and action against the superintendent of Police
Ratan Lal Dangi.
Maoists damaged the railway track
between Bhansi and Bacheli in the Dantewada District by detonating
a landmine blast. They also burnt some machinery at an Essar Steel
facility at Maddadi in the same District.
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May 28
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Nine Police personnel were killed
and three others sustained injuries in landmine blasts carried
out by CPI-Maoist cadres and the subsequent exchange of fire that
lasted an hour, near Kudur village between Kondagaon and Mardapal
in the Bastar District. The Maoists reportedly looted arms and
ammunition including automatic weapons from the Police before
fleeing from the incident site.
Three civilians were killed by
CPI-Maoist cadres in the Bansaguda area of Dantewada District.
One of the slain civilians, identified as Rajeev Pujari, was labelled
as a Police informer by the Maoists.
In an exchange of fire between
SFs and the CPI-Maoist cadres in the Gangalur Police station area
in the Bijapur District, one CRPF personnel was killed.
One SF personnel was injured when
SFs exchanged fire with the Maoists in the Bedre camp area in
the same District.
One Police personnel were wounded
when Maoists opened fire at Bedare in the Dantewada District.
CPI-Maoist cadres reportedly damaged
telephone lines, electricity poles, small bridges and roads in
the Bijapur and Narayanpur Districts.
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May 29
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A Sarpanch (village head)
was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres in Kotram village in the Dantewada
District.
One Special Police Officer was
injured in an exchange of fire with Maoists in the same District.
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May 30
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The CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
and killed three unidentified civilians, alleging to be Police
informants, at Gotulgunda village in the Dornapal area of Dantewada
District. Police recovered their dead bodies near Kankerlanka
village on May 31-morning.
A Sarpanch (village head)
was killed by suspected Maoists at Tumakpal village under Katekalyan
block in the same District.
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June 1
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up three
high-tension power supply towers in the forests of Dhourie and
Farasgaon of the Bastar region affecting train services and production
in the National Mineral Development Corporation.
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June 2
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Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in a gun battle with the Police in the forested stretch of Sendra
area in the Bijapur District. The gun battle occurred when the
Maoists opened fire towards the Policemen who were conducting
counter-insurgency operations. "The security forces retaliated
and gunned down four Maoists," a Police office told. However,
several others managed to escape.
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June 3
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At least seven CPI cadres, including
a Panchayat representative, were injured in a clash with
the Salwa Judum activists in the Dantewada District. The
incident occurred near Dornapal when the CPI leaders and workers
were returning from Cherla in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh after
attending a meeting against the Salwa Judum and Maoist
threat.
One CRPF personnel, identified
as Kailashpati Yadav, was injured in a Maoist-triggered ‘Pressure-Bomb’
explosion near Aranpur under Jagargunda area in the Bastar District.
Maoists blew up two high-tension
power supply towers near Narayanpur in the same District, affecting
the power supply and subsequently disrupting daily life in the
whole Bastar region. According to Rajeev Ranjan, chief of the
State Electricity Board, it will take at least 15 days to restore
the power supply.
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June 5
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Three employees of the Chhattisgarh
State Electricity Board were killed and five Special Task Force
personnel sustained injuries in a CPI-Maoist-triggered landmine
blast near Kapsi in the Narayanpur District. The incident occurred
when the truck in which they were traveling hit a landmine, on
their way to Jharaghati, a forested area, to repair three high-tension
electricity towers that were blown up by Maoists on June 1.
Maoists brought down three more
high-tension power transmission towers in the Bastar region. So
far, Maoists have blasted eight high-tension electricity transmission
towers in the State since June 1, leading to power breakdown in
the Dantewada, Bijapur, Narayanpur and Bastar Districts. A senior
State-run National Mineral Development Corporation official said,
"Iron ore production and transportation to the domestic market
and exports to China and Japan have come to a complete halt since
the past five days and would continue to suffer for a week." According
to Police, the Maoists are disrupting power installations in order
to target government offices, the Police and even tribals who
are part of the Salwa Judum.
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June 9
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Two CRPF personnel were injured
when CPI-Maoist cadres detonated two pressure bombs in the Bailadila
hills of Dantewada District.
Separately, a civilian, identified
as Vikram Raut, was injured in a pressure bomb explosion, triggered
by CPI-Maoist cadres, under Dhanora Police station in the Bastar
District.
Maoists abducted 12 people from
the Dantewada and Narayanpur Districts. Nine persons were abducted
from Bande village of Dantewada District by about 25 armed Maoists
when they were returning from a government-run employment generating
scheme. Separately, CPI-Maoist cadres abducted three persons,
accusing them of being Police informants, from Mahimagawadi village
in the Narayanpur District.
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June 10
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One Police personnel was killed
in an encounter with cadres of the CPI-Maoist in the Akkabeda
forest of Narayanpur District The incident occurred when the Maoists
challenged a Police party which was on a combing operation in
the area. Police recovered one .303 rifle from the incident site.
The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
the National Mineral Development Corporation premises in the Dantewada
District. "A large number of Naxalites attacked the Bacheli premises
of the NMDC and burnt over 100 meters of a conveyor belt,'' a
Police official told.
Maoists released four of the nine
persons, abducted earlier on June 9. "At around 9 am, four of
the tribal youths were released by Maoists. They are unharmed,"
said Rahul Sharma, Superintendent of Police.
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist set ablaze
a Bamboo depot at Bande in the Kanker District, leading to a loss
of INR 40 million. They also left behind a pamphlet giving instructions
to the common people to oppose Salwa Judum.
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze two
Pokland machines, worth INR 10 million each, of Essar Company,
near Kirandul in the Dantewada District. One machine was totally
destroyed while other was partially damaged.
The CPI-Maoist released three
persons, identified as Mahesh, Venkat and Dobaram, abducted earlier
on June 9-night from Mahimagawadi village in the Narayanpur District,
after a promise that they would not take part in the Salawa
Judum movement.
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June 12
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Dead bodies of two civilians
abducted by the CPI-Maoist on June 9 were recovered from a pond
near Banda village in the Dantewada District.
The Maoists in Chhattisgarh have
admitted that 500 of their rebels have been killed by cadres of
anti-Maoist Salwa Judum movement in the last two years,
a Police official said. The admission came through leaflets and
posters found by Police in the Dantewada District.
Accepting that the left-wing extremist
problem has spread to almost the entire State, the Chhattisgarh
Government decided to establish Anti-Naxalite (Operations) Cells
in six more Districts, which were free from left-wing extremism.
The new cells are scheduled to come up in the Raipur, Kawardha,
Rajnandgaon, Dhamtari, Durg and Mahasamund Districts. After the
establishment of these special units, only four Districts - Bilaspur,
Korba, Raigarh and Janjgir - remain classified as non-Maoist affected.
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June 14
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Police retaliated and foiled
an attack carried out by a group of about 100 CPI-Maoist cadres
at the Cherpal Police camp in the Bijapur District. The Maoists
reportedly exploded a bomb and also opened fire towards the Police
personnel. However, when Police opened fire the Maoists retreated
and managed to escape.
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June 17
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Three CPI-Maoist cadres were
killed by the Police in an encounter near Gangallur village in
the Bijapur District. Maoists reportedly opened fire towards a
Police party who were returning from a combing operation. Police
personnel retaliated and during subsequent search operations,
recovered three dead bodies of the CPI-Maoist cadres along with
one 12-bore rifle, one home-made rifle and a live landmine from
the incident site.
Two Special Police Officers were
injured in a CPI-Maoist-triggered ‘pressure bomb’ explosion in
the Tikler area under Cherpal Police station in the Bijapur District.
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June 18
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A civilian, identified as Durgaram,
was killed by cadres of the CPI-Maoist at Pinkonda village in
the Dantewada District. Durgaram was labeled as Police informer
by the CPI-Maoist.
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were reportedly
caught and later on handed over to the Police by villagers at
Patrapara under Rajpur block in the Sarguja District. Three ‘Tiffin
bombs’ and two swords were recovered from the Maoists.
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June 19
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Three civilians, Santu Yadav,
B. L. Baghel and Triveni Dewangan, were injured in a ‘pressure-bomb’
explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres at Barhibeda village
in the Narayanpur Police District.
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June 20
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CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a
Police personnel, identified as Anil Devangan, in a gun battle
at Ghanora village in the Bastar District. Two Police personnel
sustained injuries in the incident which occurred when the Maoists
challenged and opened fire towards a Police party conducting combing
operations in the area. The Maoists later managed to escape.
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June 24
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist abducted
13 tribals, including six women and three children, from Maraiguda
village in the Dantewada District. Subsequently, two women and
a child were released.
Two Salwa Judum activists,
identified as Lambaram Sodhi and Chandreyya, were killed by cadres
of the CPI-Maoist at Surekheda and Motalapalli villages respectively
in the Dantewada District.
Maoists caused extensive damage
to the Kirandul-Visakhapatnam railway line by triggering blasts
in the Dantewada District, adversely affecting iron ore export
from the state-run National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd.
According to Police sources, railway tracks have been blown up
at several places. Maoist handbills and posters—threatening to
cause extensive damage to telecom, railways and electricity supply
during the economic blockade—were also recovered from several
places in the region, Police added.
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a 33-KV
power transmission line near Bodli village in the Bijapur District.
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June 26
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An attempt to blow up a railway
bridge between Bhansi and Bacheli stations in the Dantewada District
by the CPI-Maoist cadres was foiled by the security forces when
they detected and defused mines.
Police engaged Maoists in an encounter
near Bairamgadh in the Bijapur District. However, no casualties
were reported.
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist set ablaze
a truck on the National Highway No. 6 near Rajnandgaon.
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July 1
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Two civilians, identified as
Mandavi Raju and Mandavi Lakhma, were killed by the CPI-Maoist
cadres at Keskutul village under Baihramgarh block in the Bijapur
District. Raju was allegedly killed for refusal to join the Maoist
group while Lakhma was killed for performing agricultural activities
defying Maoists dictates that the people who are living in the
government run relief-camps have no right to take part in agricultural
activities in the village.
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July 3
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Chhattisgarh Police arrested
Subhash alias Aitu Kursa, the Darrekasa dalam ‘commander’
of the CPI-Maoist, along with an associate from Dongargarh in
the Rajnandgaon District. Police also raided several places based
on the information revealed by Aitu and recovered two AK-47 rifles,
two self-loading rifles, two shot guns, 150 gelatine sticks and
a wireless set.
The Maoists issued a warning to
tribal villagers to stop all farming activities in the Maoist-affected
Bastar region. The decree was passed in pamphlets that were reportedly
pasted in the villages.
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July 4
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A civilian, identified as Andrik
lal, was killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres near Cherpal relief camp
in the Bijapur District.
Two CRPF personnel, Devraj and
Karim, sustained injuries in a Maoist-triggered IED blast near
Palnar village under Kirandul Police station of Dantewada District.
A Special Police Officer, identified
as Kudiyam Modo, sustained injuries in a ‘pressure bomb’ explosion
triggered by the Maoists near Pamalwaya in the Bijapur District.
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July 5
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The dead body of a Salwa Judum
activist, Poyami Raju, was found in the Bijapur District. Raju
was abducted earlier by the CPI-Maoist cadres on July 4 from the
Bade Kumali village.
100 kilogram of explosives was
recovered by a joint team of CRPF and Police from Kangurra forest
in the Rajnandgaon District, following information revealed by
the arrested Maoist ‘commander’ Subash.
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July 6
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Two civilians, identified as
Kannu Dula and Mandavi Mukka, were shot dead by cadres of the
CPI-Maoist, suspecting them as Police informants, in the Chintagupha
Police station area of Dantewada District
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July 8
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Police arrested three CPI-Maoist
cadres, Nirmala alias Nirmalakka, ‘Western Bastar Division
Commander’, Chandrashekhar Reddy alias Jaipal Reddy and
Mahendra alias Sukhram, member Dola dalam, from
the Pachperi area of Raipur town.
A senior member of the CPI-Maoist,
Mahendra Netam, was arrested by Police at Jagdalpur railway station
in the Bastar District.
A Salwa Judum activist,
identified as Sirha Madkami Hunga, was shot dead by cadres of
the CPI-Maoist in the Sukma block of Dantewada District.
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July 9
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Two Special Police Officers and
a CRPF personnel sustained injuries in a clash between the CPI-Maoist
cadres and SF personnel in the Konta block of Dantewada District.
SFs retaliated when Maoists opened fire and simultaneously triggered
a landmine blast targeting them in the area.
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July 9
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At least 24 security force personnel
and 20 CPI-Maoist cadres, were killed in a gun battle that occurred
when a joint team of the CRPF and Chhattisgarh Police personnel
were combing the Elampatti-Regadgatta forest area of Dantewada
District. The killed security force personnel included 16 CRPF
personnel, including an Assistant Commandant, six special Police
officers (SPOs) and two from Dantewada District forces.
CPI-Maoist cadres damaged a government-run
health centre, a teacher’s residence and a primary school building
at Kemru village in the Narayanpur District. Maoists also warned
the villagers to face dire consequence if they allow Police personnel
to stay in the village.
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July 10
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The Bastar Inspector General
of Police, R. K. Vij, and a reporter from Sahara Samaya,
Rajendra Bajpai, sustained injuries when Salwa Judum activists
attacked them near Errabore Police post in the Dantewada District.
An encounter was reported between
Maoists and Police at Adesmeta under the Gangalur Police station
area of Bijapur District. However, no causalities were reported
on either side.
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July 11
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Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Praveen Yadav alias Bambaiya and Sanjay Yadav,
were arrested by Police at Gajar village under Ramchandrapur Police
station area of Surguja District.
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July 16
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An unidentified cadre of the
CPI-Maoist was killed in an encounter with Police personnel in
Chhirka village of Bastar District. A rifle and some Maoist literature
were recovered during subsequent search operations in the area.
CPI-Maoist cadres abducted 10
people including a woman from four villages, Kotpad, Madagaon,
Botha and Moode in the Bastar District. G P Singh, Superintendent
of Police of the District (Bastar) said, "The villagers are between
15 and 25 years of age and we believe that the Naxals will make
an effort to indoctrinate them so that they join the Naxalite
ranks."
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July 17
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
five farmers and assaulted five others in separate incidents at
Gunapara and Nayapara villages under Gangaloor and Jangala Police
station areas of Bijapur District. The farmers reportedly had
defied Maoists ban on cultivation in Narayanpur, Bijapur, Dantewada,
Bastar and Kanker Districts.
CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead Nand
Kumar Singh, a local leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)
at Chindgarh near Konta in the Dantewada District.
Maoist cadres released 10 people
abducted earlier from the four villages, Kotpad, Madagaon, Botha
and Moode in the Bastar District on July 16. Local villagers had
met the Maoist cadres and requested them to release the abducted
people.
Maoist cadres blasted a rail track
between Kirandul and Kotvalsa station in the Bastar District.
The blast disrupted the movement of goods and passenger trains.
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July 18
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An unidentified civilian was
killed by CPI-Maoist cadres in Kameli village under Kirandul Police
station area of Dantewada District. A pamphlet, pasted on the
dead body read that all the Police informers will have to face
similar consequences.
A joint team of Gaindatola and
Chhuriya Police, during a combing operation recovered two powerful
bombs from Chhuriya-Banjari road in the Rajnandgaon District.
The bomb disposal squad of Police diffused the bomb and recovered
two buckets, carrying 20 and 10 kilograms of explosives respectively,
21 gelatin rods and two metres-long wire.
One sangham (a group of
hardcore over-ground cadres) member of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Aayatu Lachhu, was arrested by Police from a weekly market
in Dantewada.
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July 19
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist blew
up Mareda Bridge on the Aranpur road in the Dantewada District.
However, no causalities were reported.
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July 20
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A ‘tiffin bomb’ and a ‘pipe bomb’
along with two batteries and two switches were recovered by the
Police during a combing operation near Ponjar hills in the Bijapur
District
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July 23
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Six sangham (a group of
hard core over-ground cadres) members of the CPI-Maoist were arrested
by Police from Murnar village in the Kanker District. They were
identified as Bajaru, Dayaram, Ankalu, Ramji alias Masuram,
Birendra and Bhinguram.
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July 24
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Four villagers were abducted
from Pinkonda village in the Bijapur District by CPI-Maoist cadres.
They were subsequently released by the Maoists and asked not to
take part in Salwa Judum.
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July 25
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A civilian, identified as Kadtee
Kalmu, was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres at Kakodipara village under
Mirtur Police station area in the Bijapur District. Kalmu was
killed while doing agricultural activities in his field. Earlier,
Maoists had announced ban on agricultural activities in the Bastar
region.
One Salwa Judum activist,
identified as Potami, was killed by the Maoists at Tungali village
under Jangla Police station area of Bijapur District.
In the Dantewada District, Maoist-triggered
landmine blasts damaged the road between Palnar-Kirandul and severely
disrupted the movement of traffic in that area. However, no causalities
have been reported.
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July 27
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A Salwa Judum activist,
identified as Hemla Aayatu, was killed by cadres of the CPI-Maoist
at Dodapara village in the Bijapur District.
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July 28
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One Special Police Officer (SPO)
was killed in a bomb blast near Pamalvaya in the areas between
Bijapur and Gangalur in the Bijapur District. The incident occurred
when a SPO during a combing operation accidentally stepped on
a bomb planted by the Maoists.
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist blew
up three school buildings at Gordand and Karmari villages in the
Bastar District during July 28-31. Maoists are reportedly against
the staying of security forces in the school buildings.
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July 29
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a villager in the Errabore Police station area of Dantewada District.
The dead body of the victim was recovered from the Jagdalpur-Konta
road.
On the second day of the ‘martyrs
week, organised by the CPI-Maoist from July 28-August 3, Maoists
opened fire towards Cherpal Police post in the Bijapur District
and fled after retaliatory action by the Police.
A week-long strike launched by
Maoists in the Bastar region from July 28 to August 3, completely
paralysed life in the area. "The strike by Maoists to celebrate
their martyrs week has crippled life since July 28 mainly in the
interiors of Kanker, Bijapur, Dantewada and Narayanpur Districts
as transporters have kept vehicles off the road while civilians
are hardly seen moving out from their houses," a Police officer
told. The ‘martyrs week’ has been called by the Maoists to commemorate
their commanders who were killed in recent encounters with the
Police.
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July 30
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One CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an encounter with the Police near Jabeli forest under Nakulnagar
Police station area of Dantewada District. The incident occurred
when Maoists opened fire towards a joint team of the District
Police and CRPF personnel who were on a combing operation in the
area. Police recovered one rifle, four detonators and a bag from
the slain Maoist’s possession.
One CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Pradeep Bhagat, surrendered to the Police at Ambikapur in the
Surguja District along with one .515 bore rifle and 15 bullets.
Maoists blew up three electric
poles near Bhairmgarh in the Bijapur District
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August 1
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a civilian, identified as Majji Burga, in a forested village under
Bedre Police station in the Bijapur District.
A civilian, identified as Kattam
Ramesh, was hacked to death by the Maoists in the Konta area of
Dantewada District. They had reportedly killed both the civilians
suspecting them to be Police sympathisers.
One civilian was injured in a
bomb blast at Poshanpally village under Bhopalpattnam block of
Bijapur District.
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August 2
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a civilian, identified as Rajesh Tiwari, at Moharsop village in
the Surajpur Police District. Maoists reportedly labeled him as
a Police informer.
Chhattisgarh Police filed a charge
sheet against the People's Union for Civil Liberties national
vice-president, Binayak Sen, accusing him of having links with
the CPI-Maoist. Another charge sheet was filed against senior
Maoist leader Narayan Sanyal and a Maoist courier Piyush Guha.
All the three were arrested during the last three months.
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August 3
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Maoists have blocked roads in
several parts of the Bastar region disrupting the traffic and
normal life as part of the last day of the ‘martyrs week’.
A woman, identified as Padma,
was arrested by Police from Bhilai in the Durg District, for her
alleged links with the CPI-Maoist. A letter and a diary have been
recovered from her possession. Some reports indicated that Padma
has been hospitalised with symptoms of poisoning while in custody
at the Bhatti Police station late on August 4-night. However,
the Inspector General of Police (Raipur), Y. K. S. Thakur, denied
that Padma had consumed poison. Thakur added that Padma had confirmed
her links with Maoists, following sustained interrogation. "She
confessed her husband, Bhaskar Rao alias Balkrishna, was
a naxal commander and she had also come into contact with Rajhara
dalam (squad) after arriving in Bhilai," he informed.
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August 6
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The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a villager, identified as Baliram, at Temaru village under Raoghat
Police station area in the Narayanpur District. Maoists suspected
him to be a Police informer.
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August 9
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Pioneer reported that
the Chhattisgarh government is considering a ban on NGOs functioning
in the Maoist-affected areas, especially in Bastar region, following
intelligence reports that these NGOs are providing large scale
funding to the Maoists. More than a hundred NGOs are said to be
working in the remote areas of Bastar on health, women and child
development, public health, engineering work and other public
oriented works. The report also indicated that the Government
is also considering to stop auction of forest produce as the Maoists
are known to be receiving a portion of the profit from the contractors
involved in the auction.
CPI-Maoist cadres on August 10
detonated explosions targeting the house of a BJP MLA in the Kanker
District. Police sources told Press Trust of India, "Using a tiffin
bomb, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), the Maoists triggered
the blast in wee hours on Friday and exploded the house of Vikram
Usendi, a former minister and a current BJP MLA at Pakhanjur,
about 210 km from the state capital." Since the house was vacant
no one was injured in the incident, while the explosion damaged
a portion of the building. Some leaflets were left behind by the
Maoists at the site.
The State government reportedly
banned activities of the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a non-profit
international medical and humanitarian aid organisation, in the
Bastar region accusing the organisation of providing medical assistance
to Maoists. District Collector of Dantewada K. R. Pisda told Times
of India, "The administration has been constantly receiving information
about MSF's volunteers providing treatment to the injured and
ailing Maoist cadres." State Police sources said that the MSF
doctors had been moving in the conflict zone without informing
the local administration. "They do this despite a clear instruction
to them to tell us about their movements and whereabouts," an
unnamed senior Police officer said.
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August 11
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The Chhattisgarh government clarified
that the Médecins Sans Frontières is free to carry
its humanitarian activity as per Medical Council of India norms.
However, it cautioned MSF representatives against travelling to
interior areas without security cover. Earlier, a media report
had indicated that the government is considering banning MSF activities
in the Bastar region as it had information regarding the organisation
providing medical facilities to the Maoists.
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August 15
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Chief Minister Raman Singh asked
the Naxalites to lay down their arms and join the national mainstream.
Addressing the Independence Day function in capital Raipur, he
said, "Leave the path of bullets and adopt the path of ballots.
We have made arrangements for the rehabilitation of the surrendered
Naxalites." He further said that the Naxalites should stop attempts
to obstruct the democratic process and adopt the path of truth
and non-violence in the interest of the humanity. Referring to
the anti-Naxalite programme of Salwa Judum, Singh said
a 'freedom struggle' had been started by the tribals to get rid
of violence and suppression.
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August 19
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A group of nine CPI-Maoist cadres
opened fire in a weekly market in Dantewada District's Chindgarh
locality killing a special Police officer (SPO), who was posted
with a Police station in Kukanar.
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August 19
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Police personnel who were engaged
in combing operation in a forest area under Gadiras Police station
of Dantewada District retaliated when attacked by a group of CPI-Maoist
cadres. During a subsequent search operation, Police recovered
the dead bodies of two Maoists along with two guns, a carry bag,
one bomb, three detonators and Maoist literature from the incident
site.
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August 22
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a civilian, identified as Tenam Tanyya, at Murdunda village in
the Bijapur District.
CRPF personnel recovered and later
defused a three kilogram ‘tiffin bomb’ at Ponjer in the Bijapur
District.
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August 24
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist opened
fire towards Police personnel conducting a combing operation at
Kosalnar village under Chote Dongar Police station area of Narayanpur
District. However, the Maoists managed to escape in retaliatory
action which lasted for half an hour. During a subsequent search
operation, Police recovered the body of an injured civilian, identified
as Lalu, and three bombs and substances related to landmines.
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August 26
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400 Maoist cadres of the CPI-Maoist
attacked a government relief camp at Patarpara village near Bhairamgarh
in the Dantewada District and killed four Salwa Judum activists
and injured seven more. Maoists also destroyed the houses and
looted food grains.
CPI-Maoist cadres abducted four
civilians from the Dornapal Salwa Judum relief camp in
the Dantewada District.
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August 27
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A civilian, identified as Manish
Dewangan, was killed and one Mukesh Khute sustained injuries when
cadres of the CPI-Maoist opened fire towards a bus in a forest
near Bijapur. Maoists reportedly attacked the bus suspecting that
Police personnel were aboard the bus.
Maoists shot dead one Special
Police officer, Bhogami Mangu, at a weekly market in the Bhansi
village of Dantewada District.
One security force (SF) personnel,
identified as Silvara Minz, was injured in a Maoist-triggered
landmine blast near Phuladi village in the Bijapur District. Subsequent
to the explosion, Maoists opened fire towards the SFs who retaliated
and chased away the Maoists.
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August 29
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At least 12 security force (SF)
personnel were killed in an ambush by the CPI-Maoist cadres near
Jagargunda forests of Dantewada District. About 200 armed Maoists
ambushed a convoy of the SF personnel while it was en route to
secure an area at Tarmekla village in Jagargunda, where the Maoists
had blocked construction of a road. "The team comprising Chhattisgarh
Armed Force, SPOs and cops was divided into two groups. The Maoists
hiding in the area ambushed the rear party and opened fire on
them," Director General of Police (DGP), Vishwaranjan said. There
was heavy exchange of fire during which the Police party got fragmented
and scattered in the forests. When the Policemen regrouped, 15
of their men were missing and were presumed dead but three Policemen
returned to the camp in the evening. "Though 25 security men returned
to the Jagargunda Police station by evening, 12 of them, including
Jagargunda SHO Hemant Kumar, were killed in the attack," the DGP
said. Six Police personnel were wounded in the gun battle. The
Maoists also looted sophisticated weapons like AK-47s, SLRs and
.303 rifles, Police sources said.
The Maoists set ablaze a Chhattisgarh
State Electricity Board's truck in the Nukanpal village of Bijapur
District.
CPI-Maoist cadres looted a parcel
containing INR 20000 from a jeep of the State Bank of India and
set it ablaze near Madded in the Bijapur District.
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August 30
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Podium Ganpat, ‘area commander’
of the CPI-Maoist, was killed in an encounter with the Police
near Sendralgaon forest area in the Madded Police station limits
of Bijapur District. Police recovered some explosives, three detonators,
wire and daily use material from his possession.
Maoists opened fire at the helicopter
carrying the Director-General of Police, Viswa Ranjan and Inspector
General of Police (Bastar Range), R. K. Vij, in the Chintalnar
village area of Dantewada District. They fired five rounds from
a distance in the direction of the chopper, according to the reports.
Both the officers were safe and there was no damage caused to
the helicopter either, Police sources said. The Police officials
were visiting Mukaram village where 12 Police personnel were killed
by CPI-Maoist cadres on August 29.
Police search squads recovered
the dead bodies of the 12 Police personnel killed an ambush in
the Dantewada District on August 29. "We have recovered bullet-ridden
dead bodies of all the 12 missing cops close to the encounter
site," R.K. Vij told.
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August 31
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist disrupted
the movement of trains between Kirundual station in the Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh and Vishakhapatnam station in the State
of Andhra Pradesh. The Maoists reportedly erected hurdles on the
rail track near Gedam in the Dantewada District.
The Inspector-General of Police
(Raipur zone), Y.K.S Takhur, has announced head money of INR 15000
each, for 28 Maoists active in the Rajnandgaon and nearby areas.
Maoist leaders Aruna, Geeta, Sareeta and Midgo of south Bastar
region and Premsingh Madh of Manpur region are among those in
the list.
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September 1
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked
a Police station at Jegurugonda in the Dantewada District on.
Some 80 rounds were fired from both sides. No casualties were
reported.
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September 2
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A Salwa Judum activist,
identified as Chaituram, and his relative, Mudyami Jhadi, were
killed by a group of at least 60 cadres of the CPI-Maoist at Bhusaram
village under Bhairamgarh Police station area of Bijapur District.
According to Police sources, two
CPI-Maoist cadres were killed by Police in an encounter at Murmunda
village under Faresgarh Police station limits of Bastar District.
The incident occurred when Police rushed to the village where
Maoists had damaged five houses and looted valuable.
Maoists looted INR 40000, some
cheques and important papers from a businessman who was returning
from a Sunday collection at Panama square in Jagdalpur of Bastar
District.
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September 3
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Maoists killed a civilian, Shailendra
Patel, and injured his associate, Rajneesh Phutane, in the Gangaloor
road of Bijapur District.
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September 11
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist abducted
three Salwa Judum activists from Gangaloor Police station
area of Bijapur District and subsequently killed one of them,
identified as Hemla Budhru. The three men from Gangaloor relief
camp were grazing cattle when about 12 Maoists came and abducted
them. The whereabouts of the two others is not ascertained.
Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre,
Asharfi Yadav, at Jalbotha village under Chando Police station
limits of Surguja District. He is reported to have disclosed his
involvement in the killing of the Bharatiya Janata Party leader,
Devnandan Yadav, and several other cases.
Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre,
Udayaram, (carrying head money of INR 20000) from Banjari village
in the Raipur District.
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September 13
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Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Hirasingh alias Nandu and Nakulram were arrested
by Police from a bus stand at Jagdalpur in the Bastar District.
Police recovered a knife, Maoist posters and literatures from
the possession of the arrested cadres.
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September 14
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a Salwa Judum activist, Gangaram of Batawada government
relief camp under Bhairamgarh Police station area in the Bijapur
District, while he was returning to the camp.
Maoist cadres killed a SPO, Padti
Nagesh, near Murgunda village in the Bijapur District.
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September 17
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A ‘zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist,
Ram Singh alias Praveen, carrying head money of INR 25000,
was killed in a road accident while trying to escape Police chase
in the Sonhat Police station area of Korea District. According
to Police, Praveen was involved in several cases of murder and
Maoist attacks in the neighbouring Surguja District and also Surajpurr
and Balarampur Police Districts.
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September 18
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
by Police from Batarpur village under Bhairamgarh Police station
area of Bijapur District. According to Bijapur Superintendent
of Police, Ratanlal Dangi, both the cadres were involved in the
August 25 attack by the Maoists on a government relief camp at
Bhairamgarh.
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September 19
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Around 30-35 armed cadres of
the CPI-Maoist set ablaze a truck, belonging to Public Work Department
and engaged in road construction work, near Kongera village under
Donger Police station limits of Narayanpur District.
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September 27
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Two hardcore cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were killed and two others arrested in an encounter with the Police
in a forest area of the Bijapur District. Security force personnel
had launched an operation following information that the Maoists
were hiding in the forests of the Haloor valley in Bhairamgarh
block. An unspecified quantity of arms and explosives were recovered
from the arrested Maoists.
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October 2
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A CPI-Maoist ‘commander’, identified
as Ramdhan Cherva, carrying head money of INR 15000 and involved
in several cases in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, was shot
dead by Police at Ramgarh Police station limits in Korea District.
At least 24 grenades and a huge
quantity of blasting material, arms and parts of guns were recovered
by a team of CRPF and State Police from Kanshiwara area under
Bakarkatta Police station in the Rajnandgaon District.
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October 3
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Three villagers sustained injuries
in a pressure bomb explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres
near Powrail village in the Madded Police station area of Bijapur
District
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October 8
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One CRPF personnel, identified
as Anup Nair was killed and two CPI-Maoist cadres were reportedly
injured during an encounter in Antagarh Police station area of
Kanker District. According to Kanker Superintendent of Police,
Vinod Choubey, Maoist cadres opened fire towards a group of SFs
guarding a local MLA, Vikram Usende who was in the area to take
part in the opening ceremony of a middle school. This is the third
time in the last one and half year that Maoist cadres had targeted
the MLA.
The CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire
towards a joint team of the CRPF and State Police personnel, who
were conducting a search operation near Bhave forest in the Rajnandgaon
District. However, no casualties were reported. Subsequently,
Police arrested three persons from the incident site.
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October 9
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One CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Devnnaka, was killed in an encounter with the Police near Chiklimenta
village under Jagargunda Police station limits of Dantewada District.
The encounter erupted when around 100 Maoists opened fire towards
a group of 52 security force personnel who were on a combing operation
in the area. The dead body of the slain Maoist along with one
bomb, one axe and bow and arrow was recovered from the incident
site. However, the other Maoists managed to escape.
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October 10
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Police arrested a villager, Mahtaru,
for assisting the CPI-Maoist cadres from Bendadi village under
Churiya Police station of Rajnandgaon District. Police also recovered
a CPI-Maoist pamphlet from his house. He was reportedly charged
with assisting the local Maoists in the District.
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October 11
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The CPI-Maoist cadres have reportedly
destroyed over 10,000 saplings of jatropha, a source of bio-fuel,
in the Kanker District. "Around 60-80 armed Maoists backed by
dozens of village level cadres called Sangham members stormed
into Hanuman Tekri village on Koylibera-Antagarh road and uprooted
and destroyed about 10,000 jatropha saplings," forest department
sources told.
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October 14
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered
three serial landmine explosions targeting the security forces
who were conducting a search operation near Polampalli village
in the Bijapur District. However, no causality was reported. Subsequent
to the explosion, there was an exchange of fire between the Maoists
and the SFs. However, the Maoists managed to escape.
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
a school teacher, Gonche Deva, posted in Tadmetala village in
the Konta block of Dantewada District on an unspecified date.
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October 22
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Police recovered and subsequently
defused a ‘tiffin bomb’ and two other bombs near Koushalnar in
the Narayanpur District. Police also recovered 300-metre wires
and switches attached with the bomb.
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October 20
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About 250 armed cadres of the
CPI-Maoist stormed into Murdanda village of Bijapur District and
damaged three school buildings. Maoists also set ablaze books
and papers at the schools and took away food grains stored in
one of the schools.
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October 23
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A ‘deputy commander’ of the CPI-Maoist,
Rakesh Rajim, surrendered before the Kanker District Police to
join the mainstream society. Police also recovered 5 detonator
tester, 125 SLR, cartridges and lot of Maoist literature from
different places in the District by following the information
reveled by the Maoist.
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October 26
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A civilian, Suraj Netam, was
killed by cadres of the CPI-Maoist in Bhandarvandi village under
Fareshgaon Police station in the Bijapur District.
Another civilian, Munnaram Dugga,
was killed by the Maoists at Tamuru village in the Narayanpur
District. Police recovered his dead body and also a pamphlet which
claimed that Munnaram was a Police informer.
Around 400 cadres of the CPI-Maoist
stormed in Bharanda village in Narayanpur District and damaged
a primary and middle school, a government-run health centre and
a forest guard room. Some pamphlets, written in Gondi (local
tribal language) have reportedly recovered from the incident site
saying ‘’all-India strike on October 30’’. One of the pamphlets,
in protest against the Tata, Jindal, Reliance and Nikko companies,
was written and addressed by Salawa Judum and Displacement
Protest Manch, Dandkaranya.
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October 27
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One Special Police Officer sustained
injuries when Maoists triggered a landmine blast targeting a Police
party who were engaged in a combing operation near Aamaveda in
the Bastar District
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October 29
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Five Special Police Officers
were killed and three seriously injured when around 250-300 CPI-Maoist
cadres surrounded a Police party near Pamulavayi village in Bijapur
District and opened indiscriminate fire. Bastar Inspector General,
R K Vij told, "The incident took place when a Police team, including
16 SPOs and four constables, was going to Gangaloor where road
construction was being carried out. When the team reached near
the village, the Maoists opened fire at them, killing five SPOs
and injuring three." Police sources said that the attack was well-planned,
as the rebels opened fire from all corners, not allowing the Police
party to retaliate. Maoists have also decamped with some weapons
of the Police party.
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October 31
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A mobile phone was recovered
from CPI-Maoist leader Narayan Sanyal who has been imprisoned
at the Bilaspur Central Jail for almost two years, Police officials
said.
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November 1
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One CRPF personnel, identified
as D. K. Mandaker, was wounded in a CPI-Maoist-triggered bomb
blast near Netanar village under Bennur Police station of Narayanpur
District
One more CRPF personnel, identified
as P. K. Mahapatra, was injured when he stepped on a bomb planted
by the Maoists near Munjmate village in Narayanpur District.
Maoists damaged an electric pole
near Mingachal disrupting the power supply in the District head-quarter
at Bijapur.
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November 2
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Around 100 cadres of the CPI-Maoist
ambushed a Police party near Pamedu Police station of Bijapur
District and killed 11 Policemen, including six CRPF personnel.
The Maoists first triggered a landmine explosion and then indiscriminately
fired on the Policemen killing 11 of them. However, five injured
Policemen managed to escape and reported the ambush in Pamedu
Police station. The incident occurred when the Police party was
on its way to receive a team of department officials coming from
Gollapalli with money drawn for salary disbursement.
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November 3
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Eleven bodies of Policemen were
recovered from the ambush site near Pamedu in Bijapur District,
where a large number of armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist had attacked
a Police party on November 2. "We have recovered the dead bodies
of eleven Policemen, including three from the Chhattisgarh armed
forces and eight from the District forces," Bastar Range Inspector
General of Police, Rajinder Kumar Vij, told.
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November 6
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Maharashtra Police with the help
of local Police arrested a trader, identified as Bansilal Soni,
in Sambalpur village near Bhanupratappur town of Kanker District,
and brought him to Gadchiroli in Maharashtra. The trader was arrested
in connection with the supply of potassium nitrate and sulphur
to two intermediaries of the naxalites - Sapan Rai and Parimal
Mandal. Police also recovered 80-kg of explosives from him. The
Police claimed that the trader was supplying explosive to naxalites
form past few years.
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November 10
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CPI-Maoist cadres abducted three
home guards, Narendra Udmadia, Ramdev Bhoyar and Rupsingh Bhoyar,
from Sakdibeda village in the Narayanpur District. Maoists released
the abducted home guards on November 11 on the grounds that they
will quit the job. The Maoists threatened to kill them and their
family members if they disobey their orders. Recently, the three
home guards along with sixth others had came back to their village
after completing their training.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman
Singh is on "top" of the CPI-Maoist hit list for supporting the
Salwa Judum campaign. An unnamed official of the Chief
Minister's office said, "Considering that Salwa Judum cadres
are giving the Maoists a tough time in their strongholds, they
have held the Chief Minister responsible for the campaign and
put him on the top of their hit list." Due to the intensified
Salwa Judum campaign, the CPI-Maoist reportedly discussed
the matter in several meetings and made the Chhattisgarh government
responsible for the people raising their voice against left-wing
extremism and made the Chief Minister as the enemy.
The Dantewada District collector,
K.R. Pisda, alleged that a Congress party legislator, Kawasi Lakhma,
is a spokesman for the CPI-Maoist. In a report sent to the State
government, he alleged that Lakhma, who represents Konta assembly
seat in the Dantewada District, is a Maoist spokesman and appealed
to the government to withdraw the 'Y' category security cover
from him. The Collector's report said, "The Maoists have got a
sympathizer and a spokesperson in Lakhma as the elected representative
has never opposed the red army. Instead, he came out in support
of Maoists on some occasions. He has never issued a statement
against the rebels and has even advocated abandoning the Salwa
Judum civil militia movement."
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November 12
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist ambushed
a 14-member CRPF party and killed three of them, between the Pamalwaya
and Cherpal villages in Bijapur District. The others escaped unhurt
in the attack. The incident occurred when the Maoists opened indiscriminate
firing towards the CRPF personnel when they were proceeding towards
Bijapur after patrolling the area in motorcycles. Maoists also
decamped with a light machine gun and two rifles from the CRPF
personnel.
CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead one
woman, Kantibai Gada, in Narayanpur.
An exchange of fire was reported
between Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel and
Maoist cadres, as Maoists tried to attack the National Mineral
Development Corporation's explosive depot at Hiroli, situated
about 15 kilometres from Kirandul town, in the Dantewada District.
However, no causalities were reported on either side.
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November 16
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CPI-Maoist cadres killed two
villagers Madikram and Budhru, branding them as Police informers
in Koyalibadi Police station limits of Kanker District.
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November 17
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CPI-Maoist cadres abducted five
women living in the government run relief camp at Errabore, when
they were proceeding towards their village Darbhaguda in the Dantewada
District.
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November 19
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A prominent Salwa Judum
leader, Budhram Rana, and his son were killed after being chased
by about 500 cadres of the CPI-Maoist at Musalur village in the
Bijapur District. The Maoists raided the Musalur village to attack
a contractor. Rana was one of the founder members of Salwa
Judum and was a close associate of the Leader of Opposition,
Mahendra Karma, who spearheads the movement.
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November 21
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Around 50 cadres and Sangham
(a group of hardcore over-ground cadres) members of the CPI-Maoist
has beaten to death one school teacher, Girdhari Manjhi, in the
weekly market at Bhaisasur village in the Kanker District, accusing
him to be a Police informer.
CPI-Maoist cadres destroyed two
government buildings in the Bande Pinjodi village under Amabeda
Police station in Bastar District.
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November 22
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The spokesperson of the Dandkaranya
Special Zonal Committee of the CPI-Maoist has called for a general
strike on November 30 in the Dandkaranya area (Bastar region)
to protest against the recent violence in Nandigram in West Bengal.
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November 23
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Around 1000 CPI-Maoists attacked
Gangaloor village in Bastar District and looted paddy crops of
amount INR 25000, from the house of a Salwa Judum leader
Hemla Sikka. Subsequently, the Maoists moved towards the house
of Hemala Mangu and took away nine cattle, four goats, five pigs
and few hens with them.
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November 24
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Maoists looted food items from
a truck and then set it ablaze near Narsapuram in the Dantewada
District. The incident occurred when a trader was on the way to
Jagargonda from Dornapal. November 26
Maoists abducted 15 railway workers
who were working on the rail tracks between Bhansi and Kamaloor
station in the Dantewada District and subsequently released them
in the evening on the same day by taking their mobile phone and
some repairing instruments.
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November 27
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CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a
civilian, Kosa Mando, in the Cheramangi village in the Awapalli
area of Bijapur District, while he was guarding his field.
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November 29
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10 personnel of the Mizoram Reserve
Police were among 12 persons killed in a landmine explosion triggered
by the CPI-Maoist cadres near Konta in the Dantewada District.
The Police personnel were returning to Konta after some purchases
from the weekly local market at Banda, when the private jeep they
were travelling was blown up by the landmine explosion. Police
said the explosion was so powerful that the dead and mutilated
bodies were traced in the vicinity of 300 to 400 meters from the
blast site. "We have recovered all the bodies and security forces
have been pressed into an intensive search operation in the area,"
the Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) R K Vij informed.
The other two persons killed were the driver of the vehicle and
an unidentified boy. The Maoists, who detonated the landmine,
also reportedly looted arms, including seven AK-47 rifles, before
escaping from the incident site.
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December 1
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The Police recovered some gelatine
and detonators from a car in the capital city of Raipur and detained
two persons, belonging to Orissa, in this connection. "From 14
boxes, 300 kg of gelatines and 3900 pieces of detonators, besides
wires were seized from a car by the Amanaka Police of Raipur city,"
District Superintendent of Police (SP), Amit Kumar, informed.
"We have also detained one Gopal Agrawal and his driver Vijay
Rajput of Khariar Road city of Kalahandi District of Orissa and
they are being interrogated," he added. The SP did not rule out
a Maoist link as the same type of explosives are used by the insurgents
in the Rajnandgaon District.
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December 2
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CPI-Maoist cadres attacked two
Police personnel in front of a Police station in the Dantewada
District, killing a Head Constable and injuring an Assistant Sub-Inspector.
They also looted an AK-47 and.303 rifles from the Policemen.
A goods train derailed when the
Maoists removed a portion of the track near Kamalur in the Bailadila
iron ore mining area in Dantewada District, Police said. The derailment
badly affected railway traffic.
About 150 armed Maoists stormed
the Rokel market of Chhindgarh Police station area of Dantewada
District. However, no casualty was reported. All the attacks came
as the CPI-Maoists are celebrating the People's Guerrilla Army
(PLA) week from December 2-8 in memory of their comrades.
The CPI-Maoist has called for
spreading the people's war to every nook and corner of the country
while celebrating the PLA week from December 2. An unnamed Police
officer in Raipur said that the Maoists have pasted posters in
the Bastar region, urging activists to take their war to all the
corners of the country. On December 2, 2000, the Naxalites had
formed the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) in memory
of three of their Central Committee Members - Shyam, Mahesh and
Murali, who they claimed were killed by the Andhra Pradesh Police
in fake encounters.
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December 4
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The CPI-Maoist cadres killed
three civilians of the Janglagaon government relief camp in the
Bijapur District. All the three civilians went to a nearby river
area and were later reported missing. Their dead bodies were reportedly
recovered on December 4-morning.
Maoists set ablaze a truck in
the Bhopalpatnam road near Bijapur.
Maoists blocked the road by putting
boulders and trees in the Antagarh area of Kanker District.
An encounter was reported between
Police and the Maoists in Cherla hills under Mirtur Police station
in Bijapur District. No causality was reported.
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December 5
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Security Force (SF) personnel
neutralized two camps of the CPI-Maoist in the Kanker Gutta hills
of Bijapur District. During a combing operation in the area, SFs
personnel exchanged fire with three Maoists and also neutralized
their camps. One ‘pipe bomb’ was recovered from the incident site.
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December 8
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist set
ablaze materials used for construction of a mobile tower by the
private telecom company Air Tel in Amakada village under Antagarh
block of Bastar District. The construction of the mobile tower
was about to begin within two days. The Maoists also warned the
villagers to not give their land for the construction of the tower.
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December 9
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The CPI-Maoist cadres destroyed
a school building at Sangam village in the Pakhanjur area of Kanker
District.
Police arrested ‘commander’ of
the Bansaguda local guerrilla squad and deputy-commander of the
Bansaguda-dalam (squad) of the CPI-Maoist, Telem Mangu
Raju alias Rambabu (carrying head money of INR 20000) in
Kanker District.
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December 10
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Maoist cadres attacked villagers
in Punampalli village in Dantewada District and abducted vice-sarpanch
(village head), Gudma Sudda. The villagers, resident of the Dornapal
government relief camp had gone to the village when the attack
took place. While the villagers were set free after being kept
in captivity for three hours, the vice-sarpanch was kept
back.
The Supreme Court dismissed the
bail petition of medical practitioner and People’s Union for Civil
Liberties (PUCL) activist, Binayak Sen. Binayak Sen, vice president
of the PUCL’s Chhattisgarh unit, was arrested on May 14 by the
local Police for allegedly acting as a courier for the naxalites
The PUCL leader has been charged under various provisions of the
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Chattisgarh Special
Public Security Act.
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze road
construction machinery in the Narayanpur District. The Maoists
also left behind a pamphlet asking the contractor to stop the
road construction work.
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December 12
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Three Police personnel were killed
and another wounded when armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked
the Bishrampur Police station in the Bastar District. "Over 50
armed Naxalites came in four vehicles to Bishrampur Police station
on Wednesday night and opened indiscriminate firing and then triggered
multiple landmine blasts," said the Bastar Range Inspector General
of Police (IGP), Rajinder Kumar Vij. The extremists later exploded
three land mines and blew up the Police station.
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December 14
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One Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) personnel, L. Kishor, was killed and two others, Virendra
Singh and Rajendra, were injured in an encounter between CRPF
personnel and the CPI-Maoist cadres near Dharwarm village in the
Bijapur District.
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December 15
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Police arrested a woman CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Jamuna alias Sapna, from in Siwni
village in the Kanker District, and seized two bombs from Durgkondal
area on the basis of her disclosure. Police also recovered Maoist
literature and INR 80000 from her house in the capital Raipur
on December 17.
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December 16
|
Around 299 prisoners, including
105 Maoists, escaped from the Dantewada jail after overpowering
the security guards. Three security guards and two undertrial
prisoners were reportedly injured during the clashes. Maoist commander,
identified as Sujit Kumar, overpowered a jail guard inside the
prison and opened fire after snatching his rifle. As many as 377
inmates were lodged in the District prison. The Maoists also snatched
two .303 rifles, three muskets and one wireless set from the guards
before escaping, Home Minister Ram Vichar Netam told. Rahul Sharma,
Superintendent of Police in Dantewada, said the jail break was
a "pre-meditated conspiracy" hatched by the undertrials, who were
mostly Maoist supporters.
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December 17
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The Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
Raman Singh suspended the Deputy Inspector General of Police (Jail),
P. D. Verma, and six other Police personnel for negligence, a
day after 298 inmates, including several hardcore Maoists, escaped
from the Dantewada District jail. Deputy Jailer B. S. Markam,
who was earlier suspended, has now reportedly been arrested. The
State Home Minister Ramvichar Netam told that show cause notices
have been served to Inspector General of Police (Bastar) Rajinder
K. Vij and Dantewada Superintendent of Police Rahul Sharma for
their failure to comply with the ministry’s instruction to ensure
that at least 50 security force personnel were deployed in every
jail in the Maoist-affected District. "It is a serious lapse on
part of the officials," said Netam.
Meanwhile, Police arrested five
inmates who had escaped from the prison.
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December 18
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Around 50-60 Maoists attacked
the houses of two Salwa Judum supporters and set it ablaze
at Bechala village in the Bijapur District.
Around 100 cadres of the CPI-Maoist
destroyed a primary school building at Kudoor village under Mardapal
Police station in the Bastar District.
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December 19
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The CPI-Maoist cadres opened
fire on a Police party who were conducting combing operations
in the Golaguda area in the Bijapur District. However, no loss
of life or injuries was reported.
The CPI-Maoist cadres damaged
two students’ hostels at Pichhikoder village under the Mardoom
Police station limits in the Bastar District. Subsequently, Maoists
damaged three more school buildings and one Panchayat (local-self
government body) building at Harrakoder village. Another school
building was damaged at Parpuda village.
Police arrested three cadres of
the CPI-Maoist, identified as Santosh Nageshiya, Mohindra Paikra
and Anand Pratap near Dangiri village of Jashpur District. Police
recovered Maoist pamphlets, one 12 mm rifle, one Air gun and a
sword from their possession.
Police arrested one CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Dinish Nagvansi of Kodenar dalam (squad)
near Kondagaon in the Bastar District.
A letter from a CPI-Maoist leader
and some pamphlets were found during a Police raid at the house
of a suspended and arrested jailer in the District headquarters
Dantewada. "Police recovered a letter written in English by a
leader of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist, Narayan
Sanyal, during the raid on the house of jailer BS Mankar who was
first suspended and then arrested for his involvement in the Dantewada
jail break," the Dantewada District Superintendent of Police,
Rahul Sharma told.
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December 20
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Around 12 Policemen were killed
following an ambush by the CPI-Maoist cadres in a dense forest
near Tarlaguda in the Dantewada District. Police said that 33
Police personnel were escorting six Policemen, who had fallen
ill at Kistaram Police station when the Maoists ambushed them
in the area. "The Police party comprised 33 jawans and 21 have
returned safely to the Golapalli Police station while the rest
of them are missing," said the Director General of Police, Vishwaranjan.
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December 23
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Two students were killed in an
explosion inside a hut in Bapunagar under Pakhanjoor Police station
limits in the Kanker District. The explosive was reportedly kept
by the CPI-Maoist cadres who were frequently visiting in the area,
Superintendent of Police, Ratan Lal Dange said.
The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
Kamalur railway station in the Dantewada District. "About 100
Maoists cordoned off Kamalur railway station and took hostage
all the staff members," officials of Bhanshi Police station said.
The Maoists fled after taking away a walkie talkie set, three
pieces of magnet phones, two pieces of control phones, one WLL
phone, signal torch and other equipments from the railway station.
However, none of the railway staff were harmed.
Police arrested nine CPI-Maoist
cadres following an encounter near Badgaon forests area in the
Kanker District. Police recovered some Maoist pamphlets and literature
from the arrested cadres. The encounter occurred when Maoists
belonging to the Partapur area committee attacked the Policemen
who were conducting search operations in the area.
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December 24
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The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
the Jagargunda Police station of Dantewada District. They opened
fire from all sides of the Police station, about 450-km from the
State capital, to which the Police retaliated. However, no casualties
were reported.
In the Kanker District, CPI-Maoist
cadres killed 15 cattle, brought under a government scheme, in
Bande village. The Maoists also carried away 55 cows with them.
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December 25
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Police arrested five CPI-Maoist
cadres, identified as Sangam Poyam, Kamluram, Madavee Chaituram,
Gopa Mangu and Madavee Gopa, who had escaped from the Dantewada
jail on December 16, from Pinkonda village in the Bijapur District.
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December 27
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A group of 30-40 armed cadres
of the CPI-Maoist abducted seven villagers from Surakheda forest
area in the Bijapur District. The villagers were abducted when
they were collecting firewood from the nearby forest area. Three
villagers, however, managed to escape.
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December 28
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Around 200 armed cadres and Sangham
members of the CPI-Maoist destroyed a under construction primary
school building and a primary health centre at Morlle village
in the Bijapur District.
One of the seven villagers abducted
by the CPI-Maoist cadres in the Bijapur District on Decembers
27 returned to his village. The whereabouts of the rest of the
villagers are not yet known.
Maoists attacked the Police team
who were conducting operations in the Hallur village in search
of seven abducted villagers who had been taken away by the CPI-Maoist
cadres. However, no causality was reported in the incident.
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December 29
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The CPI-Maoist cadres damaged
a panchayat (local self government body) building in the
Mormont village of Bijapur District. Maoists also damaged a building
of the Public Distribution System at Bhairamgarh and another one
in Bijapur.
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Incidents
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January 12
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Police neutralized a weapons-making
unit belonging to the CPI-Maoist in Rourkela and arrested five
Maoists, including three women.
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January 26
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A CRPF personnel was killed and
two others injured in a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist
cadres in the Malkangiri District. The security forces were clearing
their way by removing the trees felled on the highway near MV-126
village under the Kalimela Police station limits.
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January 31
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Three forest employees were killed
by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres in the Kandhar forest area of Kankadahada
block in the Dhenkanal District. Leaflets found near the dead
bodies said that the killings were in retaliation against the
deaths of 13 tribals in Police firing at Kalinga Nagar on January
2, 2006.
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February 9
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Sambalpur District Police said
that they found and removed anti-panchayat election material,
reportedly circulated by the CPI-Maoist cadres in the Bareipani
Industrial Estate of Sambalpur town. Maoist cadres had also distributed
leaflets and posters in the Dasmati Colony, Stationpara, Malipara
and Mudipara areas of the District.
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February 10
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Naxalites set two vehicles of
a private construction company afire at the Harichandanpur area
of Keonjhar District. Police sources said that a dozen Naxalites
approached the company’s camp and burnt down the vehicles after
asking the workers to come out of the camp.
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February 12
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in the Malkangiri District on the eve of the three-tier panchayat
(local self-government) polls. The incident occurred when
a Police party heading for the Badigata polling booth under Kalimela
Police station of Malkangiri was attacked by the Maoists from
inside the Kurup forests.
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February 13
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Three Police personnel were injured
as CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire targeting a Police party accompanying
election officials for the first phase of the three-tier panchayat
polls under Kalimela Block in the Malkangiri District.
Maoists triggered a landmine blast
in the Poplur area of Kalimela. However, no casualty was reported
in the incident.
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February 12
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an encounter with the Police in the Kalimela Block of Malkangiri
District. The encounter followed a landmine blast by the Maoists
targeting the Central Reserve Police Force personnel who were
carrying out combing operations near the Poplur village.
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February 15
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Three landmine explosions were
reported targeting a polling party of the Panchayat (village-level
self-government body) elections on the Tandabai-Jinelgura road
under Motu Police station in the Malkangiri District. However,
no casualty was reported.
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February 17
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CPI-Maoist cadres took away ballot
papers from a polling booth at Panduapali under Sadapali grama
panchayat under Naktideul Police station jurisdiction in the Sambalpur
District.
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February 21
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The Rayagada Police raided Bhairabgada
village and seized explosive materials, two revolvers and two
country-made pistols from a house.
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February 23
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400 gelatin sticks were recovered
near Pokudibandh, on the outskirts of Berhampur city, while they
were being transported in a hired auto-rickshaw.
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March 14
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Orissa Police arrested a forest
department official in the Sambalpur District on charges of having
links with left-wing extremists. The official identified as Trilochan
Kanhara was working as a field assistant in the Kishinda Forest
Division and was posted at Badabahal forest, had confessed that
he had links with the CPI-Maoist.
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March 17
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
along with 290 detonators, 200 gelatin sticks and fuse wires.
The extremist, identified as Sukdeb Hota of Bamra village under
Badgaon Police station in the Sundargarh District was later remanded
to jail custody.
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March 19
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in an encounter with security force personnel at Jakelkundi forest
area under Kalimela Police station in the Malkangiri District.
Police recovered a pistol, a claymore mine, a landmine, wires,
Maoist literature and a large number of detonators from the encounter
site
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March 20
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A CPI-Maoist cadre, Laxman, was
arrested during a search operation at Orkelguda in the Malkangiri
District.
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March 23
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The CPI-Maoist threatened to
kill Policemen and political leaders in protest of intensification
of Police operation in Rayagada and Malkanagiri Districts. A two-page
message, with signature showing name of Sunil, said Police were
using the naxalites, who were surrendering due to lure of money,
to oppress innocent tribals in Rayagada, Malkanagiri, Gajapati
and Sambalpur Districts. It said the tribals were indiscriminately
picked up by the personnel of Special Operation Group, CRPF and
IRB.
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March 31
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Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
three persons, including a forest guard, from areas close to the
Similipal National park in the Mayurbhanj District. While the
forest guard, identified as Prakash Mukhi, was abducted at Baunsapala
village, the other two, both members of the "Green Brigade" formed
to protect the sanctuary, were taken away from Phulajhari village.
Two other "Green Brigade" activists who were picked up managed
to escape and walked a long distance to the forest range office
at Bangiriposhi to inform of the incident. The Maoists also burnt
down a forest beat house at Baunsapala village before leaving.
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April 14
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Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
an explosives and magazine depot of the Steel Authority of India
Ltd (SAIL) at Tensa in the Sundergarh District but were repulsed
by security force personnel after an exchange of fire.
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April 24
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One person was killed and two
others were injured in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist
cadres in the Malkangiri District. The incident occurred near
MV 96 village when the staff of a private passenger bus was trying
to clear wooden logs and bamboos put on the road by the Maoists.
The blast, however, did not cause any harm to the bus or its passengers.
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April 29
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A CRPF sub-inspector and two
suspected CPI-Maoist cadres were killed during in an exchange
of fire near MV 79 village in the Malkangiri District. Four CRPF
personnel and two civilians were injured in the encounter which
lasted for more than two hours. The encounter took place after
the CRPF personnel followed a group of Maoists who had opened
fire in a weekly market of MV 79 village. Unconfirmed reports
said that a villager was killed in the attack.
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May 1
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The State Home Secretary T.K.
Mishra told that an estimated 16 people comprising Police personnel,
civilians and extremists die each year in left-wing extremism
related incidents in Orissa. He said that that 39 extremists,
38 Police personnel and 37 civilians were killed in the last seven
years. He further said that while the Government has been trying
to equip its Police personnel, the extremists have already spread
their network in 15 of the 30 Districts of the State.
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May 6-7
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Police in the Malkangiri District
started a poster campaign highlighting the atrocities of the Maoists
and details a government package for surrendered extremists. A
Police official told "Hundreds of such posters have been displayed
at various places in the tribal town of Malkangiri." The District
Police have also erected two giant hoardings at the DNK junction
area. While one hoarding reflects the State government's package
for Maoists who surrender, the other describes their massacres.
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May 8
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A group of Maoists shot dead
a forest official, identified as Rabindranath Patra, and set ablaze
his beat-house and motorcycle at Sarguda village in the Mayurbhanj
District. The Maoists, three of whom were women, were suspected
to have crossed over from the neighbouring Jharkhand and went
back to the neighbouring State after the incident. Forest officials
said Patra reached the area on May 7 in connection with the elephant
census being undertaken and had attended a wedding feast at a
nearby area on May 8-night.
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May 10
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At least five Police personnel
sustained injuries in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists in
the Mayurbhanj District. The incident occurred near Sadagada village,
about 100 km from the District headquarters of Baripada.
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May 14-15
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At least 10 people were detained
by Police in Orissa's Mayurbhanj District for allegedly aiding
cadres of CPI-Maoist in the region. Mayurbhanj Superintendent
of Police, Sanjay Singh, said that raids were carried out in various
places in the past two days and people have been detained for
questioning in connection with the May 8-incident in which the
Maoists had set ablaze a forest post and killed a forest official
at Sadagada village.
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May 21
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The strike called by the ‘Andhra-Orissa
Border Zonal Committee’ of the CPI-Maoist from May 21 to 27 in
the border Districts of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh protesting against
alleged Police excesses in tribal areas and ‘fake encounters’
in the Naxalite zones in the past disrupted normal life in the
area. The strike was total in the Malkangiri District of Orissa.
Normal traffic in and outside areas bordering Malkangiri, Kalimela,
Chitrakonda and MV-79 areas was badly affected.
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May 25
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The CPI-Maoist has reportedly
put two ministers in the Orissa government, Finance Minister Prafulla
Ghadei and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Welfare Minister C.
P. Majhi, in their hit-list. The State's intelligence department
received information about the name of Ghadei figuring in the
hit list a month ago after Police interrogated some extremists
operating in the State's industrial and mining belts. Majhi also
said the Police had alerted him to remain careful while travelling
in his home District of Mayurbhanj.
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May 28
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Some 35 passengers escaped unhurt
when a state government-run luxury bus was partially damaged by
suspected CPI-Maoist-triggered claymore mine explosion at Laxmanguda,
in the Malkangiri District. According to Police, the Bhubaneswar-bound
bus had covered about 12 kilometres after leaving Motu when the
blast occurred, but the bus had almost crossed the spot when the
explosion was triggered, and no passengers were reported to be
injured.
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June 7
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A civilian and one CRPF personnel
were injured in an exchange of fire between a group of Maoists
and CRPF personnel in the Malkangiri District. Cadres of the CPI-Maoist
opened fire at a weekly market from the nearby forest at Kalimela
targeting the CRPF personnel on duty in the market. The soldiers
retaliated and the exchange of fire continued for about 15 minutes
after which the Maoists disappeared into the forest.
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June 10
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Police shot dead two cadres of
the CPI-Maoist during an exchange of fire in a forest near Kankadahandi
Police post area in the Dhenkanal District. Four other persons
were detained for their alleged involvement in Maoist activities.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (Northern range), Arun Kumar
Sarangi, said that the Maoists took away the bodies of the slain
cadres. "Police have seized a cache of arms and ammunition including
a rifle, a revolver, a flask bomb, 75 live bullets and Maoist
uniforms from the spot," Sarangi added.
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June 14
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist tried
to blow up a mobile phone tower of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
in the MV-79 area. Although the tower was not fully damaged, mobile
phone services were disrupted due to snapping of the cables.
Separately, the Special Operation
Group of the Police seized three single barrel muzzle loading
guns from a house in Ekul during a search operation in Kankadahada
forest and nearby areas in the Dhenkanal District. The search
operation was being carried out after the June 10 encounter between
the Maoists and the security forces in Kankadahada forest area.
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June 15
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A woman cadre of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Sushila alias Vineeta Gargai, close to Anmol,
the CPI-Maoist Platoon-22 ‘commander’, was arrested in a joint
operation carried out by the Jharkhand and Orissa Police from
Bhaluata under Bisra Police station of Sundargarh District. Sushila
was reportedly involved in all the major strikes by CPI-Maoist
cadres in Saranda forest and several cases were registered against
her in different Police stations of West Sighbhum of Jharkhand
and Orissa.
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June 16
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Police arrested a suspected CPI-Maoist
cadre during a combing operation at Bhadua under Jharpokhria Police
station in the Mayurbhanj District. The District Police along
with the CRPF personnel have been conducting combing operations
in the Maoist affected Joka, Jaraki, Sankhabhanga, Bhadua, Danadar,
Kukudaanda, Bachhuribandha and Pakatia areas.
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June 17
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up two
road rollers – one at Kapatuti village and the other at RSC-6
village - in the Malkangiri District, bordering Andhra Pradesh.
Police sources told that about 25-30 armed Maoists were involved
in the twin attacks.
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June 22
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed
three persons in the Deogarh District. The Deputy Superintendent
of Police in Deogarh, R. C. Sahu, said that one person from Telkusumi
village and two persons from Raniguda village were dragged out
of their houses and tied with a rope before being hacked to death
using sharp weapons by the Maoists. A contractor too was killed
in a similar fashion at an unspecified location in the same District.
In the Koraput District, Maoists
blew up the engine of a goods train traveling from Visakhapatnam
in Andhra Pradesh to Kirandul in Chhattisgarh. The train was waiting
for a green signal at the Darliput station when over 30 Maoists
reportedly overpowered the train driver and triggered the blast.
Before escaping, the Maoists also set ablaze the station master’s
office
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June 23
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Five live bombs planted in Darliput
railway station area in the Koraput District were defused by bomb
disposal squads of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.
Several Maoist leaflets were found
in the Orissa High Court premises in Cuttack. The leaflets are
about the proposed two-day economic blockade to start from June
26 by the CPI-Maoist to oppose the formation of special economic
zones (SEZs) and other development projects.
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June 25
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A couple belonging to the CPI-Maoist,
who had been negotiating with the Gajapati District Police over
the last couple of days, surrendered without arms before the Superintendent
of Police A.N. Sinha.
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June 26
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist targeted
a communication tower of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) Limited
at Balimela in the Malkangiri District. Police sources said that
the Maoists had fixed two landmines below the tower and one of
which exploded partially damaging the installation. The other
landmine, however, did not explode.
Earlier, the Maoists had attempted
to trigger explosions at the 360 MW Balimela hydel power plant
in the same District, but could not succeed due to heavy Police
deployment at the plant.
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June 27
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Armed CPI-Maoist cadres laid
siege to the National Highway No. 42 connecting Sambalpur and
State capital Bhubaneswar, at Amplipali under Jujomara Police
station limits, about 50-kilometres from Sambalpur. They also
opened fire on a car and subsequently set a truck ablaze, injuring
three persons in both the incidents. Due to the road blockade,
all long-distance buses and trucks were stranded for about 45-minutes
on the highway. The Maoists retreated into the forests after a
combing operation was launched by the District Police.
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June 28
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The Chief Minister of Orissa,
Naveen Patnaik, disclosed in the Legislative Assembly that there
were 31 instances of attacks by Maoists in Orissa whereas in Chhattisgarh,
the number of cases was 169 and in Jharkhand, it was 118. Replying
to a notice for adjournment on left wing extremist-related violence
at Deogarh and Koraput, Patnaik said 14 States were affected by
the left-wing extremism. Over the past seven years, the casualty
figure in Orissa was 103 as against 941, 930 and 1867 in Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh, he informed.
Security forces raided a Maoist
hideout used for manufacturing arms and ammunition near Tamasingi
village in the Devagiri forest range of Gajapati District and
recovered some barrels, heavy iron material and other equipment
required for manufacturing arms.
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July 7
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Police arrested four CPI-Maoist
sympathisers from Jharapur under Kuchinda sub-division and Ranigula
village of Sambalpur District. They were identified as Tapan Naik
of Jharapur village and Mukunda Naik, Santosh Munda and Bimal
Topno of Ranigula village. Police said they were providing shelter
to the Maoists and also storing their arms and ammunition.
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July 10
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A conduit of the CPI-Maoist,
Narayan Naik of Jharapur village, was arrested by Deogarh District
Police. Police sources told that Naik has been charged with helping
the Maoists by providing them shelter and housing their arms and
ammunition.
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July 11
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Sobha alias Budhuni Munda,
women’s wing chief of the erstwhile Maoist Communist Centre (MCC),
was re-arrested by the Jharkhand Police immediately after her
release from the Rourkela special jail along with her two associates,
Panjya alias Bijaya Tudu and Ranjan alias Rahul
Munda. Earlier, the additional District judge (fast track), acting
on the orders of the Orissa High Court, had released them. The
Jharkhand Police said that the three were re-arrested for various
criminal cases pending against them in different Police stations
in Jharkhand.
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July 12
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Normal life in some interior
areas of the Malkangiri District were affected following a bandh
(general strike) called by the CPI-Maoist in protest against
alleged Police repression on people, corruption and in memory
of 'martyrs' killed in encounters with the Police. Posters, signed
by the CPI-Maoist East Division Committee, were put on trees in
the Motu, Kalimela and MV-79 areas, asking people to support the
bandh or face consequences. The strike had its maximum impact
in the Motu area where traffic came to a standstill and shops
and business establishments remained closed.
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July 13
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Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres looted
the house of a businessman at MV-72 village in the Malkangiri
District and set two of his vehicles ablaze. Police sources said
that nearly 500 extremists forcibly entered the house of the businessman
and looted paddy and other crops stored inside, besides, valuables.
They also disconnected telephone link and power supply to the
house. Fear of landmines prevented the Police from reaching the
spot immediately. July 24
Four CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Sana Murmu and Langa Munda of Chadheipahada, Matka Hansda of
Kankadabeda and Donku Munda of Bhejidihi, were arrested from the
Sarali hills under Gurumohisani Police station limits in the Mayurbhanj
District. The arrest followed the rescue of three young tribal
women from a hideout of the outfit in the same area. Mayurbhanj
Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar Singh said that a group
of 12 Maoists had trapped these tribal women and had confined
them to their hideout and were sexually exploiting them.
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July 25
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The Special Operation Group of
Orissa Police arrested the CPI-Maoist Andhra-Orissa Border Special
Zonal Committee member and Malkangiri division chief, Sriramlu
Srinivas, from Tekkguda-Badigetta forest area under Kalimela Police
limits in the Malkangiri District.
The Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre and Kalimela dalam member, Sukul Madivi, during the
operation. A double-barrel gun and a detonator were recovered
from Madivi. A native of Jangulu in the Dantewada District of
Chhattisgarh, Madivi was involved in the killing of seven persons
at Jhanaguda village in the Dantewada District. He was also a
member of the Banasgud dalam in Chhattisgarh.
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August 4
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Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a 60-year-old civilian of Bandiguda village in the Malkangiri
District. Mukunda Madi had been abducted along with another person
Pranab Mandal from the MV-120 village under Orkel Police station
some days ago and his dead body was recovered from the forest
area by the villagers. The whereabouts of Mandal is not yet known.
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August 7
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An encounter was reported between
the CPI-Maoist cadres and CRPF personnel in the proximity of MV
79 village in the Malkangiri District. Police sources said that
at least four Maoists tried to waylay a CRPF patrol party when
it was returning from combing operations. The CRPF personnel returned
fire and cordoned off the weekly market place at the MV 79 village.
No one was injured in the incident.
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August 8
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Three persons from the Talab
and Kechbil villages under Kisinda Police station limits in the
Sambalpur District were abducted by armed CPI-Maoist cadres. While
Arjun Dehury, a grocery shop owner, was abducted from Talab village,
local contractors Dutiya Naik and Anti Pradhan were taken away
from the Kechbil village. Official sources said the three were
suspected to be Police informers and two of them had earlier been
assaulted by the Maoists.
A suspected Maoist was arrested
in the southern Orissa District of Malkangiri. Sital Mandal was
allegedly involved in the earlier abduction of two persons from
a weekly market.
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August 9
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CPI-Maoist cadres released two
of the three persons they had abducted from the Kuchinda subdivision
of the Sambalpur District. The duo was identified as contractors
Amati Pradhan alias Moti and Dutiya Naik of Kechbil village.
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August 12
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Dead body of an abducted Arjun
Dehury was recovered in the deep forests of Makadchuan in the
Sambalpur District. Subsequently, villagers blocked traffic along
the National Highway No. 42 connecting Sambalpur to Cuttack demanding
that the camp of Special Operation Group be shifted out of the
Talab village, where the slain person hailed from.
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August 9
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A senior member of the intelligence
wing of the CPI-Maoist, Gopinath alias Sheetal Mandal,
was arrested by the Police from the MV 108 village in the Malkangiri
District. Malkangiri Superintendent of Police S. K. Gojbhaye said
Mandal was gathering information regarding the hydro power plant
at Balimela and other sensitive installations and was providing
information to the outfit’s leadership over the movement of Police
and their deployment at different places of the District for the
past eight months. Police recovered some documents and maps from
his possession.
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August 11
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CPI-Maoist cadres entered an
explosives unit at Bageibira village in the Bargarh District,
overpowered the two guards and instructed them to inform unit’s
owner to pay INR 200,000 and also hand over explosive materials
within a week. The Maoists also pasted a poster on the wall of
the shop before leaving.
Maoists in the Malkangiri District
put up several posters and banners in the Kurmanur, Papulur, Vejangiwade
areas along the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa border asking people to
boycott the Independence Day celebrations on August 15.
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August 14
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Malkangiri District Police neutralised
a CPI-Maoist camp in the Kalimela area subsequent to an encounter.
However, no casualty was reported. A live landmine, a battery,
wires and publicity material were recovered from the camp. Police
also destroyed a martyr's memorial that was recently constructed
by the Maoists.
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August 16
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
at Barajaguda village under Kalimela Police station in the Malkangiri
District. Police sources said that the duo, identified as Madhi
Dewa and Badia Madkami, were allegedly involved in the murder
of a man in their locality. Both the extremists, in their twenties,
had joined the outfit as child recruits several years ago.
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August 21
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The Special Operation Group of
the Orissa Police arrested a ‘deputy commander’ of the Motu dalam
of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Nabeen, from Tandabai village
under MV-79 Police station limits in the Malkangiri District.
He was involved in a series of incidents in the Malkangiri and
Koraput Districts during the last decade, including the looting
of the Koraput armoury, blasting of former minister Arabinda Dhali’s
residence in Malkangiri, murder of Motu Police station inspector
and attack on the MV-79 Police station.
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August 27
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At least 17 CRPF personnel had
a narrow escape when a landmine blast was triggered by the Maoists
seconds after a CRPF vehicle crossed the Kalimela area of Malkangiri
District in Orissa. The blast occurred during a strike called
by the CPI-Maoist to protest against alleged excesses by security
forces in the neighbouring State of Andhra Pradesh. The Maoists
also blocked traffic on important roads in the Motu and Kalimela
areas during the strike. Shops, business establishments and commercial
centres remained closed and normal life was affected in the Maoist-affected
areas of the District.
CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the
Topadihi railway station under K. Balang Police station in the
Sundargarh District and assaulted its station master. They reportedly
asked the station master to detain iron ore ferrying goods trains.
The railway line is mainly used to carry raw material from the
Kalta captive iron ore mines to the Rourkela Steel Plant. A few
months back, the Maoists had burnt two diesel locomotives at the
same station.
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August 31
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Six cadres of the Udaya faction
of a Naxalite group shot dead a civilian, identified as Jiti Jagaranga,
and injured another at Gunupur in the Rayagada District. He was
shot dead for his linkages with Shanti Sena, a group opposed to
them.
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September 2
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An encounter occurred between
the Police and a group of Maoists at a training camp located inside
the deep forest of Gaielmundi in the Sambalpur District. However,
no casualty was reported on either side.
Police recovered an unexploded
bomb at the Khariguda-Bachipank road in the Rayagada District.
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September 3
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Security force personnel recovered
a huge cache of explosives from two different places in the Rayagada
District. Over 3,600 detonators, 65 packets of gelatin sticks,
codex wires and chemical agents were recovered from the Ambatola
and Munikhal areas of the District which is also a stronghold
of the Maoists. Superintendent of Police, A K Singh, said that
the major chunk of the explosives was seized at Ambatola. Three
persons have been arrested in connection with the recovery.
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September 12
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist detonated
a mine explosion targeting the officer in charge of Pottangi Police
station in the Koraput District. The officer, however, narrowly
escaped. Five Maoist supporters along with remote control devices
were arrested subsequent to an exchange of fire. Two other landmines
were defused by the Police.
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September 13
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The SF personnel recovered and
later defused an IED planted by CPI-Maoist cadres on the railway
track near Topadihi railway station in Bonai sub-division of Rourkela
District and foiled their attempt to blow up the train. According
to the reports, the IED in the form of ‘can bomb’ weighing around
10-kilo grams was planted to target iron ore ferrying goods trains
as SF personnel usually use them as modes of transport.
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October 5
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The Malkangiri District Police
have arrested a hardcore woman Naxalite identified as Lucky alias
Ratna, from Namiaguda village under the Malkangiri Police limits.
She actively participated in the Naxal East Division for two years
and after the formation of the Andhra Orissa Border (AOB) Zone,
she worked as a military trainer in AOB. During her six years
career as a Naxalite, she worked in the Malkangiri division and
was involved in the attacks on Kalimela Police Station and the
Potteru outpost. She is reportedly an expert in handling automated
weapons and planting mines of every kind.
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October 6
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A CPI-Maoist couple, identified
as Bharat Mundari, ‘commander’ of Platoon-22 and active at Saranda
forest region, along with his wife Premlata Mundari, was arrested
by Sundargarh District Police from Sarlanga forest under K Balang
Police limits. Sundargarh Superintendent of Police S Pravin Kumar
confirmed the arrest and said that the couple carrying a three-month-old
baby was traced by a Police team in the Sarlanga jungle. According
to Police sources, Bharat was wanted in several major Naxalite
violence including the Baliba massacre and also in the burning
of two locomotives at Topadihi in Bonai sub-division of Sundargarh
District.
Orissa Government has submitted
a proposal of INR 5.5 billions to the Centre for overall development
of Districts affected by naxalite activities. The proposal has
been reportedly finalized on the basis of suggestions from all
the collectors and Police superintendents of Naxalite-affected
Districts. Official sources indicated that Orissa will prefer
to continue with its old strategy of giving priority to developmental
activities than suppress Naxalism by force. "We plan to ensure
rural connectivity, health facilities and employment in tribal-dominated
Districts where Maoists lure people to their groups," sources
said.
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October 8
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Over a dozen of CPI-Maoist cadres
attacked a camp set up by the Geological Survey of India for a
mining survey in the mineral-rich Keonjhar District at Ghuduma
village under Daitary Police station. They also assaulted the
officials, torched a jeep, one survey machine and a drilling machine.
According to reports, tribals living in the area, which falls
in the Rebana Reserve Forest, have for long been opposing mining
operations in the region and the survey being conducted. Supporting
the villagers, the Maoists had threatened the guard of the survey
camp on October 7-evening, demanding that the drilling and other
machines will be taken away from the area or else they would be
burnt and also threatened with dire consequences.
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October 16
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Police recovered some printed
materials which were reportedly distributed by the CPI-Maoist
in Khaliamenta area near Anandapur of Keonjhar District. The posters
threaten to punish Ramchandrapur, a former legislator, Badri Narayan
Patra, Panchanan Rout who runs an NGO, Sanjay Jena, a local sarpanch
(village head) and Babu Jena. However, the Keonjhar Superintendent
of Police, Y Koyel said that only one or two posters were seen
pasted on the walls in Khaliamenta haat (local market).
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October 19
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Around 15 armed CPI-Maoists looted
over INR 40000 from a forest office at Kadelpali village in the
Badarma Reserve Forest area in Sambalpur District. They also took
away the official records and registers of the office along with
them.
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October 20
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Cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered
a series of seven landmine blasts targeting the security force
personnel involved in combing operations near Dhepaguda village
in the Gudari block of Rayagada District. The Maoists first triggered
a landmine blast near a school damaging its boundary wall and
then left the spot. Receiving information about the incident SF
personnel rushed to the village and while on the way six more
blasts occurred targeting them. However, no causalities were reported.
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October 22
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Gelatin sticks and wires used
to prepare landmines by the CPI-Maoist were recovered during combing
operations by the Central Reserve Police Force personnel in the
Gudari block of Rayagada District.
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November 13
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Four CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Ganesh Mirdha, Nandalal Mirdha, Anil Khes, and Dasarath Pradhan,
were arrested by Police from Deopali-Jarang forest in the Sambalpur
District. Police also recovered two rifles, eight rounds of live
cartridges, nine pairs of uniforms along with several other items
from their possession. According to Police, Ganesh Mirdha was
the 'commander' of the Sambalpur-Deogarh-Sundargarh zonal committee
and was allegedly involved in a series of Maoist attacks.
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November 17
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres, Biswaranjan
Singh and Krushna Chandra Maharana, were arrested from Sitlenpali
forest areas in the Sambalpur District. The District Superintendent
of Police, Sanjay Kumar, said that the Maoists were arrested on
the basis of clues provided by recently arrested CPI-Maoist 'commander'
Ganesh Mirdha. The duo were involved in several cases including
blasting of a farm house in Sitlenpali, two robbery cases in Jamenkira,
abduction of a Deputy Forest Officer and ranger in Machadihi village
and burning of a truck on National Highway-42 at Charmal.
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November 21
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A college teacher and a businessman
were arrested for suspected links with the CPI-Maoist from Naktideual
area in the Sambalpur District and a cache of explosives was seized
from them. The two were arrested during an anti-Maoist drive by
the Central Reserve Police Force while travelling on a motorcycle.
107 gelatine sticks weighing 13.37 kg, 223 detonators and 30-metre
long safety fuse wire, besides some letters and literature were
recovered from them.
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November 23
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Police arrested two CPI-Maoist
cadres and recovered uniforms, leaflets, literature and cassettes
from their possession from a camp in Purunapani forest between
Jujomura and Dhama in the Sambalpur District. They were identified
as Ramesh Dehury of Kayakud village under Jujomura Police limits
and Yogendra Sabar of Bramhapura village under Charmal Police
limits and were reportedly involved in blasting of a farmhouse
in Sitlenpali and torching of a cement laden truck on National
Highway-42.
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November 25
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A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Deepti Naik, surrendered before the Police along with a rifle
and some cartridges at Naktideul in Sambalpur District. Deepti
disclosed that the leader of the outfit tortured and harassed
innocent people of Jujumura, Dhama, Kisinda, Naktideul and Jamanakira
areas in the Sambalpur District. She also told Police that group
members were extracting huge amount of money, and also sexually
harassed the women cadres.
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November 26
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A huge quantity of explosives
was recovered when a Police team raided a house at Chauldhipa
in the Rengali area of Sambalpur District. The seizure included
297 pieces of gelatin sticks, 37-kilogram power gel, another high
explosive weighing 25-kilogram, 34 detonators, 500-meters of fuse
wire and 250-meters detonator charging wire. The District Superintendent
of Police, Sanjay Kumar, informed that the explosives could be
meant for the CPI-Maoist. A retired college principal and his
son were arrested in this connection for having links with the
Maoists.
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November 27
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Two claymore mines, two landmines,
six detonators, one pressure mine and one pistol were recovered
from a road near Ramavaram village under Motu Police station in
the Malkangiri District during a joint combing operation by the
Malkangiri Special Operation Group and Central Reserve Police
Force personnel.
The Centre has provided INR 149.1
million to Orissa during the current financial year for tackling
the Naxalite problem that is spread across 16 Districts. The State
government has decided to set up a Special Intelligence Wing,
Special Operations Group and Special Security Wing to strengthen
the Police force. Besides, Police stations in the Naxalite-affected
areas are also being repaired and strengthened. Chief Minister
Naveen Patnaik said that jails in the Naxalite-affected areas
were being fortified and their staff being given special training.
"Employees’ strength in 84 Police stations in the affected areas
had been increased and four special security battalions had been
established. Police personnel are being given anti-Naxalite training
gradually", he added.
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November 28
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A CPI-Maoist cadre from the Motu
dalam, identified as Salvam Dula, surrendered before the
District Police in Malkangiri. Superintendent of Police Satish
Gajbaye disclosed that Salvam was serving in the dalam
for the last one year and added, "Unable to withstand the mental
and physical torture he had received in the camp, he surrendered
to the Police."
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November 29
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The Special Operations Group
of the Police and cadres of the CPI-Maoist exchanged fire in the
deep forest of Saragora village under Gorumohisani Police station
limits in Mayurbhanj District. However, no causalities were reported
on either side. The Superintendent of Police, Dayal Gangwar, informed
the three special operating teams were on a combing operation
when they were attacked by the Maoist cadres. The Police is reported
to have seized some food articles from the incident site.
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December 2
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Police are on a high alert in
the Kalimela, MV-79, Motu, Bhejangwada and Chitrakonda areas of
the Malkangiri District with the beginning of the People’s Liberation
Guerilla Army (PLGA) week on December 2. Patrolling has been intensified
and vehicles are being checked at the entry and exit points of
Malkangiri town and Kalimela to avert the entry of Maoists into
the District. Bordering areas connecting the District to Chhattisgarh
and Andhra Pradesh have been sealed and a red alert has been sounded.
Shops and business establishments at Kalimela remained closed.
Through hundreds of posters and banners put up at Kalimela, the
Maoists have urged people to fight against injustice and join
the PLGA.
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November 3
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For the first time the CPI-Maoist
have put up banners in the Bandhugaon block of Koraput District
to observe the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) week which
began on December 2. The banners were hanging on the roadside
in Alamanda village and the posters invite the people to join
the Maoist movement in the interior Kaploda village in the block.
Through the posters and banners, Maoists had put the message asking
people to evict the landlords from the villages who had tortured
the peasants. The posters further asked people to bring Praja
administration (people’s administration) for justice in the
villages.
The Maoists had also pasted posters
in Malkangiri District headquarters.
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December 4
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Two suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were arrested while putting up banners and posters from Sikhapali
area in the Malkangiri District. Police also recovered a gun from
their possession. As the Maoists are observing the People's Liberation
Guerrilla Army week beginning from December 2, Police have intensified
their patrolling and combing operations in the District as well
as in the neighboring Koraput and Rayagada Districts. The Police
had sealed the State's adjoining borders with Chhattisgarh and
Andhra Pradesh as they were apprehending Maoist violence during
the PLGA week. Meanwhile, roads continued to wear a deserted look
for the fourth day on December 5 in the Kalimela, Motu, MV-79
and Padia areas of the District.
The Sambalpur District Police
confirmed that the man arrested from Khadia Basti in Rourkela
on November 29, who identified himself as Ashu Bhokta, an auto
driver, is the Maoist leader Damdeo, the man behind growth of
the CPI-Maoist outfit in the Deogarh and Sambalpur Districts.
Damdeo’s identity was established only after Sambalpur Police
confirmed the photograph sent by Rourkela Police.
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December 5
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The Orissa government apprehends
infiltration of Maoists into the proposed POSCO steel plant site
in the Jagatsinghpur District taking advantage of the volatile
situation there. "The Naxalites are likely to capitalise on the
volatile situation prevailing in POSCO project area. However,
Police personnel are keeping a close watch over their activities,"
said Home Secretary Tarunkanti Mishra, while talking to reporters
in Bhubaneswar.
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December 6
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Police arrested a ‘zonal commander’
of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Chotu Turi alias
James, from a rented house in Jharuapada area of Sambalpur town.
The Police also seized mattresses and some documents revealing
that the house was being used as a transit camp.
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December 8
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The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
the Special Operations Group (SOG) personnel in the forest near
Gandima village Rayagada District, the Police said. "The SOG team
came under a volley of bullets from the Maoist guerrillas when
they were going out to search a place. When the security forces
retaliated, the attackers fled, leaving behind two rifles and
ammunition. No injury has been reported so far," Muniguda Police
station in-charge A.K. Mohanty said.
In Malkangiri District, traffic
came to a halt on the State highway connecting the District headquarter
town with Motu on the Andhra Pradesh border as the Maoists had
dug up the road, Malkangiri Superintendent of Police S.K. Gajbhiye
said.
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December 8
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Separately, one landmine was
detected and subsequently defused along the road at Ranghiakhendi
on Kanchanpur-Kelo route under Naktideul block in Sambalpur District.
A joint team of the Sambalpur
Police, Excise and Revenue personnel and one platoon of the paramilitary
Central Reserve Police Force destroyed a large patch of Ganja
(hemp) plants in the same District. The cultivation was spread
over 30 acres in the Kudanali, Talanali and Sankhapur villages
under Naktideul block. About 70,000 plants have reportedly been
destroyed. Market sources put the worth of Ganja destroyed
at INR 300 million.
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December 9
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A huge cache of arms, ammunition
and explosives were seized by Police from various areas affected
by the CPI-Maoist in Kisinda Police limits of Naktideul block
in Sambalpur District. Thousands of rounds of ammunition of various
firearms besides explosives and incriminating documents were seized.
Two landmines were recovered at
Sarapali in the same District. The landmines were recovered on
the basis of information revealed by the arrested Maoist, Chotu
Turi alias James.
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December 11
|
Three constables of the Special
Operation Group of the Orissa Police were injured when a claymore
mine planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres exploded in the Malkangiri
District. The blast occurred near MPV-31 village under Kalimela
block when the Policemen were trying to defuse two mines that
the Maoists had planted on a tree.
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December 12
|
Two women cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Sehelestica Minz alias Sujata and Rasmita
Naik alias Kabkit, surrendered before the Sambalpur District
administration, along with two rifles and five rounds of live
bullets. Both the cadres were residents of Deogarh District and
were active in the outfit’s activities in the Sambalpur region.
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December 15
|
The Sambalpur District Police
arrested two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as James alias
Pawan Lohar and Uddhaba Putta, from a rented house at Sambalpur.
Three landmines weighing 10-kilograms each, fuse wires and communication
gadgets were recovered from the arrested Maoists. The report
further said that James was an expert in laying landmines and
was wanted in as many as 24 criminal cases, including 10 of murder.
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December 16
|
Police also recovered around
2400 rounds of bullets and arms such as 7.62 mm and 9 mm pistols
and .303 rifles from the Maoists’ hideout in Jarang forest under
Jujumara Police station in the Sambalpur District.
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December 18
|
A woman cadre of the CPI-Maoist
was killed in an exchange of fire with the Special Operation Group
(SOG) personnel inside a forest area near Gudari in the Rayagada
District. The slain Maoist was identified as a hardcore cadre
from Andhra Pradesh. The SOG personnel also recovered five guns
and a large amount of ammunition from the incident site.
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December 20
|
The Orissa Chief Minister, Naveen
Patnaik urged the Central government to increase financial assistance
for Police modernisation and stressed on the need for raising
more IRBs to tackle the growing Maoist problem in the State. Speaking
at the Chief Ministers' Conference on Internal Security in New
Delhi, Patnaik asked the Union government to give a special grant
of INR 300 million for the Training Resource Centre (TRC) of Special
Operations Group, which is coming up near Bhubaneswar. Urging
the Centre to expand the scope and coverage of the Police modernisation
scheme, Patnaik said the size of Police Modernization Scheme for
Orissa be enhanced from INR 265 million to INR 600 million. Further,
Patnaik sought sanction of Central assistance for upgrading capability
of the remaining 58 Police stations located in the areas affected
by Maoist violence, and sanction of another coastal Police station
for Puri.
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Date
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Incidents
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January 15
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Seven Naxalites were arrested
following a joint operation by the Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh
Police in a border village in the Gadchiroli District.
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January 4
|
Maoists kill Haridas Korami,
a civilian of Ghotsur village in the Gadchiroli District suspecting
him to be a Police informer.
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February 14
|
The Maharashtra Police chief,
P. S. Pasricha, disclosed that there was a shortage of funds to
effectively implement the Naxalite surrender policy in the State.
Pasricha told, "No funds were released for implementing the surrender
policy for Naxalites this year." The surrender policy was introduced
by the Congress-led Government on August 29, 2005.
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February 18
|
CPI-Maoist cadres kill Dolu Zhure,
a Police informer of Kamke village in the Gadchiroli District.
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February 28
|
CPI-Maoist cadres kill a civilian
Patali Zhole of Tambda village in the Gadchiroli District suspecting
him to be a Police informer.
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March 8
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an encounter that ensued after Maoists attacked a Police camp
on at Binagunda in the Gadchiroli District. Maoists managed to
flee after an encounter that lasted for over two and a half hours.
CPI-Maoist has appealed to the
villagers in the tribal District of Gadchiroli to boycott the
Zilla Parishad (District council) elections. Maoists accosted
a Tata Sumo jeep at Kondawahi village in which Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP) workers were travelling and set the vehicle on fire
after forcing the activists to disembark. On the same day, Maoists
stopped a vehicle used by Congress Party activists at Karwafa
in North Gadchiroli and set it afire after asking the occupants
to get down.
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April 4
|
Daily News & Analysis
quoting Maharashtra Police sources reported that at least
eight surrendered Maoists were killed by their former comrades
in various parts of the State in the past few months in the Gadchiroli,
Gondia and Chandrapur areas.
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April 8
|
Four senior Maoist cadres surrendered
in an unspecified place, taking the total number of surrendered
extremists in the Stare to 146.
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April 10
|
Two encounters between cadres
of the CPI-Maoist took place in the Gadchiroli District. In another
incident in an unspecified place, Maoists tried to burn records
inside a Panchayat office. No casualties, however, were
reported in any of these incidents. The CPI-Maoist had called
for a general strike on the day across the Gadchiroli, Gondia
and Chandrapur Districts to protest against the death of their
cadres, killed in Police encounters in the State in 2006.
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April 14
|
Kata Mainu Zuru, involved in
several cases, was arrested near Fulbodi in the Pendhari area
in the Gadchiroli District.
Three Naxalites, identified as
Chhaya, Dilip and Shiva, surrendered before the Superintendent
of Police of Gadchiroli District, Shirish Jain. All of them were
engaged in left-wing extremism for the last four-five years.
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May 8
|
CPI-Maoist commander Murali alias
Mahesh alias Rajesh along with three others was arrested
by the Nagpur Police. The Maoists were entering the Deekshabhoomi
premises in Nagpur when the arrests took place.
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May 22
|
Police personnel retaliated when
about 12 Naxalites opened fire towards the Police team near Ampetha
village in the Sironcha area of Gadchiroli District near the Andhra
Pradesh-Maharashtra border. However, the Naxalites managed to
escape into the nearby forest. Police later recovered a camera
flash gun, nine batteries, a digital multi-meter, two radio sets,
two bags, books and nine tarpaulins from the area.
Maoists opened fire at a Police
party in the Gondia District. Subsequently, Police recovered some
Maoist literature and other material from the incident site. However,
no casualties were reported in both the incidents.
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June 2
|
State Reserve Police Force (SRPF)
personnel repelled an attack by the Naxalites on the Border Road
Organisation's base camp at Komaka-Gattajamiya road in Ettapalli
tehsil (revenue division) of Gadchiroli District. A group of 70
Naxalites attacked the base using explosive devices and were intercepted
by the SRPF personnel. In the ensuing encounter, four Naxalites
and two Police personnel were injured. A 1500 feet long, six-coloured
wire was recovered from the encounter site.
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June 3
|
The Mumbai Police claimed that
the city does not have any immediate threat from the Maoists.
Police Commissioner D. N. Jadhav, said, "Mumbai city doesn't have
immediate threat of that kind of movement taking deep roots here
and I do not see it in the near future… They are thriving in forests
of central India. So far they haven't succeeded in forested area
like Thane or Dhulia and all that."
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July 3
|
Maharashtra Police sources claimed
that the left-wing insurgency in the Gadchiroli and Gondia Districts
has weakened with some of the ‘dalams’ of the CPI-Maoist
operating in the area winding up following a cadre crunch. Four
such squads operating in the Vidarbha region were Gamini, Kotagaon,
Dhanora and Jimmalgatta. The information was provided by four
Maoists, including Murli alias Mahesh Reddy, who were arrested
by the Nagpur Police on May 8. Additional Director General of
Police (Anti-Naxal Operation), Pankaj Gupta, told that in a desperate
move, Maoists are shifting some of their cadres from adjoining
Chhattisgarh.
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July 20
|
Naxalites released two engineers
of a metal company, whom they had abducted on July 19 from Surjagarh
Hills in the Gadchiroli District. Additional Director General
of Police (Anti-Naxalite Operation), Pankaj Gupta, said that S.
K. Sharma and N. V. Rughshe, employed with Llyods Metals, were
freed by the extremists unharmed. The engineers were conducting
a survey work when they were abducted by the Naxalites, who are
opposing any construction activities in the mineral-rich Surjagarh
area.
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August 8
|
Three Maoists were injured in
an exchange of fire with the Police near Jarabandi village in
the Gadchiroli District. A group of 70-80 Maoists blew up three
claymore landmines, lobbed hand grenades and fired indiscriminately
at a Police patrol party. The Maoists were reportedly led by ‘divisional
commander’ Joganna of the Etapalli dalam (squad). While
the injured Maoists were taken away by their colleagues, none
of the Police personnel suffered any injury.
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August 11
|
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay
High Court rejected the bail plea of the four Maoists who were
arrested on May 8 in Nagpur. A rifle, Maoist literature and incriminating
documents were recovered from the extremists identified as Arun
Perreira, Mahesh a.k.a. Murali Satyareddy, Devendra Burle and
Naresh Bansod. The four alleged that they were subjected to torture
by the Police, but a medical check-up by a civil surgeon had produced
no evidence to support these charges.
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August 19
|
Two CPI-Maoist leaders, including
a central committee member of the outfit, were arrested in Mumbai.
Head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad K.P. Raghuvanshi described the
arrests of Vishnu alias Shridhar Krishnan Srinivasan, a
Central Committee member of the outfit and Vikram alias
Vernin Gonsalves, a member of the outfit’s Maharshtra State Committee
as a "a big catch." Two pistols, gelatin sticks, 106 CDs, pen
drives, a laptop and photographs were recovered from the arrested
duo. The Director-General of Police P.S. Pasricha said that the
two were also linked to Arun Ferreira, a left-wing extremist who
was arrested by Nagpur Police in May 2007. Pankaj Gupta, Inspector
General of Police of Anti-Naxalite operations in Maharashtra said
that Shridhar Krishnan was believed to be the main person behind
the outfit’s arms factory in Bhopal that was neutralised in January
2007.
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August 20
|
In a joint operation with the
Andhra Pradesh Police, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra
Police arrested K. D. Rao, a lawyer practising in the Bombay High
Court, for his alleged links with the Maoists and involvement
in the killing of a Police officer six years ago. Rao was arrested
outside the YMCA hostel near Colaba in Mumbai. Andhra Pradesh
Police officials said that Rao was involved in the killing of
a circle Police inspector at Vijaynagar in September 2001. Information
about his presence in the city was reportedly provided by Maoist
leader Shridhar Srinivasan alias Vishnu, who was arrested
by the ATS on August 19. ATS chief, K. P. Raghuvanshi, however,
denied Rao’s involvement in any Maoist activity in Maharashtra.
"We have yet not found him to have been operating in the State
but as he was wanted by the Andhra Pradesh Police we provided
all possible help."
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September 3
|
Around 25 armed Naxalites, belonging
to the Chandgaon dalam headed by its ‘commander’ Ranjita,
killed a former Police informer, identified as Maniram, at Gurgapur
village in the Gadchiroli District.
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September 13
|
Police neutralised a base training
camp of the CPI-Maoist at Etapalli tehsil in Jambiagatta
range in the Gadchiroli District and arrested four unidentified
teenage boys and three girls. Meanwhile, Gadchiroli Deputy Supertendent
of Police, Rajesh Pradhan said, "We have informed their parents
and are trying to know the exact reason as to who misled the youths
into joining the Naxalite movement".
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September 29
|
A Naxalite, identified as Mallesh
alias Vikram Kushwaha, was arrested in Nagpur after being
released on bail from the Central Jail. The arrested extremist
is a deputy commander of the Deori dalam. He was taken
to Chandrapur and subsequently to Gadchiroli. Mallesh was in prison
since August 2004.
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October 1
|
A tribal youth, identified as
Bandu Mainu Narote, was killed by some armed Naxalites at Battewada
village in the Gadchiroli District. According to an unnamed Police
official, the youth was killed for seeking a job in the Police
force.
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October 12
|
A Police constable, identified
as Nana Kumbhre, was killed and another one sustained injures
in a Naxalite - triggered landmine explosion in the Gadchiroli
District. "The naxals triggered the blast under a patrolling
jeep near Hallewada on Etapalli-Kasansur road," Additional Director
General of Police (Anti-Naxalites Operation) Pankaj Gupta told.
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist opened
fire towards a Police party engaged in combing operation near
Bandu village in the Kurkheda tehsil of Gadchiroli District.
Troops retaliated and repulsed the attack. However, no casualties
were reported. One rifle, two hand grenades, a gun and detonators
were recovered from the incident site.
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October 14
|
About 60-70 cadres of the CPI-Maoist
belonging to the Gatta dalam came to the Jangiya village
of Gadchiroli District and killed two youngsters, Ranjit Baju
Hodi and Santosh Navadesh Navadi,. The Deputy Superintendent of
Police, Santosh Pradhan, said that the killing might have been
an attempt to avert the leaking of information regarding the landmine
blasts on October 12 in the same area.
The Mumbai Police arrested two
persons, identified as Vernon Gonsalves and Srinivasan Vishnu,
from the eastern suburb of Govandi for alleged links with the
Naxalite movement. The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) recovered
two firearms, gelatin sticks and detonators from their possession.
The ATS has also recovered some literature from the Gonsalves'
home that indicates his links with the naxalite movement
in rural Maharashtra.
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October 15
|
CPI-Maoist cadres reportedly
killed one of their fellow cadre, identified as Kailas alias
Raju Visu Mohan of the Surjagad dalam, who was planning
to surrender before Police, near Rengawahi village of the Aheri
tehsil (administrative division) in Gadchiroli District.
Kailas was reportedly in his village to marry his female associate,
also a Maoist cadre, and wanted to surrender before Police when
about 15-20 Maoists belonging to Surjagad and Manku dalams
came to the village and killed him. Later the Maoists took the
female cadre along with them.
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October 19
|
Nagpur Police arrested four persons,
Anil Mamane, Dinkar Kamble, Babasaheb Saymathe and Bapu Patil,
for their alleged links with the Naxalite movement on an unspecified
date. After getting information from the Nagpur Police, the Kolhapur
District Police on searched the home of Mamane and Kamble in the
Ujalaiwadi area and recovered some books on various topics related
to the Naxalite movement.
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October 20
|
Police recovered books and leaflets
related to the Maoists from the residence of Saymathe and Patil
in the Sangli District headquarter.
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October 21
|
Five SF personnel, identified
as Suresh Kowase, Bhayyaji Kulsunge, Harishchandra Pawar, Sudhakar
Ishtam and Babarao Padda, sustained injures in an attack carried
out by around 150 CPI-Maoist cadres in a dense forest near Roppi
village in the Gadchiroli District. The encounter occurred when
two special squads of the Police were combing the dense forest
in Jarawandi post following information that Maoists belonging
to the Platoon, Etapalli and Gatta dalams were hiding there.
The Maoists first triggered a landmine explosion and simultaneously
started firing. In the ensuing encounter, Police personnel killed
two Maoists and injured an unspecified number of others. The Maoists
took away the bodies of their slain colleagues.
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November 5
|
Maharashtra's Minister of State
for Transport, Dharmaraobaba Atram, reportedly claimed that he
received a phone call threatening his life from CPI-Maoist. Earlier,
Atram, who is also the guardian minister for naxal-affected Gadchiroli
District, was abducted by armed Naxalites in 1991 and was
released after being held captive for 17 days. "I was told that
they would not spare me this time. Stating that I had siphoned
off INR 1,000 million meant for the area’s development, they said
they would blow me up," Atram said.
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November 7
|
20 kilograms of explosives were
recovered from Etapalli in the naxalite -affected Gadchiroli District.
The Anti Corruption Bureau arrested
three more persons, including brother of Bansilal Soni, in the
charge of offering INR 3, 20, 000 as a bribe to Gadchiroli District
to release Bansilal.
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November 12
|
A State Reserve Police Force
(SRPF) constable, Shailesh Sampat Kamane, was killed in a CPI-Maoist
attack on SRPF personnel at Permili post in the Gadchiroli District.
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|
November 24
|
At least three Naxalites were
injured when Police attacked their camp in the Paletola forest
of Etapalli taluka (administrative division) in the Gadchiroli
District. A heavy exchange of fire continued for 15 minutes before
the Naxalites, believed to be around 30-35 in number, escaped
from the incident site. The Police claimed that at least three
Naxalites were injured but were taken away by their comrades.
The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Rajesh Pradhan, informed
that the search team recovered two live grenades, two claymore
mines, a land mine, detonator and 350 foot-long wire, five bags
and one backpack from the incident site.
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December 2
|
The Maoists set ablaze two tractors
of a private contractor Maksood Ahmed, engaged in the construction
of a road near Bakrundi village in the Kurkheda tehsil (administrative
division) in Gadchiroli District.
At least four to five Maoists
are suspected to have been injured in an encounter with the Police
in between Chandra and Perimili villages in the Etapalli tehsil
of Gadchiroli District. Police also recovered some explosives
and arms from encounter site.
A group of six suspected Maoists
blew up the tower of a private mobile phone company at Girola
village in the Gadchiroli District and later cut off the telephone
lines of the village panchayat (local self government body).
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December 3
|
Police claimed to have killed
four cadres of the CPI-Maoist in an encounter at Katta area in
the Etapalli tehsil of Gadchiroli District. However, their
dead bodies are believed to have been carried away by their fellow
cadres. The Police also recovered a single-barrel gun, and two
explosives of 15-20 kg each from the incident site.
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|
December 8
|
Police arrested three CPI-Maoist
cadres from Jhadapapda village under Pendry Police station limits
of Gadchiroli District. The arrested Maoists were involved in
several incidents in neighbouring District of Kanker in Chhattisgarh.
The arrested Maoists have been brought to Kanker.
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December 10
|
Two Maoists, identified as Ramdas
Bhura Kunjami and Surekha Tani Weladi alias Dewala Ramdas
Kunjami, who were working with dalam (squad) number 18
in the Aheri and Etapalli areas were arrested from the Sharada
Lodge at Wardha.
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December 20
|
Six cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Bharti Akka, area committee secretary, Raju, platoon
commander of the Jan Shakthi dalam, Sadhu and Dinga, Jagdish
and Madhu, all dalam members, surrendered before the Police
in the District headquarter Gadchiroli. Police said that all of
them will be provided financial assistance as per provisions of
the surrender and rehabilitation policy.
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West Bengal
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Date
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Incidents
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January 4
|
The West Bengal Police arrested
six Naxalites, including four from the Liberation faction of the
CPI-Maoist, from an unspecified area at Sonachura village near
Tekhali in the Haldia District on charges of inciting violence
in the area.
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|
January 9
|
A leader of the ruling Communist
Party of India-Marxist was shot dead by suspected Maoists in the
Belpahari area of West Midnapur District.
A group of persons, suspected
to belong to a Maoist group, tried to storm into the party headquarters
of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist in the capital
Kolkata after a demonstration. The demonstrators were chased away
by the Police personnel on duty at the spot as well as by some
local people.
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February 26
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
by the West Midnapore District Police from Bankura. The arrested
extremists, identified as Prasanta Nath from Murshidabad District
and Basudeb Tarafdar of Basirhat in North 24 Parganas District,
are suspected to be involved in various activities in the Salboni,
Goaltor and other Police station areas of West Midnapore District
including the killing of a leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist
(CPI-M).
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March 18
|
The CPI-Maoist called for a strike
across four eastern Indian states of Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand
and West Bengal on March 20, to protest against the killing of
14 villagers by the Police in Nandigram village of West Bengal.
In a statement the outfit said, "The people must come to terms
with the fact that governments in these states are agents of imperialist
forces, and should rise to fight their anti-people agenda."
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|
April 23
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
in the Barikul Police station area of Bankura District. Police
sources said that Krishna Singh Sardar was a member of the Belpahari-Ranibandh
squad of the outfit and was wanted in connection with the murder
of Rampada Majhi, a Communist Party of India-Marxist leader in
Rudra village in July 2002.
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May 5
|
CNN-IBN quoting intelligence
agencies reported that West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
is in a ‘hit list’ prepared by the Naxalites.
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May 26
|
A group of suspected Maoists
fired at CPI-M leader, Khaliluddin, in Birpur area of the West
Midnapore District, but the attack was thwarted by his bodyguards
and some local people.
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May 27
|
Maoists suddenly opened fire
on the house of a CPI-M leader Upen Mahato and injured his father-in-law
who later succumbed to his injuries, at Jabada village of West
Midnapore District. Police combed the area immediately after the
incident but no one was arrested.
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June 13
|
Daily News & Analysis
quoting a report of the Intelligence Branch of the West Bengal
Police, submitted to the State home department, has indicated
that the Naxalites are establishing their network in the closed
tea gardens in north Bengal. The report says that after having
successfully established their strongholds in the West Midnapore,
Bankura and Puruliya Districts of West Bengal, the extremists
are utilising the poverty of the people to shore up their base
in the area by roping in workers of the closed tea gardens under
the banner of Majdoor Kishan Sangharsh Samity (Worker-Farmer confrontation
Committee). The Naxalites are also reportedly inducting locals
for advanced guerrilla ambush training.
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June 25
|
Bhola Dutta, an activist of the
Revolutionary Youth League (RYL), a frontal group of the CPI-Maoist,
was arrested from his house on 40/14 Murari Pukur Lane in the
Maniktala Police Station in Kolkata for his involvement with four
others in setting ablaze a tram on June 24. Five RYL activists
had stopped a Beliaghata-BBD Bag tram of route number 2 at the
M G Road and College Street crossing and set fire on a first class
compartment. They also threw leaflets inside the tram before fleeing.
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June 27
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist, stormed
a railway station at Biramdih in the Purulia District, set fire
to the stationmaster’s office and rigged the tracks with explosives.
Maoists also pasted posters on the walls and pillars on the station
premises before fleeing. An explosive device planted by the Maoists
below the tracks was later recovered and defused by the security
forces.
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July 1
|
The Police arrested Pradip Chatterjee,
a suspected CPI-Maoist leader from Beguntari More in the Jalpaiguri
town of Siliguri District. Two pistols, 18 bullets and a few INR
500 denomination notes were recovered from Chatterjee, who is
a resident of Goria in Jadavpur.
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July 19
|
Suspected left-wing extremists
belonging to the CPI-ML killed an elderly man at Bishnunagar under
Dhubulia Police station area of Nadia District. Police said "we
are still confused as to why an innocent person has been murdered.
Apparently, it seemed to be a retaliation case, but we are probing
into the matter." Unidentified sources, however, said that the
incident could be retaliation against the alleged killing of a
CPI-ML-Liberation cadre by the local Communist Party of India-Marxist
activists on July 16.
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August 4
|
CPI-Maoist cadres detonated gelatine
sticks blowing up the house of a forest officer in the Midnapore
District. They had asked the family to step out of the house before
blowing it up. Maoists said they were avenging the Police’s demolition
of a column built for the "martyrs’ week", beginning July 28.
Police said this was the first instance of the Maoists targeting
a forest office.
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July 19
|
Suspected left-wing extremists
belonging to the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist-Liberation
(CPI-ML) killed an elderly man at Bishnunagar under Dhubulia Police
station area of Nadia District. The incident could be a retaliatory
act against the alleged killing of a CPI-ML-Liberation cadre by
the local Communist Party of India-Marxist activists on July 16.
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|
August 8
|
The West Bengal government, following
two attacks by the CPI-Maoist on Police camps in West Midnapore
District, urged the Union government to despatch additional central
para-military forces to the State. The Inspector General of Police
(Law and Order), Raj Kanojia, told Times of India, "Six
companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are already deployed
in south Bengal and north Bengal. We have urged the Union government
for another six companies of CRPF to contain the Maoist threat
in certain areas of West Midnapore."
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|
August 9
|
Maoists snatched away two rifles
from Police constables patrolling in the Kotwali area of Nadia
District. The constables, belonging to the Anandamoyeetala Police
outpost, were sitting on a culvert when they were accosted by
the five extremists.
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August 25
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
the party office of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) at
Poragachia under Kotwali Police station area in the Nadia District.
Police sources told that the Maoists torched the furniture and
important party documents at the office and also left behind some
of their posters and leaflets.
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September 17
|
Maoists are taking the help of
a few Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in extending their
networks beyond their stronghold in Bankura, Purulia, and West
Midnapore Districts. The intelligence branch (IB) of Police has
come across specific instances where Maoist cadres have joined
reputed NGOs, posing as social workers. "The Maoists have realised
that the best way to reach out to the people is through NGOs and
human rights groups. Since the NGOs are not under Police scrutiny
it is easy for the Maoist rebels to expand their support base
without inviting trouble…… In some cases, wanted Maoist guerrillas
join reputed NGOs as volunteers and then under the garb of social
work do their networking. We have also come across instances when
Maoists have funded individuals or groups to start an NGO," a
senior IB official told. Although the IB official refused to tell
the names of the NGOs infiltrated by Maoists, he reportedly agreed
that almost all organisations campaigning against the state government
over the Singur and Nandigram issues have developed a nexus with
the rebels.
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September 28
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Bangshi Singha Sardar, a leader
of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested along with his wife from Bankura.
He was a squad commander of the Ranibandh committee of the outfit
and is suspected to be involved in several murder cases of Communist
Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders and Police personnel in
the Bankura District. Police sources said that he was being treated
at a private hospital after getting hurt in a motorcycle accident.
His wife Sumitra Singha Sardar, who is an active CPI-Maoist cadre,
was reportedly visiting him. A diary and some letters were seized
from the arrested extremists. Police sources said that the dairy
contains vital information, including a plan to attack a Police
camp in the District.
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October 5
|
The intelligence and Police in
the West Bengal have unearthed definitive evidence of collaboration
of resources between the two ideologically divergent extremist
organisations, the CPI-Maoist and the HuJI. Recently, the
Nadia District Police conducted raids in Bansberia, Hijuli, Sitanathpur,
Govindapur and Purkugachi in search of Maoists and during the
course several documents were seized indicating close links between
the HuJI militants and Maoists. According to the Intelligence
Bureau (IB) officials, the seized documents also hint at similar
tie-ups in other Districts like South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas.
Explaining the rationale behind collaboration between the Maoists
and religious fundamentalists, senior IB officials said, "The
Maoists, desperate to extend their network, are trying to use
the local network of HuJI in to extend their reach." Districts
like Nadia, North 24-Parganas and South 24-Parganas, shares the
borders with Bangladesh, have been found to be the hotbed of the
two extremist outfits.
The CPI-Maoist leader, Bansi Singh
Sardar, who was arrested by Police in West Bengal's Bankura District
on October 1, succumbed to his injuries. According to sources,
he was seriously injured when he fell off his motorbike on October
1 before his arrest. Bansi along with his wife Sumitra Singh Sardar
was arrested by Police on October 1.
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October 13-15
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A team of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand
Police along with local Police conducted raids on some hideouts
of suspected CPI-Maoist cadres at Konnagar, Rishra and Uttarpara
in the Hooghly District. According to the Police, the raids were
conducted following the recent arrests of six Maoists in Jharkhand.
Policemen received "vital information" regarding the "future plans
of the rebels who are trained explosive experts" during the raids.
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October 21
|
Armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist
surrounded the house of a ration dealer in the Chirugora village
of West Midnapore District and distributed the stock from his
godown to villagers. An estimated INR 40,000 worth of rice, wheat
and sugar was looted from the godown. Later the Maoists ordered
the dealer Mrinal Singh to keep his outlet open seven days a week
and also cater to villagers who do not possess ration cards. "We
know of the incident but can do little till a formal complaint
is lodged," said Sunil Chowdhury, sub-divisional Police officer.
Though the Maoists have put up posters and distributed leaflets
against corrupt ration dealers, this is the reportedly first time
they have looted a godown.
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October 26
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered
a landmine explosion targeting a jeep carrying the CRPF personnel
on Belpahari- Purulia road near Belpahari in West Midnapore District.
However, no causality was reported. However, the CRPF jeep fell
into the pit caused by the blast in which one CRPF personnel sustained
injuries. Two passengers of a private bus following the jeep sustained
injuries due to the explosion. Two more landmines fitted inside
tiffin boxes were found at the incident site.
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November 1
|
Around 50 armed cadres of the
CPI-Maoist shot dead Bhagirath Karmakar, a local committee member
of the Communist Party of India –Marxist (CPI-M), at Morapdihi
village in the Purulia District. The Maoists also set ablaze his
house and exploded a bomb near his dead body.
The Maoists assaulted one Kiriti
Gorai, a CPI-M leader, in the nearby Cheliama village in Purulia
District. They also attacked the houses of three affluent farmers
in the neighbouring Laldihi and Morapdihi villages and took away
their guns.
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November 15
|
The paramilitary CRPF personnel
have recovered a large amount of arms and ammunition and Maoist
literature from an abandoned house and a pond in the Sonachura
area of East Midnapur District. Most of the arms were recovered
inside an abandoned house in Shitpara village. The Maoist literature
- and a part of the ammunition - were also recovered from a pond
in the village of Gholpara. Altogether, the CRPF recovered 24-kg
of explosives, 72 electric detonators, 407 live cartridges of
single-barrel guns, 42 spent cartridges of 12-bore guns, a country-made
gun, 11 rounds of 9mm cartridges, two pipegun cylinders, a circuit
tester and two drilling machines. The Maoist literature included
magazines like People's March and posters.
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November 16
|
The Maoists blew up the Bhulabheda
village Panchayat office in the West Midnapore District. Some
posters recovered from the incident site stated that the attack
was carried out by the CPI-Maoist cadres to avenge their forcible
retreat from Nandigram. However, Police and local CPM leaders
claimed that the Jharkhand Party leaders had a hand in the blast.
Sources added that the cadres broke open two locks in the grill
and entered the Panchayat office and used a battery-operated detonator
to explode.
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November 18
|
Suspected Maoists raided a village
Panchayat office and assaulted a security guard at Baita village
in the Lalgarh area in the West Midnapore District. They also
destroyed furniture and documents in the office. The Maoists exploded
two bombs and chanted Maoist slogans before escaping. "We found
a lot of Maoist pamphlets from the spot," said Deputy Superintendent
of Police K.P. Barui.
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November 19
|
A Communist Party of India-Marxist
(CPI-Marxist) local committee member, Sufal Mandi, was killed
by suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist in the Ghatbera village
of Purulia District. His dead body was recovered from the village
on November 20-morning. The Police reinforcements who were sent
to the village recovered nearly six landmines from the area. Police
also seized a couple of rifles from some of the houses and recovered
CPI-Maoist leaflets near the village. Meanwhile, the 48-hour Maoist
strike against Nandigram violence in the three States of West
Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand entered the second day on November
20 and continued to paralyse normal life in Purulia with private
buses off the roads and most shops closed.
A railway track was blown between
the Bhimgarh and Pachra railway stations near Birbhum District.
However, no causalities were reported. "The blast occurred just
minutes before the Mayurakshi Fast Passenger was to pass through
the area," Eastern Railway spokesperson Samir Goswami said. "We
have recovered Maoist posters from the track and some leaflets
protesting the violence in Nandigram and asking people to participate
in the 48-hour strike called by them in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
on Monday," Goswami added.
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December 6
|
A former panchayat (local
self-government body) member and activist of the ruling Communist
Party of India-Marxist party, Gopal Singh, was shot dead by suspected
cadres of the CPI-Maoist in the Shyamnagar forest area under Belpahari
Police station of West Midnapore District. Police recovered a
poster near the dead body saying he was killed because he was
a Police informer.
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December 10
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
a bus carrying around 150 supporters of the ruling Communist Party
of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and injured two of them in between the
Ramgarh and Kantapahari areas of the West Midnapore District.
The Maoists shouted slogans and fired at the bus and hurled crude
bombs, Police said. Maoist posters were also recovered from the
incident site.
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December 14
|
Posters of the CPI-Maoist condemning
the violence in Nandigram were found pasted on the wall of the
State Secretariat building in the capital Kolkata. Security force
personnel found the posters on gate number 1 and immediately removed
them. "Yes, Maoist posters have been found on the gate of the
state secretariat as well in other places. The matter is being
investigated by the Police," State Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan
Roy said. One of the posters blamed Chief Minster Buddhadeb Bhattacharya,
Left Front chairman Biman Bose and Communist Party of India -
Marxist politburo member Binoy Konar for the March 14 firing and
the spiraling violence in Nandigram.
Maoist posters were also found
on the walls of a Coffee House in central Kolkata.
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KARNATAKA
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Date
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Incidents
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January 11
|
Police in the Raichur District
intensified the combing operation in the Hutti and surrounding
villages of Lingsugur taluk (administrative division),
suspecting the presence of Naxalites from Malnad region in these
villages.
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February 14
|
The Hindu reports that
sharp differences over the Maoist strategy of area-wise seizure
of power has led to a split in the outfit operating in Karnataka.
The ideologues, who disagreed with the Maoist principle of intensifying
the revolution in rural areas first and then spreading it to urban
centres, have floated a new party named the Maoist Coordination
Committee (MCC).
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March 11
|
The Anti Naxal Force and the
special Police squad of Kundapur in the Udupi District arrested
a suspected female Naxalite cadre, identified as Suma, a native
of Hemmige near Mundaragi in Gadag District, near Amasabailu.
She had joined the Netravati Group of Naxalites operating in the
taluk and in Sidhapur areas since past 10 months.
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April 8
|
The anti-Naxalite squad of the
Karnataka Police recovered two country made rifles, two batteries
and pamphlets from the Nagasampige hill area in the Chikamagalur
District.
In the same District, Naxalites
put up posters in a government school in the Anchanagudi village.
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June 3
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot
dead a 45-year-old shopkeeper at Sringeri in the Chikmagalur District,
suspecting him to be a Police informer. Eight Maoists descended
on the shop of Venkatesh in Gandaghatti village after warning
his wife and son, residing in the adjacent house, not to venture
out. They assaulted the shopkeeper before firing at him from point
blank range. The Maoists also set ablaze Venkatesh’s motorcycle.
Before fleeing, they left behind pamphlets with a message that
read
"Let us expose informers and teach
them a befitting lesson". Police sources said that the attack
could be in reaction to the killing of a Maoist, identified as
Dinakar, by the Police at Kigga in Sringeri in December 2006.
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June 18
|
An abandoned gun was recovered
in a Naxalite-affected area at Sulkeri in the Dakshina Kannada
(also known as South Canara) District. Police sources said that
a few Naxalites had been spotted in the region few days back and
they are investigating whether the gun belonged to them.
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June 30
|
The Home Minister of Karnataka,
M.P. Prakash, promised to convene a meeting of senior Police officials
within a week to review the list of "Naxalite supporters" recently
released by the Police. The ministry reportedly received a memorandum
from a group of people representing various organisations which
said that most people listed as "Naxalite supporters" are those
involved in democratic struggles for social justice.
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July 1
|
Armed CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus after asking
the passengers and driver to alight from the vehicle on Agumbe-Shringeri
route, about 110-km from Shimoga. A nine-member Maoists’ group,
including two women, stopped the bus which was proceeding to Bangalore
via Shringeri and fled after setting it ablaze.
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July 4
|
A suspected group of 12 Naxalites
intruded into a civilian’s house at Hulgarbailu in the Sringeri
Police station limits in Chikmagalur District and took away a
single-barrel breach-loading gun and INR 54,000 in cash. The group
also reportedly threatened the family against informing Police
about the incident. After learning about the incident on July
5, the Anti-Naxal Force and the local Police combed the region.
However, the Naxalites managed to escape from the area.
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July 10
|
Five cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were killed in an encounter with the Anti-Naxal Special Police
Force at Ammadlu village near Menasinahadya in the Chikmagalur
District. Police identified the Maoists as Gautam, a member of
state committee of CPI-Maoist, Parameshwar, secretary of the Kudremukh
National Park Virodhi Okkuta, Sundaresh, Ramegowda and Kaveri.
Two other Maoists managed to escape from the incident site. A
Police constable sustained bullet injuries.
Local people, however, claimed
that four of the killed were inmates of a house in the forests
in which the Maoists had taken shelter. Police sources said that
the Police party was fired upon by the Maoists after they were
asked to surrender. A Sten Gun with ammunition, one tapancha (country-made
pistol) and an unexploded grenade, a cell phone, maps, tents and
pamphlets were recovered from the encounter site.
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July 11
|
The Home, Law and Parliamentary
Affairs Minister of Karnataka, M. P. Prakash, announced in the
Legislative Assembly that the State government is ready to hold
talks with the Naxalites to find a solution to the issues raised
by them provided they lay down arms. Replying to a debate on the
killing of five Naxalites, Prakash said following the killing
of Naxal leader Saketh Rajan, the then Dharam Singh government
had invited them for talks. But nobody came forward. "Now also
I extend an invitation to these leaders. Let the naxals eschew
violence and come forward for negotiations. We’ll try to fulfill
whatever demands possible", he said.
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July 14
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres attacked
two houses in the Shimoga District and decamped with a gun, INR
52,000 in cash and other valuables. This is the fifth incident
involving Maoists in the region. Maoists laid siege to the house
of a bus owner, Umesh, near Agumbe in the Thirthahalli taluk (administrative
division), and looted the house after herding the family members
into a room. Later, they repeated the same exercise in a neighbouring
house. They also left behind some pamphlets, whose content is
unspecified.
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July 17
|
A suspected CPI-Maoist cadre
and an Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police were reportedly killed
in an encounter at Hulugarubylu at Tallanduru near Agumbe in Tirthahalli
taluk of Shimoga District. The Police official was identified
as Venkatesh, posted at the Agumbe Police outpost.
State Home Minister M.P. Prakash
convened a meeting of legislators from the Malnad region to discuss
the seriousness of the threat by the left-wing extremists to some
of them, such as Bharatiya Janata Party leader Araga Jnanendra,
who represents Tirthahalli constituency, and ways to provide security
to them. Speaking in the legislative assembly on July 16 the Minister
said that he would convene another meeting with legislators from
Tumkur, Raichur, Gulbarga, Bellary and Bidar Districts to discuss
measures to deal with the Maoist menace.
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August 15
|
Speaking on the occasion of the
Independence Day in capital Bengaluru (also known as Bangalore),
the Karnataka Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy asked the Naxalites
(left-wing extremists) to come forward for peace talks with the
State government. He said, "The government is ready to hold talks
with any organisation which shuns the bullet and comes forward
to find solutions to socio-economic problems." The Chief Minister
also expressed concerns about the Naxalite activities in the Malnad
region of the state.
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August 19
|
Karnataka Minister for Home and
Parliamentary Affairs M P Prakash said that the state government
will strengthen the state anti-naxal force by appointing 1,117
trained personnel in addition to current 543. Speaking to the
media in Mangalore, he said a proposal to this effect had been
sent to the Finance Ministry for approval. He also said that henceforth,
the Inspector General of Police (IGP) of respective range would
be entrusted with the powers to control the anti-naxal force.
The Minister further said that the state government is planning
to establish an armed training school in Kudremukh of Chikmagalur
District to impart training to Police personnel to deal with naxal
and terror menace.
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August 23
|
At a media briefing held in Mangalore,
the State Home Minister M. P. Prakash, informed that an additional
battalion of Anti Naxal Force (ANF) with 1,117 new Police personnel
will be formed very shortly. He informed, "At present, the ANF
has 543 cops which is insufficient,’’ and said that a proposal
in this regard had been sent to the Union Finance Ministry, which
in turn has agreed in principle to sanction funds for the new
battalion.
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September 5
|
Four unidentified Naxalites,
including three women, escaped when the Karnataka Police personnel
raided the house of one Marappa near Mudigere in the Chikmagalur
District. The Additional Director General of Police, Shankar Bidari,
said that the house was used as their shelter place.
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|
September 23
|
Shankar M. Bidari,
additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) in Mangalore
said people who had joined the CPI-Maoist, willingly or otherwise,
and wished to return to the mainstream of society, are free to
surrender before any court. Some of them have expressed their
desire to lay down arms through intermediaries and return to society,
he added.
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November 13
|
An exchange of fire was reported
between the Anti-Naxalite Force personnel and a group of six CPI-Maoist
cadres near Kurtagundi village in the Udupi District. However,
no causalities were reported on either side. The Maoists escaped
and left behind a gun, 15 bullets, six tents, Maoist literature,
three transistors and cooking utensils which was subsequently
recovered by the Police from the incident site.
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December 26
|
A group of five Naxalites, including
two women cadres, reportedly pasted posters on four shops and
on a private bus in the Thombattu village of Udupi District. The
posters urged the people to boycott elections as politicians have
failed to provide basic facilities to the village.
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Tamil Nadu
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Date
|
Incidents
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January 8
|
Combing operations in the forest
areas of Vellore District were intensified following receipt of
information regarding a possible intrusion of CPI-Maoist cadres
from Andhra Pradesh into Tamil Nadu.
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June 25
|
Investigations into the arrest
of three Tamil extremists in the Theni District revealed the presence
of a left-wing extremist group in Tamil Nadu which has links with
the Maoists in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. The arrested extremists,
two of whom were law college students, have revealed that the
left-wing extremist outfit is headquartered at Dharmapuri, which
in the past has witnessed Maoist activity.
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June 29
|
Tamil Nadu Police announced a
reward of INR 100000 for those providing information about the
Naxalites, who were reportedly hiding in the hilly areas of the
Theni District. The Director General of Police, D. Mukherjee,
who visited the area, said the rewards would be given for providing
information about extremist activities in any part of the State.
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July 6
|
Tamil Nadu has decided to double
the strength of Police personnel involved in combing operations
against the Naxalites in various parts of the State. An unidentified
Police source told that search operations by a little over 200
Special Task Force personnel of all ranks are being conducted
in the hill ranges of Periyakulam, Kodaikanal and Western Ghats
apart from the Tiruvallur and Vellore Districts.
Director-General of Police, D.
Mukherjee, informed that a multi-pronged strategy to tackle the
Naxalite problem was under implementation. To involve youths in
constructive activity, the Police were organising sports activities
and assisting the youth in the development of their skills. Mobile
libraries had been started and personnel of the special division
visited the violence-prone villages and surveyed the absence of
basic amenities there.
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July 10
|
A special team of the Tamil Nadu
Police arrested a senior leader of the CPI-Maoist, Sundaramurthy,
along with two of his accomplices from his hideout at Tiruppur
in the Coimbatore District. Additional Director General of Police,
Nanjil P. Kumaran, said the 39-year-old Maoist leader had been
on the run since 1992 and was wanted in connection with several
murders. The arrested accomplices were identified as Karthi of
Ammapettai in Salem and Eswaran of Theni, both District-level
functionaries.
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August 9
|
Three suspected Maoists from
Andhra Pradesh were arrested by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force
personnel near Veerapuram under Pothanaipatti Police station limits
in the Tiruvallur District. Police sources told that the arrested
persons were moving about in the area under suspicious circumstances
and attempted to escape after being asked to surrender. One of
the three, identified as Gopal, had a country-made gun in his
possession.
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August 27
|
Senior Police officers and forest
department personnel of the Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Chamarajanagar
(Karnataka) Districts held a joint meeting at Hassanur in Thalavadi
Hill to finalise details in combating the Maoist problem in forest
areas. The meeting, first of its kind in the recent past, is considered
crucial in view of the increasing threat from the Maoists and
their reported plans to enter into the Western Ghats region across
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka. The meeting
discussed means to share intelligence on the Maoist movement,
prevention of poaching of elephants and tigers, holding joint
patrolling exercises, forming village vigilance committees in
border areas and tightening the security in the forest areas.
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September 8
|
Police carried out combing operations
in the forest areas in and around Mettupalayam in the Coimbatore
District to check possible infiltration of Maoists, following
the landmine blast at Nellore in Andhra Pradesh on September 7.
More than 100 Police personnel were involved in the search operations
in the Mettupalayam and Sirumugai forest areas.
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September 24
|
Police arrested four suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres, Ratnavel, Theni District ‘secretary’, Manmadhan
Raja, leader of Uzhavar Viduthalai Munnai (Tiller’s Freedom
Front) from Usilampetti, Tirupathi from Mettupatti and Perumal
from Madurai District.
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November 9
|
After reviewing the Police performance
in the Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri Districts in
Salem, the Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order),
K. Vijay Kumar, disclosed that the State is free from Naxalite
activities. He also said that the Special Task Force was monitoring
the forests adjoining the borders of Andhra Pradesh and were being
combed frequently. No movement of Naxalites had been reported
either in these forests or in the Districts, he added.
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December 5
|
A top CPI-Maoist leader, Panduranga
Reddy alias Sagar alias Pratap, operating in the
Nallamala forest of Prakasam District in Andhra Pradesh, was arrested
in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu, on. Prakasam Superintendent
of Police Naveen Chand has reportedly confirmed the arrest. On
December 4-night, the Special Intelligence Bureau officials arrested
two persons, including P. Srisailam, an electronic media journalist
from Hyderabad, at Kandukur in the Prakasam District, and secured
information that led to the arrest of Sagar in Chennai. Sagar
who hails from Lakshmipuram village of Ardhaveedu mandal
in the Prakasam District joined the extremist movement some 15
years ago. He rose to become Secretary of the Nallamala Forest
Divisional Committee operating in Prakasam District.
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December 11
|
Three suspected armed cadres
of the CPI-Maoist, including a woman, were arrested from Siraiparai
village in the Theni District while they were distributing pamphlets
and holding roadside meetings calling for an "armed struggle".
Two other extremists, however, managed to escape. The pamphlets
distributed by the Maoists advised farm labourers "not to carry
spade and crow bar if they really wanted to enjoy the fruits of
their hard work."
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December 19
|
Police personnel arrested five
CPI-Maoist cadres following an encounter in the Varusanadu hills
area in the Theni District. Three Maoists and unspecified numbers
of Police personnel were also injured in the encounter. Police
sources said the team also seized weapons from them.
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Madhya Pradesh
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Date
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Incidents
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January 11
|
A large cache of arms and ammunition
allegedly meant for Maoist groups were recovered from a building
in the Satnami Nagar area of Bhopal. An unspecified number of
people were detained in this connection.
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January 18
|
Madhya Pradesh Police said that
Maoists are trying to expand their operations to the capital Bhopal.
S. K. Raut, Additional Director General (Intelligence), said,
"Maoists want to dominate regions and reach Madras. They want
to stretch their corridor."
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January 19
|
Speaking at a press conference
in Bhopal, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Anuradha Shankar,
said that the five persons arrested in Bhopal on the midnight
of January 10-11 for allegedly running an illegal arms factory
were hardcore Naxalites carrying rewards. They were running a
similar arms manufacturing unit at Indore between 1998 and 2001.
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|
August 31
|
Two Naxalites, identified as
Santlal alias Chetram and Saleeta, carrying head money
of INR 20000 each, were arrested by Police in the Balaghat District.
Both are residents of the neighbouring Rajnandgaon District of
Chhattisgarh and are reportedly involved in several cases in Balaghat
District and in Chhattisgarh.
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|
September 29
|
A suspected naxalite was arrested
from a temple at Mandi village in Nasrullahganj area of Sehore
District. The naxalite, identified as Jeevrakhanlal Malekar, was
a resident of Bharda village near Dondi in Chhattisgarh and was
disguised as a priest. He was staying at the temple for last six
months. Police recovered a foreign-made revolver, cartridges and
naxalite literature from his possession.
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Uttar Pradesh
|
Date
|
Incidents
|
|
April 18
|
A Naxalite ‘zonal commander’,
identified as Sanjay Kol, carrying a bounty of INR 100,000 was
killed during an encounter with the Police in the Chakia area
of Chandauli District. Police recovered an AK-47 rifle, hand grenades
and pamphlets from the possession the slain extremist. A number
of cases, including those pertaining to looting, murder and extortion,
were pending against Sanjay Kol in the Mirzapur and Sonbhadra
areas of Uttar Pradesh and in the neighbouring State of Bihar.
The CPI-Maoist distributed pamphlets
in the Sonebhadra, Chandauli and Mirzapur areas asking people
to vote for its candidates in the ongoing elections to the State
Legislative Assembly.
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|
April 21
|
The Varanasi District Police
recovered a huge cache of explosives, meant for the Naxalites
in the neighbouring Chandauli District. Station Officer (Ramnagar)
K.D. Tripathi said that two rucksacks containing 6,000 detonators
along with fuse wires and 400 gelatine sticks were recovered from
the bushes near the Vishwa Sundari Bridge.
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|
April 30
|
CPI-Maoist called for a boycott
of elections in parts of Uttar Pradesh. Pamphlets to the effect
were released asking villagers in Districts of Sonebhadra, Mirzapur
and Chandauli to vote for particular candidates or not to vote
altogether.
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|
July 16
|
A woman cadre belonging to the
CPI-Maoist was arrested in a forest of Jamsoti area in the Chandauli
District. The Maoist, identified as Sita Kol was wanted in connection
with the murder of Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) leader Basant
Ram and other activities in the Districts of Chanduali, Mirzapur
and Sonebhadra.
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December 29
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A combined team of the Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar and the Jharkhand Police recovered 11 kilograms
of RDX from a hideout of the CPI-Maoist in the Sonebhadra District.
Police sources said that 176 gelatine sticks, 10 bundles of fuse
wire, dry cells, 10 container bombs and Naxalite (left-wing extremist)
literature were also recovered from the hideout.
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Haryana
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Date
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Incidents
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April 24
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Police in Yamunanagar District
arrested two CPI-Maoist cadres and recovered a US army pistol
and an Enfield revolver from them. Other items recovered from
the duo included video cassettes, compact discs with footage of
Maoist training camps and inflammatory speeches by senior activists
and literature. During interrogation they said they were trying
to set up a base in the area. Both were previously associated
with the Jagruk Chhatra Sangathan.
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May 5
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The Yamunanagar District Police
arrested a CPI-Maoist leader, identified as Poonam, while her
husband Sanjay managed to escape.
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May 7
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Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
leader, who was holding clandestine meetings in the District headquarter
of Kaithal to enlist more youths into the outfit’s ranks. The
arrested Maoist was identified as Somveer Singh, who was earlier
a leader of the Maoists' students cell — Jagrook Chatra Sangathan.
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Rajasthan
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Date
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Incidents
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May 28
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Union Minister of State for Home
Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters in Jaipur that there have been
intelligence reports of Maoist presence in some areas of Rajasthan.
He also said that Maoist groups were holding meetings and started
their activities like organising agitations, creating law and
order problems and carrying out extortion in tribal belts especially
in Dungapur, Banswara and Udaipur Districts.
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KERALA
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Date
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Incidents
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December 17
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The Central Committee
member of the CPI-Maoist, Malla Raji Reddy alias Sattenna,
was arrested from Angamaly town in the Ernakulam District. Reddy,
who was underground for over three decades, is one of the senior
most Maoist leaders and a contemporary of CPI-Maoist chief Ganapathy.
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