Maharashtra Timeline 2010

January 9-10: Two top CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested along with arms and explosives in a joint operation by Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in the Gadchiroli District.

January 14: The CPI-Maoist cadres killed a tribal in the Gadchiroli District.

January 18: The Maharashtra ATS said a suspected Naxalite, identified as Surya Devra Prabhakar, was arrested at his residence in Mumbai. He has been remanded to custody.

January 24: Around 50 Maoists stopped six trucks on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh highway on the midnight of January 24 by damaging the road. Superintendent of Police S. Jayakumar told over the phone that the Maoists did not attack the drivers.

January 26:Six cadres of the CPI-Maoist allegedly involved in the killing of 16 Police personnel in Gadchiroli District in 2009, surrendered before State Home Minster R. R. Patil at Gadchiroli.

January 29: Maharashtra home department has proposed compulsory two years’ services of the Government officials in CPI-Maoist-infested areas, taking serious cognizance of their reluctant attitude to work there. "

The rewards announced to Policemen, including those in the strike force of C-60 commando unit, have not been paid for last four years.

February 4: Senior officers in the Central Para-military Forces said violence levels had gone down in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh primarily because of the increased deployment of SFs.

February 14: The Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai said that Gadchiroli will be free from left wing extremism.

February 16: According to the official sources, as many as 319 cadres of the CPI-Maoist have laid down their arms before authorities in the Gadchiroli District since August 29, 2005 as response to the surrender policy of the State.

February 21: Anti-Naxal Operation Squad arrested Bandu Meshram alias Bhanu, a member of the Maharashtra 'state committee' of the CPI-Maoist at Gaddigodam in Nagpur.

February 23: A suspected CPI-Maoist cadre, Ramkumar Akkapalli alias Masram, was arrested by Chandrapur District Police from Yogi Nagar at Ajni in Nagpur.

State Finance Minister Sunil Tatkare announced a quadruple hike, from just INR 173 million in financial year 2009-10 to INR 700.3 million for 2010-11, in the development allocation for Maoist affected Gadchiroli District.

March 10: The CPI-Maoist cadres hijacked a truck which was transporting ammonium nitrate, raw material for manufacturing explosives, between Dhanora and Yerkad village in Gadchiroli District and stole 16 metric tonnes of raw materials worth nearly INR 275,000.