Uttar Pradesh Timeline 2010

January 17: A Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) cadre carrying a head money of INR 50,000 arrested along with his accomplice following an encounter in the Sonbhadra District.

February 6: Three persons, a couple from Allahabad and a woman from Gorakhpur were arrested by the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police for suspected Maoist links. The arrests followed "information from various agencies that senior and active members of the banned CPI-Maoist were trying to establish their base in Uttar Pradesh".

February 8: Eight cadres of the CPI-Maoist, including two members of its Central Committee and Polit Bureau, were arrested by the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police in Kanpur. Among the arrested was Balraj alias B.R. alias Arvind, 'head of the northern regional bureau' of the Maoists and Central Committee member and associate of Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy.

February 14: The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested a Maoist cadre near the Shani temple situated next to the Cantonment Railway Halt in Gorakhpur. Rajendra was to meet his sister Asha, the member in charge of Central Mahila Sub Committee (SMSC) of the Maoists, presently lodged at Gorakhpur jail.