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Incidents
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January 17
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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.
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February 6
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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".
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February 8
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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.
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February 14
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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.
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April 5
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Ram Sajivan Kushwaha alias
Guruji, a sub-zonal ‘commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested
following an encounter with the Police in Kon area of Sonbhadra
District.
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April 13
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The Uttar Pradesh Government was
planning to raise the new crack force of 400 commandos trained
in jungle warfare, on the lines of ‘Greyhounds’, to tackle Left
Wing Extremism.
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April 14
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A suspected Naxalite (Left Wing
Extremist), identified as Nandu Chero, was arrested along with
arms in the forests of Harriya in Sonbhadra District the Police
said. A country-made revolver and two live cartridges were recovered
from him.
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April 29-30
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Six persons, including two CRPF
troopers and a retired sub-inspector (armourer) of the State Police,
were arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) and the Uttar Pradesh
Police for supplying arms to the LWEs following raids in Rampur,
Moradabad, Kanpur and Jhansi.
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May 2
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Two more suspects, Dinesh and
Shanker, were arrested by the Police from Jagdishpur village in
Mau District in case of reported arms supply to the CPI-Maoist.
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May 6
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J K Misra, An assistant commandant
of the CRPF at the group centre in Rampur, was suspended.
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May 7
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The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested
a cadre of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Raju (35), from a forest
area in Sonbhadra District.
Uttar Pradesh Government announced
a cash award of INR 100,000 for anyone providing vital inputs
leading to the arrest of notorious Left Wing Extremist Lalbrat
Kol, who has 36 cases pending against him. Kol is a native of
Jhaiyavan area under Chakkarghatta Police station of Chandauli
District.
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May 11
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Two suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were arrested by the Police from Dubahar town in Ballia District.
They were identified as Kishun Rajbhar and Rajju. Several locally
made pistols, live cartridges and Police uniforms were recovered
from their possession.
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May 13
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres, Virendra
Mallah and Lal Bahadur, were arrested by the Police in Ballia
District. Six pistols, eight crude bombs and several live cartridges
were recovered from them.
Four more Policemen from the Provincial
Armed Constabulary were arrested from Gonda, Faizabad and Gorakhpur
Districts of Uttar Pradesh on suspicion of being involved in a
racket to smuggle arms and ammunition for Maoists. The four are
Sushil Kumar, armourer with the PAC's 30th battalion in Gonda,
Jitendra Singh and Amar Singh, both deployed as armourers in Faizabad,
and Rajesh Shahi, an armourer with the Gorakhpur Police.
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May 19
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A massive 20-tonne consignment
of ammunition from the US has been seized at Loni in Gaziabad
by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). The consignment
is suspected to be bound for the CPI-Maoist.
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May 20
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Ashok Kumar, arms supplier to
the CPI-Maoist, was arrested by Police from Langdra area in Sonbhadra
District. Over 50-kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 25 detonators
and 25 gelatin rods were seized from Kumar.
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May 28
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Murlidhar Sharma, a native of
Bihar's Rohtas District, was arrested by the Police from Telibagh
area of Varanasi District in Uttar Pradesh on charges of supplying
arms and ammunition to the CPI-Maoist. Around 125 live cartridges
of INSAS rifle and a fake arms licence were recovered from his
possession.
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June 2
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Two persons suspected to be supplying
arms to the CPI-Maoist were arrested by the Security Forces at
Jakhaura in Jhansi District. Around 1,500 detonators, fuse wires
and gelatine rods were recovered from their possession.
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June 14
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Police recovered a large quantity
of explosives and detonators hidden by the CPI-Maoist cadres in
a jungle in Deva Nata Khoh area Sonebhadra District. Police recovered
20 kilograms of can bomb (improvised device), 150 gelatine rods,
six pencil cells, one bundle wire and 10 detonators.
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July 29
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As part of its package to develop
Naxal (Left Wing Extremism)-hit Districts, the Union Government
will give INR 5.3 billion for Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra District.
The projects will be monitored by the Planning Commission and
will focus mainly on infrastructure, health and education.
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July 30
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Police in Uttar Pradesh arrested
Constable Lok Nath, posted at the Churk Police Lines in Sonbhadra
District, for reportedly smuggling cartridges from Government
Armouries and selling them to cadres of the CPI-Maoist. According
to Police reports, Nath had close links with a retired Sub-Inspector
Yashodanandan Singh, who was arrested from Rampur District in
April 2010 on charges of smuggling arms and ammunition from Government
Armouries to Maoists.
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August 16
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The State STF claimed to have
arrested another wanted accused from Naka area of Lucknow in the
case of pilferage of ammunition from various Police weapon stores
in Uttar Pradesh. The STF team recovered a .32 bore pistol and
50 live cartridges of .9mm from the possession of the arrested
accused. The Inspector General (Law & Order), AP Maheshwari
said the arrested accused — Akash alias Guddu, a native
of Mau District of Uttar Pradesh and at present staying in Sheikhpur
District of Bihar — used to supply the ammunition to Naxal [Left
Wing Extremist] groups and criminals of Bihar and West Bengal.
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August 28
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A top cadre of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Ramesh alias Santosh Kumar, was arrested
in Panchasheeldal locality under Madihan Police Station in Mirzapur
District. Kumar is a native of Rohtas District in Bihar. He was
wanted in many cases by Sonebhadra, Bhabhua and Rohtas Police.
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| October 6 |
A group 40-50 suspected cadres
of the CPI-Maoist held a lineman, Kharpattu, hostage for hours
and damaged the railway tracks by removing fish plates and sleeper
clips between Churk and Agorikhas railway stations in deep forests
in Sonebhadra District. However, a major tragedy was averted as
a number of important trains were stopped at the Agorikhas station
after an alert raised by the lineman who was later released by
the Maoists.
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| December 17 |
A cadre of the CPI-Maoist, identified
as Ramesh Lohra alias Rupesh Gurwa (32), was arrested at
Alapur in Ambedkar Nagar District. Acting on a tip-off that a
Maoist from Jharkhand was hiding in a brick kiln at Alapur under
the guise of a labourer, Police raided the area and arrested him.
A pistol, a rifle and several live cartridges were recovered from
his possession, Inspector Jai Shankar Singh said. According to
Police, around 25 criminal cases are pending against Lohra, who
worked for Kundan Pahan, a 'zonal commander' of Maoists in Jharkhand.
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| December 25 |
Acting on a tip, the STF of Uttar Pradesh in a
raid intercepted a car and seized arms, meant for the CPI-Maoist
cadres in West Bengal, in Lucknow. During the operation, one accomplice
of the arms dealers managed to escape, while the Police chased
and arrested the other two. The STF was for some time getting
information that from western part of the State an organised gang,
with the help of arms dealers of Himachal Pradesh are smuggling
a large quantity of rifles and other ammunitions to anti-national
elements in West Bengal State, IG A. P. Maheshwari said. Four
rifles with 1,000 live bullets, a pistol, 400 live rounds of other
guns, 15 ATM cards, and four mobile phones along with a car were
seized.
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