Incidents involving Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)

Andhra Pradesh

2007

March 5: 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 Mahabubnagar district.

March 3: CPI-Maoist cadres detonated an explosion targeting a bridge on route connecting Andhra Pradesh and Chattisgarh near Rontentha in the Khammam district.

March 2: 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.

February 2: 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.

February 1: Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with the police personnel in the forest areas of Peruru in the Khammam district.

January 29: 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.

January 23: 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 Nallamala forest area.

January 16: 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.

January 13: 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.

January 11: 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.

January 9: 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.

January 7: 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).

January 6: 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.

January 4: 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.

January 1: An alleged arms supplier to the 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.

2006

December 9: Eight CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. They were identified as Pattabhi alias Mahesh, E. Narayana alias Bhupathi, Muthyalu alias Chandra, Muthyalamma alias Geeta, Nagesh alias Anji, B. Manjunatha alias Prasad, T. Malati alias Bhagya and Rajasekhar alias Vasu.

December 2-5: The Anantapur district police recovered a large number of rockets, landmines and claymore mines by unearthing four dumps of the CPI-Maoist. Giving details to the media on December 6, Superintendent of Police, M.S. Ravindra, said the dumps were unearthed during the combing operations by police in the Palyam forest area in Mudigubba mandal (administrative division), near Payakati cheruvu in Nallamada mandal and Batrepalli forest area in Kadiri mandal. Landmines and claymore mines were found on the Mudigubba-Bukkapatnam road, in Puttaparthi mandal and near Bilvampalli village.

December 4: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman, surrendered before police in the Medak district.

November 28: A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an encounter with the police in the Battenapalli forest area of Khammam district, bordering the State of Chhattisgarh. Police recovered a 303-rifle, one SBBL gun and 20 rounds of ammunition, besides one camera flash from the incident site.

November 25: A top CPI-Maoist leader, Gautam alias Bandareddy Subba Rao, was killed in an encounter with the police near Bandigadda village in the East Godavari district.

November 24: CPI-Maoist cadres killed a leader of the ruling Congress party, Rami Reddy, president of Bollapalle Mandal Praja Parishad, at Vinukonda in the Guntur district.

Police killed a Maoist during an encounter in the East Godavari district. Two grenades, one 9 mm pistol and Maoist literature were recovered from the encounter site.

October 30: Police personnel exchanged fire with the CPI-Maoists near Narlapur forest area in the Warangal district.

Pagadal Rangaiah, brother of a sitting Congress party legislator of Giddulur, was killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres in the Prakasam district.

October 29: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze a poclain at Lingavarigudem in the Nalgonda district in protest against “the series of encounters in the State.”

October 28: Bandi Hema, a ‘squad area committee’ (SAC) member and a ‘local guerilla squad deputy commander’ of the CPI-Maoists, surrendered before the Superintendent of Police, D.S. Chauhan, in the Karimnagar district.

October 21: CPI-Maoist extremists killed the elder brother of Member of Legislative Assembly from Achampet, C. Vamsi Krishna, at Elmapally in the Amrabad area of Mahabubnagar district.

October 18: Arika Rama, a member of the Local Guerilla Squad of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered before the Srikakulam district Superintendent of Police Manish Kumar Sinha.

Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an explosion, while trying to assemble a landmine using slurry, salt, iron wires and other material, at Amudalapalli village in the Warangal district. One of the dead was identified as Pothuraju Rayakomru alias Ramakanth, the Chityala local organising squad commander.

October 17: A top CPI-Maoist operative, Srinivas Reddy, the mastermind behind the fabrication of rocket launchers being used by extremists, surrendered to the police along with his wife Sudharani in the Warangal district.

October 15: Kone Kedandam, secretary of the Konadabaridi Dalam, surrendered before the district police chief in Srikakulam due to ill health.

Commander of the CPI-Maoist Kalwakurthy dalam, Raju alias Kiran, was killed in an encounter with the police near Lingasanipalle village in the Kalwakurthy area of Mahabubnagar district.

October 14: An unidentified woman CPI-Maoist activist was killed and a police constable injured in an exchange of fire in the Mangi forest area of Adilabad district. One 303 rifle, a DBBL gun and six bags were recovered from the incident site.

October 12: CPI-Maoist cadres abducted and subsequently killed a contractor and a Sarpanch (village head) of Anantaram in the Manguru sub-division of Khammam district. The Maoists had branded both as police informers.

The CPI-Maoist called for a bandh (general strike) in the Nallamala forest areas extending across the Prakasam, Kurnool, Mahabubnagar and Guntur districts to protest against the killing of a top leader, Sudarsan, in an alleged fake encounter with the police in Anantapur district on October 6.

October 8: Police unearthed a Maoist dump and recovered eight landmines near Kaligote forest area in the Nizamabad district and arrested three Maoists, including a TDP Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency member.

Nalgonda district police arrested a cadre of the CPI-Maoist, Mohammad Abbas alias Ramesh, in connection with the attack on Atmakur (M) police station on August 18, 2006.

October 7: Maoist ‘deputy commander’ belonging to the Manmgi Dalam, Jungnaka Jaithu alias Amruth alias Vinod, surrendered before the Adilabad District Superintendent of Police, Kripanand Tripathi Ujela.

A member of East Division Gurtedu Area Committee of the CPI-Maoist, K Ramulu alias RK, was killed in an encounter with the police near Gorlagondi village in the Visakhapatnam district. After the encounter, a Maoist identified as Sindri Giri, who was accompanying Ramulu, surrendered to the police.

October 6: The secretary of Nallamala Forest Division Committee and member of four-man state committee of the CPI-Maoist, Samala Venkatesu alias Sudarshan or Satyam, was killed in an encounter with the police in the forest area of Nallamala in the Anantapur district. Another State Committee member, Obulesu alias Zaheer, was injured in the incident.

October 2: Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist ‘Local Organised Squad (LOS)’ of Charla and Venkatapuram surrendered to the police in Khammam.

September 28: The CPI-Maoist ‘Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) combat platoon commander’ Tappetla Devender alias Mogili alias Jalandhar and ‘deputy commander’ Modium Laxmi surrendered in the presence of Superintendent of Police, Soumya Mishra, in Warangal.

September 27: A CPI-Maoist cadre, Kunjam Venkateswarulu alias Sampat, surrendered before the East Godavari district police in Rajahmundry.

September 22: Five CPI-Maoist cadres, including two girls, surrendered before the police in Visakhapatnam.

September 18: CPI-Maoist ‘deputy commander’ of its Penna Ahobilam dalam (squad), Venkatesh alias Babu, was killed in an encounter with the police near Korrakodu in the Kuderu area of Anantapur district.

September 15: CPI-Maoist’s ‘Karimnagar East Division Maoist Committee secretary’ Alwala Saraiah alias Madhu was killed along with three women cadres, Nirmala, Padma and Prameela alias Geetha, in an encounter with the police inside the Tadvai forest area of Warangal district.

A special team of the Nalgonda police killed two Maoists, a ‘District Committee member’, Cherukuri Rattaiah alias Murali and member of the Kanagal dalam Veeraswamy alias Dayanand, at Teldevarapally.

Police unearthed three powerful landmines, planted by Maoists on the road between Kollapur and Somasila in the Mahabubnagar district.

September 8: In one of the biggest-ever haul of weapons in the country, the Andhra Pradesh Police recovered 600 unloaded rockets, 275 unassembled rockets, 27 rocket launchers, 70 gelatine sticks and other explosive material belonging to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) from the Mahabubnagar and Prakasam districts. While 16 rocket launchers and 600 rocket shells packed in 53 gunny bags were seized at Jangireddypalli village in Mahabubnagar district, another 275 rocket launchers packed in 27 bags were recovered from an unclaimed consignment in Kranthi Transport company, a private cargo mover, in the Giddalur town of Prakasam district.

CPI-Maoist cadres killed a youth, Sunder Rao, in the Mummuru village of Khammam district, accusing him to be a police informer.

August 28: The Nizamabad district police arrested three persons for extorting money for the CPI-Maoist.

August 25: Two dalam members of the CPI-Maoist surrendered before the Anantapur district Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar Jain.

August 19: A ‘Local Guerilla Squad (LGS) commander’ of the CPI-Maoist and two dalam members surrendered before the Police in Karimnagar district.

August 18: CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the Atmakur police station in Nalgonda district and killed a Sub-Inspector (SI), an Assistant SI and a home guard.

August 11: The Andhra Pradesh Government decided to extend the ban on the CPI-Maoist and six of its frontal organisations by another year till August 16, 2007.

August 8: M. Ramani, a CPI-Maoist cadre belonging to the ‘Nagavali Area Committee’ that is active along the Andhra-Orissa Border, was arrested from a private hospital at Palasa in the Srikakulam district.

August 6: Following the encounter on August 5 in the Kurnool district that resulted in the death of a Maoist cadre and a security force (SF) personnel, another encounter between the fleeing Maoists and the SFs took place in the same area leading to the death of one more Maoist.

August 5: In fierce fighting between Greyhounds personnel of the Andhra Pradesh Police and CPI-Maoist cadres near Ahobilam in the Nallamala forest of Kurnool district, a police personnel and a Maoist were killed.

August 2: A Congress party activist was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres near Kanchipalli village in the Prakasam district.

July 26: CPI-Maoist cadres killed a Congress party activist at Vaddimatla village in the Nalgonda district.

July 23: CPI-Maoist ‘Andhra State Secretary’, Burra Chennaiah alias Madhav was killed in an encounter along with seven Maoists, including five women, near Davaboyinapenta village in the Nallamala forest of Prakasam district.

July 18: CPI-Maoist cadres killed a police personnel near Ravulapuram village of Bollapalli mandal in Guntur district when he was on his way to issue summons to some persons in the village.

July 15: CPI-Maoist ‘Nallamala Area Committee member’ Telugu Pochaiah alias Venu was shot dead in an encounter with the police at Nallakalva in Kurnool district.

July 14: Police arrested CPI-Maoist ‘Sabari area committee’, Mudraboina Sampath alias Saleem alias Suryam along with his wife Jadi Sammakka alias Shakuntala, ‘commander of the Chintoor local organisational squad’, in the Bhadrachalam division of Khammam district.

July 13: A former Maoist, Nimmala Durgaiah, was shot dead by CPI-Maoist cadres in Kalvapalli village in the Warangal district.

July 10: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a Congress party leader at Gangavaram village in the Prakasam district.

July 3: ‘Commander’ of Atchampet ‘local guerrilla squad’ of the CPI-Maoist, Outu Kurumaiah alias Murali, was killed in an exchange of fire with police near Rayavaram village in the Mahabubnagar district.

June 27: At least eight CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with the police personnel at Amrabad near Mallayyapenta village in the Mahabubnagar district.

June 25: Maoists triggered an explosion damaging the residence of a former State Legislator and Congress party leader, Pasupuleti Balaraju, at an unspecified place under G. K. Veedhi police station in the Vishakapatnam district.

June 21: Two CPI–Maoist cadres, including ‘district committee secretary’ Jagadeesh, were killed in an encounter with the police at Edugurallapalli forest near Chintoor in the Khammam district.

June 19: Maoists set ablaze one jeep and two mini buses and broke two Andhra Pradesh State Regional Transport Corporation buses at China Arutla near Srisailam in the Kurnool district following the killing of the Maoist ‘central committee member’, Mattam Ravikumar.

June 18: CPI-Maoist Palnadu ‘platoon commander', identified as Suresh, was killed in an encounter with a special police party team at Ramapuram crossroads near Dachepalli in the Guntur district. Two Maoists were killed in an encounter with the police near Marrimalla village, close to the banks of the Godavari in the Khammam district.

June 17: Three Maoists were killed in an encounter with the police at Somamdepalli village in the Prakasam district.

June 16: A member of State and Central Committees of the CPI-Maoist leader, Mattam Ravikumar alias Sridhar alias Anil, was killed in an encounter with the police in the interior Nallamala forest area.

June 6: Three suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist, believed to be members of the Andhra-Orissa Border Committee, were killed in an encounter with the police between Tangana Kota and Singana Kota hamlets of interior Patakota in the East Godavari district.

June 1: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered a bomb blast targeting a telephone exchange at Satyanarayanapuram in the Khammam district.

May 28: CPI-Maoist cadres fired on a Central Reserve Police Force contingent at a weekly market at Sileru in the Vishakapatnam district, killing one CRPF personnel.J

May 21: A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, Kothapalli Chandrakala alias Jaya, was killed in an exchange of fire with the police at Magaturthanada in the Prakasam district.

May 9: Mahabubnagar district police arrested two irrigation contractors in a case relating to the handing over of Rupees Five million and a box of 200 gelatin sticks to the CPI-Maoist in April 2006.

May 3: CPI-Maoist cadres blasted the house of a primary agricultural credit societies employee at Polishettypally village in the Mahabubnagar district.

May 2: Three buses were set ablaze by the CPI-Maoist cadres near Farahabad in the Amrabad mandal of Mahabubnagar district.

April 30: Two Maoists were killed in encounter between Srisailam-Dornala road and Pedaarutla village in the Prakasam district.

Five CPI-Maoist cadres hijacked two motorised launches along with nine crew-members from the Nagarjunakonda reservoir, but four of them were later killed in an encounter at Maddimadugu in the Mahabubnagar district.

April 28: 11 cadres of the CPI-Maoist, including some women, were killed by the Andhra Pradesh Police deep inside a forest on the border of the Cuddapah and Chittoor districts.

April 24: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, Konda Mavula alias Azad, aged 20, and a 15-year-old girl, were arrested during a joint combing operation by the Andhra Pradesh and Orissa Police near Pedabayalu in the Visakhapatnam district.

April 8: Police shot dead Atram Hanmanthu alias Karan, ‘commander’ of the Narnoor squad of the CPI-Maoist, in an exchange of fire in the Adilabad district.

A Legislator belonging to the Congress party, Udumula Sreenivas Reddy, escaped a landmine attack by the CPI-Maoist at Kakarla in the Ongole district.

April 7: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed at Katapur forest in the Warangal district.

A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Manthani 'area action team commander' Tholem Bapu alias Devender, was killed in an exchange of fire with police personnel on the outskirts of Nimmagudem village in the Karimnagar district.

April 4: Anantapur district police arrested a Maoist, Venkatrami Reddy, and seized Rs 300,000 in cash.

April 2: Five CPI-Maoist cadres, including three women, were killed in an encounter with the police in a forest near the Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border.

March 31: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres blasted a portion of the Panchayati Raj department’s deputy executive engineer office at Eturunagaram village in the Warangal district.

March 28: 17 Five CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered to the police in Warangal.

March 24: Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist, Managalla Venkati and Manda Kanakalashmi, surrendered before the Nizamabad police.

Andhra Pradesh CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead two minor children, alleging that they acted as 'coverts' at Pedda Bommalapuram village in the Prakasam district.

March 15: A surrendered CPI-Maoist cadre was hacked to death by Maoists near Pandimadugu village in the Nizamabad district.

March 11: Four Maoists were killed during an encounter with the police conducting combing operations in the Bukkapatnam forest area of Anantapur district.

March 9: Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with the police near Banala village in the Nallamala forests of Mahabubnagar district.

March 8: Maoists kill police head constable M. D. Jahangeer Ali, while he was on duty at Kondanagul Government Junior College for Intermediate Public Examinations.

February 8: A CPI-Maoist cadre belonging to the Krishnapatti dalam (squad) is killed during an exchange of fire with the police at Morjhampadu village in the Machavaram area of Guntur district.

February 7: Police kill two CPI-Maoist cadres near Karampudi village in the Guntur district.

February 6: Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman, are killed in an encounter with the police at Malakondapenta in the Racharla mandal (administrative division) of Prakasam district.

February 4: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a civilian, Chetawat Gopal, a native of Usmankunta in the Chandampet mandal of Nalgonda district.

January 26: Two people are killed and 15 vehicles were set ablaze at Ghat Pindari near Wadrafnagar in the Surguja district by CPI-Maoist cadres.

January 25: CPI-Maoist shot dead a civilian, Boya Kadireppa, at Bandameedipalli village in the Rapthadu area of Anantapur district.

January 18: CPI-Maoist cadres kill the driver of a mechanised boat and blasted three boats used for fishing in river Krishna at Kayavardha in the Guntur district.

January 13: CPI-Maoist cadres trigger a series of landmine blasts targeting a police party combing the forests of Murmur village in the Wajeedu area of Khammam district.

January 3: Senior CPI-Maoist 'Polit Bureau' and 'central committee' member and chief of its 'central-eastern regional bureau' monitoring the political affairs in Orissa and Chhattisgarh, B. Narayan Sanyal alias Navin, is reportedly arrested at Bhadrachalam in the Khammam district.

2005

December 29: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a Telugu Desam Party activist, Batta Prasad, at Ramanakkapet village in the Mangapet area of Warangal district.

December 27: A CPI-Maoist woman cadre is killed in an exchange of fire between the police and Maoists near Sirigiripadu village in the Guntur district.

December 25: Four Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel, who were escorting a cash box in a Raigarh (Orissa) bound passenger train, were killed and five others were injured in an attack by the CPI-Maoist at Koneru Railway Station in the Vizianagaram district.

December 23: Three members of the Chennur-Sirpur squad of the CPI-Maoist, including two ‘deputy commanders’, are killed in an encounter with the police near Audam village in the Adilabad district.

December 22: CPI-Maoist cadres kill a former Maoist cadre, Vantala Koteswara Rao, at Kumkumpadu village in the Visakhapatnam district. In another incident, Maoists killed a shopkeeper, Tirupati, at Pangidi Madharam village in the Adilabad district.

December 20: CPI-Maoist cadres detonate three landmines near Sirisingandla in the Medak district injuring a Sub-Inspector and a constable.

December 14: Four CPI-Maoist cadres of the Maddileru 'platoon' were killed in an encounter with the police at Marrikommadinne area of NP Kunta mandal in the Anantapur district.

December 14: A tribal activist, Irpa Veeraiah, is killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres at Kurnapalli village in Khammam district.

December 12: One CPI-Maoist cadre is killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces at Bollapalli in the Guntur district.

December 10: Two senior CPI-Maoist cadres are killed in an encounter with the police at Marrivemula village in the Prakasam district.

December 9: CPI-Maoist cadres killed a tribal, identified as Ganapathi alias Prasad, at Balwanpur in the Utnoor division of Adilabad district.

December 7: Two CPI-Maoist cadres are killed in an exchange of fire with the police after they triggered a landmine blast injuring three police personnel in the forests in Illendu subdivision of the Khammam district.

December 4: A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Rajanna, of the Maddimalla dalam is killed in an encounter with the police on the outskirts of Veernapalli in Karimnagar district.

December 3: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist abduct 11 persons, including a leader of the Congress party, from Mallampet village in the Khammam district.

November 30: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead two Andhra Pradesh Special Police personnel in a Road Transport Corporation bus in Visakhapatnam district.

November 24: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed two persons and injured two others at Pullalacheruvu in the Prakasam district.

November 22: In Guntur district, two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed by the police in an encounter. A revolver and a gun were recovered from the encounter site.

November 20: A senior leader of the CPI-Maoist, Aggila Istari alias Salim, was killed in an exchange of fire between the police and Maoists in the Manigarh-Jogapur forest area of Adilabad district. The police recovered two magazines of SLR rifle, 12 kitbags and a medicine kitbag and an unspecified number of claymore mines from the site.

November 15: A tribal was killed in the Bhamini area of Srikakulam district during a general strike call given by the CPI-Maoist in the Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, and Srikakulam districts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh.

November 13: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed two tribals and assaulted another, branding them as police informers in two separate incidents under Bhamini administrative division in the Srikakulam district.

November 13: In the Khammam district, two cadres of the CPI-ML Janashakti Rajanna faction were killed in an exchange of fire with a police party at Sriramnagar Tanda in Kamepalli police station limits. The police recovered a revolver, a gun, 40 detonators and some live rounds along with two kitbags and two tents from the incident site.

November 12: Four unidentified CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in two separate encounters in the Mahabubnagar district. In the first incident, an exchange of fire occurred between a special police party on a combing operation and a group of Maoists at Boyagutta near Madanapuram. Police subsequently recovered three bodies from the encounter site. A tapancha (locally made revolver), two kit bags, some used cartridges of 9 mm carbine along with revolutionary material were also recovered. In another encounter, on the hillocks of Urukonda village, a Maoist, suspected to be the member of an action team, was killed. Police recovered one tapancha and about 100 non-electrical detonators from the site of encounter.

November 11: Three Maoists shot dead a Sub-Inspector of Police, Moinuddin, outside Atmakur police station in the Mahabubnagar district.

November 8: Two cadres belonging to the ‘Special Guerrilla Squad’ of the proscribed CPI-Maoist were killed in an exchange of fire with the police near the Mulug forest area in Warangal district. The police recovered three weapons and five kitbags from the spot.

October 27: Two members of the proscribed CPI-Maoist are killed in an exchange of fire with a police party near Nallabilli village in the Visakhapatnam district. A .303 riffle, another 8 mm rifle and four landmines are recovered from the incident site.

October 26: Media reports indicate that the CPI-Maoist has made reshuffles in its organisational structure by bringing in some leaders and changing the secretaries of some of its ‘area committees’ in the agency area of its Andhra-Orissa Border special zone.

October 25: Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist are killed in an encounter with the police on the outskirts of Guthikonda village in Guntur district.

October 18: CPI-Maoist cadres kill a Congress party worker, Sobhan Babu, after accusing him of being a police informer in the Guthikonda village of Guntur district.

October 12: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist belonging to the Krishnapatti squad kill a civilian, identified as Kotla Venkataiah, at Neredgomma in the Nalgonda district.

October 9: Media report says the CPI-Maoist has appointed Madhav alias Mallanna, an expert in guerrilla warfare, as secretary of the Andhra Pradesh unit replacing Ramakrishna.

October 7: CPI-Maoist cadres kill a civilian, Thati Krishnaiah, after accusing him of being a police informer at Ummidivaram village in the Prakasam district.

October 4: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist kill a villager, Pulicherla Naganna, after accusing him of being a police informer at China Arutla village in the Prakasam district.

October 2: A CPI-Maoist cadre of the Krishnapatti squad, Prabhakar, is killed in an exchange of fire with the police near Maddimadugu village of Mahabubnagar district. A pistol, two single-barrel guns, two hand grenades and 30 live cartridges are recovered from the slain Maoist.

September 22: Three senior cadres of the banned CPI-Maoist are killed in an encounter with the police near Chinarayanipalle in Anantapur district.

September 22: Cadres of the banned CPI-Maoist kill a Congress party sympathiser, Maripalli Lingaswamy, at Appaipalli village in the Mahabubnagar district.

September 18: Nallamalla Black Cobras, an anti-Maoist group, kill a suspected Maoist, Alladi Ravi, in the Prakasam district.

September 10: A Maoist sympathiser and secretary of a cooperative bank, Mannam Prasad, is killed by the Nallamala Balack Cobras at Singarayakonda in the Prakasam district.

September 5: Thota Ramulu ailias Sridhar, a district committee member of the Singareni Karmika Samakhya, an outlawed front organisation of the CPI-Maoist, is killed by the police in an encounter near Boggagutta village in the Karimnagar district.

September 2: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist kill a villager at Manala in the Nizamabad district.

August 31: Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist, including the Prakasam 'district committee member' Mohan alias Sunkanna, are killed in an encounter with the police at Vinukonda in the Guntur district.

August 20: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a former Maoist, Palasa Balaraju, at Doddavaram village in the Visakhapatnam district.

August 17: The Andhra Pradesh Government proscribes the Communist Party of India-Maoist and seven of its front organisations.

August 15: The Congress Party's Member of Legislative Assembly from Makthal, Chittam Narsi Reddy, and eight persons, including one of his sons, are killed by cadres of the CPI-Maoist at Narayanpet in the Mahabubnagar district.

August 1: Two 'action team members' of the CPI-Maoist are killed in an exchange of fire with the police in the Mulug Ghanpur mandal (administrative division) of Warangal district.

July 28: A senior leader of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Dingu Sreenu, was killed in an encounter with the police at Devarapalem village in the Prakasam district. Sreenu alias Vijai alias Sivanna was the 'secretary' of 'Nallamala West Area Committee' and 'commander' of the Chandravanka dalam (squad).

Three Maoists are killed in an exchange of fire with the police at Chilakacharla village in the Prakasam district.

July 25: The Nalgonda district CPI-Maoist 'committee member' and Rachakonda 'area secretary', Golanukonda Chandraiah alias Raju, and two women activists are killed in an encounter with the police near a hill area near Tumbai thanda in Narayanapur.

July 19: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist kill Thati Eedaiah, a schoolteacher, at Isuka Tripurantakam in the Pullalacheruvu area of Prakasam district.

A Maoist belonging to the Adivasi Liberation Tigers is killed in an exchange of fire with the police in the Gundampalli forest area of Warangal district. The police also arrested two other ALT cadres, Madhu and Chanti, following the encounter.

July 15: A senior Naxalite belonging to the CPI-Maoist, Malakoti Ramanjaneyulu alias Kailasam alias Ramanna was killed in an encounter with the police at Revulakota village in Visakhapatnam district. A huge quantity of explosives was seized from the encounter site. Ramanjaneyulu was in charge of 'agricultural committee' of the Galikonda dalam (squad) and belonged to Bhoonipalle village of Anantapur district.

July 10: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot dead a village headman, N.V. Mallaiah Naidu, belonging to the Congress party at Madhavaram village in the Cuddapah district.

July 2: One civilian is killed and 10 persons, including five police personnel, are injured when a bomb, allegedly planted by Naxalites, exploded at the out-patient ward in Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Warangal.

June 28: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a Congress party activist, M. Raju, at Timmaipalli village in the Mahbubnagar district.

June 27: Naxalites belonging to the Krishnapatti squad of the CPI-Maoist kill a civilian, Netala Yedukondalu, after accusing him of being a police informer at Kotta Kambalapally in the Nalgonda district.

June 24: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a leader of the Congress party, Shaik Sabakthulla, at Madithadu village in the Cuddapah district.

June 22: A Reserve Sub-Inspector, Narasimhulu, is killed in an exchange of fire between a police party and Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist in the Reddipalle Cheruvu forest area of Cuddapah district.

June 19: CPI-Maoist cadres kill three Telugu Desam Party activists and injure two others at Yachavaram village in the Prakasam district.

May 27: A police personnel, B. Samuel, is killed and two civilians sustain injuries during an attack by CPI-Maoist cadres belonging to the Palnadu dalam at Kocherla in the Guntur district. The Maoists subsequently decamped with an SLR and 20 rounds of ammunition from the police personnel.

May 26: A 10-year-old boy dies after being caught in the cross-fire when three CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a Congress leader, Nasara Reddy, at Thamadapalli in the Ongole area of Prakasam district. Subsequently, they shot dead Nasara Reddy and escaped from the village.

May 20: Naxalites belonging to the CPI-Maoist shot dead the village chief of Nakirekallu, identified as Sagam Anji Reddy, in the Guntur district.

May 14: In the Anantapur district, cadres of the CPI-Maoist kill a Congress activist at Katrimala village.

April 27: Suspected Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist trigger a claymore mine explosion targeting the police chief of Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh, Mahesh Chandra Laddha, in the Ongole town. Two civilians die and nine others sustain injuries in the blast.

April 22: Naxalites of the CPI-ML Janashakthi and CPI-Maoist kill three civilians at different places in Andhra Pradesh.

A Janashakthi cadre, Koppala Srinivasa Rao of the Naguleti squad, is killed during an encounter with the police at Dachepalli in the Guntur district. The police recover a 9 mm pistol and a kit bag from the incident site.

April 20: Two women Naxalites belonging to the Chandravanka squad of the CPI-Maoist are killed in an encounter with the police at Marrivemula village on the borders of Prakasam and Guntur districts. The police recover two weapons of the slain Naxalites from the incident site.

April 19: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill Golla Adinarayana, a community leader, at Peddakondapuram village in the Anantapur district.

April 17: Four Naxalites belonging to the Korukonda squad of the CPI-Maoist, including three women cadre, are killed in an encounter with the police near Gunukurai village in the Visakhapatnam district. The police seize two .303 rifles, one DBBL and six kitbags from the encounter site.

April 11: Naxalites of the CPI-ML Janashakthi kill a community leader, Konganti Komuraiah, belonging to the Congress party at Kantathmakur village in the Warangal district.

April 10: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a Congress activist, Sainath Reddy, at Narsimpalli in the Anantapur district.

April 7: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a Telugu Desam Party leader in the Nalgonda district.

The CPI-Maoists kill a civilian, Kantiah, branding him as a police informer, at Banal village in the Mahabubnagar district.

April 6: Two suspected CPI-ML. Janashakthi cadres kill a former Naxalite, Peddolla Mallaiah, of Mallupalli village in the Medak district, branding him a police informer.

April 3: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a Congress party activist, Madhusudana Reddy, and set ablaze six State Road Transport Corporation buses in the Mahabubnagar district and another bus in Guntur district.

One CPI-Maoist activist, Boya Krishna alias Sridhar, is killed in an encounter with the police near Bhavapuram village in Kurnool district. Police recover one country-made grenade, three unused cartridges and an unexploded grenade from the incident site.

April 2: Two senior Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist, including a woman, are killed during an encounter with the police on the outskirts of Achampet in the Mahabubnagar district.

April 1: Two Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill the father of a surrendered Naxalite, Dadi Sattireddy, at Palivela village in the Nalgonda district.

March 31: A police constable, Shankar Naik is killed and two other constables are injured when suspected Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist attack the Achampet police station in Mahabubnagar district.

March 29: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist after blasting an abandoned police station near Ongole in the Prakasam district kill a person branding him as a police informer, assault a Telegu Desam Party activist, blast a house and set ablaze four wine shops.

March 27: Four Naxalites of the CPI-ML Praja Pratighatna are killed in an exchange of fire with the police in Warangal district.

March 22: A group of ten Naxalites of the Janashakthi group shot dead a former Naxalite, Ganti Devaiah, at Konaraopeta in the Karimnagar district after branding him a police informer.

A former Naxalite, Pappula Mallesh, is shot dead by unidentified persons at Sarvail in the Nalgonda district.

March 20: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill two persons branding them police informers in two separate incidents in Andhra Pradesh. In Medak district, they reportedly beat to death an ex -Naxalite at Pallepahad village and in another incident, they shot dead Ryapalli Sreenu at Banala in the Mahabubnagar district.

March 18: Three suspected CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a police constable of the Balanagar police station on the Hyderabad-Bangalore National Highway No. 7 in Mahabubnagar district.

Four Naxalites are killed in an encounter with the police in Warangal district. The deceased included a senior Naxalite, who was suspected to be the ‘secretary’ of CPI Maoist group, Warangal and Khammam districts.

March 17: Naxalites belonging to the Penna Ahobilam Area Dalam (squad) shot dead a Telegu Desam Party (TDP) activist Venkatramudu at Jarutla Rampuram village in the Anantapur district branding him as police informer.

A former Naxalite is shot dead by the Maoists at Indupriyal village in the Medak district.

March 15: Two police personnel were killed and one another sustained injuries when CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire targeting a patrol party at Dandu Malkapur in the Nalgonda district.

March 11: A group of approximately 15 suspected CPI-Maoist cadres kill five police personnel and two civilians after raiding a police station at Chilakaluripeta in the Guntur district.

CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead Bangaru Mallesh, a former Naxalite, and injure another person branding them as police informers at Ajillapur in the Mahabubnagar district.

March 10: An action team of the CPI-Maoist killed a person, Bomma China Venkatesham, at Vadderagudem in the Nalgonda district.

March 7: Police shot dead ten CPI-Maoist cadres, including ‘district command secretary’ Ramesh, during an encounter in the Manala forests of Nizamabad district. Ramesh was also a member of the outfit’s ‘Northern Telengana special zonal committee’.

One police constable is killed in an exchange of fire with suspected CPI-Maoist cadres in the Sileru police station area of Visakhapatnam district.

March 3: CPI-Maoist kill a former Naxalite, Bhanot Raju alias Sambaiah, near Sultanpur village in the Warangal district holding him responsible for the Oddegudem incident in which two Naxalites were killed and the ‘Division Committee Secretary’ D.V.K. Swamy alias Yadanna was injured.

March 2: Four Naxalites belonging to the Peddapalli Local Guerilla Squad kill Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader, P Balwanth Rao, in the Kalva Srirampur area of Kurnool district.

March 1: CPI-Maoist cadres kill eight civilians and chopped off the limbs of two others belonging to the upper castes at Vempenta village in Kurnool district.

February 28: A suspected CPI-Maoist cadre, belonging to the Indervelli squad, is killed during an encounter with the police at Babapur village in Adilabad district.

February 27: Police shot dead two women Naxalites, belonging to the Manthani Naresh local guerrilla squad, of the CPI-Maoist on the outskirts of Gopalpur in Karimnagar district. Four Naxalites, however, managed to escape from the encounter site.

February 26: The ‘upper plateau squad commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, Kiran alias Raghu alias Kuppa Narayappa, is killed in an exchange of fire between Naxalites and the police at B.K. Uppanuntala in the Mahabubnagar district.

February 19: Two TDP activists are shot dead by the CPI-Maoist at Papinenipally in the Prakasam district after being branded as police informers.

February 16: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a civilian, Bandaru Vijaybhaskar, at Lalipuram village in Guntur district, branding him a police informer.

February 12: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a village community leader, identified as G Mohan Rao, branding him to be a police informer, at Gopalraopet village under Pinapaka administrative division of Khammam district.

February 8: Naxalites belonging to the Guttikonda squad of the CPI-Maoist shot dead two civilians suspecting them as police informers at Miryal village in the Guntur district.

A surrendered Naxalite, identified as Narasimha Rao, is shot dead by the CPI-Maoist cadres after branding him a police informer at Takkelapadu village in the same district.

February 6: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist Sirnapally-Bheemgal squad kill a former Naxalite, Chintalawada Srinivas alias Shyam, between Pothunur and Rekulapally villages in the Nizamabad district.

February 3: Four CPI-Maoist cadres, including a 'commander', are killed in an encounter with the police near Sivam village in the Adilabad district.

February 1: In Adilabad district, six members of the Indervelli squad of the CPI-Maoist kill a retired Government employee, Damodar Rao, branding him a police informer.

January 30: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a surrendered Naxalite, identified as V. Ramesh alias Murali, branding him a police informer, at Begumpet village in the Karimnagar district.

January 27: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a lawyer, identified as Annapureddy Ravi Kumar, at Gummmanampadu village in the Guntur district.

January 24: Four Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist belonging to the ‘Sagar area committee squad’ shot dead a TDP leader, Hanmanthu Chandriah Goud, at Devarakonda in the Nalgonda district.

January 23: A teenager, belonging to a tribal community, is shot dead by CPI-Maoist cadres belonging to the Krishnapatti squad at Peddagattu in the Nalgonda district.

January 21: CPI-Maoist activists shot dead a TDP activist, Kotturi Pocham, at Ankoda under Easgaon police station limits in the Adilabad district.

January 20: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a TDP activist at Morjampadu village in the Machavaram administrative division of Guntur district.

January 19: A Naxalite belonging to the Penna Ahobilam squad of the CPI-Maoist is killed in an encounter with the police at Jarutlarampuram village in Anantapur district while another is arrested at the same place.

January 18: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres kill two civilians in separate incidents at Mukundapuram and Kalagalla villages under Garladinne and Kuderu administrative division in the Anantapur district.

January 16: Two Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist are killed in an encounter with the police in the Warangal district.

Naxalites also kill a former Naxalite, Narsimhlu, at Srigadha village in the Karimnagar district.

January 15: Six CPI-Maoist cadres are killed in two separate encounters with the police in the Prakasam and Mahabubnagar districts while a community leader of the Congress party is shot dead by Naxalites in the Karimnagar district.

January 13: The CPI-Maoist cadres kill a Home Guard, Sheikh Nazir, at Gundallupalli village in Guntur district, in retaliation to the earlier deaths of two Naxalites in police firing.

January 8: A woman Naxalite of the CPI-Maoist is killed and another extremist, Vijaya, is arrested after an exchange of fire between police and the former near J P Chervu in Prakasam district.

Jharkhand

2007

March 4: CPI-Maoist cadres 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.

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.

February 5: 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.

January 30: Security forces engaged the CPI-Maoist cadres in an encounter near Satbahani river in the Chatra district.

January 23: 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.

2006

December 10: CPI-Maoist cadres stopped the 346 Tata-Kharagpur passenger train near the Kanimouli station on the Gidhni-Chakulia line in the East Singhbhum district bordering West Bengal for about two hours. Maoists also looted two rifles and cash from the Railway Protection Force personnel escorting the train, snatched walkie-talkie sets from the guard and driver of the train.

December 2: A cadre of the CPI-Maoist was killed in an encounter with the police near Chat village in the Palamau district.

14 police personnel belonging to the Special Task Force of the Jharkhand Police were killed and three injured in a landmine blast detonated by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres at Kanchkir in the Bokaro district.

November 26: Two persons, Ajay and Hemant, were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres at Richughuta village in the Latehar district.

November 24: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a school building in the Latehar district. Superintendent of Police Ravikant Dhan said, ''The naxalites had targeted the Herhanj primary school under Balumath police station area earlier on two occasions."

October 31: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a vacated building close to two security force personnel camps, one belonging to the Border Security Force and the other to the Central Reserve Police Force near Madhuban police outpost in the Giridih district. Two landmines, each weighing 15 kilograms, were subsequently recovered from an adjacent building.

October 22: CPI-Maoist cadres abducted and killed a couple at Vishnugarh in the Hazaribagh district on suspicion that they were police informers.

October 15: CPI-Maoist cadres triggered an explosion on a railway track at Chegdo in the Giridih district damaging four metre-long track.

September 17: Police arrested ten people, including five minor girls, for allegedly helping CPI-Maoist cadres from a forest under Manika police station area in the Latehar district.

September 6: Three Central Reserve Police Force personnel were injured in a CPI-Maoist-triggered claymore mine explosion at Jhumra hill in the Bokaro district.

August 31: Jharkhand Police reportedly arrested a hardcore CPI-Maoist cadre, Pradeep Mondal alias Mahesjee alias Gopalji, from Itwa under Ghatshila police station in the East Singhbhum district.

August 22: Two police personnel were killed and another injured in six landmine blasts triggered by the CPI-Maoist at two different places under Barwadih police station of Latehar district.

August 14: Security force (SF) personnel claimed to have shot dead at least two CPI-Maoists during an encounter near Bitikilsoya inside Saranda forest in the West Singhbhum district.

August 6: SF personnel killed three Maoists at Garmorwa near Lohawat Pahaad, between the Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand and Gaya district of Bihar.

July 26: Jharkhand Police arrests Phul Kumari alias Phulo, 25-year-old chief of the CPI-Maoist women’s wing, in Chhattisgarh.

July 20: An ‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist is arrested at Latehar with three guns and ammunition from his possession.

July 15: Two sympathisers of the extremist group, Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC) were killed by cadres of the rival CPI -Maoist in Gogo village of Palamu district.

June 26: At least 400 CPI-Maoists attacked a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp killing one CRPF personnel in the Hazaribagh district.

June 22: CPI-Maoist kills five unidentified cadres of its splinter outfit, Maoist Communist Centre (MCC-TC), in a factional clash at Bhuiandih village in the Chatra district.

June 20: A postman, Digvijay Singh, was shot dead by the CPI-Maoist cadres at an unspecified place in the Bokaro district. June 14: CPI-Maoist gives a two-day economic blockade call beginning from

June 14: in Jharkhand while threatening to punish those who defy it.

June 12: SFs neutralised a CPI-Maoist hideout in the Jhumra hills between Aman and Beltharwa village and reportedly recovered a diary, that contained information about the donors and supporters of the ‘Red brigade’, along with Rupees 1.37 lakh, detonators, gelatine sticks and Maoist literature.

June 3: Bokaro police arrested a member of the CPI-Maoist central Jharkhand area committee, identified as Sukhram Manjhi, from the Khirachatar village in Kasmar block. Maoists kill three civilians in the Hadian village under the Ghorabandha police station of Jamshedpur district.

June 1: At least 12 police personnel were killed when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a landmine explosion in the West Singhbhum district.

May 28: Police arrested four Maoists while they were going to attend a jan adalat (kangaroo court) in Bajto village under Muffassil police station of Giridih district. Suspected Maoists set ablaze four trucks and construction equipment belonging to a Jamshedpur-based firm near Ghorebandha in East Singhbhum district, for failing to pay up the ‘levy’ demanded.

May 24: At Meghania village in the Chatra district, a group of suspected Maoists blew up a school building.

May 21: Police arrested four CPI-Maoist cadres along with three police rifles, 14 live cartridges and Maoist literature from the Garhwa district.

May 13: A suspected CPI-Maoist cadre was shot at and injured while another was arrested after a shootout with the police at Ranka in the Garwah district.

May 12: Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Prakash Orang alias Deepak, and recovered Rupees 90,000 in cash from his possession from Helsalong area under Khelari police station in the Ranchi district.

May 4: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested from Nawadih.

May 2: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the Panchayat (local self-government) building and community centre with six rooms at Khukhra village in the Giridih district.

May 1: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a house at Muktama village in the Chatra district.

April 30: A woman cadre of the CPI-Maoist was killed and another injured in an encounter between security forces and Maoists at Sukhnadi village in the Garwah district. CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a police picket at Khukra village in the Giridih district.

April 27: Police seized 1818 detonators, 773 gelatin sticks, 180 fuse wire, 13 kilograms of explosive material, two to three kilogram of chemicals and other explosives from a CPI-Maoist hideout in the Khunti village of Ranchi district. A senior CPI-Maoist leader, Marshal Tuti, was arrested during a raid conducted in Tamar, Arki and Bundu police station areas of Ranchi district.

April 24: CPI-Maoists blew up of a police picket at Mcluiskieganj under Khelari police station area. Hazaribagh district police arrests a CPI-Maoist cadre, Ramvikash Yadav, from Chouparan.

April 23: CPI-Maoist cadres killed one of their former activists, Jagdish Sao, at Bagra village in the Chatra district.

April 22: CPI-Maoists set ablaze a contractor’s truck near Tubet river in the Latehar district.

April 20: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the ancestral house of Jharkhand Water Resources Minister Kamlesh Kumar Singh at Kamgarpur village in the Palamau district.

April 19: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze a machine and two vehicles of a construction company at Gola in the Hazaribagh district.

April 18: CPI-Maoist cadres triggered three powerful explosions damaging three buildings under construction in the Police Line, a kilometer away from Chatra town. The incident occurred during the 24-hour bandh (shutdown) called by the Maoists in the Garhwa, Seraikela-Kharsawan and East Singhbhum districts.

April 12: A group of 40 Maoists abducted six persons engaged in a bridge construction at Dasligaon, on the National Highway No. 23 bordering the Gumla and Simdega districts.

March 29: Six police personnel, including the officer in-charge of the Dumaria police station, sustained injuries when cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered a landmine blast near Bakrakota hills in the East Singhbhum district. The police claimed to have killed five Maoists in an hour-long encounter with the Maoists following the blast, although no bodies could be recovered from the spot.

March 26: Five cadres of the CPI-Maoist surrendered in Giridih before the district Superintendent of Police Arun Kumar Singh.

March 22: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot dead a forest guard and injured another one on the Hazaribag-Bagodar National Highway in Hazaribagh district.

March 20: Police killed ten CPI-Maoist cadres in an encounter on the Jharkhand-Bihar border.

March 17: CPI-Maoist cadres killed four Jharkhand Armed Police personnel, after burning down a passenger bus near Kalimati village in the Panki police station jurisdiction of Palamau district.

March 13: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist captured the 628 Down Barwadih-Mughalsarai passenger train carrying more than 100 passengers near the Heyagarha station in Latehar district.

March 4: Police shot dead CPI-Maoist 'zonal commander', Jagannath Koira, and arrested another Maoist in an encounter at Khukhuma under Bisanpur police station of Palamu district.

March 3: CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a Central Industrial Security Force camp and a police outpost near Chandrapura in the Bokaro district, killing seven SF personnel.

February 28: Two civilians were killed by the CPI-Maoist in Chatra district.

February 8: A CPI-Maoist cadre is killed while five police personnel are injured during an encounter at Horli village in the Bokaro district.

February 6: CPI-Maoist cadres blow up a portion of the Karampeda railway station in the West Singhbhum district.

February 1: A CPI-Maoist cadre is killed and three woman cadres are arrested during an encounter with the police in the Lalgara forest area under the Chhatarpur police station of Palamu district.

January 31: A Special Task Force (STF) personnel is killed and three others were critically injured in an exchange of fire with CPI-Maoist cadres at Manjhipara village under Kunda police station in the Chatra district.

January 26: In Palamu district, an unspecified number of CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the Hariharganj police station and Chattarpur Deputy Superintendent of Police’s bungalow-cum-office. District police chief, Udayan Singh, said at least ten Maoists were killed or seriously injured in the subsequent encounter between the two sides.

January 26: CPI-Maoist cadres exchange gunfire with police in the Manoharpur area of West Singhbhum district. Bodies of two police personnel and two Maoists were recovered from the forests. In Chatra district, one police personnel and a villager were killed after Maoists blew up a culvert on the Simria main road. In the Giridih district, two villagers were killed in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists.

January 15: A Railway Protection Force personnel is killed in an encounter with cadres of the CPI-Maoist in the Chaibasa area of West Singhbhum district.

January 4: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a wall at an under construction police quarters' site in the Lesliganj area of Palamau district.

January 1: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze six dumper vehicles and injured six labourers engaged in the laying of railway track between Parmatand and Marham villages in Hazaribagh district.

2005

December 28: At least 15 CPI-Maoist armed cadres attacked a patrolling jeep of the Central Coal Fields Limited security team and shot dead a security guard at Piparwar in the Chatra district.

December 23: 'Zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, Tilak Ganju, is arrested from Urub village under Samaria police station in the Chatra district.

December 16: Police arrest a ‘zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, Sanjay Yadav alias Nitishji, from Hazaribagh district.

December 4: Navin Bhattacharjee, an 'executive council' member of the CPI-Maoist, is arrested from Saranda forest in the Chaibasa district.

November 15: Three Maoists were killed in an encounter with the police in the Hazaribagh district. Police said several people, including two Maoists, were arrested and a Maoist camp was neutralised atop Neri hills during the operation.

November 11: Over a hundred cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked a home guard training centre at Pachamba in the Giridih district and shot dead five persons, including four home guards, and injured 16 persons. District police chief Bhageswar Jha said the Maoists also looted 183 rifles, two pistols and 2500 cartridges.

November 7: The Jharkhand Liberation Tigers, a criminal group having linkages with the Maoists, killed four civilians at Lodhma under the Karra police station area of Ranchi district.

November 7: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed three civilians in the Chatra district.

October 16: CPI-Maoist cadres kill the State President of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kisan Morcha at Simeria in the Chatra district.

October 8: Thirteen security force personnel are killed in a bomb blast triggered by CPI-Maoist cadres near Baniadih village in the Chatra district.

October 5: Two CPI-Maoist cadres are killed in an encounter with police personnel at Dandila Hills in the Chandrapura village of Palamau district.

September 24: Jharkhand Rural Development Minister Enos Ekka escapes a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists near Kolibira Ghati in the Simdega district.

September 18: Police arrest four cadres of the CPI-Maoist from Pocharduman village under Bhagwanpur block in the Garhwa district.

September 12: Naxalites explode bombs targeting the vehicle of an investigation team near Sonadeni in the Giridih district of Jharkhand in which the driver of the vehicle is killed and two other members of the team are injured

September 12: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist kill 17 civilians at Belwadari village in the Giridih district. Six others are also injured in the attack.

August 31: Four civilians are killed by Maoists of the Jan Sangharsh Janamukti Morcha near Turudi village in the Latehar district.

August 26: An unidentified Maoist is killed in a bomb explosion, which was targeted at security force personnel in the Gudabanda jungles of East Singhbhum district.

August 13: The CPI-Maoist blew up three government buildings in Ghorighat under Pratapgarh police station of Chatra district.

August 11: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist blew up a railway track near Kumandih railway station in the Latehar district, while enforcing the 24-hour Palamau division shutdown called by them to protest against the State Government's proposal to set up 71 new police stations and launching a field firing range at Netarhat.

July 6: CPI-Maoist cadres kill a civilian, Babloo Gupta, at Tarvadih village in the Palamu district after branding him as a police informer.

July 5: CPI-Maoist beheads three members belonging to the Shanti Sena (peace squad), an anti-Naxalite campaigning group, after seizing all their household goods and destroying their houses, at Khairpani village in Gumla district. The CPI-Maoist was retaliating at the formation of such squads in Gumla which reportedly function with support from the state administration.

June 6: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill an employee of the Gomia government hospital, identified as Bhagwat Sav, at Lalpiniya Chowk in the Bokaro district.

May 1: Villagers of Reichie in the Latehar district lynch two suspected CPI-Maoist cadres after they burnt down three houses and opened fire on the villagers.

April 20: Activists of the Jan Sangharsh Jan Mukti Manch, a renegade Naxalite outfit, kill three labourers near the Chingri-Nawadih village under Bishunpur police station in the Gumla district. They also injure eight others and abduct two labourers.

March 25: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist shot dead a civilian, identified as Hamid Mian, in the Palamu district after branding him as a police informer.

March 11: Suspected Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist shot dead a civilian, Barik Mian, at Chandwa in the East Singhbhum district.

March 8: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill Ashok Singh of Katkamsandi village in Hazaribagh district as ‘punishment’ for his failure to provide information about his friend, who is allegedly wanted in several cases of molestation.

February 22: Activists of the CPI-Maoist kill a civilian, Jivlal Mahto, at Tengra More in Pordang village for "going against the organisation’s poll boycott call" in the Giridih district. Mahto was apparently the first to vote at a polling booth in Jharkhand on February 3.

A security force personnel is killed and two others are injured during a landmine blast, allegedly triggered by the CPI-Maoist, at Jhumra hill in Bokaro district.

February 3: Seven police personnel are killed during a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist in Palamu district, as polling began for the first phase of Assembly elections.

January 29: Three suspected CPI-Maoist cadres are killed and six others sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at Bakadjholi village in the Nawada district. The incident occurred while the Naxalites were making bombs to allegedly create disturbances in the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections in the State.

January 23: Six Naxalites are killed during a clash between rival outfits in the Latehar district. According to police, the incident occurred during an armed clash between members of the CPI-Maoist and the Sangharsh Jan Mukti Morcha (SJMM) in Boda village. The CPI-Maoist had given a boycott call for the February 3 Legislative Assembly elections in the State while the SJMM is reportedly opposed to such a call. SJMM is a breakaway group of the Naxalites.

January 16: Three suspected Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist shot dead Mahendra Prasad Singh, a Member of the Legislative Assembly, at Durgi Dhabaiya village in the Giridih district.

January 6: Six CPI-Maoist cadres are killed in an encounter with the Jharkhand Police at Balalong village in Ranchi district.

Bihar

2007

February 27: 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.

CPI-Maoist cadres 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.

January 31: 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.

January 22: 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.

January 20: 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.

2006

October 31: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze three buses at Balua-Gausnagar village under Runni Saidpur police station in the Sitamarhi district. They also assaulted the cleaner of the bus, who had to be hospitalised.

October 30: Police recovered a number of fake bombs planted by the CPI-Maoists at strategic locations in Mahua in the Vaishali district.

CPI-Maoist extremists triggered two blasts in the West Champaran district targeting an office of the Forest Department in Ramnagar, a mine near Chamua railway station on the Narkatiaganj-Gorakhpur section under the Samastipur division of the East Central Railway.

Bihar Police sounds a high alert in the Maoist–affected north and southern parts of the State and intensified patrolling in view of the bandh (general strike) called by the CPI-Maoist on October 30 in protest against the arrest of its top leaders.

October 24: An encounter was reported between cadres of the Third Conference faction of the Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC) and the CPI-Maoist at an unspecified location in the Latehar district.

October 12: Four CPI-Maoist cadres, including an ‘area commander’ identified as Sahu, were arrested from an unspecified village under Nasriganj block in the Rohtas district.

October 14: Two CPI-Maoist members, wanted in several criminal cases, were arrested from the Town police station area of Jehanabad district.

October 11: Police arrested Nirmal Oraon, an ‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, near Jairagi village under Dumri police station in the Gumla district subsequent to an hour-long encounter.

October 8: Three villagers were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres after alleging them of being police informers at Itkhori in Chatra district.

October 3: In a raid at Nanaikela village in the Chatra district, police arrested four Maoists and recovered two pistols and 20 cartridges from them.

A CPI-Maoist cadre was injured during an encounter in a forest area near Itkhori in the Chatra district. A rifle, a pistol, 20 cartridges, uniform and Maoist literature were recovered from the encounter site.

CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as Uday Ram, at Nageshwar village in the Palamu district. A CPI-Maoist cadre, Jai Masih Charad alias Raghu, who was involved in the Baliba massacre of April 7, 2004, was arrested from Sonua police station area of West Singhbhum district.

September 26: A senior CPI-Maoist leader, Keshwar Yadav, was arrested at Namkom near Ranchi.

August 31: Security forces recovered 125 new uniforms, bombs, bullets, empty cartridges and party literature from a CPI-Maoist hideout at Matgaddha under Mohanapur police station in the Gaya district.

August 18: Ten suspected CPI-Maoist cadres, including an ‘area commander’, were arrested from a village under the Mufassil police station of Gaya district.

August 14: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested from a village under the Konch police station in Gaya district.

July 25: CPI-Maoist cadres attacked Rafiganj station on the Gaya-Mughalsarai section in Aurangabad district and killed one Railway Protection Force personnel.

July 23: Three persons were killed and five others injured by the CPI-Maoist at Khaira village in Lakhisarai district.

July 4: Hundreds of armed CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the Tankuppa police outpost in Gaya district and blew up the building using dynamites killing an Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police and a police constable.

June 14: Police arrests four CPI-Maoists, including an ‘area commander’ wanted by both the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh Police, in the Phulwarisharif area of Patna city and seized a large cache of arms and Maoist literature from their possession.

May 25: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a rest house at Bhimbandh, a popular tourist destination around 60 kilometers from the Munger district headquarters.

May 14: An ‘area commander’, Shivshanker Yadav, of the CPI-Maoist was killed in an encounter with the police at Dirheta village under Atri police station of Gaya district.

May 5: In a joint operation, the Special Task Force, the Bihar Military Police and Jamui police shot dead five CPI-Maoist cadres in the Lenin Nagar under Sikandara police station of Jamui district.

April 26: CPI-Maoists abducted three railway staff of Narganjo station, eight kilometers from Jhajha under Kiul-Asansol section of the Eastern Railway, soon after demolishing the cabin in the halt station.

April 24: Madanpur block Janata Dal (United) president Ashok Singh and six of his supporters were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres near Devjada village in the Aurangabad district. Maoists blew up railway tracks near Dashrathpur railway station on the Kiul-Bhagalpur loop section.

April 21: 11 suspected activists of the CPI-Maoist were arrested at Kevari village under Kudra police station in the Kaimur district.

April 9: CPI-Maoists blew up a railway station and portions of a railway track in the Gaya district to enforce a strike called by them to protest against the arrest of their top leaders.

April 5: CPI-Maoist called for a chakka jam (transport strike) in Jehanabad district to protest the recent arrest of its leaders, including the ‘commander’ of the ‘Magadh zone’ Guddu Sharma alias Arjun, and the ‘Patna rural district area commander’, Brinda Singh.

April 3: A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Akhileshwar Prasad, was killed during an encounter with cadres of the CPI-Maoist in the Rohtas district.

April 2: Armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist laid siege to the Nadaul railway station in the Patna district for nearly two hours.

March 27: An Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police and a CPI-Maoist cadre were killed in an encounter near Nanoura village under Ghorasahan police station near the India-Nepal border in East Champaran district.

March 20: About 50 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed one of its former activists, Vishwanath Rai Yadav, and his son Sunil Rai at Champapur village in the East Champaran district.

March 16: Armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot dead a former activist of the outfit near Nonpur village of Begusarai district for allegedly working as a police informer.

March 14: A 'zonal commander' of the CPI-Maoist, Satyendra Yadav, who was wanted in connection with the Jehanabad prison attack, and his associate, Kesar Yadav, were arrested from Murgiachak village under Bhagwanganj police station in the Jehanabad district.

March 5: Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist are killed and two SF personnel sustain injuries as police foil an attempt by the former to loot firearms from the Umaria police station in Gaya district.

January 25: CPI-Maoist cadres blow up a culvert near Azad Bigaha village between Paraiya and Guraru railway stations in the Gaya district.

January 24: Maoists attacked a police outpost in the Banka district by exploding bombs and stabbed a police personnel, critically injuring him.

January 18: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze 12 tractors of a contractor engaged in constructing a canal at Cherthu-Parbalpur village in the Nalanda district.

January 15: Seven CPI-Maoist cadres, including a ‘area commander’, all suspected to be involved in the Jehanabad district jail attack, are arrested from separate places in the Patna district.

January 3: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a former Member of the Legislative Assembly, Hari Prasad, in the Chainpur area of Bhabua district.

2005

December 30: Two civilians with alleged criminal records are shot dead and another was injured in an exchange of fire with CPI-Maoist cadres in the Ojhadih village of Jamui district.

December 29: Six CPI-Maoist cadres are killed and five others arrested in an encounter between Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and the Maoists at Khutouna Sareh village under Patahi police station in the East Champaran district.

December 28: A CPI-Maoist cadre is killed and two CRPF personnel are injured in an exchange of fire at Betawna Uttar in the East Champaran district.

December 20: A CPI-Maoist cadre is killed in an encounter with the police personnel at Bhadokra under Tilothu police station in Rohtas district.

December 19: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a stone crushing plant of former Bharatiya Janata Party President Gopal Narain Singh at Karwandia in the Rohtas district.

December 19: Eighteen CPI-Maoist cadres, including two 'area commanders' Naresh Ram and Nemi Chand Ram, surrender with their weapons in the Muzaffarpur district.

December 11: CPI-Maoist raid Betauna village under the Patahi police station in East Champaran district and kill the village headman of Betauna, Jitendra Singh.

December 2: Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including 'Area Commander' Rajdeo, are arrested from a village under Govindpur police station in the Nawada district.

November 14: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed nine of the Ranvir Sena hostages they had abducted from the Jehanabad district jail on November 13.

November 13: Approximately thousand cadres of the CPI-Maoist launched near simultaneous attacks on the jail, police lines and a paramilitary camp at Jehanabad, killing four persons and injuring five others. Two Maoists were also killed in the incident. 341 of the jail's 600 odd prisoners, including Ajay Kanu, ‘state secretary’ of the CPI-Maoist, and several other cadres of the outfit, were set free and approximately 12 activists of the Ranvir Sena, a private army of upper-caste landowners, were abducted.

November 3: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist kill four police personnel, including the Officer in-Charge of Anandpur police station, and decamped with their firearms in Banka district.

October 1: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres kill the stationmaster of Jamuawa railway station in Gaya district.

September 10: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist kill a police officer during an exchange of fire at Badkagaon in the Bhojpur district and injure two police personnel.

September 2: The police arrested an 'area commander', identified as Laxman Ram, of the CPI-Maoist from Dhandawa Bigaha in the Aurangabad district and recovered one country made gun, an unspecified number of live cartridges and some Maoist literature from him.

September 1: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist blow up the administrative office of a company involved in constructing roads in Bihar under the Golden Quadrilateral project. Police said that around 50 Maoists used dynamites to blow up the office of the East Coast Insulation Construction Company near Tarachandi village in Sasaram district.

August 12: CPI-Maoist cadres attack the Chabilapur police station in Nalanda district killing two persons, including one police personnel, and injuring three others. The Maoists also loot seven rifles, two carbines and 250 rounds of ammunition from the police station.

July 24: CPI-Maoists kill one person and chop the hands of three others at a 'people's court' in the Tertaille village of Jamui district.

July 23: Two civilians are killed by the Naxalites in Aurangabad district.

July 22: CPI-Maoist kills four civilians near Raghunathpur village in the Aurangabad district.

Naxalites attack a police patrolling team under Khijarsarai police station limits in the Gaya district killing two police personnel and injuring two others. They subsequently decamp with four rifles.

June 27: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres kill police personnel, identified as Rajendra Singh, in the Pipradi Sultan forest area of Sitamarhi district.

June 26: Two separate encounters between the Bihar Police and cadres of the CPI-Maoist lead to the death of one police personnel and a civilian at Piprahi village in the Sitamarhi district. The encounter also resulted in injuries to six police personnel and the arrest of an equal number of Maoists.

June 24: Security forces kill at least 20 Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist during a nightlong operation in Bihar’s East Champaran and Sheohar districts along the India-Nepal border. Three of the killed were apparently of Nepali origin. The police seize two SLRs and two rifles from the fleeing Naxalites.

June 23: Four Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist and three police personnel are killed in an attack by the former in the Madhuban block of Bihar's East Champaran district.

April 12: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoists kill two farmers in the Rohtas district.

April 6: Armed criminals with allegiance to Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a Government Railway Protection (GRP) personnel and injure another on the Patna-Jha Jha train at Katauna in the Jamui district during an attempt to steal police rifles.

March 27: Two Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist are shot dead during an encounter with the police near Dumarkhar forest in the Rohtas district. Police recover two rifles, 10 kilograms of explosives, an unspecified number of detonators and some Naxalite literature from the incident site.

March 23: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a civilian, Krishna Paswan, near Satwat village in the Aurangabad district.

March 9: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead Raju Singh, one of the abductees, and release 10 others in the Rohtas district. The Naxalites had abducted 11 devotees when they were going to the Guptadham Temple in the district on March 8.

February 24: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres kill a farmer and blow up four houses by detonating dynamites at Ganiari village in the Arwal district.

February 3: Two police personnel and a civilian are killed and another police personnel is wounded during an attack by the CPI-Maoist at Shankarpur village in Gaya district.

January 22: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill four Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) activists in the Gaya district.

January 5: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres kill the Munger Superintendent of Police, K.C. Surendra Babu, and six police personnel in a landmine explosion near the Bhimbandh area.

Maharashtra

2007

February 28: CPI-Maoist cadres kill a civilian Patali Zhole of Tambda village in the Gadchiroli district suspecting him to be a police informer.

February 18: CPI-Maoist cadres kill Dolu Zhure, a police informer of Kamke village in the Gadchiroli district.

January 4: CPI-Maoist cadres kill Haridas Korami, a civilian of Ghotsur village in the Gadchiroli district suspecting him to be a police informer.

2006

December 10: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist stopped a Mumbai bound goods train between Bortalao and Darekasa railway stations in the Gondia district, bordering Chhattisgarh, and set ablaze its engine. They also pasted posters near the railway crossing announcing a bandh (general strike) in Gondia and Gadchiroli districts on December 15.

November 26: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with police between Mayalghat and Kalagaon on the Gondia-Gadchiroli district border.

October 27: Eight CPI-Maoist cadres, including a 17-year-old girl, laid down their arms at Nagpur.

October 12: Police in Nagpur said that seven Maoists were arrested from the Vidarbha region in two separate operations on October 11 and 12. Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested in Gondia and three Maoists were arrested from the Gadchiroli district.

October 1: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with the police near Pendhari village in the Gadchiroli district. Police also said that two to three police personnel sustained minor injuries in the exchange of fire that broke out in the area.

September 18: A police personnel was killed and another injured in an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres at Chaandsuraj village in the Gondia district.

August 12: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with the police at Sohgam forest in the Etapalli area of Gadchiroli district.

June 30: An unidentified CPI-Maoist was killed in an encounter with police personnel at a place between Botanfundi and Kudkeli in the Gadchiroli district.

June 11: Two Maoists were killed in an encounter with police personnel at Mulundmatha area in the Gadchiroli district.

May 25: At least six CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in a shootout with the police near Kasampalli village in the Gadchiroli district.

May 16: In a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist, 12 members of a marriage party were killed between the Halebada and Patha villages in Gadchiroli district.

May 15: Gadchiroli police claimed to have killed at least three CPI-Maoist cadres in an encounter at Madveli.

April 19: Two police personnel were killed following a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist in Gadchiroli district.

March 14: CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a landmine explosion near Pendhari forest in the Gadchiroli district, injuring four police personnel.

January 26: CPI-Maoist cadres set on fire furniture of a Public Works Department rest-house at Deovardha village in the Gadchiroli district.

January 24: CPI-Maoist cadres burnt down a mobile relay unit section of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited at Korchi in the Gadchiroli district.

January 22: A tleast 15 CPI-Maoist attacked a police check-post at Bonde village in the Gondia district.

January 20: One CPI-Maoist cadre is killed and five others are wounded in an encounter with the police in the Dodi Tola forest of Gadchiroli district.

January 13: CPI-Maoist cadres kill a Border Roads Organisation engineer and assault an overseer near Jimmalgatta in the Gadchiroli district.

January 1: Six CPI-Maoist cadres are killed in an encounter with police personnel near Pendhri on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border in Gadchiroli district.

2005

December 26: Four CPI-Maoist cadres are killed in an encounter with the police in the Gyarabatti area of Gadchiroli district.

August 30: The Maharashtra Home Minister, R. R. Patil, announces an incentive-based surrender scheme for Naxalites in the State. The scheme, in force for the next six months, involves cash benefits to those surrendering and providing them self-employment and education.

July 6: Maharashtra Government announces an amnesty scheme for the Naxalites. "The state government would implement amnesty scheme for Naxalites who are active in the state and registered in either Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh." Those surrendering will be given a 'cash prize' immediately and additional money would be given if they surrender with weapons.

July 3: Three police personnel are killed and two others sustain injuries when a group of CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire on a police patrolling party in the Dhanura administrative division of Gadchiroli district.

May 30: Seven police personnel and a civilian are killed in a landmine blast triggered by suspected Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist on Deori-Chichgad road in the Gondia district. Two police personnel were wounded, while two others who were accompanying the police party escaped unhurt.

February 22: Five police personnel are killed and 12 others sustain injuries during a CPI-Maoist attack in the Gadchiroli district.

January 30: CPI-Maoist cadres kill a civilian, suspecting him to be a police informer, at Etapalli in the Gadchiroli district.

Karnataka

2005

August 25: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the Divisional Forest Office (Wildlife), about 13 km from Sringeri on the border of the Chikmagalur and Udupi districts, and destroyed documents and furniture, besides setting a vehicle on fire.

May 13: A group of 12 to 15 Maoists attacked the house of a schoolteacher and damaged a television set at Nadapal in the Hebri police station limits of Udupi district.

May 5: A landlord was abducted by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres under Tirumani police station limits in the Tumkur district, on the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border.

September 21: Karnataka Police arrests a 'deputy commander' of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Gopi alias Vampshi alias Sheena alias Kondaiah, from the Tumkur district.

July 28: Eight police personnel are injured when CPI-Maoist cadres detonate three landmines at Mathav village in the Udupi district. 13 police personnel were traveling in the two jeeps and there were 15 personnel of the Karnataka State Reserve Police in the van, when the landmines were triggered. After the detonation, there was an exchange of fire between the two sides, in which no casualties were reported.

June 24: Two Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist are killed in an encounter with the police at Kattinadi in the Udupi district.

February 28: A media report says that the CPI-Maoist has formed a new ‘State Committee’ and that C. M. Noor Zulfikar alias Sridhar heads the same in Karnataka in place of Saket Rajan alias Prem, who was shot dead by police in Chikamagalur district on February 6, 2005. While Rajan led a six-member team, the new committee has seven members. The new team, which was refurbished in Bangalore, also includes a woman, Asha.

February 11: Seven police personnel and a civilian are killed and five others sustain injuries when approximately 300 suspected CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a Karnataka State Reserve Police camp with hand grenades at Venkammanahalli in the Tumkur district.

February 6: The police shot dead two CPI-Maoist cadres during an encounter at Kallugudde forests in the Chikamagalur district. Additional Director-General of Police, (Law and Order), Subhash Bharani, later states that one of the slain Naxalites was identified as Prem, ‘secretary’ of the Karnataka State Committee of the erstwhile People's War Group (PWG).

Chhattisgarh

2007

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.

February 14: CPI-Maoist killed three activists of the anti-Maoist vigilante movement, Salwa Judum, in the Bijapur area.

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.

February 11: CPI-Maoist cadres killed a tribal in Ader village, under the Faresgarh police station in the Bastar district.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2006

December 13: Three special police officers and a police constable were killed by a group of 250 CPI-Maoist cadres at a relief camp at Bansaguda in the Bijapur area of Dantewada district. The Maoists also took away arms and ammunition of the police personnel.

December 5: A group of Maoists made an unsuccessful attempt to target a patrol party in the Munga village of Bijapur district. They detonated four landmines without causing any casualties.

Security force personnel shot dead two Maoists and injured another near Basin village in the Bastar district.

December 2: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed and several others injured during an encounter with the CRPF personnel in the Cherpal forest area of Dantewada district.

November 28: Police personnel neutralised a CPI-Maoist hideout at Bailadila hills in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh and arrested an 'area commander', identified as Sonu Telam.

November 22: A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an encounter with the Central Reserve Police Force personnel in the Bhairamgarh area of Bijapur police district in Dantewada. Five other Maoists were arrested during the operation.

Two CPI-Maoist cadres from Jharkhand, Sanjay Singh and Lal Bihari, were killed in the Joba forest near Manikpur village of Sarguja. A 'zonal commander' of the outfit, Ram Singh Cherwa, escaped with bullet injuries.

October 31: Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed and several others injured after police personnel raided a hideout in the Narayanpur area of Bastar region.

October 27: Police claimed to have arrested three CPI-Maoists from the remote northeast Surguja region. Three people were killed by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres in Bastar region. Two bodies of tribals were recovered from a roadside in the Narayanpur area while a middle-aged anti-Maoist Salwa Judum activist was beaten to death in a nearby area.

October 22: Two CPI-Maoists, belonging to a Maoist frontal organization, Keskal dalam, were killed by police personnel in the Ghanora forest of Bastar district. CPI-Maoist cadres killed three abducted civilians, two men and one woman, in the thickly forested Abujhmad area in the Bastar district after holding them captive for at least 10 hours.

October 18: Women CPI-Maoist cadres detonated explosions targeting four Government buildings in the Kanker district.

October 3: Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed during an encounter with security forces in the Sarkeguda forest area of Dantewada district.

October 2: Three villagers were killed when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered landmine blasts near Nakanpal village in the Bijapur police district of Dantewada district. CPI-Maoist cadres killed a 45-yr-old person after dragging him out of his house in an unspecified village under Usoor police station area of Dantewada district.

September 30: Three villagers, including a former Sarpanch (village head) were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres for their involvement in the anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign at Bijapur police district of Dantewada district.

September 25: Superintendent of Police of Kanker district, Pradeep Gupta, said that two CPI-Maoists were arrested during an operation. Five CPI-Maoist cadres were killed by security force personnel in an encounter in the Udchali forest area of Narayanpur police district in Dantewada district.

September 24: A CPI-Maoist cadre shot dead a Congress party activist, Santram Usedi, near Ghanora village in the Narayanpur police district of Dantewada district.

September 16: Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including ‘Gadchiroli Divisional Secretary’ Vikasanna, were killed in an encounter with the police in the Kodakhuri forest area under Durkondal police station of Kanker district.

September 14: CPI-Maoist cadres killed two tribals in the Bastar district. Superintendent of Balrampur police, Shivram Prasad Kalluri, said that two CPI-Maoist ‘area commanders’, Sachin and Gautam, wanted in dozens of criminal cases and carrying a cash reward of Rupees 150,000 were arrested in Koria district.

September 10: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed and six others arrested after a gun-battle with the security force personnel in the Tekmeka forest near village Sentra under Pharsegarh police station of Dantewada district.

September 7: In the Kanker district, CPI-Maoists abducted two police personnel of the Koyilibeda police station.

September 6: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed and several others injured in an encounter with the police in the Jhaleria forest belt of Surguja district. CPI-Maoists cadres killed three civilians in the Dantewada district. Police said the Maoists had abducted four people from Basaguda last week and killed three of them by slitting their throat.

August 28: Police arrested six CPI-Maoist cadres from the Narayanpur area in the Dantewada district.

August 25: 23 villagers were abducted by the CPI-Maoist cadres in the Dantewada district but police rescued them after a subsequent gun-battle.

August 22: Five villagers were abducted by the CPI-Maoist in two separate incidents in the Dantewada district. In the first incident, armed Maoists stopped a jeep near Gaganpalli village under Errabore police station area and abducted four passengers. Later, in a similar incident close to the same spot, Maoists stopped a truck and abducted another person.

July 27: One paramilitary personnel was killed and three others sustained injuries in a landmine attack triggered by the CPI-Maoist on the Narainpur-Orchha road in Bastar district. J

July 21: Security force personnel shot dead five CPI-Maoist cadres in Dantewada district.

July 17: CPI-Maoist cadres killed 33 villagers and injured 70, besides abducting over 20 people at Arrabora village in the Dantewada district.

July 13: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with the security force personnel in the forested Phuladi village under Mirtoor police station of Dantewada district. Two people who were putting up at Dornapal relief camp were also axed to death by the CPI-Maoists in the same district.

July 8: CPI-Maoist cadres killed two Special Police Officers and abducted five people, including three students, in the Dantewada district. Chhattisgarh Police recover a multi-purpose sophisticated telescope from Toyapad jungle in the Dantewada district following a shootout with the CPI-Maoists.

July 7: Central Reserve Police Force personnel raided a CPI-Maoist hideout under Basaguda police station in Dantewada district and shot dead seven Maoists.

July 4: A Congress party leader is shot dead by CPI-Maoist cadres in the Nilbhaya area of Dantewada district.

July 2: Five CPI-Maoist cadres were shot dead in an encounter with the police personnel at Anjarel forest in the Narayanpur area of Bastar district.

June 28: Personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force killed at least six CPI-Maoists and arrested three others, including a woman cadre, in an encounter in the Bhairamgarh area of Dantewada district.

June 26: A tribal leader of the Congress party, Lalit Markam, was killed by CPI-Maoists at Dudhiras village in the Dantewada district.

June 23: CPI-Maoists killed three persons, including a contractor involved in the collection of tendu (tobacco) leaves, in the Basuguda area of Dantewada district.

June 22: CPI-Maoists abducted at least nine tribal villagers from Basagura in the Dantewada district, suspecting them to be Salwa Judum activists and killed three of them the following night. However, six other villagers were released. Elsewhere in the district, another tribal was shot dead by the Maoists at Gangloor.

June 20: CPI-Maoists killed seven persons and injured two others at Chikuarguda in the Konta region, following their refusal to accompany the insurgents to attack a relief camp in the Dantewada district.

June 18: Two Maoists were killed during a joint operation by the Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh police near Madimalai village in the Dantewada district. June 17: CPI-Maoists killed four tribals working for the anti-Maoist movement Salwa Judum in the Farsegarh police station area of Dantewada district.

June 14: CPI-Maoists abducted seven villagers, including six women, in Dantewada district.

June 12: A police personnel, Basant Netam, was injured in an ambush by Maoists in the Dantewada district. About 150-armed Maoists attacked a police station at Durg Kondal in the Kanker district. June 8: Ten Maoists were killed and five, including two women cadres, were arrested in the Dewapalli area of Dantewada district.

May 28: CPI-Maoist ‘sub-zonal commander’, Ramesh Nageshia, was killed in an encounter with the police in the Surguja district.

May 26: Three Central Reserve Police Force personnel were injured in two separate CPI-Maoist-related incidents in the Bastar region.

May 22: CPI-Maoist cadres blew up electrical transformers at Kurusnar and Bhairamgarh, plunging seven blocks of the Dantewada district into darkness on the last day of their two-day shutdown.

May 21: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze four passenger buses and two vans near Gollagudem in the Dantewada district during a two-day shutdown called by them.

May 20: CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the National Mineral Development Corporation, Railways and private steel company ESSAR, and left pamphlets saying it was done so that these institutions will not function on Sunday and Monday during the two-day Dandakaranya strike call.

May 13: About 300 Maoists attacked a refugee camp in the Dantewada district and shot dead four Special Police Officers and wounded five people.

May 9: Five CPI-Maoist cadres were killed by security forces in an encounter in the Dantewada district. Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter in the Dantewada district.

May 3: Two Special Police Officers and a civilian were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres in the Usur area of Bijapur police station in the Dantewada district. In the same police district, two Maoists were killed in an encounter with police personnel.

April 29: CPI-Maoist cadres killed 13 of the 52 abducted villagers and released 37 others in Dantewada district.

April 28: Six police personnel were injured in a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist at Bhuski village in the Kanker district. April 27: The bullet-ridden bodies of two tribals, among the 52 abducted by the Maoists, were recovered from Manikonta village in the Dantewada district.

April 25: One personnel of the India Reserve Battalion was killed in an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres in the Bijapur area of Dantewada district.

April 24: CPI-Maoist cadres killed Kowasi Mangru, a local tribal leader associated with the now suspended Salwa Judum campaign, in a village under the Bhairamgarh police station in the Dantewada district.

April 20: CPI-Maoist cadres made an abortive attempt to rescue fellow Maoists lodged at Narayanpur prison in the Dantewada district, triggering three landmine blasts.

April 18: Close to 2500 CPI-Maoist cadres and activists besieged Usur village in the Dantewada district, in retaliation for the tribals' support to the now suspended anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign.

April 16: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked the Murkinar police outpost in the Bijapur area of Dantewada district and killed 11 police personnel.

April 15: Police killed a CPI-Maoist ‘commander’ and his wife under the Ramanujganj police station in the Surguja district.

April 12: Chhattisgarh Government bans the CPI-Maoist and the Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, Krantikari Adivasi Balak Sangh, Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh, Krantikari Kisan Committee and Mahila Mukti Manch under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005.

April 9: Three Salwa Judum activists were killed by the Maoists in Dantewada district.

April 7: Three Salwa Judum tribals were killed by the CPI-Maoist in Dantewada district. CPI-Maoist cadres set free eight tribals in the Dantewada district after holding them captive for two days.

March 31: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed two local Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in the Rajnandgaon district.

March 29: CPI-Maoist cadres killed a Special Police Officer, P. Nagesh, at Arabore police station limits in the Dantewada district.

March 26: Security force personnel killed eight CPI-Maoist cadres at Telipenta village in the Dantewada district. In Kanker district, a Central Reserve Police Force personnel was killed and another wounded in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist near Gorbinapal village.

March 25: 11 persons are killed and four others sustained injuries in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist in Kanker district. Police killed five Maoists, including a 'deputy commander', in an encounter in the Dhanora forest area.

March 24: CPI-Maoists killed two tribals by slitting their throats in the Chhote Dongar village of Dantewada district.

March 22: CPI-Maoist cadres blasted a railway track in the Bailadila-Vishakhapatnam section and exploded a bomb at a National Mineral Development Corporation installation at Kirandul in the Dantewada district.

March 20: Police killed five Maoists in the forest area near Balrampur, 510 km northeast of State capital Raipur.

March 19: Two police personnel were killed and 13 others injured when CPI-Maoist cadres detonated a landmine near Dongargarh in the Rajnandgaon district.

March 16: Suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed two tribals in the Bijapur area of Dantewada district.

March 15: CPI-Maoist cadres killed two tribal villagers in the Dantewada district.

March 12: CPI-Maoist cadres killed two villagers at Chikaguda village in the Dantewada district after alleging that they were supporting the Salva Judum campaign.

March 8: CPI-Maoist cadres kill four civilians and injure an unspecified number of them at Diwarpali village under Dornapal police station in the Dantewada district. March 6: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist raid Basaguda village in the Dantewada district targeting activists of the anti-Maoist campaign Salva Judum and kill six of them.

March 4: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a police personnel, constable Jaisingh Thakur, at a weekly market in the Bainur area of Dantewada district. Police recovered the mutilated body of an anti-Maoist tribal leader, Markam Shanku, from the Inzaram area of Dantewada district.

February 28: At least 25 tribals are killed and 40 others sustained injuries in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist near Eklagoda village, in the jurisdiction of Arabore police station of Dantewada district.

February 27: An anti-Maoist Jan Jagaran Abhiyan group leader, Mohan Mandavi, was shot dead by the Maoists at Tular village in the Dantewada district.

February 26: Two people are killed and 25 others sustain injuries when cadres of the CPI-Maoist raided a Government-run relief camp in the Dantewada district.

February 20: CPI-Maoist cadres killed two tribal villagers at Thothapara village in the Dantewada district.

February 12: CPI-Maoist cadres attack the Cherli village in Dantewada district and shot dead three tribals.

February 9: Eight Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel were killed and several others injured when a large group of CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the National Mineral Development Corporation store in the Hirauli area of Dantewada district.

February 9: CPI-Maoist cadres kill at least three people in the Cherakdodi village of Dantewada district.

February 6: Ten Nagaland Armed Police personnel are killed and eight others sustain injuries were injured when a powerful landmine was exploded by CPI-Maoist cadres as their vehicle was moving through a forest in Dantewada district.

February 6: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead three police personnel and injured five others in an attack on a police station in the Jashpur district.

January 31: CPI-Maoist cadres trigger a powerful landmine blast causing extensive damage to the Bijapur-Avapalli road in Dantewada district.

January 30: Eight civilians and three CPI-Maoist cadres are killed during a Maoist attack on a Government camp in the Dantewada district.

January 20: A former sarpanch (village headman) is beaten to death by CPI-Maoist cadres at Mohli village in the Surguja district.

January 9: A villager is killed and another sustained injuries when a bomb, hidden in a transistor by the Maoists, exploded at Bhairamgarh in the Dantewada district.

2005

December 30: A group of nearly 50 CPI-Maoist cadres raid Gorna village in the Dantewada district and killed two villagers for participating in an anti-Maoist movement.

December 18: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot dead one security force personnel at Mendra village in the Kanker district. One Maoist was killed and seven others were arrested during an encounter between police and the Maoists at Rampur in the same district

December 16: Three Maoists and a civilian were killed during an encounter at Bhejji locality in the Dantewada district. In another incident, Maoists shot dead a police personnel in the Kanker district.

December 15: CPI-Maoist cadres killed a village headman, Chintanpalli, in the Dantewada district when he was returning from a weekly market. In a separate incident, Maoists shot dead a civilian in the Bijapur area of Dantewada district.

December 3: CPI-Maoist cadres fired at a Road Transport Corporation bus killing a woman passenger and the driver, while injuring five others in the Woosm forest area of Dantewada district.

November 14: Security force personnel kill three cadres belonging to the Indravati squad of the outlawed CPI-Maoist and foiled an ambush attempt near Erakeli village in the Dantewada district. Police said four Maoists, including a woman injured in the shootout, were arrested during the combing operation that followed the Maoist attack. The troops also recovered three guns besides a landmine and other material from the spot.

November 11: Cadres of the outlawed CPI-Maoist killed one person and injured five others after opening fire at a team of Government officials near Surangi village in the Kanker district.

November 7: Cadres of the proscribed CPI-Maoist shot dead a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leader, Anil Pandey, at Mohala village in the Rajnandgaon district.

November 5: Maoists shot dead a civilian and assaulted three others at Gangaloor village in the Dantewada district. Police said the Maoists killed Pujari Budhram for being involved in the Salwa Judum (peace initiative) campaign.

September 30: CPI-Maoist cadres kill five civilians in the Bijapur area of Dantewada district. The victims were part of a group of seven civilians who were earlier abducted by the Maoists from the area.

September 28: A group of 44 CPI-Maoist cadres surrender at a rally at Chinakodepal village in the Dantewada district.

September 6: Ten CPI-Maoist cadres are killed and 17 others are arrested during the six-day 'Operation Green Hunt', which was carried out from August 29 in the Bairamgarh and Bijapur areas of Dantewada district.

September 5: The Chhattisgarh Government, after an emergency meeting of the Cabinet in Raipur, decides to ban the CPI-Maoist and its front organisations through an ordinance.

September 3: Twenty-two personnel belonging to the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force and two from the State police were killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres near Padeda village in Dantewada district.

August 12: A cadre of the CPI-Maoist is killed in an encounter with the security forces at Chidiyapal village in the Bastar district.

August 9: CPI-Maoist kill two persons related to the Leader of Opposition in the State Legislative Assembly, Mahendra Karma, in the Dantewada district.

July 28: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist attack the Karemarka and Muder villages in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh and kill seven persons. According to police officials, the attack was in retaliation for a rally on July 24 in which 117 Maoists had surrendered.

July 19: Naxalites kill two civilians in the Bijapur village of Dantewada district. According to official sources, the villagers were killed for taking part in anti-Naxalite demonstrations.

July 16: Seven villagers and two Maoists are killed when cadres of the CPI-Maoist attack six villages in the Dantewada district. Targeting the villagers, over 250 Maoists attacked the Kutru, Ambeli, Pharsgaon, Uskapatnam, Badekarkeli and Chhotekarkeli villages. Two villagers were killed on the spot, while the Maoists abducted five others, whose bodies were later found near Pharasgaon police station area on July 17.

June 19: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill eight civilians and injure 100 others near Kotrapal village in the Dantewada district.

June 1: Assistant Commander of the CRPF, R K Mishra, and five other CRPF personnel are killed when the Naxalites ambushed a CRPF combing party near Injaram in Dantewada district.

May 23: Five police personnel are killed during a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist near Jhangla village in the Dantewada district.

CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a Station House Officer, Augustus Kujur, of the Mainpart police station in Surguja district.

May 22: In Surguja district, Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill Ayodhya Prasad Jaiswal, manager of a cooperative, at village Khod under Ramkola police station limits.

May 18: Two women cadres of the CPI-Maoist are killed and 25 police personnel sustain injuries during two separate encounters at the Narayanpur district in the Bastar region. Elsewhere in the same district, three police personnel are wounded when Naxalites laid siege to the Dhodei police outpost under the Chhote Dongar police station limits.

May 6: CPI-Maoists kill a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Kamesh Manikpuri, in the Dantewada district.

May 5: Two CRPF personnel are killed and another one is injured in a claymore mine attack at Tadoki village in the Kanker district.

April 29: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist attack a police station and kill one civilian in Raipur district. The district police chief, S.B.Kulleri, says the Naxalites looted some guns and ammunition from the police post.

April 27: Suspected Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill five civilians in different incidents in the Dantewada district. The victims include a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Ravikanath Mahibi, and a village head, Venkateswarlu.

April 19: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist shot dead a Congress leader, Hungaram Markam, in the Dantewada district.

April 9: CPI-Maoist cadres kill a tribal at Garidas village in the Dantewada district after branding him as a police informer.

April 5: A suspected Naxalite of the CPI-Maoist is killed in an exchange of fire with the police at Inderpur Khori village in the Surguja district.

March 23: A group of four suspected Naxalites kill one police personnel and injure another during an attack on the helipad at Danteguda village in Dantewada district.

January 23: A police personnel is killed during a CPI-Maoist ambush in the Kanker district.

January 19: A police personnel is killed and another sustained injuries when Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist ambush a police party in the Rajnandgaon district.

Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist attack Bastar police chief, Himanshu Gupta, and ambush a police party, killing a constable.

January 8: Three police personnel, including a Sub-Inspector, are killed when CPI-Maoist cadres open fire on a police party at Ramchandrapur village in the Surguja district.

Orissa

2007

February 17: 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.

February 13: 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.

February 12: 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.

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.

February 9: 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.

January 31: 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.

January 26: 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.

January 12: Police neutralized a weapons-making unit belonging to the CPI-Maoist in Rourkela and arrested five Maoists, including three women.

2006

December 10: CPI-Maoist cadres obstructed the movement of vehicles by cutting trees and laying them on the roads near village 126 under the Kalimela police station in the Malkangiri district.

December 8: Two CRPF personnel were injured in a landmine explosion detonated by the CPI-Maoists in Rellatu area under K Ballang police station in the Sundergarh district.

December 1: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed an employee of the revenue department at Kalimela in the Malkangiri district. Police sources said that the Maoists fired two bullets at Sibananda Jena, whose dead body was found in front of his office.

November 27: An encounter between police personnel and CPI-Maoist cadres was reported from the Pankadihi forest area of Sundergarh district.

October 30: CPI-Maoist cadres killed a trader for defying the call of general strike in Malkangiri.

October 15: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze three diesel locomotives at Topadihi railway station in the Sundargarh district.

October 13: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed the head of an unspecified village in Malkangiri district.

October 8: During a combing operation by police in the Gajapati district, 12 CPI-Maoist cadres, including a few involved in the March 24, 2006, R Udaygiri jailbreak incident, were arrested. A huge quantity of explosives and ammunition, including live cartridges and hand grenades, were recovered from them.

October 7: Sobha, an ‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested along with two accomplices, Rajan Munda and Bijoy Munda, from the Lathikata market area in the Sundergarh district.

September 11: A group of CPI-Maoist cadres indulged in arson at Kamarda mines area under Tamka police limits of Jajpur district.

August 11: Two Government officials, who were abducted by armed CPI-Maoist cadres from Gudipanka in the Gajapati district on August 9, were released.

July 13: Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed and a couple of others injured in an encounter with a team of the Special Operation Group and local police near Raniguda village of Deogarh district.

June 12: Two Maoists were arrested following an encounter at Karlapat under the Gudari police station in the Rayagada district.

June 9: Government proscribed the CPI-Maoist and seven pro-Maoist organizations, Daman Pratirodh Manch, Revolutionary Democratic Front, Chasi Mulia Samiti, Kui Lawanga Sangh, Jana Natya Mandali, Krantikari Kisan Samiti and Bal Sangam.

June 3: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist killed the officer-in-charge of Motu police station at a weekly market in the MV 88 village of Malkangiri district.

May 30: Two cadres of the ‘Kalimela Local Guerrilla Squad’ of the CPI-Maoist were killed in an exchange of fire with a combined team of the Andhra Pradesh and Orissa Police at Tekuguda.

April 18: Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with the police in the Hilanga forest area of Deogarh district. CPI-Maoist cadres assaulted a contractor and damaged a road-roller by triggering a landmine in Telrai village under Kalimela police limits of Malkangiri district.

April 6: 100 suspected armed Maoists attacked Central Reserve Police Force personnel and injured nine of them while they were traveling in the Samalehwari Express at Kalunga railway station between Jharsuguda and Rourkela in the Sundargarh district.

April 4: Two police officials abducted by the CPI-Maoist from the Ramagiri Udayagiri town of Gajapati district on March 24 were released.

March 24: Approximately 200 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot dead three police personnel and took hostage at least two Government officials in attacks on a police station, a camp of the Orissa State Armed Police, the local jail and a bank at Udayagiri in the Gajapati district.

March 20: In a written reply to the Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said no insurgent outfit, other than the CPI-Maoist, is operating in Orissa. It is assessed that about 500 hardcore cadres are operating in parts of 14 districts, Patnaik disclosed.

March 11: Special Operations Group of Malkangiri district police arrested three cadres of the CPI-Maoist after an exchange of fire in Kanaguda under the Kalimela Police Station.

March 4: Six CPI-Maoist cadres are killed in an encounter with the police near Kanaguda village in the Malkangiri district.

January 26: In Sundergarh district, armed CPI-Maoist cadres intercepted a truck laden with iron ore between Jamadih and Toda, close to K. Balang police station in the district, and set it ablaze.

January 13: CPI-Maoist cadres blow up a farm-house at Titlepalli village under Dhama police station in the Sambalpur district.

2005

December 6: CPI-Maoist 'area commander' G.Nageswar Rao alias Suresh and his wife, Gumulu Chandrama, are arrested during a combing operation in the Padua area of Koraput district.

November 2: Armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist bombed the house of former Bharatiya Janata Party minister, Arabindo Dhali, at MV55 village under the Kalimela police station in Malkangiri district. One civilian was reportedly killed in the attack and the Maoists also took away the arms of at least eight police personnel who were guarding Dhali’s house.

October 17: Approximately 20 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot dead one Special Armed Police personnel and injure four persons, including a civilian, at Badrama in the Sambalpur district. The Maoists subsequently decamp with a self-loading rifle and another firearm from the police personnel.

September 29: One civilian is killed and three others are injured while CPI-Maoist cadres trigger a landmine targeting a vehicle near Motu in the Malkangiri district.

September 27: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a Congress party leader, Subash Biswal, near MV-88 village in the Malkangiri district branding him as a police informer.

August 3: CPI-Maoist cadres lynch a 19-year-old civilian of Kanhagada village in the Malkangiri district of Orissa.

July 20: A cadre of the CPI-Maoist is shot dead in an encounter with the police at Janaguda village in the Malkangiri district. One .303 rifle and seven live bullets are recovered from the incident site.

July 7: CPI-Maoist kill five people in the Tamparsingha, Banjaridikira and Larabira villages of Sambalpur district in a series of attacks spread over five hours.

May 28: Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist shot dead three civilians and injured three others in the Burda village under Jujumara police limits in the Sambalpur district.

March 28: Three suspected Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a shopkeeper near the Rayagada Railway Station, branding him as a police informer.

February 20: Two Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist, including a woman, are killed in an exchange of fire with police parties of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa at a Naxalite training camp in the agency area at Dulagandi village of Koraput district. Of the two slain Naxalites, one had a .303 rifle in his possession and the other, who was a woman, carried a single barrel weapon, three grenades and a tapancha.

Uttar Pradesh

2006

March 30: An ‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, Giri Nath Kol, was killed in an encounter with the police at Varanasi.

March 25: Mahangu alias Chiru, a CPI-Maoist 'Deputy Area Commander', was arrested near Karail Bandhi village in the Sonebhadra district. Police recovered 250 kilograms of explosive material and 1500 detonators from a jeep at Lalganj area in the Mirzapur district. According to the State Home Ministry, the explosives were brought possibly by the CPI-Maoist from Bihar.

February 12: A CPI-Maoist ‘area commander’, Sukhari Chaudhary, is arrested from Naikaha village in the Sonebhadra district.

January 5: Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre, Raj Narayan alias Raju, from Jamsoti Chuvar village in the Chandauli district.

January 3: 'Sub-zonal area commander' of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Bhola Pal alias Rakesh, is arrested from Alinagar police circle area in Varanasi.

2005

December 28: Police arrests a CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Dinanath Yadav, from Bindamganj area in the Sonebhadra district.

November 30: Police arrests three CPI-Maoist cadres after an encounter in the Sonebhadra district. Uttar Pradesh Home Ministry’s Principal Secretary, Alok Sinha, said the arrested included ‘Ghorawal Area Commander’ Rajkumar alias Doctor, Lalvrat and Raju Gaud.

October 19: Uttar Pradesh Government approves formation of an India Reserve Force to counter the Maoist problem in Sonebhadra district. According to Principal Secretary (Home), Alok Sinha, a sum of Rupees 8.59 crore and as many as 789 temporary posts had also been sanctioned for this purpose.

August 3: Maoists shot dead a former colleague, identified as Hiralal, at the Khodela jungle of Sonebhadra district in Uttar Pradesh, after branding him as a police informer.

August 3: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a former Naxalite, identified as Hiralal, in the Khodela jungle area of Sonebhadra district after branding him a police informer.

July 23: The Inspector General of Police (Varanasi), Devraj Nagar, stated that four Naxalites were killed and 60 others were arrested during an ongoing security operation in the Chandauli, Mirzapur and Sonebhadra districts.

May 22: During an encounter at Parkas village in the Sonebhadra district, the police shot dead Chandrabhan alias Master, an 'area commander' of the CPI-Maoist.

January 10: A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Ashok Kol, is shot dead by the police during a combing operation near Dhanupura forests in the Chandauli district.

West Bengal

2007

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).

January 9: A leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist was shot dead by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres in the Belpahari area of West Midnapur district.

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.

2006

November 29: Armed CPI-Maoist cadres shot at and injured five police personnel in the Purulia district.

November 23: CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze eight vehicles, opened fire on the para-military India Reserve Battalion camp and on the huts of workers engaged in a road-building project at Belapari in the West Midnapore district, across the border with Jharkhand.

October 16: Police recovered 18 empty containers of hand grenade, 18 springs, six grenade levers, chemicals and Maoist literature and receipt books from a trunk inside a hut in Rangapukur village in the Malda district.

September 21: Two police personnel of the Bomb Disposal squad were killed and 29 others, including some senior police officers and journalists, were injured when a land mine planted by the CPI-Maoist exploded in the Lalgarh area of West Midnapore district.

September 19: A Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and his bodyguard were dragged out of a bus and killed by suspected Maoists near Joypur in the Midnapore district.

August 1: About 70 CPI-Maoist cadres attacked the India Reserve Battalion camp at Chhurimara in the Belpahari area of Midnapore district.

July 2: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead a Communist Party of India (Marxist) local committee member at Lalgarh in the West Midnapore district.

March 17: A fast-track court at Jhargram in the Midnapore district sentenced two leaders of the CPI-Maoist, Patit Paban Halder and Santosh Debnath, to life imprisonment. Sushil Roy, ‘politburo member’ of the CPI-Maoist, was awarded five years’ imprisonment.

March 9: Two Communist Party of India (Marxist) cadres are hacked to death by Maoists in the Dangardihi area of Midnapore district. Another person was injured in the attack.

March 5: CPI-Maoist cadres herded out nine Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists to a field in West Midnapore district and shot dead the group leader, Kartik Sinha, and released the others.

March 4: One police personnel is killed and another injured in a CPI-Maoist attack on the National Highway 34 at Chakulia in the North Dinajpur district.

February 26: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist detonate a landmine blowing up a police vehicle that killed four persons, including two security force personnel, at Naakrachhara in the West Midnapore district.

February 7: Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with the police near the Akuldoba forest area of West Midnapore district.

January 23: CPI-Maoist cadres blow up a tourist bungalow under construction at Bandwan in the Purulia district.

January 16: CPI-Maoist cadres detonate a landmine to blow up a CRPF camp at Jamtalgora on Belpahari-Banspahari road in the Midnapore district.

2005

December 31: CPI-Maoist cadres storm the residence of Rabindranath Kar, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader from Bhamragarh in the Purulia district, and kill him and his wife.

December 31: CPI-Maoist cadres exploded bombs near the house of the former district community leader at Bhomragarh village in the Purulia district.

July 9: Activists belonging to the CPI-Maoist shot dead two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders and left behind a booby trap that kill an investigating officer and injure another 16 police personnel in Bankura district of West Bengal.

In another incident at Dulukdihi in Purulia district some 15-16 Naxalites gun down Mahendra Mahato with 9 mm pistols.

July 2: Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Prasanta Roy, Gautam Bhattacharya and Ajit Haldar, are arrested from a forest in the Burdwan district where they had assembled for a meeting.

June 1: A senior leader of the CPI-Maoist, 'politburo' member Asit Jana, is arrested from his residence in Kolkata along with 150 rounds of cartridges, several audio cassettes, uniforms of the outfit and timers used to set off time-bombs.

Tamil Nadu

2007

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.

Madhya Pradesh

2007

January 11: A large cache of arms and ammunition allegedly meant for CPI-Maoist were recovered from a building in the Satnami Nagar area of Bhopal. An unspecified number of people were detained in this connection.