India Timeline - Year 2005

January 3	A Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist, identified as Prem Pal Singh, who was involved in an assassination attempt on a senior police official in Punjab and wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for various crimes in the US is arrested by the Delhi Police.
January 4	Union Government announces an increase in the recruitment to para-military forces from terrorism-affected and border areas from 10 to 40 per cent.
January 5	The Superintendent of Police in Munger district of Bihar, K.C. Surendra Babu, and five police personnel are killed during a landmine explosion triggered by suspected left-wing extremists (also called Naxalites). The police personnel were returning after conducting joint raids in the adjoining Jamui district when the explosion blew up the vehicle around 5 pm (IST) in the Bhimbandh area.
January 6	Six Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) are killed in an encounter with the Jharkhand Police at Balalong village in the Ranchi district.
January 8	Three police personnel, including a Sub-Inspector, are killed when CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a police party at Ramchandrapur village in the Surguja district of Chhattisgarh.
January 13	According to media reports, peace talks between the Union Government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) will begin on February 2 and the former is expected to be represented by a ministerial team. Reports further said that the Prime Minister has designated Union Minister of State for Programme Implementation, Oscar Fernandes, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Prithiviraj Chauhan, and Minister of State for Home, S. Regupathy for the purpose. Speaking to the media in Mumbai, the Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, says the Union Government possessed information that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, was directly or indirectly supporting Naxalites and the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in terrorist activities in India.
January 15	Six Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist are killed in two separate encounters with the police in Prakasam and Mahaboobnagar districts while a community leader of the Congress party was shot dead by Naxalites in the Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.
January 16	The Delhi Police arrests Aijaz Ahmed Farash, a Pakistan-trained terrorist of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), from the Karol Bagh area of Central Delhi.Three suspected CPI-Maoist cadres kill Mahendra Prasad Singh, a sitting Member of the Legislative Assembly, at Durgi Dhabaiya village in the Giridih district of Jharkhand.
January 17	The two Naxalite outfits, CPI-Maoist and the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML Janashakthi), announce their withdrawal from peace talks with the Andhra Pradesh Government.
January 20	The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), Tripura People’s Democratic Front (TPDF), Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) and the Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), through a joint statement, appeal to the people of the North-east to boycott the Republic Day celebrations on January 26 and called for a general strike on that day.
January 28	The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director General, J.K. Sinha, says there is a nexus between the criminal mafia and left-wing extremists (also known as Naxalites) in Andhra Pradesh. According to him, "Timber mafia and the organised extortion racket of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh are not only posing as Naxalites but in many cases they are using the services of the Naxalite cadre to extort money through kidnapping and smuggling."
January 29	Quoting a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official, media reports say the Portuguese Supreme Court has passed an order granting the extradition of Abu Salem, accused in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, to India. Salem along with Monica Bedi was arrested in Lisbon in September 2002 and was sentenced to four-and-half years imprisonment on different charges.
February 3	Seven police personnel are killed in a landmine blast suspected to have been triggered by Naxalites in the Palamau district of Jharkhand. Four Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist, including a 'commander', are killed in an encounter with the police, in a forest near Sivam village in the Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh.
February 4	A formal political dialogue between Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) begins in New Delhi. The 14-member NSCN-IM delegation, led by its general secretary, Thuingaleng Muivah, held talks with the Group of Ministers led by Union Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Oscar Fernandes.
February 7	A report says the Union Government is in favour of the formation of a Unified Command, comprising central and State security agencies, to tackle the Naxalite problem. ‘‘The Centre encourages States to form unified commands of their own, under the respective chief ministers, consisting of state police and central paramilitary forces to deal with the Naxalite menace,’’ Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, states.
February 8	Syed Abdul Rehman Geelani, the Delhi University lecturer who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case of December 2001, is shot at and wounded near Basant Enclave in South-West Delhi.
February 11	Six police personnel are killed during an attack by Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist on a Karnataka State Reserve Police camp at Venkammanahalli in the Tumkur district of Karnataka.
February 12	Delhi police arrest a former Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terrorist and a Pakistani agent, identified as Mohammed Ahsun Untoo, from Church road in the Cantonment area of Delhi.
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 Dulagandi village of Koraput district in Orissa.
February 22	Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill a civilian, Jeevanlal Mahto, for disobeying the outfit’s diktat against voting in the Giridih district of Jharkhand. Five police personnel are killed and 12 others are wounded in a Naxalite attack in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
February 26	Three Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist are killed during re-polling at an election booth at Goithamittha village in the Barchatti Assembly constituency of Gaya district in Bihar.
February 27	Police kill two women Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist belonging to the Manthani Naresh guerrilla squad on the outskirts of Gopalpur in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.
March 1	Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill eight civilians and injure two others belonging to the upper castes at Vempenta village in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.
March 2	Three Naxalites of the Communist Party of United States of India are killed in an exchange of fire with the police near the Bussapur forest area of Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh.
March 5	Delhi Police kills three LeT terrorists during an encounter at Kakrola Mor in South-West Delhi. A huge quantity of ammunition, including three AK-56 assault rifles, hand-grenades, live cartridges, satellite phones and some documents are recovered from their hideout.
March 7	Police kill ten Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist, including ‘district command secretary’ Ramesh, during an encounter in the Manala forests of Nizamabad district in Andhra Pradesh. One AK 47 and three self-loading rifles besides five other weapons are recovered from the incident site. Police recover a large cache of arms and ammunition from the Cantonment railway station in Bangalore, capital city of Karnataka.
March 8	Delhi Police arrests a LeT terrorist and SIMI member, Mohammad Iftikar Ehsan Malick, from Dehradun, capital city of Uttaranchal.
March 10	Police arrest an ISI agent, identified as Khalil Husain Shah, from Lalkurti in Uttar Pradesh.
March 11	A group of nearly 15 suspected armed Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill five police personnel and two civilians after raiding a police station at Chilakaluripeta in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.
March 15	Three Naxalites, including a woman cadre belonging to the Janashakthi group, are killed in an exchange of fire with the police on the outskirts of Regulagudem village in the Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.
March 21	A front ranking LeT terrorist, Nazir Ahmed Khan alias Muslim Inqilabi, is arrested from a village near Kaliachak in the Malda district of West Bengal by a joint squad of the West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police.
March 24	The Cabinet gives its approval to extradition treaties with Oman, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan. The treaty between India and Oman had been signed on December 26 when the External Affairs Minister, K. Natwar Singh, visited Muscat. The treaty with Bulgaria was signed in October 2003.
April 12	Suspected Naxalites of the CPI-Maoists kill two farmers in the Rohtas district of Bihar.
April 17	Four Naxalites belonging to the Korukonda dalam (squad) of the CPI-Maoist, including three women cadre, are killed in an encounter with the police near Gunukurai village in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh.
April 27	A Special Court in Kolkata sentences to death Aftab Ansari and six others for the January 22, 2002-terrorist attack on the American Center. Ansari and his six accomplices, convicted by the Court on April 26, were sentenced to death under Section 121 of the Indian Penal Code for waging war against the State. They were also awarded life imprisonment under Section 302 (murder) and given seven years under Section 307 (attempt to murder). 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.
May 1	Villagers of Reichie in the Latehar district of Jharkhand lynch two suspected CPI-Maoist cadres after they burnt down three houses and opened fire on the villagers.
May 3	The Indian Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran, says there was no conflict between India and Sri Lanka over the Sethusamudram canal project and Sri Lanka would be kept informed of any new developments on this issue.Police kill an alleged Naxalite sympathizer, Shankar Perkiwar, at Vyankatpura village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
May 5	Two SF personnel are killed and another is wounded when suspected left-wing extremists triggered claymore mines at Tadoki village in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh.The Union Government extends by another two years the proscription on Deendar Anjuman, an Islamist fundamentalist organisation, for allegedly indulging in anti-national activities.
May 6	Cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) kill a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Kamesh Manikpuri, in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
May 7	A left wing extremist belonging to the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML Janashakthi) is killed by the police in the Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.Around 200 suspected CPI-Maoist cadres attack and shut down operations of the aluminium-mining unit of Hindalco, India’s largest aluminium and copper producer, at Saridih in the Surguja region of Chhattisgarh.
May 10	Cadres of the CPI-Maoist kill a medical practitioner, Krishna Rao, at Gangalur village in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
May 15	Two Naxalites belonging to the CPI-ML Janashakthi are killed during an encounter with the SFs near Venkatapur forest in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh.
May 16	CPI-Maoist cadres, led by 'zonal commander' Shyam alias Shivanandan, kill four members of a family and injure three others at Kharta village in the Lohardaga district of Jharkhand.
May 17	An alleged terrorist of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit is arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police (DP) soon after he arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on May 12 by an Air India flight IC 856 from Singapore. The DP said on May 16 that the accused, Harun Rashid, a resident of Siwan in the State of Bihar, had disclosed that he was working for a LeT module in association with Parvez and Doctor.A group of around 15 Naxalites kill a Congress party activist, Seshappa Gowda, at Menasinahadya in the Chikamagalur district of Karnataka.
May 18	Two women Naxalites are killed and 25 police personnel sustain injuries during two separate encounters at the Narayanpur district in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
May 19	Karnataka Government decides to deploy the Special Task Force against left-wing extremists in the four districts of the Malnad region and some of the border areas of the State.
May 20	Maoists kill the village chief of Nakirekallu, identified as Sagam Anji Reddy, in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.
May 22	Two explosions triggered by crude devices at two cinema halls in the national capital Delhi on May 22-evening, during the screening of the Hindi film, Jo Bole So Nihal, kill one person and injure at least 60 others. In the first incident at Liberty Cinema on the G. T. Karnal Road, the device reportedly exploded under a seat in the sixth row. The second bomb exploded at the toilet of Satyam Cinema in Patel Nagar. Cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot dead a liquor shop owner suspecting him to be a police informer at Peddareddipalem village in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.During an encounter at Purkash village of Sonebhadra district in Uttar Pradesh, the police shot dead Chandrabhan alias Master, an 'area commander' of the CPI-Maoist outfit.The Special Cell of Delhi Police arrests Mohammed Ishaq, a suspected LeT terrorist, from outside Safdarjung Hospital in the capital city.
May 23	Five police personnel die during a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist near Jhangla village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.A 'politburo' member of the CPI-Maoist, Sunil Roy alias Ashoke alias Gajanan, and 'central committee' member, Patit Paban Haldar alias Dinu alias Tapas, are arrested by the Midnapore West district police during an operation at Daldali forest in Belpahari, West Bengal.
May 27	A police personnel, B. Samuel, is killed and two civilians sustain injuries during an attack by Maoists belonging to the Palnadu dalam (squad) at Kocherla in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.
May 28	The CPI-Maoist kills three civilians at Burda village in the Sambalpur district of Orissa.
May 30	Seven police personnel and a civilian are killed in a landmine blast triggered by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres at Deori-Chichgad road in the Gondia district of Maharashtra.Two Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorists are arrested in connection with the May 22-bomb blasts at two cinema halls in the national capital New Delhi. While Balwinder Singh was arrested from a village at Nawanshahar in the State of Punjab, the other accused, Jagannath, was arrested from Madipur in Delhi.
June 1	Six SF personnel are killed and 14 others sustain injuries in two landmine blasts triggered by the CPI-Maoist in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. A day after police arrested BKI activists, Balvinder Singh and Jaganath Yadav, in connection with the blasts at the Liberty and Satyam cinema halls on May 22, the Delhi Police (DP) seized illegal arms and ammunition from a hideout of a BKI terrorist, who is still at large. The DP conducted a raid at the hideout of Jaspal Singh at Inderpuri and recovered 1 kg of RDX, a timer, detonator, a.303 rifle, 20 rounds of ammunitions, a uniform of a Punjab Police head constable and several fake driving licenses.
June 5	A joint team of the Delhi and Punjab Police arrests two BKI activists from Nawanshahar district in Punjab. Bahadur Singh and Gurdip Singh alias Kaka were arrested during raids on their houses at Malpur village and both were associates of Jaspal, an accused in the May 22 cinema hall blasts in Delhi. Two slabs of RDX weighing one kilogram, 11 detonators and cordex wires were recovered from the arrested activists.
June 8	Jagtar Singh Hawara, 'operations chief' of the BKI in India, who was one of the four inmates who had escaped from Burail Jail in Chandigarh on January 21, 2004, is arrested along with two other accused in the May 22, 2005 theatre blasts from the G.T. Karnal Road in Narela Industrial Area of Delhi.
June 17	A meeting of the Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police of 13 States organised by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in Hyderabad decided to constitute a joint task force of State police departments to check Naxalite activities in six of the most-affected States. The States include Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa and Maharashtra.
June 19	Naxalites kill at least eight civilians and injure 100 others near Kotrapal village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. Cadres of the CPI-Maoist shot dead three Telugu Desam Party activists and injured two others at Yachavaram village in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.
June 22	A two-day Foreign Secretary level meeting between India and Bangladesh concludes in the national capital New Delhi. In a joint press statement, both countries reaffirmed their commitment not to allow their territory to be used for any activities inimical to each other's interests.
June 23	Four Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist and three police personnel are killed during an attack by the former at Madhuban block in the East Champaran district of Bihar.
June 24	The security forces killed at least 20 cadres of the CPI-Maoist during a night-long operation in Bihar’s East Champaran and Sheohar districts along the India-Nepal border. India rejects the Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed's application to travel by the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus.
June 28	The Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee says in Washington that although there have been several positive developments in the relations with Pakistan over the last 18 months, including the November 2003 cease-fire holding and the composite dialogue entering the second round, it cannot be said for sure that the peace process is "entrenched".
July 1	Delhi Police arrest four terrorists, identified as Masood, Zahid, Bashir and Nazir, from the South-West Delhi area. They also recover four Chinese pistols, its 18 cartridges, 35 cartridges of AK-47 rifle, one hand grenade, Rupees 50,000 fake currency, a cheque of Rupees 9.5 lakh and a map of the Indira Gandhi International Airport and army dresses.
July 3	Three police personnel are killed and two others sustain injuries when a group of Naxalites open fire on a police patrolling party in the Dhanura administrative division of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra.
July 4	The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), demanding a separate Telangana state, withdraws five of its six ministers from the Andhra Pradesh Government and threatened to leave the United People's Alliance (UPA) coalition at the Centre, citing serious differences with the Congress over the handling of the Naxalite problem.
July 5	Cadres of the CPI-Maoist behead three members belonging to the Shanti Sena (peace squad), an anti-Naxalite campaigning group, after destroying their houses at Khairpani village in the Gumla district of Jharkhand. Six heavily-armed terrorists, who made an attempt to storm the makeshift Ram temple at the disputed Ayodhya complex in Uttar Pradesh, are shot dead by the Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) personnel. Four CRPF personnel and two civilians, including a woman devotee, are injured in the exchange of gunfire. Uttar Pradesh Police chief Yashpal Singh said that three AK-47 and one AK-56 rifles, one carbine, one Chinese revolver and four grenades are recovered from the slain terrorists.
July 9	Maoists kill two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders and left behind a booby trap that killed an investigating officer and injured another 16 police personnel in Bankura district of West Bengal.
July 10	Four members of the banned Tamil Nadu Liberation Army are arrested from Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu. An ISI agent, identified as Hanif Khan, is arrested from a hotel in the Guwahati city of Assam.
July 11	Three TNLA activists are arrested by the police from a village near Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. The External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh, says in London that terrorist camps are still operating in Pakistan and New Delhi has photographic evidence to prove it.
July12	The Delhi Police arrests a Pakistani trained Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorist, identified as Abdul Majid Bhatt, from the New Delhi railway station. Subsequently, the police also arrest a hawala (Illegal money transaction) operator, Mohammad Qayoom Khan, who was serving as Deputy Director in the Soil Conservation Department in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
July 14	Two BKI terrorists are arrested by the Delhi Police from the Old Delhi railway station in connection with the May 22 blasts at two cinema halls. The terrorists are identified as Dilbagh Singh, a close relative of the Pakistan-based BKI chief Wadhawa Singh, and Surender Singh Kanda, a Kenya-based non-resident Indian, who reportedly works as a visa agent.
July 15	Police arrest a BKI terrorist, identified as Gurdev Singh, from Chamkaur Sahib for his alleged involvement in the May 22 blasts in Chandigarh, Punjab. The Uttar Pradesh Police claims they have identified two of the six slain terrorists involved in the attack on the disputed complex at Ayodhya on July 5 as Pakistani nationals belonging to the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
July 16	Police arrest two suspected ISI agents from Zewar and Phase II area of Noida near the capital city of Delhi. Many incriminating documents, including maps of vital installations, were recovered from their possession. Police arrest two BKI activists, suspected to be 'Human Bomb', from near Kinas Bhawan in Sector 35 of Chandigarh and recover one 0.25 bore foreign-made pistol with ammunition, two detonators and a bag containing two human bomb belts with 450 grams of RDX, switches, wires and battery. Seven villagers and two Maoists are killed when cadres of the CPI-Maoist attack six villages in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
July 17	Police arrest three BKI terrorists near Madhopur Chowk in the Fatehgarh Sahab district of Punjab. One AK-47 rifle, 25 live cartridges and some explosives are recovered from them. Uttar Pradesh Police arrests two women from Faridabad on charges of being accomplices of the two alleged agents of the ISI.
July 18	The Constitutional Court of Portugal rejects the appeal of Abu Salem, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, against his extradition to India to stand trial.
July 19	Police in the Ropar district of Punjab arrests five accomplices of the BKI 'operations chief' Jagtar Singh Hawara in connection with the bomb blast near the house of Baba Piara Singh Bhaniara at Dhamana village in January 2005. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says India and US must work together to counter all forms of terrorism "wherever it exists".
July 22	Naxalites of the CPI-Maoist kill four civilians near Raghunathpur village in the Aurangabad district in Bihar. Naxalites attack a police patrolling team under Khijarsarai police station limits in the Gaya district of Bihar killing two police personnel and injuring two others. Police arrests Irfan Khan, a Unani (traditional system of medicine) doctor from Nakur locality in the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh in connection with the July 5-terrorist attack at the Ramjanmabhumi complex in Ayodhya.
July 23	Two civilians are killed by Naxalites in the Aurangabad district of Bihar. Inspector General of Police (Varanasi), Devraj Nagar states that four Naxalites are killed and 60 others arrested during an ongoing security operation in the Chandauli, Mirzapur and Sonebhadra districts of Uttar Pradesh.
July 28	Cadres of the CPI-Maoist attack the Karemarka and Muder villages in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh and kill seven persons. Police kill a senior leader of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Dingu Sreenu, at Devarapalem village in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. Three Maoists are killed in an exchange of fire with the police at Chilakacharla village in the Prakasam district. Two trans-border smugglers-turned-Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) cadres are arrested from Jammu for their alleged involvement in the May 22 twin cinema hall blasts in New Delhi. 12 persons are killed and 52 others sustained injuries in an explosion in one of the bogies of the Patna-Delhi Shramjeevi Express train near Harpalganj, 60 km from Jaunpur in the State of Uttar Pradesh.
August 14	Government announces a new hijack policy, under which for the first time, it can shoot down a commercial aircraft if it is turned into a 'missile' by the hijackers.
August 19	Security forces seize 10 kilograms of heroin, valued at Rupees 10 crore in the international market, counterfeit currency notes with the face value of Rupees 20 lakh and an AK 47 rifle and arrest one person in this connection on from Turko ki Basti in the Jaisalmer area of Rajasthan.
August 21	Police arrest a suspected cadre of the Lashkar-e-Toiba near railway station road in the Warangal town of Andhra Pradesh. Identified as Mohammed Ifteqar Ali alias Ashfaq, he reportedly has contacts with two LeT terrorists, Azam and Aziz, who were involved in a bomb blast at a temple in Dilsuknagar in the State capital Hyderabad in 2002.
August 22	Delhi Police arrests a person, identified as Devendra Kumar Singh, who was allegedly working for the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, during a raid at a house in the Kadamkuan locality of Patna district in Bihar.
August 23	Delhi Police arrest a senior Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist from Zakir Nagar in the southern part of the national capital. Abu Razak Masood is reported to be the outfit's coordinator in Dubai.
August 29	India is reported to have handed over to Pakistan a list of nearly 30 wanted people, including mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar and United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) chief Paresh Baruah, seeking their deportation to face trial. The list, which also includes names of Dawood associate Chhota Shakeel and Rawalpindi-based Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) chief Syed Salahuddin, was handed over by the Union Home Secretary V. K. Duggal to his Pakistani counterpart Syed Kamal Shah on the opening day of the two-day Home Secretary-level talks in New Delhi.
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. The Naxalites would be handed additional rewards, if they surrendered their weapons as well. Apart from these, they would also be allotted cultivable land free of cost and provided cash assistance of Rupees 50,000 for construction of house.
August 31	Four civilians are killed by left-wing extremists of the Jharkhand Sangharsh Janamukti Morcha near Turudi village in the Latehar district of Jharkhand. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invites the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) faction led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq for talks in New Delhi on September 5. Farooq, who will lead the delegation, accepted the invitation for the talks that will take place nine days ahead of Dr. Singh's meeting with the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in New York.
September 3	Twenty-two personnel belonging to the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force and two from the State police are killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres near Padeda village in Dantewada district.
September 5	Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with leaders of the APHC faction led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in New Delhi and is reported to assured that conditions will be created for reduction of armed forces in Jammu and Kashmir if there is a cessation of violence and an end to infiltration.
September 7	Reports say security has been beefed up in the State of Rajasthan following a threat by Al Mansooran, an Islamist terrorist group active in Jammu and Kashmir, to launch attacks if Pakistani nationals lodged in State jails were not released immediately. Delhi Police arrest an alleged agent of the ISI and claim to have recovered sensitive military documents from him.
September 14	Customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi arrest three Nigerian nationals and seize 17.62 kilograms of heroin worth Rupees 18 million ($410,630) in the global market.
September 14	Addressing the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says that India will never succumb to or compromise with terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir or elsewhere Delhi Police neutralise an ISI base in Punjab and arrest an alleged agent who had been tasked to provide shelter to other operatives.
September 26	Reports say the Interpol has decided to issue a new notice against Mumbai serial blasts accused Dawood Ibrahim, which would be effective in 186 member countries, including Pakistan.
October 4	Police arrest a terrorist of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen outfit and seize Rupees 10 lakhs from him near Golcha Cinema in the Daryaganj area of the national capital Delhi.
October 17	Haryana Police arrests a Babbar Khalsa terrorist, identified as Gurdip Singh, who assisted in the escape of the main accused in the Beant Singh assassination case, Jagtar Singh Hawara, and three of his accomplices from the Burail jail in January 2004.
October 18	An ISI agent is sentenced to life imprisonment in the Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh.
October 24	A court in New Delhi convicts a Pakistan-based LeT terrorist, Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq, and six others while acquitting four accused in the Red Fort attack case.
October 29	At least 62 persons are killed and 155 others sustain injuries in three powerful serial bomb explosions in the national capital Delhi. While two bombs exploded at busy marketplaces, one exploded inside a Delhi Transport Corporation bus.
October 31	Mohammed Arif alias Ashfaq, a Pakistani national and member of the LeT, is sentenced to death by a court in Delhi in the Red Fort attack case. Co-accused Nazir Ahmed Quasid and his son, Farooq Ahmed Quasid, both of Indian origin, are awarded rigorous life imprisonment. Arif's wife, Rehmana Yusuf Farooqui, who is of Indian origin, is sentenced to seven-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rupees 10,000 for sheltering him before and after the incident.
November 3	Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres kill four police personnel, including the Officer in-Charge of Anandpur police station, and decamped with their firearms in Bihar's Banka district.
November 10	Mafia don and prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Abu Salem, is extradited to India from Portugal along with his associate, Monica Bedi. Two Pakistani nationals were arrested from the Jalandhar district in Punjab along with sensitive documents pertaining to vital Army installations. After securing information from military intelligence, the district police arrested Khurram Shehzad Ali alias Junaid Alam near the Military Hospital in Jalandhar Cantonment. On information provided by Khurram, police arrested another Pakistani, Ali Mohammed alias Qasim Mata alias Mohammed Saqlain, from Rama Mandi Chowk.
November 11	An alleged conduit of the Jaish-e-Mohammed who shuttled between India and Bangladesh and had ferried the terrorists involved in the July 5-Ayodhya attack was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police at Old Delhi railway station.
November 12	Four unidentified CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in two separate encounters in the Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. Over a hundred cadres of the CPI-Maoist attack a home guard training centre at Pachamba in the Giridih district of Jharkhand 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 13	Approximately 1000 cadres of the CPI-Maoist launched near simultaneous attacks on the jail, police lines and a paramilitary camp at Jehanabad in the State of Bihar, killing two persons and injuring five others. One Maoist was 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, are abducted. During his meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit in Dhaka, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said that there was no question of demilitarisation unless Pakistan stopped cross-border terrorism and attempts at infiltration. Delhi Police (DP) announced the arrest of Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist who allegedly coordinated and financed the serial bomb blasts in Delhi on October 29. Tariq Ahmed Dar, who was working as a sales representative with the pharmaceutical firm Johnson and Johnson, had allegedly hatched the plot along with two LeT cadres, Abu Al Qama and Abu Huzefa, DP Commissioner K. K. Paul informed at a press conference in Delhi.
November 14	Cadres of the CPI-Maoist reportedly killed nine of the Ranvir Sena, a private militia of upper caste land owners, hostages they had abducted from the Jehanabad district jail a day earlier. Security forces shot dead three cadres belonging to the Indravati squad of the outlawed CPI-Maoist and foiled an ambush attempt near Erakeli village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
November 19	The Punjab Police arrest three Pakistan-trained terrorists of the Babbar Khalsa International in the Jagroan district and foiled their plan of a major strike in crowded localities in Chandigarh and Delhi.
November 21	Five Maoists were killed by the police in exchange of fire at three different places in Andhra Pradesh. The Government of India rejects Pakistan’s idea of "so-called self-governance" in Jammu and Kashmir saying that people of the State already enjoyed autonomy and popular democratic rights which residents of the State’s parts under Pakistani occupation were deprived of. "No proposal of the so-called self-governance was provided to which a response was expected," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Navtej Sarna said in New Delhi. Madhya Pradesh Government imposes a ban on the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and its two frontal organizations - Krantikari Kisan Committee and Krantikari Jan Committee - for a year.
November 24	A body found by Afghan authorities near Delaram in the Nimroz province of Afghanistan on November 23 has been identified as that of Ramankutty Maniappan, a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) driver, abducted by the Taliban on November 19. On November 22, Taliban spokesperson Qari Mohammad Yusuf had telephoned Reuters to claim that Maniappan was executed as the BRO did not agree to pull out of Afghanistan. Maoists kill two persons and injured two others at Pullalacheruvu in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.
November 25	A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) 'commander' is killed in an encounter with police personnel at Bonga village in the Surguja district of Chhattisgarh.
November 26	In a joint operation, the Rajasthan and Gujarat police killed a Lashkar-e-Toiba activist, Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh at Ahmedabad. 46 left-wing extremists belonging to various outfits surrendered to the police in the presence of Home Minister K. Jana Reddy at Warangal in Andhra Pradesh.
December 3	Communist Party of India-Maoist (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 in Chhattisgarh.
December 7	Two Maoists are suspected to have died in an exchange of fire with police after they triggered a landmine blast injuring three police personnel in the forests in Illendu subdivision of Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh.
December 9	A Delhi court sentences a retired Army official to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for trying to pass on sensitive information relating to troop deployments and movements to Dubai and Kathmandu-based Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officials. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Reena Singh Naag handed down the punishment to Satyabir Singh after finding him guilty under the Official Secrets Act and of criminal conspiracy.
December 14	The CPI-Maoist rules out any kind of negotiation with any State Government saying it would "pursue the path of violent retaliation with more vigour." The announcement came at a press conference at a village in Bihar along the India-Nepal border by the outfit’s 'central committee' spokesman Azad and member Praveen. Also, sounding a warning against Multinational Companies that have signed Memoranda of Understanding with the Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra Governments, the spokesman said their outfit would act strongly against them. Five Naxalites are killed in two separate encounters in the Anantapur and Warangal districts of Andhra Pradesh.
December 16	Five people, including three CPI-Maoist cadres, were killed in two separate incidents of violence in Chhattisgarh. The Union Cabinet approves the signing of the agreement between India and Pakistan for regulation of the bus service between Amritsar and Lahore and Amritsar and Nankana Sahib to expand economic cooperation and facilitate people-to-people contact between the two countries. At a meeting of the Union Cabinet in Delhi, chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, it was also decided to set up a standing committee for the purpose.
December 23	Three members of the Chennur-Sirpur squad of the outlawed CPI-Maoist, including two ‘deputy commanders’, were killed in an encounter with the police near Audam village in the Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh.
December 25	Four Railway Protection Force personnel, who were escorting a cash box in a Rayagada (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 of Andhra Pradesh on the Andhra-Orissa border.
December 26	At least four Naxalites were killed in an encounter with police personnel in the Gyarabatti area of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. A Hizb-ul-Mujahideen cadre, Sabir Ahmed, is arrested from the Ajmer district in Rajasthan and three AK-47 rifles along with a huge cache of ammunition were recovered from his possession.
December 28	A scientist, Professor Emeritus M.C. Puri of the Indian Institute of Technology-New Delhi, was killed and at least five persons were injured when an unidentified gunman opened fire and lobbed grenades in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) campus in Bangalore, the capital city of Karnataka. The attack occurred when delegates at an international conference of the Operational Research Society of India were coming out of the J.N. Tata Auditorium in the IISc campus.
December 29	Six Maoists were killed and five others arrested in an encounter between Central Reserve Police Force personnel and the Maoists at Khutouna Sareh village under Patahi police station in the East Champaran district of Bihar. Three Naxalites belonging to the CPI-ML Prathigatana group were killed in an exchange of fire with the police on the outskirts of Vilasagar village in the Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.