Date |
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature of incident |
January 1
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
and three others arrested in Kutul area of Abujhmarh in Narayanpur
District of Chhattisgarh. "The District Reserve Guard (DRG)
of Narayanpur District Police recovered two dead bodies of uniformed
Maoists and apprehended three Maoists during an anti-Maoist
operation in Kutul area of Maoists' undeclared capital Abujhmarh
today. Seven weapons, including a 303 rifle, were recovered,"
said IGP, Bastar Range, S.R.P. Kalluri.
|
Violent
|
January 1 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Maoist Jan militia (
'commander' identified as Sonadhar alias Sona of Metapal range
committee was arrested in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. "Sonadhar
had a reward of INR 100,000 on his head," said IGP Kalluri.
|
Non-violent |
January 1 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Maoist 'deputy section commander'
of military company number 2, surrendered before Dantewada District
Police of Chhattisgarh. He carried a reward of INR 800,000 on
his head.
|
Non-Violent |
January 2 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three youths from Pune, identified
as Adarsh Patil, Vilas Valake and Shrikrushna Shewale who were
on a peace cycle rally from Pune to Malkangiri in Odisha were
allegedly abducted by Maoists in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
January 2 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
CRPF and District Armed Force
personnel conducted a raid in Beyand village under Manika Police
Station limits in Latehar District of Jharkhand and arrested an
'area commander' of CPI-Maoist, identified as Kunwar Yadav alias
Baleshwar Yadav. According to SP Anup Birtheray, Kunwar worked
under Sub-Zonal commander Shravan Yadav before becoming area commander.
|
Non-Violent |
January 2 |
Nuapada District of Odisha
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
eight pieces of machinery used in road construction work at Sirigidi
in Nuapada District of Odisha. The contracting company that has
undertaken the project had parked the machinery at the construction
site. Around 15 armed cadres came to the site and asked the labourers
to leave the camp. They also snatched their mobile phones.
|
Violent |
January 3 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
After four days in CPI-Maoist
captivity, three students from Pune were released in Chhattisgarh.
The students were on a cycle rally from Pune to Malkangiri District
in Odisha to promote peace when they went missing from Bijapur
District.
|
Non-Violent |
January 3 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Eleven CPI-Maoist cadres "impressed"
by the surrender policy of Chhattisgarh government, surrendered
in Kondagaon District, while citing disappointment with the "ill-treatment"
by senior cadres, Police said.
|
Non-Violent |
January 4 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
Five powerful IEDs allegedly planted
by CPI-Maoist, were recovered from an under-construction route
in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. Out of the five IEDs seized,
two weighed about 10 kilograms each, while the others were around
5-7 kilograms each.
|
Non-Violent |
January 4 |
Gaya District of Bihar
|
Two powerful cane bombs were recovered
by SFs from a forest in Chando village in Gaya District of Bihar.
During a combing operation against CPI-Maoist, the CoBRA unit
and the District Police recovered two powerful cane bombs, weighing
five kilograms each, from the forest area.
|
Non-Violent |
January 4 |
Odisha
|
Odisha State Committee of the
CPI-Maoist called for an Odisha and Chhattisgarh bandh
on January 8. One Budhuram, the spokesperson of the Sunabeda and
Menpur division of the CPI-Maoist, in the video tape appealed
to the denizens of Nuapada, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Gariabandh,
Mahasamund, Dhamtari and Kanker to support the bandh.
|
Statement |
January 4
|
Nuapada District of Odisha
|
Maoists had posted several posters
on the walls and doors of houses in Sarajanga village in Nuapada
District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 4
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
One Maoist was arrested by Sukma
District Police of Chhattisgarh from Kerlapal area of the District.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 4
|
Jharkhand
|
Five additional SPs will likely
be deployed in CPI-Maoist-hit districts to tackle the threat posed
by the extremist activities, said sources. The officers may enjoy
the status of ASP (operations) in Districts and lead the anti-Maoist
operations planned to target the rebels. Jharkhand Police Spokesperson
S.N. Pradhan said the officers would help in prompt and smooth
conduct of operations against Maoists.
|
Statement
|
January 5
|
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
and one was arrested during an exchange of fire with the Police
in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. “The Maoists’ Kudhur LOS
‘commander’ and one LOS members were killed in a fierce encounter
between Kondagaon District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the Maoists
today morning,” said S.R.P. Kalluri, the IGP, Bastar Range.
|
Violent
|
January 5
|
Gariyaband District of Chhattisgarh
|
A huge cache of explosives including
28 petrol bombs was recovered during a search operation by security
personnel in Gariyaband District of Chhattisgarh in restive forests
of Karlajhar village.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 5
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A group of SFs personnel had a
close save as Maoists detonated a powerful pipe bomb blast in
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. No one was injured in the blast.
The Maoists exploded the pipe bomb near Tarrem village under Basaguda
Police Station limits when a team of CoBRA personnel was patrolling
in the region.
|
Violent
|
January 5
|
Kalahandi District of Odisha
|
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Kalamdei Majhi (24), surrendered before the Kalahandi District
SP, as she was "disgusted" with the Maoists’ activities.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 5
|
Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
A group of CPI-Maoist cadres have
allegedly beaten to death a Girijan, identified as Pangi
Sivayya of Boosiputtu village in Munchingput mandal of
Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh. According to reports
reaching the victim’s home, he was taken away and beaten to death
near Sariapalli, a nearby village. He was branded as a ‘Police
informer’.
|
Violent
|
January 5
|
Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
A TDP leader and former Sarpanch
of Jerrela Gram Panchayat in Visakha Agency of Vishakhapatnam
District in Andhra Pradesh, Sagina Venkataramana (32) was allegedly
hacked to death by CPI-Maoist cadres. Venkataramana was actively
involved in anti-bauxite mining agitation.
|
Violent
|
January 5
|
Saran District of Bihar
|
A team of STF and Saran District
Police of Bihar arrested nine cadres of the CPI-Maoist, including
a woman ‘area commander’ from Doriganj in Saran District. All
of the arrested cadres were accused in the case for planting of
explosives at the Ara-Chhapra Bridge on January 1.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 6
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, Renga Shankraiyya
(30) and Sukman Kursam (27) were arrested from Awapalli Police
Station area in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 6
|
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
The Araku Valley Police arrested
Y. Gowri (45), an employee with Lakcon Construction Company, for
trying to supply 10 walkie-talkie sets and about one kilogram
of gold to CPI-Maoist, near Araku junction in Visakhapatnam District
of Andhra Pradesh.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 7
|
Koraput District of Odisha
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a businessman, identified as Bapi Samanta, at Dandabadi village
under Boipariguda Police Limits in Koraput District of Odisha.
|
Violent
|
January 7
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Five Maoists, including three
carrying cash rewards on their heads, surrendered before Police
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. Surrendered Maoists were
identified as Hemla Paklu (28), Budhram Kowasi (24), Hemla Pandu
(25), Motu Parsa (19) and Hemla Budhram (35). Of them, Paklu,
a member of military platoon no. 12 was carrying a reward of INR
200, 000, while INR 100, 000 each was announced for the arrest
of militia company commander Budhram and Awapalli militia commander
Pandu.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 7
|
Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand
|
CPI-Maoist ‘area commander’ Uday
Ganjhu was arrested from Niri forests of Keredari block in Hazaribagh
District of Jharkhand. Ganjhu, who had a reward of INR 300, 000
on head, was wanted in many cases in Keredari and Barkagaon in
Hazaribagh District, and also in Chatra District.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 7
|
Bargarh District of Odisha
|
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist set ablaze
construction equipment at Nuadihi village near Dublabahal under
Melchamunda Police Station limits in Bargarh District of Odisha.
According to reports, 25 armed cadres arrived at the office of
a contractor, who is laying road under Biju Expressway on Sohela-Nuapada
stretch in Nuadihi village, woke up the labourers who were sleeping
in the camp and sought petrol after identifying themselves as
Maoists.
|
Violent
|
January 8
|
Odisha
|
Maoists have called a two-day
bandh starting today, in Nuapada, Kalahandi and Malkangiri
Districts of Odisha to protest against ‘Operation Green Hunt.’
The protesting Maoists belong to the Mainpur-Nuapada divisional
committee and have put up posters and banners announcing the bandh
at some places in these Districts.
|
Violent
|
January 8
|
Odisha
|
Maoist posters were found in Lanjigarh
and Muniguda area in Kalahandi and Rayagada Districts of Odisha
respectively. In the posters the Maoists said the Police had killed
some tribals in Kalahandi, Nuapada and Rayagada Districts recently
in fake encounters.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 8
|
Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
while one trooper of the CoBRA received bullet injury in an encounter
between SFs and Maoists at village Bandh Gorya under Dhibra Police
Station area in Aurangabad District of Bihar. SFs also recovered
four weapons including one AK-47, one carbine and two pistols
from possession of the Maoist.
|
Violent
|
January 8
|
Lakhisarai District of Bihar
|
Armed Maoists set ablaze two tractors
of a contractor in a village in Lakhisarai District of Bihar.
|
Violent
|
January 8
|
Koraput District of Odisha
|
Two BSF personnel were killed
and another sustained injuries in landmine blast triggered by
the CPI-Maoist in an area near Kaliajhula forests under Boipariguda
Police limits in Koraput District of Odisha. Sources said the
Maoists, who had killed a local trader, Bapi Samant (37), late
on January 7, had planted landmines anticipating movement of the
SFs. When the news of the killing was reported, the BSF sent in
a team to comb the area. A 30-member team was combing the forests
when the Maoists triggered the landmines.
|
Violent
|
January 8
|
Odisha
|
CM Naveen Patnaik expressed concern
over inroads made by the LWE in four central Odisha Districts
and asked senior Police officers to pay special attention to curb
their influence. Addressing the valedictory function of senior
Police officers’ conference in Bhubaneswar, CM Patnaik said, “The
Left wing extremism continues to be a major concern for the State.
Though we have been able to contain the menace to the areas bordering
our neighbouring States, the recent movement and activities of
the Maoist cadre in the districts of Bolangir, Kalahandi, Kandhamal
and Boudh is worrisome.”
|
Statement
|
January 8
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a ‘commander’, were arrested from two different locations in the
Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Three rebels, who were involved
in setting vehicles on fire at Hahaladdi iron ore mine, were arrested
from Karremarka village in Kanker District, a senior Police official
said. Those arrested were identified as Budheshwar Netam (25),
Dharmuram (28) and Somji Nareti (20).
|
Non-Violent
|
January 8
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
In the second incident, Veko Budhru
(25), active as LGS ‘deputy commander’ in Bhairamgarh area committee
was arrested in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 8
|
Khunti District of Jharkhand
|
SFs exchanged fire with cadres
of the CPI-Maoist at Kurunga forests under Arki Police Station
area in Khunti District of Jharkhand. After the encounter, the
SFs recovered 36 IEDs from the encounter site. "Four 14kg
gas cylinders, four 5kg gas cylinders, two pressure cookers and
24 milk cans of 250ml capacity were used to prepare the IEDs.
Apart from the IEDs, 20kg of cordex wire, which is used to connect
the IEDs with exploders, were also recovered. There were 600 rounds
of live cartridges besides one INSAS (Indian Small Arms System)
rifles, one .303 rifle and one .315 rifle," SP Anish Kumar
Gupta said.
|
Violent
|
January 8
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly
set on fire four vehicles of a private firm engaged in a road
construction work in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. The incident
occurred at a remote Muskel village under Dantewada Police Station
limits where work on construction of a road was underway, Dantewada
SP Kamlochan Kashyap said.
|
Violent
|
January 8
|
Khunti District of Jharkhand
|
A CPI-Maoist training camp was
busted by a joint team of CRPF and Khunti District Police in Arki
block of the District following a brief encounter with the Maoists
in the afternoon.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 9
|
East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand
|
A suspected Naxal identified
as Baleshwar Soren, was arrested from an abandoned airport at
Chakulia in Ghatsila Sub-division of East Singhbhum District,
Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 10
|
Gajapati District of Odisha
|
A powerful IED, suspected to be
planted by the CPI-Maoist, was recovered from Adava Police Station
limits in Gajapati District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 11
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a woman ‘commander’, were killed in a joint operation of Chhattisgarh
and Maharashtra Police in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
January 11
|
Gaya District of Bihar
|
CPI-Maoist cadres have set ablaze
four road construction equipments machines engaged in the construction
of State Highway 69 linking the State capital Patna with Dumaria,
Araria District, in Gaya District of Bihar.
|
Violent
|
January 11
|
Patna District of Bihar
|
Two hardcore CPI-Maoist cadres
identified as Amresh Kumar Sinha alias Kavi Ji alias
K.V. and Sanjay Tiwari surrendered before Patna SSP Manu Maharaj
in Patna District of Bihar.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 11
|
Bihar
|
CPI-Maoist central zonal spokesman
Pramjeet threatened to take revenge of the killing of the Maoists
in Bihar in the encounter on January 8. He alleged that their
four colleagues were arrested by security personnel, who killed
them in fake encounter. Pramjeet said dedication of the comrades
will never go in vain and they would take revenge from the cops.
|
Statement
|
January 11
|
Nuapada District of Odisha
|
A CPI-Maoist camp was busted by
the SFs following an exchange of fire in Kholibhitar inside Sunabeda
Wildlife Sanctuary in Nuapada District of Odisha. There was no
casualty on either side. Nuapada Superintendent of Police (SP)
Pinak Mishra said there was a group of 20 to 25 Maoists in the
camp and it managed to escape under the cover of darkness.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 11
|
Chatra District of Jharkhand
|
Jharkhand Police seized around
INR 15 million cash from four Naxals in Chatra District
of Jharkhand. The four LWEs have been arrested.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 12
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Police Constable was injured
in an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres under Tongpal Police
Station limits in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. The exchange
of fire took place when a joint team of State DRG and STF was
carrying out an anti-Maoist operation in the region, Sukma ASP
Santosh Singh said. While the SFs were cordoning off a forest
axis at Kunna, a group of Maoists opened fire on them following
which an encounter broke out between the two sides.
|
Violent
|
January 12
|
Rayagada District of Odisha
|
Maoist posters were found at several
places in Rayagada District of Odisha. In the posters, the Maoists
have warned of stringent punishment to people who are buying lands
from the poor local people for various companies and other business
purposes. The posters were found at Sikarpai, Kumbharguda, Krushapatraguda
and Kalisundar Mandir Chhak under Sadar block.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 12
|
East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand
|
An encounter took place between
SFs personnel and the CPI-Maoist cadres in Danglapahar forest
area of Ghatshila Sub-division in East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
The SFs on receiving information about the presence of Maoist
Kanu Munda in the jungle area raided the Danglapahar spot but
failed to arrest any suspected Maoist. The team comprising District
Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel found
towel, torch and clothes among other things from the site.
|
Violent
|
January 12
|
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
A CPI-Maoist ‘area committee member’
identified as Vikas Parahiya who had actively worked for the Maoists
for the past six years or so and was involved in several ambushes,
was arrested from Chhipadohar area of Latehar District, Jharkhand.
A rifle and cartridges were recovered from Vikas.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 13
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two school students, identified
as Rameshwar Oyam (18) and Vishal (16), were injured in a landmine
blast suspected to be planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh. The explosion took place while the students
were travelling on a motorcycle towards Tarrem village from Sarkeguda
under Basaguda Police Station limits, Bijapur ASP Indira Kalyan
Elesela said.
|
Violent
|
January 14
|
Gajapati District of Odisha
|
A powerful IED planted by the
CPI-Maoist in the past was recovered from the Adava Police Station
limits of Gajapati District in Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 14
|
Palamau District of Jharkhand
|
A CPI-Maoist 'sub-zonal commander',
carrying a reward of INR 500,000 on his head, identified as Jagnarayan
Yadav alias Vishal ji, was arrested during a special operation
from Thekhi village in Palamau District of Jharkhand. SP Mayur
Patel said a self-loaded pistol and three rounds of ammunition
were recovered from the possession of Yadav.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 14
|
Koraput District of Odisha
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres of
Koraput-Srikakulam Division hacked a trader to death in Bargi
village under Narayanpatna Police Station limits in Koraput District
of Odisha. The deceased has been identified as Rohini Nachika
(40). According to Police reports, at least 20 armed Maoists entered
the village late in the night and asked Nachika to come out of
his house. Accusing him of being a ‘police informer’, they killed
him. They left behind a poster at his house in which they claimed
that Nachika was punished as he helped Police with information
about the cadres. Police denied the Maoist claim.
|
Violent
|
January 15
|
Bijapur District in Chhattisgarh
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in an encounter with the DRG of Bijapur District in Chhattisgarh.
“A small team of the DRG Bijapur District, numbering about 50
men, had a successful encounter with the Maoists at village Pedda
Jojer under Gangaloor Police Station limits of Bijapur today morning.
The DRG team managed to recover dead bodies of four Maoists along
with four Bharmars (locally made guns), local grenades and Maoist
dump,” informed Bastar IGP S.R.P. Kalluri.
|
Violent
|
January 15
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Police Constable was injured
in an exchange of fire with Maoists in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
The encounter took place in the forests under Tongpal Police Station
limits when a joint team of DRG and STF was carrying out an anti-Maoist
operation in the region, said Sukma ASP Santosh Singh. While the
security team was cordoning off a forest axis at Kunna when a
group of armed Maoists opened fire on them following which a gun
battle broke out between the two sides, he added.
|
Violent
|
January 15
|
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
|
As many as 30 Maoists, including
a woman, surrendered before Police in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh.
Bastar SP R.N. Das said that these Maoists decided to return to
the mainstream as they were impressed by the rehabilitation policy
of the State Government. 19 cadres of Darbha division committee
and 11 cadres of East Bastar division surrendered before senior
Police officials.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 15
|
Koraput District of Odisha
|
CPI-Maoist cadres have killed
a former Naib Sarpanch - Krishna Miniaka - in Kandho Tikarapada
village under Bandhugaon Police Station limits in Koraput District
of Odisha. He was killed on the suspicion of being a ‘police informer’.
In a letter written in Telugu, Srikakulam Koraput Divisional Committee
of the CPI-Maoist claimed responsibility for the killing. Sources
said about 20 armed Maoists entered the village and called Miniaka
out of his house.
|
Violent
|
January 16
|
Gaya District of Bihar
|
Police arrested a Maoist ‘zonal
commander’ along with huge cache of arms and ammunition during
a combing operation in Gaya District of Bihar. Acting on the tip-off,
Police and CRPF personnel conducted a combing operation in Gaya
District. Police had recovered an AK-56 rifle, 102 live cartridges
and other items from the arrested ‘zonal commander’.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 16
|
Angul District of Odisha
|
An exchange of fire between the
Police and the Maoists was reported in Tapdole forest under Takaurgarh
Police Station limits in Angul District of Odisha.
|
Violent
|
January 17
|
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
A CPI-Maoist ‘commander’ carrying
reward of INR 1.2 million on his head, surrendered before the
Gadchiroli District Police in Maharashtra along with his wife
and another woman cadre. Each of the women Maoists, wanted for
their alleged role in various encounters with the police, carried
reward of INR 200,000 on their heads. “Baburao Pesu Devu Wachami,
the platoon commander of ’Chamorshi Dalam’ (armed squad), was
allegedly involved in four serious offences including three encounters
with police and a bomb blast,” the Police stated in a press release.
Wachami’s wife Payki Girija Madika Barse, working for ‘Sitapur
Dalam’, also laid down arms.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 18
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CPI-Maoist ‘commander’ carrying
a reward of INR 100,000 on his head was killed in an encounter
with Police in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. The 'black uniform-clad'
Maoist ‘commander’, identified as Kartam Deva, was killed in the
encounter that took place in the forest near Burumapad village,
SP D Shravan said. Later, during a search of the spot, Police
recovered the body of the Maoist ‘commander’. Four loaded guns,
detonator and other material were recovered from the spot. The
horns and skin of a deer were also seized from the place, the
SP said.
|
Violent
|
January 18
|
Kanker and Sukma Districts of
Chhattisgarh
|
Two Maoist cadres identified as
Mangel (48) and Mura (21) were arrested from Kanker and Sukma
Districts of Chhattisgarh, respectively. During interrogation,
Mangel said that he was a former member of Barda and Kiskodo Dalam.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 18
|
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
SF personnel exchanged heavy gunfire
with the 'dasta' (firing squad) of CPI-Maoist ‘commander’ Arvind
at Budha Pahad under Garu Police Station in Latehar District of
Jharkhand. After the firing stopped, Police carried out a search
operation and found a Maoist camp. Four landmines, 500 metres
of wire, nine detonators, one small Honda generator, 19 blankets,
Maoist literature, kitchen utensils, medicines and also tent materials
were recovered from the encounter site.
|
Violent
|
January 18
|
Khammam District of Telangana
|
A joint team of District Police
and CRPF personnel arrested the CPI-Maoist’s Wajedu LOS ‘commander’
Kanithi Papa Rao alias Vijay, carrying a reward
of INR 400,000 on his head, during a search operation in the forests
surrounding Alubaka area in Venkatapuram mandal in
Khammam District of Telangana. “Papa Rao was involved in as many
as 58 cases, including 12 murder cases and eight incidents of
exchange of fire with the police under Venkatapuram circle limits
in the district,” Bhadrachalam ASP R. Bhaskaran said. He had gone
underground in 2004. Since then, he worked as a squad member in
Sabari Area Committee, Chintoor LOS, Venkatapuram Area Committee
and Charla LOS before being elevated to the position of commander
of Wajedu LOS.
|
Non-Violent
|
January 18
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Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
Ten days after the killing of
four CPI-Maoist cadres on January 8 during an encounter with Police
at Bandh Goryea forest under Dhibra Police Station limits in Aurangabad
District of Bihar, Maoists pasted pamphlets in Deo and Dhibra
localities threatening to take revenge of the killings of their
colleagues in the encounter. Some of the pamphlets were pasted
at small culverts in aforesaid localities. The pamphlets carried
the message, "Char ka badla chalis se lenge, Operation
Green Hunt band karo, comrade Bihari Yadav, Ratan Yadav, Devki
Bhuiyan and Birendra Singh ko sat sat salaam."
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Non-Violent
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January 19
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Maoist cadre was killed in an
encounter with the SFs in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. When
the 204 battalion of CRPF reached Hirma para village of the District
during a patrol, the Maoists opened indiscriminate fire at them.
The SFs opened retaliatory fire in which one Maoist cadre was
killed, Police said.
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Violent
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January 19
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A woman CPI-Maoist ‘commander’
identified as Zareena was killed in an encounter with SFs personnel
at Bayanar village under Bedre Police Station limits in Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh. “An encounter took place between the
Police and the Maoists between 12 to 12.45 pm today near Bayanar
forest of Bijapur District. A woman Maoist commander was killed
during the encounter and one 12-bore rifle, one locally made gun
and heavy Maoist dump was recovered from the spot of the encounter,”
said a statement issued by the Police.
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Violent
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January 19
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Eight Maoists surrendered before
the Police in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. The surrendered
Maoists include two women.
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Non-Violent
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January 19
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
The Bastar Police sent an IAF
chopper to Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh, to bring an injured
Maoist to Jagadalpur District headquarters for treatment. “A chopper
was sent to Bijapur today to bring Linga Sori, a Maoist who was
injured and arrested during Pedia encounter on January 18, for
better medical treatment. He will be admitted to Mecoz hospital
in Jagadalpur. This gesture from the Police will shut the mouths
of those so-called Human Rights activists who term the Police-Maoist
encounters as fake and at times call the Maoists as innocents,”
said Bastar District SP R.N. Das in a statement.
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Non-Violent
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January 19
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Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
with arms and ammunitions in a joint operation by CRPF troopers
and District Police in Aurangabad District of Bihar. Aurangabad
SP Babu Ram said, "The Maoists, identified as Awadhesh Yadav,
Sanjay Yadav and Dukhi Singh Bhokta, were involved in several
cases of Naxal violence and extortion. Two country-made pistols
and six live cartridges were recovered from their possession,"
and added raids were being carried out at several places to arrest
other Maoists in the District.
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Non-Violent
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January 20
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Maharashtra
|
The CPI-Maoist in Maharashtra
has issued a ‘hit list’ of 37 persons who they vow to eliminate
in 2016. The Maoists have roped in units of ‘Company-10’, trained
to kill with precision, from Chhattisgarh to execute the plan.
Contrary to the Maharashtra government’s recent claim that LWE
is on the wane, the State faces a renewed red cadre that has vowed
to eliminate 37 senior Police officers and informants in 2016.
“This [the latest hit list] is a matter of serious concern for
the State, even as inputs show new strategies are being adopted
to attract youth with fresh vigour,” an intelligence note in possession
of The Hindu reads.
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Non-Violent
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January 20
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Maharashtra
|
Diliip Uikey alias Guha,
a top CPI-Maoist leader who was active in three states for nearly
two decades and named in more than 200 cases, including 19 murders
in Balaghat District of MP, will be questioned by the Maharashtra
and Chhattisgarh Police, officials said on January 20. Guha, who
hails from Matte village in Balaghat District, was arrested from
the jungles in Songudda in Balaghat by the MP Police in May, 2015.
He carried a total of INR 3.5 million cash reward on his head.
According to Police, Guha was a member of the Malajkhand dalam in
the mid-1990s and later became the ‘deputy commander’ of a special
guerilla squad before becoming the ‘divisional commander’ of Gadchiroli-Balaghat-Gondia
committee of CPI-Maoist in 2008.
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Non-Violent
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January 21
|
Gaya District in Bihar
|
Four Naxalites were
arrested with a cache of firearms from Gaya District in Bihar
and adjoining Chatra District in Jharkhand. SP (City) Raviranjan
Kumar told webindia123.com in Gaya that two dreaded Naxalites of
PLFI, a breakaway group of the CPI-Maoist were arrested at Raniganj
village under Imamganj Police Station area in the District. On
their interrogation, Police conducted raids at Jori village in
Chatra District of Jharkhand and arrested two Maoist cadres. A
pistol, three mobile phones and other incriminating objects were
recovered from their possession. The arrested cadres were identified
as Upendra Vishwakarma, Sanjeet Yadav, Dilip Singh and Pravin
Kumar.
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Non-Violent
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January 21
|
Tamil Nadu
|
The Madras HC in Tamil Nadu granted
interim bail to five CPI-Maoist cadres, top Maoist leader Roopesh,
head of WGZC of CPI-Maoist, and four others, including his wife
Shyna, who were arrested near Karumathampatti in Coimbatore in
May 4, 2015, by the Q branch Police with a condition to appear
before the Investigating Officer every day for a month.
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Non-Violent
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January 21
|
Bandipura in Karnataka
|
An inter-State meeting of senior
forest personnel in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala held at Bandipura
in Karnataka, held after an interval of three years, decided to
intensify joint operations to tackle the CPI-Maoist activities
in the forest areas of the region, Pramod G. Krishnan, Chief Conservator
of Forest, (Wildlife, Palakkad), said. The meet offered all assistance
to Police Forces in combing operations to tackle Maoist menace.
As part of this, anti-poaching activities information would be
exchanged each other.
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Statement
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January 21
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
A top Maoist surrendered before
the Police in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. According to
SP, Dantewada, Kamlochan Kashyap, the Maoist was carrying a cash
reward of INR 300,000 on his head. The insurgent identified as
Somdu Markam alias Somlu (35) resident of Madkamiras
Police Station, Dantewada has decided to lay down arms, he said.
Somdu was ‘Deputy Commander’ of Maoist Area Committee active in
Malangir region of Darbha division. Somdu in 2006 was involved
in setting afire 55 vehicles of Essar Company at Kirandul.
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Non-Violent
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January 22
|
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
A huge cache of arms mostly barrels
used in manufacturing guns was recovered from forests in Rajnandgaon
District of Chhattisgarh. Acting-on a tip off, as many as 39 barrels
of 12 bore guns were recovered from Mangikholi forests under Bortalav
Police Station area by a joint team of SFs, Rajnandgaon SP Sundarraj
P said. During interrogation, a recently arrested CPI-Maoist woman
cadre, Manisha had revealed about the location of a dump of materials
for making guns hidden in the forests of Kandhurra based on which
search operations were on in the jungles of Kandhurra for the
past few days, the SP said.
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Non-Violent
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January 22
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Seven Maoists, three of them carrying
reward of varying amounts on their heads, were arrested from Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh. “The cadres were apprehended by a joint
team of security forces near Chingavaram village under Gadiras
police station limits,” Sukma ASP Santosh Singh said. The Maoists
have been identified as Madvi Bapu (30), Madvi Linga (30), Madvi
Hidma (35), Podiyami Kosa, Madvi Handa (40), Madvi Muda (35) and
Madvi Hadma (23). While Hidma was carrying a reward of INR 1,000,
Handa and Kosa carried INR 2,000 each. According to Police, the
Maoists were allegedly involved in activities like damaging roads,
set vehicles on fire, and dropping Maoist pamphlets in the region.
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Non-Violent
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January 22
|
Ranchi of Jharkhand
|
UMHA adviser K. Vijay Kumar stressed
on better interstate cooperation to combat LWE effectively along
the borders of Jharkhand and its neighbouring Naxalite-hit states.
During a four-hour meeting at the Jharkhand Police headquarters
in Ranchi of Jharkhand, Kumar is understood to have directed state
Police and paramilitary forces to "reactivate" the "Operational
Area" (OA) strategy and set up "Interstate Joint Task
Force" to crack down on CPI-Maoist and other rebel groups,
who have been using porous borders to give security personnel
the slip. "I am happy with outcomes of anti-Naxalite operations
in Jharkhand. The meeting mainly discussed plans for better interstate
coordination and better intelligence network. For example, we
have faced problems in tri-junction bordering areas (where borders
of three states merged). Thus, cooperation among state police
is the need of the hour," Kumar said after the meeting without
divulging further details.
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Statement
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January 22
|
Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
Maoists killed one villager, identified
as Nanhu Singh Bhokta in Gulab Bigha village under Madanpur Police
station in Aurangabad District of Bihar suspecting him to be a
Police informer. The Maoists also left a pamphlet at the spot
threatening to eliminate SFs engaged in anti-Maoist operations.
However, Police claimed that the victim never worked as their
informer. "Police are probing the incident from different
angles. Four special police teams have been formed to carry out
raids and arrest those involved in the killing," the SDPO
P N Sahu said.
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Violent
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January 24
|
Deogarh District of Odisha
|
The Odisha Police killed two senior
CPI-Maoist cadres — the secretary of Kalinga Nagar Divisional
Committee, P. Kumarswami alias Sushil, and his
wife Sundari Lingo alias Suni, in an encounter
at Pacharipani in Deogarh District of Odisha. Sushil, a resident
of Warangal in Andhra Pradesh, was allegedly involved in 78 cases,
including 30 murders, in Angul, Deogarh, Keonjhar, Jajpur, Rayagada
and Gajapati Districts of the Odisha. “When the SOG jawans approached
the rebels’ hideouts, Sushil and his aides fired at them prompting
the jawans to retaliate. Sushil and his wife were neutralised
on the spot while other cadres managed to escape. Efforts are
on to nab them,” said DGP K. B. Singh. Sushil was carrying reward
of INR two million on his head while Suni carried INR 500,000
on her head. The DGP said Sushil was actively involved in the
murder of ASI Umesh Marandi of Daitary Police Station in Keonjhar
District in July 2010 and executed several mine blasts. The DGP
said Sushil was trying to establish a red-corridor.
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Violent
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January 24
|
Khunti District of Jharkhand
|
Two cadres of the PLFI-a splinter
group of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Amit alias Birsa
and Julius Lugun alias Julu, were arrested during
a search operation at Rania in Khunti District of Jharkhand. Khunti
SP Anish Gupta was tipped off that PLFI ‘zonal commander’ Jeedan
Gudia and his associates had assembled in a forest on the outskirts
of Khudbir village in Rania to work out future course of actions.
"When our boys reached the forest around 3.30pm and asked
them to surrender, they abused them and started fleeing towards
northern end of the woods. Amit and Julius were caught after a
hot chase. However, Jeedan and his fourteen other associates managed
to escape. We have launched an intensive search operation in that
area," SP Gupta said. Police recovered a rifle, many cartridges,
10 cell phones, a backpack and military fatigues from them.
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Violent
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January 24
|
Dumka District of Jharkhand
|
In a search operation, Maoist
literature, items of daily use, ammonium nitrate and battery connectors,
used for explosions, were recovered by Police in Kathikund in
Dumka District of Jharkhand. SP Vipul Shukla said they were carrying
out search operations in different parts of the District for the
last four days.
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Non-Violent
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January 24
|
Bihar / Jharkhand
|
The CPI-Maoist has given a call
for 24-hour Bihar-Jharkhand bandh on Republic
Day (from January 25 midnight) to protest killing of their colleagues
in an encounter with SF personnel at Band Goreya village under
Dhibra Police Station in Aurangabad District of Bihar on January
8. CPI-Maoist spokesperson Mannas said the bandh will
start from January 25 midnight and will continue for the next
24 hours. He said emergency services have been exempted from the bandh.
Mannas said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar led-Grand Alliance government
in Bihar has extended full support to ‘Operation Greenhunt’.
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Non-Violent
|
January 24
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Six CPI-Maoist cadres, one of
them carrying cash reward on his head, surrendered before Police
in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. "The cadres surrendered
before senior police and CRPF officials citing disappointment
with the ideology of Maoists and ill treatment meted out to them
by senior leaders," Sukma ASP, Santosh Singh, said. Those
surrendered were identified as Kunjam Lakhma, a medical team member
of Jagargunda area committee of Maoists, Dubi Lakhma, head of
DAKMS - a frontal wing of Maoists, and four lower rung members
- Kawasi Lachhu, Dubi Hunga, Kawasi Kosa and Kawasi Budhra, he
added. Dubi Lakhma was carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on his
head, he added.
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Non-Violent
|
January 24
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two janmilitia members
of the CPI-Maoist, identified as Madvi Sukka (38) and Madvi Linga
(32), were arrested from Lakhapal village under Kukanar Police
Station limits in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. The duos were
rounded up during patrolling by a joint team of CRPF and District
Force in the Kukanar region, located around 450 kilometres away
from Raipur, ASP, Santosh Singh, said.
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Non-Violent
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January 24
|
Khammam District of Telangana
|
A Special Guerrilla Squad member
and a militia ‘commander’ besides, four militia
members of the CPI-Maoist were arrested by joint squads of the
District Police and CRPF personnel during separate combing operations
in Charla mandal of Khammam District.
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Non-Violent
|
January 25
|
Palamu District of Jharkhand
|
A group of suspected Maoists set
ablaze a portion of an under construction mobile tower at Chhatarpur
area in Palamu District of Jharkhand. Palamu DIG Saket Kumar Singh
said that three suspected Maoists on a two-wheeler also damaged
a solar panel used for powering the mobile tower.
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Violent
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January 25
|
Garhwa District of Jharkhand
|
Two can bombs, weighing one kilogram
each, planted by the Maoists was found near a school at Kurum
village under Bhandariya Police Station limits in Garhwa District
of Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent
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January 25
|
Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a junior
Police, identified as Girija Paswan, in Aurangabad District of
Bihar. The Maoists claimed that the 35-year-old was killed as
he was suspected to have told his superiors about the whereabouts
of Rajiv alias Bihari, a Maoist leader. Rajiv and his accomplices
were killed by the Aurangabad Police earlier this month (January
2016).
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Violent
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January 25
|
Rayagada District of Odisha
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze a
JCB machine and a tractor engaged in road construction work at
Dalianuji village under Muniguda Police Station limits in Rayagada
District of Odisha.
|
Violent
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January 25
|
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
A joint team of District Police
and CRPF arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Mahadev Korram,
from his house under Mardapal Police Station limits in Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh. Based on a confirmed intelligence input
that he was present in his house, SF personnel raided the place
and rounded him up.
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Non-Violent
|
January 26
|
Bolangir District of Odisha
|
CPI-Maoist cadres threatening
people to boycott Republic Day celebrations, hoisted black flags
in several places in Bolangir District of Odisha. The Maoists
unfurled black flags on school premises in Chaulabngi in Khaparakhol
block in the District leaving Mao posters and pamphlets appealing
public to boycott the Republic Day, said sources.
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Non-Violent
|
January 26
|
Kandhamal District of Odisha
|
CPI-Maoist cadres thrashed to
death a villager of Kuaghar in Kandhamal District of Odisha after
branding him as a ‘Police informer’. The victim, Biswambhar Kanhar
was dragged out of his house in the late night and beaten to death.
The Maoists accused Biswambhar of passing on information to Kandhamal
SP Kanwar Vishal Singh about their movements. The Maoists accused
Biswambhar of taking INR 50,000 from the Police for providing
such information.
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Violent
|
January 27
|
Palamu District of Jharkhand
|
Seven Policemen were killed while
eight others were injured in a landmine blast by the CPI-Maoist
at Chattarpur Block in Palamu District of Jharkhand. The SF personnel
were going towards the Kalapahari area in a convoy when their
vehicle came under attack. The Jharkhand Police had corned a group
of Maoists around Kalapahari area in Chattarpur Block of the District
two days ago. The Police and Maoists have since been engaged in
encounter.
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Violent
|
January 27
|
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, who were
allegedly involved in the Jiram valley attack on Congress leaders
in Bastar District on May 25, 2013, were killed in an encounter
led by SF personnel at Metapal village in Dantewada District in
Chhattisgarh. SP Kamlochan Kashyap said that based on an intelligence
tip off provided by the SIB about the presence and movement of
the Maoists led to the encounter.
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Violent
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January 27
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Suspected Maoists set ablaze three
vehicles, including two tipper trucks engaged in sand mining,
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
January 27
|
Rayagada District of Odisha
|
Two IEDs, weighing around 10-12
kilograms, planted by the Maoists to target SF personnel or civilians
during the Republic Day celebrations were defused within the Muniguda
Police Station limit near Pusuguda square at Hatamuniguda in Rayagada
District of Odisha.
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Non-Violent
|
January 28
|
Palamu District of Jharkhand
|
Admitting that critical Police
lapses during the combing operation caused a 13-member contingent
driving through dense Kalapahari forests to fall in the CPI-Maoist
trap, State DGP D.K. Pandey, who flew to Palamau headquarters
in Daltonganj, to pay his tributes to slain troopers at Chhatarpur
Block in Palamu District, said, "While carrying out operations
in a remote area, the police should have used an anti-landmine
vehicle instead of moving around in a Tata 407 mini truck. Adequate
backup for unprecedented eventualities was also not taken care
of."
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Statement
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January 28
|
NS
|
Two days after the landmine blast
at Hussainabad in Palamu District of Jharkhand, Maoists, claimed
the incident took place to avenge the Bandh Gorya encounter under
the Dhibra Police Station area in Aurangabad District of Bihar,
in which four Maoists were killed.
|
Statement
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January 29
|
Bastar region of Chhattisgarh
|
Seven hardcore CPI-Maoist cadres
were arrested from various places in the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh.
Three Maoists, carrying a reward of INR 100,000 each on their
heads, were arrested from Dantewada District. Two Maoists were
arrested near Metapal village of Sukma District, while two others
were arrested from Kanker and Narayanpur Districts.
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Non-Violent
|
January 29
|
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
One Maoist cadre has surrendered
before Rajnandgaon District SP. The Maoist was carrying a reward
of INR 200,000 on his head.
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Non-Violent
|
January 29
|
Bokaro District of Jharkhand
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, who had
apparently come to intimidate workers and contractors engaged
in the widening of NH-23, were arrested from Beltand in Bokaro
District of Jharkhand. A gun, a pistol and seven cartridges were
found from them.
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Non-Violent
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January 29
|
Jamui District of Bihar
|
A top CPI-Maoist leader, identified
as Ram Chandra Mahto aka Pramod aka Chirag Da, was
killed in an exchange of fire during a joint operation conducted
by Bihar Police, CRPF, CoBRA and SSB at Charkapaththar area in
the Jamui District. Mahto was a ‘member’ of the East Bihar North-West
Jharkhand ‘special area committee’ and was wanted in 20 cases
in Bihar and over three dozen cases in Jharkhand.
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Violent
|
January 30
|
Bastar region of Chhattisgarh
|
Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were killed in two different encounters in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
In the first encounter, two woman Maoist cadres were killed and
their dead bodies were recovered after an encounter near Palamadagu
village of Sukma District. The woman Maoists, identified as Vanjam
Shanti and Vanjam Pojje, were militia members of Palamadagu range
committee of the Maoists, IG of Police, S.R.P. Kalluri said. Three
locally made guns, detonators, uniforms and some bullets were
recovered from them.
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Violent
|
January 30
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Maoist cadre identified as Ramasu,
who was the trainer of the Maoists LOS in Awapalli area was killed
in an encounter which took place at Pannur village of Bijapur
District, Chhattisgarh. One 8 mm locally made gun was recovered
from him.
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Violent
|
January 30
|
West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand
|
One civilian was killed in a cross
firing between CPI-Maoist and PLFI cadres, at Pondegar under Bandgaon
Police Station area in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
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Violent
|
January 30
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
The body of a villager who was
abducted by the CPI-Maoist cadres two days ago for refusing to
join their ranks was found in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
The body of the victim, identified as Hidma, was found lying in
a pool of blood on the outskirts of his native village Madiyaras
Korra, said Santosh Singh, ASP, Sukma. The villager was abducted
by armed men from a local market on January 28.
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Violent
|
January 30
|
Munger District of Bihar
|
A Police official was killed in
an encounter with alleged CPI-Maoist sympathisers in Munger District
of Bihar.
|
Violent
|
January 31
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in an encounter with SF personnel in Sukma District of Bastar
region, said S.R.P. Kalluri, IGP, Bastar Range.
|
Violent
|
January 31
|
West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand
|
Suspected Naxals set ablaze
eight vehicles engaged in road construction work at Ghatkuri and
adjacent Pipri Sai Village under Gua Police Station area in West
Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
|
Violent
|
January 31
|
Koraput District of Odisha
|
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze three
camps and eight construction vehicles in Pottangi area of Koraput
District, Odisha. Reports said more than 100 Maoists arrived
at three contractors’ camps at Taupadar, Barabandha and Kasuguda
under the Pottangi Police Station limits and attacked the labourers
while they were asleep.
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Violent
|
February 1
|
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
A Maoist ‘area commander’ and
a sympathiser of the outfit were arrested from different parts
of Latehar District in Jharkhand. Ravi Mochi, ‘area commander’
was arrested with a rifle, cartridges and Maoist literature from
Palhaiya village in Manika block of the District while sympathiser
Rahmatullah was arrested from Mahudanad village of the same District.
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Non-Violent
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February 1
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two SSB personnel were injured
in an IED explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Kanker
District of Chhattisgarh. The blast occurred when the SF personnel
were patrolling to ensure security to the under-construction railway
track between Kacche and Bhaismudi villages in Bhanupratappur
region, Kanker SP Jitendra Singh Meena said. “Constables Ayon
Mandal and Parmanand Maurya have sustained superficial injuries
in the blast,” the SP added.
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Violent
|
February 1
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
19 Maoists including five carrying
cash rewards on their heads were arrested during separate operations
carried out by SF personnel in Sukma District, Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent
|
February 1
|
Khammam District of Telangana
|
A CPI-Maoist’s Charla LOS ‘commander’
S. Bojji alias Anjanna, was reportedly detained by the
Police in Khammam District of Telangana. Sources said that Bojji
was arrested while he was taking shelter in a chilli field on
the outskirts of Battinapalli village in Charla mandal
in the early hours of the day.
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Non-Violent
|
February 2
|
Koraput District of Odisha
|
A tribal organisation called Naxal
Hinsa Prapidita Manch has raised its voice against the
Maoist killing of innocent civilians in Koraput District. They
lodged their protest in a huge rally against the Maoists in Narayanpatna
block of the District. The forum consisting of more than 2,000
tribals took out the rally and appealed to the Maoists to refrain
from violence.
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Statement
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February 2
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in a fierce encounter with SF personnel in Kanker District of
Chhattisgarh. The encounter took place in the forests of Kesekodi
under Koyalibeda Police Station limits between a joint team of
security personnel and the Maoists, Kanker SP Jitendra Singh Meena
said.
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Violent
|
February 2
|
Rayagada District of Odisha
|
CPI-Maoist cadres orchestrated
a landmine blast near Lakhpadar village under Kalyansinghpur Police
Station limits in Rayagada District of Odisha. An exchange of
fire for over 45 minutes ensued between the Maoists and the security
personnel at the spot. No Policeman was injured in the encounter.
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Violent
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February 4
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Sukma and Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
and another injured in two separate encounters in Bastar Division.
Both the bodies have been recovered. Kunjam Linga (22), a People’s
Militia ‘commander’ under Jagargunda ‘area committee’ of the CPI-Maoist
and carrying a reward money of INR 100,000, was killed in an encounter
with a joint team of SF personnel in the forests of Chintagufa
Police Station area in Sukma District, Sukma ASP Santosh Singh
said.
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Violent
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February 4
|
Rayagada District of Odisha
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres killed a
Dangoria Kondh youth identified as Shyamo Kadraka (22)
of Nirgundi village under Kalyansinghpur Police limits in Rayagada
District of Odisha after trial in a kangaroo court. Maoists killed
Shyamo suspecting him to be a ‘police informer’.
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Violent
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February 5
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Kandhamal District of Odisha
|
A group of CPI-Maoist cadres exchanged
fire with SF personnel near Dongarjoda village under Gochhapada
Police Station limits of Kandhamal District, Odisha. Kandhamal
SP Kunwar Vishal Singh said when the SOG, DVF and CRPF personnel
involved in a joint anti-Maoist operation in the area asked the
Maoists hiding in the forest to surrender they opened fire at
the security personnel.
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Violent
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February 5
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
At least 43 CPI-Maoist cadres,
including five women, surrendered in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
citing disappointment with the ideology of the outfit.
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Non-Violent
|
February 6 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
10 Maoists impressed by the surrender
policy of Chhattisgarh State Government surrendered in Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent |
February 7
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Bhagalpur District of Bihar
|
Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University
proctor Prof. Bilakshan Ravidas and two others were detained by
the Bhagalpur District Police for their suspected CPI-Maoist links.
The other two detained were part-time teacher at Murarka College
(a constituent unit of TMBU) in Sultanganj block, Kapildev Mandal,
and a Grade IV employee of Welfare Hostel number-II of the TMBU,
Arjun Paswan.
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Non-Violent
|
February 7
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Chhattisgarh
|
CPI-Maoist has claimed the Police
was trying to revive a "Salwa Judum" like movement in
Bastar region of Chhattisgarh by backing few people to organise
rallies and protests against the Maoists in the region. The Maoists
have warned retaliatory peoples' action against what they described
as "Salwa Judum-II".
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Statement
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February 7 |
Bokaro District of Jharkhand |
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
and many others injured by Bokaro Police during an encounter at
Dandra village forest area under Chatrochati Police Station limits
in Bokaro District of Jharkhand.
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Violent |
February 8 |
Chatra District of Jharkhand |
A powerful landmine was recovered
by the security personnel during a search operation on Pratappur-Gajwa
main road under Pratappur Police Station area in Chatra District
of Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent |
February 8 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a woman, were arrested in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
Of them, Shyam Lal, who was a Central Regional Command 'company'
III member of CPI-Maoist was rounded up from the forests in Faraspal
Police Station area by a joint team of DRG and a squad of local
Police.
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Non-Violent |
February 8 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Three Maoists were arrested by
a joint team of CRPF from Bhusaras village under Gadiras Police
Station limits of Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. The arrested
trio was identified as Sodhi Joga (28), Madkami Joga (30) and
Madvi Deva (25).
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Non-Violent |
February 8 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A Maoist cadre identified as Kishore
(27) was arrested from Katgaon village under Partapur Police Station
limits of Sukma District, Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent |
February 8 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
34 CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a few of their supporters, surrendered in Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh. They were active in Benur and Kiskod area of
the District as Local Operating Squad members, ASP, Narayanpur,
O.P. Sharma said.
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Non-Violent |
February 8 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
SF personnel and CPI-Maoist cadres
exchanged fire in Gundia Reserve Forest area of Kalahandi District,
Odisha, leading to the recovery of Maoist literature and some
other items from their camp. escaped into the forest.
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Violent |
February 9 |
Lohardaga District of Jharkhand |
SF personnel found two country-made
guns and CPI-Maoist literature after an exchange of fire with
Maoists in the forest of Serengdag in Lohardaga District of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
February 9 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
The CPI-Maoist cadres have set
ablaze a tractor in Gaya District of Bihar. At least five Maoists
barged into a brick kiln and torched a tractor after its owner
failed to pay INR 100,000 as "levy". The kiln owner said that
INR 25, 000 was paid monthly to the Maoists until last two months
when they started demanding INR 100,000.
|
Violent |
February 9 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Five CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Madvi Deva (22), Kavasi Somu (23), Madvi Soma (25), Madvi Handa
(27) and Madkam Hunga (32), were arrested during an operation
carried out by a joint contingent of 195th, 230th battalion CRPF
and District Police near Chhotemurki village under Gadiras Police
Station limits of Sukma District, Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent |
February 9 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. |
A team of DRG, CoBRA and CRPF
personnel arrested a suspected Maoist, identified as Hemla Jaggu
(22), from the jungles of Minpa under Chintagufa Police Station
limits of Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
February 9 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Four Maoist "sympathisers" were
arrested for their alleged involvement in torching of vehicles
and digging of roads in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. The
alleged Maoist sympathisers were identified as Histaram Bhogami,
Budhram Bhogami, Malla Midiyami and Gagru Bhaskar.
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Non-Violent |
February 9 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
Two STF personnel posing as suppliers
of AK-47 assault rifles have succeeded in arresting a CPI-Maoist
self-styled 'sub-zonal commander', identified as Jitendra alias
Tiger, in Simdega District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
February 10 |
West Bengal |
CPI-Maoist posters criticizing
the Mamata Banerjee Government were recovered by the patrolling
CRPF personnel from Salboni area of Jangalmahal region of West
Bengal State, pointing to the increased activity of the Maoists
in the area.
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Non-Violent |
February 10 |
February 10 |
The CPI-Maoist cadres detonated
five serial IED blasts and fired indiscriminately at a team of
CAF in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. No one was injured in
the incident.
|
Violent |
February 11 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
during an exchange of fire between the SF personnel and the Maoists
in a forest in Kalahandi District of Odisha. The combing team
comprising SOG and DVF also recovered arms from the spot.
|
Violent |
February 12 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A trooper - Neeraj Kumar - belonging
to the 170 battalion of CRPF was severely injured in a CPI-Maoist
orchestrated blast near Kongpalli in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
February 12 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
12 CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from separate places in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
February 12 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Five CPI-Maoist cadres involved
in several offensives surrendered in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
February 13 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A BSF trooper, identified as Harikesh
Prasad, died after being hit by the bullet fired by the CPI-Maoist
cadres in Sangam village under Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
The trooper died due to excess blood loss.
|
Violent |
February 13 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Three Maoists were killed in an
encounter with SF personnel at Sendra village in Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh. "Three dead bodies of the Maoists were recovered
after an encounter at Sendra village in Bijapur District on Maharashtra-
Chhattisgarh border today. The number of Maoists killed is likely
to increase.
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Violent |
February 13 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Three CRPF troopers were hurt
in a landmine blast in Kondapara area of Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh
"They (CRPF men) sustained minor injuries and all are out of danger.
First aid has been given to them. They shall be airlifted to Raipur
for further treatment," IGP Kalluri said.
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Violent |
February 13 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A BSF trooper was attacked by
the Maoists in Pankhanjur town of Kanker District in Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
February 13 |
Khammam District of Telangana |
A militia 'commander' of the CPI-Maoist
was arrested by Charla Police in coordination with the CRPF personnel
from Korkatpadu forest area in Charla mandal of Khammam District
of Telangana.
|
Non-Violent |
February 13 |
Gariyaband District of Chhattisgarh |
Security personnel have recovered
a huge cache of arms, ammunition and materials, used in making
explosives, from a CPI-Maoist dump at Nagrar village under Mainpur
Police Station limits in Gariyaband District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
February 14 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Three suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
were arrested during a joint operation by SFs personnel in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh. "They were apprehend by a squad of Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and district force from separate places
under Gadiras Police Station area," ASP Santosh Singh.
|
Non-Violent |
February 14 |
Samastipur District of Bihar |
A team of STF arrested one self-styled 'zonal
commander' of the CPI-Maoist from Samastipur District of Bihar
and two women cadres from a place on Muzaffarpur-Sheohar border.
Sushil M Khopde, IG, Operations and STF, said the 'zonal commander',
Lalbabu Sahni alias Bhaskarji, was arrested from his hideout in
Samastipur District and on the basis of his tip-off, woman cadres
- Soni Kumari and Chitra Lekha - were arrested. Bhaskarji was
a Maoist 'zonal commander'.
|
Non-Violent |
February 14 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
Nine CPI-Maoist cadres including a 'divisional
committee member' and two 'section commanders' surrendered in
the last one week, the Gadchiroli Police of Maharashtra said in
a statement.
|
Non-Violent |
February 14 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a civilian, identified
as Sobu Gota (23), at Gaderi village under Etapalli taluka
in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra, a press release issued
by the Gadchiroli district Police said on February 17.
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Violent |
February 15 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
The first day of the 48-hour CPI-Maoist bandh
had no impact in Ranchi District of Jharkhand. However, it had
a partial impact on rural areas of the State.
|
Violent |
February 15 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
The Maoists abducted two railway staff in during
the bandh Jamui District of Bihar.
|
Violent |
February 15 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
A 40-year-old civilian, identified as Chanti Gorgunda
of Patagudam village in Sironcha taluka of Gadchiroli District,
Maharashtra was killed by Maoists. The Maoists called Chanti out
from his residence when he was taking his meals in the night.
After some time, he was shot dead, Police said, adding they killed
him as they suspected him to be a 'police informer'. One of his
cousins is working with the Gadchiroli Police.
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Violent |
February 15 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
Maoists partially damaged the building of Barhat
block office in Jamui District of Bihar by exploding a cane bomb.
The main door, gate and a pillar of the block office building
were damaged while cracks appeared on some of the walls.
|
Violent |
February 15 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
A group of CoBRA troopers had a miraculous escape
when a bomb, planted by the Maoists exploded at Dhabi village
under Dhibra Police Station limits in Aurangabad District of Bihar.
|
Violent |
February 15 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Eight suspected Maoists were arrested in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh. "The cadres were nabbed from their native
Tokanpalli village under Chintagufa Police Station limits," said
ASP Santosh Singh.
|
Non-Violent |
February 15-16 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
A mobile phone tower of a private telecom operator
was set ablaze by the Maoists at village Marwaro under Khaira
Police Station area in Jamui District of Bihar.
|
Violent |
February 16 |
Bihar |
The two-day Bihar bandh called by the CPI-Maoist
passed off peacefully in Bihar. The bandh was called in protest
against the killing of Maoist 'commander' Chirag Da.
|
Violent |
February 16 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze a mobile tower in
Jamui District of Bihar, the second day of a two-day state-wide
bandh. Nearly 40 armed cadres attacked the BSNL mobile tower at
Mudwaro village and set it ablaze. The shutdown affected normal
life in rural areas in Jamui, Banka, Munger, Lakhisarai and other
neighbouring Districts.
|
Violent |
February 17 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A man was killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres on the
suspicion of being a 'Police informer' in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
The victim's blood-soaked body was found on the outskirts of Markanar
village under Koyalibeda Police Station limits.
|
Violent |
February 17 |
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Policemen, identified as Suman Yadav and Shankar
Mandavi, were injured after they were shot at by the Maoists in
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh. The incident took place
when the duo was marching around Gatapar Police Station in Khairagarh
region. A small action team of Maoists fired upon them resulting
in minor injuries on their legs.
|
Violent |
February 17 |
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh |
SF personnel recovered a powerful IED, grenades
and ammunition from a Maoist hideout in Rajnandgaon District of
Chhattisgarh. Officials said the recovery included an 8-kilogram
IED, two grenades and some bullets.
|
Non-violent |
February 17 |
Angul District of Odisha |
Security personnel seized several CPI-Maoist articles
during a two-day joint combing operation at Udul under Handapa
Police limits in Angul District of Odisha.
|
Non-violent |
February 17 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A Maoist, who was carrying a reward of INR 100,000
on his head, was killed in an encounter with SF personnel in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
February 17 |
NS |
CRPF DG Prakash Mishra has said Maoist menace
is coming back again in Odisha and Telangana after lying low for
some time with the overall situation in LWE-affected States remaining
"fluid". The DG said while LWE activity in Odisha had by-and-large
cleared up, it is now "coming back" in Narayanpatna area of Koraput
District.
|
Statement |
February 17 |
Vishakhapatnam district of
Andhra Pradesh |
UMH Rajnath Singh reviewed Naxal situation of
AP in Visakhapatnam where he credited security agencies, developmental
programmes and policies of the State Government for the improved
scenario. He said the LWE activities across States were restricted
to 141 districts in 2015 from 162 districts in 2014.
|
Statement |
February 19 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
Four cadres of the CPI-Maoist were killed following
a nine-hour encounter with SFs in Taimara valley on NH-33 in Ranchi
District of Jharkhand and four firearms were seized, CRPF IG Rakesh
Kumar Mishra confirmed. The Police have recovered four dead bodies
and a process to identify them is on. All the four dead Maoists
were in Maoist fatigue. Two CRPF troopers were injured in the
initial hours of encounter.
|
Violent |
February 19 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Baldev Janesh,
a member of company number 6, platoon 1 and former 'commander'
of a LOS was killed in an intelligence based operation in the
forests of Hiramandla in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. Security
personnel have recovered the Maoist's body, arms and weapons from
the spot along with some Maoist material, and two bharmar rifles.
|
Violent |
February 19 |
Chhattisgarh |
Chhattisgarh Police said at least 31 bodies of
Maoists have been recovered since the start of the year (2016)
with nine alleged Maoists being killed in six big operations in
the past three weeks alone. Senior Police officers said the number
was achieved after a shift in strategy that has seen an increased
use of DRG, a unit of the State Police, that has among its recruits
several surrendered Maoists.
|
Statement |
February 19 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the Newadi Panchayat
building at Dihi village in Latehar District of Jharkhand and
later on set ablaze a tower of a private telecom company at Chope
village in the same District. The Maoists also pasted posters
at the two villages.
|
Violent |
February 19 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
Two CPI-Maoist militias, who reportedly triggered
the landmine blast on January 8 that killed two BSF personnel,
including a Deputy Commandant, were arrested in Koraput District
of Odisha. They were identified as Basudev Pradhani (37) and Bhagaban
Minarbalia (28). According to Police sources, both were part of
Boipariguda 'area committee' under Malkangiri-Koraput border division
of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent |
February 19 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
A village headman, identified as Penta Madkami,
was killed by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres under Podia Police Station
limits in Malkangiri District of Odisha. Three Maoists arrived
at Madkami's house and introduced themselves as Police officers.
They entered his house and then killed him with an axe. Later,
they asked some villagers to accompany them to an area nearby.
However, suspecting foul play, the villagers caught hold of the
three and handed them over to the Police.
|
Violent |
February 20 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
A hardcore Maoist, carrying INR 100,000 reward
on his head, and two 'militia members, surrendered before the
SF personnel during an anti-Maoist operation in Kalahandi District
of Odisha. The surrendered Maoist was identified as Suka Majhi
(20) of Chhattisgarh. Along with him, two other local militia
members also surrendered. Their identity was not disclosed on
security grounds.
|
Non-Violent |
February 20 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed during an exchange
of fire with SF personnel in the forests of Tarlaguda village
under Golapalli Police Station limits in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
February 20 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
An armed gang of the CPI-Maoist blew up a panchayat
building at Balu under Balumath Police Station limits in Latehar
District of Jharkhand. Palamu DIG Saket K. Singh said the building
did not suffer extensive damage. DIG Singh added that the Maoists
also set ablaze a generator set of a private telecom company called
Reliance on the same day in Latehar District.
|
Violent |
February 21 |
Vishakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an exchange
of fire with a combing party comprising the Greyhounds personnel
and the Special Party of the Vishakhapatnam District Police near
Revulakota village in Koyyuru Mandal under Mampa Police Station
limits in Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.
|
Violent |
February 21 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
A CRPF officer and a trooper were injured in an
IED blast at Aranpur village in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
The injured have been identified as Assistant Commandant Aman
Kumar and Constable Rakesh.
|
Violent |
February 21 |
Lohardaga District of Jharkhand |
Police busted a Maoist camp under Peshrar block
of Lohardaga District, Jharkhand during a joint operation with
the CRPF. The Maoists were reportedly attending a meeting at Khadujharia
village under Bagru Police Station limits. A few Maoists, positioned
at a higher altitude, spotted the security personnel from a distance
and alerted the others. All of them managed to flee. "We raided
the place and found two IEDs, a loaded rifle, utility items, water
bottles, and utensils. The Maoists took off with most of the items,"
said Lohardaga SP Kartik S.
|
Violent |
February 22 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three 'suspected' CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Dasru Ram Mandavi (40), Kamlu Korram (45) and Budhu Korram
(35), were arrested during a search operation by SF personnel
at Oyanger village forests under Orchha Police Station limits
in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
February 22 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha
|
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Laxmi
alias Ratna (20), carrying reward money of INR 200,000
on her head, surrendered before security personnel in Kalahandi
District of Odisha. She belonged to Palgurha village of Chhattisgarh.
After undergoing training, she was working as an armed cadre for
Modem Balakrishna alias Manoj of Odisha State Committee
of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent |
February 22 |
NS
|
The current security situation in Naxal
violence affected States is "good" and may improve further while
parts of Odisha and adjoining areas are witnessing an increased
activity of these cadres, said CRPF DG Prakash Mishra.
|
Statement |
February 22 |
Kanchipuram District of Tamil Nadu
|
In a late night operation, a team of the Tamil
Nadu's `Q' branch Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre at Sriperumbudur
in Kanchipuram District of Tamil Nadu. The 32-year-old man whom
Police identified as Surendra Yadav, confessed that he was involved
in a couple of cases of murder and bomb blasts in Bihar, Jharkhand
and Chhattisgarh. The Chattisgarh Police had alerted their Tamil
Nadu counterparts about Yadav, who was wanted in several cases.
|
Non-Violent |
February 23 |
Gumla District of Jharkhand
|
A team of Police and CRPF personnel killed a 'zonal
commander' of the CPI-Maoist identified as Sanjay Yadav alias
Mantri ji alias Yatin ji in Kodebera village forest under
Palkot block in Gumla District of Jharkhand. The Maoist was carrying
a bounty of INR One Million on his head. The SF personnel recovered
the dead body from the encounter site and also recovered arms
reportedly carried by the Maoist 'zonal commander'.
|
Violent |
February 23 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A 15 kg IED was recovered by SF personnel from
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. Officials said the recovery
was made by a squad of paramilitary ITBP force from the Revamand-Kulnar
road area of the District.
|
Non-Violent |
February 24 |
Malappuram District of Kerala
|
A Police team conducting search operation exchanged
fire with a three-member CPI-Maoist group in the forests under
Pookkottumpadam Police Station limits in Malappuram District of
Kerala. The members of the Thunderbolts were conducting search
operation after they came to know that the Maoists had visited
a tribal colony in the area on February 23.
|
Violent |
February 24 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A 30-year-old CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested during
a joint operation by SFs in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. Madkam
Bhema was apprehended by a composite squad of CRPF and district
force from Dondpal village of Gadiras Police Station limits, Sukma
ASP Santosh Singh said.
|
Non-Violent |
February 25 |
Bastar Division of Chhattisgarh
|
As many as 11 suspected CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested while another surrendered in different places in Bastar
Division.
|
Non-Violent |
February 26 |
Rayagada District of Odisha
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed and two others were
injured in an encounter with SF personnel in a forest near Dangamati
village under Kalyansinghpur Police Station limits around Niyamgiri
hills of Rayagada District, Odisha. The identity of the deceased
is yet to be ascertained. A huge cache of arms, ammunition and
Maoist literature were recovered.
|
Violent |
February 26 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as Jaisingh
Dugga (32) and Ramuram Darro (39), were arrested in Kanker District
of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
February 27 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Paramilitary forces belonging to the ITBP recovered
five kilogrammes of IED from Chheribera-Chapai area in Narayanpur
District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
February 27 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a tribal identified as
Biswanath Khila (25) of Handikhal village in Chitrakonda area
in Malkangiri District of Odisha. Khila, who had gone to attend
a marriage function, was taken away by a group of Maoists late
night and his body with throat slit was found at Khajuribahal
village this morning, Inspector In-Charge of Chitrakonda Police
Station, Pitabas Dharua said adding the Maoists apparently suspected
that Khila operated as a 'Police informer'.
|
Violent |
February 27 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand
|
Three suspected CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
after a brief exchange of fire between the SFs and the Maoists
in Khunti District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
February 27 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
Four powerful landmines were recovered in Latehar
District of Jharkhand. The explosives, each weighing 30 kilograms,
were planted near the Tubed River under Sadar Police Station,
SP Anup Birtheray said. They were planted with an aim to target
the SFs during anti-Naxal operations, he said.
|
Non-violent |
February 27 |
Chatra District of Jharkhand
|
An IED was recovered by the SFs near Satbahini
River under Pratappur Police Station in Chatra District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-violent |
February 27 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A villager, identified as Sukhram Poyam, was killed
by the CPI-Maoist cadres at his village Kundla under Kurusnar
Police Station limits of Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh,
Narayanpur ASP O.P. Sharma said. A group of around 20 armed cadres
stormed the village and dragged out Poyam from his house. They
shot rounds of fire at him and fled from the spot. As per preliminary
investigation, Maoists had branded him as 'supporter and informer'
of Police prior to his murder.
|
Violent |
February 27 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A villager, identified as Amrit Hurra (25), was
killed with sharp-edged weapons by the Maoists in Bhanupratappur
area of Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. Hurra was abducted by
some Maoists from his house at Ghotha village and his blood-stained
body was found this morning outside the village, following which
Police was informed, a police official said. The Maoists had dropped
some pamphlets and put up banners at the spot in which they claimed
Hurra to be a Police informer.
|
Violent |
February 27
|
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
during a search operation carried out by Police and para-military
forces in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. They were identified
as Bhagchand (23), Kulram (28), Siden alias Sindhu (25)
and Lal Singh (30).
|
Non-Violent
|
February 27
|
Rayagada District of Odisha
|
CPI-Maoist cadres abducted two
Dongria Kondh youths in Rayagada District of Odisha suspecting
them to be ‘Police informers.’ The abducted persons were identified
as Syama Sikaka (24) and Ludu Wadeka (25).
|
Violent
|
February 27
|
Rayagada District of Odisha
|
DVF personnel and Police teams,
led by the Rayagada SP, recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition
from a camp near Dangamati village in Niyamgiri hills during a
combing operation.
|
Non-Violent
|
February 27
|
Jehanabad District of Bihar
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
along with weapons from Jehanabad District of Bihar. Acting on
a tip off, the Police raided Timbalpur village and arrested the
four Maoists and seized two country-made carbines, a country-made
pistol, six live ammunition, two mobile phones and a haul of Maoist
literature, SDPO Ashfaq Ansari said.
|
Non-Violent
|
February 28 |
Bastar District of chhattisgarh
|
As many as 23 Maoists, including two women, surrendered
in Bastar District of the State citing "ill-treatment" by senior
cadres.
|
Non-Violent |
February 28
|
Chatra District of Jharkhand
|
Maoist ‘sub-zonal commander’ Munnu
Yadav alias Mutur Yadav and ‘area commander’ Sanjay Paswan
alias Chhotu surrendered along with arms before STF Inspector-General
Pravin Kumar Singh at the Police line in Chatra District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent
|
February 29
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
CPI-Maoist cadres have allegedly
killed four villagers in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh.
SP, Narayanpur District, Abhishek Meena informed that Police have
begun investigation after they received information about the
incident.
|
Violent
|
February 29
|
Giridih District of Jharkhand
|
A senior CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as ‘commander’ Chandmuni Hansda (42), was arrested near Giridih
District of Jharkhand bus stand. Hansda has been a member of the
Maoists' armed squad for more than 16 years. She held the post
of ‘secretary’ of the Nari Mukti Sangh (NMS), the women’s wing
of the CPI-Maoist, Santhal Paragana. She is the wife of Maoist
leader Sitaram Murmu alias Nandlal Murmu alias Vijay
Da, who is a Jharkhand Special Area Committee member of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent
|
February 29
|
Lohardaga District of Jharkhand
|
Police arrested two CPI-Maoist
cadres, identified as Sanju Oraon and Sandeep Sahu in Lohardaga
District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent
|
February 29
|
Gurgaon/ Haryana
|
The CRPF has "destroyed"
the Naxals’ efforts to create a "red corridor"
in the country and was able to restrict them to a few states like
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, said the outgoing Chief of
CRPF Prakash Mishra in Gurgaon. "CRPF has destroyed the dream
of Maoists to establish a red corridor from Pashupati (in Nepal)
to Tirupati (in south India) and mainly restricted them to some
areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar," Mishra was quoted
as saying by a CRPF spokesperson. Mishra said this while addressing
the troops during his farewell parade at the forces' camp in Kadarpur
area here, the spokesman said.
|
Statement
|
March 1
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
At least eight members of the
Venkatapuram ‘area committee’ of the CPI-Maoist, which operates
in the Bhadrachalam area of Khammam District in Telangana, were
killed in an encounter with SF personnel along the Telangana-Chhattisgarh
border. The Telangana Greyhounds had launched the operation after
receiving information about the presence of Maoist leaders in
the region, resulting in the encounter which took place in the
Sakler area of Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. Along with the
dead bodies of the eight slain militants, SF personnel also recovered
an AK-47 rifle, three SLRs, several .303 rifles, and ammunition
from the encounter spot.
|
Violent
|
March 1
|
Gumla District of Jharkhand
|
The Maoists have called 24-hour
bandh to protest the killing of their ‘zonal commander’
Sanjay Yadav alias Mantriji alias Atinji during
an encounter with the Police in Palkot area in Gumla District
of Jharkhand.
|
Statement
|
March 2
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A villager was killed by CPI-Maoist
cadres on the suspicion of being a ‘Police informer’ in Kanker
District of Chhattisgarh. The victim, Satru Ram, was allegedly
shot dead by the Maoists at his native place Tiralgarh village
under Bande Police Station limits, Kanker DSP Jayant Vaishnav
said.
|
Violent
|
March 2
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Five Maoists, one of them carrying
a cash reward on his head, were arrested in Sukma District of
Chhattisgarh. "Based on intelligence inputs, the cadres were
rounded up by a joint team of Security Forces from a weekly market
at Korra village under Gadiras Police Station limits," Sukma
ASP Santosh Singh said. Those arrested were identified as Sodhi
Joga (30), Sodhi Kosa (28), Madkam Ranga (22), Madvi Budhra (25)
and Sodhi Deva alias Malir (28), he said.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 2
|
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
|
23 Maoists surrendered in Bastar
District of Chhattisgarh citing "disappointment" with
the violent activities of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 2
|
West Godavari District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
The Buttayigudem Police arrested
three members of a CPI-Maoist militia in the forest area near
Upparella in West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, and recovered
from them a country-made gun and bullets. The trio – Sagar Babu,
Dharmanna and Somaraju – confessed to their membership in the
Chandranna dalam of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 2
|
Bokaro District of Jharkhand
|
Jharkhand Police held two minors,
who allegedly belonged to the CPI-Maoist bal dasta, following
an encounter at Luggu Hill under Lalpania Police Station limits
in Bokaro District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 3
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A woman Maoist cadre was killed
in an exchange of fire with Police in Abhujmad area of Narayanpur
District, Chhattisgarh. "The skirmish took place in Kasturmeta
forests," said IGP, Bastar range, S.R. P. Kalluri. "Her
identity is being ascertained. Preliminary investigation showed
that she was not a local. She could be from Peoples Party Member
of Maoists," he added.
|
Violent
|
March 3-4
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three troopers of CoBRA were killed
and at least 15 others were injured in an encounter with CPI-Maoist
cadres in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. Officials said while
two Commandos, identified as Constables Linju N and Fateh Singh,
had succumbed to bullet injuries on March 3, their colleague Lakshman
Singh died on March 4. At least 15 others, including CoBRA Commander
P.S. Yadav and the chief of the State Polices' DRG, have been
injured in the encounter which ended on March 4.
|
Violent
|
March 4
|
NS
|
The CPI-Maoist has given a bandh
call on March 7, 2016, in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Dandakaranya
regions, condemning the encounter on Telangana-Chhattisgarh border
in which it lost eight armed cadres. Jagan, the party official
representative from Telangana State, has issued a statement that
was circulated to all the local media offices in which he has
said that the Police caught hold of the unarmed women and tortured
them before killing them. He further said “The Chief Minister
said that there will be no encounters in separate Telangana. But
he is trying to eliminate naxals through the same means. Both
the KCR and Modi governments have started Operation Red Hunt.”
|
Statement
|
March 4
|
Gaya District of Bihar
|
The District Police arrested two
CPI-Maoist cadres from Belaganj Police Station area in Gaya District
of Bihar and recovered two country made weapons and live cartridges
from their possession. "The arrested men, identified as Munarik
Yadav and Chandradip Yadav, hail from the Makhdumpur Police Station
area of the neighbouring Jehanabad District. The duo has been
charged with extorting money from local brick kiln owners,"
said Gaya SSP Garima Malik.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 5
|
Lohardaga District of Jharkhand
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
by members of his rival group in Lohardaga District of Jharkhand.
According to Police, the body of Maoist ‘commander’ Muslim Ansari
was found at Sgahighat area of the District. A pistol and other
incriminating documents were seized from him, the Police said,
adding he might have been killed by the rival Maoist group.
|
Violent
|
March 5
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
from a village in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. Sodhi Masa was
arrested by a joint team of CRPF and District Force from his native
village Etalpara Korra under Gadiras Police Station limits, Sukma
ASP Santosh Singh.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 5
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
About 150 CPI-Maoist supporters,
including 13 militia members, 12 village committee members and
two Gana Natya members of the outfit from Temrupalli, Pujariguda
and Kukurkunda villages under Mathili Police Station limits in
Malkangiri District, surrendered before the Police. The Maoist
supporters went to Mathili Police Station and surrendered before
SP Mitrabhanu Mahapatra, SDPO M Sandeep Sampad and 202 CoBRA Battalion
Deputy Commandant Pawan Kumar.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 5
|
NS
|
The Bansadhara-Ghumusar-Nagavalli
‘divisional committee’ of the CPI-Maoist called for a bandh
on March 15 protesting the Police encounter on February 27 that
claimed the life of a Dongria Kondh.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 5
|
New Delhi
|
In an official release, the Central
Government has said that eight of the 10 districts in Telangana
are LWE affected. The Districts named are Adilabad, Karimnagar,
Khammam, Medak, Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda, Warangal and Nizamabad.
Only the two urban districts of Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy have
been excluded from the list. Incidentally, among the 106 Districts
declared as LWE-affected, eight districts of Andhra Pradesh also
figure - Anantapur, East Godavari, Guntur, Kurnool, Prakasam,
Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram.
|
Statement
|
March 6
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two mining workers were killed
and one Policeman was injured in a CPI-Maoist attack in Narayanpur
District of Chhattisgarh. “Two villagers belonging to Balod and
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh were killed in a blast and firing
by the Maoists in Amdai Ghati of Narayanpur. Both were working
for Neko Jaiswal Company in Amdai Ghati mining project,” said
Abhishekh Meena, SP.
|
Violent
|
March
6
|
Vishakhapatnam
District of Andhra Pradesh
|
CPI-Maoist
cadres of Galikonda ‘area committee’ killed a tiles trader, identified
as Gundu Rao, near Kumkumpudi of G.K. Veedhi mandal in
the Vishakhapatnam Agency area of Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh.
|
Violent
|
March
6
|
Garwah
District of Jharkhand
|
Acting
on a tip off, a joint team of CRPF and Jharkhand Police under
‘Operation Finish’ arrested a hardcore CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Binod Yadav, at Kulhi village under Bhandariya Police Station
limit in Garwah District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
7
|
Rajnandgaon
District of Chhattisgarh
|
The
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a manager of a private iron ore mine,
identified as Sree Kumar Nair (55), in Rajnandgaon District of
Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
March
7
|
Malkangiri
District of Odisha
|
40
CPI-Maoist sympathisers of Kirmiti village under Mathili Police
Station limits in Malkangiri District of Odisha withdrew their
support to the Maoists and announced to support the administration
in development activities.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
7
|
Rayagada
District of Odisha
|
The
Niyamgiri ‘area committee’ of the CPI-Maoist has called for a
bandh in Rayagada District of Odisha on March 15 in protest
against death of a Dongria Kondh, identified as Mondo Kadraka,
in an alleged fake encounter on February 27.
|
Statement
|
March
7
|
Khammam
District of Telangana
|
The
bandh call given by the CPI-Maoist in protest against the
March 1, 2016 encounter in which eight Maoists including five
women cadres were killed, evoked poor response in Bhadrachalam
town of Khammam District of Telangana.
|
Violent
|
March
8
|
Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh
|
10
CPI-Maoist cadres, including two women, surrendered in Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh. The surrendered cadres include Munna
Hemla (26) who carried reward money of INR 800,000. He was active
in 'military company' number 2 of the Maoists. Hemla had been
instrumental in executing several major Maoist incidents, including
the ghastly Tadmetla attack, in which 76 security personnel were
killed in Dantewada District in 2010.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
9
|
Chhattisgarh
|
Stepping
up the drive against CPI-Maoist, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman
Singh announced raising four new DRG battalions in Bastar region
by recruiting local youth. Presenting the budget in the State
Assembly, he said 3,000 local youths would be recruited for these
battalions while a provision has been made to create 1,000 more
posts in State Police. As of now there are nearly 1,600 security
personnel in the District Reserve Guard Force which comprises
of local boys recruited from seven districts of Bastar region.
|
Statement
|
March
9
|
Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three
CPI-Maoist cadres, carrying reward money of NR 300, 000 each on
their heads, were arrested during an anti-Maoist operation carried
out by SF personnel in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
9
|
Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh
|
17
Maoists, including a woman, surrendered before Police in Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh. "The 17 cadres, all lower-rung
members of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), turned themselves in before
senior police officials in Kondagaon District," Kondagaon
SP JS Watti said.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
10
|
NS
|
Questioning
Bastar IGP S.R.P. Kalluri’s claim of “eliminating” more than 40
Maoists in the first two months of 2016, Maoist leader Ganesh
Uike said only eight of those killed belonged to his outfit. In
a press statement, Uike, who is the ‘secretary’ of the South Regional
Committee of CPI-Maoist, claimed the Bastar Police killed 40 people
including seven women, in the name of anti-Maoist operations.
He said, “Seventeen people were killed in Bijapur district, 12
in Sukma district, three in Dantewada, five in Kondagaon, and
three in Bastar. Out of these 40, only eight were members of our
People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army. Rest of them were innocent
villagers.”
|
Statement
|
March
10
|
Palamu
District of Jharkhand
|
A
Maoist, identified as Beerbal Parhaiya (45), hurt in an accidental
IED blast was arrested and jailed in Palamu District of Jharkhand.
Sources said Parhaiya was handling the Maoists’ IEDs and was injured
in an accidental blast.
|
Violent
|
March
10
|
Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh
|
Maoists
triggered a landmine blast killing a CRPF head Constable and leaving
11 personnel injured in Morli forest area near Kunta town of Sukma
District, Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
March
10
|
Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh
|
Maoists
set ablaze a private bus after asking its passengers to get down
near Bandepara village under Kutru Police Station limits in Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh. The bus was on its way to Bedre from
Bijapur. A group of 15-20 Maoists, some of them armed stopped
the bus and set it on fire.
|
Violent
|
March
10
|
Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh
|
A
major tragedy was averted when SF personnel recovered powerful
explosives, including a 10-kg pipe bomb, from a dense forest pocket
in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh while returning from patrolling
operations.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
10
|
Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra
|
The
CPI-Maoist cadres have killed a Constable of Hedri Police Post
in Etapalli Division of Gadchiroli District in Maharashtra. The
victim, Deepak Sadmake, was shot by the Maoists from close quarters
when he was patrolling a village market with his colleagues.
|
Violent
|
March
10
|
Sundergarh
District of Odisha
|
A
30-year-old woman CPI-Maoist cadre who was considered as an explosive
expert surrendered before the Police at Bonai in Sundergarh District
of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
10
|
Warrangal
District of Telangana
|
Disillusioned
with the CPI-Maoist ideology and ill-health, a woman Maoist cadre,
identified as Kunjum Edumen alias Kavitha, from Karimnagar-Khammam
dalam surrendered before Telangana Police in Warrangal
District of Telangana. Kavitha joined the Maoist outfit in 2011-12
and worked for the Venkatapuram ‘area committee’.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
10
|
Malkangiri
District of Odisha
|
19
supporters, who announced their willingness to give up arms, officially
surrendered before the Police in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
12
|
Kanker
District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two
BSF troopers, identified as Vijay Kumar and Rakesh, were killed
and four others were critically wounded in an encounter with CPI-Maoist
cadres in Becha forests of Kanker District, Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
March
13
|
Koraput
District of Odisha
|
Suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a former Sarpanch identified as
Gobardhan Bhuiyan (38) of Tentuligumma panchayat under
Boipariguda block in Koraput District of Odisha. The incident
took place near a forested road on NH-326 near Tanginiguda when
the former elected panchayat member was on way to his village
on a motorcycle, Police said.
|
Violent
|
March
13
|
Malkangiri
District of Odisha
|
57
Maoist sympathisers, including 11 militia and two village committee
members, surrendered before the Police in Malkangiri District
of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
March
13
|
Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh
|
A
CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an encounter with SFs in a densely
forested patch in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
March 14 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
117 persons with CPI-Maoist links, including 36
militias, surrendered before Malkangiri SP in Malkangiri District
of Odisha. Those who surrendered included Maoist 'militia commander'
Madhab Durua and village committee 'President' Moga Sodi. Total
number of surrenders of Maoist elements in the District has risen
over 400 during past 10 days.
|
Non-Violent |
March 15 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested in Bastar
District of Chhattisgarh. "Piso Kadkami, 32, and Aayta Vetti,
33, were apprehended from the forests of the Darbha Police Station
limits following a specific input," Bastar SP R.N. Dash said.
The SP added a five kg IED, ten gelatine rods and five detonators
were recovered from the Maoists.
|
Non-Violent |
March 15 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Seven Maoists surrendered at the office of the
CRPF's 226th battalion in the Sabrinagar area of Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh. Dudhi Hidma (23), Dudhi Ware (19), Kunjami Sanna
(28), and Suresh Mandavi (19), were active as 'jan-militia' (people's
militia) members of the CPI-Maoist while Hirma Kawasi (31), Ishwar
Mandavi (27), and Muchaki Budhra (35), were active in its front
unit Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangthan, said Sukma ASP
Santosh Singh.
|
Non-Violent |
March 15 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Maoists identified as Umesh Vedada (32) and
Pradeep Sori (25) surrendered before BSF 122nd battalion officials
and local Police in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. Umesh, who
headed the public relations wing of the Partapur 'area committee'
in north Bastar division of Maoists, carried a reward of INR 5,000
on his head.
|
Non-Violent |
March 15 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
A bodyguard of top CPI-Maoist leader Arvindji,
identified as Sohan Yadav, has been arrested and remanded in jail
in Latehar District of Jharkhand..
|
Non-Violent |
March 15 |
Rayagada and Kalahandi District
of Odisha |
The bandh called by the CPI-Maoist in four blocks
of Rayagada District of Odisha and one block of Kalahandi District
in Odisha did not evoke much response except in Kalyansinghpur
block of Rayagada District. The Maoists had called this dawn-to-dusk
bandh to protest against their encounter with SF personnel near
Dangamati village under Kalyansinghpur Police Station limits in
Niyamgiri hills region on February 27.
|
Violent |
March 16 |
Muzaffarpur District Of Bihar
|
The Bihar STF arrested three CPI-Maoist cadres
with weapons from a village under Baruraj Police Station area
in Muzaffarpur District.
|
Non-Violent |
March 16 |
East Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
Security personnel during an anti-Maoist operation
found firearms at Maluki village under Ghatsila Police Station
limits in East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
March 16 |
Ranchi district of Jharkhand
|
Two Maoists were arrested from a short distance
from Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das's official residence
in Ranchi District.
|
Non-Violent |
March 17 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
An eight-year-old girl was killed after she stepped
on an IED planted by the CPI-Maoist in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
March 17 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
The Maoists killed one of their former colleagues,
identified as Manau Ram (38), at Mulle village under Amabeda Police
Station limits in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. The deceased
had surrendered in 2014.
|
Violent |
March 18 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Two troopers of CRPF were injured in two separate
incidents of attack by CPI-Maoist cadres in Dantewada District
of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
March 18 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A 55-year-old woman, identified as Muchaki Hidma,
was killed after reportedly stepping on a pressure IED in Gorkha
area of Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. Commenting on the incident,
D.M. Awasthi, Special DG, ANO, said the accident took place on
Injeram Bhejji Road.
|
Violent |
March 18 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
The SF personnel also recovered a 10 kg IED near
Gorkha in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
March 18 |
Ranchi district of Jharkhand |
Three PLFI cadres were arrested from Jharkhand
State capital Ranchi while they were on recce of a road construction
site at NH 33.
|
Non-Violent |
March 18 |
Vishakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, one carrying a reward of
INR 400,000 on her head, and another INR 100,000, surrendered
before Vishakhapatnam District SP Koya Praveen.
|
Non-Violent |
March 19 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
Five lower-rung CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered
before Police in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. Lal Singh
Yadav (30), Phool Singh Yadav (40), Lakshman (27), Samdu Korram
(40) and Ayatu (51), who were active as people's militia members
turned themselves in at the district headquarters, citing disappointment
with the ideology of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent |
March 19 |
East Godavari District of
Andhra Pradesh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Madivi Devayya
alias Vinod alias Deva (24), member of the Sabari Dalam,
surrendered before East Godavari District Police of Andhra Pradesh.
He declared that he wants to lead a peaceful life in public and
also want to end underground activities.
|
Non-Violent |
March 19 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A 19-year-old youth, identified as Tankeshwar,
was killed and his family reportedly evicted from the village
allegedly by CPI-Maoist cadres in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh.
The deceased was brutally beaten to death by Maoists at his village
Becha under Chhote Dongar Police Station limits, after they branded
him as a 'police informer', Narayanpur SP Abhishek Meena said.
His younger brother was also reported to be badly beaten up by
the Maoists. Later, his family was threatened to leave the village,
the SP said.
|
Violent |
March 20 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Bodies of two slain CPI-Maoist cadres were recovered
from the forest stretch between Gundam and Sewari in Etapalli
division of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra.
|
Violent |
March 20 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
The body of a CPI-Maoist 'area committee member',
killed during accidental blast of a landmine, was recovered in
Pottangi Police Station area of Koraput District of Odisha.
|
Violent |
March 21 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Seven lower-rung CPI-Maoist cadres including a
woman surrendered in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. They
were identified as Dukaru Netam alias Rainu (43), Jamdhar
(50), Phoolram (25), Phool Singh Netam (46), Jaisingh Korram (55),
Tularam Mandavi (24) and the woman Dasmati (25), all residents
of Mardapal and Bayanar regions.
|
Non-Violent |
March 21 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
Around 270 CPI-Maoist "sympathisers" took a pledge
before the Police not to render any help to the Maoists in Malkangiri
District of Odisha. The "sympathisers" belonged to several villages
under Mathili Police Station jurisdiction, Malkangiri SP Mitrabhanu
Mohapatra said.
|
Non-Violent |
March 21 |
Odisha
|
As many as 19 revenue districts of Odisha are
considered as Maoist-affected districts in varying degrees, CM
Naveen Patnaik told the Odisha State Assembly.
|
Statement |
March 21 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Sona Muchaki (40) was axed to death by Maoists
under Chhindgarh area in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. He was
brutally axed to death in front of his wife and children at Rokel
village under Chhindgarh Police outpost. According to pamphlets
dropped by the Maoists, Sona allegedly helped SF personnel in
setting up a Police camp in the village.
|
Violent |
March 22 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A civilian, identified as Kicche Mukka, was killed
by CPI-Maoist cadres on the charges of being a police informer
under Polampalli Police Station area in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
As per preliminary information, a group of Maoists stormed into
the house of Kichhe, after he returned from his fields. He was
dragged out and killed with sharp weapons.
|
Violent |
March 22 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Eight suspected Maoists, including a woman, were
arrested during a joint operation by SF personnel in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh. They were arrested from Murki and Rampuram villages
under Gadiras Police Station limits when the forces were carrying
out 'area domination exercise' in the region, Sukma ASP Santosh
Singh said. Those arrested were identified as Madavi Muya (35),
Somaru (35), Padami Muya (28), Banjami Hidma (32), Madvi Veera
(36), Kawasi Manga, Podiyami Bheema, and the woman Madkami Hidme.
|
Non-Violent |
March 22 |
Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed a civilian,
identified as Koothudi Venkata Rao, of Jakaravalasa at D. Thadivalasa,
a hamlet under Kurukutti panchayat in Salur Agency of Vizianagaram
District of Andhra Pradesh. He was killed on the charges of being
a 'Police informer'.
|
Violent |
March 25 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
A 30-year-old CPI-Maoist 'commander', carrying
a reward of INR 100,000 on his head, was killed in a Police encounter
in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. The deceased, identified
as Sudhram, a native of Sahpadarpara in Kudur, was a People's
Militia commander, Police said. The skirmish took place early
in the morning between a team of district force and Maoist in
the dense forests of Kudur-Rakasmeta villages the under Mardapal
Police Station limits, Kondagaon SP J.S. Watti said.
|
Violent |
March 27 |
Muzaffarpur District of Bihar
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze 14 vehicles and
equipment of a construction company engaged in a track-doubling
project near Turki railway station in Muzaffarpur District of
Bihar. A group of about 50 Maoists stormed into the project office
of M/S Hari Construction Company around 2 a.m., SSP Ranjeet Kumar
Mishra said. The Maoists also assaulted three security guards.
The arson was allegedly due to non-payment of 'levy' by the company,
SSP Mishra added.
|
Violent |
March 27 |
Koraput District of Odisha
|
A hardcore woman CPI-Maoist cadre from Andhra
Pradesh, identified as Puwala Achhama alias Laxmi (27),
carrying INR 400,000 award on her head in Odisha, surrendered
in Koraput District of Odisha. Laxmi also helped the Police in
seizure of large quantity of materials of Maoist use including
mines detonators, remote sensors and arsenal for IEDs and INR
144,000 in cash. Laxmi was the 'area committee member', third
Central Regional Company.
|
Non-Violent |
March 27
|
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres have killed
two persons in separate incidents in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra.
The victims were identified as Suryabhan Tembhurne (38), resident
of Wako village, and Panchamsingh Koreti (65), resident of Sonpur
village.
|
Violent
|
March 28
|
Kandhamal District of Odisha
|
An exchange of fire occurred between
the CPI-Maoist and SF personnel inside the forest near Ladapadar
under Gochhapada Police Station limits of Kandhamal District of
Odisha. It occurred while personnel of SOG were involved in an
anti-Maoist operation in the area. The Maoists managed to escape
from the spot and no injury was reported from either side. The
SF personnel seized goods of day-to-day use of Maoists from the
spot.
|
Violent
|
March 28
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
Kiang based 202 CoBRA, which has
been making efforts to bring CPI-Maoist supporters to the mainstream,
281 aides gave up arms before Police in Malkangiri District of
Odisha. Natives of Sanguma and Barha villages of Kartanpalli gram
panchayat under Mathili Police Station limits reached the
District Police office en masse and announced their decision to
join the mainstream before SP Mitrabhanu Mahapatra. They used
to work for the Darbha Division of the CPI-Maoist in the remote
and dense forest areas under Mathili Police Station limits, bordering
Chhattisgarh, Mahapatra said.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 28
|
Bhubaneswar
|
As many as 184 SF personnel and
259 civilians were killed by CPI-Maoist in Odisha from 2005 till
date (March 28, 2016) CM Naveen Patnaik informed the Odisha Assembly.
In a written reply to a question from Duryodhan Majhi, BJP, the
CM said the killed SF personnel included 36 from Andhra Pradesh
and nine from Chhattisgarh. He said 152 Maoists were killed in
Police encounters during the period. As many as 919 Maoist-related
violent cases occurred in the State since 2005, he added.
The CM Naveen Patnaik added that
annual incidents of violence related to CPI-Maoist have remained
below 100 during the last four consecutive years in Odisha. Since
2013, the number of LWE violence reported from different districts
has come down below 80 per year in sharp contrast over 100 incidents
of violence each in preceding four years, said CM Patnaik. The
year 2009 was the worst year in terms of numbers of violence.
In that year, 148 such cases were reported while the following
year (2010) too witnessed large incidents of violence. But in
last three years, 2015, 2014 and 2013, numbers of violence in
each year remained between 70 and 80. Till February 29, 2016,
there has been report of 26 such cases. Security Forces have managed
to neutralise over 20 Maoists in a year on four occasions. The
CM said since 2014 as many as 171 Maoists had surrendered before
the State Government. But out of 171, only 68 Maoists surrendered
and joined the rehabilitation policy. Two of these surrendered
Maoists were members of Central Committee and State Committee.
At present, 19 Districts of Odisha are affected by the Maoist
violence while there are recent reports of Maoist activities in
Boudh and Angul Districts. To combat the Maoists, 17 battalions
(9 CRPF and 8 BSF battalions) of Central Armed Police Force are
supporting the State police. Odisha has received INR 2,955.79
crore under the Integrated Action Plan, Security Related Expenditure
Scheme, Special Infrastructure Scheme, Construction and Strengthening
of Fortified Police Scheme and Modernisation of Police Forces
Scheme.
|
Statement
|
March 28
|
Nuapada District of Odisha
|
A CPI-Maoist camp was demolished
and huge cache of arms and ammunition seized by SF personnel in
Patdarah reserve forest area under Boden block in Nuapada District
of Odisha. SP Pinak Mishra said the SF personnel seized
five tiffin bombs of 2 to 3 kg each, 20 detonators, 30 metres
of safety fuse wires, live bullets, medicines, Maoist uniforms
and food materials.
|
Violent
|
March 28
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Six suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
were arrested during a joint search operation in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 28
|
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
11 lower-rung CPI-Maoist cadres
including two women surrendered in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
They were active as People’s Militia members of CPI-Maoist in
the region and are residents of Bayanar, Rajbeda and Choote Usari
villages of the District.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 28
|
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
The ITBP personnel found two IEDs
weighing 2 Kilogram and 5 Kilogram near Jakke Post in Rajnandgaon
District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 29
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed
in an encounter with the SF personnel in Narayanpur District of
Chhattisgarh. A joint operation, of the forces numbering around
700 comprising the DRG, the STF, the ITBP and the CAF, reached
their target areas in Sulenga Tirkanar forest under Dhaurai Police
Station limits, the Maoists opened heavy firing on them. After
a heavy exchange of fire the ultras managed to run away taking
advantage of thick forest. Three dead bodies of uniformed Maoists
were found after searching the area. "It is estimated that
four to five more Maoists have been injured in the encounter and
our parties are still searching deep inside the forest for them.
All our parties are safe. One INSAS rifle, one 315 rifle and three
country-made weapons were also recovered from the spot of the
encounter," Bastar range IGP, S.R.P. Kalluri said.
|
Violent
|
March 29
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Four 'suspected' Maoists were
arrested during a joint search operation by SF personnel in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh. Those arrested included Madvi Dewa (27),
Madvi Ganga (25) - both people’s militia heads - and members Kartami
Nanda (23) and Madkami Lakhma (26).
|
Non-Violent
|
March 29
|
Garwah District of Jharkhand
|
A CPI-Maoist ‘area commander’
identified as Bhanu Singh and his associate Chhotu Korwa alias
Mister thrashed and shot a PACS ‘President’ - Banwari Prasad (40)
- of Beta panchayat of Chinia block in Garwah District
of Jharkhand, after the latter denied them levy.
|
Violent
|
March 29
|
Chikkamagaluru District of Karnataka
|
Banners suspected to have been
put up by the CPI-Maoist have surfaced in Sringeri taluk of
Chikkamagaluru District of Karnataka, addressing elected representatives
and officials with regard to various issues, including clearance
of encroachments, the controversial tiger project and granting
land to the landless. Residents of Bukkadi Bailu village, near
Sringeri, found around 10 such banners.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 29
|
Malapuram District of Kerala
|
An armed group of suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres visited a tribal colony at Pattakkarimbu in Malapuram District
of Kerala and convened a meeting of the colony natives in which
the group urged the people to boycott upcoming Kerala Assembly
election and to launch protest against the recent death of a woman
of the colony. A team of 10 persons including three women came
to the colony raising slogans against government and Police. Before
the meeting they laid an iron chain across the walkway to the
colony to prevent colony natives from going outside. The team
left the colony after spending more than an hour there, collecting
rice and groceries from colony natives.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 29
|
West Midnapore District of West
Bengal
|
Four years after the death of
Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji, a CPI-Maoist ‘Politbureau
member’, in an encounter with CRPF’s CoBRA team in West Midnapore
District of West Bengal on November 24, 2011, a former Maoist
cadre identified as Shantanu Mahato has claimed that it was he
and not the SFs who killed the top Maoist leader. In an interview
to a Malayalam news channel, Asianet News, at Midnapore
in West Bengal, Mahato claimed that he betrayed Kishenji after
the Police promised to help him enter the mainstream society.
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Statement
|
March 30
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
Seven jawans of the CRPF
were killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist
in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. A vehicle carrying the
CRPF’s 230th battalion belonging to the Ghusaras CRPF camp in
Dantewada were returning after leave for Holi was blown up by
Maoists near the Malewara market on the Dantewada-Sukma road.
The deceased troopers were identified as Sub-Inspector D. Vijay
Raj, Constables Pradeep Tirkey, Rupnarayan Das, Devendra Chourasia,
Ranjan Dash and Mritunjoy Mukharjee and driver Saindane Nana Usesing.
Three troopers were also injured in the explosion.
|
Violent
|
March 30
|
Kandhamal District of Odisha
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre is suspected
to have sustained bullet injuries following an exchange of fire
between SOG personnel at Pokhari bandh reserve forest in Kandhamal
District of Odisha. "Our jawans found bloodstains in the
forest after the ultras escaped from the spot," SP K.V. Singh
said.
|
Violent
|
March 31
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
71 CPI-Maoist aides, including
18-militia members and six village committee members, surrendered
before Malkangiri SP Mitrabhanu Mahapatra at District Police Office
in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
March 31
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
The CPI-Maoist could have got
information about the movement of the seven CRPF troopers, who
were killed in an explosion in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
on March 30, said CRPF DG K. Durga Prasad. He also said Maoists
could have dug a secret tunnel to plant over 50 kg of explosives
under the concrete road. “A surprise movement was under way and
it was being done in a secret way. I don’t know how the news got
leaked [to Maoists]. The way the incident happened, it is clear
that someone gave specific inputs [to Maoists]. We will investigate
to find out what went wrong,” he said after paying homage to the
deceased. He further said “The blast took place on a well-connected
road; a school is barely 100 metres away. It is unlikely that
the explosives were put together in a hurry. It was a well-planned
and deliberate explosion. We suspect that a tunnel could have
been dug to plant the explosives as it is a populated area and
the road is a concrete one.”
|
Statement
|
March 31
|
Ranchi District of Jharkhand
|
A CPI-Maoist ‘zonal commander’
Ram Mohan Munda, one of Jharkhand's top Maoists who carries INR
One Million cash reward, was arrested with two aides after a brief
encounter with the SF personnel on the outskirts of Ranchi District
of Jharkhand. Ram Mohan's career in LWE spans more than a decade.
He also led a special armed guerrilla group known as 'Ram Mohan
dasta'. In 2008, Ram Mohan with Kundan Pahan, another top Maoist
‘commander’, looted INR 50 million from ICICI Bank cash van and
also murdered Tamar MLA Ramesh Singh Munda and a DSP besides several
other acts of violence in past. The names of the two aides have
not been disclosed. They are dasta members whose profile record
is not available with Police.
|
Violent
|
April 1
|
Ranchi District of Jharkhand
|
On the inputs of arrested CPI-Maoist
‘zonal commander’ Ram Mohan Munda, a series of 25 IEDs were found
from Angara area of Ranchi District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent
|
April 1
|
Garhwa District of Jharkhand
|
One Maoist was injured in an encounter
between the CPI-Maoist and the SF personnel at Chapla village
in Garhwa District of Jharkhand. The encounter took place when
a team of CRPF personnel and District armed personnel rushed to
the village following a tip-off that a squad led by ‘area commander’
Bhanu had assembled there, sources said. The SF personnel
were conducting raids in the village when the Maoists started
firing at them forcing them to retaliate in self-defence, sources
said, adding that one Maoist sustained bullet injury. Bhanu and
his two aides managed to escape, SP Priyadarshi Alok said.
|
Violent
|
April 1
|
Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu
|
About a dozen armed CPI-Maoist
cadres, including two women cadres, reportedly stormed a village
along the Western Ghats close to the Kerala border in the Nilgiris
District of Tamil Nadu, and addressed a gathering of about 150
tribals. The Maoists came to the Nedukal Kambai village in the
Kolakombai Police Station limits around 9 p.m. and asked the villagers
to gather at a common place, a couple of them began addressing
the gathering, while others took positions to guard. Making an
appeal to the villagers to join the CPI-Maoist, they released
a manifesto promising to restore land, water and forest rights
to the people. During the hour-long meeting, the Maoists distributed
pamphlets and pasted posters in the village. Calling for strengthening
the ‘PLGA’ to establish “people’s rule”, the Maoists urged the
tribals, Dalits, students, women and educated youth to join the
armed struggle. Vowing to render justice to the Munnar tea estate
workers, they appealed to the people to reject the elections which
were the path of corrupt politicians and drive away the STF from
the forest area.
|
Non-Violent
|
April 2
|
Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
The Police recovered six landmines
from a village under Madanpur Police Station area in Aurangabad
District of Bihar. Acting on a tip off, the Police detected six
landmines planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres underneath Madanpur
Ajan road in Purnadih village and safely recovered all of them.
The landmines were connected to six bombs weighing five kilograms
each, which were later on defused by the bomb disposal squad.
|
Non-Violent
|
April 2
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A leader of the BJP's youth wing,
BJYM, was shot at by CPI-Maoist in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
"A small action team of Maoists attacked Murlikrishna Reddy,
the BJYM Bijapur district president, last night at Bairamgad town
of Bijapur. He was attacked with a country-made gun and other
traditional weapons," SP KL Dhruw said. Bastar range IGP,
SRP Kalluri, claimed that Reddy was offering prayers at a temple
in Bairamgad when the Maoists attacked him. "He suffered
three bullet injuries. He was immediately rushed to Raipur in
an IAF chopper," he added.
|
Violent
|
April 2
|
Dhanbad District of Jharkhand
|
Six CRPF personnel were injured
when the CPI-Maoist cadres, ambushed a LRP party of the CRPF triggering
IED blast at Topchanchi in Dhanbad District of Jharkhand. The
incident took place when a team of CRPF was on LRP on motorcycles
at Bodra village under Topchanchi Police Station in Dhanbad. The
CRPF personnel were riding motorcycles, when the extremists set
off the blast through an IED, Police said. After triggering the
blast, ultras fired indiscriminately at the convoy, prompting
the LRP personnel to return fire .The exchange lasted a little
over half an hour,” said a senior Police official.
|
Violent
|
April 2
|
Kolkata of West Bengal
|
The STF of the Kolkata Police
arrested top CPI-Maoist leader Vikas alias Manasharam
Hembram and his wife Tara alias Thakurmani Hembram
from Kolkata of West Bengal. Joint Commissioner of Police (STF)
Vishal Garg said that they were arrested near the Brigade Parade
Ground under the Maiodan Police Station in Central Kolkata, after
receiving inputs from reliable sources. “Vikas is the State Committee
member of Maoists as well as the secretary of their State Military
Commission. His wife Tara is the leader of their Salboni squad.
They were involved in several Maoist- related incidents including
those in Shilda and Goaltore,” said Garg. After interrogating
them, Police raided a house in the Mogra Police Station area in
Hooghly District and seized an AK-47 rifle along with rounds of
live ammunition, Maoist literature and some letters written in
tribal language. Garg said that they came to Kolkata to meet a
leader.
|
Non-Violent
|
April 3
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CRPF trooper was injured in
a pressure bomb blast triggered allegedly by Maoists, in Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh. The incident took place at Dubba Kunna
forests under Katekalyan Police Station limits while SFs were
returning after an anti-Naxal operation in the region,
Dantewada SP Kamlochan Kashyap said. When the SFs reached a forested
patch of Dubba Kunna, the trooper inadvertently stepped over an
IED, which triggered the blast, the SP said. “Constable Gurwinder
Singh belonging to the CRPF’s 195th battalion sustained injuries
in the explosion,” he added.
|
Violent
|
April 3
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Troops of the 230th CRPF battalion
arrested six Maoists from Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. Officials
said a special squad from the unit arrested the Maoists, identified
as Madvi Muka (22), Madkami Deva (24), Madkami Ganga (24), Chinga
(25), Budram (30) and Sanna (28) from the Nelavaram and Chichor
villages of Sukma District. They said all the six were wanted
by the State Police for various crimes and had warrants pending
against them.
|
Non-Violent
|
April 4
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Police trooper and a civilian
were injured in a pressure bomb blast triggered by CPI-Maoist
near Maoulimor village under Rawghat Police Station limits in
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. On getting information that Maoists
had installed banners, posters and blocked Rawghat-Maoulimor road
by felling trees, a joint team of District Force and BSF approached
the spot. While SF personnel were trying to remove a banner, a
pressure IED placed under it went off injuring the constable Preetam
Singh, SP Jitendra Singh Meena said. Besides, a civilian who was
present at the spot also sustained splinter injuries in the explosion,
he added.
|
Violent
|
April 4
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A team of District Force was carrying
out a search operation in Badgaon Police Station area when they
spotted four persons and arrested them in forests of Latamarka
village in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. On interrogation,
they admitted involvement in the Maoist movement. They were identified
as Saten Ram Kumeti (26), Rati Ram Jade (23), Vimla Uike (23)
and a 17-year-old girl, Police said. Kumeti was wanted in cases
of abduction and attempt to murder in the region while three others,
including Vimla and the minor, were allegedly involved in offences
like rioting, loot and attempt to wage war, he said.
|
Non-Violent
|
April 4
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A joint squad of CRPF and the
District Police Force arrested four Maoists from Nilavaram village
under Gadiras Police Station limits in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
Of the four, one Katti Guddi alias Madkam Ganga
was carrying a reward of INR 2,000 on his head. All four were
active members of DAKMS, a front of the CPI-Maoist, and were allegedly
involved in various crimes including creating disturbance during panchayat election
in 2015.
|
Non-Violent
|
April 4
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
About 167 CPI-Maoist supporters
from the Mathili area of Malkangiri District of Odisha, surrendered
before SP Mitrabhanu Mohapatra. According to the SP Mitrabhanu,
those who surrendered were from Maoist-infested Daldali and Gurupadar
villages. They included 56 women, nine Maoist militias, five village
committee members of Maoists and four members of CNM, a frontal
organisation of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent
|
April 4
|
|
The SC granted bail to DU Professor
G.N. Saibaba, in jail over suspicion of having links with the
CPI-Maoist, while pulling up the Maharashtra government for being
“extremely unfair” to an ailing man. A Bench of Justices J.S.
Khehar and C. Nagappan said there was no point in keeping Saibaba,
who is a wheelchair-user, in Nagpur Jail indefinitely. “You are
extremely unfair to him (Saibaba) considering his medical condition.
There is no point keeping him in jail if the material witnesses
have already been examined,” Justice Khehar observed when the
State counsel pressed for extending the custody. In February,
the apex court had agreed to consider the Professor’s bail plea
on April 4, 2016, after the Maharashtra government completed the
examination of eight material witnesses in the case. The apex
court had ordered day-to-day trial to start from March 4.
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Non-Violent
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April 5
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Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh
|
A 40-year old former cadre of
the CPI-Maoist was reportedly taken into custody at Thallayapalem
in Thullur mandal in Guntur District of Andhra
Pradesh by special party Police. The woman Maoist identified as
Bhootam Annapoorna alias Aruna had come to the
village to see her relatives when Police, who got wind of her
whereabouts, picked her up. Aruna had been an active Maoist and
had worked in dalams at Julakallu village in
Piduguralla mandal for many years, it was learnt.
Guntur Police have, however, refused to confirm the arrest.
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Non-Violent
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April 5
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A 35-year-old villager was killed
allegedly by Maoists for refusing to support them in Kanker District
of Chhattisgarh. Lalit Dugga was brutally beaten with sticks to
death by the Maoists at his native place Kadgaon, Pakhanjore SDPO
Jai Prakash Badhai said. As per the preliminary information, a
group of Maoists had abducted Dugga from his house. The victim’s
kin said in their statement that Maoists had also beaten up Dugga
some time back. When the victim remained firm on his stand of
not supporting the outlawed outfit, the Maoists killed him, the
SDOP said.
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Violent
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April 5
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Phulbani District of Odisha
|
The OMP 'chief', Sabyasachi Panda
appeared before the District & Sessions Judge Court in Phulbani
District of Odisha, in connection with three cases filed under
Daringibadi Police Station limits. OMP is a splinter group of
the CPI-Maoist. All the three cases were registered in 2011 when
Panda was active in Daringibadi area.
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Non-Violent
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April 6
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Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two villagers, who were abducted
from a village in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh, were allegedly
killed by Maoists after holding a ‘Jan Adalat’. “The victims,
identified as Budhru and Manku, tribals from Kudur village under
Mardapal police station limits, were brutally beaten to death,”
Kondagaon SP JS Watti said. As per preliminary information, three
villagers from Kudur area were abducted by Maoists on April 4,
and two others picked up on April 5. Subsequently, the Maoists
held a ‘Jan Adalat’ around 15 kilometres from Kudur in Tilam-Becha
area, which falls in Narayanpur District, the SP said. “The Naxals
executed two villagers and released three,” he said.
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Violent
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April 6
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Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
Four IEDs allegedly planted by
Maoists to target SF personnel were recovered by SFs in Kanker
District of Chhattisgarh. A joint team of BSF and District Force
recovered the explosives during a search operation in the forests
of Bande Police Station area, Pakhanjore SDOP Jai Prakash Badhai
said. While the SFs were cordoning-off Korenar village forests,
they spotted an electric wire connection and subsequently found
the IEDs, kept in different objects under the ground, Badhai said.
“Two IEDs were kept in a pressure cooker and as many others were
in form of pipe bombs. Of them, a pressure cooker bomb weighed
5 kg and others were of low intensity,” he said. According to
a BSF official, the pipe bombs were connected to a wireless ‘walkie-talkie’
in a manner that if the wireless set receives a call, the bomb
detonator catches the signal too and the IED explodes. The explosives
were immediately destroyed by the bomb disposal squad of BSF and
CTJW college, Kanker.
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Non-Violent
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April 6
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Based on inputs about presence
of Maoists in Gadiras region in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh,
a joint squad of CRPF and DF swung into action and arrested four
Maoists, said Sukma ASP Santosh Singh. Those arrested were identified
as Madvi Hunga (26), Madvi Lakma (22), Kawasi Mukka (35) and Podiyami
Somaru (24), he said while elaborating that they were working
as member of DAKMS, a frontal outfit of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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April 6
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two Maoists were arrested by personnel
of DRG in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. Those arrested were
identified as member of Malangir LOS Bheema Podiyami and Dumam
LOS member Deva alias Joga Padam, informed Police.
According to the Police, during the course of investigation, it
came to light that Bheema was inducted into the banned organization
as CNM member in 2009 and elevated as member of Malangir LOS in
2015 whereas Joga was associated with the Maoist movement since
2007.
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Non-Violent
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April 6
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Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
One CRPF trooper was injured when
CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a series of landmines targeting the
SF personnel on a combing operation in Rudakota area of Pedabayalu mandal in
the Visakha agency in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.
The injured trooper was identified as radio operator of the 198
battalion head constable Srinivas Sahu (40) of Odisha. Sources
said four to five explosions of IEDs were heard at around 8.30
am 5 kilometres away from Rudakota area, which was followed by
gunfire. CRPF personnel retaliated with light machine gun fire.
A platoon of 25 to 30 CRPF personnel was moving from Rudakota
area to Munchingput when the incident took place.
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Violent
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April 6
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Giridih and Dhanbad District of
Jharkhand
|
An encounter was reported between
Police and CPI-Maoist cadres in Denga Pahari section of the forests
located on the borders of the Giridih and Dhanbad District of
Jharkhand. A joint team of Giridih Police and 124th battalion
of CRPF unit raided the Denga Pahari forest area under the Parasnath
Police Station and had an hour –long encounter with Maoists. However,
the Maoists fled towards forest side, sources said.
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Violent
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April 6
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Saran and Muzaffarpur Districts
of Bihar
|
Police arrested two CPI-Maoist
cadres in two separate incidents from Saran and Muzaffarpur Districts
of Bihar. SP Pankaj Kumar Raj said a person from the CPI-Maoist
- had demanded a levy of INR 2.5 million from Govardhan Sah, a
goldsmith in Parsa, on March 27. Sah had informed the Police and
a special team was formed which arrested Mukesh Sahni from Dadanpur
and Sanjay Sahni from Sahila village in Muzaffarpur.
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Non-Violent
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April 6
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Koraput District of Odisha
|
Four suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
killed trader Jayaram Pangi near Jalaput village in Nandapur Tehsil in
Koraput District of Odisha and left behind a letter near the body
which read that he was punished for his involvement in ganja smuggling
and other anti-social activities. Police recovered the body and
said that Pangi belonged to Singrai village under Chitrakonda
Police limits and was involved in ganja smuggling.
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Violent
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April 6
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Rayagada District of Odisha
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Police arrested hardcore Maoist
Dasru Kadraka (25), son of Majji Kadraka of Gorata village under
Muniguda Police limits in Rayagada District of Odisha. Dasru was
working as a ‘militia commander’ of the CPI-Maoist, Niyamgiri
and involved in a number of crimes, informed the Rayagada SP.
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Non-Violent
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April 6
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Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly
held a ‘kangaroo court’ in Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh,
where a sarpanch was asked to ensure payment
of wage arrears under the MGNREGA. This is after a long time that Naxal activity
has come to light in Balaghat District, which is close to Rajnandgaon
District of Chhattisgarh and Gondia of Maharashtra. “Twenty Naxals including
six women held an unofficial court in Pandripani jungle near Rashimetta
in south Baiher on the night of April 4,” said former Lanji MLA
Kishore Samrite. The villagers complained to the Naxals that
they had not received wages for work under the MGNREGA for several
months. The Naxals told the woman sarpanch’s husband
to make sure that payments were made within 15 days. Otherwise
the sarpanch should resign, they said. “We have
got inputs that rebels held a meeting, not a kangaroo court, on
April 4,” SP Gaurav Tiwari said.
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Non-Violent
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April 7
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The CPI-Maoist have given a call
for 'Dandakaranya Bandh' on April 15, opposing the
recent air-to-ground firing exercise carried out by the IAF in
south Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. "The pamphlets in which
the outlawed CPI (Maoist) has opposed the aerial firing practice
by IAF commandos have been recovered from the restive places of
Bijapur, Sukma and Kanker districts," a senior Police official
involved in anti-Maoist operations said. The IAF's Garuda commandos
had conducted a special air-to- ground firing exercise in Sukma
District of the state on April 1. A similar aerial firing practice
was done in Bijapur last year. The pamphlets, released in Naxal's
DKSZC official representative Vikalp's name, have appealed to
make the bandh successful. DKSZC oversees Maoist
activities in Bastar and some parts of Maharashtra and Telangana.
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Non-Violent
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April 7
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Chhattisgarh
|
The pamphlets carry messages that
"since last six months aircraft (are) blasting bombs in the
area of south Bastar, Sukma, Dantewada and Bijapur Districts,
it means Air Force planes may attack Maoists anywhere at any moment".
"Security forces are conducting fake encounters and arresting
innocent personnel in fake cases. They said helicopters are only
being used for assistance work and firing on Maoists only in self-defence.
But the fact is that as part of the Green Hunt operation, the
government has given full authority to the air force to attack
Maoists," the pamphlets read. Maoists have, however, announced
relaxation for medical and educational institutions from the bandh.
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Non-Violent
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April 7
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Giridih District of Jharkhand
|
Three troopers of the CoBRA unit
were injured, when CPI-Maoist cadres detonated an IED in Parasnath
Hills in Giridih District of Jharkhand to target a contingent
of forces chasing them. ADG (operations) and Police spokesperson
S N Pradhan said the troopers were hurt by splinters after the
blast. An anti-Maoist operation was launched in the area on April
6, after authorities received inputs that 25-odd rebels, led by
CPI-Maoist Jharkhand Regional Committee ‘secretary’ Ajay Mahto
and his aide Nunu Chand Mahto, are holed up in an area within
the limits of Madhuban Police Station of Parasnath Hill.
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Violent
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April 7
|
Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh
|
Heavy exchange of fire took place
twice between Hawk Force of State Police and an armed squad of
CPI-Maoist at Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh. Though the
exact location of encounter is yet to be confirmed, intelligence
officers at Police headquarters said first firing took place near
a forest area under Patra Police outpost under Roopjhar Police
Station. Commandant, who was leading the force, ordered retaliation
as the Maoists fired on the SFs. However, no casualty was reported
from either side. Previous encounter was reported from Machhurda
forest area, located 30 kilometres from District headquarters
during routine patrolling. Armed Forces were heading towards the
forest from the area under Birsa Police Station, when Maoists
opened fire for the first time. "It seems to be a chance
attack instead of an ambush. That was a transit point for Maoists
to enter Maharashtra," said Police officer monitoring anti-Naxal operations.
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Violent
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April 7
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Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh
|
The Maoists who had an encounter
with Madhya Pradesh SF personnel in Balaghat District of Madhya
Pradesh, were newly recruited from Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
and wanted to influence tendu leaf plucking to
broaden base, investigations have revealed. The groups of 25-30
fresh recruits were led by three hardcore Maoists, including Tanda
Malajkhand ‘area committee member’ Sangita, who carries a reward
of INR 700,000 on head and is wanted by the Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh
and Madhya Pradesh Police. The other two included Tanda Malajkhand
‘area committee member’ Dipak, who carries INR 3 million reward
on head, and ‘divisional commander’ of North Gadchiroli Gondia
committee Naresh, who carries INR 2 million bounty. The Maoists
were camping in the jungles between Chukkatola and Bhagwandeeh
in Balaghat District to extort money from contractors of tendu
leaf plucking on the Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra trisection,
investigations have revealed. Balaghat Police sources said the
Maoists had planned to fuel resentment among tribes people plucking
tendu leaves by telling them that they are paid INR 130 per hundred
leaves instead of INR 150 per hundred leaves.
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Non-Violent
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April 8
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Police jawan was
killed and another injured after CPI-Maoist cadres ambushed a
team of SF personnel who were deployed on a helipad in the dense
forests in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. A group of Maoists
opened fire on jawans guarding the helipad in
a restive pocket of Pamed Police Station area, SP KL Dhruv said.
SFs were tasked with ensuring security to the helipad ahead of
the landing of a helicopter meant to transport ration for them.
After dropping the consignment, the chopper returned and SFs began
marching back to its base, he said. “Meanwhile, a group of Maoists
opened indiscriminate firing on them from behind leaving two constables
--Baburam Markam belonging to the district force and Dinesh Ogre
of CAF - injured. “While Markam succumbed to his injuries during
the treatment, Ogre was airlifted to Raipur for treatment,” he
said.
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Violent
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April 8
|
Bokaro District of Jharkhand
|
The armed squad of the CPI-Maoist
killed one youth for allegedly being ‘Police informer’ and also
collecting levy in favour of Maoists at Pipradih village under
Gomia Police Station in Bokaro District of Jharkhand. The deceased
has been identified as Satendra Mandal (26) of Pipradih village.
According to reports about 15 to 20 armed Maoists raided his village
and took him in the forest area of Chutte-Kharna, when Satendra
was coming back on his motorcycle at home in the evening. The
villagers saw his body with throat slit on Chutte-Kharna forest
way, one kilometre from his house. The Police recovered “parchas”
(leaflet/pamphlet) from the spot stating that Satendra, was ‘Police
informer’ and collecting “chanda” (levy) in favor of original
Maoists group. Mandal also joined rival Uday Mahto group. Police
sources said the deceased had a close nexus with the Maoists in
the past. The incident could be a result of his (Maoists) internal
conflicts, further Police added.
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Violent
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April 8
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
Landmines planted by the CPI-Maoist
cadres were found near Kudumuluguma block office in Malkangiri
District of Odisha. The landmines were neutralised by a bomb defuse
team of the BSF. A letter was too found from the spot in which
Maoists wanted that the BSF personnel should leave the District
at the earliest.
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Non-Violent
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April 9
|
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
A top leader of the CPI-Maoist,
Kudumula Venkata Ramana alias Ravi, died of jaundice
at a city hospital in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.
Ravi was member of the AOBSZC and ‘commander’ of first company
of party’s CRC that was responsible for many operations in the
area. He had reportedly planned many attacks on the Police and
destruction of property. Ravi carried a reward of INR 2 million
on his head. Ravi was reportedly brought to the city from a place
beyond Sapparla in Chintapalli mandal in the
morning but was already dead, according to information available
with the Police, SP Koya Praveen said. Ravi, a native of Kommangi
village in Chintapalli mandal joined the Maoist
party in 1998 soon after completing high school. He rose in the
party ranks to become one of its top leaders and military strategist.
He married Kumari, a party member.
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Non-Violent
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April 9
|
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
The Visakha Rural Police reportedly
arrested Galikonda ‘area committee member’ of the CPI-Maoist Vantala
Checchu alias Vasanta (33) of Bonangipalli in
GK Veedhi mandal in Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh, a couple of days ago. Vasanta is the wife of senior
leader and ‘divisional committee member’ Krishna. Vasanta has
been suffering from various ailments. According to sources, she
had been staying at her native village for some time to avail
medical treatment. After learning this, the rural Police went
to the village and took her into custody. Vasanta was arrested
by combing parties at Janbai in the cut-off area in Malkangiri
District of Odisha five years ago. However, she had managed to
escape from custody.
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Non-Violent
|
April 9
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
As many as 122 members of CPI-Maoist
militia and its frontal organisations reportedly gave themselves
up before the Police higher officials at Dornapal in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh. According to sources, 11 women militia members
were among those who surrendered en masse before the Police in
Sukma District of south Bastar region.
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Non-Violent
|
April 9
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
189 CPI-Maoist cadres and their
sympathizers surrendered in front of SFs in Malkangiri District
of Odisha. The Maoists surrendered in presence of officers of
202nd CoBRA unit of CRPF and Police. Those who surrendered include
25 Maoist cadres, 10 village committee members and 154 Maoist
sympathizers, said officials.
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Non-Violent
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April 10
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
SFs recovered two powerful IEDs,
planted allegedly by the CPI-Maoist, in Dantewada District of
Chhattisgarh. A joint team of CRPF and District Force recovered
the explosives while patrolling the under-construction Aranpur-Jagargunda
road under Aranpur Police Station limits, ASP Ramkrishna Sahu
said. While cordoning off an area near Kondapara, where a CRPF
camp is located, SFs spotted the explosives, weighing 10 kilograms
each, kept in pressure cookers hidden beneath the earth, Sahu
said. The IEDs were immediately destroyed by bomb disposal squad,
the officer added.
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Non-Violent
|
April 10
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A woman Maoist cadre, who is the
mother of a four-month-old girl, surrendered in Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh, saying she wanted a better life for her child.
Sukaru Salaam (22), a native of Manpur area in Rajnandgaon District,
surrendered before senior Police and ITBP officials at Narayanpur
District headquarters, SP Abhishek Meena said. She was allegedly
involved in several Maoist offences, including the attack on SFs
in Aundhi area of Rajnandgaon during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls,
he said, adding that she was carrying a reward of INR 100, 000
on her head. Sukaru was active in Aundhi LOS in Rajnandgaon where
she fell in love with the squad’s ‘deputy commander’, Bharat.
When the senior cadres objected to their relationship, the couple
fled and shifted to Koyalibeda in Kanker District, Meena said.
They were well aware of the Maoist ‘diktat’ that cadres are not
allowed to have children. After giving birth to a baby girl, Sukaru
decided to quit the movement to give a better life to her child,
he said.
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Non-Violent
|
April 10
|
West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand
|
Explosives hidden by the Maoists
were recovered during “area domination campaign” by the SFs near
Gundijora in the Saranda jungles in West Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand. Getting information, the CRPF (197 Battalion) and District
Police personnel, headed by Commandant T.H. Khan and Assistant
Commandant Pundarik Mishra searched the areas as part of the ‘area
domination campaign’ and recovered 39 pieces of .303 ammunition
and 12 electronic detonators, a CRPF release said. Following a
tip-off sniffer dogs were pressed into service to unearth the
explosives hidden for use against the SF personnel, it said. The
release claimed that LWE was on the decline in the Saranda forests.
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Non-Violent
|
April 10 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
A group of CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly killed
a villager, identified as Manju Guntha (32), belonged to Semageda
village of Kotiya panchayat under Pottangi Police limits in Koraput
District of Odisha, by slitting his throat.
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Violent |
April 10 |
Bargarh District of Odisha |
The Maoists set on fire an empty 'phadi', where
dried kendu leaves are stored, at Gaurpali village of Lakhanpur
panchayat under Ambabhona block in Bargarh District of Odisha.
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Violent |
April 11 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
An injured CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested following
an encounter between the Maoists and a Police team in a forested
patch in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 11 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
An encounter took place between a joint team of
District Police Jharkhand Jaguar CoBRA 209 battalion and CPI-Maoist
cadres at Latu in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
April 11 |
Dhenkanal District of Odisha |
Three persons were critically injured in a bomb
blast at Kamakhyanagar in Dhenkanal District of Odisha. All the
injured persons have been admitted to hospital.
|
Violent |
April 11 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
SF personnel busted a Maoist camp in a forested
area near Chitrakonda in Malkangiri District of Odisha. BSF jawans
during combing operations in Khaipadar forested area near Chitrakonda
busted the camp of Maoists and seized four guns and explosives
from the camp, Police said.
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Non-Violent |
April 11 |
Ganjam District of Odisha |
Police recovered six crude bombs from Shanti Nagar
at Chhatrapur in Ganjam District of Odisha. Probe is on in the
incident.
|
Non-Violent |
April 11 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
One Maoist leader named Benu, claiming to be 'secretary'
of Malkangiri District committee of the CPI-Maoist, sent an audio
clip to the media, through which, he criticised the surrender
of hundreds of Maoist sympathisers and militias from the Mathili
area of Malkangiri District of Odisha. He termed these surrenders
to be an outcome of use of force by the Police. He added that
the Police were falsely implicating innocent persons as Maoists.
He threatened to take revenge on leaders of the ruling BJD if
these did not stop.
|
Statement |
April 11 |
Balaghat District of Madhya
Pradesh |
CPI-Maoist cadres reportedly looted a truck and
set it ablaze in Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh. The incident
took place at Dhiri Murum village of the District. Police said
a group of 25-30 armed people, dressed in green uniform, looted
a truck and then set it afire in Mataghat area.
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Violent |
April 12 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
One Maoist leader carrying a reward of INR 2.5
million on his head surrendered in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
Maoists Dinesh Yadav (40), with several aliases - Chasma, Satyendra
Yadav, Chota Vikas and Umesh - was in civil dress when he surrendered
before Palamau DIG Saket Kumar and Latehar SP Anoop Birtharay.
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Non-Violent |
April 12 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
At least 23 tribal people, believed to be relatives
of two surrendered CPI-Maoist cadres, were allegedly forced out
of their village in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh, by Maoists,
who branded them as 'Police informers'.
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Violent |
April 12 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Seven Maoists, allegedly involved in Malewada
landmine attack last month in which seven CRPF personnel were
killed, were arrested from Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh,
after an encounter with SFs.
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Non-Violent |
April 12 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A CRPF officer who had suffered severe IED splinter
injuries during an anti-CPI-Maoist operation on March11 in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh died on April 12 at a hospital in Hyderabad.
The officer identified as Deputy Commandant BK Shyam Niwas had
slipped into coma for a month.
|
Violent |
April 13 |
Pakur District of Jharkhand |
A computer operator and a Constable were injured
in an explosion on the premises of Pakuria Police Station in Pakur
District of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
April 13 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
Police arrested suspected CPI-Maoist cadre, Sanjay
Yadav from Sheikhbigha village under Khizersarai Police Station
in Gaya District of Bihar. Sanjay is accused of attacking Police
in 2005.
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Non-Violent |
April 13 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
As many as 61 CPI-Maoist cadres, including seven
women, most of them lower rung members, surrendered in Bastar
District of Chhattisgarh, citing "disappointment" with the ideology
of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
April 13 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
A Police trooper was injured in an encounter between
SF personnel and Maoists in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 14 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A Police Constable was killed in a pressure bomb
blast triggered by CPI-Maoist cadres, in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 14 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
A Policeman was killed when CPI-Maoist cadres
opened indiscriminate fire at a function in Gadchiroli District
of Maharashtra.
|
Violent |
April 14 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
Around 175 kilograms of ammonium nitrate stuffed
in four plastic bags were seized from Saudag village in Tupudana
in Ranchi District of Jharkhand. The explosives were recovered
from the shop of one Birsa Bakhla (28), who has been arrested.
|
Non-Violent |
April 14 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
Aurangabad Police of Bihar arrested three wanted
CPI-Maoist cadres from different localities under Daudnagar Sub-Division
of the same district.
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Non-Violent |
April 15 |
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh |
An encounter took place between Maoists and the
18th battalion of ITBP troops between Belgaun and Kaneli area
in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 15 |
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh |
Maoists have set ablaze four vehicles, including
two engaged in a road construction work, in Madanwada area of
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh.
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Violent |
April 15 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including a 'Commander',
were killed while planting bomb in Koyaliberda area in Kanker
District of Chhattisgarh during the Dandakaranya bandh called
by the CPI-Maoist. Kanker Police confirmed the incident on April
17.
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Violent |
April 15-16 |
Telangana |
A forest guesthouse and a jeep were set ablaze,
allegedly by Naxalites at the Tadvai mandal headquarters between
Warangal and Eturunagaram in Telangana, on the intervening night
of 15-16 April.
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Violent |
April 16 |
Chhattisgarh |
Calling the CPI-Maoist a 'serious challenge' to
the Indian democracy, the UMH Rajnath Singh said the Centre was
committed to extend every possible help to the LWE-affected states
to root out the menace.
|
Statement |
April 17 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A Maoist, identified as Khatiya Korcha (25), was
arrested during a search operation in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
Korcha, a Gatta LOS member of the CPI-Maoist, was arrested from
Madpakhanjore village under Bande Police Station area, Kanker
SP Jitendra Singh Meena said.
|
Non-Violent |
April 17 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
The CPI-Maoist also placed a banner in Pevari
village under Antagarh tehsil of Kanker District. They urged the
people to support them to protest against the recent hike in price
of tendupatta/bidi leaves.
|
Non-Violent |
April 14 |
Nuapada District of Odisha |
Maoist posters threatening to blow up the residence
of Nuapada SP created a flutter in five gram panchayat headquarters
in Nuapada District of Odisha.
|
Statement |
April 18 |
Nuapada District of Odisha |
CPI-Maoist cadres have killed a civilian, identified
as Gajapati Majhi, branding him as a 'Police informer' in Nuapada
District of Odisha. Maoists killed Gajapati in a forest nearby
his village.
|
Violent |
April 18 |
Ganjam District of Odisha
|
Odisha DGP K. B. Singh while speaking to media
persons during his visit to Ganjam and Berhampur said that Maoists
from outside the State are planning for something inside Odisha.
He further said Odisha Police were prepared to thwart any plans
of the Maoists. The Times of India adds the DGP as saying that
nine out of 30 districts in the State have been identified as
Maoist-affected and the movement of the Maoists is largely felt
in Kandhamal, Boudh and Kalahandi Districts.
|
Statement |
April 18 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Three personnel were injured in an IED blast during
an anti- CPI-Maoist operation in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
Officials said the incident took place near the Chintagufa-Burkapal
axis when troops of 74th battalion were sanitising a track.
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Violent |
April 18 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
SF personnel recovered IEDs weighing about 10
kilograms which were concealed beneath a dirt track at Ranapal
in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
April 18 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
A CPI-Maoist woman cadre, identified as Arjunamma,
has died due to poisoning at Similipodar in Jodam panchayat
of Kudumula Gumma block in Malkangiri District of Odisha. This
has raised doubts on whether the Maoists are losing ground in
Malkangiri District of Odisha or just becoming victims of conspiracy.
|
Violent |
April 19 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
A CPI-Maoist woman 'deputy commander', identified
as Sarita Kolu Kowase, belonging to Perimili Local Organizational
Squad was killed in en encounter with SF personnel in the forest
of Kudkeli at Bandenagar in Bhamragarh tehsil of Gadchiroli District
of Maharashtra.
|
Violent |
April 19 |
East Godavari District of
Andhra Pradesh |
The Yetapaka Police of East Godavari District
of Andhra Pradesh arrested two CPI-Maoist cadres. Presenting them
before the media, S. Raviprakash, SP, said that Kaluma Lakuma
(26) alias Ravi of Guthikoya community and a native of Vissapuram
village and Kaluma Raja (30), also from the same village, were
arrested in the Jaggaram forest area while moving under suspicious
circumstances.
|
Non-Violent |
April 19 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
SFs have arrested a 50-year-old woman Maoist,
carrying a reward of INR 110,000, from Narayanpur District of
Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
April 19 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
The Gaya Airport Director has received a letter
asking him to quit his job and leave Gaya within a fortnight failing
which the Airport would be blown off and the Director will be
responsible for the damage to life and property caused by the
threatened blast.
|
Statement |
April 20 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A Police trooper was killed and another sustained
critical injuries during an encounter with the CPI-Maoist cadres
that took place in the dense forests of Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 20 |
East Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a bomb blast
at an under-construction Constable Training Centre, beside a CRPF
camp, under Jadugora Police Station limits in East Singhbhum District
of Jharkhand. Eleven low intensity bombs were placed on the under-constructed
boundary wall of the training centre but six of them exploded.
|
Violent |
April 20 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Seven CPI-Maoist cadres, including two women,
were arrested during a joint search operation by SF personnel
in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. "The cadres were rounded
up from Badebedma Palnar village under Kuakonda Police Station
limits when a composite squad of CRPF and District Force was carrying
out a combing exercise in the region yesterday," Dantewada SP
Kamlochan Kashayp said.
|
Non-Violent |
April 20 |
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh |
SF personnel arrested three suspected Maoists
along with some arms and explosives from Rajnandgaon District
of Chhattisgarh. Officials said the three Maoists, identified
as Bissu, Manish and Maun, were arrested by a joint squad of forces
led by paramilitary ITBP along with State Police from Kohkatola
area of the said District. Three tiffin bombs, two small rifles,
an IED and few other electric triggers and wires were recovered
after the operation led by ITBP's 18th battalion deployed in the
area.
|
Non-Violent |
April 20 |
Chhattisgarh |
The CPI-Maoist has claimed responsibility for
the killing of seven CRPF personnel in an IED explosion in Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh on March 30, 2016. "The Malewara attack
on the CRPF was a fitting reply to the exploitative Modi-Raman
Singh regime and revenge for our party's martyrs. The attack was
a part of our PLGA's (People's Liberation Guerrilla Army) response
to the government of Chhattisgarh's mission 2016 against us,"
said a statement issued by the south sub-zonal bureau of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Statement |
April 20 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
The Naxalites have threatened to blow up
Gaya Junction railway station in Bihar. As per a report, LWEs
have sent a letter to the authorities threatening to blast the
busy railway station.
|
Statement |
April 20 |
Palamu District of Jharkhand |
A CPI-Maoist hit squad of around 30 armed guerillas
killed a suspected member of a rival group - TPC -, minutes before
his two daughters were to complete their wedding rituals in Palamu
District of Jharkhand. Witnesses said the Maoists barged into
Pokhari village when the two sisters were readied for the final
pheras, the customary walk around a fire by the bride and the
groom that signals the end of the ceremony. They fired several
times at the father of the brides, Mahendra Choudhary, and escaped
before the guests and the family could react or raise the alarm.
|
Violent |
April 21 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
More than two dozen Maoists, including three women,
surrendered before SFs in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh.
"A total of 27 Naxal cadres, including three women, surrendered
today. They will be given rehabilitation grants as per government
schemes," officials said.
|
Non-Violent |
April 21 |
Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
A CPI-Maoist 'area committee' member identified
as Korra Gasi alias Jhansi (27) of Koyyuru area in Visakhapatnam
agency and militia members Buturi Appa Rao (45) and Velusuri Lakshmaiah
(30) surrendered before Police in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh. Jhansi was the 'area committee' member of East Visakha
Joint Division, and primarily worked in Andhra Odisha Border areas.
Ill-health has been cited as the reason for their surrender.
|
Non-Violent |
April 21 |
West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand |
A former CPI-Maoist cadre, who had surrendered
before Rourkela District Police four years back, was killed by
suspected Maoists at Kulatoppo village under Kiriburu Police limits
in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
April 22 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
A 'commander' and an 'area committee member' of
the CPI-Maoist were killed in an encounter in Bastar District
of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 23 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
Naxals blew up part of a school in Jamui District
of Bihar where voting for the panchayat elections was scheduled
to take place on April 24.
|
Violent |
April 23 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A former sarpanch was killed by the CPI-Maoist
cadres in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 23 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre carrying a cash reward of INR
100,000 on his head was killed in an encounter with SFs in the
forests of Kistaram in Sukma District of Bastar division of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 24 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Seven powerful IEDs, allegedly planted by Maoists,
were recovered in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
April 24 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly killed a tribal youth,
identified as Kichhe Dewa, and looted his relatives at a village
in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 25 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
CPI-Maoist cadres killed two civilians in Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra.
|
Violent |
April 26 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A CoBRA trooper was injured in an exchange of
fire with Maoists in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 26 |
Adilabad District of Telangana |
The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze construction
machinery at the Bejjur-Aheri bridge construction work site near
Gudem in Bejjur mandal of Adilabad District of Telangana.
|
Violent |
April 26 |
Telangana |
The CPI-Maoist cadres have called for Telangana
bandh on May 4 and 5 in protest against exploitation and displacement
of people in the name of development, and 'Operation Green Hunt'.
|
Statement |
April 26 |
New Delhi |
The Government said that the Naxals have close
links with Maoist organisations in Philippines and Turkey and
get support from several organisations in Europe.
|
Statement |
April 26 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
The ongoing construction work of an interstate
bridge on Pranhita River on Maharashtra-Telangana border was thwarted
by the Naxalites who set an excavator on fire and also
damaged other equipment at the construction site at Gudem in Aheri
taluka of Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. Property and material
worth INR 10 million was damaged in the attack.
|
Violent |
April 27 |
New Delhi |
There is no nexus between the CPI-Maoist and the
ISIS, the Government informed the Rajya Sabha. While replying
to a question whether the Government has come across any nexus
between the CPI-Maoist and the ISIS, the Minister of State for
Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary replied in the negative.
|
Statement |
April 27 |
Andhra Pradesh |
Andhra Pradesh DGP J.V. Ramudu has said that there
was no presence of CPI-Maoist cadres in the capital area of Amaravati.
Speaking after laying a stone for the construction of a Police
Conference Hall at Mangalagiri, he rubbished reports on the movements
of Maoists in the capital region.
|
Statement |
April 27 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
A member of CPI-Maoist military Company number-6,
identified as Gandru (20) alias Jagdish Korram, carrying reward
of INR 800,000 on his head was arrested during a search operation
carried out by the joint Force of District Police and 41st battalion
of ITBP in the jungle of Mandoda under Mardapal Police Station
in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
April 27 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
At least 11 Maoists surrendered in Kondagaon District
of Chhattisgarh. "The surrendering ultras were dissatisfied with
the discrimination meted out at the hands of senior Naxal leaders
of Andhra Pradesh origin," SP JS Watti said.
|
Non-Violent |
April 28 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A Chhattisgarh Armed Force personnel was killed
in an IED blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist in Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
April 30 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
At least three suspected women cadres of the CPI-Maoist
were killed by the anti-Maoist SOG in an encounter in the Sahajkhaol
Reserve Forest in Kalahandi District of Odisha.
|
Violent |
April 30 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Sheshrao Darro (52) and Devaji Atla (55), both
working for the CPI-Maoist as party organizers, were killed by
the Maoists outside Masanadi village in Pendri taluka of Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra.
|
Violent |
May 1 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Ramji Potavi, a Maoist and bodyguard of former
secretary of state zonal committee of CPI-Maoist, Aitu, has surrendered
before the administration and SF personnel in Gadchiroli District
of Maharashtra. Aitu had surrendered before Telangana Police one
year ago. Potavi carried reward of INR 400,000 on him.
|
Non-Violent |
May 1 |
Lohardaga District of Jharkhand |
A CPI-Maoist 'area commander', identified as Sarvesh
Ganjhu alias Sarveshji, surrendered himself before Lohardaga
SP Karthik S in Lohardaga District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
May 1 |
Odisha |
The CPI-Maoist cadres operating in Chhattisgarh
are now entering Odisha as they have lost support from the Odia
people to carry out their operations, a top Police official said.
|
Statement |
May 1 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
40 pieces of detonators and
six IEDs were recovered during an anti- CPI-Maoist drive in the
foothills of Parasnath forest in Giridih District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
May 1 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre who was allegedly involved
in triggering an IED blast that injured a trooper in Kanker District
of Chhattisgarh recently was arrested. The man, identified as
Santuram Padda (35) was arrested from Salhepara forests under
Badgaon Police Station limits of the district by a joint team
of the BSF and district force, Kanker DSP Jayant Vaishnav said.
|
Non-Violent |
May 1 |
Maharashtra |
Some pamphlets, allegedly published by the North
Gadchiroli-Gondia Divisional Committee of the CPI-Maoist, have
warned the Balaghat District SP Gaurav Tiwari and alleged 'Police
informers' of dire consequences. within a fortnight.
|
Statement |
May 1-2 |
Jharkhand |
Three consecutive encounters between the SFs and
the LWEs were witnessed during anti-LWE operations across Jharkhand,
which started 24 hour ahead of the Maoist bandh call on May 1
and ended on May 2 morning.
|
Violent |
May 2 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
The Maoists triggered a blast in Parasnath forest
but it did not harm anyone, SP Akhilesh B Verior said.
|
Violent |
May 2 |
West Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
A joint team of Railway Police and CRPF personnel
found and defused a one-kilogram landmine close to the railway
track near Tupadih Railway Station in West Singhbhum District
of Jharkhand under Chakradharpur (CKP) Railway Division. Movement
of trains on the Jharkhand-Odisha route were affected for close
to seven hours.
|
Non-Violent |
May 2 |
Jharkhand |
The two-day bandh called by the CPI-Maoist in
protest against the State Government's "anti-people" policies,
especially with regard to people engaged in the collection and
sale of kendu leafs and lac cultivation, evoked mixed response.
The Maoist bandh, effective in four states, Bihar, Odisha and
West Bengal and Jharkhand, wanted to draw attention to a wage
hike for farmers engaged in lac cultivation and sale of kendu
leafs. Jharkhand Police Spokesperson S.N. Pradhan said the bandh
affected normal life in most parts of the state.
|
Violent |
May 2 |
Saran District of Bihar |
The STF constituted by Saran District Police of
Bihar arrested four CPI-Maoist cadres from Baarhichak Dihee village
under Maker Police Station.
|
Non-Violent |
May 3 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
In Gaya District of Bihar, a self-styled 'supreme
commander' of an LWE outfit - Revolutionary Communist Centre -
Vinod Marandi alias Babulal, who was wanted in Jharkhand and Bihar,
was arrested from Uperdih locality under Vishnupad Police Station
limits.
|
Non-Violent |
May 3 |
Warrangal District of Telangana |
Police arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre identified,
as Madhu, a 'dalam commander' after a brief exchange of fire while
two of his accomplices managed to escape at Muppalaveni village
in the Warrangal District of Telangana. The incident occurred
at around 9 PM when the Police were searching vehicles in Eturunagaram
mandal when they spotted three persons travelling on a motorcycle.
|
Violent |
May 3 |
Warrangal District of Telangana |
A group of armed CPI-Maoist cadres fired at a
Police combing party in thick Eturunagaram forest area in Warangal
District of Telangana.
|
Violent |
May 3 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A joint squad of CRPF and DF arrested seven Maoists,
including two female cadres, in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
The Maoists are identified as Podiyam Ayta, Rawa Bheema, Rawa
Ayta and Rawa Ganga were arrested from village Durma-Baddesatti
under limits of Gadiras Police Station while Madkam Hurra, Madvi
Payke and Madkam Jogi were arrested from village Dabbakonta under
Chintagufa Police limits, said Sukma ASP Santosh Singh.
|
Non-Violent |
May 4 |
Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter
with Police in Marripakala forests under Visakha Rural Agency
area in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.
|
Violent |
May 4 |
Vaishali District of Bihar |
Achchutanand, former BJP MLA, from Mahnar, was
attacked, allegedly by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres, near Ishopur
village in Vaishali District of Bihar. The former MLA was returning
to his native place from a marriage ceremony when he was attacked.
|
Violent |
May 4 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
A large number of CPI-Maoist cadres stormed the
NMDC Bacheli iron ore mines under Bacheli Police Station limits
in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh and set on fire its conveyor
belt after triggering a blast.
|
Violent |
May 4 |
Dantewada District of Chhattishgarh |
A hardcore woman Maoist who was involved in different
Naxal activities that had claimed lives of several Police personnel
was arrested from a place under Kirandul Police Station limits
in Dantewada District of Chhattishgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
May 4 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
At least 59 CPI-Maoist supporters, including three
militia and three village committee members, surrendered at Mundaguda
police outpost in Kiang in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
May 4 |
Andhra Pradesh |
The East Division Committee of the CPI-Maoist
has called bandh on May 16 in protest against what it called the
"killing" of one of its 'top' leaders and Galikonda 'area committee
secretary' Azad and committee members - Anand and Kamala - in
the Marripakala forest area near Palasamudram of Koyyuru mandal
of Vishakhapatnam District in Andhra Pradesh.
|
Statement |
May 5 |
West Bengal |
The questioning of arrested CPI-Maoist leaders,
Bikash and Tara, has led Police to recover several new weapons
and a huge amount of explosives from Jhargram's jungles.
|
Non-Violent |
May 5 |
Sundergarh District of Odisha
|
A former Jharkhand-based cadre of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as James Purty alias Sanjay (21), surrendered before
the Rourkela Police in Sundergarh District and CRPF authorities
at Rourkela District Police Headquarters.
|
Non-Violent |
May 5 |
Balaghat District of Madhya
Pradesh |
The CPI-Maoist cadres have threatened a senior
police officer in Madhya Pradesh with dire consequences for allegedly
making "false claims" that a Maoist was injured in an encounter
with the security personnel last month (April). In the pamphlets
recently circulated by the CPI-Maoist Gondia 'Divisional Committee',
North Gadchiroli, the Maoists had threatened Balaghat District
SP Gaurav Tiwari to be "prepared to face punishment''.
|
Statement |
May 5 |
Nuapada District of Odisha |
SFs busted a CPI-Maoist camp at Kandenjharia under
Ghatmal gram panchayat under Sinapali Police Station limits in
Nuapada District of Odisha. Earlier in the day, SF personnel exchanged
fire with Maoists at Kandenjharia. However, no casualties were
reported in the exchange of fire, SFs busted the Maoist camp at
the site.
|
Violent |
May 6 |
West Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
A powerful cylinder bomb planted by Maoists was
recovered in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
May 6 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
Four CPI-Maoist cadres, who were allegedly involved
in setting vehicles afire at Chargaon-Metabodli iron ore mines
last year, were arrested during a joint search operation by BSF
and District Force from the forests of Siksod Police Station area
in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
May 7 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Bodies of two unidentified CPI-Maoist cadres were
recovered after encounter with SFs near Marjum village under Katekalyan
Police Station limits in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. "Muzzle
guns, pipe bombs and explosives in huge quantity were also recovered
from the encounter spot," SP Dantewada, Kamlochan Kashyap said.
|
Violent |
May 7 |
Angul District of Odisha
|
Two forest guards were attacked by suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres in the Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary of Odisha. While Police
are yet to confirm involvement of Maoists, locals said there has
been movement of Maoists, who frequent villages for quenching
thirst, in recent times.
|
Violent |
May 8 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested from Bacheli
town of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada District. "The cadres were nabbed
when they arrived in Bacheli for conducting a recce of the movement
of police and procuring Maoist-related materials," Kirandul SDOP,
M.Z. Baig said. Those arrested were identified as Budhram Madvi
(35), head of Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangthan, and
Kunjam Bheema (28), head of Janatana Sarkar wing, the SDPO added.
A Naxal LWE banner, pamphlets and other Maoist-related material
were recovered from them.
|
Non-Violent |
May 8 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
About 5,000 tribals alleging atrocities by the
Police on the common man participated in a 'praja court' organized
by the CPI-Maoist held at an undisclosed location in the cut-off
area in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
May 9 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A trooper of DRG was killed and a civilian injured
in two separate IED blasts triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres
in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. Sanjay, an operator of a concrete
mixer excavator, sustained grievous injuries in a pressure bomb
blast allegedly triggered by the Maoists in Maraigudem forest
area in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
May 9 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A major incident was averted after the SFs recovered
two IEDs laid by Maoists close to a school premises at a village
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The bombs weighing 2 kilograms
each were planted by the Maoists at Basaguda route targeting SF
personnel.
|
Non-Violent |
May 9 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
SFs recovered 25 kilograms ammonium nitrate and
30 kilograms of liquid explosive material during a search operation
at Herhenj in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
May 9 |
East Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested and arms and
ammunition recovered from them in East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
May 10 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an alleged
encounter with Police at a village in Dhanora tehsil of Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra.
|
Violent |
May 10 |
Bastar Division of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, carrying cash rewards on
their heads, have been arrested from two separate places in Bastar
Division of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
May 10 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A Maoist cadre, identified as 'commander' Barsuram
Jurri (38), was arrested from Tiralgarh village forests area under
Bande Police Station limits in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
May 10 |
Gaya District in Bihar |
LWEs owing allegiance to the RCC, a splinter group
of the CPI-Maoist, raided the camp office of a private road construction
company located in Belaganj Police Station area of Gaya District
in Bihar. The Maoists numbering more than a dozen made the company
staff captive at gun-point. The Maoists, according to sources,
torched several machines including four heavy duty material carriers,
two pay loaders, a diesel tanker and three bikes.
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Violent |
May 10 |
Bhubaneswar |
Despite Odisha State Government's claim of improvement
in LWE situation in the State, it is still a challenge in a number
of Districts. The situation is grim in parts of Malkangiri, Koraput,
Nuapada, Rayagada, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Balangir, Nayagarh, Rourkela
and Bargarh Police districts, said the White Paper released by
the State Government in the State Assembly.
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Statement |
May 11 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an exchange
of fire between the SF personnel and the Maoists in the Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh.
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Violent |
May 11 |
Gajapati District of Odisha |
Personnel of DVF found a powerful IED in a forest
near Nalaghata in Gajapati District of Odisha during a combing
operation. "The bomb disposal squad from Paralakhemundi safely
defused the IED, weighing 20 kg," said SP, Gajapati, Satyajit
Nayak. The IED is suspected to have been planted by the Maoists
about three to four years ago.
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Non-Violent |
May 11 |
West Medinipur District of
West Bengal |
SF personnel have confirmed the arrest of a top
CPI-Maoist 'commander', identified as Mansaram Hembram alias Bikas,
in West Medinipur District of West Bengal. Bikas was produced
before a judicial magistrate court in West Medinipur District
which sent him to Police custody for 12 days on May 11. Earlier
SATP had reported about the arrest and subsequent recovery of
arms with inputs from Bikas.
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Non-Violent |
May 13 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
A group of CPI-Maoist cadres have set ablaze the
Kumharsarda Railway Station in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh.
According to reports, a lot of railway equipment was damaged in
the fire. Railway traffic on the route was also affected.
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Violent |
May 16 |
Lohardaga District in Jharkhand |
Security personnel seized a large haul of explosives
during an anti-LWE operation in Bulbul and Kerar villages of Lohardaga
District in Jharkhand. Acting on a tip off, the security personnel,
comprising District Police Force, Jharkhand Jaguar and CoBRA conducted
search operation and recovered four pressure IEDs, a Tiffin box
IED, and a generator from Dhurva Nala in Bulbul, District SP Karthik
S. said. Police had information that some LWEs including Ravindra
Ganju, Balram Oraon, Deepak Singh Kherwar and Chandan Kherwar
were also present but managed to escape.
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Non-Violent |
May 16
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
An ITBP trooper was injured in
an IED blast during an anti-Maoist operation in Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh. Officials said the incident occurred on the Krushnar-Gumiabeda
forest axis in the District when a patrol team of ITBP was hit
by a twin IED blast in which Constable M Nilesh sustained splinter
injuries. A suspected Maoist has also been arrested from the spot.
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Violent
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May 16
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two Maoists were arrested from
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The cadres were arrested by
a joint team of security personnel from the forests of Usoor Police
Station limits, a senior police official said. They have been
identified as Nuppo Lakhma (35) and Avlam Aaytu (28).
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Non-Violent
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May 16
|
Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
Maoist leaflets on alleged atrocities
by the SFs surfaced at RV Nagar in GK Veedhi mandal in
Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh. The Maoists
said their armed cadres were killed in a one-sided firing at Marripakalu
and warned the security personnel that they would pay the price
for the fake encounter. On their part, Police authorities claimed
that the bandh was a failure and that the extremists are
alienated from the local people.
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Non-Violent
|
May 16
|
Odisha
|
In an indication of improvement
in the LWE situation in Odisha, 170 cadres of the CPI-Maoist have
surrendered in past two years, said the Odisha Government. Furnishing
a reply in the State Assembly, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said
highest 65 LWEs had laid down their arms in Koraput while 42 surrendered
in Malkangiri District during 2014-15 and 2015-16.
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Statement
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May 17
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CRPF trooper was killed after
CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a force camp in Bijapur District of
Chhattisgarh. Officials said the incident occurred at about 3:00
am when a Maoist squad mounted sniper fire on a CRPF camp in the
jungles of Rangareddy in Gangloor area of the District. In the
ensuing gun-battle, Constable Satish Gaur (28) who was on sentry
duty sustained bullet injuries and later succumbed to his injuries.
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Violent
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May 18
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A DRG trooper was injured in an
encounter with CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The skirmish took place during the wee hours in the forests of
Munga village when a squad of the States DRG forces was carrying
out anti-Maoist operation in the region.
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Violent
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May 18
|
Balrampur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Balrampur District Police arrested
a CPI-Maoist cadre who was carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on
his head. The arrested Maoist has been identified as Sujit Kumar
Nage alias Shivlal alias Golimar alias Rajkumar.
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Non-Violent
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May 18
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Maoist cadre - Ghasiram Padda
- wanted in connection with attack on a BSF camp at Udanpur was
arrested during an anti-insurgency operation carried out by SF
personnel in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent
|
May 18
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three Maoists were arrested during
a search operation by SF personnel in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
They are identified as Rawa Joga (25), Banjam Budra (22) and Sodhi
Hunga (35).
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Non-Violent
|
May 18
|
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
Latehar District Police of Jharkhand
found a large consignment of ammunition from a CPI-Maoist hideout
in Sasang forest area. DIG Saket Kumar Singh said a joint team
of Police and CRPF found live rounds totalling 701 of AK-47, 80
rounds of 9 mm weapon 02 (two) walkie talkies, 22 Maoist caps
with belt, one black uniform, one electric motor, Maoist literature
and two computer keyboards. Security personnel raided the hideout
based on a tip-off.
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Non-Violent
|
May 18
|
Jharkhand
|
Jharkhand will strike off several
‘armed groups’ from the official list of LWE organisations and
declare them rogues, Chief Minister Raghubar Das said, unveiling
plans to tackle outfits involved in extortion, abductions and
killings.
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Non-Violent
|
May 18
|
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Policeman was injured in an
IED blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh. The incident took place when SF personnel were
patrolling near Amdai Ghati (valley) under Chhote Dongar Police
Station where road construction work is underway, Narayanpur SP
Abhishek Meena said.
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Violent
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May 19
|
East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres fired
on the Dhanbad-Jhargram passenger train at Kokpara Station in
East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
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Violent
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May 19
|
Garwah District of Jharkhand
|
Ranka Police of Garwah District
of Jharkhand arrested a CPI-Maoist informer from Joon village
under Ranka Police Station area following a tip-off.
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Non-Violent
|
May 19
|
Nawada District of Bihar
|
The STF has arrested two hardcore
CPI-Maoist cadres from Bhanekhaf village in Nawada District of
Bihar. Two of them have been identified as Mansoor and Vinod Manjhi.
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Non-Violent
|
May 19
|
Bhojpur District of Bihar
|
The STF in a joint operation with
the local Police arrested two more Maoists from Karnaul Chandi
village under Charpokhri Police Station area in Bhojpur District
of Bihar the DGP control room said in a press release. The arrested
Maoists have been identified as Ramkumar Ram and Ram Brajesh Paswan.
Five weapons including .303 rifle, .315 regular rifle and DBBL
gun and two country-made pistols beside eleven ammunition have
been seized from them.
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Non-Violent
|
May 20
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an encounter with SF personnel in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
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Violent
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May 21
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including
a woman were killed in a fierce encounter with SF personnel in
a dense forest of Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
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Violent
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May 21
|
Palamu District of Jharkhand
|
A CPI-Maoist bunker was destroyed
in Palamu District of Jharkhand and large quantities of explosives
seized. The Police and para military forces, in a joint operation,
destroyed the bunker in the Abun forest area. The Police seized
a plastic tank filled with 50 kg of codex wire and other explosive
materials from the spot.
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Non-Violent
|
May 21
|
Dumka District of Jharkhand
|
Maoists torched three vehicles
of a stone crusher unit in Dumka District of Jharkhand because
they were not paid the levy money they demanded.
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Violent
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May 21
|
Jamui District of Bihar
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres killed three
villagers in Jamui District of Bihar, bordering Jharkhand, claiming
the men were ‘Police informers’ who facilitated the encounter
of Maoist leader Chirag in January, 2016.
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Violent
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May 21
|
Khunti District of Jharkhand
|
The 40-kg IED was found from Jerko
Musanga area of Khunti District of Jharkhand during a search operation.
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Non-Violent
|
May 22
|
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
A villager identified as Venkatesh
Atram (31) was hacked to death by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra.
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Violent
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May 22
|
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
The security personnel recovered
59 ‘can’ bombs from Latehar District of Jharkhand. The ‘can’ bombs,
each weighing half-a-kg, were recovered from Serendaag jungles
in Latehar District, by personnel of the CRPF and the District
Armed Police Force.
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Non-Violent
|
May 22
|
Telangana
|
The CPI-Maoist has dubbed the
ruling TRS as “feudal and capitalist” like all other parties which
protected properties of landlords and capitalists belonging to
Andhra Pradesh. Therefore, “we are calling upon people and democratic
forces to wage a struggle till the problems of drought, drinking
and irrigation water and fodder are resolved,” CPI-Maoist Telangana
State committee official spokesman Jagan stated in a release.
Jagan said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had given the go-by
to the election promise of the TRS to waive loans of farmers.
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Statement
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May 23 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist ‘commander’ was killed in an encounter
in Modenar forest area of Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
A joint team of the DRG, the District Force and the CAF was involved
in the encounter. Later, the SFs recovered the body of Sukhram,
‘deputy commander’ of the Maoists’ Katekalyan LOS. According to
the IGP, S.R.P. Kalluri, Sukhram had 18 Police cases registered
against him of which four related to damaging railway track.
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Violent |
May 23 |
Bijapur, Dantewada, Sukma
Districts of Chhattisgarh |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman, were
arrested from Bijapur District and two Maoists each were arrested
in Dantewada and Sukma Districts of Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent |
May 23 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
Nine Maoists surrendered in Kondagaon District
of Chhattisgarh. A statement issued by the Kondagaon District
Police said eight members of the Maoist militia and one member
of the Maoists’ cultural wing, CNM, surrendered before SP J.S.
Watti.
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Non-Violent |
May 23 |
Vishakhapatnam District Police
of Andhra Pradesh |
An ‘area committee’ member of the east Visakha
joint division of the CPI-Maoist identified as Vanthala Vasantha
alias Cheechu alias Jyothi who carries a reward
of INR 400,000 on her head, and three militia members, each with
a reward of INR 100,000, have been arrested by the Vishakhapatnam
District Police of Andhra Pradesh. Vasantha was with Malkangiri
area committee in Odisha and her pleas to let her leave the party
on health grounds were not accepted. She was arrested at Valasagedda
under Duppalaguda Panchayat in G.K. Veedhi mandal
under Sileru Police Station limits when she came out for treatment.
Militia member Pongi Sattibabu alias Gorlemetta Sattibabu
of Boodaralla in Koyyuru mandal and Pongi Kameswara Rao
alias Vamsi of Pokalapalem village under Boodaralla Panchayat
were arrested near Chintavanipalem under Mampa Police Station
limits in Koyyuru mandal and Gemmeli Govinda Rao of Peddurugondi
village in GK Veedhi mandal was arrested at Teemalabanda
village in G.K.Veedhi mandal.
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Non-Violent |
May 23 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered in Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra.
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Non-Violent |
May 23 |
Gondiya District of Maharashtra |
The Balaghat Police of Madhya Pradesh have arrested
a 'most wanted' CPI-Maoist cadre from Gondiya District of Maharashtra.
Accused, Lakhan alias Mohan (50) was carrying a bounty
of INR 30,000 on his head and wanted in connection with a 2008
case wherein a group of 10 Maoists had set two bamboo laden trucks
on fire.
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Non-Violent |
May 24 |
Jharkhand |
The CPI-Maoist cadres have set ablaze 35 vehicles
in the past five months in Jharkhand. Between January 19 and May
24, a total of 35 vehicles involved in construction work have
been torched in the State. The vehicles were set ablaze in Ranchi,
Dumka, Lohardaga, Gumla, Chaibasa, Ramgarh and other Districts
of the State. "Maoists main source of earning is extortion
and levy from the development and construction work. In the past,
police cracked down on many companies involved in road construction
that were giving levy to Maoists. This dented Maoists source of
earning in a big way. The denial of levy led them to torch vehicles,"
said a Police official involved in anti-Maoist operations.
The Jharkhand Police with the
help of paramilitary forces have destroyed many bunkers and recovered
more than 2,000 landmines.
|
Statement |
May 24 |
Odisha |
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre and another person were
sentenced to life imprisonment by a district court of Odisha for
the abduction of the then District Collector R. Vineel Krishna
five years ago. Additional District and Sessions Judge Bamashankar
Mishra convicted Tapan Sha and M Divya alias Shanti and
awarded life term for the abduction of the IAS officer on February
16, 2011. While Sha was a former government employee and had worked
as a Gram Rozgar Sevak, Divya was a Maoist. The court, however,
acquitted another accused Ghasiram Pangi due to lack of evidence.
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Non-Violent |
May 24 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
A Police outpost in Kalahandi District of Odisha
is locked for the last four years due to the fear of the CPI-Maoist.
The outpost was set up in Balandapada area under Firingia block
of the District in 2012. “Though the outpost was set up in 2012
in order to provide protection to us and maintain law and order
in the area, the police personnel posted at the outpost didn’t
dare to remain present there and have locked it for four years,”
a resident of the area said. Around 12, 000 people reside in that
region. Recently the people have demanded that the district administration
and Police should come forward and ensure law and order in the
area in order to pave way for developmental activities in the
region.
|
Non-Violent |
May 24 |
Balaghat District of Madhya
Pradesh |
A Police outpost in Kalahandi District of Odisha
is locked for the last four years due to the fear of the CPI-Maoist.
The outpost was set up in Balandapada area under Firingia block
of the District in 2012. “Though the outpost was set up in 2012
in order to provide protection to us and maintain law and order
in the area, the police personnel posted at the outpost didn’t
dare to remain present there and have locked it for four years,”
a resident of the area said. Around 12, 000 people reside in that
region. Recently the people have demanded that the district administration
and Police should come forward and ensure law and order in the
area in order to pave way for developmental activities in the
region.
|
Non-Violent |
May 24 |
Balaghat District of Madhya
Pradesh |
Children as young as six and nine-year-old are
being recruited from various states of the country and trained
in use of sophisticated weapons and guerrilla warfare in forests
of Balaghat District in Madhya Pradesh. During a fierce encounter
in Balaghat's deep forests, a Police team led by IG D.C. Sagar
and SP Gaurav Tiwari came across evidence indicating training
of kids in planting bombs and operating firearms like AK-47. "Our
team was fired upon by children, including girls. Size 4 shoes
and school notes were among articles confiscated from Kokra-Bundari
Maoist camp that was raided on Tuesday," the IG said. Balaghat
Police had specific intelligence about the training camp. "Guerrillas
were alerted as they saw the Police team approaching. They managed
to escape. However, they left behind ammunition food and fruits,"
said the officer. Divisional committee members like Pahad Singh,
who carries a bounty of INR 5 million, Dilip Guha's wife Sangeeta
and Naresh were present in the camp. "Rebels are readying
their next line of fighters by imparting warfare skills to children
as young as six at Bal Sangam, a unit where children are introduced
to local leaders," said the IG.
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Non-Violent |
May 25 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed two persons,
including Sudesh Paswan, Dumaria LJP block President and husband
of Maya Devi, the outgoing mukhiya of Kachar panchayat
under Dumaria Police Station area in Gaya District of Bihar. The
other killed man has been identified as Sunil Paswan, cousin of
the slain LJP leader. Paswan was killed during campaigning in
favour of his wife Maya, who is seeking re-election to the post.
The election is scheduled on May 30. Sunil, too, was a candidate
for the post of panchayat samiti member, a block-level
position in the panchayati raj system. The marauders also
torched at least two campaign vehicles. According to sources,
bike-borne killers stopped the two during campaigning and pumped
bullets in the bodies of Paswan cousins. The two died on the spot.
Confirming the twin killings, Gaya SSP Garima Malik said that
prima facie it appeared to be the handiwork of Maoists, but nothing
could be said with finality at this stage. Though on record the
Maoists stand for poll boycott, spouses of several front-ranking
Maoists, including Vinod Marandi, ‘chief’ of the RCC, a splinter
group of Maoists, are contesting the ongoing panchayat
elections.
|
Violent |
May 25 |
Kondagaon, Dantewada Districts
of Chhattisgarh |
Two villagers were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres
in two separate incidents in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. The
Police said while an 18-year-old youth identified as Kandru Patel
was killed in Kondagaon District another villager Joga Madvi was
killed in Dantewada District.
|
Violent |
May 26 |
Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as ‘deputy commander’
of JNM, a cultural wing of Maoists, M. Kalavathi alias Bhavani alias Santakka
of Anantapuram District and Galikonda ‘area committee member’
K. Lakshmi of GK Veedhi mandal were taken into custody.
Both the Maoists are being interrogated by the Visakha rural Police
in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh. Sources said both
the women were undergoing treatment at a hideout in Chitrakonda
area of Malkangiri District, close to Visakha District borders,
at the time of the arrest. However, other sources said both surrendered
at Malkangiri and were brought to Visakhapatnam.
|
Non-Violent |
May 26 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
13 Maoists have been arrested in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh. Some of them have been identified as Madavi Somda
(25), Madvi Hadma (40), Madvi Budhra (27), Madkam Deva (25), Madvi
Somda (27), Madvi Deva (22), Podiyami Budhu (30), Madvi Budhra
(22) and Madvi Raja (30).
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Non-Violent |
May 26 |
Chatra District of Jharkhand |
A ‘zonal commander’ of the TPC was arrested when
he allegedly came to offer bribe to a ‘Policeman’ to the tune
of INR One Million for removing the name of his ‘commander’, Mukesh
Ganjhu, from the list of accused in the murder of a local Television
journalist Akhilesh Pratap in Chatra District of Jharkhand on
May 12. The person, who posed as a Police officer, and three of
his associates, were also arrested. The Police have recovered
cash along with fire arms and two motorcycles from the accused.
Those arrested have been identified as – Yogendra Yadav, ‘zonal
commander’ of TPC, Anoop Yadav, a former member of the PLFI, Amarjeet
Kumar Yadav and Prabhu Mistry. Both TPC and PLFI are splinter
group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
May 26 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand |
Tribal villagers in Khunti District of Jharkhand
have come together to stop CPI-Maoist atrocities. Hundreds
of villagers participated in the state government’s civil defence
meeting at Korba in Khunti. Khunti SP Anish Gupta said one person
who has links with the CPI-Maoist surrendered during the meeting.
His decision was hailed by other participants. The villagers,
mostly from the tribal belt of Arki, came to the meeting ‘Shanti
Sabha’ with traditional weapons, but the district Police reportedly
asked them to abstain from violence while resisting LWE. SP Gupta
said in the last two months, five such meetings were organized.
|
Non-Violent |
May 27 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
A woman CPI-Maoist ‘commander’, carrying INR 500,
000 cash reward on her head, surrendered with her two-month old
newborn in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh after she was separated
from her husband by Maoists as a punishment for getting pregnant.
Senior leaders had transferred her husband to a far off camp whom
she had secretly married. Kosi Madwi (24) who was a CNM ‘commander’
and Kanger valley area committee member joined Kistaram area committee
in 2002 and was promoted in 2009 as area committee member to work
at Malkangiri in Odisha. When there was a need of a Maoist, who
could speak Odia in Darbha region, she was brought back as CNM
commander.
|
Non-Violent |
May 27 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Large quantities of explosives, hand grenades
and live cartridges were recovered during a search operation in
Latehar District of Jharkhand. In a joint operation of the State
Police and para-military forces, 250 hand grenades, 183 live cartridges,
300 gelatine sticks, other explosives and 577 pieces of iron pipes
were recovered from Dori Pundara jungle of Latehar.
|
Non-Violent |
May 27 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Out of animosity the CPI-Maoist cadres abducted
and killed one of their supporters in Kurkheda division in Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra. The victim Kashiram Madavi (40) was abducted
from his native village Kamthala on May 24. He was brutally thrashed
with the sticks till he died. Madavi's body was recovered near
the village. Gadchiroli Police informed that Madavi was attached
to Naxal movement since many years and used to
work at village and area level for Naxal dalam.
Police claimed that Madavi had developed animosity with some Naxal cadres.
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Violent |
May 27 |
Rayagada District of Odisha |
A group of CPI-Maoist cadres stormed
a construction camp site at Lakrish under Kashipur Police limits
in Rayagada District of Odisha and set ablaze nine vehicles. Sources
said around 70 Maoists, under the banner of Ghumusur, Bansadhara,
Nagavalli division of Maoists, reached the construction camp,
Rajesh Buildtech, at about 1.40 am and pelted stones at the camp.
When some of the construction company staff came out, seven armed
Maoists, including two women cadres, barged into the camp. They
asked the staff to stop construction work on the 10-kilometres
stretch from Kashipur to Sunger Road which comes under the PWD.
The Maoists also asked the staff to shut the camp and leave the
area. They set ablaze four tractors, one JCB, water tank, roller
and two 10-tyre tippers. The Maoists, however, did not harm any
staff. After about two hours, they fled into a nearby forest
under the cover of darkness.
In more than 10 handwritten posters
found at the site, the Maoists stated that the attack was in protest
against anti-Maoist operation and demanded withdrawal of armed
forces from the region. Through posters, the Maoists also threatened
companies like Vedanta, Hindalco and Utkal Alumina which have
their units in both Rayagada and Kalahandi Districts of Odisha.
The Maoists also demanded implementation of welfare schemes like
old-age pension, distribution of ration card, and jobs for all
eligible persons under MGNREGA. They flayed the Central and State
governments for acting as agents of multinational companies and
preparing the blueprints for destruction of natural resources
by leasing out mines to big companies.
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Violent |
May 28 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
Forty members of the CPI-Maoist surrendered to
the Police in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh. “Nineteen members
of the Maoists’ Katekalyan area committee in Darbha area, two
members of Kanger valley area committee and 19 members of Mardapal
and Barsoor area committee in Bastar surrendered on Saturday,”
claimed Bastar Police in a press statement. The surrendered included
one LOS member, three Maoist ‘militia commanders’, one ‘deputy
commander’, 19 ‘militia members’, five CNM ‘commanders’, four
CNM members, four village committee members and two Sangham members
of the Maoist organisation in Bastar.
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Non-Violent |
May 28 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A woman Maoist cadre who was wanted in connection
with the attack on the Police party in 2011 at Sulengi village
wherein two Policemen had martyred in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
was arrested. The State Government had declared a cash reward
of INR 800,000 on her arrest, SDOP Nikolas Khalkho informed. According
to Police, the arrested cadre was identified as Ganita alias
Bajay Nureti (30) resident of Koylibeda. “Ganita was arrested
from a weekly market in Koylibeda by a team of district police,”
the SDOP said while adding that she was a member of Maoist military
number 5. Four warrants were issued against Ganita which were
pending at Durgkondal and Koylibeda Police Stations.
|
Non-Violent |
May 28 |
Gumla District of Jharkhand |
Suspected cadres of PLFI gunned down two youths
in the forests of Basia area in Gumla District of Jharkhand. Six
rebels on bikes abducted Ajay Kumar Singh (30) and Raju Kerketta
(19) at gunpoint from Bondekera village while they were returning
from a local market. The suspected PLFI cadres then took them
away into the deep forests and shot them from point blank range.
Preliminary investigations suggest that the assailants used a
.315 bore rifle to pump as many as three bullets into each of
them. According to local villagers, Singh was a small time Mahua
seller and Kerketta used to work for him. A month ago, Singh had
a clash with some people, who were suspected to be associated
with the PLFI. "The murders are probably the fallout of that
clash," said a local villager. PLFI is a splinter group of
the CPI-Maoist.
|
Violent |
May 28 |
Jharkhand |
The Jharkhand Police would speed up operations
against CPI-Maoist in certain identified areas in the State to
ensure that extremist capability is significantly curbed. In several
parts of Maoist-hit state the extremists have received a huge
blow since 2010, but they continue to be powerful in certain pockets
where the Police now plan to hit them. In a meeting at Police
headquarters with SP, DIGs and senior Police officers, DGP D K
Pandey discussed the anti-Maoist strategies and passed instructions
to the SPs. IG (operations) and Police spokesperson M S Bhatia
said the SPs have been given specific operational targets which
have to be achieved within a certain time frame.
|
Statement |
May 29 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
The western sub-zonal committee of the CPI-Maoist
has called for a bandh in Gadchiroli District
of Maharashtra on May 31 to protest the gunning down of five women
cadres, including two of the rank of ‘deputy commander’, in the
year so far. This is probably the first time Naxals have
called for a bandh protesting death of their
senior women cadres. The Maoists have appealed for local support,
while keeping the medical and emergency services out of the purview
of the bandh, underlining the contributions of the
women cadres fighting for the rights of tribals.
|
Non-Violent |
May 30 |
Bokaro District of Jharkhand |
Jharkhand DGP D.K. Pandey, appealed to the LWEs
to surrender or be ready to face bullets. Pandey made this announcement
while addressing villagers during inauguration of Jageshwar Vihar
Police Station at a hypersensitive zone in Gomia block in Bokaro
District of Jharkhand.
|
Statement |
May 30 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
A huge cache of explosives and CPI-Maoist items
were seized by BSF personnel at Parbeda-Pangiput forest near Lamtaput
in Koraput District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
May 31 |
Gumla District of Jharkhand |
A Police constable of the Special Branch was allegedly
abducted and shot dead by the CPI-Maoist in Gumla District of
Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
May 31 |
Palamu District of Jharkhand |
The Palamu District Police and 134 battalion of
CRPF in a joint search operation at three sites between Aboon
and Bikra in Palamu District recovered many things from acid to
bombs. Confirming the recovery by the joint forces, DIG Police
Palamu Saket Kumar Singh said 100 kilograms of codex wires widely
used in making death traps and 20 litres of sulfuric acid were
recovered from one.
|
Non-Violent |
May 31 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
Two persons were arrested during a raid at Duli
village in Khelari in Ranchi District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
June 1 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
Two close supporters of the CPI-Maoist were arrested
by the Police in Aurangabad District of Bihar. Police also seized
Maoist pamphlets, posters and two cell phones from the arrested
persons.
|
Non-Violent |
June 1 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
A joint team of Police and CRPF arrested Shankar
Thakur, a top CPI-Maoist cadre, from Karihari village in Bhelwaghati
Police Station area in Giridih District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
June 1 |
Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh
|
Non-Violent |
June 1 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
The Police unearthed and neutralized five claymore
mines buried at different places on Hedri-Jambia Road in Etapalli
tehsil of Gadchiroli District in Maharashtra.
|
Non-Violent |
June 1 |
Balaghat District of Madhya
Pradesh |
Madhya Pradesh Police recovered CPI-Maoist posters
with death warrants issued against the names of SFs and 'Police
informers' in Balaghat District. Balaghat Police Chief Gaurav
Tiwari told that that some officers found such posters in Lal
Ghati area under Roopjhar Police jurisdiction. These posters also
held out dire warnings for 'Police informers'. Tiwari said that
the SFs were continuing with their anti-Maoist campaign in the
jungle. According to official sources, the posters were a retaliatory
move by Maoists against the SFs armed action.
|
Non-Violent |
June 2 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
CPI-Maoist shot dead Sharad Kursami (30) of Mardmelinga
village in Bhamragarh tehsil of Gadchiroli District in Maharashtra.
A Police press note said, "Kursami was kidnapped three days ago
and was found gunned down near Hukkametta village on Thursday."
|
Violent |
June 2 |
Palamu District of Jharkhand |
A joint security team of CRPF and District Police
recovered two pressure cooker bombs, each weighting five kilograms,
from a forest near Abun village in Panki in Palamu District of
Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
June 2 |
Bihar |
CPI-Maoist cadres attacked five employees of Ramiya
constructions - run by suspended Janata Dal (United) Member of
Legislative Council Manorama's husband Bindi Yadav - a Gaya strongman
who had ties with the RJD and demanded INR 1.5 million as levy
from them for a construction work that the firm is carrying out
in Patna.
|
Violent |
June 2 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
Claiming responsibility for the killing of LJP
leader Sudesh Paswan in Dumaria Block Headquarters in Gaya District
last month, Maoists have justified their dastardly act by holding
him responsible for the 'killing of the banned outfit's revolutionaries'
and have gone on to describe him as 'ring leader of Police informers'.
|
Statement |
June 5 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A village sarpanch was killed by suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. Kunwar Singh
Gota (40) sarpanch of Mura village under Korar Police Station
limits was allegedly shot dead at his native place.
|
Violent |
June 6 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
CPI-Maoist cadres fired rockets and opened heavy
gunfire at a camp of ITBP in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
June 8 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
A villager, identified as Awadhesh Singh Bhokta,
a resident of Chilmi village in Aurangabad District of Bihar,
was shot dead by suspected Maoists at close to canal in Dalelbigha
village under Madanpur Police Station in Aurangabad District.
|
Violent |
June 9 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Two hardcore CPI-Maoist cadres carrying rewards
on their heads and six other armed activists surrendered before
the Police in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
June 10 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
CPI-Maoist cadres have killed a BJP leader and
Bijapur Zila Panchayat member, Ramsai Majji, after dragging
him out of his house in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
June 10 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres torched at least 10
heavy vehicles engaged in a road construction project in McCluskieganj
in Ranchi District of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
June 10 |
Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand
|
Two JPC cadres were arrested by SFs. While 'area
commander' Lokesh Yadav was arrested by SFs at Panki in Daltonganj,
another JPC cadre identified as Md Javed was arrested from Pundaul
forests at Barkagaon in Hazaribagh District.
|
Non-Violent |
June 10 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
A Maoist who was wanted in an ambush case of June
2000 was arrested in Giridih District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
June 10 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
The Malkangiri Police is of the view that the
CPI-Maoist orchestrated violence in the District is on the wane
and the Maoists are on the backfoot in 2016.
|
Statement |
June 11 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Police Constables of the DF, identified as
Virendra Mandavi and Akhilesh Chelam were injured when Maoists
attacked a team of SFs personnel deployed to ensure security to
a helicopter in the dense forests of Pamed in Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
June 11 |
East Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
Suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist set a house
on fire in Mudakati village in Ghatsila sub-division in East Singhbhum
District of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
June 11 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
SFs personnel have recovered a powerful IED planted
by the Maoists from Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
June 12 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Maoists were arrested and explosives recovered
from their possession in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
June 12 |
Banka District of Bihar |
SF personnel arrested two suspected CPI-Maoist
cadres and recovered arms and over 100 rounds of ammunition in
Banka District of Bihar.
|
Non-Violent |
June 13 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an
exchange of fire with SFs personnel in a forest pocket of Sukma
District, Chhattisgarh. |
Violent |
June 13 |
Khammam District of Telangana |
Two women CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered before
Bhadrachalam ASP R. Bhaskaran in Khammam District of Telangana.
|
Non-Violent |
June 13 |
Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
A hardcore CPI-Maoist cadre, one among the seven
Maoists and 20 under trials who had fled the Chaibasa jail in
December 2014, was arrested from a construction site in Visakhapatnam
District of Andhra Pradesh.
|
Non-Violent |
June 14 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
Three DRG personnel were injured in a fierce encounter
with Maoists in the dense forests of Narayanpur District, Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
June 14 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
At least 10 CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an
encounter with the Police in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh,
Police claimed.
|
Violent |
June 14 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
As many as 47 Maoists surrendered in Bastar District
of Chhattisgarh citing disappointment with the "hollow" ideology
of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent |
June 14 |
Balaghat District of Madhya
Pradesh |
Irked at not being provided 'provisions', Naxals
torched five trucks carrying bamboo and thrashed forest staff
in Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh.
|
Violent |
June 15 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
Nine tractors and an excavator of a construction
firm engaged in Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, road construction
work, were set ablaze allegedly by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Kalahandi
District of Odisha.
|
Violent |
June 15 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
The driver of an ADM of Sukma District was allegedly
killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres on the charges of being a 'police
informer' in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
June 15 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
A landmine planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres was
discovered by BSF personnel in Narayanpatna block of Koraput District,
Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
June 15 |
Kurnool District of Andhra
Pradesh |
IGP, South Zone, Rayalaseema Range, N. Sridhar
Rao declared that the Nallamalla forests are Naxal-free.
|
Statement |
June 15 |
Kurnool District of Andhra
Pradesh |
CPI-Maoist 'state committee member' Gajjala Krishna
Reddy (58) surrendered before IGP, South Zone, N. Sridhar Rao
in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh.
|
Non-Violent |
June 16 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Acting on a tip-off by villagers, a joint team
of State Police and CRPF unearthed nine IEDs, each weighing 1-1.5kg,
planted in a series, during a search operation in Sardamdag forests
of Manika, about 45 km from Latehar District headquarters of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
June 17 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
A CRPF trooper was killed in an encounter with
CPI-Maoist cadres in Patharchhapra jungles of Giridih District
of Jharkhand. IGP Sanjay Anand Lathkar said the trooper's body
was being brought to Pirtand in Giridih.
|
Violent |
June 18 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A CRPF trooper was injured in an IED blast triggered
by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The incident took place in the forests of Gangaloor Police Station
area when a team of CRPF's elite CoBRA unit was carrying out a
search-cum-area domination operation in the region, a CRPF official
said.
|
Violent |
June 18 |
Vaishali District of Bihar |
CPI-Maoist cadres opened fire and exploded bombs
at a brick kiln near Mahishaur village under Jandaha Police Station
area in Vaishali District of Bihar after the owner refused to
pay extortion money.
|
Violent |
June 19 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Three senior members of the CPI-Maoist were killed
by the Police in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
Violent |
June 19 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
A CRPF Commando, identified as A. Deka was killed
and his two other colleagues, A.K. Yadav and K. Kakoti were injured
in an IED blast carried out by the CPI-Maoist cadres in the forest
area of Aurangabad District, Bihar.
|
Violent |
June 20 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
The CPI-Maoist cadres claimed responsibility for
the June 19, 2016, blast at Khadiha canal under Deo Police Station
area of Aurangabad District of Bihar. A CRPF 'commando' was killed
and two others were injured in the attack. In a statement, central
zone committee 'spokesman' of the CPI-Maoist Pranjeet said the
blast was a revenge of Bandh-Goreya "fake encounter" in which
four of their colleagues were killed by the security personnel.
|
Statement |
June 21 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Policemen were injured in a pipe bomb blast,
triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres, in Narayanpur District of
Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
June 22 |
Khammam District of Telangana
|
A tribal youth was injured when a pressure bomb,
suspected to have been planted by the CPI-Maoist to target Security
Force personnel, exploded at Vijayapuri Colony in Venkatapuram
mandal of Khammam District along the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border.
|
Violent |
June 22 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman, who
was carrying a cash reward of INR 5000 on her head, were arrested
in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh during a joint operation by
the CRPF and local Police.
|
Non-Violent |
June 22 |
Dhamtari District of Chhattisgarh |
A two kg tiffin bomb, planted by the CPI-Maoist
targetting security personnel, has been recovered from Dhamtari
District of Chhattisgarh. The IED was unearthed by a team of district
force from a dirt track in the dense forest under Borai Police
Station limits, Dhamtari ASP Ashok Pipre said.
|
Non-Violent |
June 23 |
Chhattisgarh |
Six Maoists, including a couple carrying a bounty
of INR 100,000 each on their head, were arrested from separate
places in Bastar division of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
June 23 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
Four CPI-Maoist cadres, who were involved in a
recent landmine blast in Aurangabad, were arrested from different
villages in Aurangabad District of Bihar.
|
Non-Violent |
June 23 |
Sundergarh District of Odisha
|
Police busted a CPI-Maoist camp at Selfi hill
of Rampuri Reserve Forest in Gurundia block of Sundergarh District
after a brief exchange of fire.
|
Violent |
June 24 |
Seraikela-Kharswan District
of Jharkhand |
CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a guest house of the
Jharkhand Forest Department and set afire eight vehicles of a
construction company at Hurungda in Seraikela-Kharswan District
of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
June 24 |
Vishakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
The CPI-Maoist warned their former colleagues,
who had surrendered to the Police, of dire consequences if they
ventured out of their villages in the next three years. The Maoists
leaders gave the warning during a praja people's court conducted
on the Koyyuru-GK Veedhi borders in Visakha agency.
|
Statement |
June 24 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
The CPI-Maoist exchanged heavy fire with SFs at
Jharha forest area under Pirtand Police Station in Giridih District
of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
June 25 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered
from different parts of Latehar District of Jharkhand during combing
operations by the joint forces of Police and CRPF.
|
Non-Violent |
June 25 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
SF personnel found two 5 kilograms pressure cooker
bombs and some 50 detonators, besides Naxalite literature, at
Bishnuband in Manika forests, around 60 kilometres from Latehar
town and some 10 kilometres from Dori jungles in neighbouring
block of Herhanj.
|
Non-Violent |
June 25 |
Lohardaga District of Jharkhand |
Following a tip-off, a Maoist cadre identified
as Surendra Lohra (20) was arrested from Kudu-Chandwa road in
Lohardaga District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
June 25 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A 'deputy sarpanch' was killed by the CPI-Maoist
cadres in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh after the Maoists branded
him as a 'Police informer'.
|
Violent |
June 26 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A Police informer was injured when Maoists opened
fire at him at a weekly market in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
"Madvi Kosa, a gopniya sainik (informer), was attacked by armed
Maoists at the weekly market of Gadiras this morning," a senior
police official said.
|
Violent |
June 26 |
Khammam District of Telangana |
The CPI-Maoist cadres detonated a low-intensity
landmine on Charla-Pusuguppa road near Charla in Bhadrachalam
division of Khammam District of Telangana as part of "Telangana
bandh" called by the CPI-Maoist to protest against the recent
"encounter" in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra.
|
Violent |
June 26 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres damaged a solar panel
and battery powering a BSNL mobile tower located at Hetha Toli
under Garu Police Station area in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
June 27 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A villager, identified as Bablu Das, was killed
by CPI-Maoist cadres in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh for allegedly
being a 'Police informer'.
|
Violent |
June 27 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
As many as 10 Maoists including eight women surrendered
in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh citing increasing pressure
of SFs and "atrocities" on them by senior Maoist cadres.
|
Non-Violent |
June 27 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
Security personnel during combing operations recovered
cache of explosives under a culvert in Koraput District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
June 28 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter
with SFs personnel in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
Koraput District of Odisha |
Koraput District of Odisha |
Two live landmines suspected to be planted by
the CPI-Maoist and electronic detonators were recovered by the
BSF personnel from Lamtaput area of Koraput District in Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
Sundargarh District of Odisha |
Sundargarh District of Odisha |
Rourkela Police dismantled a CPI-Maoist camp at
Saplata forest in Sundargarh District of Odisha, following a brief
exchange of fire.
|
Violent |
June 29 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
The C-60 Commandos of Maharashtra Police have
recovered an unidentified body a CPI-Maoist cadre following an
encounter in the forest of Bormeta-Mardhoor near Hedri in Etapalli
tehsil of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra.
|
Violent |
June 29 |
Muzaffarpur District of Bihar |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested with an
AK-56 rifle and 50 rounds of ammunition from a village under Saraiya
Police Station area of Muzaffarpur District, Bihar.
|
Non-Violent |
June 29 |
Gariyaband District of Chattisgarh |
A powerful IED planted by the CPI-Maoist was recovered
by the SFs personnel in Gariyaband District of Chattisgarh. "The
explosive, weighing 15-20 kg, was unearthed by a joint team of
District Force and Central Reserve Police Force's 65th battalion
from the forested Mainpur-Kulhadighat Road under Mainpur Police
Station limits," Gariyaband ASP L David said.
|
Non-Violent |
Jajpur District of Odisha |
Jajpur District of Odisha |
Three women CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered before
the Police in Jajpur District of Odisha. The three women Maoists
have been identified as Basanti Champia, Shanti Badra and Suturi
Paleya. Jajpur SP Anup Kumar Sahu said the three women Maoists
were active members of the CPI-Maoist Kalinga Nagar Division.
He also added that Basanti and the other Maoists carried a cash
reward of INR 400,000 and INR 100,000 each on their head respectively.
|
Non-Violent |
July 1 |
Sukma and Dantewada Districts
of Chhattisgarh |
Five CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested from separate
places in Bastar region. While three cadres belonging to DAKMS,
a front organisation of the CPI-Maoist, were arrested from Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh, two others were arrested from Sukma
District.
|
Non-Violent |
July 2 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed during an encounter
with the Police in Simdega District of Jharkhand. SP Rajiv Ranjan
said following a tip off, a search operation was launched during
which three motorcycle-borne men fired on the Policemen near Mudia
jungle under Sadar Police Station.
|
Violent |
July 2 |
East Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
An encounter took place between the security personnel
and the Maoists inside a forest at Gorabandha in Ghatsila Sub-Division
of East Singhbhum District, Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
July 2 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested during search
operations carried out by SF personnel in several parts of Kondagaon
District, Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
July 3 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
The CPI-Maoist cadres killed two civilians, accusing
them of being 'Police informers', in Giridih District of Jharkhand.
According to Police, the Maoists abducted the two men from their
home and killed both by slitting their throat. The bodies were
recovered from Kolharia village.
|
Violent |
July 3 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Three hardcore CPI-Maoist cadres, carrying cash
rewards on their heads, were arrested by SFs personnel in Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
July 4
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
An ‘Assistance Constable’ was abducted by the
CPI-Maoist cadres in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
July 4
|
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Jugdhar Salam
(30), was arrested by SF personnel near Perampal Police Station
in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 4
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Maoist, identified as Kamlu Aayta alias
Payka (30), was arrested during a search operation carried out
by Police personnel near Baddeshetti village under Gadiras Police
Station limits in Sukma District, Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 4
|
Ranchi District of Jharkhand
|
Premnath Oraon alias Premji (30), an ‘area
commander’ of the CPI-Maoist surrendered before Jharkhand DGP
D.K. Pandey. He surrendered at the newly-inaugurated Police Station
in Dassam at Bundu of Ranchi District, Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 4
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
An Assistant Constable of Chhattisgarh Police
identified as Tirupati was killed by the CPI-Maoist cadres in
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh while he was returning to the
Police camp after having a meal in his house. Tirupati was shot
at by the Maoists near Cherpal Police camp under Bijapur Police
Station limits.
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Violent
|
July 5
|
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Five Maoists identified as Guddu (33), Soop Singh
(40), Rajman (30), Santer Dugga (40), and Sobhi (38) surrendered
before the CRPF personnel in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent
|
July 5
|
Sundergarh District of Odisha
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman surrendered
before Police in Sundergarh District of Odisha. Police said the
two, identified as Sunita Mundari (20) and Sanjay Munda alias
Somra (20), had INR 100,000 reward each on their head. Both the
armed cadres were carrying .303 rifles.
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Non-Violent
|
July 6
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Chhattisgarh Police demolished a CPI-Maoist camp
and seized pipe bombs and other explosives after a fierce gunfight
with the Maoists in Bijapur District. The encounter took place
in the Erumgunda forests when the force, which is engaged in search
operation in the forested area since July 2, came under fire,
SP K.L. Dhruv said. A trooper reportedly sustained minor injuries.
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Violent
|
July 6
|
Raigarh District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two women CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as Ramvati
(25) and Shyamvati (26), were arrested from Baramkela Police Station
area of Raigarh District, Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 6
|
Muzaffarpur District of Bihar
|
Police arrested Madan Paswan (32), self-styled
‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist for Muzaffarpur and Vaishali
Districts, from Repura Rampur village under Saraiya Police Station
limits in Muzaffarpur District of Bihar. Live cartridges of AK-47
and self-loading rifles, a country-made pistol and several money
receipts were recovered from the possession of the arrested Maoists.
Police also arrested one Shankar Paswan on the charge of helping
Madan collect levy from several brick kilns of the District.
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Non-Violent
|
July 6
|
Gumla District of Jharkhand
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed a person on
the suspicion of being a JJMP supporter in Reheldag village under
Bishunpur Police Station limits in Gumla District of Jharkhand.
The deceased has been identified as Ranjit Oraon, said Bishunpur
Police Station OIC.
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Violent
|
July 7
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Dukaal Singh
Watti, was arrested in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 7
|
Nayagarh District of Odisha
|
Suspected Maoists destroyed a forest camp at Jhoti
Sahi near Barthilinga in Nayagarh District of Odisha. They also
set a jeep of forest department on fire. The camp was set up by
the Mahanadi Wildlife Division. At least three masked persons
came to the camp and went on the rampage. They also detonated
a bomb near the camp.
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Violent
|
July 8
|
Kandhamal District of Odisha
|
Five villagers, including three women were reportedly
killed in an exchange of fire between Police and the cadres of
the CPI-Maoist at Malapanga forest in Kurtamagarh in Kandhamal
District of Odisha.
|
Violent
|
July 8
|
Kalahandi District of Odisha
|
Disenchanted by the Maoist ideology, a female
cadre surrendered before the Police in Kalahandi District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 8
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two suspected CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
during a search operation carried out by SFs in Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh. “A team of district police nabbed two persons
from Belchar village under Bhairamgarh police station,” SP, Bijapur,
KL Dhruv said.
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Non-Violent
|
July 8
|
Warangal District of Telangana
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre, Goli Srinivas alias
Praveen (39), surrendered to the Police in the presence of rural
SP Ambar Kishor Jha in Warangal District of Telangana. He carries
a cash reward of INR 400,000 on his head.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 11 |
Latehar District in Jharkhand |
A CoBRA trooper - Ajai Kumar - died after being
injured in a fierce encounter between SFs and the CPI-Maoist cadres
under Baresan Police Station area of Latehar District in Jharkhand.
|
Violent |
July 12 |
Dumka District of Jharkhand
|
Three suspected CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
and 15 IEDs were seized in two Districts of Jharkhand. The three
Maoists, including a woman, were arrested from Shikaripara in
Dumka District while SFs seized the 15 IEDs from Budwa Pahad in
a search operation in Latehar District following a gunfight on
July 11.
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Non-Violent |
July 12 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
SF personnel arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre with
arms and ammunition from Besratand forest near Dulampur village
in Jamui District of Bihar after an encounter with them, Police
said. Following a tip-off about the presence of some Maoists in
the forest, the CRPF 215th battalion troopers reached the spot
in wee hours and started sealing the area before they came under
fire from the Maoists, SP Jayant Kant said. The troopers fired
20 rounds to quell the Maoists, most of whom escaped from the
spot, he said, adding the security personnel, arrested an Maoist
Sanjay Marandi alias Motilal Marandi, said to be a former 'area
commander' of the CPI-Maoist. Two rifles with 67 ammunition and
a pistol with one ammunition, police uniform, Maoist literature,
papers related to levy collection, and levy receipts among other
things were seized from him.
|
Violent |
July 13 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
The Chhattisgarh Police claimed to have killed
more than two CPI-Maoist cadres in an encounter on the bank of
the Indravati River in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh. "Many
Maoists were killed during the gun battle on the bank of river
Indravati. It was raining heavily when the encounter was going
on and the Maoists were seen dragging the bodies inside the forest,"
Bastar Range IGP S.R.P. Kalluri said in a statement.
|
Violent |
July 14 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
A dreaded CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Balkeshwar
Oraon alias Vinay Oraon alias Bada Vikas (38), who carried
a reward of INR 2.5 million on his head announced by the Jharkhand
Government, surrendered with a .315 rifle before DGP D.K. Pandey
at the State Police Headquarters in Ranchi District of Jharkhand,
drawing an end to all speculations that had been doing the rounds
about his hush-hush surrender since last week.
|
Surrendered |
July 14 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
The Jamui District Police of Bihar claimed to
have busted a CPI-Maoist den and recovered a huge cache of arms
in an operation by SF personnel, close to the Jharkhand border.
Two Maoists have been arrested.
|
Non-Violent |
July 15 |
East Godavari District of
Andhra Pradesh |
The East Godavari District Police of Andhra Pradesh
averted a major disaster by defusing three landmines planted by
the CPI-Maoist cadres near Yedugurrallapalli village. Two of the
three landmines were planted long ago, it is said.
|
Non-Violent |
July 16 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
At least four CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in
an encounter with SF personnel in the forests of Bijapur District,
Chhattisgarh. The SFs have recovered four bodies of the Maoists
along with rifles, pipe bombs and other supplies during area search.
Bastar IGP S.R.P. Kalluri said that a joint force led by Laxman
Kewat, Inspector in Charge Awapalli and CoBRA Commander Ashok
Kumar carried out the encounter in the forests of Pamed in Bijapur
District.
|
Violent |
July 16 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Five CPI-Maoist militia members surrendered before
the Police in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
July 16 |
Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
Two members of the Korukonda 'area committee'
of the CPI-Maoist along with a 'deputy commander' of the area
committee's militia and six armed militia members of the Galikonda
'area committee' have surrendered before Visakhapatnam District
SP Rahul Dev Sharma. Area committee members Muvvala Krishna alias
Ganesh and Seendri Nagesh carried a reward of INR 100,000 each
on their head.
|
Non-Violent |
July 17 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
SF personnel arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre with
arms and ammunition from Besratand forest near Dulampur village
in Jamui District of Bihar after an encounter with the Maoists.
|
Violent |
July 18
|
Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
At least 10 CRPF Commandos - belonging to the
CoBRA battalion - were killed and five others injured in a CPI-Maoist
orchestrated IED blast in the forests of Aurangabad District,
Bihar. Initially, the troopers of the CoBRA unit were ambushed
in an IED blast after which an encounter started between the two
sides resulting in the killing of three Maoists. The incident
was reported from Chakarbanda-Dumarinala forests of Aurangabad
District.
|
Violent
|
July 19
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
Eleven CPI-Maoist ‘supporters’ including two women
surrendered before the Police at Mathili Police Station in Malkangiri
District of Odisha. Of the 11 sympathisers, three are militia
members of the CPI-Maoist while the rest are members of Chetana
Jana Natya Mandali.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 20
|
Koderma District of Jharkhand
|
Two persons were arrested with a truck-load of
explosives from Kathikund area of July 20, Jharkhand. A large
number of explosives – 41,200 power gel and 37,500 pieces of detonators
– were recovered from the truck at Koderma.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 20
|
Bihar
|
The CPI-Maoist owned up responsibility for the
Aurangabad blast and encounter on July 18 at Dumaria Nala forest
area in Aurangabad District of Bihar, in which 10 CRPF personnel
and three Maoists were killed. Paramjeet, spokesperson of the
‘central zonal committee’ of the outfit, in a press statement
admitted three members of the organization lost their lives.
|
Statement
|
July 20
|
NS
|
Senior CPI-Maoist cadre Ganesh Uike has accused
the SF personnel of killing over 90 people in fake and staged
encounters in the first six months of 2016 in Bastar region.
|
Statement
|
July 20
|
NS
|
Admitting that the Naxal movement has received
serious setbacks in recent times in the form of encounter deaths
and surrender of leaders, East Division ‘secretary’ Pratap Reddy
alias Ram Chandra Reddy alias Appa Rao alias
Chalapati said SFs personnel have made quite a few strikes but
claimed that the ‘people’s movement’ has not been suppressed and
will bounce back.
|
Statement
|
July 21
|
Khammam District of Telangana
|
The CPI-Maoist has put up wall posters at Laxmi
Colony in Charla mandal headquarters in Khammam District
of Telangana urging people to observe “martyrs week” from July
28 to August 3, 2016.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 21
|
Karur and Kancheepuram Districts of Tamil Nadu
|
Three alleged CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
by the Q branch Police of Tamil Nadu from Karur and Kancheepuram
Districts.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 21
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
A CPI-Maoist couple, identified as Sukhdev and
wife Rukmini, involved in around 150 cases, surrendered before
the Police in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 21
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
Three Maoists, including the Darbha division ‘area
commander’ Raju Sodhi, surrendered before the South Western Range
DIG S. Saini in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 21
|
East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand
|
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified as Mangal Tudu
(22) and a 17 year old girl, surrendered before Kolhan DIG Sambhu
Thakur at Police lines in Golmuri of East Singhbhum District,
Jharkhand. Police said Tuddu and the girl were members of the
Gorabandha squad of the CPI-Maoist headed by Kanu Munda.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 21
|
Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres raided a solar power plant
site and torched 14 vehicles including tractors and JCB machines
in Aurangabad District of Bihar.
|
Violent
|
July 22
|
Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
Police arrested two Maoists - Nagendra Yadav and
Upendra - in connection with the July 18 Aurangabad encounter.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 22
|
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
SFs recovered a powerful IED, planted allegedly
by CPI-Maoist cadres in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh.
The device, weighing five kilograms, was found buried near a bridge
on Kohka River.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 23
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two cadres of the CPI-Maoist were killed in a
gun-battle with SFs in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
July 23
|
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
SFs unearthed 25 IEDs each weighing 1.5 kg during
a routine search operation in Herhunj area in Latehar District
of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 24
|
Andhra Pradesh
|
In a bid to make its call for observance of ‘Martyrs
week’ from July 28 to August 3 a success, the CPI-Maoist cadres
allegedly laid a virtual siege to the Ramachandrapuram-Ankannagudem
stretch of the Bhadrachalam-Venkatapuram main road for a couple
of hours and planted explosives in a plastic bucket on the roadside.
|
Violent
|
July 24
|
Tiruchur District of Kerala
|
A suspected CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Mahalingam
(63), was arrested in Tiruchur District of Kerala and produced
before Andipatti Magistrate V. Baskaran in connection with alleged
arms training on Varushandu hill in 2007.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 24-25
|
Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
CPI-Maoist cadres have killed three civilians
including two sons of a surrendered Maoist cadre in Barkol forest
range of Latehar District, Jharkhand. and strangulated him to
death by a rope.
|
Violent
|
July 25
|
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
|
Twelve CPI-Maoist cadres including two women surrendered
before Bastar District Police of Chhattisgarh. They include Bastar
area Jan Militia ‘commander’ and CNM ‘commander’ of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 25
|
Kandhamal and Rayagada Districts of Odisha
|
A two-day bandh call in Kandhamal and Rayagada
Districts of Odisha by the CPI-Maoist which started from July
25, 2016 had little impact on day to day life except in few pockets.
|
Violent
|
July 25
|
Gumla District of Jharkhand
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres have killed a 60-year-old
farmer, identified as Rakhan Sahu, when he was sitting in a roadside
eatery under Sadar Police Station area of Gumla District, Jharkhand.
|
Violent
|
July 26
|
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
Five CPI-Maoist cadres, carrying a reward of INR
1.4 million together on their heads, surrendered before the Gadchiroli
Police of Maharashtra, a press note issued by the District Police
said.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 26
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman, surrendered
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 27
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in a fierce encounter
with SF personnel in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh on the eve
of "Martyr's week".
|
Violent
|
July 27
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CRPF troopers were injured in a pressure bomb
blast triggered by the Maoists on an under-construction road in
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
July 27
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
In a major success for the Odisha Police, a CPI-Maoist
cadre, identified as Radha, surrendered before the Malkangiri
District SP. Radha was a member of the Kalimela dalam and
was working with the group for the past 14 years. There are over
50 cases pending against her. According to sources, Radha was
carrying a cash reward of INR 400000 on her head.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 27
|
Ganjam District of Odisha
|
Two years after the arrest of OMP leader Sabyasachi
Panda, a man who had allegedly given shelter to the former CPI-Maoist
‘cadre’ in his house near Bada Bazar in Berhampur of Ganjam District,
Odisha has been arrested.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 27
|
Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh
|
A banner urging people to join the CPI-Maoist
surfaced at Bithli in Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh. The
banner was found a day before the start of the ‘Martyrs week’.
It also warned Police informers. SP Balaghat District Dr. Asit
Yadav said that a Maoist banner was found in village Bithli.
|
Statement
|
July 28
|
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
A hardcore woman CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in
an encounter with Police personnel in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra.
|
Violent
|
July 28
|
Palamu District of Jharkhand
|
‘Zonal Commander’ of Madhya zone of the CPI-Maoist
identified as Abhay alias Abhay Yadav alias Gobind
(38) was arrested, along with Naxal book and literature, in Chhaterpur
region of Palamu District, Jharkhand. Abhay is said to be the
biggest confidante of the top Maoist Sandip ji and was a part
of the team of the Maoists in all its decisions taking session.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 28
|
Dumka District of Jharkhand
|
Seven CPI-Maoist cadres, including a wanted Maoist
involved in the killing of Pakur SP Amarjit Balihar and several
other Policemen in 2014, were arrested from different areas in
Dumka District, Jharkhand. Initially Etwari Hembram alias
Nareshda was arrested and acting on his information six other
Maoists including two women cadres were caught, SP Prabhat Kumar
said.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 28
|
Garhwa District of Jharkhand
|
An ‘area commander’ of the CPI-Maoist was arrested
with arms from Ranka Police Station area in Garhwa District of
Jharkhand. Lalan Singh Kharwar alias Shrawan was arrested
from Karri forest of the District. Police have also found a 315
pistol, 4 live cartridges and Naxalite literature, said
Ranka Police Station officer in-charge Narendra Kumar Sinha.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 29
|
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
|
The Chhattisgarh Police arrested two suspects
and recovered a massive haul of explosives from them in Bastar
District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 30
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CoBRA trooper was killed and another injured
in an encounter with CPI-Maoist cadres in a dense forest pocket
of Sukma District, Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent
|
July 30
|
East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh
|
CPI-Maoist cadres kidnapped and killed a pastor
branding him as a ‘Police informer’ in Chinturu mandal
of East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh.
|
Violent
|
July 31
|
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
|
SFs recovered powerful 40-kilograms IED, planted
by Maoists eight years back in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
on National Highway 63.
|
Non-Violent
|
July 31 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. |
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a young man and threw
his body on the Gangaloor road in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
July 31 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
Maoists killed a Sarpanch in Kanker District of
Chhattisgarh. The incident took place in Karekarma village under
Partapur Police limits.
|
Violent |
August 1 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter
with SF personnel in the dense forests of Bastar District, Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
August 1 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
A civilian, identified as Rakesh Gawade (23) -
a college student - was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres at Tumarkasa
village of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra. Gadchiroli Police
said that Rakesh was helping villagers avail themselves of benefits
of the government schemes. The CPI-Maoist Perimily dalam killed
him on suspicion of being a 'Police informer', said Police in
a statement.
|
Violent |
August 1 |
Adilabad District of Telangana
|
Adilabad District Police arrested CPI-Maoist cadre
Tekam Ravi alias Ravinder (22), a member of Indravelli
dalam, who is an accused in the murder of Gond youth Kursenga
Ballarsha last year (2015) in Tiryani mandal.
|
Non-Violent |
August 2 |
Bokaro District of Jharkhand |
Police recovered a landmine weighing 24 kilograms
suspected to be planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres, from Goniato
forests in Penk village in Nawadih of Bokaro District, Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
August 3 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
Seven CPI-Maoist cadres, including two women,
were arrested and explosives
|
Non-Violent |
August 3 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
The CPI-Maoist exhorted former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi
to acknowledge his class/caste interest and review ties with organizations
like BJP, RSS and VHP. Handwritten wall posters in this regard
were found pasted in the Imamganj area of Gaya District, Bihar.
|
Non-Violent |
August 4 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A group of security personnel had a close shave
as CPI-Maoist cadres detonated a powerful IED blast on a densely-forested
route in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
August 4 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A team of CRPF's 222nd battalion recovered two
powerful IEDs from Jangla Police Station limits in Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
August 5 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman, were
killed during an encounter with the DRG of Chhattisgarh Police
under Faraspal Police Station limits in Dantewada District of
Chhattisgarh.
|
Violent |
August 5 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A SHO and four other Policemen came under attack
by CPI-Maoist cadres while passing through a dense forest in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh. SHO of Konta Police Station Eman Sahu
and four Police troopers were heading for Konta from Sukma when
their SUV came under fire near Manikonta village, a senior Police
officer said.
|
Violent |
August 5 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A wanted CPI-Maoist cadre, carrying a reward of
INR 300,000 on his head, was arrested in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
|
Non-Violent |
August 5 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Security personnel recovered explosives hidden
by CPI-Maoist cadres at Taledih village on Maneka-Serendag Road
in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
|
Non-Violent |
August 6 |
Bastar/ Chhattisgarh |
The CPI-Maoist has called for Bastar bandh on
August 6 to protest alleged atrocities committed by the SFs on
tribal women and girls. The bandh call has been given by
the South Sub-Zonal Bureau of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Violent |
August 6 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
Six cadres of the CPI-Maoist, including a self-styled
'commander', were arrested from different places in Aurangabad
District of Bihar.
|
Non-Violent |
August 6 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
The CPI-Maoist cadres killed a civilian, identified
as Sundar Hantal (25), at Godaput under Chitrakonda Police Station
limits in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
|
Violent |
August 6 |
Khammam District of Telangana
|
Stepping up their wall-poster campaign against
the third phase of 'Operation Green Hunt' in Dandakaranya region,
the CPI-Maoist cadres have put up wall posters, written in Hindi,
at R Kothagudem village in Charla mandal of Khammam District,
Bhadrachalam division. Sources said that a few wall posters in
the name of CPI-Maoist Kistaram 'area committee' of Chhattisgarh
were found.
|
Statement |
August 8
|
Mahbubnagar District of Telangana
|
Former Naxalite Nayeemuddin, wanted in
over 100 criminal cases including the killing of IPS officer K.S.
Vyas and his associate, were killed in an exchange of fire with
the Police in Shadnagar Town, about 50 km from Hyderabad.
|
Violent
|
August 8
|
Dhanbad District of Jharkhand
|
Jharkhand Police seized four landmines and four
weapons from a hideout of CPI-Maoist in Dhanbad District. According
to Police, four landmines, two pistols, two rifles and live cartridges
were seized during search operation at Madaidih forest situated
under Topchanchi Police Station in the District.
|
Non-Violent
|
August 9
|
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an exchange
of fire with SF personnel in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh.
The skirmish took place on a hill under Kohka Police Station area
when a joint team of SFs was carrying out anti-Maoist operation,
Rajnandgaon SP Prashant Agrawal said.
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Violent
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August 9
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Palamau District of Jharkhand
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Security personnel recovered a 5 kg IED planted
by the CPI-Maoist cadres from Kala Pahar-Mahudand road under Chatarpur
Police Station limits in Palamau District of Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent
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August 9
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Lakhisarai District of Bihar
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An STF trooper was killed during an encounter
with the CPI-Maoist cadres at Kanimoi hill located under Kajra
Police Station area in Lakhisarai District of Bihar.
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Violent
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August 10
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Khammam District of Telangana
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A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, allegedly involved in
three murder cases and several other incidents of violence, surrendered
before the Police in Bhadrachalam town of Khammam District, Telangana.
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Non-Violent
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August 11
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Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed during an exchange
of fire with SFs personnel in the dense forest of Bastar District
of Chhattisgarh. The skirmish took place while a joint team of
DRG and STF was conducting anti-Maoist operation in the core jungle
of Mardoom Police Station area, Bastar SP R.N. Dash said.
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Violent
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August 11
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Aurangabad District of Bihar
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The Aurangabad District Police of Bihar arrested
a suspected cadre of the CPI-Maoist for his involvement in blowing
up a small bridge near Ketaki village under Deo Police Station
seven years back. The Maoist identified as Kamat Yadav was arrested
from Kusaha village under the same Police Station in Aurangabad
District.
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Non-Violent
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August 12
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Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh
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Ex-Samajwadi Party MLA Kishore Samrite escaped
a bid on his life when CPI-Maoist cadres fired indiscriminately
on his vehicle in Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh.
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Violent
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August 12
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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A group of SF personnel had a narrow escape from
a powerful IED blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh. However, no one was injured in the explosion,
Police said.
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Violent
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August 12
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Chhattisgarh
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A separate joint team of SF personnel recovered
two powerful IEDs from the under-construction Basaguda (Bijapur)
- Jagargunda (Sukma) road. While the SFs were patrolling the route
that passes through forest areas, they spotted the IEDs, planted
in the ground, between Sarkeguda and Tarrem, a Police official
said.
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Non-Violent
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August 12
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Nalgonda District of Telangana
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Nalgonda District Police arrested a surrendered
CPI-Maoist weapons' specialist, Tech Madhu, for his alleged ties
with former Naxalite Nayeemuddin. Tech Madhu, whose actual
name is Thota Kumaraswamy, had surrendered before the Police in
2006. He got the 'Tech Madhu' tag because of his technical prowess
in making weaponry. Madhu, 43, reportedly manufactured about 1,550
rockets and 40 launchers for the Maoists. his possession.
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Non-Violent
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August 13
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Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
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Two CAF personnel were injured when Naxals attacked
them in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. "The Naxals
carried out an attack near the 9th battalion of the Chhattisgarh
Armed Forces (CAF) at Kurrajohar village in Narayanpur District
in which two assistant platoon commanders, Vinod Mishra and Narayan
Kushawaha, sustained injuries," Chhattisgarh's Special DG
for Naxal Operations D. M. Awasthi said.
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Violent
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August 13
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Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
41 CPI-Maoist cadres surrendered before the Police
in the Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. “In a major success
of the consistent anti-Maoist campaign, which is underway in Bastar,
41 Maoists including three women from Benur area of Narayanpur
decided to leave the path of violence and join the social mainstream
on Saturday,” said Narayanpur District SP Abhishek Meena.
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Non-Violent
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August 14
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Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Lal Sai (24), a Police Constable, was killed by
CPI-Maoist cadres at Konde-Markeli village under Manpur Police
Station limits in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh. Sai had
joined the Police force after quitting Naxalism and was
posted at Manpur Police Station, a senior Police official said.
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Violent
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August 14
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Dumka District of Jharkhand
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A huge cache of explosives was recovered from
a house, during a raid at Jeetpur area under Gopikandar, in Dumka
District of Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent
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August 15
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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SFs recovered a powerful IED planted by the CPI-Maoist
cadres from Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh while carrying out
an area domination exercise in view of the Independence Day celebrations
on August 15. The explosive, weighing around 5 kg, was unearthed
by a team of CoBRA troopers between Sarkeguda-Tarrem villages
under Sarkeguda Police Station limits.
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Non-Violent
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August 15
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East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand
|
SFs intensified combing operations in Bakrakocha
forest under Gurabanda Police Station area of Ghatshila in East
Singhbhum District of Jharkhand following an encounter with the
Maoists.
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Violent
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August 15
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Giridih District of Jharkhand
|
CPI-Maoist cadres killed a former Maoist turned
"Police informer" at Murkundo village under Dumri Police
Station of Giridih District, Jharkhand. Maoists also alleged that
the victim, Dinesh Hembram, would collect levy across the region
in their name. The victim, a shopkeeper, was earlier associated
with the Maoists and had been jailed for his involvement in several
Maoist-related incidents in Dumri areas a few years ago.
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Violent
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August 16
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Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
|
A hardcore Maoist, who was allegedly involved
in blowing up an ambulance killing five CRPF personnel and two
civilians during the 2014 Lok Sabha Poll in Bastar District,
was killed in an encounter with SFs in the forests of Chandometa
under Darbha Police Station limits in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh.
He was identified as People’s Militia ‘commander’ Arjun. He was
also a member of the Machhkot Local Organisation Squad.
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Violent
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August 17
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
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Four CPI-Maoist cadres including a ‘commander-rank’
woman cadre were killed while a trooper was injured in an encounter
between security personnel and the Maoists in Dantewada District
of Chhattisgarh. The skirmish took place in the wee hours in the
restive Dabba-Kunna hills when a joint team of CRPF, DRG and STF
was out on an anti-Maoist operation.
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Violent
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August 18
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Police Constable, Adityasharan Pratap Singh,
who had suffered injuries during an encounter with the CPI-Maoist
cadres in Dantewada District of south Chhattisgarh on August 17,
succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
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Violent
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August 18
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
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Trucks parked in the outskirts of Bacheli town
in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh were set ablaze by a group
of CPI-Maoist cadres.
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Violent
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August 18
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
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Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested in two separate
incidents in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent
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August 19
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Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
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A powerful IED was found in Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh ahead of Lok Sabha Member Dinesh Kashyap’s
visit to the region. A joint ROP of ITBP and Police was on a patrol
to sanitise the road which connects Kondagaon and Narayanpur District
headquarters in view of the visit of Kashyap, the BJP MP from
Bastar constituency, a senior Police official said.
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Non-Violent
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August 19
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Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
Nine people, said to be the sympathisers of the
CPI-Maoist surrendered before the Police in Kondagaon District
of Chhattisgarh. According to Kondagaon District SP Santosh Singh,
all nine surrendered Maoist supporters had warrants issued against
them for serious offences of Maoist violence.
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Non-Violent
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August 19
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West Bengal
|
Denying any CPI-Maoist presence in Jharkhand,
Chief Minister Raghubar Das said that “only some goons” in the
name of Maoists were indulging in extortion and they will be dealt
with as per law. Das was in Kolkata (West Bengal) for a road show
to promote the two-day long Jharkhand Global Investor’ Summit
2017, which will take off in early 2017.
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Statement
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August 20
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
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A railway line in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
was damaged by the CPI-Maoist cadres following which two engines
and 14 wagons of a goods train derailed, Police said. "The
Naxals damaged railway line near Pujapara Dhurli village following
which two engines and 14 wagons of a goods train which was on
its way to Kirandul from Visakhapatnam derailed," Police
officials said.
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Violent
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August 21 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist 'people's militia commander' identified
as Kudiam Pandu carrying cash reward of INR 10,000 on his head
was injured in an exchange of fire with SFs personnel in Nukanpal
forests under Basaguda Police Station limits of Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh. Pandu sustained bullet injuries on his shoulder
in the exchange of fire, PRO of CRPF, V V N Prasanna, said.
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Violent |
August 21 |
`Khammam District of Telangana |
A bunch of handwritten posters denouncing the
alleged destruction of crops in "podu lands" (slash and burn style)
belonging to tribal people in forest fringe areas of Khammam District
of Telangana sprang up in the name of the CPI-Maoist Sabari 'area
committee' at Chalamala village near Taliperu reservoir in Charla
mandal. According to sources, several posters, handwritten in
red ink, surfaced along the Chalamala-Tippapuram road. The Maoists,
through the posters, alleged that the Telangana Government was
trying to take up plantations in the "podu lands" in the name
of "Haritha Haram" (protect nature and increase green cover) and
was resorting to repressive measures against the tribal people
without implementing the PESA Act and the Forest Rights Act in
the Agency areas.
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Non-Violent |
August 22 |
Bokaro District of Jharkhand |
In a joint anti-CPI-Maoist operation, Police and
CRPF personnel busted a Maoist hideout located in the forest near
Chorpania on Luggu Hill under Gomia block of Bokaro District of
Jharkhand. SF personnel also found explosives, ammunition and
Maoist literature from the hideout. Bokaro SP Y.S. Ramesh said,
"While searching the bunker, we found a pressure cooker bomb,
a can bomb, detonator, cartridges, codex wire, posters, banners
and Naxal literature and other items."
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Non-Violent |
August 23 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Maoists, identified as Jagat (30) and Ramnath
Sodi (30), were arrested from Kudur and Nahkanar areas of Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh respectively. While Jagat was active
as the head of Janatana Sarkar wing of the CPI-Maoist in
Kudur, Sodhi belonged to people's militia.
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Non-Violent |
August 24 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an exchange of
fire with SF personnel in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. The
skirmish took place near Ponga Bhejji village when a joint team
of STF and District Force was out on an anti-Maoist operation
in Dornapal Police Station area, SP Indira Kalyan Elesela said.
"During searches, the body of a male Maoist clad in a 'uniform'
was recovered along with one automatic pistol and one muzzle loading
gun," the SP added. The identity of the Maoist is yet to be established.
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Violent |
August 24 |
Erode District of Tamil Nadu |
There has been no movement of CPI-Maoist cadres
in Erode District of Tamil Nadu but special Police teams are scouring
forest areas as a precautionary measure, a senior Police official
said. "There is no movement of Maoists or Naxals in Erode District.
But as a precautionary measure a special team of police personnel
are going round Burgur, Sathyamangalam and other forest arras
in the district", said SP Dr R. Sivakumar.
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Non-Violent |
August 24 |
Khammam District of Telangana |
The spurt in CPI-Maoist activities along the Telangana-Chhattisgarh
border reportedly prompted the contracting firm engaged in execution
of works related to Mission Bhagiratha at Pusuguppa village in
Charla mandal of Khammam District of Telangana to shift JCB machines
to a safer place in the mandal headquarters town. According
to unconfirmed reports, the contractors concerned shifted some
heavy equipment, including two JCB machines, to Charla two days
ago following an alleged threat from Maoists.
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Non-Violent |
August 25 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
Chhattisgarh Police said they have arrested a
senior CPI-Maoist cadre who had abducted the IAS officer Alex
Paul Menon from Sukma District in 2012. "Bheema alias Akash, a
DVC leader of Maoists who was carrying a reward of Rs. 8 lakh
on his head, was yesterday nabbed by a special wing of the state
intelligence branch," Special DGP (anti-Maoist operations) D.
M. Awasthi said. A covert counter-insurgency operation by SIB
in Bastar District led to arrest of Bheema. During the interrogation
Bheema revealed that he was directed by the Maoist leader 'Erra'
to abduct Menon from Manjhipara where the Collector was to meet
villagers on April 21, 2012. "A 16-member team of Naxals led by
Bheema was camping close to Manjhipara from April 19. They had
decided that if seven or eight gunmen accompanied the collector,
then the abduction plan would be dropped," added the officer.
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Non-Violent |
August 25 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two women Maoists carrying cash rewards of INR
900,000 on their heads were arrested in Narayanpur District of
Chhattisgarh. "Those arrested were identified as Sonay Potai,
32, associated with military wing of Maoists and Soni Potai, an
area committee member," Narayanpur ASP Anil Soni said.
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Non-Violent |
August 25 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
A woman Maoist 'deputy commander', carrying a
reward of INR 300,000 on her head, surrendered before Police in
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. Phulo Salaam turned herself
in citing disillusionment with the "hollow" ideology of the CPI-Maoist
and their wrong policies.
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Non-Violent |
August 26 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
The CPI-Maoist cadres killed one of their supporters
after producing him before a jan adalat in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
The Maoists were unhappy with the victim, Sandeep Kumar Rathore,
for abandoning their cause, a Police officer said. "Rathore was
this evening shot dead by armed rebels in the forests near Mukram
nullah under Chintalnar Police Station limits," S.R.P. Kalluri,
IGP (Bastar Range) said. "As per records, he was a staunch supporter
of Maoists but for the last few months he had started distancing
himself from the banned outfit. He had joined the mainstream and
was leading a normal life," the IGP added.
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Violent |
August 26 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
One CRPF trooper was injured in a pressure bomb
blast triggered by the Maoists in the dense forest in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh. "The incident took place at around 1 pm when
a team of paramilitary was out on an anti-Maoist operation in
Chintagufa Police Station area," SP Indira Kalyan Elesela said.
"Constable Sachin belonging to CRPF's 150th battalion sustained
serious injuries on his legs," the officer said.
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Violent |
August 26 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
CMAS leader, Nachika Linga, who is currently lodged
in Koraput Circle Jail in Odisha, began indefinite hunger strike
demanding fulfilment of his nine-point charter of demands that
he had submitted to CM Naveen Patnaik in April, 2016. The CPI-Maoist
leader Cheda Bhushan alias Ghasi and another 14 members
of CMAS also joined Linga in his agitation, supporting his demands
that included speedy disposal of cases against him. His other
demands are release of CMAS supporters who were arrested on false
charges, construction of roads and canals in Bandhugaon and Narayanpatna
blocks, handing over of tribal lands occupied by non-tribals,
distribution of land to the landless, appointment of teachers
in schools and other developmental activities in the two blocks.
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Non-Violent |
August 28 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
A joint team of SF personnel killed a CPI-Maoist
cadre during an encounter in Chandometa forest of Bastar District
of Chhattisgarh. Acting on a specific input about the presence
of Maoist commanders Vinod and Sanju along with 20 cadres in the
area, an operation was launched last evening by the composite
squad of DRG and STF, IGP, Bastar Range, S.R.P. Kalluri said.
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Violent |
August 28
|
Sukma District/ Kondagaon District
of Chhattisgarh
|
Four Maoists, two of them allegedly
involved in the recent attack on the vehicle of a SHO, were arrested
from separate places in Bastar division of Chhattisgarh. While
three Maoists were arrested by a joint team of SFs from Sukma
District, another was arrested from Kondagaon District, Police
said. The composite squad of CRPF, STF and DRG arrested the Maoists
Madkam Deva (33), Madvi Ganga (36) and Muchaki Kosa (39) while
carrying out a search operation in south Sukma, ASP Jitendra Shukla
said. Of them, Deva and Kosa, natives of Errabor Police Station
area, were allegedly involved in the attack on the vehicle of
the SHO of Konta Police Station in Sukma on August 5, he said.
Ganga was active as the head of DAKMS- a frontal outfit of the
CPI-Maoist, in the region whereas Deva was a member of this outfit,
the ASP said, adding Kosa was wanted in Maoist-related incidents,
including attacks on Police party and abduction. In a separate
incident, a Janmilitia cadre Pilaji (35) was arrested from Tumdiwal
village forests under Mardapal Police Station limits of Kondagaon
by a joint team of DRG and local Police, officials said. A hardcore
member of Bedma Janmilitia group, Pilaji was allegedly involved
in several Maoists incidents in the region, Police said.
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Non-Violent
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August 28
|
Dindigul District of Tamil Nadu
|
After being in Police custody
for two days, Reena Joyce Mary, a suspected CPI-Maoist cadre,
was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Dindigul
District of Tamil Nadu. The court adjourned the case till September
9. Amid tight security, Reena was produced before the court in
the morning and later taken back to Vellore prison. Dindigul Police
had taken her under custody for two days to investigate her involvement
in arms training in Kodaikanal in 2008 along with Naveen Prasad,
who was killed in an encounter during search operation near Moolayar
at Vadakaunji on April 19, 2008. Q-Branch police had arrested
Reena in Padappai in Kanchipuram District on July 21.
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Non-Violent
|
August 29
|
Kolkata in West Bengal
|
The slogan ‘Naxalbari ek hi rasta’,
posters containing quotations from Mao Zedong and Charu Mazumdar,
rendition of ‘revolutionary songs’ and selling books written by
Mao and Mazumdar marked the first public event in the city attended
by top CPI-Maoist leaders held to condole the death of former
CPI-Maoist state secretary Himadri Sen Roy alias Somen.
Besides recounting Somen’s role as a ‘communist organiser’, leaders,
supporters and sympathisers of the banned outfit pressed for ‘broader
unity of revolutionary forces’ to ‘carry forwards the work left
unfinished by Somen’. On the dais were top Maoist leaders Narayan
Sanyal and Purnendu Sekhar Mukherjee, along with Chandi Sarkar
and Gour Chakraborty. All of them are in their seventies and were
released on bail after spending several years in jail. Nearly
300 people belonging to various organisations attended the event
at Bharat Sabha Hall in central Kolkata in West Bengal.
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Non-Violent
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August 29
|
Magadh / Bihar
|
CPI-Maoist cadres in Bihar have
given a call for one day Magadh Bandh on August
31, to protest the killing of six of their cadres in an encounter
with the SFs in July this year. The bandh would
begin 12 am on the intervening night of 30th and 31st August.
Five Districts including Gaya, Aurangabad, Jehanabad, Nawada and
Arwal are likely to be affected by the bandh call.
Encounter between SFs and Maoists took place in Dumaria Nala forest
area in Aurangabad District on July 18. In this encounter, 10
commandos of the elite CoBRA battalion of CRPF were killed. Maoists
had triggered a series of IED explosions during the encounter
in which the 10 commandos lost their lives. The SFs also eliminated
six Maoist cadres in the encounter. The SFs had also seized weapons
like AK-47, INSAS rifle.
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Non-Violent
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August 30
|
Raipur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A top CPI-Maoist who was LOS member
of Maoist Rowghat Area Committee and carrying a reward of INR
500,000 on his head, surrendered before SIB in Raipur District
of Chhattisgarh. “The ultra identified as Satter alias Mangel
alias Bharat Gavde who in past was the platoon commander of Naxal platoon
number 23 was impressed with the surrender policy adopted by the
Chhattisgarh Government and hence decided to join the mainstream
of development,” SP, SIB, Sundarraj P said. According to the Police,
Satter (32), a resident of Alanar village under Amabeda Police
Station of Kanker District had joined Naxal cadre
in 2003. He had also worked as the member of ‘Bal Sangham’ the
children unit of Maoists in 2002. Satter was involved in blowing
up of a CISF vehicle in 2008 at Balod wherein three SF personnel
were killed and their weapons were also looted, the SP said.
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Non-Violent
|
August 30
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Disillusioned with the Maoist
ideology, two Maoists -- a reward-carrying senior cadre who was
involved in a major attack on Policemen in 2007, and a minor girl
cadre -- surrendered in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The
cadres, one of them a 'commander'-rank cadre, turned themselves
in before Bijapur ASP at the district headquarters, Mohit Garg.
Sukhram Gota (24) was a hardcore Maoist and active as militia
'platoon commander' of Edapalli national park area unit of the
CPI-Maoist, he said. Gota was allegedly involved in several deadly
Maoist-related incidents, including the attack on Ranibodli Police
outpost in Bijapur in 2007 in which 55 Policemen were killed,
Garg said, adding that he was carrying a reward of INR 100,000
on his head. The other cadre - a 17-year-old girl -- worked as
a member of CNM, cultural wing of the Maoists, in Gangaloor area
of the District, he added.
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Non-Violent
|
August 30
|
Dumka District of Jharkhand
|
CPI-Maoist cadre Hopna Hembrom
was arrested from Shikaripara in Dumka District of Jharkhand.
Police said Hopna was wanted in four cases of Maoist violence.
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Non-Violent
|
August 30
|
Giridih District of Jharkhand
|
One Maoist cadre, identified as
Vijay Murmu alias Ratan, was arrested along with
an IED weighing over five kilograms, from Pirtand block in Giridih
District of Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent
|
August 30
|
Simdega and Gumla Districts of
Jharkhand
|
One Maoist ‘zonal commander’ Dipak
Sahu alias Tilakman alias Tilak
Main, who headed the rebel outfit's operations in Simdega and
Gumla Districts of Jharkhand as well as bordering areas in Chhattisgarh,
surrendered before DGP D.K. Pandey at Police headquarters in Dhurwa
in Ranchi District. Tilakman was involved in 34 cases of Maoist
violence in Simdega and Gumla, including an attack on Bansjore Thana in
Simdega on December 31, 2007, in which a Policeman was killed.
Welcoming him to the mainstream, DGP Pandey gave Tilakman INR
50,000 ex-gratia apart from INR 500,000 reward that he carried
on his head. The DGP also said the Police would take care of Tilakman's
family's safety during the tenure the surrendered rebel would
be behind bars, a provision present in Jharkhand's rebel surrender
policy.
DGP Pandey said the Police had
identified 786 remote villages across Jharkhand where the men
in uniform would facilitate the execution of 10 welfare schemes
in their fight against Naxalism. "Seven hundred
and fifty villages will be lit up by solar lamps in a month. Our
villages need development," the DGP underlined.
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Non-Violent
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August 30
|
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
Seven militia members of the Korukonda
area committee of the CPI-Maoist surrendered to Inspector of Chintapalli
Police Circle Ch. Rudra Sekhar at the District Police Office in
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh. The surrendered members
are identified as K Chinnabbai (32), K Ram Murthy (52), V Raju
(43), V Ram Babu (31), V Krishna Rao (21), K Buddu Naidu (36)
and K Ravi (25). All of them are Girijans and are natives of Cheruvuru
village under Balapam panchayat in Chintapalli mandal.
They were involved in incidents such as taking over coffee plantations
of the APFDC in Balapam panchayat in 2011, famine
raid in Balapam in 2013, destruction of the house of Gemmeli Sanjiva
Rao in Veeravaram and Essar pipeline between Cheruvuru and Diguvajanabha
in 2015, and attending a meeting organised by the Maoists as part
of the Martyr’s Week this year, a press release from the DPO said.
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Non-Violent
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August 30
|
Telangana
|
The CPI-Maoist has called upon
people, workers and employees to make the proposed bandh on
September 2, a big success. In a statement issued on the name
of CPI-Maoists Telangana State Committee official representative
Jagan, they charged that the BJP and TRS-ruled Central and State
Governments respectively were pro-capitalist and working against
interests of the people. They stated that KCR Government had failed
to implement the scores of promises he had made before elections.
The Maoists charged that KCR was humiliating journalists for raising
questions over the failures and the public movement leaders supporting
the latter through persons showering praises on him. Once a progressive
journalist and now Press Academy chairman Allam Narayana criticising
justice Chandra Kumar amounted to curtailing freedom of expression,
Jagan said in the press release.
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Non-Violent
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August 30-31
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Palamu District of Jharkhand
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Maoist cadres set ablaze the generator
and battery panel of the Airtel tower in Pandu block in Palamu
District of Jharkhand. The tower has stopped functioning. Sources
said about half a dozen people reached this tower, took out fuel
from the generator set and set ablaze the generator set and the
battery panel. SP Patel Mayur K Lal has confirmed this arson saying
the Maoists have done this just to make their presence felt. Palamu
remained bandh on August 31 in the wake of Maoists call. Buses
for Ranchi from Daltonganj did not roll out.
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Violent
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August 31
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Gumla District of Jharkhand
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One 47-year-old dhaba owner, Umesh
Sahu, was killed by suspected JJMP cadres at Bishunpur in Gumla
District of Jharkhand, triggering a massive roadblock by villagers
for over five hours, who demanded better Policing. The blockade
was removed after SP Chandan Jha pacified protesters. JJMP
is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Violent
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September 1
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
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One CRPF constable, who got severely
injured during an anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh few
days back, succumbed to his injuries at AIIMS in New Delhi. Constable
Sachin Kumar (27) of the Paramilitary Force was airlifted to the
AIIMS trauma centre after he was injured in an IED blast in the
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh on August 26. "Kumar succumbed
to his IED splinter injuries at about 8:40 AM today. He was brought
to AIIMS on August 29 on an air ambulance from state capital Raipur.
In AIIMS, his right leg was amputated but his condition kept deteriorating,"
a senior official said.
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Violent
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September 1
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Nabarangpur District of Odisha
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Three suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
were caught by villagers Deogharandi village and handed them to
Police in Nabarangpur District of Odisha. According information,
villagers saw the unidentified youths moving in the village in
suspiciously. When they wanted to know their identities, the youths
avoided and tried to threaten them. Villagers soon gheraoed them
and kept them in captivity and informed Raigarh Police. The villagers
later handed over the suspected Maoists to the Police.
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Non-Violent
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September 1
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Rayagada District of Odisha
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Police recovered several posters
put up by the CPI-Maoist in Jagdalpur village under Ambadala Police
limits in Rayagada District, exhorting public to oppose MNCs and
protect their water, forest, and land. Maoists in the posters
have opposed the establishment of proposed medical college in
Kalahandi District with the aid of MNC VAL, reports added. The
posters claimed to have been affixed by Vamsadhara-Ghumusara-Nagabali
Divisional Committee of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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September 2
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Bijapur District of south Chhattisgarh
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Three alleged cadres of the CPI-Maoist
surrendered to the Police in Bijapur District of south Chhattisgarh.
“After being fed up with the Maoist lifestyle and the hollow ideology,
three Maoists — Sannu Lekam, Bomda Kunjam and Chaitu Udka — decided
to join the mainstream today in the presence of Bijapur district
SP K. L. Dhruv. Sannu Lekam was a ‘Jan Militia commander’ of the
Maoists in Nemed area and carried a reward of one lakh rupees
on his head,” the Bijapur Police said in a statement. Bomda Kunjam
was a ‘militia member’ and Chaitu Udka was a member of the Maoists’
small action team, the Police added.
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Non-Violent
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September 2
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
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A combined team of CRPF, CoBRA
of 209th battalion and District Police exchanged heavy firing
with CPI-Maoist top cadre Sudhakaran alias Sudhakar
who sneaked into Garu after coming down from Andhra Pradesh in
Latehar District of Jharkhand. Sources said Sudhakar's team was
no less in strength as it had around 150 cadres, all armed heavily.
Nakul and Chhotu Kharwar were also there with Sudhakar. Latehar
SP Anoop Birtharay confirmed the encounter with the Maoists led
by Sudhakar and his cadres, including Nakul and Chhotu Kharwar.
Birtharay said the SFs had to lob bombs to scatter the Maoists.
The SP said the fighting was most severe for two hours and then
it slid down to intermittent firing from the Maoists’ side which
was adequately retaliated by the SF personnels.
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Violent
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September 2
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India
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The incidents of CPI-Maoist violence
have come down by 54 per cent in the country, UHM Rajnath Singh
said, adding it was his Government’s desire to bring an end to Naxalism,
militancy and terrorism. “There is no place for violence in a
developed society and it is my desire to see that instances of Naxalism,
militancy and terrorism are brought to an end in this country,”
Singh said while speaking at the regional training centre of the
‘Greyhounds’, the special anti-Naxal operations force of Telangana
and Andhra Pradesh located on the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad.
Singh also said the Maoists morale at present is at its lowest
and the incidents of Naxal violence have come
down by 54 per cent in the various LWE-hit States of the Country.
The Home Minister lauded the courage and valour of the SF personnels
including the ‘Greyhounds’ as he added that the onus to keep India
safe and independent rests on the shoulders of these men and women.
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September 3
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Bastar District of Chhattisgarh
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As many as seventeen Naxal including
two women cadres, surrendered before Police in Bastar District
of Chhattisgarh. “One of the female surrendering ultras was a
CNM member which is banned outfit. She carried a cash reward of
` 1 lakh on her head,” SP Bastar, RN Dash said. A Naxal LOS
‘commander’ who was operating in the Niyamgiri region of neighboring
Odisha District was also among the persons surrendering, the SP
added. “They were deeply unsatisfied with the dual standards adopted
by Naxals and also were under the pressure of
anti-Naxal operations being carried out by police
forces’’, he added. He informed the cadres who surrendered were
residents of Bodavada, Badhanpal, Govindpal, Badhrimau villages
which are located near Darbha valley of Bastar region. According
to the SP, they were involved in different kinds of Maoist activities.
The rebels who have given up arms will be provided with benefits
provisioned under the surrender policy adopted by the state government,
he mentioned.
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Non-Violent
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September 3
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Khunti District of Jharkhand
|
Three cadres of LWE, Samrat Giroh,
were killed in a fratricidal war with cadres of PLFI in Kashira
village under Karra Police Station limits of Khunti District of
Jharkhand. The bodies of the three were found by locals on the
next day morning, all had multiple bullet injuries. The Samrat Giroh and
PLFI share regions of dominance in Karra and Lapung and often
indulge in fratricidal war to establish supremacy. The slain extremists
were identified as Rahul Swashi, Anil Kumar and Mukesh Singh.
"Four persons were targeted by armed men in the intervening
night of Saturday and Sunday. The fourth man possibly managed
to escape," said Khunti SP Anish Gupta. PLFI is a breakaway
faction of CPI-Maoist.
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Violent
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September 3
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Gumla District of Jharkhand
|
Two persons who killed dhaba owner
Umesh Sahu (47) in Gumla District of Jharkhand on August 31, were
arrested, from different locations of Bishunpur block of the District.
Jagannath Lohra and Babloo Lohra, during interrogations, confessed
to have executed the crime at the behest JJMP ‘area commander’
Pankaj alias Anuj. After being produced before
the judicial magistrate on September 4, the duos were remanded
to judicial custody for 14 days, following which they were sent
to Gumla divisional jail. On the fateful day, the duo had come
on a bike, which they parked at a distance before Jagannath shot
Sahu dead near his home. One of the bullets hit his head, killing
him on the spot. Gumla SP Chandan Jha said the duo abandoned the
bike, which gave the Police vital clues to lead to the arrests. JJMP
is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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September 3
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Sundargarh District of Odisha
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Two cadres of the PLFI were killed
by Rourkela Police following an exchange of fire in remote Jarda
forest under Gurundia Police limits in Sundargarh District of
Odisha. Rourkela-based IGP (Western Range) Radha Krishna Sharma
said acting on intelligence inputs about presence of a small PLFI
group in the forest, Police teams were sent to the area. Watching
the Police advance, the PLFI cadres started firing and Police
retaliated. Two cadres died on the spot, while others managed
to escape, he said, adding that two carbines, two magazines, other
ammunition, INR 50,000 cash and mobile phones were seized from
the bodies. Though efforts are on to ascertain the identities
of the dead cadres, Police suspect the two to be Shankar Munda
and Bhima Munda. Shankar, a criminal, had recently brought weapons
from PLFI groups led by Akash and Mahesh and was involved in extortion
and criminal activities in the interior areas of Rajgangpur, Gurundia
and Brahmani Tarang Police limits in the District. Shankar was
also suspected to be involved in the loot of about INR 370,000
from Malidihi branch of Utkal Gramya Bank under Rajgangpur Police
limits three days ago. PLFI is a breakaway faction of the CPI-Maoist.
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September 4
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Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
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As many as 38 Naxals,
including seven women cadres, surrendered in Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh, citing 'empty' CPI-Maoist ideology and 'wrong
policies'. "Citing frustration with empty Maoist ideology
and their wrong policies, the ultras turned up before senior Police
and ITBP officials at Narayanpur District headquarters,"
said Narayanpur SP, Abhishek Meena. Among the cadres was Punaye
Bai (40), who was active as the head of DAKMS in the region and
was carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on her head, he said. Most
of the surrendered Naxals are lower rung ultras
allegedly involved in murder, loot and attacks on the Police.
"In their statement, the ultras said they decided to quit
the movement due to growing pressure on Naxals from security personnel,
wrong policies and empty ideology of the Maoists," the SP
said.
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Non-Violent
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September 4 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
A heavily armed squad of the CPI-Maoist numbering
between 30-35, attacked the construction site of a private company
engaged in construction of Rail Bridge near Paimar River on Kiul-Gaya
section of the Eastern railways in the Gaya District of Bihar.
The attackers set ablaze seven vehicles including one crane, one
mixer and two pay loaders belonging to the construction company.
The Maoist made nearly a dozen employees captive and snatched
all their mobile phones. The workers were also robbed of their
cash, which was around INR 30,000. Huddled together, the employees
were dumped in a corner of the construction site. Two drum diesel
stocked at the construction site were also used in the arson.
Before leaving, the attackers asked the captives not to take the
diktats of the organisation lightly. Confirming the incident,
Magadh range, DIG, Saurabh Kumar disclosed, "I had visited
the arson site. The Maoists have also left behind a hand written
note attributing the attack to non-payment of 'levy' (extortion)."
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Violent |
September 4 |
West Champaran District of
Bihar |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres of Tumahawa Matiaria village
under Matiaria Police Station area in the West Champaran District
of Bihar were arrested in Gaunaha Block in the District. SHO,
Anil Kumar disclosed, Sheonarain Mahato and Manager Thakur were
wanted in several cases of murder, loot and firing and had been
evading arrest for almost a decade. They have been sent to the
Bettiah District jail.
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Non-Violent |
September 5 |
Aurangabad District of Bihar |
Maoist cadres have put up a poster with threat
messages at Dadhpa village under Kutumba Police Station in
Aurangabad District of Bihar, which came to the notice of the
villagers. The poster, carrying messages of Jitendra alias Prince
and Haridwar reads, "Martyrdom of our brave members will
not go futile and the organization will take up their unfinished
task." In the message, the Maoists have even threatened SP
Babu Ram and CAPF personnel for their participation in the ongoing
anti-Maoist operation in the District. They have also threatened
to avenge the Dumrinala encounter in July between SFs and rebels,
in which four Maoists were killed. Targeting the SP, the Maoists
have alleged that Police Forces are committing atrocities under
his leadership and the organization will punish him in at 'jan
adalat'. However, the SP said the Maoists are mainly engaged
in extortion and have nothing to do with welfare of villagers.
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Non-Violent |
September 5 |
West Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
Five cadres of the PLFI were arrested from Anandpur
thana area in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand. Three loaded
countrymade pistols were seized from Rinku Sahu, Satyanarayan
Napit, Shankar Tanti, Amarnath Kujur and Rohit Jojo. All the accused,
except Napit (30), are in their early twenties and intermediate
students. PLFI is a breakaway faction of CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 6 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an exchange of
fire with SFs in the dense forests of the Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
The skirmish took place when a team of the DRG led by Dornapal
SHO, Ajay Sonkar, was out an anti-Maoist operation in Dornapal
Police Station area, Sukma SP, Indira Kalyan Elesela said. A group
of Maoists opened indiscriminate fire on the team near Koyabekur
village following which an encounter broke out between both the
sides, he said. Meda Benjami alias Kukkal Mada,
head of Janatana Sarkar of Maoists in Kerlapal area,
was killed in the encounter, Elesela said, adding the deceased
was looking after Naxal activities in about 10
villages of the region. A muzzle loading gun and some ammunition
was recovered from the spot, he said.
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Violent |
September 6 |
Palamu District of Jharkhand |
Two TPC cadres were killed in a rival war in Palamu
District of Jharkhand. The Police recovered two bodies of the
TPC cadres from Bhelwahi village of the District. According to
a Police official, both TPC cadres were gunned down by a rival
group. TPC is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Violent |
September 6 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand |
SF personnel recovered a bludgeoned body of one
person killed by suspected PLFI cadres in Kudasud village under
Murhu tehsil in Khunti District of Jharkhand. Khunti, which is
about 35 kilometres from Ranchi, witnessed a spate of killings
perpetrated by PLFI and other CPI-Maoist-linked groups in 2011-12.
History seems to have repeated itself. Last year, 108 persons
were killed in the District - which is three times higher than
the total number of murders reported in Koderma, a District more
populous than Khunti. "The district was largely peaceful
about two decades ago," said Khunti MP, Kadiya Munda. Many
of these killings have been linked to domestic disputes. About
112 people were killed in 2011, 126 in 2012, 109 in 2013 and 99
in 2014. In the past four years, Koderma, Latehar, Simdega, Jamtara
and other Districts that are more populous than Khunti reported
more than half of the combined murders reported in Khunti. Gang
violence has also led to a spike in crime. On September 3, three
persons were killed in a "turf war". ASP, (operations)
P R Mishra said Naxal-violence has dipped. "In 2015,
only 13 people were killed by ultras," said Mishra. PLFI
is a breakaway faction of CPI-Maoist.
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Violent |
September 7 |
Mahasamund District of Chhattisgarh |
A former deputy sarpanch was
killed by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres on the suspicion of being
a ‘Police informer’ in Mahasamund District of Chhattisgarh. Khejan
Sonwani (45) was shot dead late last night at his house in Khairat
Kala village under Komakhan Police Station limits, Mahasamund
ASP, Rakesh Bhatt said. Three armed ultras stormed into his house
in Khairat Kala and pumped bullets into Sonwani, he said. The
assailants had dropped some pamphlets in which they claimed Sonwani
was acting as a mediator in tendu leaf procurement
in forests of Chhattisgarh-Odisha border and siphoned off money
in the deals, the ASP said. Besides, they also claimed that the
victim was acting as a ‘Police informer’, he added.
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Violent |
September 7 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Maoists were killed in an encounter with Police
in the dense forests in the Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
"The encounter took place this afternoon near Telmendri village
under Farsegarh Police Station limits between a joint team of
Police personnel and the ultras," IGP, Bastar Range, SRP
Kalluri said. A team comprising personnel from Kutru and Farsegarh
Police Stations were conducting an anti-Maoist operation in the
core forest of the region, located around 450 kilometres away
from Raipur, the IG said.
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Violent |
September 7 |
West Singhbhum and Khunti
Districts of Jharkhand |
Police recovered three posters and one banner
of the CPI-Maoist put up in Hurdanga panchayat under
Karaikela Police Station area close to the border of West Singhbhum
and Khunti Districts of Jharkhand, condemning the policies of
CM Raghubar Das. A team of CRPF personnel removed the posters.
The posters have created panic ahead of Maoist bandh on
September 9. The bandh has been called against
the attempts of the State Government to change land laws. "Burn
murderer Raghubar Das and police officers in the fire of Maoism,"
one poster read. A police officer said other posters talked about
intensifying the people's war against the state and establishing
the government of the peasants and the laborers. Chaibasa SP,
Michael Raj said the posters were common posters Maoists usually
put up to elicit people's support which they have lost in the
past few years. "The posters were removed by security personnel.
It was close to the national highway passing through the district,"
Raj said.
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Non-Violent |
September 7 |
Dindigul District of Tamil
Nadu |
Reena Joyce Mary, a suspected CPI-Maoist cadre,
was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Dindigul
District of Tamil Nadu. After hearing, the court adjourned the
case to September 21. Later, she was taken back to Vellore prison.
The Q Branch Police had arrested Reena in Padappai in Kanchipuram
District. Earlier, the Dindigul Police produced her before the
court on August 26 and sought its permission to take her under
its custody. They took her under its custody for two days to probe
her involvement in arms training in Kodaikanal in 2008 along with
Naveen Prasad, who was gunned down in an encounter during search
operation in 2008.
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Non-Violent |
September 8 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
Police seized a huge consignment of explosives
being smuggled from Jharkhand under Barachatti Police Station
area in the Gaya District of Bihar. SSP, Gaya Garima Mallik said
that one person was arrested from the spot while two others from
Koderma District in Jharkhand. She said that 10,350 detonators
and 6500 gelatin sticks were recovered from their possession.
An intensive interrogation of arrested rebels is on to find out
whether they had any links with extremists of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 8 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested from forests
in the Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The rebels were arrested
during a search operation by a joint team of CRPF's 168th battalion
and District Police in forests of Basaguda. According to Police,
the SFs reached near Putkel when they spotted three Maoists and
were caught under suspicion. They admitted that they were involved
in several violent activities, including loot, extortion and other
incidents, in the region. The arrested rebels were identified
as Venkteshwar Pujari, Erragola Laxmaiyya and Balram, natives
of Putkel village.
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Non-Violent |
September 8 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
SFs defused a tiffin bomb recovered near Tongpal
region in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh. The bomb disposal squad
diffused the bomb while SF personnel recovered one detonator,
one set of tool box, Maoist literature and other stuff from the
spot.
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Non-Violent |
September 8 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
72 Maoist cadres and their sympathisers surrendered
before the Police in Narayanpur District in the tribal Bastar
region of Chhattisgarh. Among them were 62 Maoists and their 10
grass root level supporters, belonging to remote villages of Abujmarh,
surrendered before Police and ITBP. Three of them were active
LGS members, eight are members of Maoists' cultural wing CNM and
four are Janatana Sarkar group members. Besides,
45 others were associated with the outlawed movement as Jan militia
members. Narayanpur ASP, Anil Soni said the rebels themselves
turned up at Kurushnar Police Station to surrender claiming being
fed up with the Maoist way of life and violence and want to return
to mainstream. He said one of the main reasons for Maoists surrendering
was the pressure being mounted by the SFs coupled with the attractive
surrender and rehabilitation policy of the State Government. He
also said those surrendered would be entitled for rehabilitation
as per the policy. Soni also told that some of them were involved
in several incidents of murder, arson and attacks on SFs.
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Non-Violent |
September 8 |
Khammam District of Telangana |
A SGS member of the CPI-Maoist, wanted in as many
as 19 cases, surrendered along with his wife before the Police
at Venkatapuram in Bhadrachalam division in the Khammam District
of Telangana. According to Police sources, Veko Joga alias Jangu,
a SGS member, of Yerrampadu in Charla mandal of
Khammam District and his wife Nupa Paike, a Maoist squad member
of Usoor in Bijapur District of neighbouring Chhattisgarh, gave
themselves up to the Venkatapuram Police. Joga joined the CPI-Maoist
around eight years ago and served as a militia member initially
before being elevated as the SGS member of Khammam District in
2010. He married a fellow Maoist Nupa Paike while leading an underground
life. He surrendered to the Police due to ill-health, sources
said.
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Non-Violent |
September 8 |
Medak District of Telangana |
Medak District’s Ordinance Factory Medak Defence
Employees’ Mutually Aided Cooperative Housing Society Limited
president K. Ravinder Goud has alleged that he has been receiving
threat calls in the name of Sridhar Reddy claiming to be an associate
of CPI-Maoist. In a memorandum submitted to the Police, Ravinder
Goud said that there were about 1,200 members in the society and
construction of houses was on. He said he had received a call
from someone identifying himself as Sridhar Reddy of Bhongir in
Nalgonda District on August 31 asking the organisation to vacate
the construction site within two days or face dire consequences.
He said he had received another call on September 6 threatening
to kill him and urged the Police to provide him protection.
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Non-Violent |
September 9 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Four IEDs planted by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
were recovered by the SFs from Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
A joint team of CRPF’s 217 battalion and District Force recovered
the explosives under Maraiguda Police Station limits while patrolling
to ensure security to the under construction Maraiguda-Golapalli
road, Sukma SP, Indira Kalyan Elesela said. SFs had launched the
operation from Maraiguda towards Golapalli, and about six-kilometres
away from Maraiguda, they spotted the first explosive placed in
a steel container, hidden about 20 metres beneath the ground on
the under-construction road in the forests. Subsequently, three
more IEDs recovered close to the spot, he said. The explosives
were weighed between five to 10 kilograms, he added. Later, the
IEDs were destroyed by the bomb disposal squad.
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Non-Violent |
September 9 |
West Midnapore District of
West Bengal |
The CRPF recovered a high-intensity landmine,
possibly planted by CPI-Maoist cadres, from West Midnapore District
of West Bengal. According to reports, acting on a tip off, personnel
of CRPF’s 165 battalion, along with CoBRA force, spotted the landmine,
weighing seven kilograms, beside a road at Kushboni Forest area
near Binpur under Jhargram Sub-Division limits. Later, the bomb
disposal unit of the central SF rushed to the spot and defused
the landmine. CRPF officials said that the Maoists had planted
the mine recently.
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Non-Violent |
September 10 |
Gumla District of Jharkhand |
The Police arrested six cadres of the CPI-Maoist
and recovered arms and ammunition from Gumla District of Jharkhand.
Acting on a tip-off, the Police raided a hideout where the Maoists
were staying out of sight. SP, Chandan Jha said the extremists
had been trained in and sent from neighbouring Odisha to set up
a trusted network in Gumla. "I hope that peace will prevail
in the area after their arrest. We have recovered four bullets,
three pistols and some pamphlets from the six arrested Maoists,"
Jha said.
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Non-Violent |
September 10 |
Sundargarh District of Odisha |
A CPI-Maoist couple, identified as Sanika Topno
and Sunita Hansdah, carrying a cash reward of INR 200,000 surrendered
before Rourkela Police in Sundargarh District of Odisha. The couple
was the members of a group led by senior Maoist leader Samarjee alias Anmol
Hembram operating in Saranda Division of neighbouring Jharkhand,
sources said. Notably, the 25-year-old Sanika Topno alias Sangel
Munda alias Susil hails from Langalkanta under
K Balang Police Station in the District and had married 20-year-old
Sunita Hansdah alias Sushari alias Mariam
from West Singhbhum District in Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent |
September 11 |
Gumla District of Jharkhand |
A top CPI-Maoist leader Ashish Yadav alias
Ashish Da was killed in an encounter with Police and Central Paramilitary
Forces at Borodih village under Palkot Police Station area in
the Gumla District of Jharkhand. He carried a bounty of INR 2.5
million. A SLR, with two other rifles including one American Springfield
rifle was recovered from the jungle along with his body. A member
of CPI-Maoist powerful BJSAC - one of the topmost Maoist units
in Bihar and Jharkhand - Ashish da was the brain behind many big
Maoist strikes in both the states. IG operations and Police spokesperson
M S Bhatia said the operation was launched on specific inputs.
"The jawans on his trail engaged him in the encounter when
he started fleeing from the spot with other Maoists. The encounter
continued for over 30 minutes," Bhatia said. A source said
Ashish was moving to a secured place in the jungle before he was
engaged in the encounter. BJSAC members - who often work to support
the rebels at the ideological level and devise plans - generally
move into the forests with enough troops for strike.
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September 11 |
Ranchi, Khunti, Simdega, Gumla,
West Singhbhum and other Maoist-hit Districts of Jharkhand |
The first day of the statewide CPI-Maoist bandh had
a mixed impact. Hundreds of passengers and commuters were left
stranded in Ranchi, Khunti, Simdega, Gumla, West Singhbhum and
other Maoist-hit Districts of Jharkhand. The inter-District buses
remained off the roads and passengers in trouble. Police spokesperson
IGP M S Bhatia said no untoward incident was reported during the bandh,
called against the State Government's move to amend land laws
in the state. "The market places were closed in some areas
in the countryside. The bandh was peaceful," he said. In
Giridih, Maoists put up banners and posters on the wall of Hatiya
maidan at Madhuban, close to the Jain shrine, under Pirtand Police
Station of Giridih District. The banners created fear in the people
despite increased movements of the forces after the banners were
spotted. "The CPI (Maoists) vehemently protested the bills
regarding changes and amendments in the CNT and SPT Acts by the
Raghubar Das government," the banner read.
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September 11 |
Patna District of Bihar |
Police seized huge cache of arms and ammunition,
including three magazines of AK-47 rifle, and arrested one person
near Kurkuri Bridge under Beur Police Station in Patna District
of Bihar. The arrested person has been identified as Sanjay Kumar
Rai, a resident of Beur. Police said the cache, which also included
214 pieces of 7.62mm bullets and 320 bullets of 8mm bore, was
probably meant for supply either to CPI-Maoist or criminals. ASP
Rakesh Kumar said Sanjay was carrying the ammunition in a shoulder
bag and the bullets were packed in small packets. "He told
us that the consignment was being brought to Patna from Gaya.
It is not immediately known the consignment was meant for whom.
Cartridges of AK-47 are usually not sold in the open market. It
means that the consignment was meant either for Maoists or criminals,"
Kumar said, adding that ATS and STF officials would also interrogate
the arrested arms smuggler.
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September 12 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Five CPI-Maoist cadres, who were allegedly involved
in setting fire on vehicles engaged in a road construction last
year, were arrested from Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. Acting
on specific inputs, the Maoists were arrested from the forests
of Rampuram village under the Bhopalpatnam Police Station area
by a team of local Police, SP of Bijapur, K.L. Dhruv said. The
arrested cadres, Ramesh Durgam (22), Ishtari Durgam (25), Santosh
Jhadi (27), Rapur Mahesh (34) and Jhadi Satyanarayan (26), are
lower rung members of the CPI-Maoist, he said. On October 25,
2015, at least 37 vehicles and machines engaged in the construction
of the Bhopalpatnam-Bhadrakali-Tarlaguda road, were set ablaze
by the Maoists at three different locations. The accused were
allegedly part of Maoists’ squad that set afire the vehicles at
a location in Bhopalpatnam, the SP said.
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September 12 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Two CPI-Maoist ‘area commanders’ Rajesh Kharwar
and Nirmal Singh Kharwar were arrested from different parts of
Chhipadohar in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent |
September 12 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
PLFI supporter Nirbahan Baraik was arrested from
Simdega District of Jharkhand. PLFI is a splinter group of the
CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 12 |
Simdega and Gumla Districts
of Jharkhand |
The State Police has launched operations in Simdega
and Gumla Districts of Jharkhand to trace 30-odd Maoists who managed
to escape an encounter on September 11, in which Maoist top leader
Ashish alias Ashish Yadav, was killed. Ashish,
member of Maoists' powerful BJSAC, was moving through the forests
with 30-odd Maoists when the CRPF and Gumla Police engaged them
in an encounter in Palkot on the border of Gumla and Simdega Districts.
"We will not allow the Maoists to take shelter in Simdega,"
said IG operations and Police spokesperson M S Bhatia.
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September 12 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
Two PLFI cadres were arrested from a house in
Bero on the outskirts of Ranchi District of Jharkhand. Police
have recovered a pistol and one round of ammunition from Pancham
Oraon (22) and Vivek Oraon (19). PLFI is a splinter group of the
CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 12 |
Chikkamagaluru District of
Karnataka |
The Chikkamagaluru District Police of Karnataka
took into custody a suspected CPI-Maoist who was arrested in Bengaluru.
The arrested has been identified as Shivakumar alias Ramesh
(51), a native of Raichur. He is wanted in 24 cases registered
in various Police Stations in Chikkamagaluru and other Districts.
He is said to be the key organiser of the Naxal movement
in the State. “We have arrested Shivakumar alias Ramesh. He is
the key person in organising the Naxals in the State. He was coordinating
with his counterparts in other States. We traced him to Bengaluru
and have taken him into police custody for 10 days,” K. Annamalai,
SP, informed.
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September 13 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
Six PLFI cadres, who were celebrating Karma with
locals in Simdega District of Jharkhand, escaped after a brief
encounter with Police. As they had mingled with the crowd, Police
had to restrain firing. The PLFI cadres, who came to the spot
on two-wheelers, managed to flee taking advantage of this situation.
SP of Simdega, Rajiv Ranjan Singh said a team of Policemen was
mobilized on the basis of specific information that some extremists
are coming to the area to celebrate the festival. "We wanted
to catch them and a trap was laid," he added. "A few
rounds were fired," said a Police officer. He added that
there was a top PLFI leader among them as they rode expensive
two-wheelers. The SP said operations against PLFI, which has a
strong presence in Simdega, will continue. The top PLFI leader
was ‘chief’ Dinesh Gope and some of his men who fled. Police pasted
notices on their homes, declaring them absconders, announcing
a reward of INR 2.5 million on Gope's head. PLFI is a splinter
group of the CPI-Maoist.
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September 14 |
Chikkamagaluru District of
Karnataka |
Recently arrested CPI-Maoist leader Ramesh alias Shivakumar,
now in Chikkamagaluru Police custody, has made startling revelations
regarding his plans to blast Government offices in Sringeri and
Koppa taluks in Chikkamagaluru District of Karnataka
by this month end. Until recently, no major Naxal activities
except for some posters and banners were observed in the Malnad
region. During interrogation, Ramesh allegedly confessed to having
made preparations to conduct blasts at Government offices and
execute the plan in association with his accomplices, said sources.
Sources added that Ramesh, arrested in Bengaluru on September
12, had taken the responsibility of leading Naxals in
the State. Police have also obtained information that only 5-6 Naxals including
Vanajakshi, Mundagaru Latha, Suresh alias Pradeep
and John have been operating in the State, while Vikram Gowda
and B G Krishnamurthy are concentrating on Kerala. Kuppuswamy
is said to have been the central committee member of South India,
has been reportedly receiving information from Ramesh. According
to Police, the entire Naxal activity in South
India will come to a halt if Kuppuswamy is arrested. Police had
planned to nab Kuppuswamy last month through his association with
Ramesh but he managed to escape after a chase.
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September 15 |
Andhra Pradesh |
The CPI-Maoist have floated six new front organisations
in Andhra Pradesh to infiltrate mass agitations like the one for
capital area farmers' rights and Bhogapuram land losers issues,
according to State and Central Intelligence agencies. As guerrilla
squads have weakened and their capability to carry out attacks
has been almost neutralised by the Police, the extremists are
focusing on front organisations. Fronts which were defunct or
had become inactive have been activated. A top official of anti-Maoist
intelligence said, “We have information that Maoists have floated
six new front organisations on Amaravati farmers’ rights issues
in land acquisition and land pooling areas. Apart from that they
have also used the death of Rohith Vemula at the Hyderabad Central
University to strengthen themselves under the pretext of fighting
caste oppression.” “Intelligence has found that top Maoist leaders
are in touch with the frontal groups. Their recruitments have
come down. So they are trying to focus on universities and colleges
particularly in Nellore and Ongole by raking up the issue of Rohith
Vemula. At the 2015 plenary the CC decided to focus on strengthening
mass agitations and have started giving more funds to front organisations.”
Earlier, most of these groups were Hyderabad centric. Now they
have shifted attention to AP.
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September 15 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre, carrying a reward of INR 100,000
on his head, was arrested from Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
Midiam Raja (28) was arrested by a joint team of SFs during a
search operation in the forest under Basaguda Police Station limits,
Bijapur, ASP, Mohit Garg said. SF personnel had launched the operation
in Basaguda region, since September 14. While cordoning-off the
forest close to Polampalli village, they arrested the rebel who
was trying to escape, he said. Raja was allegedly involved in
cases of attempt to murder.
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September 15 |
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh |
A joint team of ITBP and District Police detected
a pipe bomb that was planted by Maoists in Khandgaon Police Station
limits in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh. According to the
Police, the joint team of ITBP and District Police had started
from Khandgaon Police Station on a search operation. The team
detected a pipe bomb planted by Maoists on the way leading to
Godavari mine from Dorba. The bomb weighing about 10 kilograms
was planted by Maoists was defused by BDS team, Police said.
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September 15 |
Seraikela-Kharsawan District
of Jharkhand |
A 30-year-old suspected CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
from Kharsawan in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan District of
Jharkhand. Police recovered a country-made pistol and Maoist literature
from Karam Singh Munda.
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September 15 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
A woman cadre of the CPI-Maoist was reportedly
killed in an encounter with the Police in the Niyamgiri forests
in Kalahandi District of Odisha. According to reports, the Maoist
was killed during a combing operation at a location in the Niyamgiri
hills under the Lanjigarh Police Station. Police recovered an
INSAS rifle, a SLR rifle and two other rifles during the operation,
reports said. The killed Maoist was a member of the Bansadhara-Ghumusar-Nagabali
division of the CPI-Maoist.
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September 15 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
CPI-Maoist leader Nikhil alias Niranjan
Rout, who leads the Bansadhara-Ghumusar-Nagavali Division of the
CPI-Maoist, was present during the exchange of fire between the
Maoists and SFs in Kalahandi District of Odisha. This was stated
by DIG, south-west range, S Saini. The DIG and Kalahandi, SP,
Brijesh Rai said, the SOG team and District Police were combing
the Phulbari forest near Katland village under Bijepur Police
limits when the exchange of fire took place in which, one woman
Maoist cadre was killed. Her identity is yet to be established.
Nikhil managed to escape from the Maoist camp during the gun-battle,
Saini said, adding that two SLR rifles, one INSAS rifle, two .303
rifles and live cartridges, 20 detonators, a tiffin bomb, electrical
wires and Maoist literature were seized from the camp. Other logistic
materials were also recovered from the spot. The DIG said so far
seven Maoists have been killed in Kalahandi and among them, six
are women cadres. So far, six Maoists have surrendered. Saini
said Maoists are deploying women cadres in the first line of defence
and in sentry duty and thus, the casualty of women cadres is high.
While the women cadres provide cover to the Maoist group, the
male cadres escape.
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September 16 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A CoBRA trooper was injured during an encounter
with CPI-Maoist in a dense forest of Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
The skirmish took place in Karigundam forests under Chintagufa
Police Station limits while a team of CoBRA 206th battalion was
returning after carrying out an area domination operation in the
region, SP of Sukma, Indira Kalyan Elesela said. SFs had launched
the operation from its Timilwada camp to the interiors of Chintagufa.
The trooper, identified as head constable Uday Narayan, sustained
bullet injury on his stomach, the SP said.
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September 16 |
Gumla District of Jharkhand |
A 30-year-old youth was reportedly beaten to death
by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres in Bishunpur block in Gumla District
of Jharkhand.
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September 16 |
Balangir District of Odisha |
Maoist posters with mentions of six demands were
found at different places at Gudighat village under Muribahal
block in Balangir District of Odisha. According to information,
the posters mentioned about six various demands made by Maoists
of Balangir-Bargarh-Mahasamund division. The Maoist rebels have
demanded that Government should give drought assistance to tribal
people soon.
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September 16 |
Purulia District of West Bengal |
Two suspected CPI-Maoist cadres have been arrested
from the Arsha area in Purulia District of West Bengal. The Police
have seized two small arms and some ammunition from the accused.
Acting on a tip-off Police arrested Kabita Ghorai alias Kalpana alias Sarala
(27) and Panchanan Mahato (28) from the Arsha Police Station area
near the Purulia Main Road. “Two persons who were earlier associated
with Maoist-related cases were arrested on Friday (September 16)
evening. They were produced in court today [Saturday, September
17] and remanded to police custody for nine days,” SP of Purulia,
Rupesh Kumar said.
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September 17 |
Andhra Pradesh |
East Division Committee of the CPI-Maoist called
upon the people to celebrate the 12th formation day of the party
on September 21 and asserted that the party was strong among the
people and police were doing a campaign against it. It wanted
people to support the party’s armed struggle to end exploitation
of the majority of the people by a small minority. In a press
release, the east division committee also alleged that SP, R.D.
Sharma and OSD, A. Babujee were claiming that the party had lacked
support among Girijans and that Girijans had celebrated after
Maoists were killed in the Palasamudram area on May 4. The party’s
support among Girijans remained intact in spite of “severe police
repression” and in spite of the police trying to prevent them,
the Girijans raised money for death ceremony of Kudumula Venkata
Ramana (Ravi). In Balapam area locals were forced to produce Aadhaar
card, ration card or voter card when they purchase commodities
or fertilizers for the crops they are rising, the party alleged.
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September 17 |
Andhra Pradesh |
The CPI-Maoist came out in support of the separatists
who are opposing the Indian Government in Pakistan. Political
representative of AOBZC of the party Jaganabandhu in a press release
hailed the separatists in Kashmir as “setting an example with
a strong, spirited fight by combining people’s agitation with
militant struggle.” In the press release, the party asked the
Government to conduct a referendum, take action on the officers
involved in the Burhan Wani encounter, lift house arrest of APHC
leaders, etc.
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Non-Violent |
September 17 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
The District Police arrested three CPI-Maoist
cadres, including the head of a local outfit, during a search
in Kuinar village in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. One
of the arrested Maoists had a reward of INR 100,000 on him. According
to Police, a team of officers did a search operation in Akabeda,
Kastoormeta, Kodkanar and Kuinar jungles, in Abujhmaad. While
returning, the soldiers found two suspects hidden in Kuinar jungle.
They surrounded and captured them. The Maoists were identified
as Nani Kunjam (40), president of local Maoist group Nana Koram,
and Motu Koram (37). A large haul of guns, a two kilograms tiffin
bomb and 200 meters of electrical wire was also confiscated from
the Maoists.
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Non-Violent |
September 17 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
To protest against the killings of innocent by
the Maoists, students, activists, local organizations and Bastar
residents took part in 'Lalkar rally' organised in Jagdalpur city
in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh. The protest march started
from Hata ground and after passing through prominent streets culminated
at the same place with large number of people joining in from
neighbouring Districts. The march was convened by AGNI - an organisation
spearheading anti-Maoists protest in the region for past few months.
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September 17 |
Lohardaga District of Jharkhand |
A 40-year-old tribal Bindeshwar Oraon was beaten
up by CPI-Maoist cadres, branding him as ‘Police informer’ in
Hatbal village in Hesag panchayat under Siringdag Police
Station area Lohardaga District of Jharkhand. The injured tribal
succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in the District. SP of
Lohardaga, Kartik S said, Oraon was a medical practitioner and
also worked for the Maoists. "Maoists used to seek his service
when they fell sick. He had treated many Maoist leaders. The Maoists
have killed him because they suspected his honesty," said
Kartik. Lohardaga SP said that Oraon did not work for the Police.
"The Maoists allegations are false. The case is being investigated.
A team has been asked to find out the names of Maoists involved
in his murder," he said. There are unconfirmed reports that
Maoists held a jan adalat before beating him, but Lohardaga
SP ruled it out. A Police officer said that Maoist leader Nakul
Yadav is behind the killing.
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September 17 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Gadchiroli Police arrested Ranu Usendi, Kasansur
action team ‘commander’ and local organization squad member of
the CPI-Maoist, from his village Javeli in Raigarh District of
Maharashtra, where he had come to attend a family programme. He
had joined the rebel movement in 2005. Usendi has been remanded
to Police custody for five days.
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Non-Violent |
September 17 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Three Maoists surrendered before the District
administration in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. They have
been identified as Kanhu Usendi, Ankush Narote and Ramji Kawdo.
The three had been involved in the movement for last several years.
They were also behind many offences and sabotaging activities.
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Non-Violent |
September 17 |
Sundargarh District of Odisha |
At least three members of a family involved in
harbouring PLFI cadres were arrested with arms and ammunition
from Khukundubahal village under Biramitrapur Police limits in
Sundargarh District of Odisha. However, a group of about 10 PLFI
cadres present at Khukundubahal, about 25 kilometres from Rourkela,
managed to give Police the slip. SP of Sundargarh, Nikhil Kanodia
said eight single barrel rifles, 41 rounds of live ammunition
and 11.3 kilograms of high-end explosive in semi-solid form were
recovered from the house of those arrested. He identified them
as Surendra Nanda, a gram rakhi, his son Afindra and nephew Tureswar
Nanda. They were providing logistic support to the PLFI group.
PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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September 17 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
Top Maoist leader Daya of AOBZC escaped from the
clutches of SOG troopers in Panasput village under Padua Police
limits in Koraput District of Odisha. According to sources, an
exchange of fire took place between Police and CPI-Maoist cadres
for several hours in the forest. On a tip off that Daya and some
Maoists of Chhattisgarh were camping in the forest, Police launched
an extensive combing operation. During this time, the Maoists
opened fire and the SOG troopers retaliated. The exchange of fire
continued for hours after which the rebels fled from the spot
leaving behind some Maoist materials, arms and ammunition. Police
recovered detonators, IED bombs, gun making materials, Maoist
literature and uniforms, among other things.
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September 18 |
Banka District of Bihar |
At least six CPI-Maoist cadres were suspected
to be injured in a clash with Police in Hardiya Padariya jungles
under Anandpur Police outpost in Banka District of Bihar. The
injured Maoists managed to escape but bloodstains found at several
places indicated that they were injured during the encounter,
SP, Rajiv Ranjan said. Around a hundred rounds were fired from
both sides during the encounter, the SP said, adding that Police
destroyed a bunker of the rebels. The Police seized half a dozen
detonators, 100 cartridges, 12 mobile phone sets and Naxal
literature from the site.
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September 18 |
Gumla District of Jharkhand |
The 30-year-old youth who was reportedly beaten
to death by suspected Maoists in Vishunpur block in Gumla District
on September 16, was identified as Karma Oraon, a ward committee
member. The Maoists first dragged him to a kangaroo court
at Kath Thokwa and then pumped bullets into his body. SP of Gumla,
Chandan Jha maintained that deceased Karma never extended any
direct or indirect support to the Police. "Personal feud
might have been a reason behind the killing. Probe is on and search
operations have been intensified," he added. No one has been
arrested in this case so far.
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September 18 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
District Police have launched a new offensive,
using posters as weapon, to offset PLFI influence in remote areas
of Simdega District of Jharkhand. The Police have put up posters
on the walls across rebel-hit villages, carrying pictures of notorious
PLFI rebels with rewards on their heads. Also, the posters put
up at key junctions and along important thoroughfares, warn villagers
of dire consequences if they provide any kind of help to the rebels.
Sources said the poster drive, launched on September 13, had already
slammed the brakes on the movement of PLFI, a Maoist splinter
group, in the area to an extent. "They can no more move about
freely in the guise of villagers. The posters carry their photographs
and thus, anyone can recognise them," said Police.
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September 18 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
A female Maoist, carrying a cash reward of INR
500,000 on her head, was arrested by Police from Dantewada District
of Chhattisgarh. “The ultra identified as Lakke alias Lakkhe (28)
resident of Permapara Burgum under Aranpur police station, was
rounded up on the basis of information provided by intelligence
agencies,” ASP of Dantewada (Naxal operations) Gorakhnath Baghel
said. According to Baghel, the arrested female Maoist was associated
with the CPI-Maoist for past 14 years and had served at various
Maoist key posts like ‘area committee member’/ ‘Jantana Sarkar
President’ and similar other. “She was part of Naxal area committee
in Malangir region and was involved in executing various major
Naxal incidents and executing tribal civilians after holding ‘Jan
Adalat’,” the APS said. Lakke used to provide ground support to
senior Naxal leaders like members of DKSZC. She
used to keep the information about the movement of Police Forces
in her region and used to pass the Intel to Naxal leaders,
the ASP mentioned.
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September 18 |
Koraput District of Odisha |
SF personnel destroyed a camp of the CPI-Maoist,
during combing operations in the forested area between Dumuriguda-Panasput-Kandra
in Hatibari panchayat under Padwa Police limits
of Nandapur block in Koraput District of Odisha. Acting on intelligence
inputs that armed Maoists were hiding in the nearby forested area,
personnel of SOG and DVF, conducted a combing operation in Panasput
forest under Hatibari panchayat and have seized
two walkie-talkie sets, huge quantities of explosives including
detonators, medicines and Maoist literature, informed SP of Koraput,
Charan Singh Meena. The rebels belonged to AOBSZC’s Koraput division
of the CPI-Maoist, Meena said.
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September 18 |
Kandhamal District of Odisha |
Police busted an illegally country-made gun manufacturing
unit at Pangapaju village in Kandhamal District of Odisha. Acting
on a tip-off, Police raided the unit at Bindhani Sahi in Pangapaju
village and arrested the two persons allegedly involved in manufacturing
of firearms. The arrested persons were identified as Banchhanidhi
Bindhani (45), and Rohit Bindhani (40). The manufacturing tools
seized from duo included wooden butts (6) iron barrel (8), trigger
(3), trigger guard (1), cutter and polish machine (1), driller
(3) and several other items, said Police. "During the interrogation,
we came to know they were supplying most of the country-made firearms
to Nayagarh district though middlemen," said SP of Kandhamal,
Pinak Mishra. On an average, they were manufacturing seven to
eight country-made guns a month and supplied them to various buyers,
said, OIC, Gochhapada Police Station, Mrutunjaya Pradhan. Police
said they would investigate whether they have any link with the
Maoists. Banchhanidhi was arrested by Police for manufacturing
firearms about nine years ago and lodged in the jail for some
years.
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September 18 |
Bhubaneswar of Odisha |
Three days after reviewing CPI-Maoist menace at
the unified command meeting in Bhubaneswar, DGP K B Singh said,
the LWEs are trying to regroup in Odisha. "We still face
challenge from ultras even though situation has improved a lot.
Recent seizure of explosives from their hideouts in different
districts indicates the Red rebels are trying to spread their
activities again," Singh said.
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September 19 |
Banka and Jamui Districts
of Bihar |
Police lunched massive combing operations in Banka
and Jamui Districts of Bihar, after an hour-long gun battle between
the Policemen and Maoists on September 18. Sushil M. Singh Khopde,
IGP, Bhagalpur range, claimed that active Policing had managed
to ward off the rebel attack in Banka on September 18. "On
the basis of some information a police team led by Banka SP Rajiv
Ranjan along with special task force and paramilitary forces like
Sashastra Seema Bal, conducted raids in the forests at Hardiya-Parariya
falling under the rebel-hit Anandpur police outpost in Banka when
the Maoists started firing on the police," IG Khopde said.
"No one could be arrested. The most-wanted rebel leader Mantu
Khaira, who was present during the encounter, too managed to escape
but bloodstains suggested the rebels suffered heavy injuries in
the police retaliation."
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September 19 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Five Maoists including those involved in murder
of scribe Sai Reddy in Bijapur District of Bastar region in Chhattisgarh
were arrested during an operation carried out by SFs. The Maoists
arrested from the District were identified as Punem Gandhi (28),
Dodi Chaitu (32), Kakem Lakhmu (28), Punem Lachhu (28) and Dodi
Aytu (40), ASP of Bijapur, Mohit Garg, said, while adding that
they were arrested by a joint team of CRPF’s 168th battalion and
District Force from the forests of Basaguda Police Station. According
to the ASP, they all are natives of Korsaguda village of Basaguda.
“Gandhi, Lakhmu, Lachhu and Chaitu were involved in the murder
of the journalist Sai Reddy that had happened on December 6, 2013,
near Taliperu of Basaguda,” the ASP said. Another cadre Aytu,
who was a Janmilitia member, was wanted in two Maoist related
cases, the ASP said. Besides, they were involved in multiple offences,
including murder, attempt to murder, attacks on Police party and
others, he added.
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September 19 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
Six Maoists were arrested from Narayanpur District
of Bastar region in Chhattisgarh. The six Maoist militia members
identified as Bhagtu Ram, Sonu Korram, Ramlal Yadav, Bulku Korram,
Pohlu Korram and Raju Korram were arrested from Chhotedongar Police
Station area of the District. These rebels tried to scare a composite
squad of STF and District Force while it was patrolling in Toyameta
forests of the region by bursting crackers. They then tried to
escape from the spot but Police personnel arrested them, ASP of
Narayanpur, Anil Soni, said. They were members of Kilam Janmilitia
group of the CPI-Maoist and were allegedly involved in arranging
meetings for their senior leader, providing meals and extending
other kinds of assistance to them, he added.
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September 19 |
Delhi |
An inter-state arms supplier, who has INR 100,000
bounty on his head, with links to CPI-Maoist of Jharkhand area
has been arrested by the Police in Delhi. Raj Kumar Yadav, a resident
of Samastipur District in Bihar, was arrested by the Crime Branch
sleuths from Dwarka area of west Delhi, a Police official said.
A sophisticated pistol, along with three live cartridges, was
recovered from his possession. "He supplied hand-grenades
to dreaded criminal Vikash Dagar to eliminate his rival Krishan
Pahalwan through Harcharan Sardar. He also has contacts with the
LWEs in Jharkhand area and claims to be their source of arms and
ammunition," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra
Yadav said.
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Non-Violent |
September 20 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Three LWEs were arrested from different parts
of Latehar District of Jharkhand. Nishant Choubey and Bhupesh
Yadav from the TPC outfit were arrested from a place under Manika
Police Station limits in the District, while JJMP cadre Gopal
Singh was arrested from Town area in the District. Two countrymade
pistols, live cartridges and mobile phones were found on them.
TPC and JJMP are both splinter groups of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 20 |
Raipur of Chhattisgarh |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including a couple who
were allegedly involved in 2010 Tadmetla incident in which 76
SF personnel were killed, surrendered before Chhattisgarh's SIB
in Raipur. "The Naxals turned themselves
in expressing their desire to lead a normal family life and at
the same time cited disappointment with Maoist policy," SDGP
(Anti-Naxal operations/ SIB) DM Awasthi said. Of them, a ‘section
Commander’ of Naxal Military Battalion number
1, Jhitru alias Jittu (27) and his wife Sapka
Pojje (23) who was also a member of the same military battalion,
were key cadres of the CPI-Maoist in south Bastar, he said.
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Non-Violent |
September 20 |
Raipur of Chhattisgarh |
One woman Maoist, Shyam Bati alias Laxmi
(28), who was active as Sitanadi Area Committee member, was another
among surrendered before Chhattisgarh's SIB in Raipur. Laxmi's
husband, who was also a Maoist cadre, had recently surrendered
before SIB. They all will be ensured facilities under Surrender
and Rehabilitation policy of the State Government, the SDGP added.
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Non-Violent |
September 20 |
Bastar region of Chhattisgarh |
A Maoist couple, involved in major incidents of Naxal violence
in tribal Bastar region, surrendered before Chhattisgarh Police,
claiming that they were fed up with rebel way of life. SDGP (Anti-Naxal
operations) Durgesh Madhav Awasthy said that Shayamvati alias Laxmi
Usendi and her husband Sariyyu alias Sanjay (28),
who were active in Mainpur-Nuapara region close to State's inter-State
border with Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, gave up arms to return
to mainstream of the society. He said the woman Maoist was the
CPI-Maoist Saitanadi ‘area committee member’ while her husband
was also an ‘area committee member’ and ‘commander’ of the rebel
outfit.
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Non-Violent |
September 21 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
A DRG jawan was killed and two others were injured
in an encounter with CPI-Maoist in the interior forests of Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh. The encounter took place while a joint
team of DRG and District Force was carrying out an anti-Naxal operation
in the forests of Mardapal Police Station area, IGP (Bastar Range),
SRP Kalluri said. SFs had been conducting the operation based
on specific inputs about the movement of ultras in restive Ranapal
and Kudur area of Mardapal. While they were cordoning off a forest
pocket close to Kudur village, a group of armed rebels opened
indiscriminate fire on them, triggering a heavy exchange of gunfire,
he said. According to the IGP, the Naxals are unhappy with the
construction of a bridge on a river near Kudur that connects Kondagaon
to Abhujmarh region (considered a Maoist bastion) and therefore
they often target SFs in this area.
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Violent |
September 21 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A CoBRA jawan, who was critically injured in an
encounter with the Maoists in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh last
week, succumbs to his injuries in Raipur. Head Constable Uday
Narayan Goud (41), belonging to CRPF's specialised unit CoBRA
206th battalion, succumbed this morning at Ramkrishna Care Hospital
in Raipur, a CRPF official said. The jawan had sustained bullet
injuries in his stomach during the gun-battle with ultras which
took place in the restive Karigundam forests under Chintagufa
Police Station limits of Sukma on September 16 while they were
returning after an area domination operation in the region.
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Violent |
September 21 |
Palamau District of Jharkhand |
The CPI-Maoist kicked off a week-long campaign
to mark its ‘foundation day’, urging people through posters to
support them and denouncing the Government. Some of these posters,
which appeared at prominent points in remote areas of Palamau
District, ask the commoners to strengthen the hands of "their
united front with the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army",
the military wing of CPI-Maoist. The extremist group also lambasted
the Government's surrender policy and advocated overthrowing the
Narendra Modi Government at the Centre, where BJP president Amit
Shah and UHM Rajnath Singh play important roles. The posters further
say that splinter groups like TPC, PLFI, JJMP and JPC were armed
criminal gangs enjoying Police patronage and they needed to be
taught lesson. The Maoists vowed to eliminate SPOs in the villages.
A Maoist banner was also found at Rampur panchayat Bhavan
in Chainpur area of Gumla District. Following recovering of the
posters, search operations have been intensified. "Presence
of these posters does not confirm presence of armed Maoist squads
in the area. Such posters are usually pasted by their supporters
at secluded places late at night. Nonetheless, we are vigilant.
Our search operations are in full swing. Everything is under control,"
said Palamau range DIG Vipul Shukla.
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Non-Violent |
September 21 |
Khammam District of Telangana |
Venkatapuram circle Police have mounted extra
vigil in villages on the forest fringe in Charla and Venkatapuram mandals in
Khammam District of Telangana, as CPI-Maoist started its foundation
week celebrations. The LWEs have already launched a wall poster
campaign in the remote tribal pockets along the Telangana-Chhattisgarh
border urging people to make the foundation week celebrations
a success.
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Non-Violent |
September 22 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two SF personnel were injured in an IED blast
triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The incident took place when a joint team of STF and District
Forces was out on an anti-Maoist operation in Madded Police Station
area, ASP of Bijapur, Mohit Garg said. The composite squad had
launched the operation from Madded. When they reached near Gorna
rivulet, the rebels detonated an IED and opened indiscriminate
fire on the SFs leading to a gun-battle, he said. However, rebels
soon fled the spot on finding SF personnel zeroing on them, Garg
said, adding, "Two jawans sustained injuries in the explosion
and were airlifted to Raipur for treatment." Those injured
were assistant constable Sadanandam Dhannur and secret trooper
Abhaiyya Jabba. SFs have launched a combing operation in the region
to arrest the attackers, he said.
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Violent |
September 22 |
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh |
Police recovered arms, ammunition and other items
following an encounter with LWEs in Chhuikhadan region of Rajnandgaon
District of Chhattisgarh. “We had received intelligence inputs
about the movement of Maoists in the area bordering Maharashtra.
Accordingly, an anti-insurgency operation was launched from Chhuikhadan
police station,” SHO Chhuikhadan Inspector Santram Soni informed.
According to the SHO, the operation was launched on September
20 and the Police force while covering Devarcha, Chatrela Kukripat
villages was searching a forested hilly terrain between Budhanbhata
and Kukripat villages on September 22. Around 1.30 pm, the Police
party confronted Maoists in the forested patch and both sides
engaged in gun battle. The intermittent firing from both sides
lasted for about half-an-hour after which the rebels disappeared
in the jungle, SHO Soni said. While searching the spot, Police
found 315 bore rifle, 12 bore bullets, solar plates, 12 bolt battery,
radio, camera flash, wireless chargers, wire, bag packs, multi-meter
and other items of daily use, he said.
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September 22 |
West Singhbhum of Jharkhand |
The caretaker of Chaibasa circuit house was arrested
for his links with a CPI-Maoist leader and for passing on information
about VIP visits to the rebel outfit. SP of West Singhbhum of
Jharkhand, Michael Raj, said, caretaker Birendra Das (35), a resident
of Bhuni village in Bodam block of Patamda, was arrested after
his cellphone call details record suggested he had had frequent
conversations with a Maoist leader identified as Shankar Sirka,
a native of neighbouring Bihar.
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Non-Violent |
September 23 |
Bokaro District of Jharkhand |
Vowing to ruin “Operation Green hunt”, an ongoing
anti-Naxalites operation in Jhumra Hills of Bermo
sub-division in Bokaro District of Jharkhand, the CPI-Maoist has
urged the masses to observe its 12th ‘martyrdom week’ from September
21 to 27 to price rise, corporate loot, and conspiracy by Raghubar
Government against jal, zamin aur jangal in
Jharkhand. Posters regarding this were being seen in Dania and
Lugu-pahari areas in Gomia, Police sources said. A senior Police
officer, monitoring the anti-Naxalites operations,
said that these posters clearly exposed Maoist presence in different
parts of the State. “As these posters were mainly found in the
mining areas, transportation were likely to be affected during
the week. The truck drivers may not dare venture off the highways.
The dreaded rebels also take advantage and shift to safer places
during the period. The Bermo police and CRPF too have great challenges
ahead,” SDPO of Bermo, Raj Kumar Mehta, said.
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September 24 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
Two cadres of CPI-Maoist were gunned down in the
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh. “An exchange of fire with Maoists
took place in the early hours of the day in the reserve forests
near Sanguel village under the Burgam police station limits. It
lasted for one hour, during which our forces, comprising the DRG,
District force, the CAF, retaliated promptly. After the general
search of the area, two bodies of male Maoists were recovered
with one 12 bore and one SBML rifle,” said a statement issued
by SP of Bastar, R.N. Das and circulated by IGP of Bastar range,
Shiv Ram Prasad Kalluri. The SFs also recovered explosives, detonators,
pipe bombs, codex wire, backpacks, magazine pouch, battery and
wires from the spot of the gunfight.
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Violent |
September 24 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Five persons have been abducted allegedly by the
CPI-Maoist cadres from three different villages of Garu area in
Latehar District of Jharkhand. Sources said that the Maoists,
who are observing the ‘foundation week’ that kicked off on September
21, raided the area last night and abducted the five villagers.
"We have learnt about these abductions from different sources
and begun investigations. But, no one has come forward to lodge
a complaint with the police so far," said ASP (Operations)
Manish Bharti.
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Violent |
September 24 |
Gumla District Of Jharkhand |
The Police unearthed an IED apparently planted
by the Maoists to trap SFs in Kumhari forests of Vishunpur area
in Gumla District Of Jharkhand. OIC of Vishunpur, Manilal Rana,
said, a bomb disposal squad was expected to arrive very soon and
the IED will be diffused.
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Non-Violent |
September 24 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand |
Three PLFI cadres, including an ‘area commander’,
were arrested in Khunti District of Jharkhand. PLFI ‘area commander’
Ganpat Gope alias Ghora, and his seven-eight associates
had assembled on the outskirts of Palankir village in Rania, some
50 kilometres from Khunti District headquarters. Acting on a tip-off,
the Police raided the village and seeing the Police the rebels
opened fire. The Police retaliated and fired around 12 rounds.
The rebels tried to flee taking advantage of the darkness but
Ghora was caught following a hot chase. His associates, however,
managed to give Police the slip. Later, during a search operation,
the Police finally arrested Dhaneshwar Nag and Suresh Mahto. A
9mm pistol, cartridges, 11 mobile phones, six Sim cards, two magazines,
a tablet, two backpacks and two motorcycles were found during
this raid. "Ghora figures as a named accused in over a dozen
criminal cases of serious nature. The criminal antecedents of
the other two rebels are being verified," SP of Khunti, Anish
Gupta said. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 24 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
The Police arrested a PLFI cadre from Jaldega
area in Simdega District of Jharkhand. He is being interrogated,
SP, Rajeev Ranjan Singh, maintained. Two country-made pistols,
cartridges, a mobile phone and a motorcycle were found on him.
PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 24 |
Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand |
A TPC ‘area commander’, Arvind Hebrom, was arrested
near Budhwa Mahadev temple in Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand,
allegedly for abducting Sudhir Tiwary, the owner of computer institute
Data Pro, last month. TPC is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 24 |
Bokaro of Jharkhand |
CRPF, IG, Sanjay Latekar, directed his men to
start fresh operations against the Maoists in Jhumra, Parasnath
hills and nearby zones to deliver the ultimate blow to rebels
in Jharkhand. "Within the next few months, Naxalism will
come to an end in these areas," Latekar said after a meeting
with the commandant of the 26th Battalion, Akhilesh Singh, in
Bokaro.
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September 24 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
More than a week after a woman CPI-Maoist cadre
was killed in an encounter in the forests of Lanjigarh block in
Kalahandi District of Odisha; the Maoists identified her as Sangita
and called a bandh in two Districts in protest against
the killing. In a two-minute audio tape released by Ghumusar-Nagavalli-Bansadhara
division ‘secretary’ Nikhil alias Niranjan Rout
to a local news channel in Bhawanipatna, the Maoists declared
that the woman Maoist was Sangita from Adikanda village of Mohana
block in Gajapati District. Sangita was killed on September 15,
during an exchange of fire between SOG and Maoists in Phulbari
forest near Katlang village under Bijepur Police limits. Through
the tape Nikhil informed that the division has called a bandh
in Rayagada and Kalahandi Districts on September 29, protesting
the encounter. He stated that Sangita was active in the division
for the last seven years. The tape also disagreed with the statement
of DIG of (South Western), S Shiny and Kalahandi SP, Brijesh Rai
that Maoists were pushing woman cadres to the front to let them
die.
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Non-Violent |
September 24 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Six Maoist aides surrendered before BSF Commandant
KD Yadav at (MV)-79 in Malkangiri District of Odisha. They are
four Village Committee Members, Soma Podiami, Soma Kabasi, Rama
Podiami and Podia Madkami and two militia members Jaga Kabasi
and Deba Kabasi, said Yadav. They are natives of Rajulkonda village
under MV-79 Police limits and were providing logistic support
to the rebels, he added. Later, the surrendered rebels were handed
over to MV-79 Police.
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Non-Violent |
September 25 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A top CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an encounter
with SFs in a forested patch of Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
“A joint team of police personnel from Kutru police station and
DRG led by SHO Yugal Kishore Naag was undertaking an anti-Naxal
operation in Bedre region, SP of Bijapur, KL Dhruv said. Suddenly,
a group of armed Maoists that was hiding in the jungle opened
indiscriminate fire on the Police team, he said. Police forces
retaliated and soon the Naxals finding themselves losing the gunfight
fled from the spot, he mentioned. Later on, while searching the
encounter spot, the body of a Maoist along with one 12 bore gun,
two muzzle loading guns, one hand-grenade, 25-30 live rounds of
ammunition of 12 Bore gun, and a huge cache of explosives and
daily uses items, was recovered, the SP said. Police said the
deceased has been identified as Kitta Majji alias Aaytu
(26), resident of Farsegarh and member of Moist military platoon
number 2 active in National Park area and the Government had declared
a cash reward of INR 200,000 on his head.
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September 25 |
Munger District of Bihar |
One Anil Sharma, son of Damodar Sharma of village
Dhamna under Jhajha Police Station in Munger District of Bihar,
was shot dead by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres. His body, with both
hands tied with a red towel, was found near a culvert. "Police
found two empty cartridges near his body," said a source.
Jhajha, SHO, Niraj Kumar Thakur said, some pamphlets written by
the suspected Maoists were also found near the body. The killers
alleged that the deceased was collecting levy in the name of Maoists
and he was 'sentenced to death' for defaming the organization.
"There were injury marks on his head and leg," he said.
Sources said Anil was spying for police against the Maoists. "The
Maoists suspected him of spying on them and killed him. To confuse
the police, they wrote pamphlets accusing him of collecting levy
in their name," a Police source said.
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September 26 |
Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
Three top leaders of the CPI-Maoist were present
in the court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge S. Sasidhar Reddy,
which is the designated court for cases against Maoists in the
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, in the Gunukurayi encounter
case. After the Additional Public Prosecutor K. Prudhiviraj, who
is Deputy Director of Prosecution sought time for arguments in
the case; the Judge has adjourned the case to September 28. The
Maoists leaders produced in the court were Varanasi Subrahmanyam alias Vimal,
who had studied ML in Andhra University, Marpu Venkata Ramana
of Srikakulam and Aklant Rabha of Assam, while and Punendra Mukherjee
of Kolkata, another accused in the case could not attend as he
was sick. The case was booked after a CRPF Head Constable Anil
Kumar was killed in an encounter with the then CPI-ML (PW) naxalites at
Gunukurayi in G.K. Veedhi Mandal on May 28, 2008.
Four PWG activists were also killed in the incident.
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September 26 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Maoists ‘commanders’ were killed in a separate
encounter in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. “In a stunning
blow to the Naxal organisation, two commanders — Tirupati and
Lokesh of the PLGA (CPI-Maoists’ military wing) Company No.6 —
were killed in an encounter with the DRG in the forest of Banspal-Toinar
of Narayanpur district,” said SP of Narayanpur, Abhishek Meena
in a statement. The deceased Maoists were identified as Tirupati alias Akash,
a resident of Madded area in Bijapur District, and Lokesh alias Ramesh,
a resident of Tiraknar under Dhaurai Police Station. Drag marks
and blood spots near the encounter site indicated that more than
six Naxals were killed or injured in the encounter but other Naxals
managed to flee with dead bodies in the forest. Weapons and other
Naxal items were also recovered during the search.
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September 26 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand |
Three persons were killed and four others were
injured when a band of LWE group, PLFI, opened random fire at
a gathering in a village in Khunti District of Jharkhand. Following
the incident, the Police and the CPRF have launched a massive
manhunt in the Naxal-dominated region. The Police
said that the PLFI targeted people on the suspicion that they
were holding a ‘peace meeting’. Villagers in Naxal-hit
Districts of Khunti, Ranchi and West Singhbhum (Chaibasa) have
been holding peace meetings for over a year, in which they urge
people to shun violence and return to the mainstream. Officials
said that, although the meeting was not a peace meeting, the attack
on hapless villagers was among the biggest incidents by the LWE
groups against such initiatives. Police sources said that peace
meetings are usually attended by people from more than a couple
of villages. The dead have been identified as Deet Munda (45),
Raukan Purti (62), and Sukhram Munda (50). The four injured persons
- Vikram Purti, Paku Purti, Toto Purti and Sinu Munda. SP of Khunti,
Anish Gupta said: “This is clearly to spread terror. The extremist
groups are losing their hold on the region and this appears to
be an act of panic on their part. The villagers, prima facie,
were not holding any peace meeting. We have launched a manhunt
and combing operations are on.” The incident came to light when
villagers of Raitorang brought the dead and the injured to the
Sadar Hospital in Khunti. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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September 26 |
Malappuram District of Kerala |
A seven-member armed CPI-Maoist cadre encountered
the Police at Mundakkadavu Adivasi Colony in the Karulai forest
range near Nilambur in Malappuram District of Kerala. The Police
said the armed group fired at them and escaped into the forest.
The Police too returned fire. But none was injured. The Police
reached the Adivasi colony on a tip-off about the Maoist group’s
visit to the colony. The group, consisting of six men and a woman,
had conducted a class for the tribal people at the colony’s community
hall. The Police said the meeting was convened by the group’s
leader Soman. On seeing the Police, the armed group escaped through
the back exit by making the Adivasis as human shield and shouting
Maoist slogans against democracy.
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September 27 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter
with SFs in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. "The encounter
took place early this morning in the dense forest of Fulbagdi
Police Station area while a joint team of security forces was
out on an anti-Maoist operation," SP of Sukma, Indira Kalyan
Elesela said. Composite squad of DRG, CAF and local Police had
launched the operation in the interiors of Fulbagdi, based on
specific inputs, he said. About 8 kilometres away from the Police
Station, an exchange of fire broke out between both the sides
after rebels opened fire on SFs, the SP said, adding, rebels soon
managed to flee the spot taking the cover of dense forest. "During
search of the area, bodies of two male Maoists, beside a muzzle
loading gun and one 315 bore gun were recovered from the spot,"
he added. The identity of the ultras will be ascertained once
the patrol party will return to its camp, the SP said.
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September 27 |
Kondagaon District of Bastar
region in Chhattisgarh |
One Maoist was killed in Kondagaon District of
Bastar region in Chhattisgarh. “An encounter took place somewhere
near Khodesanar and Ahkali forest under Mardapal police station
limits today morning. A joint anti-Maoist operation involving
the DRG and district force led by inspector Jai Sahu and the ITBP
was on in the area. The composite party had gone (to the area)
on some specific input about the presence of a small group of
Naxals. The group of armed Naxals opened indiscriminate fire on
the security forces which retaliated in self-defence. During the
search of the encounter site, a dead body of a male Maoist in
the black uniform was recovered along with a 12 bore SBML rifle.
Efforts are on to identify the dead Naxal,” said Santosh Singh,
SP of Kondagaon, in a statement made available to media.
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September 27 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A jawan of STF was stabbed by CPI-Maoist cadres
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The injured jawan was admitted
to a hospital and provided medical treatment.
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Violent |
September 27 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Maoists, identified as Hemla (35) and Mangal
Punem (25), were arrested by a joint team of CRPF and District
Force from the forest of Duwalipara village under Gangaloor Police
Station limits of Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The two were
allegedly involved in multiple offences, including attempt to
murder, triggering blast on Police party, loot and others, a Police
official said.
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September 27 |
Palamu District of Jharkhand |
A combine team of CRPF and District Police arrested
two Maoists from a dense jungle of Kapi village near Choremariya
pahar under Bishrampur Police Station in Palamu District of Jharkhand.
While confirming this DSP, Heera Lal Ravi, said that the two arrested
are Krishna Yadav and Brij Lal Sharma. Yadav is the brother-in-law
of a hard core ‘area commander’ of Maoists outfit Ajay Yadav.
DSP Ravi said CRPF and Police recovered 9 sets of black colour
uniform and two back pouches. The arrests of the two were made
in the anti-Naxal operation following September 25, bandh called
by the Maoists in the District.
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September 27 |
Palamu District of Jharkhand |
District Police arrested a Maoist who was in SBI
branch at Bishrampur in Palamu District of Jharkhand, for withdrawal
of money. Confirming this DSP Ravi said this Maoist in SBI
branch has been identified as Ajesh Yadav alias Baba.
Ravi said this Baba was one among the Maoists who had put up locks
in five houses at Koriya village. The Maoists had locked the houses
forcing the inmates of the houses to flee as the Maoists believed
them to be of TPC supporter. Ravi said the Maoists' locks were
just thrown out and the inmates were again facilitated to live
in peace in their houses. He said this Baba had taken a big lead
in this locking of houses of the five. TPC is a splinter group
of the CPI-Maoist.
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September 27 |
Gondia District of Maharashtra |
Explosives and live detonators were seized from
a Naxal hideout in a forest range near Kosambi
village under Chichgarh Police Station in Deori tehsil in
Gondia District of Maharashtra. Acting on a tip off, personnel
from Anti-Naxal Cell, C-60 Commando Force and local
Police jointly raided the hideout in a forest range near Kosambi
village and seized six kilograms of explosives kept in two aluminium
containers, concrete mixture, three live detonators, electric
wires and iron rods, among other items, they said. According to
the Police, a local resident spotted around 15 armed Naxals,
five to six of them women, near Kosambi on September 26. He immediately
alerted the local Police who along with personnel from Anti-Naxal Cell,
C-60 and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad launched a search operation
under supervision of District, SP, Dilip Bhujbal and busted the
hideout. According to police, the explosives were kept by the
Naxalites and were supposed to be used against the Police by the
CPI-Maoist outfit. Police have registered offence under Indian
Arms Act and other relevant sections of IPC against the members
of Triple K Dalam which is active in Gadchiroli
– Gondia Districts.
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September 28 |
Jamui District of Bihar |
The ‘zonal commander’ of a CPI-Maoist outfit was
arrested by the Police from a remote village under Jhajha Police
Station in Jamui District of Bihar. SP of Jamui, Jayant Kant said
the Maoist ‘commander’, Dhaneshwar Yadav, had gone to his native
village Rajla under Jhajha Police Station a week ago after he
met with an accident. On a tip-off that Dhaneshwar was admitted
to a private clinic for the treatment of his injuries, a raid
was conducted at the doctor's clinic by Jhajha, SDPO, BK Raut.
The raiding team arrested the Maoist and also recovered three
gun nozzles, three detonators, four mobile sets, four SIMS, his
Suzuki bike and a LPG cylinder, said the SP and added that he
used to supply explosives to his group in Jhajha from Jharkhand.
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Non-Violent |
September 28 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Three women CPI-Maoist cadres, including a ‘commander’,
were killed in an exchange of fire with SFs in Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh. The face-off took place between a joint team
of SF personnel and rebels in the forests of Gadiras Police Station
area, SP of Sukma, Indira Kalyan Elesela said. "We had specific
inputs about presence of an armed group of Maoists near village
Bade Satti in Gadiras area. So, along with CRPF's 195th battalion
and CoBRA's 206th battalion, a team of local Police led by SHO,
Gadiras Police Station Mohsin Khan besides two assistant commandants
of paramilitaries launched a search operation in the area,"
he said. The SFs were approaching the interior village, when it
came under heavy fire from a squad of the Maoists. The Police
retaliated, killing the three extremists while the others fled
following an hour long skirmish, Elesela said. During the search,
bodies of the three women Maoists along with one muzzle loading
gun, one country made revolver, pipe bombs, detonators and several
other items were recovered from the spot, he added. "One
of the killed ultras has been identified as Bade Satti LOS Commander
Anju while the identity of the others is being ascertained,"
the SP said.
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Violent |
September 28 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Five Maoists, who were allegedly involved in setting
fire on vehicles engaged in a road construction last year, were
arrested from the jungles of Kuchnur under Bhopalpatnam Police
Station area in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. Masa Ram Michha
(29), Wasam Suresh (30), Kola Mutta (38), Ramaiyya Pottam (36)
and Sanjay Mandal (26), all lower-rung members of the CPI-Maoist,
were arrested from the limits of Bhopalpatnam Police Station,
he said. On October 25, 2015, at least 37 vehicles and machines
engaged in the construction of Bhopalpatnam Bhadrakali Tarlaguda
road, were set ablaze by ultras at three different locations,
the official said, adding that all the five were allegedly involved
in the incident.
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Non-Violent |
September 28 |
Ramgarh District of Jharkhand |
A TPC cadre was arrested in Mandu in Ramgarh District
of Jharkhand. TPC posters and a motorcycle were found on Mahtab
Alam. TPC is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 29 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
A DRG jawan was killed and two others were injured
in an IED blast triggered by Maoists in Narayanpur District of
Chhattisgarh. The incident took place when a ROP of DRG was crossing
the Karel Valley in Narayanpur Police Station area, a senior Police
official said. The patrolling was being conducted to ensure security
in the region ahead of a public grievances redressal camp to be
held at Akabeda village fall in Abujhmadh area. Scheduled as per
the demand of villagers, the redressal camp was to be attended
by Narayanpur Collector and SP to hear the grievances of villagers,
the official said. The SF personnel proceeded for the operation
from Narayanpur District headquarters and when they reached the
Karel Valley close, Maoists triggered the blast following which
an exchange of fire broke out, the official said, adding that
rebels soon fled into dense forest. “Assistant constable Puran
Potai was killed in the blast while two others sustained minor
injuries,” he added. Another Police officer said Maoist had been
opposing the public grievances redressal camp.
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Violent |
September 29 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A lower rung CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an
exchange of fire with SFs in a dense forest of Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh. The skirmish took place when a joint team of
SFs was out on a search operation in Konta Police Station area,
SP of Sukma, Indira Kalyan Elesela said. Acting on specific input
about the presence of armed Maoists in the forests near Neelamadgu
and Velpochha villages, a composite team of personnel, comprising
DRG, STF and local Police, launched a combing operation in the
region, located around 500 kilometres from Raipur, he said. The
SF personnel were advancing into Neelamadgu village, when they
came under heavy fire from a squad of the Maoists. The Police
retaliated, killing a Maoist while the others fled using forest
as cover following an hour-long gun battle, he added. During search,
the body of a Maoist, a muzzle loading gun and several other items
were recovered from the spot, Elsela said. “The killed Maoist
has been identified as Madkam Hunga, a member of Konta LOS,” he
said.
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Violent |
September 29 |
Gumla District of Jharkhand |
CPI-Maoist spokesperson of Bihar-Jharkhand regional
committee Gopalji has announced state-wide a 24-hour bandh from
today’s midnight in protest against the killing of top Maoist
leader Ashish-da on September 10 in Gumla District of Jharkhand.
In a statement the Maoist leader said that the SFs killed Ashish-da
in "cold blood" after they detained him during an operation.
After the bandh call SFs were put on alert and
Police spokesperson M S Bhatia said, "The Maoists usually
target vulnerable locations of the police and government. All
important and vulnerable locations have been put under high protection."
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Non-Violent |
September 29 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand |
Six suspected PLFI cadres were detained from Arki
Police Station area in Khunti District of Jharkhand in the last
two days, SP of Khunti, Anish Gupta said. The crackdown took place
after 25 PLFI operatives fired indiscriminately on unarmed civilians
during a meeting on September 26, killing three and leaving four
persons injured. The PLFI men suspected it was not a Gram
Sabha, but a peace meeting where people held discussions against
PLFI and Maoists. "A manhunt is on in Arki and adjoining
areas in search of the PLFI squad which carried out the firing.
Six people are being interrogated for more information,"
said Gupta. Police said they would disclose the identities of
the men only after their links with PLFI is established. PLFI
is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
September 29 |
Rayagada and Kalahandi Districts
of Odisha |
Protesting the death of a woman CPI-Maoist in
an encounter with the SOG personnel, the Bansadhara-Ghumusar-Nagabali
division of the CPI-Maoist, observed bandh in Rayagada
and Kalahandi Districts of Odisha. However, the bandh passed
off peacefully. ASP, Patitapaban Choudhury, said, normally Kalyansinghpur
block market remains closed on Thursday and besides that, the
Private Bus Owners’ Association also observed strike so there
was no impact of bandh called by the outfit.
But due to the Maoist bandh, even Government buses
remained off the road, he added. In Bhawanipatna, the bandh
had no impact. Even in the sensitive pockets like Lanjigarh,
Thuamul Rampur and M Rampur where Maoists are active, there was
no impact and life was normal. Police had intensified patrolling
in the sensitive pockets. SP of Kalahandi, Brijesh Rai, said there
was no report of any untoward incident in the District. Bansadhara-Ghumusar-Nagavali
Division secretary Nikhil alias Niranjan Rout
had announced bandh through an audio tape released
by him to a private news channel on September 24. He had
identified the woman Maoist as Sangita of Gajapati District.
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Non-Violent |
September 30 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre, who was an expert in planting
IEDs, was killed by SFs in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. The
encounter took place when a joint team of SF personnel was conducting
an anti-Maoist operation in a forest under Maraiguda Police Station
limits, SP of Sukma, Indira Kalyan Elesela said. "The Maoist
was identified as Sodi Ganga, a jan militia commander, who was
a key person for planting IEDs on Maraiguda-Gollapalli road which
had caused harm to our security forces several times in the past,"
he said.
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Violent |
September 30 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A CoBRA jawan was injured in a pressure bomb blast,
laid by Maoists, in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The incident
took place while a team of CoBRA's 204th battalion was carrying
out patrolling under Basaguda Police Station limits, a CRPF official
said. SFs were out on the operation to ensure security to Basaguda-Tarrem
under-construction road, located around 450 kilometres from Raipur.
While they were cordoning off a forested patch near Tarrem, a
jawan inadvertently stepped over the pressure IED connection,
triggering the blast that left him injured, he said.
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Violent |
October 1 |
Kanker District of Bastar
division in Chhattisgarh |
Suspecting three villagers to be acting as ‘Police
informers’, cadres of the CPI-Maoist abducted them from their
home, took them to the forest and later slit their throats in
Kanker District of Bastar division in Chhattisgarh. A group of
nearly 20-25 armed Maoists entered Hurrapinjori village in Amabeda
region and knocked on the doors of three tribal villagers. The
rebels dragged them out of the house, thrashed and kicked them
and took them to neighbouring village while the families pleaded
Maoists to show mercy. Later, in the morning, the bodies of three
villagers were found with their throats slit on the road and locals
informed the Police. Superintendent of Police (SP) of Kanker,
ML Motwani said that the three innocent tribals were killed as
they were suspected to be ‘Police informers’. They were identified
as Jain Kumar (22), Anturam Hurra (24) and Manakram Hurra (24).
According to the statement given by locals, the rebels who led
the group of Maoists were ‘divisional committee member’ Ramesh
and Charagaon LOS ‘commander’ Sonu.
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Violent |
October 1 |
Narayanpur District in Bastar
division of Chhattisgarh |
As many as 13 lower rung Maoists were arrested
from Narayanpur District in Bastar division of Chhattisgarh. The
cadres were rounded up from forest of Keelam village under Chhote
Dongar Police Station, said a senior Police official. Acting on
specific inputs that Maoists had convened a meeting in Keelam
area, joint team of STF and District Forces had launched a search
operation, he said. While cordoning off the interior forests,
SFs arrested 13 suspects, who later admitted to their involvement
with the CPI-Maoist as lower rank cadres, he claimed. Those arrested
were identified as Manher Mandavi, Manaru Mandavi, Manku Mandavi,
Patturam Bhori, Mander Kashyap, Bhaniram Kashyap, Jhagdu Ram Korram,
Fulder Kashyap, Ramsingh Kashyap, Sukman Korram, Budhuram Watti,
Motiram Korram and Bogaram Mandavi, all militia and Jantana
Sarkar-rank members. Of them, Patturam was also heading DAKMS,
a frontal wing of Maoists in Keelam area, the official said, adding
that he was carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on his head. They
all were involved in incidents like attempt to murder, loot, arson
and torching vehicles in the region, he added.
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Non-Violent |
October 1 |
East Champaran District of
Bihar |
Train services on Raxaul-Sitamarhi route halted
for over 12 hours following recovery of an IED on the railway
track near Ghorasahan railway station of the East Central Railway's
Raxaul-Darbhanga section in East Champaran District of Bihar.
Superintendent of Raxaul station BNP Srivastav said the IED was
probably planted by the CPI-Maoist. "An alert was sounded
and movement of trains suspended soon after recovery of the IED,"
Srivastav said. In 2010, two bogies of a goods train were blown
up in an IED blast triggered by Maoists on the same track. According
to railway sources, RPF officials from Raxaul rushed to the spot
along with Police and BDS. The bomb was finally defused and train
services resumed after thorough checking of tracks. SP of Raxaul,
Jitendra Rana said a probe had been ordered into the recovery
of the IED.
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Non-Violent |
October 1 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand |
Joint forces arrested four PLFI cadres from forests
under Murhu Police Station in Khunti District of Jharkhand. Police
believe that the five would certainly lead them to the main accused
involved in the killings of innocent villagers at Raiturang in
Arki area in the District on September 26. The arrested cadres
have been identified as Etwa Odeya, Porso Purti, Ritai Nag and
Hemant Purti. Police recovered two rifles, four bullets, six mobile
phones and several PLFI pamphlets from their possessions. Murhu
Police Station OIC Bambam Kumar said joint forces had launched
an operation in Pangura-Kewra forests post September 30 midnight.
PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
October 1 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
The Maoists, in a desperate bid to reassert their
supremacy in the cut-off areas of Chitrakonda block of Malkangiri
District of Odisha, have urged the people of six panchayats to
boycott the ensuing panchayat elections and strengthen
the militia by joining their outfit. The LWEs had organised a
large meeting at Jantri village of Andrapalli panchayat of
Chitrakonda block, reports said. Asked about the incident, Subala
Charan Behera, driver of a government motor launch, told OTV that
he was about to finish his duty at about 5.30 PM on September
30 after anchoring the launch at Jantri when the Maoists through
their messengers asked him to bring the people of five panchayats to
attend their meeting. SP of Malkangiri, Mitrabhanu Mohapatra said
a group of Maoist cadre of AOBSZC had organised a meeting at Jantri
village of Andrapalli panchayat under Chitrakonda
block. Naming the meeting as anti-Police meeting, the Red Rebels
had forcibly brought the villagers of six panchayats to
the meeting with the help of two Government motor launches and
four country boats provided by the District Administration to
these six panchayats. The SP said the Maoists, who
have forcibly detained the boats which are the only source of
communication for the tribals in the cut-off areas, claim that
they are fighting for the welfare of the poor tribals. “All these
activities speak volume of their double standards”, he pointed
out. The most-wanted Maoist leader Ramakrishna alias RK
addressed the gathering of more than 3000 people from six panchayats of
Jodamba, Badapadar, Janbai, Ralegada, Panasput and Jantri at Palaspadar
village under Jantri panchayat. RK alleged that the
Government has failed to ensure development on the other side
of Chitrakonda reservoir even after 70 years of Independence.
Other top Maoist leaders from Andhra Pradesh addressed the gathering.
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Non-Violent |
October 1 |
Salem District of Tamil Nadu |
The ‘Q’ branch Police arrested a suspected CPI-Maoist
cadre from Pallikoduthanur in Mettur town in Salem District of
Tamil Nadu. S. Palanivelu (36) allegedly has a case sheet against
him and was also involved in a murder case. According to sources,
on a tip-off, the ‘Q’ branch Police had been watching the movement
of Palanivelu for the last three months. A special operation arrested
him at a park in Mettur town on October 1 evening. Pamphlets and
other Maoist literature meant for distribution to the public were
allegedly seized from him.
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Non-Violent |
October 2 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
One cadre of the CPI-Maoist was killed in an exchange
of fire with SFs in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. The face-off
between rebels and a joint team of SFs took place near the jungles
of Chheri village, SP of Kondagaon, Santosh Singh said. A small
party of Forces comprising CAF and local Police was undertaking
a search operation in the interiors of Bayanar. While they were
advancing into jungles of Chheri, SFs came under heavy fire from
a group of Maoists to which they retaliated in self-defence, he
said. However, the rebels soon escaped from the place. During
search, the body of a Maoist clad in ‘uniform’, a pistol with
loaded magazine and many other items were recovered from the spot,
the SP said. The patrol parties have safely reached back to camps,
he said adding that identity of the killed Maoist was being ascertained.
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Violent |
October 2 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Chhattisgarh Police arrested six Maoists in a
raid in Bijapur District, while 25 Maoists, including six women,
surrendered before the Police and the Forests Minister in the
District. The Police, in a search operation, arrested six Maoists
after chasing them in a forest close to Chillamraka village in
Bijapur District. Upon interrogation, it was found that they were
involved in several crimes. In another incident, 25 Maoists, including
six women, influenced by the state-run surrender and rehabilitation
policy for Maoists, surrendered before Forests Minister Mahesh
Gagda. The 25 Maoists were members of the Jan Militia group.
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Non-Violent |
October 2 |
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh |
One Maoist carrying an INR 500,000 reward on his
head surrendered before the Police in Rajnandgaon District of
Chhattisgarh. The cadre identified as Suresh Kumar Minj (27),
who functioned as an ‘area committee member’ under Kutul area
committee of Maoists turned himself in citing disappointment with
the Maoist ideology and their violent activities, SP of Rajnandgaon,
Prashant Agrawal said. Minj also used to look after Janatana
Sarkar school wing of Maoists, he added. According to the
SP, a native of Sendawadih village under Sitagaon Police Station
area of Rajnandgaon, Minj had studied till Class 7 in Raigarh
District of the State at his maternal grandfather's place.
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Non-Violent |
October 2 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
One villager was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres,
suspecting him to be a ‘Police informer’, at Katapali village
under Maithili Police Station in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
The deceased was identified as Budara Khilamali. The Maoists had
slit his throat and dumped the dead body. According to sources,
Maoists had taken away Budara on October 1 night to attend a Sabha.
But later, his dead body was recovered by villagers from a forest.
Handwritten Maoist-posters were found from the spot.
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Violent |
October 3 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead the OIC
of a Police Station in Gaya District of Bihar. DIG of Police Saurabh
Kumar said three motorcycle-borne suspected Maoists fired four
bullets at the OIC of Kotchi Police Station Quuam Ansari killing
him on the spot. The OIC was on a morning walk when the assailants
attacked him, the DIG said.
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Violent |
October 3
|
Bokaro steel city in Jharkhand
|
A top CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested
from Pilpilo More, around 60 kilometres from Bokaro steel city
in Jharkhand. Police said the rebel, identified as Shivlal Manjhi alias
Pawan Murmu, had been keeping tabs on the movement of the
forces as a part of the Maoist design to ambush security men in
the jungles of Nawadih zone sometime soon. On the basis of information
provided by Manjhi during interrogation, Bokaro thermal Police
later recovered five gelatine sticks, one kilogram of explosives,
five detonators, codex wire, Naxalite posters and literature,
among others, hidden in deep jungles of Pilpilo.
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Non-Violent
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October 3
|
Ranchi District of Jharkhand
|
CPI-Maoist ‘zonal commander’ Bharat
Lal Singh alias Bhanu, who carried a reward of
INR 500,000 on his head, surrendered in front of DGP, D.K. Pandey
at the State Police headquarters in Ranchi of Jharkhand. Sources
said recent "trysts with near-death situations", counselling
by senior Police officers and positive changes in the life of
his friend Bada Vikas, a surrendered rebel, apparently had an
impact on Bhanu and prompted him to shun the path of extremism.
A native of Chinia area in Garhwa District, Bhanu, also known
as Bhanu Singh Kharwar, had several close shaves during encounters
with the Police in the recent times. SP of Garhwa, Priyadarshi
Alok said lately natives of China area were disillusioned with
Bhanu due to various reasons and had decided to either kill him
or get him arrested. "During community policing, I had told
his parents that their son would be killed either by us or by
local natives if did not surrender. About two months ago, Bhanu
contacted me over telephone and said that he wanted to surrender,"
Alok elaborated. Bhanu was a member of Maoists' BJSAC and figured
as a named accused in 18 cases of Maoist violence registered at
different Police Stations of Garhwa alone. Also, several cases
are pending against him at different Police Stations of Balrampur
District in Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent
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October 3
|
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
Member of the east division committee
and first CRC of the CPI-Maoist, Marri Veera alias Leevu,
and six members of the party’s militia surrendered to SP Rahul
Dev Sharma in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh. Marri
Veera (25), carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on his head, a native
of Veeravaram under Devarapalli panchayat in G.K.
Veedhi mandal, had moved mostly with Maoist leader
Jambri when he was in the party. Veera had lost his parents when
he was 15 years old and Jambri took him into the party in 2008
and worked with the Galikonda area committee and was made member
of the first CRC in 2010 and also bodyguard of a top Maoist leader
Kudumula Ravi. Veera was involved in four exchanges of fire in
Andhra area and three in Odisha area between 2010 and 2012 and
was also involved in famine raids. The militia members were D
Veranna Padal (22), K Chantibabu (29), P Ramamurthy (26), G Subba
Rao (29), P Sumra (18) and L Dasarath (20), all natives of GK
Veedhi mandal in the Visakhapatnam District.
They helped the Maoists in logistics, mobilised people for party
meetings, hanging banners and distributing pamphlets, etc.
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Non-Violent
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October 4
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
one of them carrying a cash reward on his head, were arrested
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The cadres were arrested
by a joint team of CoBRA and local Police from Kottaguda forest
under Basaguda Police Station limits, SP of Bijapur, KL Dhruv,
said. SFs had on October 3, launched an anti-Maoist operation
to the interior villages- Pakela, Gaganpalli, Gundam, Kottaguda,
Chinnagelur and Peddageular of Basaguda region of the District,
he said. While they were approaching towards Kottaguda forests,
three suspects who were trying to escape from the place were arrested
after a short chase, he said. Those arrested were identified as
Kadti Laxmaiya alias Samaiya (35), Punem Manglu
(35), and Semla Pojja (21). Of them, Laxmaiya who was active as
the head of DAKMS was a prominent cadre in the region, Dhruv said
adding that he was carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on his head.
Similarly, Manglu was tasked to collect ration from villagers
for Maoists while Pojja was excel in planting IEDs, he added.
Moreover, all were allegedly involved in incidents of attempt
to murder and loot in the region, the SP said.
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Non-Violent
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October 4
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
As many as 57 Maoists and 297
sympathisers surrendered before the Police in Sukma District of
Chhattisgarh. "Altogether 57 Maoist cadres and 297 sympathisers
turned themselves in before the government, police and CRPF officials
at Sukma district headquarters. Seventeen of these 57 Maoists
were carrying a cash reward on their heads," SP of Sukma,
Indira Kalyan Elesela said. Seventeen Maoists surrendered along
with firearms, he said. "Cadres are getting increasingly
fed up with violent Maoist activities and want to see development
in their area," the SP said. He described the move as a good
indicator in the conflict-ridden Bastar region. The Maoist supporters
belong to Kerlapal, Manjhipara, Patelpara, Potampara, Borguda,
Gondpalli Mosalpara, Jeerampal, Badesatti, Pandupara and other
villages of the region, the SP said. According to the official,
the cadres in their statements said that they decided to move
away from the Maoists as they were frustrated with continuous
exploitation, atrocities and violence by them. According to the
figures provided by the Police, with this development, about 1,400
Maoists and their supporters have surrendered before Police in
separate Districts of Bastar division so far this year.
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Non-Violent
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October 4
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Khunti District of Jharkhand
|
Three CPI-Maoist cadres - Hari
Singh Munda, Lakhan Munda and Surjit Munda - surrendered before
the Jharkhand Police in Khunti District. A 19-year-old female
Maoist Sonia Munda inspired three hardcore active Maoists to quit
war against the State and join the mainstream. The motivated Maoists
surrendered before Jharkhand, DGP, D K Pandey. Sonia's husband
is a ‘sub-zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist. Her attempts to
convince him to surrender proved futile. "A resident of Arki
block of Khunti district, Sonia expressed her desire to surrender,''
said SP of Khunti, Anish Gupta, adding, "our assurance of
financial and social support after surrender (according to the
surrender policy) made them confident about their decision to
surrender." Speaking to media persons, Sonia, said, "I
knew them personally because all three of them belong to the Arki
block. They shared the same disillusionment. Money drives senior
leaders more than ideology. The money-minded leaders have made
life difficult for us". The surrender of Hari is a big loss
to the Red group because he was an expert in fixing broken guns.
Sukhram and Shivshankar Munda were involved in an encounter with
former SSP Ranchi Prabhat Kumar in August 2015, in which one policeman
was killed, and the SSP with one of his bodyguards sustained bullet
injuries.
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Non-Violent
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October 4
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Jharkhand
|
A full-fledged company of CRPF's
women battalion will be deployed in Jharkhand in the next ten
days to carry out anti-Maoist operations, CRPF, DG, K Durga Prasad
said. Currently, a women battalion of the CRPF is undergoing training
at Salboni in West Bengal and one company of this battalion will
be deployed in Ranchi in the next ten days, said Prasad, who laid
the foundation of a barrack and 317 quarters for jawans of Rapid
Action Force of the 106 battalion at Sundernagar on the outskirt
of Jamshedpur. The CRPF Company will be engaged in operations
against LWE as well as anti-national forces in Jharkhand, Prasad
said.
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October 5
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Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead
a villager and severely injured another in Malkangiri District
of Odisha. According to reports, the Maoists fired at two villagers
of Jantri village in the afternoon today, killing one and seriously
injuring another. Notably, the duo was abducted by the Maoists
two days back on October 3.
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Violent
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October 5
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Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CPI-Maoist ‘commander’ was killed
by SFs in an encounter in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. The
encounter started in the forests close to Aalparas village under
Koyalibeda Police Station limits when a team of a DRG was out
on an anti-Maoist operation in the region, IGP (Bastar Range)
SRP Kalluri said. SFs had stepped up operations in the forests
on the border of Kanker and Narayanpur Districts after three villagers
were killed by Maoists at Hurrapinjori village in Amabeda Police
Station area of Kanker on September 30, he said. On receiving
inputs about the presence of a ‘commander’-rank cadre Raju Salaam
in Koyalibeda area, a squad of DRG along with local Police was
dispatched from Narayanpur, the IG said. While the Police party
was advancing into Aalparas forests, they were confronted by a
group of Maoists leading to an encounter, Kalluri said, adding
that Maoists were caught by surprise as SFs had entered inaccessible
areas. The body of a Maoist, one INSAS rifle and one 315 bore
rifle besides other items were recovered from the spot during
searching after the gun-fight, he said. "As per preliminary
reports, the dead Maoist had an olive green cap with three stars.
This indicates he was a commander- rank Maoist," the IG said.
SFs suspect that either the dead Maoist could be Raju Salaam,
the ‘area committee secretary’ in Raoghat area, or Deepak, the
‘commander’ of company number five, he said, adding his identity
is yet to be ascertained.
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October 5
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
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A TPC cadre was arrested on the
outskirts of Latehar District of Jharkhand. Cash worth INR150,000
was recovered from Shankar Prasad. TPC is a splinter group of
the CPI-Maoist.
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October 6
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Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
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Two CPI-Maoist cadres were injured
in an exchange of fire with a Police party in G.K.Veedhi mandal in
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh. A senior leader of the
Maoist party, Jambri, reportedly escaped along with some others.
The Police party was on its routine combing operation in the area
when it came across a group of Maoists and received fire near
Peddapadu and Kumkumpudi area, SP, Rahul Dev Sharma said. The
Police party returned fire and later found two Maoists -- Gemmeli
Narasing, a member of the Galikonda area committee with a reward
of INR. 100,000 on his head, and a militia member, Muvvala Ambri,
with injuries, Sharma said.
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October 6
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Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
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A Police constable with Gadchiroli
Police sustained splinter injury in a blast when a pressure release
bomb went off near Kunjimerka-Gundjur forest in Etapalli taluka in
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. The incident took place when
the constable tried to dismantle a Naxalite banner strung across
poles to highlight their party's appeals for supporting the countrywide bandh
called on October 11 and 12. Two claymore mines were also
later recovered from the spot. The incident took place shortly
after a gun battle between a combined squad of Police from Jambiya
Gatta sub-Police post and CRPF against CPI-Maoist cadres near
Kidatola village. The armed Maoists retreated as the SFs were
trying to encircle them. Sources claimed that senior officers
of Jambiya Gatta sub-Police Force were tipped off regarding the
presence of Maoists in the forests adjoining Kidatola village.
A combined force had launched a search when the encounter and
blast took place one after another.
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October 6
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Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
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In an encounter at Nargunda in
Bhamragadh tehsil in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra,
Police and Maoists had exchanged fire before the rebels retreated.
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October 6
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Bokaro District of Jharkhand
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Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres set
fire to the diesel engine of a coal-loaded train near Dumri Vihar
station in Bokaro District of Jharkhand, disrupting rail services
for hours in the CIC section of Dhanbad division. Sources said
over a dozen Maoists, who are observing a ‘protest week’ from
October 5 to October 11 across the nation against the Centre's
anti-people and pro-capitalists policies, initially tried to blow
up the tracks near the station around 12.50am. But, only two concrete
sleepers placed under the rail tracks were damaged in the blast.
According to a rail staff at Dumri Vihar, the armed Naxalites,
in the "uniform of security forces", planted a few electronic
devices below the sleepers and triggered a blast. "But, a
few minutes later a goods train, coming from the Gomoh side, managed
to pass through the stretch without any hassle. The Naxalites,
who were standing nearby, then rushed towards another goods train,
carrying coal from Barkakana to Tenughat Thermal power plant in
Bokaro, which was waiting for signal about 100 metres away. The
rebels dragged driver Vijay Kumar out of the cabin and set the
engine on fire," he added. The Maoists also snatched away
a walkie-talkie and a mobile phone from the driver, but allowed
him to flee the spot. Lone guard Kundan Kumar also managed to
escape.
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October 7
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
by the SFs in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The encounter
took place this evening close to Dubaiguda jungle under Awapalli
Police Station limits, when a joint team of SF personnel was on
an anti-Maoist operation, Bijapur SP, K L Dhruv said. Acting on
specific inputs about the movement of the rebels in forest axis
between Awapalli and Bijapur, a squad consisting of DRG, STF and
local Police led by SHO of Awapalli Police Station, Laxman Kewat
launched an operation to track them, he said. When SFs were advancing
into Dubaiguda forests, they came under heavy fire from a group
of Maoists that led to a gun-battle between both sides, he said.
However, the rebels soon escaped from the spot on finding security
the personnel zeroing in on them. During a search of the area,
the body of a Naxal armed with a .303 rifle was
recovered, the SP said. The Maoist was yet to be identified, Dhruv
said, adding further details will be known once the Police party
reaches its camp.
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October 7
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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Six hardcore Maoists surrendered
before the SFs in the Naxal-affected Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh. The Maoists surrendered before CRPF's 229th Batallion
commandant T Vishvanath. They were wanted by Police since 2005
for being engaged in various anti-national activities including
planting of landmines and obstructing communication networks.
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October 7
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Lohardaga District of Jharkhand
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Suspected PLFI cadres set a truck
on fire in Kisko in Lohardaga District of Jharkhand. The truck
with bauxite was parked outside its owner's house. The rebels
also fired some gunshots; however, no casualty took place. SP
Kartik S. said involvement of any local gang couldn't be ruled
out. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 7
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Khunti District of Jharkhand
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Three PLFI supporters, Achu Munda,
Sukhram Odeya and Charku were arrested in Murhu and Rania in Khunti
District of Jharkhand. PLFI posters and mobile phones were found
on them. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 7
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Dumka District of Jharkhand
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District Police arrested three
cadres of the CPI-Maoist, including a ‘zonal commander’ in Dumka
District of Jharkhand, and also recovered huge quantity of explosive
materials after clues were provided by the arrested rebels. Briefing
the media, SP of Dumka, Prabhat Kumar said the ‘zonal commander’
Kanchan Yadav, belonging to Ahardih village under Narayanpur Police
Station of Jamtara District, carried a reward of INR one million.
Kumar had constituted three separate teams to arrest Yadav following
a tip off about his activities in the rebel-hit Masalia Police
Station area and was finally arrested from Jhandapahad locality
near Basmatta village on October 7. Based on information provided
by Yadav, Police later arrested two other rebels. A total of 64
packets of gelatine, 164 detonators INR 35,000 in cash and Naxal
literatures have been recovered by the Police.
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October 7
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Angul District of Odisha
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About 25 armed CPI-Maoist cadres
organised a meeting of youths at Bhurukundi village under the
Purunakot Police limits in the Satkosia wildlife sanctuary in
Angul District of Odisha, exhorting the youths to join their cadre.
Reports said the Maoists, who came from dense forests, held a
20-minute-long meeting on the village road. They persuaded the
youths to join them and offered to pay them a monthly salary INR
10,000 each. About 40 young men and women participated in the
meeting out of fear of the Maoists, according to sources. The
Maoists threatened to blast the village if the youths do not join
their organisation. They (Maoists) retreated to the dense forests
after the meeting. Earlier also, the Maoists had held a meeting
in the village on October 4.
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October 7
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Karur District of Tamil Nadu
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Two suspected women CPI-Maoist
cadres, who were arrested in Karur District in July, 2016, were
produced before a Judicial Magistrate court in Karur District
of Tamil Nadu, for remand extension. The duo, Kala (53) and Chandra
(51), lodged in the Special Prison for Women in Tiruchi were taken
to the Karur court amid Police escort. The Judicial Magistrate
Court–I extended their remand till November 4. They were later
brought back to the prison, Police sources said.
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October 8
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Dumka District of Jharkhand
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A Maoist, accused of killing Amarjeet
Balihar, SP of Pakur District, has been arrested along with two
of his associates in Dumka District of Jharkhand. A senior Police
officer said the ultra, identified as Kanchan da alias Kanchan
Yadav, was carrying INR one million cash reward on his head. He
was suspected of killing Balihar and five other Policemen in Pakur
District in June 2013. Kanchan and his associates were arrested
in Dumka District, a Jharkhand Police press release said.
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October 9
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Gaya District of Bihar
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an encounter with SFs in Chakarbandha forest in Gaya District
of Bihar, amid a state-wide bandh called by the
CPI-Maoist outfit to protest what it called Police atrocities.
Senior CRPF officers said in Patna that the Maoist guerrilla was
gunned down during an exchange of fire at Sagarpur village close
to Chakarbandha forest in Gaya District, during a combing operation
in the area. One country-made rifle, live cartridges and a radio
were recovered. The identity of the guerrilla, who was in black
uniform, is yet to be ascertained. CRPF officers said the Police
found bloodstains, which suggested that some more guerrillas may
have been killed. The combing operation was launched in the wake
of a state-wide bandh called by the CPI-Maoist
to protest the killing of a top guerrilla leader, Ashish Ranjan alias Asheeshan,
in what the CPI-Maoist outfit called a "fake" encounter
in Jharkhand's Gumla District on September 11, 2016. Ashish, considered
a tech-savvy explosives expert, had a reward of INR 2.5 million
on his head and was a member of the special area committee, which
forms the third layer in the organisation's hierarchy after the
politburo and the central committee. A senior officer associated
with anti-Maoist operations said an alert had been sounded across
the state overt the bandh call on October 9.
"We have put the police officers of Gaya, Jamui and Aurangabad
in south and central Bihar on high alert," he added.
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October 9
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Giridih District of Jharkhand
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State Police sounded general alert
in the wake of a CPI-Maoist 48-hour countrywide bandh call
from October 9. Reports from Giridih District of Jharkhand suggest
search operations in areas bordering Bihar have been intensified.
State Police were prepared to thwart any untoward incident, spokesman
M.S. Bhatia said.
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October 9
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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Fourteen CPI-Maoist cadres, including
four hardcore Maoists, carrying cash rewards of various amounts
on their heads, surrendered before the Police in Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh. “Two hardcore Naxals that carried cash rewards
of Rs 3 lakh (INR 300,000) on their arrest along with two others
carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh (INR 100,000) each on their heads
were among the Naxals giving up arms,” SP of Bijapur, KL Dhruv
said. According to the Police, Maoists were impressed by the public
relations drive being carried out by SFs in the Naxal-hit region.
Kursum Bodi (36) resident of Rengavaya who was President of Jantana
Sarkar and carried reward of INR 300,000 on her head
gave up arms. Likewise, Kamlesh Poyam (26) ‘commander’ of CNM,
an outfit of the CPI-Maoist who too carried reward of INR 300,000
on his arrest turned up before the Police. In the same way, Nagesh
Gota (20) and Kursam Sayabi (25) both Janmilita ‘commanders’
carrying reward of INR 100,000 each gave up arms, Police said.
All of them were involved in various kinds of Naxal related
incidents like, murder, attempt to murder, damaging roads, firing
on Police camps, arson and similar others. Cases were registered
against them with Kutru, Farsegarh and Bedre Police Stations,
the SP added. They were all provided with instant financial
support of INR 10,000 each.
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October 9
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Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
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The SFs of Kerala, Karnataka and
Tamil Nadu decided to launch a joint operation, following specific
intelligence information that CPI-Maoist had increasingly been
using the forest tri-junction of the southern states as a safe
haven. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held in
Kochi in Ernakulam District of Kerala, in the wake of the arrest
of suspected ISIS sympathisers in Kerala and the surging Maoist
infiltration into South Indian States. Earlier, intelligence agencies
had received information about a secret meet of the Maoists held
in Wayanad on September 14, which was attended by a Maoist ‘central
committee’ member who was reportedly hiding in the tri-junction
area. At the high-level meeting, a specific strategy was laid
out detailing the role of the security formations of each State,
and modalities were worked out for preventing Maoists from hiding
in the border Districts of Kerala and Karnataka, besides Nilgiris
in Tamil Nadu. “We received information from reliable sources
that Maoists advancing North Indian states like Jharkhand and
Chhattisgarh were using the tri-junction area as hideout. The
infiltrating extremists include senior Maoist leaders who control
regional operations. A joint action is needed, considering the
possibility of Maoists crossing the border and escaping to another
State when the police force of a particular state launches crackdown,”
a senior officer said. However, CRPF DG, K Durga Prasad said that
ever since SFs intensified their crackdown, threat from LWEs had
come down in the Southern States.
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October 10
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Bokaro District of Jharkhand
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CPI-Maoist cadres protesting against
"Police atrocities" blew up a section of railway track
in Bokaro District of Jharkhand. The incident occurred between
Jogeshwar Bihar and Tilaya stations, around 140 kilometres from
Ranchi.
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October 10
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Palamau District of Jharkhand
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Narayan Yadav (24), actively associated
with the CPI-Maoist, was arrested from Lawadag in Palamau District
of Jharkhand. Yadav, who was entrusted with the task of collecting
information about the movement of SFs in Kalapahar where seven
Policemen were killed in a landmine blast in January, was arrested
when he was trying to put up posters of a two-day state-wide Maoist bandh beginning
on October 10. Police have recovered Maoist literature and posters
from him. Chhatarpur Police Station, OIC, Law Kumar Singh said
that Narayan had been closely associated with Maoist commanders
Nitesh and Ajay Yadav. "About four days ago, we had spotted
him pasting bandh posters at Chhatarpur bus stand. But, he somehow
escaped. He was long been on our radar," he said. The officer
said that two cases, including one related to violation of Arms
Act, were pending against him. "He was actively associated
with CPI (Maoist) since the last four years. His elder brother
Vishwanath Yadav was an active cadre of CPI (Maoist) who died
during an encounter in 2010," said Singh. During interrogation,
Narayan said that he had passed on details about the movement
of SFs in Kalapahar to the Maoists. "Yadav was in regular
touch with Maoist commander Ajay who along with Nitesh and another
accomplice Mithilesh was involved in carrying out the attack,"
said Chhatarpur, SDPO Sanjay Kumar. The SDPO added that few days
before the blast, Maoists had blown up a BSNL tower in Kalapahar.
"In that incident too, Narayan had passed on vital information
about police movement to Maoists," he said.
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October 10
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Chatra District of Jharkhand
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The ED has started the process
of freezing bank accounts of Parmeshwar Ganjhu, a wanted TPC leader
operating in Chatra District of Jharkhand, in a concentrated effort
to squeeze financial resources of the rebel outfit that has been
minting money through extortion and proxy contracts. Highly placed
sources in the directorate revealed that the freeze order was
issued to the bank concerned in that District on October 7. Parmeshwar,
his wife Yashoda Devi and brother Arjun individually hold as many
as eight accounts. While the rebel leader has three accounts with
the Tandwa branch of Bank of India, Yashoda has two and Arjun,
like his brother, three. The ED has directed the bank to provide
transaction details of all these eight accounts, the source said.
In addition, the directorate has rushed letters to other banks
in Chatra, seeking account details of 13 other notorious TPC members,
including Gopal Singh Bhokta alias Brajesh Ganjhu,
Mukesh Ganjhu, Kohram, Akraman, Bindeshwar alias Bindu
Ganjhu, Binod Ganjhu and Bhikhan Ganjhu. "Of these 13, we
have received bank account details of some. We need the rest to
choke the outfit's all financial arteries," said a senior
official of the directorate. It is the first time in Jharkhand
that the ED is investigating a money laundering case against a
Naxalite outfit. TPC is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 10
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Chandrapur District of Maharashtra
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In a show of solidarity to Kashmiri
protesters demanding the right to self-determination, the CPI-Maoist
in Chandrapur District of Maharashtra called for a bandh on
October 10 and 11. The Maoists have put up posters in Bhamragarh,
Hemalkasa, Arewada and Hindewada area in the District, asking
people to observe the two-day bandh to express
their support to separatist forces in Kashmir. The Valley has
been on the boil since July when HM militant Burhan Wani was killed
by the SFs. This is the first time the organization has openly
supported the demand of Kashmiri separatists for a resolution
and their right to self-determination. Till now, they had been
a prominent voice for the rights of dalits and adivasi communities
in India. The organization has also voiced its support to the
separatist forces in the northeastern part of the country. Intelligence
agencies have been alerted about this development. Law enforcement
agencies in states like Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
(where the organization is reportedly quite active) are looking
out for the same after the banners and pamphlets clearly mentioning
their support to Kashmir protesters surfaced.
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October 11
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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A Police jawan was killed - hacked
to death - by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
According to information, a group of four-five unidentified ultras
attacked assistant constable Lakhmu Telam (35), killing him on
the spot, Bijapur ASP, Mohit Garg said. The incident took place
at Nemed village market under Jangla Police Station limits, he
said. A native of Vijay Nagar in Bijapur district, Telam was posted
with the DRG of Police. He was on leave since October 7, the ASP
said.
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October 11
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Khunti District of Jharkhand
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Khunti Police, during a combing
operation arrested PLFI ‘area commander’ Kishan Kandulna alias Bangali,
and his four aides from Banbira forests in Khunti District of
Jharkhand. SP, Anish Gupta said Bangali was a native of Alipurduar
in north Bengal who was recently asked to lead the PLFI in the
Rania-Kamdara belt and neighbouring areas of Khunti and Simdega
Districts after the arrest of Ganpat Bhuiyan. "The arrests
were made around 3.30am following a tip-off. Police recovered
a 315-bore rifle, a double-barrel gun, an 8mm pistol and a .32
pistol, besides nine live cartridges and six mobile phones,"
SP Gupta added. Bangali's other associates have been identified
as Dukhiya Topno of Simdega District, and Sagen Topno, Robin Topno
and Kamal Lohra who are from Rania in Khunti. PLFI is a splinter
group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 12
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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The 85th Battalion of the CRPF
recovered an IED weighing two kilograms in Bijapur District of
Chhattisgarh. The explosive is said to be planted by CPI-Maoist
rebels. Later, bomb detection and disposal squad defused the IED.
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October 12
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Simdega District of Jharkhand
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A PLFI cadre using multiple aliases
and facing at least two murder cases was arrested from Kolebira
in Simdega District of Jharkhand, with Police recovering a pistol,
cartridges and several posters and pamphlets from him. Iliyas
Surin alias Bachhru alias Viscal
(21), is an accused in two sensational murders reported in Kolebira
in 2014. He was closely associated with several senior PLFI gunmen,
including ‘zonal commander’ Jeedan Gudia, Barud Gope, Gujju Gope
and Vijay Dang alias Tiger. Iliyas joined PLFI
at the age of 15 that earned him the tag of "Bachhru".
As his chiefs had either changed areas of operation or were caught
by Police, he fled to Delhi about a year ago. He returned six
months ago and joined hands with the new PLFI chief, Vijay Dang.
Simdega SP, Rajeev Ranjan Singh received a tip-off about him last
evening. He then formed a special team led by Kolebira OIC, Manohar
Kumar, who was able to arrest him. "We have sent him to Simdega
divisional jail under judicial custody. Our operations are in
full swing. I sincerely urge absconder rebels to surrender and
avail of the benefits of the state government's surrender policy.
Or else, they would be either caught or killed," he added.
PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 12
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Bolangir District of Odisha
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Three CPI-Maoist posters were
found in Ghamari village of Bolangir District of Odisha. In these
posters, the CPI-Maoist local divisional committee has urged the
people to support some demands of the Maoist rebels. In these
posters Maoists have opposed the Green Hunt Operation and
demanded proper irrigation to crop fields in tribal areas by constructing
check dams and canals. Earlier on September 16, 2016, Maoist posters
were also found at Muribahal in Titlagarh area of Bolangir District
in which the Maoists have demanded ration cards for all Dalit
and tribal families and closure of liquor shops in the area.
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October 13
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Bokaro District of Jharkhand
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CPI-Maoist cadres blew up railway
tracks near Dumri Vihar of Gomia block in Bokaro District of Jharkhand,
on two consecutive days of October 10 and October 11. The pamphlets
found from the blast site contain a message where they condemned
the State Government for amendment of the Chhotanagpur Tenancy
Act and for favouring capitalists. The incidents were the second
and third ones in the last five days. Maoists blew up three points
on the same railway track on Gomia-Barkakhana route under Dhanbad
railway division of ECR. Unlike the previous two blasts, on October
11, Maoists blew up the tracks near Dumri Vihar. Apart from goods
trains, short distance passenger trains like Gomoh-Choupan passenger
and Barkakhana-Asansol passenger were affected due to the incident.
The traffic on the route was disrupted for nearly 10 hours till
a railway team reached the site and reinstalled the broken railway
lines. "Maoists are targeting the rail tracks as they are
public property. Mostly passenger trains ply on this route. The
incident caused inconvenience to local passengers who were traveling
on this route during the festive season," said Manoj Krishna
Akhouri, DRM, Dhanbad railway division.
The first incident occurred on
October 6, when Maoists set a railway engine on fire and blew
up a railway track near Dumri Vihar railway station. On October
7, DGP, RPF, S K Bhagat along with senior Police officers had
visited the site to assess the situation and a search operation
was launched by the State Police. Three days later, the Maoists
blew up the railway tracks again. Sources said that the blast
was triggered by a Maoist squad that came from outside the District.
Local Maoist ‘commander’ Santosh Da was also with them. DIG, Koylanchal,
Saket Singh said a massive anti-Maoist search operation is being
conducted in the jungles near Dumri Vihar. Necessary directions
have been given to Police officers to avoid repetition of such
incidents. The restoration work was completed by the railways
in the presence of Police. Maoists who have almost lost their
ground in jungles of Gomia block are trying to register their
presence through such attacks, Police said.
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October 14
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Ranchi District of Jharkhand
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A ‘sub-zonal commander’ of the
CPI-Maoist party Santosh Kumar Singh alias Santosh Bhokta
surrendered before the Police in Ranchi District of Jharkhand.
Santosh who looked after party affairs in Simdega-Gumla area,
surrendered before DGP, DK Pandey in the Police headquarters under
Nai Disha - the rehabilitation programme run by the Police for
bringing Maoist cadres into mainstream. Singh, a resident of Tutikel
village under Kolebira Police Station of Thetaitangar block of
Simdega District, was active for close to nine years and carried
a cash reward of INR 500,000 on him. He also had 14 criminal charges
against him in various Police Stations, Police said. In his statement,
Singh said he was influenced by Manoj Nageshia squad in 2008 and
joined the party under then ‘sub-zonal commander’ Debu Ji. "They
(top leaders) took the money of the organization and spent it
on their families," Singh said.
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October 15
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Sheohar District of Bihar
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Altogether 18 CPI-Maoist, including
a woman, surrendered before Sheohar administration in the presence
of 15,000 civilians at Belwa Ghat on the banks of the Bagmati
in Sheohar District of Bihar. Sheohar SP, Prakash Nath Mishra
said the surrendered Maoists were hardcore members of the rebel
group from the times of MCC, which has now merged with CPI-Maoist.
All of them surrendered without any firearms. "The Maoists
were not arrested as they were already granted bail by local courts.
They furnished the bail papers at the time of surrender. They
would, however, be under our surveillance," Mishra said.
Sheohar, around 250 kilometres north of Patna, has been badly
affected by Maoism. The SP said most of the Maoists, who surrendered
on Saturday, were accused in multiple cases. "We have been
pursuing all Maoists in Sheohar to come to the mainstream for
the past six months. It is due to our efforts that crime figures
in Sheohar have come down by almost 60%. Today's surrender programme
is one of the milestones of the district administration,"
Mishra said.
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October 15
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Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh
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A senior CPI-Maoist leader was
arrested from a weekly market of Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh.
According to Police, a team of DRG and District Police had started
from Dhanora Police on an anti-Naxal operation. “Based
on specific information received, the Police team reached a weekly
market in Dhanora Police Station,” SP of Kondagaon, Santosh Singh
said. While searching the market, Police rounded up Ghasia Ram
Netam, who had tried to run away after seeing the Police, the
SP said. Netam (26) is a resident of Chikpal, Kadenar, Kondagaon.
A dagger, Naxal banner posters, medicines and other items
of daily use were seized from his possession. A member of Kiskod
area committee of the Naxals, Ghasia Ram had reached weekly
market to procure daily use items for Naxal as well as to do recce
of SFs, the SP mentioned.
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October 15
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Nirmal District of Telangana
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A bodyguard of CPI-Maoist Adilabad
(united) District Committee Secretary Mylarapu Adellu alias
Bhaskar, Kanthi Ravinder alias Suresh (26), surrendered
to Nirmal District Police of Telangana. A resident of Laxmisagar
village in Kadem mandal, he had joined the underground
movement in 2014 and was a Mangi dalam member but functioned
as a gunman to his brother-in-law Adellu, mostly in Gadchiroli
District in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. Nirmal SP, Vishnu S.
Warrier said the extremist had actually joined the Maoist ranks
in 2011 but had quit it soon after. He was arrested by Metpalli
Police then. Ravinder was present at the July 19, 2016, encounter
at Aheri in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra in which three
Maoists were killed, including Athram Shobhan alias Charles,
the Adilabad Divisional Committee member. He was also involved
in the encounter at Lankapalli of Chhattisgarh State which took
place on June 12, 2016, in which three other cadres were killed.
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October 15
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Gautam Budh Nagar District of
Uttar Pradesh
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A top CPI-Maoist leader from Latehar
District of Jharkhand, Pradeep Singh Kharwar was arrested, along
with five other accomplices from an apartment in Sector-49 Noida
in Gautam Budh Nagar District of Uttar Pradesh. The ‘area commander’
was hiding in Noida since February 2012. UP Police claimed a major
attack in Delhi, NCR has been averted with the arrests. The group
was arrested in a joint operation of intelligence agencies and
UP-ATS. The arrested ‘commander’ had INR 500,000 reward on him
and was among the most wanted, said top brass of UP Police. Pradip
is a resident of Bariyatu village in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
Six weapons have been recovered from them.
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October 16
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Ranchi District of Jharkhand
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Suspected PLFI cadres
blew up two concrete sleepers of tracks detonating IED between
Khelari and McCluskieganj stations in Ranchi District of Jharkhand.
The tracks fall on the CIC section of Dhanbad division, which
suffered three blasts in Bokaro District between October 6 – 11,
during the CPI-Maoist ‘protest week’. A gangman on patrol noticed
the damaged sleepers, around 8.30am. Dhanbad RPF commandant, A.N.
Jha said there was no major damage to railway property. "No
passenger train was affected though a goods train had to be detained
for some time," he said. The Police recovered from the spot
batteries and connecting wires used to trigger the explosion.
"Preliminary probe suggests PLFI involvement though the area
is known as a Maoist stronghold. The Ranchi Police are probing
the case," Jha added. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 16
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Ranchi District of Jharkhand
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A self-styled ‘area commander’
of TPC was arrested in Ranchi District of Jharkhand. Dharmendra
Jee alias Munilal Mahto of Hazaribagh District,
a hardcore Maoist leader functioning as self-styled ‘area commander’
in Ramgarh, Hazaribagh and Ranchi, was wanted in as many as 15
cases lodged in various Police Stations of three Districts, SP,
Ramgarh, M Tamilvanan said. The arrested rebel, suffering from
some ailments, was waiting for a doctor at a private clinic in
Ranchi when he was arrested by Ramgarh Police with the help of
STF, Ranchi, Tamilvanan said. He said Mahto was active in Mandu
of Ramgarh, Charhi of Hazaribagh and Ormanjhi and Sikidiri of
Ranchi District and working under leadership of self-styled top
‘commander’ of TPC Kabir Jee and Dayanand Jee. TPC is a splinter
group of CPI-Maoist.
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October 16
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Kalahandi District of Odisha
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A group of CPI-Maoist cadres reportedly
set ablaze a licensed country liquor manufacturing unit in Dengsu
Tipidi village under Barabandha panchayat of
Madanpur Rampur Police limits in Kalahandi District of Odisha.
According to information, around 32 Maoists came and put the liquor-making
unit and two motorbikes on fire using kerosene. They too beat
up owner and employees of the unit and threatened him to stop
the unit for ever.
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October 16
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Gautam Budh Nagar and Chandauli
Districts of Uttar Pradesh
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The UP-ATS claimed to have arrested
four more CPI-Maoist, taking the total arrests since October 15
to 10. One of those arrested, was arrested from Chandauli District
in eastern UP, while Police are looking for another person from
the village. The UP Police claimed that Sunil Ravidas (30), who
was arrested from Chandauli, as well as 28-year-old Ranjit Paswan
and Krishna Kumar (42), arrested from Noida on October 15, were
members of the splinter Maoist organisation TSPC. The absconding
accused has been identified as Ramapati, also from Chandauli.
While some reports said one of the arrested persons was from Latehar,
the UP ATS and Jharkhand Police denied this. “None of the arrested
persons is from Latehar or Jharkhand,” Latehar SP, Anup Birthare
said. The ATS said the 10 accused were “experts in bomb making”,
and Ravidas was “the main person”. The NIA is planning to also
question the accused.
At a press conference, IG, UP
ATS, Aseem Arun said that last month, the Gautam Budh Nagar District
Police had received a tip-off about “suspicious activities”, from
a local in the area. “An aware citizen informed that some Naxalite
activities were taking place in Noida and some people are likely
to carry out a big incident around Diwali. On the basis of this
information, around 9 pm on October 15, a team of UP ATS and commandos
surrounded a flat in Hindon Vihar in Noida Sector 49 and arrested
five persons… After preliminary questioning, their associates
were arrested,” said Arun. He claimed that they moved in on Saturday
night after receiving information that weapons were being transported
and that the men were gathering.
Investigations indicated plans
for kidnapping, murder, bank and ATM robberies, the officer said.
“There is a new trend. Naxals are not just looking at dominating
areas, they want money. We are not experts in Bihar Naxalism,
so the Intelligence Bureau team, other agencies are here.” In
the five-decade history of the Maoist struggle, this would be
the first instance of Naxals planning to loot an ATM. “They had
taken up two flats on rent and a small shop in Noida. The shop
was used to carry out property business. The nature of these operations
is under investigation,” Arun added. Sources claimed one of the
accused may have carried out Naxal operations under the garb of
a real estate firm.
Police claim to have recovered
125 detonators, three 32 bore pistols, one 9 mm pistol, three
315 bore country-made revolvers, more than 80 cartridges, two
laptops, 13 mobile phones, cash amounting to INR 75,000, apart
from four cars and a motorcycle, from the men. Arun said an INSAS
rifle, “belonging to one of the forces”, and two other recovered
rifles were of “very good quality”. While five of the Maoists
were arrested on Saturday night from Noida, four were arrested
from nearby Sadarpur area on Sunday. Ravidas was arrested from
Chandauli. Apart from Ravidas, Ranjit Paswan and Krishna Kumar,
Pawan Kumar Jha (25), Sunil Kumar Yadav (25), Shailendra Kumar
(41), Sachin Kumar (28), Suraj (22), Ashish Saraswat (18), and
Brij Kishor Tomar (22) were arrested. Six of the accused — Ravidas,
Paswan, Sachin Kumar, Saraswat, Tomar and Suraj — are from UP.
The others are from Bihar. Western UP, from where three of the
men come, has virtually no Naxal presence.
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October 17 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A Police jawan, who was injured in a blast triggered
by CPI-Maoist in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh in September,
succumbs to his injuries. The Gopniya Sainik, identified as Abhaiyya
Jabba (23), belonging to State Police, succumbed last evening
at Ramkrishna Care Hospital in Raipur, a Police official said.
Abhaiyya and another jawan had sustained injuries in an IED blast
detonated by Maoists while a joint team of SFs was out on an anti-Maoist
operation in the forest of Madded Police Station area on September
22.
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October 17 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
A Maoist carrying a reward on his head was arrested
in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. "Bhadru Podiyami (25) was
nabbed from a local market coming under Geedam police station
area while he was procuring items of daily use for Maoists," SP
of Dantewada, Kamlochan Kashyap said. Podiyami, allegedly active
as the Area Head (President) of DAKMS, a frontal outfit of Maoists,
was looking after the supply of commodities of daily use and other
general items to rebels in Geedam, Tumnar and Barsoor area of
Dantewada. Earlier, he was arrested in 2009 when he was working
as a Jan Militia Member for the CPI-Maoist, but was released after
a year, the official said, adding that Podiyami was carrying a
reward of INR 100,000 on his head.
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October 17 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Maoists, carrying reward of INR 100,000 each
on their heads, surrendered before Dantewada SP, Kamlochan Kashyap
and other Police officials at the District headquarters of Dantewada
of Chhattisgarh. They have been identified as Madkam Deva (30),
a member of Kerlapal (Sukma) LOS and Ganga Muchaki (30), head
of DAKMS. The duo will be provided with facilities under the "Surrender
and Rehabilitation Policy" of state government, the official added.
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October 17 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
Anil Das, a CPI-Maoist cadre with a reward of
INR 25,000 on his head, was arrested from Ati Police Station area
in Gaya District of Bihar.
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October 17 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
A PLFI 'area commander' and eight cadres of his
squad surrendered with their arms before the Police in Ranchi
District of Jharkhand. The 'area commander' Lal Bihari Singh alias
Lalu, who carried a reward of INR 200,000 on his head, and his
trusted lieutenant Jirga Lugun also handed over their .315 rifles
and cartridges to the DGP, D.K. Pandey in the presence of IG (operations),
M.S. Bhatia during the event at the State Police headquarters.
The other seven cadres have been identified as Ganju Lugun, Birsa
Lugun, Goma Lugun, Samu Lugun, Mitu Lugun, Sado Lugun and Achu
Herenj - each carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on his head and
native of West Singhbhum District. Police said Lalu and seven
of his aides were aged between 18 and 22 years while Achu Herenj
was only 15. "You can see all of them are poor tribals. They were
forced to take up arms at an age when they were unable to differentiate
right and wrong," Pandey stressed. Most of them had joined the
outfit three years ago under various compulsions. "I was a Class
V student in 2013, when PLFI area commander Amar Gudia had come
to my village in Bandgaon. He threatened to eliminate my entire
family if I did not join his fold," Herenj, youngest among the
nine, the DGP said. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 17 |
Jharkhand |
Addressing the media, Jharkhand DGP D.K. Pandey
said the Police department would hire 15,000 personnel next year.
The recruitment will be carried out to raise two women battalions,
three IRB battalions and two PVTG battalions. Also, 2,500 ASIs
and equal number of associate constables will be hired. Total
33 per cent of the jobs will be reserved for women. According
to the DGP, the department has worked out extensive plans to improve
basic amenities in remote areas, paving the way for mobile phone
connectivity, banking services, apart from education and power
supply. "We have facilitated installation of 786 mobile phone
towers in remote areas across the state. 125 such towers will
soon provide 4G services, which will facilitate e-banking and
ATM services in remote villages," he added.
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October 18 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
One cadre of the CPI-Maoist was killed in an exchange
of fire with Security Forces (SFs) in the outskirts of a town
in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. "The skirmish took place in
the wee hours close to Pota Cabin School under Konta police station
limits leaving one Maoist dead," SP of Sukma, Indira Kalyan Elesela
said. Villagers had informed Police that five to six armed men
were spotted near the school in Konta town, located around 500
Kilometres away from Raipur, he said. Acting on inputs, a joint
team of DF and CRPF's 217 battalion launched a search operation
in the region. While they were cordoning off a patch close to
the school, a gun battle broke out between the two sides, the
SP said, adding that the rebels, however, fled from the spot taking
the advantage of darkness and forest. During search, the body
of a male Maoist beside a country- made pistol and a muzzle loading
gun was recovered from the spot, Elesela said. A search is still
underway. The identity of the killed ultra is yet to be ascertained,
he added.
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October 18 |
Bokaro District of Jharkhand |
SFs unearthed a huge cache of gelatine sticks
used to trigger IEDs from jungles of Narki in Gomia block in Bokaro
District of Jharkhand. Police sources said the gelatine sticks,
weighing around 45 kilograms, were neatly wrapped in plastic and
hidden behind bushes near Konar river. A diary and a receipt book
of the CPI-Maoist's NCZC were also recovered from the spot. The
Police sources said the counter-files of the receipts carried
names of several persons who had been paying levy to the Maoists
on a regular basis. "We had received specific intelligence on
these explosive items hidden in the forests. The gelatine sticks
were ferried to Narki apparently by a few villagers, who worked
for the rebel out. Accordingly, a search operation was planned
and executed successfully," Bokaro SP, Y.S. Ramesh said.
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October 18 |
Garhwa District of Jharkhand |
Two cadres belonging to TPC-II, a splinter group
of TPC, were arrested from Ranka in Garhwa District of Jharkhand.
A pistol, cartridges and mobile phones were found on Akash Gupta
and Surendra Yadav. TPC is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 18 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
A Maoist leader, who carried a reward of INR 500,000
on his head, was arrested from Jargo village in Tamar Block in
Ranchi District of Jharkhand. SSP, Kuldeep Dwivedi said Krish
Munda (23), secretary of CPI-Maoist Bundu-Chandil sub-zonal area
committee, was wanted in at least 11 cases registered at various
thanas of Ranchi, Khunti, Seraikela-Kharsawan and East Singhbhum
Districts. A resident of Baredih in Tamar, Munda is the husband
of Sonia Munda (19), also a Maoist who surrendered 10 days ago.
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October 18 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
Ramchandra Singh alias Ramu Ganjhu (30), one top
leader of PLFI, a breakaway faction of CPI-Maoist, surrendered
in a public function organized by the District Police in Simdega
District Of Jharkhand. "He was among the key PLFI leaders responsible
for the strength of the outfit in the district," said SP Rajeev
Ranjan Singh. Ganjhu was motivated to join JLT, one of the 18
so-called LWE outfits in Jharkhand, by its local leaders who visited
his village (Barkatoli in Bano Police Station area) for shelter
and food in 2004. Later, he shifted his allegiance and joined
PLFI where he served for the last six years. "After a recent mahapanchyat
in the district where common people appealed to the extremists
to surrender, Ganjhu decided to give up arms," said SP Singh.
The family members of Ganjhu had attended the mahapanchyat and
decided to encourage Ganjhu to surrender.
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October 18 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
An exchange of fire took place between SF personnel
and CPI-Maoist cadres at Niyamgiri forest area in Kalahandi District
of Odisha. Following this, SOG and CRPF jawans launched a massive
combing operation against Maoists. Earlier, the SF personnel had
got intelligence inputs about presence of Ghumusar- Bansadhara-Nagavali
division of CPI-Maoist members in the forest areas under Muniguda
Police limits. During a combing operation, the SF personnel exchanged
fire with the Maoists near Golgola and Naringbadi village area
of Munikhol panchayat. Muniguda SDPO, Anant Prasad Mallick said
a group of Maoists led by Bunty alias Bauri Bandhu Sethy opened
fire on the SFs during combing operation. In retaliation, the
SFs opened fire. However, no casualties have been reported.
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October 18 |
Patiala of Punjab |
A court acquitted Kobad Ghandy of all charges
in a six-year-old case accusing him of delivering two "anti-national"
speeches at Punjabi University in Patiala. Additional Sessions
and District Judge Mohammad Gulzar passed the order after the
case was heard on a day-to-day basis from September 27. Ghandy
(66) had pleaded that he was booked for delivering the lectures
in April and May 2009, when the CPI-Maoist was not banned. The
organisation was banned in June 22, 2009, he had argued. Ghandy
told presspersons after the acquittal that he had disassociated
himself from the banned organisation. The prosecution had a list
of 13 witnesses, of whom one could not be produced and was shown
as untraceable. Ghandy was booked in January 2010 by the Patiala
Sadar Police under sections 10, 13, 18 and 20 of the UAPA and
sections 419 and 120-B of the IPC for holding meetings on the
premises of the university in 2009, in an alleged bid to promote
Maoist ideology. He was brought here from Cherlapally Central
Jail, Telangana on September 27. The case was concluded in 20
days.
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October 19 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A villager was killed by CPI-Maoist cadres on
the suspicion of being a 'Police informer' in Sukma District of
Chhattisgarh. Joga Kawashi (26) hailing from Kolabkota under Tongpal
Police Station limits, was done to death at Maoists' "Jan Adalat"
four days after he was abducted by a group of Maoists from his
house on October 15. The body of the deceased was found by villagers
lying under a tree. The Maoists claimed responsibility for the
killing of Kawashi through a pamphlet dropped on the spot. They
warned villagers not to support SF personnel in the region.
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October 19 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
A 20-year-old man, allegedly working as "urban
supplier" for Maoists, was arrested from a market place in Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh. The cadre, identified as Sukhram Korram,
was picked up when he was procuring items of general use for Maoists
from the market in Kondagaon town, SP Santosh Singh said. The
arrest came as SFs have been directed in all seven Districts of
Bastar division to keep a close watch on the movement of suspects
in local weekly and daily markets that serve as a good source
for rebels to procure items of daily use. Korram was arrested
by a team of DRG and local Police, based on a tip-off given by
some surrendered rebels. "During interrogation, Korram, a native
of Barsoor area in Dantewada district, confessed that he was acting
as the urban supplier for rebels and had also served as member
of CNM, a cultural wing of Maoists, in Maad area," the officer
said. Police recovered a big knife, Maoist banners and posters,
medicines and other related literature from Korram.
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October 19 |
Rohtas District in Bihar |
The UP-ATS claimed to have arrested two more CPI-Maoist
cadres from Bihar, following the interrogation of four Maoists
who are in its custody in Noida. Last week, the UP-ATS had busted
two hideouts of Maoists in Noida and arrested nine suspected Maoists.
Later they arrested one more from Chandauli District of Varanasi
Division. According to UP-ATS officials, they received credible
information from the accused about their associates and raided
a hideout in Darigaon village in Rohtas District in Bihar. They
arrested Dharamveer Singh (36) and Sipahi Ram (37). The Police
said they got evidences like phone call records as proof of their
involvement in Maoist activities. Anoop Singh, DSP, ATS (Western
UP) said that Dharamveer Singh had been involved in Maoist activities
for several years. "Dharamveer had met Pawan Jha, an arrested
Maoist suspect, during the wedding of his sister in Rohtas district.
Dharamveer introduced Pawan Jha to other Maoist leaders and members,"
said the officer. Dharamveer had promised to organise the gang
in Bihar while Pawan would make a base in Noida, said sources.
According to Police, Dharamveer had actively been involved in
Maoist activities in his region and had also brought a few others
to the network. He was also planning to visit Noida. However,
the UP-ATS crackdown foiled his plan. Several criminal cases are
registered against him in his hometown. Sipahi Ram had also been
involved in Maoist actives for several years. UP-ATS sources said
that Sipahi Ram knew Krishna Kumar for nearly 20 years. Sipahi
Ram was given the responsibility to arrange explosives and weapons
and to transport them to the gang members hideouts in NCR, Delhi.
He is the 'area commander' of the newly formed outfit, TSPC in
Bihar. TSPC is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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October 19 |
Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh |
A court in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, remanded
four CPI-Maoist cadres arrested from Noida in seven-day custody
of UP-ATS. "The ATS has got remand of four naxals from today to
October 26. The remand was granted by CJM, Gautam Buddha Nagar
on the application moved by ATS on October 17," a senior Police
official said. The Maoists, who were taken in remand included
Ranjit Paswan, Krishan Kumar, Pawan Kumar Jha and Ashish Saraswat,
he said. Averting a major Maoist attack in the national capital
and its neighbourhood, the UP-ATS had on October 16 arrested a
gang of rebels arresting 10 of them, including a self-styled 'area
commander', and recovering a huge cache of arms and ammunition.
The LWEs were adept at making bombs and were planning some incidents
in the Delhi-NCR region, IG, UP-ATS, Aseem Arun said. Nine Maoists
were arrested from Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi, while one
from Chandauli District of Varanasi Division.
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October 20 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, one of them carrying a
reward on his head, were arrested in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh.
The Maoists, identified as Kuldhar Salaam (27), carrying reward
of INR 10,000, and Subbaram Korram (48), were arrested by a joint
team of SFs during a search operation in Dhaudai Police Station
area, a senior Police official said. Acting on inputs about the
movement of rebels, the composite squad of ITBP and District Force
had launched the combing operation towards Maraskol, Sulenga and
Kokpad villages of the region, he said. When the troopers were
advancing through jungles between Maraskol and Sulenga, they spotted
two suspects who later admitted to their involvement with the
CPI-Maoist as lower-rung members, during interrogation. While
Salaam was active as a member of Maraskol CNM, a cultural wing
of Maoists, Korram was working with Temrugaon Janatana Sarkar
squad of the rebels. The duo was suspected to be involved in the
incidents of attacks on Police party and murder, the official
said.
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October 20 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
Two Maoists, including a woman cadre, surrendered
before the BSF and the Police in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
The Maoists surrendered before CRPF's 229th Batallion commandant
T Vishvanath. They were wanted by Police since 2005 for being
engaged in various anti-national activities, including planting
of landmines and obstructing communication networks.
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October 20 |
Bokaro District of Jharkhand |
CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze a road roller machine
and assaulted three persons including two employees at Banchatra
village under Gomia Police Station in Bokaro District of Jharkhand.
SP, Y S Ramesh said that around six Maoists, flaunting firearms
and in Police uniform, arrived at the village and assaulted three
persons including two employees of the company and set ablaze
a road roller machine. Ramesh said a search operation was launched
but the rebels managed to elude so far. The company was carrying
out road construction work of 21 kilometres road between Banchatra
to Baya Kapsassthan Jharna under Gomia block. The incident was
believed to exert pressure on the contractor for payment of levy.
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October 20 |
Bokaro District of Jharkhand |
Police recovered explosives from trucks that were
seized in Gaychanda under Jaridih Police Station in Bokaro District
of Jharkhand. The containers were opened in the presence of a
magistrate deputed by the administration. The drivers of the trucks,
bearing registration number of West Bengal, managed to flee from
the spot. The incident came to light when the chowkidar of Gaychanda,
Suresh Singh, was stabbed by Kalewar Singh, who was extorting
money from the truck drivers. Later villagers informed Police
about the incident and the two trucks carrying explosives. DSP,
Ajay Kumar said that the Police though lodged FIR on complaint
of Suresh and arrested Kalewar, they waited for magistrate deployment
for opening the containers. "Today the containers were opened.
Of the two trucks, explosives were recovered in one of the containers".
There were four boxes inside the container, each of which had
nine packets of explosives. These explosives were manufactured
in Black Diamond Explosives Private Limited, situated in Burdwan
in West Bengal. DSP said that investigation is being carried to
identify the person who was transporting the explosives.
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October 20 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Food supplies for contingent of CPI-Maoist led
by Polit Bureau member Arvind was seized by Police in Baresarn
area in Latehar District of Jharkhand. Latehar SP, Anoop Birtharey
said the food supplies were bought from Mahuadarnd market and
were being sent to Pipal Dhaab in Chhattisgarh, located at the
foothill of Burha Pahar, and which falls in two states- Chhattisgarh
and Jharkhand. Three people were arrested in connection with the
case.
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October 21 |
Bastar District of Chhattisgarh |
At least 15 cadres of the CPI-Maoist surrendered
before the Police in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh. The cadres
were active in Mardoom and Darba areas of the District and have
many cases registered against them in different Police Stations.
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October 22 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
One CPI-Maoist cadre was killed during an encounter
raged on between Police Forces and the LWEs in a forested patch
of Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. "The encounter took place
in the limits of Awapalli Police Station on Saturday afternoon
in which a Maoist was killed," SP of Bijapur, KL Dhruv informed.
According to Dhruv, a joint team of SF personnel consisting of
DRG and District Police had started on an anti-Maoist operation
from Awapalli Police Station limits. They confronted armed Maoists
in the jungles near Munga village and both sides engaged in gun
fight. After intermittent firing the Maoists fled away into the
core jungle area, Dhruv added. While searching the region, body
of a male Maoist clad in Maoist uniform was spotted, SP Dhruv
said while adding that the identity of killed Maoist was yet to
be ascertained. The items recovered from the encounter spot includes
a 303 knot rifle, Country made single barrel rifle, ammunition
of AK-47 and other guns, Galantine gel explosive - 50 kilograms,
Electric detonator, Cordex wire - 400 feet, IED including Tiffin
bomb, Pressure Cooker and other items of daily use.
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October 22 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Seven Maoists including a top female Maoist carrying
cash reward of INR 100,000 on her head was arrested from Farsegarh
Police Station limits in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. "Bujji
Vedja was a LGS member of Naxal national park area committee and
was involved in killing of 4 police personnel that had happened
at Kutur in 2015," SP, Dhruv said. The other six Maoists arrested,
are lower cadre members and were wanted in connection with incidents
like damaging roads, public property and similar action. The team
of CAF and District Police arrested them from the jungles of Chunchkuta
and Talmendri, he added.
|
Non-Violent |
October 22 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
In a joint search operation, Police and CRPF personnel
recovered 16 IEDs together weighing around 50 kilograms besides
one regular 303 rifle, two country made guns, 327 rounds of ammunition
and bullets of AK-47 in Serendag area in Latehar District of Jharkhand.
SP of Latehar, Anoop Birtharey said SFs also recovered a ten meter
red banner of the CPI-Maoist. The recovered articles, which were
kept in steel containers were dug out, said the SP.
|
Non-Violent |
October 22 |
Kerala-Tamil Nadu |
A huge flex board displaying images of 32 suspected
CPI-Maoist cadres and seeking the cooperation of public in arresting
them, has been erected by Police and Forest Department, at a check
post on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu Border. The board was put up in
the wake of reports of infiltration of suspected Maoists, who
held a secret meeting in a village in Kerala, near the Tamil Nadu
Border last month, they said. Police and Forest Department officials
put up the board to enable the public to identify the Maoists,
who include a few women, and to pass on information they might
have, they added.
|
Non-Violent |
October 23 |
Chhattisgarh |
The Chhattisgarh Government said that it was ready
to hold a dialogue with Naxals under the purview of democracy
and constitution. "Mutual dialogue is the foundation of democracy.
The State Government is ready for talk with any side, including
the CPI-Maoist, to solve the Naxal issue. "Government's doors
for talks with Naxals are always open provided that the dialogue
must be under the purview of democracy and constitution," State's
Home Minister Ramsewak Paikra said in a statement. The Minister
said CM Raman Singh had already said many times in past that the
Government is ready for peace talk with Naxals if they shun violence
and arms. Moreover, the CM had also said that the Government was
ready to embrace Naxals, who want to surrender and join the mainstream,
Paikra said.
|
Statement |
October 24 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Eighteen CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter
with a combined team of AP and Odisha Police near Jantri in Malkangiri
District of Odisha, in the AOB area. According to AP Police, two
constables of Greyhounds, an elite anti-Maoist force, were injured
in the encounter that occurred during a routine combing operation
being jointly carried out by Police of both the States at Ramgurha
in Malkangiri District of Odisha. "The operation spot comes under
Chitrakonda police limits of Malkangiri. The joint operation was
carried out in cut-off areas of Chitrakonda close to Andhra Pradesh
border. We seized some weapons from the Maoists," ADG, (intelligence)
of Odisha Arun Sarangi said. Sarangi said the blueprint of the
operation was finalized two days ago. "We had tip-off about movement
of the Maoists in the cut-off area. We informed the Andhra Pradesh
police for assistance," Sarangi said, adding "The bodies will
be brought to Chitrakonda for identification and post-mortem."
The face-off between the SF personnel and the Maoists lasted for
about an hour. The rebels were said to be resting after a meeting
when the encounter took place. Police have recovered four AK-47
rifles from the scene of the encounter. AP Director General of
Andhra Police Nanduri Sambasiva Rao said combing operation was
still continuing as there was information that there were some
more Maoists roaming in the region. Sources said that top Maoist
leaders like Gajarla Ravi alias Uday, Bengal Sudhir, Anil, RK
alias Saketh's son Munna, Bakuri Venkata Ramana alias Ganesh and
others were in the area at the time of the encounter.
|
Violent |
October 24 |
Chhattisgarh |
A day after the Chhattisgarh Government announced
that they are open for dialogue with the Naxals, 18 Maoists surrendered
in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. The Police statement confirmed
that 18 Maoists, including two women have voluntarily surrendered
in Chhattisgarh's Kanker. They also laid down big numbers of ammunition
including an Indian Small Arms System rifle, a self-loading rifle,
four 303 rifles, four 12-bore guns and five other loaded rifles.
"Government's doors for talks with Naxals are always open provided
that the dialogue must be under the purview of democracy and constitution,"
State's Home Minister Ramsewak Paikra had said. Those who surrendered
include Military Company Number 5 Member Sarita Dugga, Platoon
25 'Commander' Sonsai Korram, Hindur Jan Militia Platoon 'commander'
Karru Dugga, Partapur Area Committee Platoon 5 'deputy commander'
Sobhi Dugga and Rowghat Area Committee Member Rajbatti Dhruv.
|
Non-Violent |
October 24 |
Raipur District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist couple, disappointed
with the 'empty' Maoist ideology, surrendered before intelligence
wing of Chhattisgarh Police at SIB headquarters in Raipur District.
The duo was identified as Berta Bheema alias Bhimaal and his wife
Sito alias Jamli, natives of Bijapur District. While Bheema was
active as 'deputy commander' of military platoon 2 in the National
Park Area committee of Maoists, Sito was working as 'section deputy
commander' in the same wing, ASP (SIB), Lal Umed Singh said. After
getting associated with the CPI-Maoist in 2005 as a member of Bhairamgarh
(Bijapur) LOS, Bheema worked in different capacities with the banned
outfit. He was instrumental in executing several deadly attacks
on SFs in the region, the ASP said. According to the officer, he
was allegedly involved in the 2010 attack in Dhaudai area of Narayanpur
District, wherein 26 Police personnel were killed. He also admitted
to his involvement in the 2008 Maoist ambush in Badgaon area of
Kanker District that claimed the life of a Policeman. Similarly,
Sito was an important cadre of the wing as she was providing medical
treatment to injured Maoist cadres, Singh said. |
Non-Violent |
October 25 |
Gaya District of Bihar |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres,
including a 'sub-zonal commander' of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered
before Police in Gaya District of Bihar. SSP, Garima Malik, said
that self-proclaimed 'sub-zonal commander' of CPI-Maoist, Lobhi
Paswan aka Jyoti Ji and two other Naxalites surrendered before the
Police. Lobhi Paswan, wanted in number of subversive activities,
is a resident of Mangraur village under Konch Police Station area
in the District. The two other cadres were identified as self-proclaimed
'area commander's of the CPI-Maoist, Nand Kishore Ram aka Nand Ram
and Brijbhushan Ravidas aka Bhushan Ji. They surrendered before
the Police with a country-made pistol, other firearms and a few
live cartridges. |
Non-Violent |
October 25 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
A CPI-Maoist 'sub-zonal commander',
who carried a reward of INR 500,000 on his head, surrendered before
DGP, D.K. Pandey at the state Police headquarters in Ranchi District
of Jharkhand. A native of Balumath area of Latehar District, Baleshwar
Oraon was a close aide of former Maoist 'zonal commander' Bada Vikas,
who gave up arms on July 14, and figured as a named accused in at
least 10 cases of Naxalite violence. Pandey welcomed Oraon into
social mainstream and handed him an INR 500,000 cheque and INR 50,000
in cash. "The Maoists have lost the support of their cadres as well
as common people. This is the 109th surrender under Operation Nai
Disha. I sincerely urge other rebels to give up arms and avail the
benefits of this policy. We will show them a new direction," Pandey
said in his address at the event. |
Non-Violent |
October 25 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
SF personnel recovered bodies of four more Maoists
killed during a joint operation by AP-Odisha Police in Bejing
jungle between Ramgarh and Panasput in Malkangiri District of
Odisha on October 24. The total number Maoists killed in the joint
Police operation rose to 28. One AP Greyhound commando Mohammed
Abu Bakar was also killed in the exchange of fire while one more
commando was also injured.
The Police had seized 20 firearms, which includes
four AK47 rifles, 10 numbers of .303 rifles, three SLR rifles,
two INSAS rifle, four SBBL guns, one laptop and INR 216,000 from
the spot. By late evening, the police party recovered about 50
kit bags and a large quantity of Maoist literature. The Maoists
were reportedly holding a plenary session, which was to be attended
by 'central committee member' Akkiraju Haragopal aka Ramakrishna
aka RK. There were between 50 to 60 Maoists, when the encounter
took place.
Among those killed were Bakuri Venkata Ramana
Murthy alias Ganesh alias Prasad alias Ramireddy, 'official spokesman'
of AOBSZC and 'secretary' of east division unit of the party;
Chemella Krishnaiah alias Bhaskar alias Daya, 'secretary' of the
Koraput-Srikakulam 'joint division' of the AOBSZC; Gamelli Kesava
Rao alias Birsu, 'area commander' of First CRC and 'divisional
committee secretary' of the Koraput-Srikakulam 'division'; Anna
Parthi Dasu alias Madhu (50), member of the inner protection team
around Bakuri Venkata Ramana Murthy and 'divisional committee
member' (DCM), technical team of West Godavari; Geddam Suvarnaraju
alias Kiran (38), brother-in-law of Madhu; Prabhakar Kapukka alias
PKM alias Devendra, DCM; Latha alias Jyothi alias Padma, DCM and
wife of Dubashi Shankar alias Mahendra, SZCM, of the Hyderabad
area; Rajesh alias Bimal, 'area commander' of First CRC and DCM
from Chhattisgarh; Mamata alias Banajalas Nirmala alias Boddu
Kundanalu Maru (DCM of Third CRC of the party and wife of Suresh,
SZCM of the Srikakulam area); Yamalapalli Simhachalam alias Murali
alias Krishna alias Hari, key member of Central Committee member
RK's protection team and DCM of the Vizianagaram District; Kameswari
alias Swarna alias Swaroopa alias Ricky, part of cadre supply
team and DCM of Pedabayalu; Kilo Sita alias Swetha, part of cadre
supply team and ACM of Pedabayalu; Budri, woman bodyguard of RK's
inner protection team and ACM from Chhattisgarh; and key members
in RK's security cordon, Munna alias Akkiraju Prithvi alias Shivaji
(27), an ACM of Malkangiri's cut-off area LGS, and Raino alias
Sunil alias Jalmuri Srinu Babu, DCM of Third CRC of the party.
Ganesh and Daya carried a reward of INR two million each.
|
Violent |
October 25 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
SF personnel recovered bodies of four more Maoists
killed during a joint operation by AP-Odisha Police in Bejing
jungle between Ramgarh and Panasput in Malkangiri District of
Odisha on October 24. The total number Maoists killed in the joint
Police operation rose to 28. One AP Greyhound commando Mohammed
Abu Bakar was also killed in the exchange of fire while one more
commando was also injured.
The Police had seized 20 firearms, which includes
four AK47 rifles, 10 numbers of .303 rifles, three SLR rifles,
two INSAS rifle, four SBBL guns, one laptop and INR 216,000 from
the spot. By late evening, the police party recovered about 50
kit bags and a large quantity of Maoist literature. The Maoists
were reportedly holding a plenary session, which was to be attended
by 'central committee member' Akkiraju Haragopal aka Ramakrishna
aka RK. There were between 50 to 60 Maoists, when the encounter
took place.
Among those killed were Bakuri Venkata Ramana
Murthy alias Ganesh alias Prasad alias Ramireddy, 'official spokesman'
of AOBSZC and 'secretary' of east division unit of the party;
Chemella Krishnaiah alias Bhaskar alias Daya, 'secretary' of the
Koraput-Srikakulam 'joint division' of the AOBSZC; Gamelli Kesava
Rao alias Birsu, 'area commander' of First CRC and 'divisional
committee secretary' of the Koraput-Srikakulam 'division'; Anna
Parthi Dasu alias Madhu (50), member of the inner protection team
around Bakuri Venkata Ramana Murthy and 'divisional committee
member' (DCM), technical team of West Godavari; Geddam Suvarnaraju
alias Kiran (38), brother-in-law of Madhu; Prabhakar Kapukka alias
PKM alias Devendra, DCM; Latha alias Jyothi alias Padma, DCM and
wife of Dubashi Shankar alias Mahendra, SZCM, of the Hyderabad
area; Rajesh alias Bimal, 'area commander' of First CRC and DCM
from Chhattisgarh; Mamata alias Banajalas Nirmala alias Boddu
Kundanalu Maru (DCM of Third CRC of the party and wife of Suresh,
SZCM of the Srikakulam area); Yamalapalli Simhachalam alias Murali
alias Krishna alias Hari, key member of Central Committee member
RK's protection team and DCM of the Vizianagaram District; Kameswari
alias Swarna alias Swaroopa alias Ricky, part of cadre supply
team and DCM of Pedabayalu; Kilo Sita alias Swetha, part of cadre
supply team and ACM of Pedabayalu; Budri, woman bodyguard of RK's
inner protection team and ACM from Chhattisgarh; and key members
in RK's security cordon, Munna alias Akkiraju Prithvi alias Shivaji
(27), an ACM of Malkangiri's cut-off area LGS, and Raino alias
Sunil alias Jalmuri Srinu Babu, DCM of Third CRC of the party.
Ganesh and Daya carried a reward of INR two million each.
|
Violent |
October 25 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
The CPI-Maoist cadres reportedly abducted a group
of villagers from Kalahandi District of Odisha in connection with
an encounter that had taken place last month. Police later recovered
one body. Police sources said the Maoists had forcibly taken eight
villagers, including five from Katlang village under Bijepur Police
limits, two from Salpang village and one from Karli village under
Bhawanipatna Sadar Police limits. One body has been recovered,
and the deceased has been identified as Chena Harijan of Katlang.
Harijan's throat was found to have been slit by a sharp weapon.
The fate of the other abducted persons is yet to be ascertained.
Suspecting the role of villagers in tipping off Police about their
movements last month which led to an encounter at Bijapur area
on September 15, Maoists abducted a few of them, including a village
guard of Salpang, the Police claimed. Kalahandi, SP, Brijesh Rai
said anti-Maoist forces have rushed to the spot but there has
been no further information.
|
Violent |
October 26 |
Andhra Pradesh |
Two days after a major strike by the elite forces
in the AOB area, in which 28 CPI-Maoist cadres were killed, the
Andhra Pradesh State Committee of the CPI-Maoist has termed it
a "fake encounter" and threatened to take "revenge" against Chief
Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his son Lokesh. In a press release
sent to the media and signed by CPI-Maoist Andhra Pradesh State
committee official spokesman Shyam, the Maoists said the AOB encounter
was a major covert operation, in which 6,000 Police personnel
were used. He alleged that Police utilised the services of some
covert operatives to lace the food served to the Maoists with
sedatives, and gunned down the leaders and dalam members after
they fell unconscious. In the five-page release, the Maoists said
they would also eliminate former Naxalites who joined hands with
the Police.
|
Statement |
October 26 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
A female CPI-Maoist cadre carrying reward of INR
100,000 on her head was killed during an encounter between Maoists
and SFs in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. "The deceased
woman Naxal was identified as Rukmi, a member of Bodhghat LOS
of Maoists. She was gunned down in the exchange of fire with a
joint team of security forces in a forested patch of Chhote Dongar
police station area," SP of Narayanpur, Abhishek Meena, said.
Based on a tip-off, separate joint teams of STF, DRG and District
Force from Narayanpur and its neighbouring Kondagaon District
had launched an anti-Maoist operation in Chhote Dongar area of
the District, he said. While SFs were advancing through forests
between Kilam and Becha villages, a group of Maoists opened indiscriminate
fire on them following which they retaliated leading to the death
of a female Maoist cadre, he added. During searching of the spot,
body of the female cadre clad in 'uniform', along with a 12 bore
gun and its live cartridges were recovered, he said.
|
Violent |
October 26 |
Chhattisgarh/Maharashtra/Madhya
Pradesh |
The CPI-Maoist is reportedly working on a plan
to create a new 'guerrilla zone' along the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra-Madhya
Pradesh border region as an "extension" to its current stronghold
of Bastar, Naxal documents seized by SFs in a rebel camp have
disclosed. The proposed new 'red zone' would support Maoists'
twin strategy of providing escape route to rebels in the face
of intensifying counterinsurgency measures in Bastar in Chhattisgarh
and reclaim it by engaging the troopers in the proposed "extended"
'guerrilla zone', the seized Naxal documents have revealed. "The
Naxal documents detailing the strategy on forming a new 'guerrilla
zone' as extended 'red zone' of Bastar along border regions of
three adjoining states has been recovered along with explosives
during a raid on a Maoist camp in Chhuikhadan forest along the
border region of Rajnandgaon District in Chhattisgarh and Balaghat
District in MP," sources in SIB said. The proposed new 'guerrilla
zone', nestled in Satpura hill range, is spread over eight Districts
in three States of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and MP. It will facilitate
CPI-Maoist to expand its base towards north and east of Bastar.
Of the eight Districts, Maoists have already established their
base in Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, Balaghat in MP and Gadchiroli
in Maharashtra. The reds are on their way to expand to other border
Districts of Kawardha and Mungeli in Chhattisgarh, Mandla and
Dindori in MP and Gondia in Maharashtra. The new 'guerrilla zone'
would function under the DKSZC, the most powerful entity of CPI-Maoist
in India, an unnamed counterinsurgency officer said quoting the
Naxal documents.
|
Non-Violent |
October 26 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
The CPI-Maoist cadres have allegedly killed another
villager by slitting his throat in Salapanga village under Sadar
block in Kalahandi District of Odisha. The Maoists reportedly
killed Lalu Harijan, suspecting him to be a 'Police informer'.
This is the second incident in the District when a villager has
been allegedly killed by Maoists on suspicion of being a 'Police
informer'.
|
Violent |
October 27 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Two more CPI-Maoist were shot dead in the Chitrakonda
forest area of Malkangiri District of Odisha, taking the rebel
toll to 30 in the third encounter in as many days. The SF personnel
ran into a group of Maoists in the dense forest of Chitrakonda
during the ongoing combing operations and warned the latter to
surrender. However, the rebels opened fire in a bid to escape,
Visakhapatnam (rural) SP, Rahul Dev Sharma said. The exchange
of fire continued for about 20 minutes. When the guns fell silent,
the Police found two bodies. "Their photos would be released shortly.
The police are willing to help injured Maoists get medical treatment
if they are willing to surrender," Sharma said.
|
Violent |
October 27 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
If completed on time, the under construction bridge
over river Gurupriya would to a good extent solve connectivity
and by extension LWE problems in the cut-off area in Malkangiri
District of Odisha. The work for the 910-metre bridge connecting
Janbai North with Janbai South, which was started in 2015 at an
estimated cost of INR 172.58 crore is expected to be completed
by 2018. "Around Rs 71 crores has already been spent on the project
and we are hopeful of completing it within the scheduled time,"
said Arun Kumar Sahu, executive engineer of PWD, Malkangiri.
|
Non-Violent |
October 28 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two jawans of the CoBRA battalion were injured
in a pressure bomb blast triggered by CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur
District of Chhattisgarh. The incident occurred when a team of
CoBRA's 204th battalion was carrying out a search operation in
Basaguda Police Station area, said a CRPF official. "Security
forces were out for the operation since morning to the interiors
of Basaguda, located around 450 kms away from here (Raipur). While
they were cordoning off a forested patch near Sankanpalli, about
8 kms away from Basaguda, two jawans inadvertently stepped over
a pressure IED connection, triggering the blast that left them
injured," he said. Constable Kishore Behera is critically injured
whereas the other constable Nandan of the battalion has sustained
minor injuries, the official said.
|
Violent |
October 28 |
Dumka District of Jharkhand |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested from Amjhari
Mode in Dumka District of Jharkhand, with INR 400,000 in cash
which they had collected as 'levy'. The arrested Maoists have
been identified as Dinesh Kumar Mandal and his associate Ravindra
Kumar Mandal. According to the Police the duos had collected the
levy for Maoist 'commander' Jagdish Da alias Mota alias Mochu
but were arrested before they could deliver the money.
|
Non-Violent |
October 28 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
Three commanders of PLFI, a breakaway faction
of CPI-Maoist, surrendered in Simdega District of Jharkhand. The
surrendered cadres are identified as 'zonal commander' Maheshwar
Singh alias Mahesh Singh (32), from Bano area of the District
led his aides - 'area commander' Siyon Topno alias Yadav (18),
and dasta member Pooran Yadav alias Babu (20). "They surrendered
in a function attended by dozens of locals. The way they laid
down arms in the public was a strong message, having great impact,
to the people and the extremists," said Simdega, SP, Rajeev Ranjan
Singh.
|
Non-Violent |
October 28 |
Simdega District of Jharkhand |
Mahesh Singh (23), Tarop gram pradhan, was arrested
for having links with PLFI chief Dinesh Gope, from Simdega District
of Jharkhand. Live 5.5mm INSAS rifle cartridges, belonging to
PLFI chief Gope was recovered from the house of Mahesh. SP off
Simdega, Rajeev Ranjan Singh said Mahesh confessed to have close
association with Gope, who carries a reward of INR 2.5 million
on his head. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Non-Violent |
October 28 |
Malappuram District of Kerala |
CPI-Maoist cadres operating the Nilambur area
in Malappuram District of Kerala have issued warnings to those
who are `acting as `informers' of the Police and other intelligence
agencies'. This was disclosed in the first issue of Chenkad, (Red
Forest), the official mouthpiece of the Nadukani squad of the
CPI-Maoist. According to the publication the PLGS had warned one
Kochu Ravi, who allegedly gather information for the Police and
spread lies about the Maoist movement among the tribals living
in the Pattakkarimbu colony.
|
Non-Violent |
October 28 |
Odisha |
In an audio tape released to the media in Odisha,
the CPI-Maoist claimed that Ramakrishna alias RK is missing since
the October 24 encounter at Malkangiri, where 28 of their cadres
were gunned down, and he could be in Police custody. "Top Maoist
cadre Ramakrishna is missing and he could be in police custody,"
CPI-Maoist, East Division Committee, 'secretary' Kailash said
in the audio tape. In the audio tape the Chief Ministers of Odisha
and Andhra Pradesh were blamed for the killing of the 28 Maoists.
Kailas said the Maoists haven't weakened and will continue to
fight. He also alleged that Operation Green Hunt is being conducted
for the benefit of industrialists and mining mafias. RK, a central
committee member of the outfit, who was last sighted at Jantri
in the cut-off area of Malkangiri District on October 1. He had
addressed a public meeting, and asked people to boycott the ensuing
three-tier panchayat elections in Odisha.
|
Non-Violent |
October 29 |
Odisha/ Andhra Pradesh/ Telangana/
Chhattisgarh / Maharashtra |
The CPI-Maoist has called for bandh in Odisha,
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra on November
3 to protest against the Malkangiri encounter in which 30 Maoists
were killed. In a statement issued by Maoist's Central Committee,
Pratap, a self-styled spokesperson, has given the bandh call in
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
The Maoist organisation also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi-led Central Government, along with Odisha and Andhra Pradesh
Government's, were favouring Bauxite mining in the tribal area
against the will of the locals. Yesterday, in an audio tape, CPI-Maoist
East Division Committee 'secretary' Kailash held the Chief Ministers
of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh responsible for the encounter.
|
Non-Violent |
October 30 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
As many as 12 unclaimed bodies of Maoists who
died during October 24 - 27, 2016, Chitrakonda anti-Naxal
operations were buried by Police. While the rest 16 bodies have
been handed over to their kin after verification, it said. It
is to be noted that 30 LWEs lost their lives during a joint operation
by some 200 SF personnel including Andhra Pradesh's Greyhounds,
Odisha Police, SOGs, DVF, in the cut off area of Chitrakonda in
Malkangiri District of Odisha along the AOB.
|
Non-Violent |
October 31
|
Gumla District of Jharkhand
|
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a farmer associated with the Youth Congress at Punjo Sona Toli
under Ghaghra Police Station area in Gumla District of Jharkhand.
The victim was identified as Sugambar Oraon (42). His bullet-riddled
body was found half a kilometre from his residence. While his
wife Birso Devi lodged an FIR against unknown persons, Police
recovered a pamphlet near his body, where the deceased was labelled
an informer of splinter Naxalite group and CPI-Maoist's
rival JJMP. "Around eight to nine armed men, suspected to
be operatives of CPI (Maoist), abducted Oraon from his residence,
took him about half a kilometre away and rained bullets on his
head and ribs. According to reports, some local residents had
rushed to his rescue, but stepped back when the rebels threatened
them," said Ghaghra OIC Rajendra Rajak.
|
Violent
|
October 31
|
Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand
|
Rebels, identifying themselves
as belonging to JPC, shot dead two villagers busy in gambling
at Kusumba village in Katkamdag block in Hazaribagh District of
Jharkhand. Around 20 villagers were gambling under a tree when
they found themselves surrounded by around 25 uniformed men with
guns. The men identified themselves as JPC rebels and asked the
villagers to hand over their mobile phones. They also beat up
a few with lathis. "The men called out the names of Rupesh
Yadav (36) and Degan Tuti (40), asking them to step forward out.
Both were beaten up and shot dead," said Harinath Yadav,
brother of Rupesh, who was at the scene. Katkamdag OIC Samir Tirkey
visited the spot. "The reasons behind the murders are still
not clear. JPC was involved in the crime," he said. JPC
is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
|
Violent
|
October 31
|
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
Gadchiroli Police announced the
surrender of five most-wanted CPI-Maoist cadres in Gadchiroli
District of Maharashtra, who carried a total reward of INR1.2
million on their head. They have been identified as Karan alias Dursa
Peka Narote (23), with a reward of INR 400,000; Pravin alias Vilas
Devaji Kolha (23); Darju Kulle Usendi (23); Raiji Nalgu Kaatvo
(30); and the sole woman Maoist Sharda alias Reena
Vatte Pungati (20) — each carrying a reward of INR 200,000, said
SP, Abhinav Deshmukh. Narote was an active Maoist since June 2008
and served with Gatta Dalam and since December
2010 was with Platoon No 14. Kolha joined the Kasansoor Dalam in
2012 and was involved in encounters of Kundum and Dobeguda besides
other serious subversive activities. Usendi was a part-timer Maoist
with Kasansoor Dalam since 2015 and did not take
part in any major criminal acts. Kaatvo served as a part-time
member with the Kaknoor Dalam since 2002 and
was involved in the Vachhaghat encounters, vandalising the revenue
department's offices in Agmeta, one murder and several other acts
of subversion. The sole woman Maoist who surrendered, Sharda had
joined the Gatta Dalam in November 2012. She
took part in a bloody encounter with SFs in Kucher.
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Non-Violent
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October 31
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West Midnapore District of West
Bengal
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State ‘commander’ of Kishore Sangha
and close associate of top CPI-Maoist leader Kishenji, top Maoist
leader Kamalesh Mahato, surrendered before the Police in Jhargram
in West Midnapore District of West Bengal. The hardcore Maoist
surrendered their arms and ammunitions, which included an AK-47,
two 9mm pistol and 4 round 9mm bullet. The Police are further
trying to find 50 other Maoists, who have been trained by Maoist
Kamlesh Mahato.
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Non-Violent
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October 31
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Sundargarh District of Odisha
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A woman CPI-Maoist cadre surrendered
before the Rourkela Police and 19 Batallion of CRPF in Sundargarh
District of Odisha. She was carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on
her head. According to sources, Palo Honhanga alias Bharati
(42), a resident of Baliba village in West Singbhum District of
Jharkhand, had been inducted in the cadre by a woman Maoist, Rekha,
forcibly in 2012. She was working in the Kolhan area of
Chaibasa, Jharkhand. She left the outfit after getting disillusioned
with the Maoist ideology as the ultras exploit women, minors and
innocent tribal people in their activities and force them to join
the outfit. Her daughter Sapna alias Muni had
earlier surrendered before the Rourkela Police in September 2015.
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Non-Violent
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November 1
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
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A Constable of District Police
has been allegedly abducted by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh. “Constable Kalmu Hidma was abducted
near Puswada village while he was on way to CRPF camp at Puswada,”
ASP of Sukma, Jitendra Shukla, said. According to ASP, Shukla,
Hidma was originally posted in Polampalli Police Station but later
he was attached with CRPF camp at Puswada for operational purposes.
Hidma had gone to Polampalli to celebrate Diwali along with his
family. However, before leaving the camp, he had not informed
officials, the ASP said. On October 31, while he was heading back
to the camp on his bike, he was intercepted by Maoists about one-and-half
kilometres before Puswada. Since then, he had been missing, Shukla
said while adding that the Hidma’s bike had been recovered.
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Violent
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November 1
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Andhra Pradesh
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Stating that there was no truth
in the reports appearing in a section of the media that CPI-Maoist
leader Ramakrishna alias RK was in the custody
of the Police, Andhra Pradesh State Home Minister N. Chinarajappa,
made it clear that combing operations were a continuous process.
Briefing the media at the TDP office in Kakinada in East Godavari
District, Rajappa said that some media organisations were carrying
false reports about the encounter on the AOB.
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Statement
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November 2
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Kalahandi District of Odisha
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The CPI-Maoist cadres killed Jayant
Majhi, a former Sarpanch, by slitting his throat near
Sapachanchala under the Bijepur Police limits in Kalahandi District
of Odisha. According to sources, Jayant was the former Sarpanch of
Trilochanpur Panchayat.
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Violent
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November 2
|
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha,
Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra
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Security has been tightened in
southern Odisha Districts, including Kandhamal, Boudh and Gajapati
for the 24-hour bandh called by the Maoists in
five States, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and
Maharashtra on November 3, to protest against the Malkangiri encounter
in which 30 Maoists were killed. Anti-Maoist camps, security establishments
in Maoists-affected Districts have been alerted while combing
operations and patrolling have been intensified. The State Police
Intelligence wing has been directed to keep a strict vigil on
the situation to avert any violence by Maoists as reliable sources
said the rebels from neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh
are trying to enter Kandhamal and Malkangiri Districts.
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Non-Violent
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November 2
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Andhra Pradesh
|
AP Police informed the Hyderabad
High Court that joint teams of AP and Odisha Police had to "fire
in self-defence", which resulted in the death of 24 Maoists
in Malkangiri District of Odisha area on October 24. AP Police,
which filed a reply in the High Court, in response to a PIL submitted
by Civil Liberties Committee, said that the incident of firing
took place outside of the territory of AP, in Odisha. In the reply,
Visakhapatnam Rural District SP, Rahul Dev Sharma, said that on
October 24, they got information about the presence of Maoists
in the AOB and Police parties of Odisha and AP reached the forest
area of 'Ramagurah'. "On seeing the police parties, the Maoists,
who were armed with latest automatic weapons, opened fire on the
police parties resulting in injuries to two Greyhound Commandos,
and one of them died. Despite the police calling upon the Maoists
to surrender, they did not pay heed to the warning and continued
firing, constraining the police parties to retaliate by counter-firing
in self-defence," the SP said. As a result of this firing
incident, some Maoists died and some more escaped. The incident
was reported at Chitrakonda Police Station of Malkangiri District
and a case was registered, which is under investigation by the
Odisha Police. On ascertaining from the Chitrakonda Police, it
was revealed that they found 24 bodies at the scene of offence
(13 men and 11 women), the SP added. Civil rights activists had
earlier moved the high court and filed a PIL seeking a thorough
judicial probe into the incident. Advocate V Raghunath, on behalf
of Civil Liberties Committee, had filed the litigation and demanded
registration of murder cases against the AP Police. Seeking dismissal
of the petition, Sharma said in the reply, "Police have not
violated the law and the incident of firing has taken place in
Odisha and is being investigated into. The writ petition seems
to have been filed by twisting the facts of a legitimate joint-combing
exercise and the counter-firing in self-defence." The court
posted the matter for further hearing to November 8.
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Non-Violent
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November 3
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Nawada District of Bihar
|
A group of 200 CPI-Maoist cadres
attacked a construction company site at Kharaundha station in
Nawada District of Bihar, and set ablaze four vehicles including
two SUVs. The Maoists abducted four persons, which included three
contractors named Vinod Yadav, Kailash Yadav and Sanjay Singh,
and a driver, Shamshad. They were released after they ensured
a payment of 10 per cent of the project cost.
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Violent
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November 3
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
As many as nine cadres of the
CPI-Maoist surrendered in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh, in
the midst of a bandh called by the LWEs to protest
against the recent ‘encounter’ on the AOB. Fed-up with harsh forest
life and hollow Maoist ideology, the rebels turned themselves
in before Bijapur SP, KL Dhruv, Bijapur ASP, Mohit Garg, said.
Those surrendered were identified as Wacham Biju (20), Sitaram
Bhaskar (26), Lalu (30), Ashok Wacham (20), Ramendra Wacham (18),
Tikedvar Wacham (20), Mangal (19), Munna Oyami (25), Bomda Poya
(25), he said. Biju, who was active as ‘deputy commander’ in the
military platoon number 13 under Bhairamgarh area committee of
Maoists was involved in several deadly Maoist attacks, including
killing of three Police jawans in Jappemarka in 2015, the ASP
said. The equally dreaded Bhaskar, an LOS member in Mirtur area,
was also instrumental in carrying out attacks on Police party,
he said. While Biju was carrying a reward of INR 300,000 on his
head, INR 100,000 was announced for the arrest of Bhaskar, he
added.
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Non-Violent
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November 3
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Giridih District of Jharkhand
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres blasted
the house of a former Maoist Uday Mahto of Pirtand block in Giridih
District of Jharkhand, and also set a rest room on fire in the
same locality under the Pirtand Police Station in the District.
According to reports, suspected Maoists numbering 120 cadres raided
the house of ex-Maoist Mahto near Bhirangi Mor in Madhubhan area
and triggered a dynamite blast blowing up the house of Mahto,
who recently surrendered before the Police. They also set the
rest house on fire in the same locality, the Police said, adding,
nobody was present in the two houses during the incident. Both
the families were residing elsewhere following threats from Naxalites.
No person has been injured in the blast. Giridih, SP, Akhilesh
B. Varrier, who confirmed no casualty took place, said Maoists
tried to terrorise their colleagues mulling the surrender option
and harmed the Parasnath Action Plan by blowing up the under-construction
shed meant for poor palki-bearers.
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Violent
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November 3
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Rayagada District of Odisha
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres triggered
two landmines blast near Hatamuniguda in Rayagada District of
Odisha. Being informed, the Muniguda Police with the sniffer dog
rushed the spot to diffuse the explosives. However, when the dog
detected the landmine, it exploded injuring the animal. Maoist
posters were found pasted on trees near the spot. Protesting the
anti-Maoist operation near the AOB in cutoff Chitrakonda area,
in which 30 Maoists were killed, the CPI-Maoist Central Committee
observed the bandh in five States, Maharashtra,
Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha. While bus
service came to a grinding halt in Malkangiri, plying of Government-run
buses in Koraput and Rayagada remained off. The situation was
similar in Kandhamal District. The Maoists blocked the Baliguda-Muniguda
route by dumping felled trees on the road near Kurtamagarh in
G Udayagiri, sources said.
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Violent
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November 3
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Bhupalpally District of Telangana
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As many as 57 posters allegedly
by CPI-Maoist activists were found pitched on Warangal-Bhopalpatnam
National Highway 163 in Bhupalpally District of Telangana. The
finding of so many posters on the road side at Vijayapur colony
near Kothapalli in Venkatapur mandal created
sensation in the wake of the bandh called by
Maoists on the day condemning the recent Malkangiri encounter
that took place on AOB. After informed by a villager, the Police
recovered the posters. The content of the posters was not known
as they were reportedly written in Chhattisgarhi, a language spoken
in Chhattisgarh. The impact of Maoists’ bandh was
felt in agency areas like Wazedu, Venkatapur, Kataram and others,
while the situation in the areas like Bhupalpally and Mulug remained
normal. Heavy bandobast was made across the District in view of
the bandh. TDF leaders and RDF president P Varavara
Rao extended support to the Maoist bandh. However,
the bandh passed off peacefully without any untoward
incidents.
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Non-Violent
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November 4
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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Two powerful IEDs allegedly planted
by the CPI-Maoist cadres were recovered in Bijapur District of
Chhattisgarh. The IEDs packed in steel containers were seized
between Tarrem and Basaguda under Basaguda Police Station limits,
a CRPF official said. The two IEDs weighed around seven kilograms
and five kilograms, he said.
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Non-Violent
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November 4
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Odisha
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Our primary goal is to free the
entire state from the grip of the CPI-Maoist, says Odisha, DGP,
K B Singh. In an interview with the Telegraph, he
said, “We have been successful to some extent. We have the required
manpower, but we need more forces to intensify our operations.
At present, we have 18 battalions of paramilitary forces. We have
urged the central government to send two more battalions.” Further,
answering to the question on cannabis cultivation turning into
a major source of funding for the Maoists, he replied, “The area
under cannabis cultivation has been reduced to a great extent.
Crime branch has undertaken a number of drives with the help of
satellite imageries and local inputs. Now, ganja cultivation is
confined to Angul, Boudh, Kandhamal and some parts of Ganjam district.”
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Statement
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November 4
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Khammam District of Telangana
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The CPI-Maoist put up wall posters
condemning the ‘Mission-2016’, the alleged anti-Maoist campaign
being conducted by the SFs in the Dandakaranya region in Chhattisgarh,
at Chelimala village in Charla mandal in Khammam
District of Telangana. The incident comes close on the heels of
the bandh observed by the Maoists in five States
including Telangana on November 3, in protest against the ‘encounter’
in Odisha. A bunch of wall posters, written in Hindi language,
in the name of CPI-Maoist, South Bastar division committee, reportedly
surfaced on the outskirts of Chelimala village situated near Taliperu
medium irrigation project in the Agency mandal of
Charla in the wee hours. The rebels, through the posters, alleged
that the BJP Government at the Centre, TDP Government in Andhra
Pradesh and the BJD regime in Odisha were trying to handover the
mineral wealth of bauxite in the forest areas to the big multi-national
companies. Condemning the recent encounter in Odisha, the rebels
said that the people’s struggle will be further
intensified to defeat the ‘Mission 2016’.
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Non-Violent
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November 4
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Andhra Pradesh
|
Top CPI-Maoist leader Ramakrishna aka RK’s
wife informed the Hyderabad HC, that her husband was “safe,” and
sought the court’s permission to withdraw the habeas corpus petition
she had filed earlier in this regard. “We informed the High Court
that Ramakrishna is safe and said we got information last night
that he is safe. We requested the court to permit us to withdraw
the habeas corpus which is posted after two weeks,” Kandula Sirisha
told the court through her counsel V. Raghunath. Following the
Police action on the Maoists in AOB on October 24, in which 24
Maoists were killed, doubts were expressed by the wife of RK,
and relatives and party comrades that he might be in Police custody.
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Non-Violent
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November 5
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
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Armed CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly
killed a man at Naamgaon village of the Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
“The deceased was identified as Shyam Nath Baghel, a resident
of Naamgaon village under Umakoli Panchayat at
the border of Darbha and Tongpal police stations,” ASP, Sukma,
Jitendra Shukla, said. According to Police, the residents of Naamgaon
were against the Naxal ideology and did not support
the guerrillas. “It was the lone village in the region, which
had its own local security group against the red-rebels,” the
ASP said while adding that in past residents of the village had
actively taken part in the anti-naxal demonstrations. On the intervening
night of Friday and Saturday around 8 pm an armed group of Naxals
reached the village and stormed in the house of Shyam Lal
Baghel, the ASP informed. They pulled out Baghel and killed him
while warning the locals not to engage in anti-naxal movement.
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Violent
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November 5
|
Chhattisgarh
|
UHM Rajnath Singh reiterated his
commitment to strongly back up Chhattisgarh in its fight against Naxal menace
and asserted that leftist militants have to give up violence.
“Maoists have no future in India, they have to abandon the path
of violence otherwise they will have to,’’ the UHM Singh warned
the Leftist insurgents while addressing the glittering the fife-day
concluding ceremony of ‘Rajyotsav-2016’ at Naya Raipur. He felicitated
18 individuals and two institutions with `Rajya Alankaran’ at
the function. Singh lavished praise on CM Raman Singh for carrying
out excellent development works in Chhattisgarh. Earlier, CM Raman
Singh while remembering former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
said that formation of Chhattisgarh has ensured the speedy development
of this region. “Today we are gaining success on Naxal front and
we are able to develop the Naxal-hit areas. This has been made
possible only with the greater help extended by Union Home Minister
Rajnath Singh,” the Chhattisgarh CM remarked in his speech. He
also thanked the union home minister for sanctioning Bastar Battalion
and assured that the battalion will be raised within a period
of 6 months.
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Statement
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November 6
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Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
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One Police official was killed
by suspected Maoists in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh.
ASI, Narbad Boga (54), was killed near Chirchari village under
Baghnadi Police Station limits on Raipur-Nagpur National Highway.
Boga and two other Policemen had been sent there from Baghnadi
after a report of road accident on the Highway was received. Two
motorcycle-borne men fired on them and fled inside the forest.
"While Boga sustained two bullet injuries in the incident,
other two jawans escaped unhurt,”, a senior Police official said.
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Violent
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November 6
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CRPF jawan was seriously injured
in a pressure bomb explosion allegedly triggered by Maoists, in
the dense forest of Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. “The incident
took place this afternoon (Sunday) when a team of paramilitary
personnel was out on area domination operation in Jagargunda police
station area,” a senior Police official said. The blast occurred
when a jawan stepped on the pressure IED connection while SFs
were cordoning off a forested patch at Rajpenta between Narsapuram
and Jagargunda villages, about 450 kilometres away from Raipur,
the official said. “Head Constable Kamal Dev of CRPF’s 74th battalion
sustained serious injuries,” he said.
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Violent
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November 6 |
Seraikela-Kharsawan District
of Jharkhand |
Maoist cadres set on fire four equipments engaged
in road construction at Hesakocha village in Seraikela-Kharsawan
District of Jharkhand. Chandil SDPO, Sandeep Bhagat said the cadres
have set on fire a tractor, a water tank, a mixture machine and
a road roller last evening and the Maoist squad led by Maharaj
Pramanik, which is active in the area, is suspected to be behind
it. The demand of levy by the rebels was suspected to be reason
behind the incident, he said adding a massive search has been
launched in Hesakocha jungle by SF personnel.
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Violent |
November 7 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand |
Suspected Naxalites set ablaze four road
construction machineries in Khunti District of Jharkhand. PLFI
cadres assaulted labourers and set on fire one excavator, one
dumper, one tipping kit and a truck after chasing away the labourers
at Bamahni village in Khunti District today afternoon, SP, Anish
Gupta said. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Violent |
November 7 |
Khunti District of Jharkhand |
Four PLFI cadres, who were arrested from near
Lohajmi village in Khunti District of Jharkhand on November 6,
were remanded in judicial custody even as Police continued search
for one of their associates who managed to flee during the last
night raid. Sources said a joint team of CRPF and District Police
personnel rounded up the four during a search operation launched
following a tip-off on movement of suspected rebels in forests
along the bank of Karo river in Tapkara area. After a hot chase,
the security men arrested Prasanna Gudia, Ruben Gudia, Manoj Gudia
and Susrihit Bodra from the village, some 40 kilometres from Khunti
District headquarters. A gun, cartridges, mobile phones and PLFI
literature were found on them. Another rebel Sanjeevan Topno alias
Disco, however, gave the Police the slip in the darkness of the
night. "The police have intensified search to nab Sanjeevan,"
Khunti SP, Anish Gupta said. He added the four had revealed some
information about the outfit and the Police were verifying their
claims. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
November 7 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Malkangiri Police in Odisha took a 20-year-old
woman CPI-Maoist, identified as Dhanumati belonging to the cut
off area committee, into their custody from her native village
Dabbaguda in Andrapalli panchayat in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
Dhanumati had received bullet injuries on her leg during the Bejjangi
encounter on October 24. According to sources, Dhanumati had managed
to escape the encounter site and was later helped by cut off 'area
committee commander' Sudhir to reach her native village. On receiving
the information, Dhanumati was taken into custody by the cops
for interrogation. Sources said the cops would confirm in a couple
of days whether it was an arrest or surrender.
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Non-Violent |
November 7 |
Visakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
Against the killing of CPI-Maoist cadres on AOB
in Police encounter on October 24, the Maoists have released a
poster which created panic in the agency area of Paderu in Visakhapatnam
District of Andhra Pradesh. This poster was released by Galikonda
committee of the Maoists in which people have been urged to take
revenge from TDP Government against these killings.
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Non-Violent |
November 7 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Police in Chhattisgarh have booked DU Professor
Nandini Sundar and 10 others in connection with the killing of
a tribal villager, who was killed by suspected CPI-Maoist in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh. "We have registered a case against Nandini
Sundar and others under sections 120B, 302 of IPC and 147, 148,
149 of IPC at Tongpal Police Station based on the complaint of
the wife of the victim," said Sukma ASP, Jitendra Shukla. Baghel,
a resident of Nama village under Kumakoleng panchayat, was killed
by a team of suspected Maoists on November 5. Police said Baghel,
along with other villagers, had registered a complaint with police
in May against Sundar, JNU professor Archana Prasad, Vineet Tiwari
from Delhi's Joshi Adhikar Sansthan, Chhattisgarh CPI-M state
secretary Sanjay Parate and an unidentified woman activist from
Sukma for allegedly inciting tribals against Bastar Police. Youth
of Nama and the neighbouring Kumakoleng village had launched a
movement against Maoist activities this April. The villagers had
formed a local security group against the rebels. According to
Police, Sundar and others tried to persuade the villagers not
to oppose the Maoists.
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Non-Violent |
November 8 |
Andhra Pradesh |
The DGP, N. Sambasiva Rao, said 100 new model
Police Stations would be constructed across the State by December
31. DGP Rao conducted a surprise inspection of the construction
work at Old Guntur and Nagarampalem stations. The two Police Stations
were being upgraded into model Police Stations. Further, DGP Rao
said security cordon around Ministers and MLAs had been beefed
up in view of the increased threat perception in the aftermath
of the encounter in which 31 CPI-Maoist cadres had been killed
recently at AOB.
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Statement |
November 8 |
Munger District of Bihar |
A joint force of SSB, STF and District Police
arrested a CPI-Maoist cadre from Gidha village in Munger District
of Bihar. SP, Ashish Bharti, said the arrested cadre has been
identified as Ravi Ram alias Bhagna, who is an 'area commander'
of Haveli Kharagpur area of the District. Ravi has been booked
in 11 cases under Arms Act and murders, Bharti said adding five
of the cases have been lodged in Munger and rest in Lakhisarai
District.
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Non-Violent |
November 8 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
As many as 94 CPI-Maoist supporters and 52 militia
members surrendered before Police in Malkangiri District of Odisha.
Those who have surrendered were from Sudhakonda and Radulkonda
villages under Kalimela Block and included five women and nine
village committee members, Police said, adding that they surrendered
before Malkangiri, SP, Mitrabhanu Mohapatra. They have pledged
to dissociate themselves from Maoist activities and to remain
in the social mainstream for the development of the backward region,
the SP said.
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Non-Violent |
November 9 |
Vishakhapatnam District of
Andhra Pradesh |
CPI-Maoist cadres held a Prajameli in the remote
areas of Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh. Sources said
hundreds of supporters of the Rayat Kuli Sangha, a frontal organization
of the CPI-Maoist, attended the meeting. They paid homage to the
deceased Maoists and vowed to take on the State administrations.
They condemned the action of the SF personnel of both the States.
Meanwhile, SP, of Malkangiri District of Odisha, Mitrabhanu Mohapatra,
asserted that security has been beefed up in the district mostly
in the bordering areas. "There is no need to be panic. As people's
support to Maoists is on the decline, the Maoists organised the
rally against the Government after bringing together locals to
generate a sense of fear among them," said Mohapatra. He said
all the police posts in the district and anti-Maoist establishments
have been asked to be extra vigilant. Combing operations have
been intensified in border areas, added the SP.
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Non-Violent |
November 9 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the ancestral house
of their former comrade Uday Mahto in Pirtand block in Giridih
District of Jharkhand. They accused Mahto of swindling their organisational
funds.
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Violent |
November 10 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A Police jawan was hacked to death by suspected
CPI-Maoist in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. Assistant Constable
Rahul Raidu (27), posted at Bhairamgarh Police Station, was attacked
by suspected Maoists late last night close to his workplace, Bijapur,
SP, K L Dhruv said. Raidu, who joined the Police Force in 2011,
was also the nephew of former Congress (Bijapur) District President,
Ajay Singh, a native of Bhairamgarh town, Police said. Raidu was
reportedly playing cards with some villagers in Sanjay Para area,
when a group of men armed with axes and knives arrived there and
after an altercation with the jawan, they attacked him several
times leaving him critically injured. The assailants fled into
the forest after committing the crime, the SP said. Soon after,
Raidu succumbed to his injuries during treatment, SP said.
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Violent |
November 10 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
A DRG jawan was killed in pressure bomb blasts
triggered by Maoists in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. "A team
of security men was returning after carrying out an anti-Maoist
operation when the jawan came under impact of the blast in Farsegarh
police station area (Bijapur)," Bijapur SP, K. L. Dhruv said.
The joint contingent of STF, DRG and Police personnel from local
Police Stations was out on the operation since November 5 to the
interior forest of southern Bijapur. On the way back, Constable
Mudra Budhram inadvertently stepped over the pressure IED connection
triggering the blast that killed him, he said.
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Violent |
November 10 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
A woman identified as Bhime Madkami (50) sustained
serious injuries on legs in a blast near Kondapara village under
Aranpur Police Station limits in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
"The incident occurred while Madkami was in the nearby jungle
to graze cattle," a Police official said. According to the officer,
CRPF has its outpost close to Kondapara and SF personnel often
carry out patrolling from the area where the blast took place.
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November 10 |
Ranchi District of Jharkhand |
A petrol pump owner in Ranchi District of Jharkhand
has landed in the Police net, while trying to deposit INR 2.538
million, allegedly belonging to a PLFI leader, in his account
at the Bero branch of SBI. Chandrashekhar Kumar (25), owner of
Rekha Petrol Pump in Bero on Ranchi's outskirts, was arrested
along with his father Nand Kumar Mahto (52), brother-in-law Vinod
Kumar (32) and friend Mohan Kumar alias Rajesh. A team, led by
DSP, Bero, Ajit Kumar Sinha, made the arrests on the basis of
a tip-off received by SSP, Kuldeep Dwivedi. "The cash belonged
to PLFI supremo Dinesh Gope. He had given it to Chandrashekhar,
who, along with the other three, was depositing the cash in his
account (number 35650233071) when they were caught. Apart from
the Rs 25.38 lakh, all in Rs 1,000 notes, we also seized seven
mobile phones, one four-wheeler used to carry the money and filled
deposit slips from them," SSP, Dwivedi said. PLFI is a splinter
group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
November 11 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed in an exchange of
fire with SFs in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. The skirmish
took place between a team of BSF and the rebels in a forest near
Gome village under Koyalibeda Police Station limits, a senior
Police official said. The killed Maoist cadre was identified as
Shobhi Ram Kawachi (30), member of Panidobir LOS of Maoists, he
said. Since November 9, eight BSF teams were carrying out anti-Naxal
operations in the forests of Koyalibeda and adjoining Abhujmarh,
a Maoist bastion, around 350 kilometres from Raipur. A group of
Maoists opened indiscriminate fire on a patrolling party and fled
when the SF personnel zeroed in on them, the officer added.
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November 11 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
Armed Forces comprising of the State Police and
Para-Military Forces have been deployed in forest areas and villages
along the Parasnath foothills, a day after CPI-Maoist cadres blew
up 'Doli shade' and house of former Maoist at Madhuban in Giridih
District of Jharkhand. "Friday's Maoist attack was a result of
their frustration after they realized they were losing ground
in the region. Unlike previous instances, this time, they targeted
government buildings which were constructed for the 'Doli bearers'.
Since most of the 'Doli bearers' are natives here, and were directly
or indirectly related to rebels in the past, rebels are now trying
to terrorize them," DIG, Hazaribagh, Upendra Kumar, said. "At
a time when police were regularly interacting with villagers for
all-round development, rebels expressed their disapproval over
the same by blowing up the shade", SP, AB Variar, said, adding
that Security Forces would continue to instill confidence among
rural citizens. Meanwhile, Madhuban Police lodged an FIR against
40-50 armed activists of the Maoists on November 5, including
top Maoist leaders and others, allegedly involved in Friday's
(November 4) attack.
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November 11 |
Balaghat District of Madhya
Pradesh |
The CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly tortured and killed
a 23-year-old youth on the suspicion that he was a 'Police informer'
in Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh. The body of the youth
identified as Kartik Dhurve, a resident of Bondari village under
Pathari Police outpost under Malajkhand Police Station, was found
on a road. "Several armed Naxals kidnapped Dhurve on November
9 and threatened the family members that they will kill him, if
they informed police," Balaghat, SP, Amit Sanghi, said. He added,
"They did not report the matter to police. His body was found
on Friday. There were severe injuries on his skull and it seems
they attacked him with some sharp-edged weapon." Sources said
that they suspected him to be 'Police informer'. However, Police
denied that he was an 'informer'. "They may have seen him talking
to some senior Police officials at some point of time and suspected
him to be an informer," said an official, pleading anonymity.
While abducting him the Naxals had introduced themselves as Maoists,
though they didn't disclose the name of their 'Dalam'.
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November 11 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
A week after calling for Malkangiri bandh in Odisha,
condemning the alleged October 24 encounter in which 30 CPI-Maoist
cadres were ambushed, Malkangiri division committee of the CPI-Maoist
organisation has released fresh posters and protested surrender
of their cadres. The poster bearing name of Poonam Chandra, 'secretary'
of the committee said they decry 'corruption' by Government officials
in the region. "We have come to know that the surrender of some
of our cadres, following the encounter by security personnel is
stage-managed. It is an act by the police only to weaken the Maoist
movement," the letter read. The Maoists also alleged that Police
were misleading the priests, traditional healers and quacks against
the Maoist movement. The letter claimed that police was misleading
gullible villagers with false promises while Maoist organisation
is fighting for legitimate rights of the poor and tribals. The
letter said they wanted to stop corruption by Government officers
in the region. "We work for the people and the society, and will
continue to do that," it noted. It is said that recent surrenders
have increased intelligence gathering scope of Security Forces
and reduced logistic and other support Maoists were getting in
the area.
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November 12 |
East Godavari District of
Andhra Pradesh |
The CPI-Maoist Central Committee has reportedly
appointed Kakarala Madhavi as the AOB 'secretary', according to
Intelligence sources. Madhavi replaces Bakuri Venkataramana alias
Ganesh who was killed in the encounter at AOB between October
24 and 26. A native of Rajamahendravaram in East Godavari District
of Andhra Pradesh, Madhavi served the party in different roles
for about 10 years in Telangana, Odisha, Dandakaranya in Chhattisgarh
and other areas. The Central Committee at a high-level meeting
reportedly announced the appointment after the party suffered
a major blow with the Police gunning down about 30 Naxalites in
the encounter in Malkangiri District of Odisha between October
24 and 26. She is the daughter of a veteran Telugu film actor.
Another senior Maoist leader Pothula Kalpana has been appointed
in-charge of military operations in the area. Kalpana has been
in the outfit for about 10 years. However, it is not clear whether
Madhavi has been appointed for Malkangiri or East (Visakhapatnam
and East Godavari) divisions.
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Non-Violent |
November 12 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist 'deputy commander,' identified as
Boti Kashyap, was killed in a gun-battle with SFs in Kondagaon
District of Chhattisgarh. Kashyap was gunned down in the skirmish
at Kudoor village under Mardapal Police Station limits, SP of
Kondagaon, Santosh Singh said. Police had received a tip off that
the Maoists will be holding a 'jan adalat' where they were to
penalize some villagers, the SP said. Following the alert, District
Police teams from Narayanpur and Kondagaon were sent to Kudoor.
As soon as the SFs arrived at the spot, the rebels opened fire
to which they fired in retaliation. The Maoists fled from the
spot. Kashyap's body was recovered during the search, while an
INSAS rifle, a 12-bore gun, one radio set and few other items
were recovered, he said.
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November 12 |
Chhattisgarh |
CPI-Maoist activities are likely to suffer a major
setback following the scrapping of INR 500 and INR 1,000 notes
as the rebels may find it difficult to dispose of their cash,
apparently in hundreds of crores, concealed in insurgency-hit
regions of Chhattisgarh, Police have claimed. According to sources,
Naxals have stashed over INR 70 billion at their dumps in Bastar
region. Following the move, the State Police have beefed up security
at banks, ATMs and other economic establishments in the insurgency-affected
pockets, particularly Bastar. "As per intelligence inputs, the
ban on higher currency has frustrated the Naxals and they may
target ATMs, banks, post offices and other business establishments
in near future in the areas of their presence," Special DGP, (anti-Maoist
operations), D M Awasthi said. According to Awasthi, Maoists collect
crores of rupees through levy and extortion and keep cash with
them or in the dumps in forests for their activities and distribution
among their cadres and supporters.
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November 12 |
Giridih District of Jharkhand |
Giridih Police arrested senior CPI-Maoist 'commander'
Ramesh Mandal from Motileda village under Bengabad Police Station
in Giridih District of Jharkhand. Mandal, who carried an award
of INR 500,000 on his head, was associated with the Maoists' organization
for about two decades. He was allegedly involved in dozens of
big incidents in Giridih and the suburban area including Chilkhari
massacre in 2007, in which the son of the former State Chief Minister
Babulal Marandi was killed, Mahendra Singh murder case, Giridih
home guard camp attack, Giridih Jail Van attack 2012 and others.
"In 2011, Mandal was arrested from Lalpaniya in and Bokaro and
later shifted to Giridih divisional Jail. But he was released
by his close aides during a jail break in December 2011. The government
had declared an award of Rs 5 lakh on his head," Police said.
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November 12 |
Kalahandi District of Odisha |
CPI-Maoist posters were found at Dhepguda forest
reserve under Biswanathpur Police Station in Kalahandi District
of Odisha. More than 20 Maoist posters are pasted at various places.
Messages against State and Central Government are mentioned in
the posters. The Maoists have called upon general public for support.
It may be mentioned that the Maoists are in anger after 30 of
their cadres were killed in an encounter by a joint team of Odisha
and Andhra Pradesh SFs in a forest in Malkangiri District near
the AOB on October 24. They have started seeking public support
mentioning that innocent people are killed in the name of Maoists
in such encounters.
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Non-Violent |
November 12 |
East Godavari District of
Andhra Pradesh |
The CPI-Maoist Central Committee has reportedly
appointed Kakarala Madhavi as the AOB 'secretary', according to
Intelligence sources. Madhavi replaces Bakuri Venkataramana alias
Ganesh who was killed in the encounter at AOB between October
24 and 26. A native of Rajamahendravaram in East Godavari District
of Andhra Pradesh, Madhavi served the party in different roles
for about 10 years in Telangana, Odisha, Dandakaranya in Chhattisgarh
and other areas. The Central Committee at a high-level meeting
reportedly announced the appointment after the party suffered
a major blow with the Police gunning down about 30 Naxalites in
the encounter in Malkangiri District of Odisha between October
24 and 26. She is the daughter of a veteran Telugu film actor.
Another senior Maoist leader Pothula Kalpana has been appointed
in-charge of military operations in the area. Kalpana has been
in the outfit for about 10 years. However, it is not clear whether
Madhavi has been appointed for Malkangiri or East (Visakhapatnam
and East Godavari) divisions.
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November 12 |
Andhra-Odisha |
The Malkangiri sub-collector is set to conduct
a magisterial inquiry into the deaths of 30 CPI-Maoist cadres,
who were killed in an exchange of fire during a joint operation
conducted by the SFs belonging to Odisha and Andhra Pradesh near
Bejingi forest inside the cut-off area under Chitrakonda Police
limits in Malkangiri District on October 24. Officials said the
NHRC has ordered a magisterial inquiry and directed them to submit
the inquiry report within 60 days of receiving the order. The
Malkangiri administration received the inquiry order on November
7. Sub-collector (Malkangiri) Birendra Korkora said he will personally
visit the encounter site to gather information. Also, the administration
appeals people interested or having information about the incident
can attend the inquiry and provide evidence. While, Police had
claimed that they had retaliated to the Maoists firing, there
have been allegations that the firing was one sided and the Police
allegedly fired on the Naxals in cold blood.
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Non-Violent |
November 12 |
Sircilla District of Telangana |
A 30-year-old CPI-Maoist cadre was arrested in
Sircilla town in Rajanna Sircilla District of Telangana. Following
a tip-off, Police arrested Suthili Kanta Chandramouli alias Jangam
Mohan in Sircilla town and recovered a country-made revolver,
letter head and a seal of the outlawed CPI-Maoist, SP of Rajanna
Sircilla District, K Vishwajith, said. Chandramouli joined a Naxal
group as a Naxalite in 2002 when Katkuri Ramulu alias Praveen
was its 'commander', the SP said. At that time Chandramouli was
allegedly involved in offences of extortions. After some time,
he left for Mumbai, the senior official said. "Recently he arrived
at Rajanna Sircilla district and hatched a plan to extort money
from a businessman," the SP added.
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November 13 |
Prakasam District of Andhra
Pradesh |
"There is no Maoist presence in the region. The
picturesque Nallamala hills can very well be developed into a
tourist spot," said DGP, N. Sambasiva Rao, at a media conference
at Ongole in Prakasam District. It was from Nallamala, the largest
stretch of undisturbed forest, top Maoist leaders including Akkiraju
Haragopal aka Ramakrishna aka RK, came out for talks with the
then Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy Government in 2004. Justifying the
combing operations along with Odisha in the AOB, he said only
when peace prevailed in the State's neighbourhood; development
would be possible in the State. They had even misled the High
Court by first filing a habeas corpus petition and then withdrawing
it, he said, adding "We are used to such tactics." "Vizag's safety
is linked to that of our neighbour [Odisha]. We have made a lot
of sacrifices to ensure a congenial climate for development in
the State," he said referring to the long history of the Naxalite-Maoist
insurgency in the united Andhra Pradesh.
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November 13 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh |
The CPI-Maoist cadres abducted a Class 9 student
from the Kamkanaar weekly market in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
Santosh Bodde, a resident of the pre-Matric hostel, had gone to
his village Kamkanaar for some work. The reason behind the boy's
abduction was not clear immediately. The boy's family, however,
has appealed to the Maoists to free Santosh.
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November 13 |
Bastar of Chhattisgarh |
During the past two years, Police have seized
45 automatic weapons from the Naxals during various anti-Naxal
operations that happened in the restive Bastar region, claimed
IGP, (Bastar), SRP Kalluri. "Police and paramilitary forces have
achieved commendable success in the fight against Naxals in North
Bastar region. Similar kind of operations would be carried out
in other parts of Bastar," IGP Kalluri said. He further said that
joint operations are being carried out concurrently in all parts
of Bastar region. Speaking on the backdrop of killing of Mundagaon
Naxal LOS 'deputy commander' Boti Kashyap at Narayanpur wherein
a 12 bore gun a SLR and other items were seized, the IGP said
that whatever SFs get after encounter or searching are made public.
He said that from June 2014 and by 2016, 45 automatic arms have
been recovered from Left-Wing Insurgents. Notably, according to
a report of the UMHA; during the same period 1,915 arms have been
recovered from Left Wing Extremists from various parts of the
country. The report further says that during the aforementioned
period 1,120 Naxals incidents happened in Chhattisgarh wherein
306 people lost their lives.
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November 13 |
Jharkhand |
A company of women CRPF has been designated to
fight against LWE in State. The women will also conduct search
operations in CPI-Maoist dominated areas of Jharkhand. The women
company under CRPF's 135 Bn carried out a search operation against
Maoists at Karra and other Maoist-stronghold areas in Khunti District
on November 12. The company engaged in a mock drill through the
hour-long search operation. A CRPF official said that women forces
of CRPF are well-trained to handle all kinds of weapons such as
INSAS, AK-47, hand grenade. He said that female forces have undergone
rigorous training to face any battle against the rebels. IGP,
MS Bhatia, said that the unit will be deployed at all Maoist dominated
Districts of the State. IGP, Bhatia, said that since a large number
of female cadres have joined the LWEs, it will be easier for the
women CRPF to gauge the operations in such cases. He said that
the State has adequate male Para Military Forces. When asked about
the deployment of female constables, Bhatia said that it would
be decided as per the requirement of the Red zones.
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November 14 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A CPI-Maoist 'militia commander', Vanjam Nanda
was killed in an exchange of fire between DRG and Maoists in the
jungles of Dornapal Police Station limits in Sukma District of
Chhattisgarh. It is to be noted that Vanjam had served as the
head of Janatana Sarkar group Maoists in Arlampalli, Medwahi,
Tonguda and Toyapara villages. During the search, a country made
rifle, some 12 bore live ammunition, wire and other items were
recovered.
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November 14 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
Five families of Dabuguda village in the Chitrakonda
cut-off area in Malkangiri District of Odisha, left village in
fear of CPI-Maoist cadres. The tribals trekked the hilly terrain
of around 40 kilometers to reach Kudumulugumma early in the morning.
It is to be noted that in April, around 33 tribal people of seven
families had left Sanyasiguda village under Andrapalli panchayat
in the cut-off region of the District due to threats of the Maoists.
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Non-Violent |
November 14 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gases
Dharmendra Pradhan defied advice of local Police administration
not to tour CPI-Maoist-infested areas and visited encephalitis-affected
Palkonda village in Malkangiri District. Pradhan was leading a
BJP team to make on the spot enquiry about outbreak of Japanese
Encephalitis (JE) and acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Malkangiri
District. Pradhan is under Z-category security cover and his earlier
proposed visit to the District on November 4 had been cancelled
for security reasons. At Palkonda, he met Umesh Madhi (10), the
class IV student, who had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
seeking his help in eradication JE.
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Non-Violent |
November 15 |
Jehanabad District of Bihar
|
The Jehanabad District Court pronounced capital
punishment to 10 of the 16 accused in the 1999 carnage in Senari
village of Jehanabad District, in which 34 people were killed
by the erstwhile MCC, presently merged with the CPI-Maoist. A
total 38 people had been accused in the case, of which 16 were
convicted. The 16 accused were charged with killing 34 people
in Sensari village on the night of March 18, 1999. It is to be
noted that, special court in April 2010 handed out capital punishment
to 16 accused and life imprisonment to 10 but the High Court in
October 2013, acquitted all the convicts. It is worthwhile to
mention that it was the Senari massacre which provoked the Ranveer
Sena to take retaliatory action at Bathe in Arwal in which the
landlords reportedly killed 62 persons, mostly Dalits, on December
1, 2000.
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November 15 |
Seraikela-Kharsawan District of Jharkhand
|
A businessman, Yogesh Mishra (40) who owns a Nursing
Home, was killed and his vehicle set ablaze, by Naxals near Raisilli
Pahar under Kuchai Police Station of Seraikela-Kharsawan District
of Jharkhand. Apparently, Naxals were asking Mishra to
convert their black money into white in the wake of banning of
INR 500 and INR 1000 currency notes. Mishra, refused to abide
by Naxals citing example of Nand Kishore from Bero who
was arrested on November 10 for carrying INR 2.5 million that
belonged to PLFI supremo Dinesh Gope. Earlier, Mishra was involved
in providing treatment to two Naxals injured in last year's firing
at the SSP, Ranchi. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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November 15 |
Shimoga District of Karnataka
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres identified as Nilaguli
Padmanabha (45), a prominent leader, Rizwana Begum alias Kalpana
(33), Bharati alias Deepa, and Raju alias Parashuram
(40). Padmanabha, a native of Nilaguli in Koppa taluk in the Malnad
region in Shimoga District of Karnataka, returned to the mainstream.
SP, K. Annamalai said, the Maoists had written to the State committee
expressing their willingness to return to the mainstream. Deputy
Commissioner G. Satyavati said, as per the Government's rehabilitation
policy, Naxals who returned to the mainstream would get INR 500,000
in cash besides financial assistance for vocational training.
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Non-Violent |
November 16 |
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh
|
The CPI-Maoist Central Committee member Ramakrishna's
wife Sirisha and Paderu MLA, Giddi Eswari among those, who paid
tributes to the slain Maoist leader Bakuri Venkataramana alias
Ganesh at the memorial meeting at his native Bakuru village under
Hukumpeta mandal in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh,
during the inauguration of the pylon in the memory of the tribal
leader. Ganesh's widow Damayanti and his father Bakuri Narasimha
Raju inaugurated the pylon. Anjam, 'president' of the Martyrs
Family Members and Friends Committee, 'secretary' Padma Kumari
and several people and party sympathisers were present at the
meeting. Devendra, widow of another slain Maoist Gangadhar alias
Prabhakar, said that the war against the poor tribals and the
Maoists was to strengthen the Government in its efforts to mine
bauxite in the Agency.
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Non-Violent |
November 16 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
Six CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter
with SFs near Bugum-Perma forest in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
Anti-Naxal Operations Special DGP, DM Awasthi said that the bodies
of the six have been recovered, while many more may have been
injured or even killed. "Of these six, three are men, all of them
wore uniform and the weapons recovered include 3 303 rifles, 2
12 bore rifles and 1 single barrel weapon among other items.''
He said that two Naxals were captured alive. Chhattisgarh Police
sources said that they had received intelligence inputs about
the movement of 50 to 60 Maoists holding a meeting on the Dantewada-Sukma
border four to five days ago.
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November 17 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
One Maoist cadre was killed in an encounter with
SFs in the forests of Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The face-off
took place in the morning when a joint team of CoBRA 204th battalion
of the CRPF commandos and District Police Force was carrying out
an anti-Maoist operation in Basaguda Police Station area, ASP
Mohit Garg said. As the SFs advanced through the jungles of Kondpalli
village, around 500 kilometres from Raipur, a group of Maoists
opened fire on them leading to a gun-battle, he said. During a
search of the area, body of a male Maoist was found, along with
an IED and other items.
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November 18 |
Koraput District of Odisha
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres killed a contractor supervisor
by slitting his throat and set ablaze construction instruments
at Bhitarakota village under Patangi Police limits in Koraput
District of Odisha. The deceased was identified as Jayaram Khila,
supervisor at the camp. The Maoist rebels also set on fire two
Hiwa trucks, a Hitachi machine, a tractor and a tipper. According
to reports, around 50 Maoists opposed the construction of road
to Bhitarakota village last evening. They also held a meeting
in the presence of around 200 villagers in which the latter too
opposed the road work. Khila supported the construction of road
following which the irate Maoists killed him by slitting his throat.
The Maoists also abducted ten workers of the camp before fleeing
the spot. However, they released the workers after taking away
their mobile phones, data machines and documents from them.
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November 18 |
Balangir District of Odisha
|
A Maoist cadre, identified as Sanyasi Sagria (18),
surrendered before SP, Ashish Singh in Balangir District of Odisha.
Sanyasi is a resident of Nagfena village under Baddokala panchayat
under Turekela Police limits in the District. Sanyasi had joined
the Maoist organisation last year and was working for Bargarh-Balangir-Mahasamund
division of the CPI-Maoist outfit. He was active in Chhatardandi,
Patpani, Dandel, Raju, Chanmdili and Gandhamardan reserve forest
areas. Sanyasi told Police that he was entrusted with the work
of collecting information regarding contractors, labour sardars,
and movement of SFs in Khaparakhol, Turekela and Lathore areas.
He was also directed to motivate youths of the village and neighbouring
areas to join the outfit. He was trained in Gandhamardan area
for 15 days on handling weapons. During his stay in the organisation,
he met a number of senior Maoist cadres. However, he decided to
quit the organisation after being physically tortured by some
of the local cadres.
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Non-Violent |
November 18 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
One Policeman was injured in a pipe bomb blast
allegedly triggered by CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur District of
Chhattisgarh. The incident occurred near a river under Mirtur
Police Station area when a ROP of security personnel, deployed
between Mirtur and Fulgatta villages, was out on duty, a senior
Police official said. When SFs were on their way back to Mirtur,
the rebels detonated the pipe bomb, causing splinter injuries
to an assistant constable Veer Singh, he said. The Maoists fled
to the forest after setting off the blast. A combing operation
has been launched to trace the attackers, the official said.
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November 18 |
Koraput District of Odisha
|
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik while addressing a meeting
at Lamtaput in Koraput District of Odisha said the State Government
has been pumping crores of rupees through different schemes for
poor people in the region and they should draw benefits from the
schemes. It is to be noted that, combing operation was intensified
in Machkund, Ankedeli, Nandapur, Narayanpatna and Laxmipur, bordering
villages in Koraput District, by security personnel and several
check posts were erected to check the infiltration of Maoists
from neighbouring Malkangiri District and Andhra Pradesh few days
back.
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November 19 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
SFs raided a CPI-Maoist camp and killed at least
five Maoists following an encounter in the jungles of Tuspal and
Becha Kilam villages in Abujhmaad under Chhotedongar Police Station
limits in the Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. In a joint
operation involving SF personnel of Districts of Kondagaon and
Narayanpur, SFs stormed the Maoist camp in the forested village
of Becha located inside Abujhmaad area early on Saturday morning
and busted it in an hour-long operation, Bastar Police said. "The
counter-insurgency operation led to decimation of Military Company
No. six of CPI (Maoist) and killing of at least half a dozen Naxals.
However, we could recover bodies of five Maoists along with their
weapons," Narayanpur, SP, Abhishek Meena who camped at Becha to
provide a safe corridor to retreating parties engaged in the operation,
said. "It was a joint operation carried out by the DRG and the
STF of the police," Meena said, adding, "The gun battle lasted
for over two hours". The Police seized three rifles of 12 bore,
one rifle of 315 bore and articles of daily use from the spot.
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November 19 |
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
The SFs detained a villager who was carrying INR
600,000 in cash to get the currency exchanged for the CPI-Maoist,
near Muriyapada in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The villager
identified as Madkam Bandi was carrying the money in INR 500 and
INR 1,000 currency notes. During interrogation, he allegedly confessed
that the money was given to him by Maoist rebels and he was going
to Charla mandal in Khammam District of Telangana to convert
the money from bank.
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November 19 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha
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At least 145 CPI-Maoist sympathisers including
33 women surrendered before the Police in Malkangiri District
of Odisha. Malkangiri, SP, Mitrabhanu Mohapatra said of the 145
people who surrendered before the Police, 82 are from Kuruba village
and 63 from Marigeta village of which 33 are the militia. "All
of them were working for Kalimela Dalam," he said, adding these
Maoist sympathisers have said they decided to surrender as the
Maoist rebels have deviated from the Mao ideology and are indulged
in the brutal torture of innocent tribals. He also said the Police
will take lenient view of the cases registered against those who
have surrendered. "Besides, efforts will be made to rehabilitate
them under the surrender rehabilitation policy of the state government,"
the SP informed.
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November 19 |
Gajapati District of Odisha
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The Gajapati District and Sessions Court in Paralakhemundi
in Odisha, exonerated three suspected Maoists in the murder case
of two village guards for lack of evidence. The Adaba Police had
registered a case against the trio in connection with the murder
of two village guards on May 13, 2010, under the Adaba Police
Station of the District. District and Sessions Judge Durga Shankar
Mishra, who was hearing the case, released suspected Maoists Nikita
Majhi, Sarat Majhi and Siman Majhi.
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November 19 |
Ganjam District of Odisha
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Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda, who was arrested
in 2014 and is lodged in Berhampur Circle Jail in Ganjam District
of Odisha, has moved court for exchange of the demonetised currency
notes of INR 500 and INR 1,000 currency notes that was seized
from him at the time of his arrest. Sabyasachi has filed a petition
in the court of the Additional District Judge-II, Berhampur, Biswajit
Mohanty, to direct Police to take necessary steps to exchange
the demonetised currency notes before December 30. His advocate
Deepak Patnaik said INR 211,000 in cash, including 175 demonetised
notes of INR 1,000 and 72 demonetised notes of INR 500, was lying
in the Police treasury. "The notes would become useless if not
exchanged in time. That's why we have requested the court to direct
the police to convert it into valid currency of the same value,"
said Patnaik.
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November 19 |
Bhadradri-Kothagudem District of Telangana
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Sunnam Sridevi alias Nirmala (35), an 'area
committee member' Charla LOS of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered before
District SP, Ambar Kishor Jha, in Bhadradri-Kothagudem District
of Telangana. According to Police sources, Sridevi, carrying a
reward of INR 100,000 on her head, gave herself up to the Police
in the District headquarters town due to 'ill health'. She was
reportedly involved in several major incidents of exchange of
fire with the SFs, including the Bote Tongu and Kanchala encounters
in the adjoining Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. She has 36 criminal
cases, including three murder cases, pending against her, Police
sources said. Sridevi's husband Anjanna, an 'area committee member'
of the outlawed outfit, was arrested by the Police earlier this
year. The couple was earlier arrested by the Charla Police in
2007 and had gone underground after their release.
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November 20 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
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A top CPI-Maoist cadre carrying a cash reward
of INR 500,000 on his head surrendered in Dantewada District of
Chhattisgarh. "Mangat alias Diwakar (35) resident of Maraskol
village in Narayanpur district has given up arms," Dantewada,
SP, Kamlochan Kashyap, said. Diwakar had joined Naxal cadre in
2006 and was actively involved in various Naxal incidents,
the SP said while adding that seeing his activity he was made
the President of Naxal Jantana Sarkar of Panchayat level.
"After working as Jantana Sarkar President, he was promoted in
2009 as Area Committee Member. In 2014 he was shifted to DKAMS,"
the SP mentioned. Associated with Maoists for more than a decade,
he was involved in several serious Naxal incidents like the attack
on the party of 39th battalion CRPF near Maharabeda under Dhaudai
Police Station in 2010, in which 27 jawans were killed, SP Kashyap
said. In 2016, Diwakar also took part in the ambush attack on
a Police party near Kilem Tetam in which a Sub-Inspector was killed.
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November 21 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
Two CRPF personnel were injured when Maoists triggered
a landmine blast at Narsapuram in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. The
blast was carried out by Maoists at half a kilometre distance
away from the CRPF camp. Head constables Parvinder and T Sagar
were injured during the explosion. The jawans inadvertently stepped
over the pressure IED set.
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November 21 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including a self-styled
‘area commander’, were arrested when they assembled in a house
at Dharampur locality on the way to a bank for exchanging/depositing
extortion money in Latehar District of Jharkhand. The three arrested
Maoists with one lakh cash each are identified as Ravinder Yadav alias Rahul,
Anil Yadav and Ramjeet Yadav. Ravinder is the ‘area commander’
of the CPI-Maoist and works for top Maoist Nakul Yadav and Subhash
Yadav. Ramjeet Yadav another supporter of Nakul Yadav and Subhash
Yadav had dodged the Police on November 18 when he succeeded in
depositing INR 100,000 with PNB branch in Latehar. DSP, Latehar,
Purshottam Kumar Singh, said Police recovered three cell phones
from their possession.
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November 21 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Nearly 101 CPI-Maoist sympathisers, including
24 militia members surrendered before Police in Malkangiri District
of Odisha. The Maoist aides, belonging to Badigata and Gandiguda
villages under Kalimela Police limits, accompanied by villagers
reached the District Police office en masse and surrendered before
SP, Mitrabhanu Mahapatra. Addressing media persons SP, Mahapatra
said, “Out of the 101 people, 70 are from Badigata village and
31 from Gandiguda village. All of them were working for Kalimela
Dalam.” They decided to join the mainstream after realising the
atrocities of the Red rebels towards innocent villagers, he added.
Police have decided to maintain leniency towards the cases registered
against those who have surrendered. “Besides, efforts will be
made to rehabilitate them under the surrender and rehabilitation
policy of the government,” the SP informed.
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November 21 |
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra |
Five CPI-Maoist cadres, collectively carrying
a reward of INR 1.4 million on their heads surrendered before
Police in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. The surrendered
Maoists are identified as Dinesh Shantaram Maku Madavi (25), Mangesh
Raju Yera Madavi (24), Savita Tumreti (21), all carrying a reward
of INR 200,000 on their heads, as well as Vasant Vadde (23) and
Ravi Gota (25), both carrying a reward of INR 400,000. Gadchiroli,
SP, Avinash Deshmukh, said more naxals may surrender
in near future. A total of 44 naxalites have
surrendered this year.
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November 22 |
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh |
A SI of the CRPF was killed and a head constable
injured in a pressure-bomb blast triggered by CPI-Maoist cadres
in the dense forests in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. ”The incident
took place early this morning when a patrolling team of CRPF's
74th battalion was out on an area domination operation in Chintalnar
police station area,” a CRPF official said. While SFs were
cordoning off a patch between Burkapal Police camp and Chintalnar,
one of them inadvertently stepped on an IED set with a pressure
trigger. The blast left SI, B.S. Bist and head constable Sudhakar,
belonging to the 74th battalion, injured, the officer said.
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November 22 |
Bastar District and Rajnandgaon
District of Chhattisgarh |
The Chhattisgarh Government has ordered to block
at least 40 bank accounts in Naxal-hit regions of
Bastar District and Rajnandgaon District following “suspicious”
transactions in these accounts in the aftermath of demonetisation
of two high value currency notes. Officials told that
they have been alerted by bank authorities following high transactions
in these accounts during November 10-15. The bank accounts had
deposits of INR 60 million during the period. He added that CPI-Maoist
might have deposited the old notes in these accounts to redeem
the defunct money.
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November 22 |
Chhattisgarh |
More than 50 banks in Naxal-hit areas
of Chhattisgarh have recorded deposits of nearly INR 200 million
within two weeks till today. Based on an intelligence
report, transactions in these accounts have been put on hold.
Police suspect the money deposited belonged to the Naxals and
that the latter is using the bank accounts of other people to
escape the demonetisation drive.
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November 22 |
Chhattisgarh |
Special DG, NOSIB, Durgesh Madhav Awasthi told:
“We have issued an instruction that after demonetisation. The
Naxals will bring out huge hoarded money buried in the ground
for mobilisation in a bid to save it from becoming illegal tender.
They are applying the two-way approach to save their money: first,
they are returning old money to their contractors and asking them
to provide new currencies after getting it converted; secondly,
they are using their rural and urban networks to deposit their
money in banks.” “We are getting such information from all eight
Naxal-hit districts. In the last three to four days, we have identified
people in whose accounts money was deposited, and have sent their
names to the SP, Collector and banks, asking them to stop transactions
in such accounts till it is established that the deposited money
belongs to account holders. The depositors will themselves speak
about the source of money. It is also possible, in some cases,
that money belongs to the depositors,” he said. “However, as per
information, Maoists have deposited big amounts in the accounts
of people having very little transactions or having ‘Jan Dhan’
accounts. I have instructed Superintendents of Police and bank
officials to inquire into such accounts. More than 50 accounts
have been traced so far, but their numbers are increasing. We
have information of Rs. 15-20 crore being deposited in such accounts,”
he added.
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November 22 |
Jharkhand |
The Jharkhand Police have started a poster campaign
in Naxal-hit areas of the state asking people not
to deposit or exchange the demonetised currency notes belonging
to the LWEs or their organisations. The IGP
(operation), M.S. Bhatia told that the villagers should not deposit
the illegal money of CPI-Maoist in Jan Dhan accounts, otherwise
they will be held responsible for such transactions. He added
that Jharkhand Police is putting up pamphlets in remote rural
areas where hardcore Maoists have dumped their cash. The Police
have launched a poster and pamphlet campaign in more than 16 Districts
like Lohardaga, Latehar, Garwah, Chatra, Khunti and Chaibasa.
In Jharkhand, LWE collect INR 1.5 billion to INR 2 billion a year
in the form of 'levy' or protection fee they slap on villagers,
businesses and contractors.
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November 22 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
As many as 222 CPI-Maoist sympathisers surrendered
before the Police in Malkangiri District of Odisha. According
to reports, 222 Maoist supporters, including 19 militia and 72
women, from Telkunda village under the Kalimela Police Station
surrendered before SP, Mitrabhanu Mohapatra at the District headquarters.
It may be recalled that as many as 101 Maoist supporters, including
24 militia and 26 women, had surrendered before the Police in
the District on November 21. The villagers hailed from Badigata
and Gandiguda villages under Kalimela Police limits.
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Non-Violent |
November 22 |
Tamil Nadu |
The NSD teams from Coimbatore, Nilgiris,
Tirupur, Erode, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri Districts have been
asked to stop CPI-Maoist infiltration in Western Tamil Nadu. The
state internal security officials told the team leaders that Andhra
Pradesh and Odisha Police encountered 30 CPI-Maoist cadres in
October 24-27 in AOB region. The DIG (Internal Security), C Eswaramoorthy,
told that CPI-Maoist members should not enter Tamil Nadu forest
areas and we should not allow them to create their base in the
State. He also advised the NSD teams to create good rapport with
the tribals in Western Tamil Nadu so that they could pass on information
about suspicious movements in forest areas.
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November 22 |
Khammam District of Telangana |
Two suspected CPI-Maoist sympathisers were arrested
along with demonetised currency of INR 70,000 in Khammam District
of Telangana, SI, Ravinder of Cherala Police Station told that
two petty businessmen--G Rajesh and Ajit M, were arrested near
Taliperu area bordering Chhattisgarh. It is to be noted that duo
was given old currency by Naxals LWEs and they
went to Hyderabad and bought jungle boots and other articles for
Maoists. They were booked under Telangana State Security Act and
produced before a court.
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November 23 |
Latehar District of Jharkhand |
Six CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter
with the CoBRA commandos of the CRPF and the Jharkhand Police
in Latehar District of Jharkhand. CRPF, IG, Sanjay Lathkar confirmed
the deaths in the encounter that took place in a remote location
on the forested banks of the Koel River in area under Chhipadohar
Police Station. Six bodies of the rebels in black uniform were
recovered. The bodies are yet to be identified, but Police officials
said the uniforms worn by the rebels and the weapons found with
them indicate they were Maoists of senior rank. “An INSAS rifle,
a SLR, a carbine and three other firearms have been recovered
from the encounter site. The other members of the Maoist squad
fled the spot during the gunbattle,” said Latehar SP, Anup Birtharey.
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November 23 |
Chatra District of Jharkhand |
The Jharkhand Police and IT Department officials
began a probe in Chatra District of Jharkhand following reports
that state’s banned LWE group, TPC, had deposited around INR 10
crore in the accounts of villagers reports .According
to sources, TPC Chief Brajesh Ganjhu held a meeting with around
200 villagers on November 11, where he asked them to deposit their
money in their Jan Dhan Yojna accounts, old age pension, scholarship
scheme, MNREGS and other savings accounts. TPC is a splinter group
of CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent |
November 23 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Police of SIB and other intelligence wings are
trying to decode a 40-page document recovered from the encounter
site in Ramaguda near Bejjangi in Malkangiri District of Odisha
on October 24, in the AOB that contains information in code language.
According to sources, the document was prepared after the AOBSZC
conference was held in August this year. Apparently, CPI-Maoist
broached on several issues including handing over responsibilities
to various wings. The documents also reveal that the LWE wanted
to induct 'Comrade G' into the AOBSZC organisational set up, who
sources said may have been Prabhakar alias Gangadhar.
However, he was killed in the October 24 encounter. The documents
also revealed that, the CPI-Maoist also organised political classes
for the cadres by AR, SU and other Naxals. AR
can be Akkiraju Ramakrishna and SU may be Uday of
Malkangiri-Koraput Border Division. The documents need to be decoded
to understand the Maoist movement. They were planning to strengthen
their formations, but the encounter dealt a severe blow to their
plans a told a senior officer from the Anti-Naxal Wing.
The CPI-Maoist also wrote about their movement in Division 15,
Division 16 and Division 17 in Koraput. Police are taking help
from former Naxals to decode the papers. The
documents revealed that Padmakka would succeed Ramakrishna alias RK
as AOBSZC ‘secretary’.
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November 23 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Five minor girls, who were forcibly abducted and
were being sexually exploited by the cadres of the CPI-Maoist,
managed to escape in Malkangiri District of Odisha. According
to reports, few months ago Maoist guerrillas had abducted over
ten minor girls from their houses in cut-off area of Chitrakonda
in the District. Fortunately, five of the abductees managed to
give a slip to the Maoists after the Panasput Police encounter
as the militants ran helter-skelter. These five girls are now
staying at a rehabilitation slum. Malkangiri SP Mitrabhanu Mohapatra
condemning the incident said, “A case will be registered against
Maoists on the basis of the girl’s statement and stringent action
will be taken”.
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November 23 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
A CPI-Maoist cadre of MVKB, carrying a cash reward
of INR 100,000 on his head, surrendered before the Police in Malkangiri
District of Odisha. Rama Podiami alias Rahul,
a native of Marigeta village under Kalimela Police limits was
working as a party member for the MVKB of AOBSZC. He surrendered
with 9 mm pistol and 13 bullets before SP, Mitrabhanu Mahapatra,
in District Police office. Addressing mediapersons Mahapatra said,
Rahul was active in the cut-off region and working with LGS in
Malkangiri and Andhra Pradesh forests. He was involved in a series
of crimes like killing of Deba Sodi and Irma Wanjami of Silakota
in 2014, Kasa Madhi of Sungel in 2013, Dasa Madhi of Jantri in
2015 and exchange of fire at Silakota in 2013, the SP informed.
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Non-Violent |
November 23 |
Jharkhand and West Bengal |
The CRPF got a new battalion, the 232 Women's
Battalion, fourth women's unit in the force but the first to be
deployed in active combat in Jharkhand and West Bengal. The
232 Women's Battalion have been trained for 44 weeks in jungle
warfare, unarmed combat and smart weapons firing. They have been
trained to negotiate dense forests and rivers so that they are
capable of tackling every obstacle that they may face while fighting
Maoists. They have been deployed in the 'company formation' style,
which means about 100 personnel at one time. "We
did not compromise on the training standards. The benchmarks were
as stringent. We had to keep them ready for combat in these areas.
So, I think they are geared up. Both psychologically and physically,"
Sudeep Lakhtakia, ADP (Operations), said.
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November 24 |
Malappuram District of Kerala |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman, were
killed in an encounter with the Kerala Police, inside the forests
at Padukka under Nilambur forest range in Malappuram District
of Kerala. The encounter occurred around noon during a combing
operation carried out by a 60 member Police team, including commandos
attached to Kerala’s elite special force Thunderbolt and anti-LWE wing.
The team spotted around 10 Maoists at Kadannakapu and asked them
to surrender. A gunfight followed in which two persons were killed
while other members of the group fled the spot. The deceased are
identified as Kuppu Devaraj alias Shanker, a
senior Maoist leader and ‘central committee member’ of the Maoist
outfit and Ajitha alias Kaveri, a woman leader. Officers
said the combing operation will continue to stop the fleeing Maoists
from regrouping. SFs had specific information about movement of
Maoists in the area. They had brought Nilambur forest region under
surveillance after suspected Maoists opened fire at a police team
a month ago. The Maoists have been frequenting the area and interacting
with the locals at Mundakkadavu colony. The Police troop had conducted
a massive search operation a couple of weeks ago in the forest
after intelligence inputs on a possible grouping of Maoists led
by Deveraj, but could not find anyone, Deveraj was masquerading
as Kuppu Swami, Rayanna, Balaji, Yogesh in the forests of several
States carrying a reward of INR 700,000 and INR 1 million announced
by Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh Governments respectively.
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November 25 |
Hyderabad of Telangana |
UHM Rajnath Singh said he is confident that the
threat of LWE violence in the country will be completely
eliminated in the country in the next five years. Addressing a
conference of DGPs and IGPs of various States in Hyderabad of
Telangana, Singh said since 2007, and more security men were killed
compared to the number of Naxals neutralised
in country. However, this trend was reversed last year, he added.
"This situation has further improved this year and Maoists
are retreating in almost all states. Their own documents show
that they are troubled. If we continue our fight with Maoists
in this manner I am confident that the danger of Naxal violence
will be completely eliminated in nearly five years," he said.
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Non-Violent |
November 25 |
Chhattisgarh |
A 22-year-old LWE Kartam Shankar alias Lacchu
surrendered before the intelligence wing of Chhattisgarh Police.
He was an active member of NIB, Company of the CPI-Maoist. He
was involved in the 2007 Ranibodli Police outpost attack, in which
over 55 Police Personnel were killed. He was carrying a reward
of INR 800,000 on his head, turned himself in at SIB Headquarters,
citing disappointment with harsh forest life. He expressed his
willingness to lead a normal life, told the SP of SIB, Sundarraj
P. Lacchu, resident of Tekla village under Kutru Police Station
(Bijapur), was forcibly inducted into the CPI-Maoist as 'Bal Sangham'
member in 2005 after his mother was died. His younger brother,
Ramesh, was also taken away by Maoists.
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Non-Violent |
November 25 |
Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed during an encounter
with SFs in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. “The face-off
between police and armed LWE occurred this morning in a forested
patch under Kondagaon police station”, SP, Kondagaon, Santosh
Singh said. On receiving specific inputs, a small team of DRG
had launched the counter-insurgency operation in the interior
forest pockets during which they confronted a group of armed rebels
near Bavadi village, under Kondagaon Police Station limits. The
intermittent gun fight which broke out after the face-off soon
ended as Naxals fled from the spot, he added.
Later on, while searching the area, body of a rebel, clad in Naxal uniform,
along with one 315 bore rifle and one 12 bore gun was recovered
from the spot, the SP said. The identity of the killed cadre was
yet to be ascertained, he added.
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November 25 |
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh |
A Maoist cadre wanted in connection with an attempt
to murder case was arrested from Antagarh region in Kanker District
of Chhattisgarh. “District Police during a search operation was
tipped off about presence of Kaliram Anchal (30), a resident of
Antagarh in Kasdand village” SP, Kanker, ML Kotwani said. Acting
on the input, Police arrested the Maoist against whom an attempt
to murder case was registered with Antagarh Police Station, he
said.
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Non-Violent |
November 25 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
Four Maoists, including two women, carrying cash
rewards of INR 800,000 and INR 100,000 each on their heads respectively,
were arrested from restive Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
The insurgents were arrested from Barsoor Police Station area
of Dantewada District, a senior Police official said. They were
identified as Neelaram Mandavi (25), Santuram Alami (30) and two
women cadres — Raimoti alias Rame (25) and Budhri
(21). “Based on intelligence input that the duo had arrived at
the local market of Barsoor, a Police team swung into action and
nabbed them,” he said. Raimoti was active as a member of the Company-6
of the CPI-Maoist while Neelaram was a ‘janmilitia commander’,
the official said.
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November 25 |
Malappuram District of Kerala |
The Kerala Police, intensified the search for
the CPI-Maoist cadres who could have escaped November 24 encounter
with Thunderbolt Commandos in the forest in Nilambur in Malappuram
District of Kerala, in which two extremists were killed even as
the CPI, rights groups and several influential personalities protested
the State’s “Maoist hunt” and allegations came up to the effect
that the encounter might have been fake. Sources in the Police
said that the combing operations were not limited to forests under
the Karulayi Forest Range in Nilambur where the gunfight between
the Maoists and the Commandos had reportedly taken place but a
large number of personnel were engaged in the efforts in the areas
contiguous to the Nilambur forests in Palakkad, Kozhikode and
Wayanad Districts. Those killed in the encounter, according to
sources, were Kapu Devaraj, a ‘central committee member’ of the
CPI-Maoist and chief coordinator of the outfit’s Kerala operations,
and a woman activist, Ajitha alias Kaveri. Both
were said to be natives of Andhra Pradesh. Reports also said that
a third Maoist, probably a top functionary from Kerala, was killed
in the gunfight or had escaped with serious injuries.
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November 25 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
A CPI-Maoist cadre of MVKB, carrying a cash reward
of INR 100,000 on his head, surrendered before the Police in Malkangiri
District of Odisha. Rama Podiami alias Rahul,
a native of Marigeta village under Kalimela Police limits was
working as a party member for the MVKB of AOBSZC. He surrendered
with 9 mm pistol and 13 bullets before SP, Mitrabhanu Mahapatra,
in District Police office. Mahapatra said, Rahul was active in
the cut-off region and working with LGS in Malkangiri and Andhra
Pradesh forests. He was involved in a series of crimes like killing
of Deba Sodi and Irma Wanjami of Silakota in 2014, Kasa Madhi
of Sungel in 2013, Dasa Madhi of Jantri in 2015 and exchange of
fire at Silakota in 2013, the SP informed.
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November 26 |
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh |
A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Joga Markam
(28), a native of Dhanikarka Village, was arrested by a joint
team of SFs from Kuakonda Police Station in Dantewada District
of Chhattisgarh. He was carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on his
head and allegedly involved in the Malewada landmine attack in
which seven CRPF personnel were killed in March 30, 2016.
The arrest came after a squad of District Force and CRPF launched
a search operation in the interiors of Kuakonda, based on inputs
about presence of the Naxal. Joga had been active
with the CPI-Maoist for last three years during which he was involved
in at least 10 Naxal attacks in the region, Police said.
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November 26 |
East Singhbhum District of
Jharkhand |
The Police CPI-Maoist cadre at Pavda Pahad in
Nutadih village under Ghorabandha Police Station in East Singhbhum
District of Jharkhand. The arrested Maoist was identified as Sanatan
Munda; a resident of LWE infested area. Sanatan belonged
to a 15-member Ghorabandha squad. The Maoists was arrested during
a search operation being carried by District Police and CRPF.
The drive was led by rural SP, Mohammad Arshi. Senior SSP, Anup
Mathew, said that acting on a tip-off they acted and have recovered
a lap top along with six live cartilages, magazines, and carbine.
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November 26 |
Malkangiri District of Odisha |
Malkangiri SP, Mitrabhanu Mohapatra, urged top
CPI-Maoist leader Ramakrishna alias RK to lay
down arms. RK was critically injured in the October 24 encounter
between the SFs and Maoists at the Panasput forest in the cut-off
region of Malkangiri District of Odisha. SP Mohapatra said RK
has sustained injuries on his leg during the encounter, and presently,
he is undergoing treatment at some rebel camp on the AOB. Sources
said the Police of the States, Odisha as well as Andhra Pradesh
have alerted all the hospitals as they suspect that the wounded
rebel leader might go there for treatment.
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November 26
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Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
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A villager was injured in tiffin-box
bomb blast near a Government school in Bhaisa village in Kanker
District of Chhattisgarh. The blast in which a villager was injured,
took place at the entry point of the Government middle school
Bhaisa under Rowghat Police Station limits of the District. Police
had received information that Maoists had placed banner-poster
in the Government school. Immediately security personnel were
dispatched to the spot, the SP said. However, before the force
could arrive at the spot, a man identified as Sonu Ram Dugga (35)
tried to put away a suspected looking container with a stick which
exploded and the man sustained serious injuries, SP, Kanker, ML
Kotwani said.
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November 26
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two suspected Maoists were arrested
during a search operation carried out by SFs in jungles near Bechapal
village under Mirtur Police Station in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
They were identified as Somaru Oyam (25) and Mangu Oyam (47) who
tried to run away after seeing Police party, a senior Police official
said while adding that the duo was Jan Militia members.
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Non-Violent
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November 27 |
Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh |
Two women the Maoist cadres surrendered before
Police in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. Sanno Korram and
Ramoli Korram (both 25), natives of Permapal Village under Dhaudai
Police station area of the District, allegedly belonging to CNM,
the cultural wing of CPI-Maoist, wanted to join the mainstream
as they were disillusioned with the Maoist ideology. Narayanpur,
SP, Abhishek Meena, told that the cadres turned themselves in
citing disappointment with the hollow Maoist ideology and their
wrong policies. The surrendered Maoists were allegedly involved
in various incidents of murder, attempt to murder and abduction
in Dhaudai area, said the SP.
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November 27 |
Banka District of Bihar |
Banka Police with support from a CoBRA battalion
recovered arms and ammunition from CPI-Maoist cadres after an
hour long raid and exchange of fire in the Karmakar forest area
under Suia Police Station of Banka District of Bihar. SP, Banka,
Rajiv Ranjan said more than 50 rounds of fire was exchanged, and
the blood stains found suggest that rebels may have been injured,
though no casualties have been reported. Police recovered one
9mm pistol, three country made pistols, 169 self loading rifle
cartridges and magazines, hand grenades, clothes, medicines, blankets
and food. SP, Ranjan added that there are no more bunkers or training
camps in the region as Banka Police and Paramilitary Forces such
as the CoBRA and CRPF have accelerated combing operations in areas
sharing a border with Jamui District. The region was under the
‘command’ of Maoists Mantu Khaira and Prahallad Mandal, said Sushil
M. Singh Khopde, IGP, Bhagalpur range.
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November 28
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Dumka District of Jharkhand
|
Five CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested from different areas of Dumka District of Jharkhand. One
of the arrested Maoists, Mithilesh Mandal, had escaped during
transit while returning from a court in Giridih in 2012. He faced
several Naxal-related cases under different Police
Stations and was the self-styled ‘area commander’ of the banned
outfit, SP, Prabhat Kumar said. Two country-made pistols, two
four wheelers, five ATM cards, five cheque books, seven mobiles,
naxal literature, five passbooks of different banks were recovered
from the possession of those arrested. The seized INR 3.153 million
in cash included four new INR 2,000 notes while the rest are the
defunct INR 500 and INR 1,000 currency notes.
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Non-Violent
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November 28
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Kasargod District of Kerala
|
The Department of Intelligence
has issued a warning in Kasargod District of Kerala,
that there is a possibility of backlash by naxals. The
Policemen working in Districts which are facing threat from Naxals have
been asked not to patrol the streets at night alone. The department
has also suggested that teams comprising Police SI and ASI should
alone conduct night patrolling and that during patrolling, the
officers should without fail carry guns with them. The department
said that Police Stations like Adur, Bedaga, Badiyadka, Rajapuram,
Vellarikundu, Cheemeni, and Ambalattara are located on the borders
of thick forests. It said possibility of Naxals crossing
over through forests in Karnataka to this side and attacking the
Police Stations cannot be ruled out. Based on this advice, the
Policemen are on high alert in forest areas in Kannur, Palakkad,
Wayanad, Kozhikode and Malappuram Districts. The case relating
to exchange of fire between Policemen and CPI-Maoist cadres at
Nilambur has been handed over to crime branch, which has formed
a special team for the purpose. The wallpapers pasted inside
the toilet of a hotel at Thiruvananthapuram have warned Policemen
of revenge attacks. Policemen are trying to find out whether this
writing was related to the firing incident at Nilambur.
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Non-Violent
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November 28
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Mallapuram District of Kerala
|
The District Police stepped up
surveillance following suspicion that a CPI-Maoist activist,
injured during the Police action at Nilambur in Mallapuram District
of Kerala. “We have put him under surveillance though we don't
have any confirmation so far," a senior Police officer said.
According to reports the Police have received, the person is undergoing
treatment in a private hospital hailed from Puthenvelikkara area
in Ernakulam District and is a dalit activist. The members of
the investigating team probing the presence of Maoists at Nilambur,
including the NIA had questioned the suspected activist at Kodungallur.
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Non-Violent
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November 28
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Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu
|
The Coimbatore City Police arrested
two the CPI-Maoist sympathisers for sticking posters in Ukkadam
area in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu. They were later released
on bail. The men, identified as Parthiban and Dinesh, were picked
up by the Police and were booked under the Tamil Nadu Open Places
Prevention of Disfigurement Act. They had stuck posters supporting
the Maoist movement and against the anti-Maoists actions of the
Police department. The two men, who are members of the SAMSW,
had already been booked in other cases including a case registered
in Pollachi in connection with a missing man joining the Maoist
movement. In the posters, the men had elaborated on the atrocities
by the Police. They demanded that special Police units be dismantled
and not allowed to function as, in the name of encounters, they
were murdering innocent people who were fighting for their rights.
The posters stated that the two men were against state repression.
There were contact numbers on the posters. Police officials said
the men had not applied for permission to stick the posters.
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November 28
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Odisha
|
In spite of the support of CPI-Maoist,
the 12-hour bandh called by various opposition
parties in protest of the Government's demonetisation move received
no response in the Malkangiri, Koraput and Rayagada Districts
of Odisha. Poonam Chandra, spokesperson of the Malkangiri division
of the CPI-Maoist party, sent letters to various members of the
media in the District. Through them, Chandra asked for vehicles
to be kept off the road and business establishments to be shut
down. However, Government and private offices, the public transport
system, and a majority of business establishments remained functional
through the day, even in Maoist-dominated areas like Chitrakonda,
Kalimela, Bhijengiwada and Podia in Malkangiri, and Narayanpatna,
Bandhugaon and Lamtaput in Koraput.
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November 29
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Odisha
|
The CPI-Maoist Central Committee
it was the biggest loss to the party in the history of Indian
revolution. It has alleged that the Jantri encounter (Ramaguda
near Bejjangi) in Malkangiri District of Odisha on October 24
was a covert action, which has to be examined. Committee official
spokesman Abhay said it would take a long time to recuperate its
strength. However, the losses and failure would not stop the communists
from their goal, the committee said. The Central Committee has
asked military formations PLGAs, party cadres, organisations, Janatana
Sarkar and people to transform the sorrow into a fight
against the enemy. At the same time, it has asked the people and
guerilla forces to be on the alert in the future. The press note
released on Abhay's name demanded a judicial inquiry into the
encounter. He elaborated the names of the deceased persons, which
were the same as released by the AOBSZC official spokesman Jagabandhu
in October. Abhay said the enemy (read government) has been trying
to eliminate the revolutionaries by turning a few into informers.
"We have identified 12 coverts at Darbha area in Chhattisgarh
last year. We killed two persons after holding a praja court,"
he said. Abhay claimed that revolutionary activists were murdered
through covert actions at the Pavuralagutta, Manala, Kanchala
and Bottemtong incidents in Chhattisgarh and the recent Jantri
incident. According to him, Operation All Out, Operation Blue
Moon and Operation Viswas in the AOB areas, Bastar Mission-2016,
Operation Monsoon and Operation Maha Abhiyan in Dandakaranya are
some of the brutal attacks on the people's movement.
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Non-Violent
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November 29
|
Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
Two armed CPI-Maoist cadres were
arrested from the jungles of Chalho in Aurangabad District of
Bihar. SP, Satya Prakash said a rifle was also seized from the
two, who were identified as Ram Pravesh Yadav, a ‘zonal commander’
of Chalho jungle, and ‘sub-zonal commander’ Sunny Mistry alias Brahmdeo.
Yadav, who has been absconding for the past 11 years, carried
a cash reward of INR 50,000 on his head, the SP said, adding that
around two dozens of criminal cases have been lodged against the
two rebels in various Police Stations of the District.
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Non-Violent
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November 29
|
Malappuram District of Kerala
|
In the recent encounter inside
Karulayi forest in Nilambur in Malappuram District of Kerala,
in which two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed, the Police have come
out with fresh evidence to prove that the Maoists had used automatic
weapons including AK- 47 to open fire against Police squad. Earlier,
Police recovered empty shells used in pump-action shotgun allegedly
used by Maoists for the attack. Police are of the opinion that
the AK 47 rifles were used by used by the bodyguards of Devraj,
who is a senior leader of the party. However, the gang members
managed to take away all weapons with them while escaping during
the encounter, Police said.
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Non-Violent
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November 29
|
Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
|
The Anti-Naxal operations
wing of the Maharashtra Police has drawn up a list of people in
the Naxal-affected areas of Gadchiroli District. The
list comprised mainly labourers, transporters, contractors carrying
out development work and Naxal sympathisers for
any possible attempt to assist CPI-Maoist in converting their
now-demonetized currency notes. Police said they had inputs villagers
were approached by Maoists to exchange and deposit these currency
notes. But a Police probe revealed villagers refused to help the
Maoists in depositing the cash in their accounts. “We had inputs
that villagers in the Naxal-infested areas were coaxed by Maoists
to deposit their now-untenderable currencies in their accounts.
But a police scan of their accounts found the sums deposited belonged
to the villagers,” said a senior Police officer in the DGP office.
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November 30
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two Maoists, identified as Payke
Midiami (25) and Deve Madkami (27), were arrested from Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh. The arrested cadres were
carrying cash reward of INR 500,000 and INR 200,000 on their head,
Police said. "While the women cadres were nabbed from Kuakonda
police station area after an exchange of fire with police, two
others were held from a weekly market in Katekalyan Police Station
limits," told Dantewada, ASP, (anti-Maoist operations) Gorakhnath
Baghel. A patrolling team of Police was on its way to Dantewada
town from Sukma District in an SUV when they spotted a group of
ultras heading to the other side of forest after crossing the
road at Bhusaras Valley in Kuakonda area, he said. Sensing presence
of SFs, the Maoists opened fire on them leading to a gunfight
between the two sides. A 12 bore country-made gun, five live cartridges,
Maoist uniforms and items of daily use were also seized from their
possession. Payke, who was active as Katekalyan area committee
member, was looking after the activities of KAMS, a frontal wing
of Maoists, in Katekalyan and Darbha area, the ASP said, adding
that she was carrying a reward of INR 500,000 on her head. Similarly,
Deve who was a ‘deputy commander’ in Platoon no 24 under Darbha
Division of Maoists since 2012 was carrying a reward of INR 200,000
on her head.
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November 30
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two Maoists, identified as Kosa
(28) and Handa (30), were arrested while procuring commodities
of daily use from a local weekly market in Katekalyan area in
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. ASP, Gorakhnath Baghel said
that INR 200,000 cash reward was announced for the arrest of Kosa.
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November 30
|
Simdega District of Jharkhand
|
Simdega Police claimed that founder
and chief of PLFI, Dinesh Gope, was injured during an encounter
on Pangur-Bintuka road in Simdega District of Jharkhand on November
29. Acting on information that Gope was likely to sneak into Odisha
through the forests in Bano block, District Police came across
five men on two motorcycles near Bintuka School. SP, Rajiv Ranjan
Singh said, "A police team intercepted those men on the bikes
and asked them to stop, following which they resorted to firing.
An exchange of fire broke out between the two groups and the encounter
reportedly lasted for over an hour. Reinforcements from nearby
police stations and district headquarters reached the spot later,"
Singh said. The Police also claimed that Dinesh Gope was injured
in the encounter, however, his aides managed to take him and escaped.
Police recovered one Royal Enfield Himalayan bike with four-five
bullet marks, Hero Charizma motor bike, 36 pieces of unfired INSAS
bullets, 10 pieces of empty cartridges of INSAS, three empty cartridges
of AK-47, mobile chargers and an extension board. Singh said that
the recovery of the Himalayan bike confirmed the presence of Gope,
since he is known to be moving around in the area on that particular
two-wheeler. "The recovery of empty cartridges of AK-47 indicates
the presence of top leaders of the outfit. We are sharing the
appearance and details of the person, who led the encounter for
the rebels, with local intelligence," Singh said. "PLFI
is one among the last LWE groups active in the region and the
Tuesday encounter comes as a huge blow to their morale here,"
Singh said. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, engaged
in organised extortion from contractors and traders in Simdega.
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November 30
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
Around 103 CPI-Maoist supporters
surrendered before the SP in Malkangiri District of Odisha. All
those who surrendered were identified as residents of Idikonda
village under Kalimela block in the District. Among them, 29 were
active members of the militia.
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Non-Violent
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December 1
|
Kandhamal District of Odisha
|
An exchange of fire took place
between SOG jawans and the CPI-Maoist cadres near Lankagarh gram
panchayat under Belaghar Police limits in Kandhamal District
of Odisha. Police said the gunbattle took place while SOG jawans
were conducting a raid at a Maoist camp. IG, Amitabh Thakur said
acting on a tip off about the Maoist camp at Lankagarh panchayat,
SOG jawans conducted the operation. On seeing the security personnel,
around 20-25 Maoists, who were present there, started firing.
In retaliation, SOG personnel also fired. The SOG jawans seized
explosives, arms and ammunition and old currency notes from the
Maoist camp.
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December 1
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Balangir District of Odisha
|
Some Maoist posters, asking people
to observe PLGA week from December 2 to 8, were found at Parlimal
and Tanla Villages of Belpara block in Balangir District
of Odisha. The Maoist group urged the people to join their ranks
in large numbers and extend cooperation to the outfit. According
to reports, the posters have been put up by members of Balangir-Bargarh
Mahasamund division protesting various developmental policies
of the Centre.
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Non-Violent
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December 1
|
Jayashankar Bhupalapally District
of Telangana
|
One person was seriously injured
when he accidentally stepped on a tiffin bomb planted by the CPI-Maoist
cadres near Vijaypuri Colony on Cherla-Venkatapuram highway in
the Jayashankar Bhupalapally District of Telangana. According
to information, the CPI-Maoist Charla Shabari Area Committee put
up banners and posters on trees along the road appealing to people
to make a success the 16th PLGA week-long celebrations from December
2 to 8 and urging youth to join the PLGA to fight for the rights
of the poor. They wanted the people to defeat the Operation Green
Hunt launched by the Centre. According to the Police, one Guggilla
Karthik (22), a resident of Venkatapuram village, a private driver,
went to answer nature’s call around 11 p.m. and accidentally stepped
on the bomb planted by the Maoists. He sustained serious injuries.
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December 1
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Mahabubnagar District of Telangana
|
Three persons were arrested as
Police in Mahabubnagar District of Telangana, claimed to have
thwarted an attempt by the CPI-Maoist to convert old currency
to the tune of INR 1.2 million with new notes by unlawful means.
INR 1.2 million in old denominations and three mobile phones were
recovered from the trio, Police said. The SHO of Makhtal Police
Station in the District received a tip off that some persons suspected
to be having links with anti-social elements were trying to convert
old currency into new currency with the help of a post office
employee in Manthangode village in Makhtal mandal,
Mahabubnagar Police stated in a release.
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Non-Violent
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December 1
|
Bastar of Chhattisgarh
|
Maoists have called for an agitation
against the move for disinvestment of NMDC steel plant at Nagarnar
in Bastar of Chhattisgarh saying the move was aimed at handing
over the region's natural wealth to corporates. CPI-Maoist, DSZC,
spokesman Vikalp sent an audio message to journalists alleging
that it was an attempt to hand over NMDC project to powerful corporates,
including those having base in Gujarat. The Maoist leader called
upon people of Bastar, political parties and other peoples' organisations
to strongly resist the move for privatization of the integrated
steel plant, which is yet to be commissioned and start production.
NMDC, country's largest iron ore miner, is setting up a three
MTPA integrated steel plant at Nagarnar in Bastar. In June this
year, an environment ministry panel gave clearance to a captive
iron ore mine in Bastar for plant that is expected to start trial
production by mid-2017.
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Non-Violent
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December 2
|
Andhra-Odisha
|
The 16th PLGA week is expected
to be different this year, especially in the cut-off region of
AOB area. Both the Police and LWE are in the preparatory
mode to show their strength, and what makes the week different
this year from the earlier ones, is that it is taking place after
the recent string of encounters from October 24 to 27, in the
cut-off region of AOB region, which left 30 Maoists dead, including
top leaders such as Bakuri Venkata Ramana alias Ganesh
and Samala Kistayya alias Daya. Both were of
the rank of ‘State Secretary’ of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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December 2
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Two CoBRA personnel, including
a SI were injured after they inadvertently stepped over a spike
trap laid by the CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The incident took place when a team of CRPF's elite CoBRA 204th
battalion was conducting an anti-Naxal operation in the
interiors of Gangaloor Police Station limits, a CRPF official
said. While returning, the two personnel inadvertently stepped
over iron spikes placed in Kusnar village forests, causing them
injuries on their legs, he said. Those injured were identified
as SI, Munendra and head constable Tarun Gogoi belonging to CoBRA
204th battalion, the official said.
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December 2
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
The Jharkhand Government will
set up a security camp atop Burha Pahar in Latehar District, which
has become a bastion of the CPI-Maoist with its top leaders, such
as Arvindji and Sudhakaran. Dev Kumar Singh alias Arvindji
carries a reward of INR 10 million. Sudhakaran came to Jharkhand
from Andhra Pradesh early this year to help Maoists regain control
over the bases smashed by SFs, Police said. “Burha Pahar that
has become a synonym for LWE will soon be under police control.
Security forces will set up a camp there,” State’s Chief Secretary
Rajabala Verma, praising the forces for their offensives against
the Maoists in the region.
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Non-Violent
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December 2
|
Giridih District of Jharkhand
|
CPI-Maoist cadres pasted a poster,
at former MLA Laxman Swarnkar Gandey's house in Ahilyapur village
in Giridih District of Jharkhand, warning him of dire consequences
if he did not part his ways with JVM Chief Babu Lal Marandi.
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Non-Violent
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December 2
|
Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand
|
Suspected Naxalites
apparently belonging to a newly formed outfit raided a road construction
site, thrashed workers and set ablaze four SUVs in Keredari in
Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand. Police said the attack was aimed
at intimidating and extorting money from the management of ECI
Company, which has been engaged by the State Highways Authority
for the renovation of 117 kilometres-long Hazaribagh-Bijupada
road at a cost of INR 4.41 billion. Sources said around 15 armed Naxalites of
newly formed JKRD stormed into the ECI camp at Damhabagi village
in Keredari block, some 52 kilometres from Hazaribagh District
headquarters, around 2am. The extremists took three workers at
gunpoint and then beat them up badly. They warned them against
working on the project and set four vehicles on fire. The suspected
extremists left behind a pamphlet, wherein one Amit ji claimed
responsibility for the attack, and disappeared into Keredari forests.
Local sources said of late, CPI-Maoist cadres and their breakaway
factions had been on the back foot in the face of sustained Police
patrol in the area. There hadn't been any big crime here in recent
past, they claimed. So, the raid was basically a handiwork of
a local gang, which wanted to terrorise the agency officials in
the garb of a new rebel outfit. Hazaribagh, SP, Bhimsen Tuti visited
the spot to take stock of the situation and spoke to the workers.
"Preliminary probe hints at involvement of a criminal gang,
and police have identified some of its members. Raids are on and
all of them will be arrested soon," the SP added.
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December 2
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Kandhamal District of Odisha
|
A day after an exchange of fire
between CPI-Maoist cadres and SOG personnel near Lankagarh village
under the Belaghar Police limits in Kandhamal District of Odisha,
SP, Pinak Mishra, informed that demonetized currency notes worth
INR 32,000 were seized from a camp of the Maoists. A total of
48 scrapped notes in denominations of INR 500 and eight notes
in denominations of INR 1000 were seized from the spot, the SP
said. This apart, two tiffin bombs, two country-made guns, live
bullets, 15 detonators, Maoist uniforms, cooking items and medicines
were also seized, he said. “SOG jawans started an operation after
getting information from the intelligence department regarding
presence of Maoists on the hills near Lankagarh. The Maoists ran
helter-skelter after an exchange of fire. There were 20 to 25
Maoists present at the camp,” Southern Range IG, Amitabh Thakur.
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Non-Violent
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December 3
|
Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A former sarpanch of
a village was seriously injured in a pressure bomb blast, allegedly
planted by Maoists, at Polampalli village in Sukma District of
Chhattisgarh. "The Naxals had allegedly planted a
pressure bomb on a road between Dornapal and Polampalli, and threw
some propaganda material there," Police officials said. "When
Vetti Ballu (40) went to collect the propaganda papers, the pressure
bomb exploded, injuring him grievously," they said.
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Violent
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December 4
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A group of CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly
killed a 55-year-old man after accusing him of being a member
of the erstwhile Salwa Judum in Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh."Budhram Mudma was killed this afternoon
with sharp-edged weapons and sticks at his village Mandem under
Farsegarh police station limits," a senior Police official
said. Mudma's younger brother is the sarpanch of
the village. A group of eight to ten Maoists attacked him when
he and his family members were working in their vegetable garden
outside the house. Later the Maoists fled into the forest. SFs
were rushed to the spot and Mudma's body was brought to Farsegarh
for autopsy, the official said. Maoist pamphlets recovered from
the spot claimed that Mudma was killed because he was involved
with Salwa Judum in the past and was responsible
for the deaths of innocent tribals in the area. The pamphlets
also accused him of being a ‘Police informer’, the official added. Salwa
Judum was disbanded in 2011 after Supreme Court declared it
unconstitutional.
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Violent
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December 4
|
Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
|
The CPI-Maoist cadres detonated
a powerful IED blast in a dense forest in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.
The incident happened in the forest under Chhote Bethiya Police
Station limits when a District Force was patrolling the region.
However, no casualties were reported, a Police official said.
The patrolling was launched based on inputs that Maoists had put
up posters and banners in the interiors of Chhote Bethiya, as
a part of PLGA week being observed from December 2 to 8 in honour
of slain leaders of the CPI-Maoist's armed wing, he said. "When
the police party reached Bechaghat Forest, the explosion occurred
ahead of them, though no injuries or casualties were reported
in the incident," he said. Soon after the explosion, a combing
operation was launched in the region to trace the attackers, he
said.
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December 4
|
Malkangiri District of Odisha
|
The DVF personnel of Odisha have
intensified their hunt to track down top the CPI-Maoist leader
Ramkrishna alias RK dead or alive in Malkangiri District,
following a tip-off that the mastermind of the banned outfit,
injured in the encounter, is hiding somewhere inside the dense
forest cover along AOB. The DVF personnel are thoroughly scanning
possible hideouts of the Naxals. “The state government
has provided us with sophisticated guns with a killing range of
300 metres. We have imparted advance training to the Malkangiri
DVF to counter Maoists. With the modern weapons and training,
we hope that we will make the district free from Maoists within
some days,” said Dambaru Hananga, DVF Leader. “Acting on the directive
of the District SP, we have intensified Operation RK in the district.
Our motto is to track down the Maoists and provide security to
the people,” Radhakrushna Nayak, a DVF jawan on duty said. Talking
to the media about the Operation RK, Malkangiri, SP, Mitrabhanu
Mohapatra said as per the information, RK has sustained bullet
injuries on his leg during the encounter in Panasput area in Chitrakonda
block on October 24. The top Maoist leader is undergoing treatment
in a Maoist camp somewhere on Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border. “We
are collecting more information on this,” he added.
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December 5
|
Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh
|
SFs have discovered a CPI-Maoist
dump and unearthed electronic items and medical equipment in Rajnandgaon
District of Chhattisgarh. The recovery was made from a densely
forested area under Madanwada Police Station when a joint team
of SFs was carrying out patrolling, a senior Police official said.
A squad of District Force, STF and 27thbattalion of
ITBP had launched the operation on December 3 keeping in view
that Naxal cadres may create disturbance during PLGA
week being observed by them from December 2 to 8, the official
said. While cordoning off a forested hill between Edma and Murjhar
Village, the patrolling team located the dump from where they
recovered a fax machine, charger, lead wire, hand grenade, printer
cartridge, ink bottles, three self-made stretchers to carry injured
or sick members and water bottles, he added.
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Non-Violent
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December 5
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Malappuram District of Kerala
|
A local court dismissed a petition
seeking re-post-mortem on the bodies of two CPI-Maoist in Malappuram
District of Kerala. District and Sessions Judge S S Vasan
in Manjeri D rejected the plea in this regard by Sreedharan, brother
of slain Maoist leader Kuppuswamy Devaraj and some human rights
activists, public prosecutor P Suresh said. The court observed
that the autopsy was conducted by experts in Kozhikode Medical
College Hospital and there was no need for a re-post-mortem.
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Non-Violent
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December 5
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Odisha
|
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik informed
the Assembly that 19 of the 30 Districts of Odisha are Naxal prone.
In a written reply to a question from Kailash Kulesika (Congress),
the CM said 45 CPI-Maoist cadres have been killed and 80 arrested
in 55 encounters since 2015 till November this year. Besides,
five BSF jawans among seven security personnel have been killed
during encounter with Maoists during the period, he said. Naveen
said during the period, 94 Maoists have surrendered of which 44
were rehabilitated under the surrender rehabilitation policy.
In a written reply to a question from Tara Prasad Bahinipati (Congress),
the CM, however, said there has been a progressive decline in
the overall LWE in Odisha. During the year till November 15, 2016,
57 cases of LWE-related violence have taken place in Odisha in
which 17 innocent people died. As many as 39 Maoists have been
killed in police action during the period, he said and added that
adequate and effective steps are being taken to combat LWE in
the State.
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December 6
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
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A CRPF jawan was killed and another
one injured when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered an IED blast followed
by firing in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. The incident
took place when a joint team of CRPF's 231st battalion and District
Force was patrolling to ensure security to the under-construction
Aranpur (Dantewada)-Jagargunda (Sukma) road which passes through
the restive dense forests under Aranpur Police Station limits,
a senior Police official said. When the SF personnel were cordoning-off
a patch between Kondapara and Kondasawli villages, the Maoists
detonated the IED and started firing in which two head constables
were injured, he said. "Head constable Kamal Singh succumbed
to his injuries while being airlifted to Raipur. Another head
constable, Anil Kumar, was shifted to a hospital in the state
capital," the official said, adding that both the personnel
belong to CRPF's 231st battalion.
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Violent
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December 6
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Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
|
The Maoists triggered two IED
blasts targetting the security personnel at a road construction
site in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. There were no reports
of injuries or casualties.
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Violent
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December 6
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Chatra District of Jharkhand
|
Chatra District Police of Jharkhand
claimed to have arrested an ‘area commander’ of the PLFI, a splinter
group of the CPI-Maoist. Mukesh Yadav, a resident of Lesligunj
in Palamu, was arrested from Shabano village under Simaria Police
Station in the District, by a joint team of local Police and a
CRPF unit. Yadav carries a cash reward of INR 200,000 on him as
announced by the State Home Department. Chatra, SP, Anjani Kumar
Jha said Yadav, who is in his mid-twenties, was hiding in a house
when he was arrested with a loaded country-made pistol. "Yadav
tried to escape the house from the rear but was chased down. He
did not offer any resistance and no-gunshots were fired from our
end as well," Jha claimed. Chatra Police added that Yadav,
‘area commander’ of Lesligunj and Satbarwah Zone, was sent to
Chatra few months ago, by PLFI's ‘second-in-command’ Santosh Yadav,
to strengthen the outfit's organizational set up. Yadav had joined
the PLFI fold as early as 1999 and operated mostly in Palamu and
Latehar Districts. He has six registered cases against him, comprising
attempt to murders, kidnappings and extortion.
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Non-Violent
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December 6
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Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
The District Police detected two
heavily loaded IEDs planted by the CPI-Maoist cadres near Kumada
village under the Kumada Gram Panchayat in the
Munchingput mandal in the Visakha Agency of Vishakhapatnam
District of Andhra Pradesh. This was the major incident reported
so far during the Maoist party’s PLGA week observance since December
2. Each landmine, kept three feet under the bitumen road, was
packed with 20 kilograms of explosives. Since they could not be
safely removed, the bomb disposal squad of the rural Police set
them off under controlled and safe conditions, said Rahul Dev
Sharma, SP, in a press release. Babujee Attada, ASP, (operations),
supervised the operation of detection and blasting of the landmines.
“The landmines were meant to attack the police but there is every
possibility of innocent Girijans that walk on the road and vehicles
that bring material to the weekly shandy getting killed if they
are set off,” Sharma said.
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December 7
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three IEDs, weighing five kilograms
each, planted by the CPI-Maoist, were recovered by SFs in Sukma
District of Chhattisgarh. The IEDs were unearthed by a team of
CRPF coming under Tongpal Police Station limits while they were
out on patrolling, a Police official informed. SFs spotted a suspicious
wire connection and later discovered three IEDs, placed in steel
containers, hidden beneath the earth in the forest pocket on a
roadside, said Police official. Besides, 16 meter Electric Wire,
a detonator and five gelatin rods were also recovered from the
spot, the Police official added.
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Non-Violent
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December 7
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
A ‘sub-zonal commander’ of CPI-Maoist,
identified as Sanjay Korwa, carrying a bounty of INR 500,000,
surrendered before Palamu, DIG of Police, Vipul Shukla and Latehar,
SP, Anup Birtharey in Latehar District of Jharkhand. Sanjay surrendered
without any weapon. The Maoist was accompanied by his wife and
wore his Maoist uniform. Birtharey said Sanjay had five cases
against him and he was operative in Bareysarn, Mahuadarn and Mandal.
Inducted in the Maoist outfit around seven years ago, Sanjay reached
the position of ‘sub-zonal commander’ for his ferocity in ambushing
the SFs. He is learnt to have remained in regular touch with Arvindji,
Bada Vikas and also cadres of Chhattisgarh Maoist outfit.
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Non-Violent
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December 7
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Bhadradri Kothagudem District
of Telangana
|
A senior CPI-Maoist cadre of the
rank of ‘deputy commander’ of the CPI-Maoist’s armed squad operating
in the restive Sukma District of Chhattisgarh, surrendered before
Bhadrachalam in-charge DSP, Ashok Kumar in Bhadrachalam in Bhadradri
Kothagudem District of Telangana. Savithri Dalam Uyka
Dulaiah alias Joga (24), carrying a reward of
INR 300,000 on his head, surrendered to the Bhadrachalam Police
due to ‘ill-health’. He originally hails from Nalabelli village
in Dummugudem mandal of Bhadrachalam division,
the Police said. He was reported to be involved in six major offences,
including the murder of Greyhounds Reserve Inspector Prasad, who
was allegedly killed by the Maoists in retaliation to the Puvarthi
encounter in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh in 2013.
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Non-Violent
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December 8
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
|
A powerful pressure IED planted
by CPI-Maoist cadres, was found in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
The IED was unearthed by a team of CRPF's 74th battalion personnel
from Chintalnar Police Station limits while they were out on road
security operation toward Mukram Nullah, located around 450 kilometres
from Raipur, a Police official said. They spotted the pressure
bomb hidden by the roadside, which weighed around five kilograms,
was immediately destroyed on the spot by the bomb disposal squad.
The official said, the IED was possibly meant to harm the security
men during their operation in the area.
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Non-Violent
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December 8
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Maoist sympathiser, allegedly
trying to illegally exchange over INR 100,000 in scrapped INR
1,000 currency notes for the new ones, was arrested in Dantewada
District of Chhattisgarh. Hemla Bheema (40) was arrested
from Bhansi Police Station area, Dantewada, ASP, (anti-Maoist
Operations), Gorakhnath Baghel said. As per preliminary
information, Bheema, a native of Masapara in Bhansi area, was
active as a ‘range committee member’ of Janatana Sarkar squad
of the outlawed CPI-Maoist, the officer said. During interrogation,
the accused revealed that Sanjay Kadti, a senior member of Bhairamgarh
Area Committee of Maoists, had given him the cash to get it exchanged
with new notes, either through banks or with support of local
traders, Baghel said.
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Non-Violent
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December 8
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Palakkad District of Kerala
|
A couple of hand-made posters
by the CPI-Maoist ‘Bhavani Dalam’ surfaced at Mele Ommathampatti
at Pudur Panchayat in Attappady in Palakkad District
of Kerala, demanding the withdrawal of Kerala Thunderbolts Commandos
from Attappady. Alleging that State Government was trying to suppress
the Naxals, the posters accused the ruling party of
killing their leaders in the recent encounter at Nilambur in Malappuram
District.
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Non-Violent
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December 8
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Odisha
|
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik said
that at least 48 CPI-Maoist cadres including some of their leaders
have been neutralised during 2015 and in 2016. "There is
significant reduction in the strength of Maoists in the state.
48 Maoists including state committee members have been neutralised,
88 LWE members have been arrested and 95 have surrendered in the
state during 2015 and in 2016 till November 30," he informed
the Legislative Assembly of Odisha. Large number of pro-Maoist
militia and sympathisers has publicly announced withdrawal of
their support from the Maoists in Malkangiri District, which was
an encouraging development, the Chief Minister added."Attempts
by Maoists to intensify their activities in Kalahandi, Kandhamal,
Boudh and Nayagarh districts have been contained due to pro-active
police action," he said. In order to increase mobile telephone
connectivity in Naxal-affected areas, Patnaik said
248 towers have been operationalised and proposal for installation
of 518 more towers covering naxal -affected districts
has been sent to the Centre for approval.
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Statement
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December 9
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Four CPI-Maoist leaders, carrying
cash rewards of various amounts on their heads, were arrested
from Karkeli weekly market in Bedre area in Bijapur District of
Chhattisgarh. SDPO, Prashant Shukla said that, among the arrested
Maoists, Waale Pallo (35) head of CNM, a cultural wing of the
Maoists, was a prominent cadre and carried a reward of INR 300,000
on his head. Besides, three others - head of DAKMS of Maoists,
Doli Majji (45), ‘militia commander’ Somdu Tati (28), another
head of DAKMS, Karve Majji, the SDPO said, adding, that they all
were carrying reward of INR 100,000 each. "During interrogation,
they have admitted that they were conducting a recee in a bid
to launch attack on Karkeli police camp. Earlier too they had
been part of the Maoist squad that had attacked this camp,"
SDPO said. Besides, all four Maoists were allegedly involved in
the incidents of attempt to murder, kidnapping, damaging roads,
torching vehicles and attacks on Police party, he added.
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Non-Violent
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December 9
|
Bokaro District of Jharkhand
|
A hardcore Maoist wanted in dozen
cases was arrested by Bermo Police in Bokaro District of Jharkhand.
The arrested rebel has been identified as Kalimullah Ansari alias Kamruddin
Ansari alias Karu Miya, belonging to Lodhi village
under the Gomia Police Station. The Bermo SDPO, Rajkumar Mahto
said that the arrested Naxal Karu Miya has admitted
his involvement in dozen cases related to Naxal activities
in and around Bokaro and Hazaribagh Districts. Police claimed
that it was a major breakthrough for the District Police he was
evading arrest from Bokaro and Hazaribagh Police last 20 years.
Giving details of the arrested Maoist’s modus operandi,
Mehta said, he came to Lodhi panchayat for solving
some land dispute.
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Non-Violent
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December 9
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Malappuram District of Kerala
|
The CPI-Maoist lodged in Coimbatore
Central Prison in Tamil Nadu will observe a day-long fast on December
16. They will be fasting to condemn the recent encounter killing
of two Maoist leaders inside the forest in Nilambur in Malappuram
District of Kerala. The protest is also to demand that the Kerala
Government register a murder case against ‘Thunderbolt’, the anti-Maoist
squad of the Kerala Police, and also to seek a magisterial probe.
Sources said the Maoists lodged in Coimbatore Central Prison -
Shyna, Roopesh, Veeramani, Kannan and Anoop - will take part in
the protest. Suspected Maoists lodged in the prisons in Tiruchi,
Chennai, Vellore, Palayamkottai observed a fast.
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Non-Violent
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December 9
|
West Midnapore District / West
Bengal
|
The CRPF seized a few rounds of
bullet, musket and other arms and ammunition in West Midnapore
District of West Bengal. CRPF jawans of the 184th Battalion led
by DC of CRPF 184th Battalion, Prabir Kumar Ghosh, identified
a mysterious sack of goods which was tied at its neck in a forest
of Poradiha Village during two search operations. He initially
suspected that the sack belonged to the CPI-Maoist cadres. The
jawans then, cordoned the abandoned sack and informed the Bomb
Disposal Squad of 207 CoBRA Force. The squad arrived on the site
and retrieved a musket, 8 rounds of bullet and an empty cap of
bullet from the sack. The retrieved arms were then handed over
by the squad to the Jamboni Police Station. The presence of these
arms has lead to the creation of a sense of worry among the residents
of the locality on whether it is signalling the rise of Maoists
in the region.
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Non-Violent
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December 10
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A joint team of CRPF and District
Police arrested three Maoist supporters, identified as Hemla Budhu
(35), Aytu Kudiam (30) and Ursa Budhram (35) while carrying out
an area domination operation to the interiors of Gangaloor Police
Station limits in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
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Non-Violent
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December 11
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Aurangabad District of Bihar
|
SFs arrested three CPI-Maoist
cadres including the founder of JJMP, a splinter group of the
CPI-Maoist, during a raid at a place under NTPC Khaira Police
Station in Aurangabad District of Bihar. SP, Satya
Prakash said after getting a tip off that three Maoists were intimidating
local people, especially farmers, to get their personal work done,
Police raided Khadaha-Sonedila area under NTPC Khaira Police Station
area from where the three Maoists were arrested along with arms
and ammunition. The arrested trio included Arvind Ram, the founder
of Maoist outfit JJMP and a resident of Kathkur Village of Kutumba
Police Station of the District. Arvind Ram formed JJMP after splitting
from the CPI-Maoist. The other two arrested were identified as
Shankar Ram alias Alam ji, a resident of Aurangabad
District and Mukesh Kumar Mehta, a resident of Palamu District
of Jharkhand, the SP said. The Police seized three country made
pistols, 15 live cartridges and an empty cartridge from their
possession, he added. Arvind Ram was a mastermind of the Jaipur
jewellery shop loot case in which he had served three years of
jail, Prakash said adding, and Ram was involved in various Maoist
related incidents in Mali and Nabinagar Police Station areas of
the District.
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Non-Violent
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December 11
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Jamui and Munger District of Bihar
|
SFs, in two separate incidents,
arrested CPI-Maoist Puran Murmu in Jamui District and CPI-Maoist
Gopal Das in Munger District of Bihar.
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Non-Violent
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December 11
|
Ranchi District of Jharkhand
|
The mukhiya of
Jargo panchayat in Tamar block in Ranchi District
of Jharkhand, Jeevan Singh Munda (38), was dragged out of his
home by unidentified assailants, masquerading as Police, and shot
dead. CPI-Maoist posters found near his body read that Munda was
being "punished for being a Police informer" and others
should learn a lesson from his death. The forested spot where
the mukhiya's body was found is 25 kilometres
from Tamar thana and around 80 kilometres from
the State capital, Ranchi. An unnamed local resident claimed
that Munda was once a Maoist sympathizer, adding, "But, he
parted ways with the rebels three years ago and entered mainstream
politics. Currently, he did not have any political affiliation
and facilitated construction of rural roads to help Police movement
in the area." Rural SP, Raj Kumar Lakra said, "Four
Maoist posters found near his body said he had paid the price
for being a police informer. But, there is nothing on record to
prove that the deceased was an informer. We are also not aware
of his past Maoist links."
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Violent
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December 11
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
|
Acting on a tip-off by local residents,
Police recovered a huge cache of 120 IEDs, two cylinder bombs,
weighing five kilograms each, and 200 metres of codex wire, used
in landmine blasts, from a Maoist hideout in Barwaiya forests
of Manika in Latehar District of Jharkhand. The explosives were
found hidden underneath rocks atop a hillock in the dense forests.
Latehar, SP, Anoop Birtharay said the explosives belonged to the
Maoist squad of ‘sub-zonal commander’ Shravan Yadav who carried
a reward of INR 500,000 on his head. "At present, he has
been located in Gaya district of neighbouring Bihar. Almost all
Maoist squads have fled the district following recent search operations
but they have sympathisers who extend them logistic support,"
said SP, Birtharay. Sharing the credit of the recovery with the
villagers, he said it was an outcome of community policing. "I
regularly visit the remote villages and introduce community policing
there," added SP, Birtharay. Police sources said Maoist squads
of ‘sub-zonal commanders’ Ugreshwar Yadav and Virendra Yadav,
who too carried INR 500,000 rewards each on their heads, also
used to operate in Latehar. Following recent operations, they
have hidden their arms and ammunition and fled to safer havens.
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Non-Violent
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December 11
|
Jaishankar Bhupalpally District
of Telangana
|
A CPI-Maoist couple, allegedly
involved in a number of cases including attacks on Police
personnel in Telangana and Chhattisgarh and carrying hefty reward
on their heads, surrendered in Jaishankar Bhupalpally District
of Telangana. K Ganapathi (40), a ‘divisional committee member’
of Challa Venkatapur Division of the CPI-Maoist, and his Wife
Swaroopa (33), a ‘committee member’ active in Venkatapur area
in State, surrendered at Bhupalpally citing their "disillusionment"
with Naxal policies, a Police officer said. While
Ganapathi and Swaroopa were carrying a reward of INR 500,000 and
INR 400,000 on their heads respectively, said DSP Bhaskaran. "Ganapathi,
a native of Shappalli village, has been active since 1999. He
was involved in seven cases, including a bomb blast that killed
11 people travelling in a bus at Chintapalli village in 2001,"
the Police Officer said. He said Ganpathi was also involved in
attacks on Eturunagaram and Mahadevpur Police Stations and for
triggering a blast targeting a Police van in Chhattisgarh."Swaroopa
married Ganapathi in 2004. She has been involved in at least five
cases, including bomb blast targeting a police van in Chhattisgarh,"
Bhaskaran said, adding the couple claimed they got disillusioned
due to "anti-people" policies of CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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December 11
|
Malappuram District of Kerala
|
Visuals found on the data storage
devices that the Kerala Police had recovered from the Karulayi
jungle in Nilambur in Malappuram District after two CPI-Maoist
cadres were killed in encounter reportedly showed LWE leaders
asking followers to oppose the Constitution and Government and
to prepare for armed struggle. Kuppu Devaraj, a ‘central committee
(CC) member’ of the CPI-Maoist who was killed along with woman
extremist Ajitha in the encounter with the Thunderbolt commandos
of the Kerala Police on November 24, is seen in the video found
in one of the pen drives asking the extremists to focus attention
on colonies of Adivasis and to take care not to lose their support.
The visuals found on the pen drives recovered from the Maoists’
camp have appeared in the visual media of Kerala in the particular
context of the suspicion aired by certain rights groups and the
CPI, second biggest partner in the CPI-M led ruling LDF, that
the Police could have killed the two Maoists in unilateral firing
in a fake encounter.
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Non-Violent
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December 11
|
Kollam District of Kerala
|
A dossier compiled by the Kerala
Police on Kuppuswamy Murthy alias Kuppu Devarajan
was released in Kollam District of Kerala. The top CPI-Maoist
leader killed by the Police in an alleged encounter inside the
Nilambur forests on November 24, shows that Kuppu was trained
in arms handling by the LTTE during the late 1980s.
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Non-Violent
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December 12
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A villager was killed and another
injured when they were reportedly caught in crossfire between
SFs and CPI-Maoist cadres in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The incident took place when a joint team of CRPF’s 168th Battalion
and District Force was out on an anti-Maoist operation near Timmapur
village under the Basaguda Police Station limits, Bijapur, SP,
K.L. Dhruv said. Acting on inputs about the movement of rebels,
SFs had launched the operation from its Timmapur camp, around
450 kilometres away from Raipur, to adjoining areas late last
night, he said. On the way back close to the camp, they came under
fire from ultras prompting them to retaliate. However, the exchange
of fire soon stopped after the rebels escaped, he added. During
searches, they spotted two men who had reportedly sustained injuries
in the cross fire, in the forests. They rushed the injured to
Basaguda hospital where one of them was declared brought dead,
the SP said. “The deceased was identified as Punem Nandu, a native
of Timmapur,” he said adding that another injured man— Kaken Suklu—
a resident of the same village, was undergoing treatment at Basaguda.
However, a CRPF official claimed that the deceased and injured
villager could be jan-militia members who handle the village level
operations of the Maoists.
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Violent
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December 12
|
Malappuram District of Kerala
|
Two suspected CPI-Maoist cadres
were spotted at Chenappadi near Kalikavu inside Nilambur Forest
region in Malappuram District of Kerala. A joint team of anti-naxal
squad of Police and Kerala Thunderbolts commandos carried hours-long
search in the area. According to the Police, it was a worker of
Pullakode Estate who had first noticed the men with backpacks
and alerted the local people and Police. Following this, the Police
team led by CI of Nilambur, Sunil Pulikkan and Thunderbolts personnel
carried out a search in the deep forest areas. After the recent
encounter of two CPI-Maoist cadres with Police which culminated
in the death of two Naxals, Police have intensified
vigil in the region.
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Non-Violent
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December 13
|
East Godavari District of Andhra
Pradesh
|
A CPI-Maoist couple belonging
to the Sabari Area Committee surrendered to East Godavari District
of Andhra Pradesh, SP, M Ravi Prakash. They were identified as
Vetti Vungi alias Jyothi of Sangampadu Village
and her husband, Madakam Bandi alias Kamalesh
of Gollaguppa Village in Yetapaka Mandal. Addressing
the media, Ravi Prakash said the Maoists carried a reward of INR
100,000 each on them. "Vetti Vungi (22) joined the Maoists
when she was 15 years old following a dispute with her mother
and influenced by then Sabari Dalam (armed squad)
member Sharmila. She worked as a dalam member under commanders
Naresh, Nagesh and Rajitha. She was involved in the exchange of
fire at Baidichelma, Chhattisgarh, in 2013, attack on the State
Police Camp at Dharmapenta in 2014, police camp attack at Pamedu,
Chhattisgarh, in 2016, and Buttem encounter. She also planted
explosives in Pega village in Chinturu Mandal of
Andhra Pradesh in 2016.Her husband Madakam Bandi alias Kamalesh
(22) joined the Dalam in 2015.He was involved
in the kidnap of Uike Isaac, son of Lakshmipuram pastor Kannayya
in 2015 and an exchange of fire at Buttem, Chhattisgarh.”
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Non-Violent
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December 13
|
Nawada District of Bihar
|
Four CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from a forest under Rajauli Police Station in Nawada District
of Bihar during a combing operation. SP, Vikas Barman said Police
were conducting search for arms and ammunition on the basis of
information provided by the four. The Maoists had planned to strike
vital public installations taking advantage of the cold weather
and extreme foggy conditions prevailing throughout the District.
The ultras led by Praduman Sharma had set several railway equipment
and vehicles at the newly-constructed Kharond railway station
under Rajauli sub-division on fire on October 3 besides furling
black flags on Independence Day, added the SP. The four cadres
have been identified as Manoj Yadav, Akhilesh Kumar, Surendra
Yadav and Ramchandra Yadav. Acting on a tip- off, the four were
arrested while trying to escape in a boat from Phulwaria dam under
Hardiya panchayat under Rajauli Police Station
in a joint operation involving the SSB personnel and local Police.
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Non-Violent
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December 13
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
A Maoist was killed
by SFs in forests near Peddagelur Village under Basaguda Police
Station limits in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. According
to Bijapur, SP, K L Dhruv, a patrolling party comprising CoBRA's
204th battalion, DRG and STF was out on a search operation in
the interiors of Basaguda, around 450 Kilometers away from Raipur.
When the party reached close to Peddagelur, they came under heavy
fire from Maoists that led to gun-battle between both the sides,
the SP said. After the firing stopped, body of a Maoist clad in
'black uniform', a country-made gun, bag and other items were
recovered while searching the spot, he said. The identity of all
three killed Maoists was being ascertained.
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Violent
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December 13
|
Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
|
Three Maoists were arrested from
the forest of Cherli Nilavaya under Mirtur Police Station limits
in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. Those arrested
were identified as Boda Kadti (30), Kumma Kadti (32) and Baisu
Kunjam (28). The three were allegedly involved in the murder of
an Assistant Constable who was posted in Mirtur, last year, SP,
K L Dhruv said.
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Non-Violent
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December 13
|
Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
|
A top Maoist carrying a cash reward
of INR 800,000 surrendered in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh. Kama alias Joga
Sodi (27), who was active as ‘secretary’ of Kanger Ghati area
committee of the CPI-Maoist, turned himself in before Dantewada
SP, Kamlochan Kashyap, citing disappointment with "hollow" Naxal ideology,
a senior Police official said. A native of Polampalli area in
Sukma District, Joga joined the CPI-Maoist in 1996 as a member
of 'Bal Sangham' of the banned outfit.
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December 13
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Khunti District of Jharkhand
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A person was arrested from Khunti
District of Jharkhand, for pasting a PLFI poster. The poster,
issuing a warning to tribal MLAs and MPs, was found in Murhu area
of Khunti, prompting Police to arrest one Surendra Swansi alias Bhotha alias Guerrilla.
Further, the PLFI, a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist, called
a 24-hour bandh on December 14, in the PLFI strongholds
in the State (outskirts of Ranchi, Khunti, Gumla, Simdega, Lohardaga,
Latehar, Giridih and mining areas of Santhal Pargana). The bandh is
in protest against the amendments in tenancy laws.
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Non-Violent
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December 13
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Kozhikode District of Kerala
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A clerk at the Government Polytechnic
College at West Hill in Kozhikode District of Kerala, who had
assisted the relatives of a CPI-Maoist cadre, killed in an alleged
encounter in Nilambur forest, in securing his body from the mortuary
and negotiated with the Police on behalf of human rights organisations
has been placed under suspension pending inquiry by the Director
of Technical Education for his alleged links with LWE groups.
Rajeesh Kollankkadi (36), of Vadakara, was suspended from service
based on a report submitted by Uma Behra, Commissioner of Police,
Kozhikode city.
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Non-Violent
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December 14
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Hyderabad of Telangana
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Rachakonda Police commissioner
Mahesh Bhagwat said three pseudo Naxals were booked under the
PD Act for indulging in extortions, abductions and land settlements
in Hyderabad of Telangana. The Cyberabad Police said Bolla Narsimhlu,
Oruganti Sammaiah and A Krishna were involved in nine offences
in Jawaharnagar, Kushaiguda and Nacharam Police Station limits.
"The gang members, posing as Maoists, threatened businessmen
and realtor's with an air pistol. They demanded huge amounts from
them in the name of party fund," the commissioner said. Police
said the offenders used to make threatening calls to businessmen
and demand money. They carried out their criminal activities in
the Rachakonda and Siddipet police Commissionerate limits.
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Non-Violent
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December 15
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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Two bodies of the Maoists were
recovered after two separate encounters with the District Police
in the Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. Senior Police officials
said the operations were “a big success” for a number of reasons,
with the body of Jagat alias Jagdish (40), a
‘divisional commander’ of the West Bastar area committee, being
recovered. Jagat carried a reward of INR 800,000 against his name.
The other dead body recovered was that of Indravati area committee's
‘jan-militia commander’ Badru (30). The gunfight took place in
Bade Kakloor area when a joint team of SFs was on a counter-insurgency
operation, SDGP (anti-Maoist operations) D M Awasthi said. Along
with the bodies of two rebels, an INSAS rifle, one 12-bore gun
and other items were recovered from the spot, Awasthi said. The
officials said that massive operations involving six Districts
and agencies including the State Police, DRG, STF, CRPF and others
were launched on December 11. “There were intelligence inputs
in different areas, and at least 3,000 personnel were deployed.
We had information of Maoist movement in the border areas, so
teams from Sukma and Bijapur police were sent in, while there
were inputs from Kutul area at Abhujmaad in Narayanpur. Teams
were sent from Dhamtari to the Odisha border in Nagri and Sihowa,
while there was a similar operation in Rajnandgaon as well. Almost
all these teams exchanged fire several times as they entered deep
in the forests,” said DM Awasthi.
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December 15
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Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh
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The SFs from Narayanpur District
of Chhattisgarh recovered two dead bodies allegedly of the Maoists
belonging to the Maoists’ military company no 2 after the four-day-long
anti-Maoist campaign. The SFs also recovered a large amount of
arms and ammunition from the Narayanpur campaign. However, some
Police officials claimed to have killed at least eight Maoists
during the gun battle; however, the SFs could recover only five
dead bodies of the uniformed Maoists in these encounters.
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December 15
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Koraput District of Odisha
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District Police recovered the
body of T Anil Kumar alias Chandu, a former CPI-Maoist
cadre of KSSZC of CPI-Maoist, from Kanti Village under Semiliguda
Police limits in Koraput District of Odisha. He was
also the head of the Intelligence Wing of the committee. Chandu’s
body bore injuries on his back which indicates that he was attacked
from behind. According to ASP, BR Rao, Chandu, who belonged to
Chirala Village in Andhra Pradesh, was arrested from Talapaniki
village under Narayanpatna Block in the District in 2014. He was
granted conditional bail and later rehabilitated in Koraput. His
wife Sandhya Padiyami, another CPI-Maoist cadre hailing from Malkangiri
District, had also surrendered before the District Police during
that period. They were both working in the intelligence wing of
KSSZC of the CPI-Maoist. Sources said Chandu had received
a warning letter from the Maoist party suspecting him to be ‘police
informer’.
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December 15
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Odisha
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A discussion on development and
security of CPI-Maoist prone areas was held between the Odisha
Government and Central Cabinet Secretary via video conferencing.
After the meeting State Home Secretary Asit Tripathy said additional
requirement of two battalions of forces and balance budget of
Gurupriya Bridge was demanded to centre. Further construction
of 518 new mobile towers, more banks and ATMs were also demanded,
added Tripathy. DGP, KB Singh said discussion on re-starting Andhra-Odisha
Green Hunt Operation was discussed on the meeting. Joint discussions
on new strategies for dealing with Maoists, place of posting of
the trained security officers and their ranks were held, added
Singh.
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December 16
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Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh
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CPI-Maoist cadres hacked to death
the husband of a village sarpanch on the suspicion
of he being a ‘Police informer’ in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.
Dharmendra Kudami (33) was killed in Kurrempara area of Metapal
village under Katekalyan Police Station area, a senior Police
official said. Kudami's wife Ratna Kudami is the sarpanch of
Metapal. "A group of Maoists, armed with bow and arrow, axes
and knives stormed into victim's house and murdered Dharmendra
in front of his family," the official said. "Though
the exact reason for the attack is yet to be ascertained, preliminary
investigation suggests the ultras accused him of being a police
informer," he said.
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December 16
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Kanker District of Chhattisgarh
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Six Maoist cadres,
including a ‘commander’ surrendered in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh. The
cadres, one of them a woman, turned up at the District Headquarters
before Kanker, SP, ML Kotwani, citing disappointment with 'hollow'
CPI-Maoist ideology and violence. Those surrendered were identified
as Bislal alias Sukhdev Hidko (28), Shamlal alias Kara
Komra, Dhaniram Dugga, Budhram Kowasi (24), Mahesh Kumar (35),
and the woman cadre Pushpa Anchla (24), said Kotwani. Of
them, Sukhdev, ‘commander’ of Section B under Military Platoon
no 33, is a key CPI-Maoist member in the region carrying a reward
of INR 300,000, he said. While Pushpa was active as member of CNM
- the cultural wing of CPI-Maoist, three others were Jan-militia
members, the SP added.
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December 16
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Ranchi District of Jharkhand
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UMoSHA Hansraj Gangaram Ahir blamed
the CPI-Maoist for underdevelopment of tribals in the country
while addressing media in Ranchi District of Jharkhand. He was
attending the concluding part of three-day workshop on "LWE
Theatre - Interstate operations and coordination' hosted by the
CRPF, Ahir said that the living standard of tribals in most parts
of the country is around 150 years behind that of our modern cities.
"The Maoists have not allowed development work to penetrate
to the far flung hamlets," he accused reiterating his government's
commitment to wipe out Naxalism of all forms
from the country with full might."We don't want to use bullets
against our own people and its better if they understand our language
(Hum chahte hain ki goli nahi boli se baat bane) and get
prepared to shun violence," he said. Ahir expressed disappointment
over use of CAPF for controlling LWE in different states. "If
we are not compelled to use our forces within the mainland they
can be engaged at the borders," he said. He took a stock
of the situation prevailing in all ten states which includes Jharkhand,
Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Bengal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha,
Telangana and parts of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh considered
to be red corridor region of the country. "Our Central Minister
Rajnath Singh has agreed to extend full cooperation in terms of
financial support and assistance of the security forces in these
states to ensure that the development work is not affected,"
he said. Ahir pointed finger to the fact that most of the Central
Welfare schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna, extending loans
under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojna and Skill Development Programmes
have failed to reach the tribal hamlets because of CPI- Maoist
presence. "Construction of schools, health centres, railway,
industry, irrigation projects and roads have also suffered because
of presence of Maoists which has not just retarded government's
effort for development but has deprived the tribals of facilities
that they should enjoy as citizens of an independent nation,"
he said underlining the fact that everyone in the country has
equal right to life and opportunities.
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December 16
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Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu
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Three of five CPI-Maoist cadres
lodged in the Central Jail in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu,
observed a day-long fast to condemn the 'encounter' killing of
two CPI-Maoist leaders near Nilambur in Kerala. The
three inmates, Roopesh, Anoop and Veeramani refused to take breakfast
and lunch to protest the killings, which they termed as a "planned
encounter," jail sources said. However, two others, Shyna,
wife of Roopesh and Kannan, who were arrested 18 months ago from
Karumathampatti on the outskirts, did not participate in the hunger
strike, they said.
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Non-Violent
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December 17
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East Godavari District of Andhra
Pradesh
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Three ‘landmines’ reportedly placed
by CPI-Maoist cadres were found in East Godavari District
of Andhra Pradesh. ‘Landmines’ were on the main road between Bhadrachalam
and Rajamahendravaram near Yedugurrallapalli in Chintur Mandal.
The CPI-Maoist also hung banners to the trees near the village
condemning the October 23 encounter on the Andhra-Odisha border
in which 24 Maoists were killed. Chintur CI Durgaprasad said they
got information that some wires were jutting out near the village
main road which was dug up on the both sides. The local Police
apprised East Godavari SP, M Ravi Prakash of the situation following
which the SP directed the Police to cordon off the area and stop
vehicular traffic and the bomb squad along with Greyhound Police
from Kakinada diffused the land mines.
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December 17
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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A Maoist cadre was killed in an
encounter with SFs in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The skirmish
took place this morning in forest of Metapal village under Gangaloor
Police Station when a joint team of SFs was out on a counter-insurgency
operation, said Bijapur, SP, KL Dhruv. "A composite squad
of CRPF and DRG had launched the operation in the interiors of
Gangaloor, around 450 kms away from the state capital," he
said. When the party was advancing through Metapal forest, they
came under heavy fire from Maoists that led to a gunbattle between
both the sides, the SP said. However, the ultras soon fled from
the spot. During the search conducted later, body of a rebel and
a 12-bore gun were recovered from the spot, the SP said adding
that the identity of the deceased Maoist was being ascertained.
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December 18
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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A CPI-Maoist cadre was killed
in an exchange of fire with SFs in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The skirmish took place when a joint team of security men from
various Forces was out on a combing operation in the interiors
of Mirtur Police Station limits, Bijapur ASP, Mohit Garg said.
Acting on inputs about the presence of CPI-Maoist in Hakwa and
Hallur Village areas of Mirtur, a composite squad of CAF, CRPF’s
199th Battalion and District Force, had launched the operation
on December 17 towards the target area, the ASP said. When the
security personnel were cordoning-off a forested patch near Hakwa
village, about 450 kilometres from Mirtur, the Maoists fired on
them leading to a gun battle between the two sides, he said. However,
the Maoists soon escaped from the spot. During search,
the body of a male Maoist cadre in ‘uniform’, a muzzle loading
gun and other CPI-Maoist-related material were recovered from
the spot, he said adding that the identity of the killed Maoist
was being ascertained. “The police team is reported to be safe
and approaching back their camp,” he added.
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December 18
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Dumka District of Jharkhand
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A hardcore CPI-Maoist Devilal
Marandi, who carried a reward of INR 200,000, was arrested from
his home at Haldipahari in Dumka District of Jharkhand. He was
involved in the killing of Police personnel including a SP. Acting
on a tip-off that Marandi alias Joseph Marandi
was visiting his home, SFs led by ASP (Operations), Emanuel Baski
raided the village and arrested him, SP, Prabhat Kumar said. Marandi
was involved in several criminal cases, including killing of Pakur
SP, Amarjeet Balihar, in an ambush in Shikaripara Police Station
in 2013 and the officer-in-charge of Shikaripara Police Station
Satanand Singh in September 2010 under the same Police Station
limits, he said. A case was also pending against him in Pakur
District in connection with Simaldhav encounter in 2013, the SP
said, adding Marandi was an active member of Santal Paragana North
sub-zone of CPI -Maoists.
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December 19
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
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Police arrested two cadres of
the TPC, a CPI-Maoist splinter group, after a fierce gunbattle
in a dense forest area of Herhanj in Latehar District of Jharkhand,
seizing, among others, an AK- 47 and an INSAS rifle, two 3.3 and
.315 guns and over 600 cartridges. Preliminary inquiries suggest
that the weapons had possibly been stolen from Police. Latehar
SP, Anoop Birtharay received a tip-off about a TPC squad moving
around in the dense forests of Herhanj, about 75 kilometres from
the District headquarters. After verification, he formed special
teams comprising the State Police and CRPF to take them on from
multiple directions. Police sources said the rebels were cooking
a meal, when Police zeroed in on them. The rebels were the first
to open fire after which the Police retaliated. Finally, the rebels
started to flee, leaving behind some of their weapons and essentials.
"The arrested rebels, Chhotu Thakur and Manoj Ganju, both
around 25 years of age, are being brought to Latehar district
headquarters. They are being interrogated. Around 35 rebels were
present when the encounter began. No policeman has been injured
in the operation," SP, Birtharay said.
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December 19
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Kozhikode District of Kerala
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One Nadeer Gul Mohammed was detained
by the Police for his suspected links with CPI-Maoist in Kozhikode
District of Kerala. The Police said they detained Nadeer as the
Aralam Police in Kannur District had earlier registered a case
against him under the UAPA for distributing Maoist pamphlets among
Adivasi families. The Balussery native would be released into
the custody of the Aralam Police for further investigation, the
Police said.
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Non-Violent
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December 19-20
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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Nine CPI-Maoist cadres were arrested
from separate places in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. Three
of them were allegedly involved in the murder of a Police jawan
in November 10. "While five insurgents were held from Kutru
police station area last evening (December 19), four others were
held today (December 20) from two different places under Bhairamgarh
police station limits," according to Bijapur SP, KL Dhruv.
According to the Police, Sonsai alias Boti Yadav
(30), Baman Kunjami (26) and Banaru Mandavi (28) had allegedly
hacked to death Assistant Constable Rahul Raidu in Bhairamgarh
Town with the help of their four associates. The Bhairamgarh Police
was on their trail for around a month, he said, adding the four
CPI-Maoists who were also involved in the murder are yet to be
arrested. Another CPI-Maoist cadre, identified as Aaytu alias Doba
(26), was arrested from a separate place in Bhairamgarh. In another
incident, a joint team of CAF and District Force rounded up five
CPI-Maoists from Hurrenar village under Kutru Police Station limits
during a search operation. They were allegedly involved in crimes
like murder, attempt to murder, abduction and loot in the region,
the officer said.
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December 20
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West Champaran District of Bihar
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A woman in northern Bihar
was allegedly gang-raped by six Maoists as a punishment for refusing
to join the outfit as a cadre in West Champaran District of Bihar. The
married woman, a resident of West Champaran District was approached
by six armed Maoists and asked her to join their outfit, said
Police. When she refused to join the Maoist group she was allegedly
gang-raped. “An FIR has been registered against six unidentified
men. We are conducting raids to nab the culprits based on the
victim’s allegations. The report of her medical examination is
awaited,” said Umashankar Prasad, a sub-inspector at Kangli Police
Station. Although it is not clear which Maoist outfit the culprits
belonged to, Prasad said it appears that they were from what is
known in the area as Democracy Party.
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Violent
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December 20
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Khunti District of Jharkhand
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A PLFI ‘sub-zonal commander’ Lalit
Baraik (30), wanted in 13 murder cases, surrendered before DSP,
Kotwali, Bhola Prasad Singh in Khunti District of Jharkhand. In
Khunti, a PLFI poster, asking people to protest against the amendments
in tenancy laws was seized from the outskirts. PLFI is a splinter
group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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December 20
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Kannur District of Kerala
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Activist Gul Muhammed Nadeer,
who was taken into custody from the Government Medical College
Hospital, Kozhikode, on December 19, for his suspected CPI-Maoist links,
was let off by the Aralam Police in Kannur District of Kerala,
for want of ‘sufficient evidence’. He was taken into custody while
he was visiting writer and theatre activist Kamal C. Chavara,
who had been admitted to the hospital following uneasiness after
his release by the Karunagapally Police who had detained him on
a complaint of insulting the national anthem.
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December 21
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Jamui District of Bihar
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Police arrested two CPI-Maoist
cadres from their hideout with a huge cache of firearms in Jhajha-Narganjo
jungle under Jhajha Police Station area in Jamui District
of Bihar. Police said that the arrested Naxals of
outlawed CPI-Maoist were identified as Solo Yadav and Karu Marandi.
Two sophisticated firearms, 100 Kilograms of explosives and other
incriminating objects were recovered from their possession. An
intensive interrogation of Naxalites is on to
arrest other members of the organisation.
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December 21
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
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SFs arrested two LWEs in
Latehar District of Jharkhand. In a joint operation, Police of
Latehar District and paramilitary CRPF personnel arrested the Naxals belonging
to TPC, and seized a cache of arms and ammunition from their possession.
TPC is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist which was formed in
2002. They routinely call strikes, attack Government property
and target politicians and Police.
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Non-Violent
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December 21
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Bokaro District of Jharkhand
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District Police of Bokaro along
with the CRPF found a haul of explosives stocked by the CPI-Maoist
cadres in Goniyato in Jhumra foothills under Pek Police Station
of Gomia Block in Bokaro District of Jharkhand. SP,
Y S Ramesh said that search operations were conducted following
leads of Maoist movement in the jungle near Goniyato village,
where they found a sack behind the bushes. The sack contained
101 gelatin gel packs and 10 electric detonators.
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December 21
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Latehar District of Jharkhand
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Latehar Police seized INR 1.5
million in the banned currency notes, including INR 300,000 belonging
to a self-styled ‘zonal commander’ of the CPI-Maoist in Latehar
District of Jharkhand. The Latehar Police also arrested a bank
manager in a raid at a bank in Balumath area. SP, Anoop Birtharay
said the raid was conducted based on tip-off that the CPI-Maoist
front-ranking leader Chotu Kherwar had deposited the old currency
notes in his wife Lalitha Dev's account, allegedly in connivance
with Branch Manager Chandan Kumar. Birtharay said Chandan had
allegedly received INR 1.5 million in old from Chotu Kherwar alias Sujit
Kherwar and had already deposited INR 12,000,000 in 64 installments
in Devi's account while INR 300,000 cash was yet to be deposited.
The entire amount has been seized, the SP said, adding that Chandan
has been arrested.
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Non-Violent
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December 22
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Patna District of Bihar
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Bihar Police arrested a CPI-Maoist
cadre in Patna District of Bihar. He was involved in attack on
Security personnel and other unlawful activities from a bus stand
under Jakkanpur Police Station area. Patna SSP, Manu Maharaj said
that the Police personnel cordoned off the bus stand on the information
that a cadre of the CPI-Maoist, Mohammed Abdul aka Azad
was loitering around the area. He said Police took the Maoist,
attached with the ultra Left outfit`s MZCC into custody before
he could make good his escape. Maharaj said Maoists under the
leadership of Azad had attacked a Police team near Paliganj in
the Patna District in 1996 and also strangulated a person identified
as Rajdeo Yadav to death same year.
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Non-Violent
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December 22
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Koraput District of Odisha
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Five persons were arrested for
their alleged involvement in the murder of former CPI-Maoist cadre
T Anil Kumar alias Chandu at Upper Kanti village
under Semiliguda Police limits of Koraput District of Odisha on
December 14. The arrested are President of Sunabeda Tippers &
Truck Owners Association Narendra Macha alias Mitu
Kalia, his wife Jayanti Macha, son Amir Macha and his aides Madhu
Tadangi and Biswanath Padhi.
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Non-Violent
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December 23
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Dhamtari District of Chhattisgarh
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Two Naxal aides
were arrested from Dhamtari District of Chhattisgarh and INR 350,000
cash in valid currencies and explosives were seized. “Naxal
associates Tikeshwar and Bajrang were arrested from Gorgaon and
Rs 3.50 lakh cash and explosives including a 10 kg tiffin bomb,
two gelatin sticks and five detonators were seized,” said Dhamtari
SP, Manish Sharma. The officer said the money belonged to Maoists
and the duo got it exchanged for valid currencies. The cash included
bills of Rs 2000, Rs 500, Rs 100 and Rs 50.
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December 23
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Simdega District of Jharkhand
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PLFI cadres gunned down one Pravin
Kandulna (24) after accusing him of sexually abusing village girls
in Kolebira of Simdega District of Jharkhand. Armed rebels led
by one Vijay Dang, who claimed to be the new PLFI ‘area commander’,
forced the youth to come out of his home at Tutikel village. They
took him half a kilometre away and killed him. "Our preliminary
inquiries suggest the PLFI executed this killing to regain their
foothold in the area. No one has so far complained that Kandulna
used to sexually exploit girls. However, our investigations are
on. Search operations too have been intensified," said Simdega
SP, Rajeev Ranjan Singh. PLFI is a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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Violent
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December 23
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Khunti District of Jharkhand
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A PLFI cadre was killed during
an encounter with Police at Murhu in Khunti District of Jharkhand.
A carbine, a .315 rifle, three 9mm pistols, several rounds of
live cartridges, three mobile phones, two bikes and INR 4,500
cash were also recovered. Khunti SP, Ashwini Kumar Sinha said
they got a tip-off that a PLFI squad, comprising ‘sub-zonal commander’s
Prabhu Sahay and Pattu Nag, was moving in the forests in Murhu
and Arki. After verifying the information, the SP formed special
teams to corner the rebels from all sides. The rebel, Mahadeo
Munda, was killed in exchange of fire. His body was recovered
from the spot, which is located 40 kilometres from Khunti District
headquarters. The other PLFI members managed to escape. PLFI is
a splinter group of the CPI-Maoist.
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December 23
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Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra
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The CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze
69 trucks and three JCBs at Surjagad Lloyd Metal’s iron mine,
barely five-kilometres from Hedri Police post in Gadchiroli District
of Maharashtra. Sources said that hundreds of Maoists descended
upon the area around noon and they drove out around 300 labourers
loading iron ore before setting the vehicles afire. IGP of Gadchiroli
range, Shivaji Bodkhe insisted that the attack was not a reflection
on Policing. “Though we have the Hedri police post 5 km away,
on the other side is Abujmaad, where about 40 sq km area has no
police presence and hence Maoists find it not so difficult.” He
added that the number of attackers would hardly have been 10 to
15. “They drove the labourers away and then had no hurdle and
must have gone on setting the vehicles afire one after the other.’’
Sources said that Maoists generally recce an area before targeting
it, making sure that there is no Police movement. They then split
into five-member groups for completing a task in the shortest
possible time. “In Surjagad, they must have finished the task
within 30 minutes, which means there must have been Maoists and
militia members by hundreds on the spot,” said a source.
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Violent
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December 24
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
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An alleged CPI-Maoist cadre was
killed in an encounter with SFs in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh.
The District’s SP, Indira Kalyan Elesela, claimed the incident
occurred around 10 a.m. in an exchange of fire between SFs and
Maoists near Masalmedgu village. The identity of the body is yet
to be ascertained.
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Violent
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December 25
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
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SFs arrested three CPI-Maoist
cadres in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh. A joint
team of District Police and CRPF arrested Handa Ram Mandavi, Kawasi
Motu and Madkami Mangala in Tongpal Police Station limits following
a tip-off, a senior Police official said. The arrested Naxals
were suspected to be involved in murder and other offences, he
said.
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December 25
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Raipur District of Chhattisgarh
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Raipur Police of Chhattisgarh
confiscated over INR 40 million that they suspect belongs to the
CPI-Maoist. Police, IT and ED have been carrying out raids across
India to unearth unaccounted money since Prime Minister Narendra
Modi announced to ban high currency notes of INR 500 and 1,000.
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Non-Violent
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December 25
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Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka
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The CPI-Maoist cadres who have
been camping in forests in the tri-junction of Tamil Nadu, Kerala
and Karnataka have shifted their camps to the Agali Forests in
Palakkad District of Kerala, which is close to Annaikatti near
Coimbatore District, according to intelligence sources. This
follows the killing of two CPI-Maoist, Kuppu Deveraj and Ajitha,
in an encounter with the Kerala police in Padukka village in the
Nilambur forest division in Malappuram District of Kerala on November
24. The group now reportedly has 11 members; of who five are women.
The tribals in the area have seen them with guns. “We
have identified two of them — Manivasagam, a native of Dharmapuri,
and Chandra, a native of Krishnagiri,” the sources added. Manivasagam
has been absconding since 2008 and Chandra since 2002. Both were
in an ultra-extremist organisation and later joined CPI -Maoist.
Three to five members of the group often visit tribal villages
in Pillur Dam area near Mettupalayam, from Agali via Mulli village
by travelling through forests.“We have opened a permanent camp
near Pillur dam to stop them from coming to the villages,” said
a senior intelligence officer.
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Non-Violent
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December 25
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Telangana
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Telangana’s Law Enforcement has
received an intelligence input which has given them even more
cause to be vigilant in Naxal-affected areas. A
Special Wing of State Police Headquarters would closely track
the bullet proof vehicles of SPs through GPS. PSOs would be posted
round the clock to the offices and residences of the SPs. What’s
more, before visiting any interior places of the district, the
SPs shall now have to communicate the tour schedule to the headquarters
and submit a preliminary report to the state headquarters after
finishing the tour. This is all part of the enhanced security
measures to the SPs and SP rank officers working in Naxal affected
districts in the state. Following the major encounter on the AOB
in which 31 Maoists were killed, the Telangasna Police officials
have decided to enhance security given to SPs and their family
members. The higher officials are understood to have taken the
decision to provide greater security to the SPs working in nearly
six to ten districts of the state.
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Violent
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December 26
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Sukma District of Chhattisgarh
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The Bastar Police arrested seven
people from Andhra Pradesh inside the Chhattisgarh border in Sukma
District and claimed that they belonged to Intellectual Wings
of the CPI-Maoist outfits. Police said they seized four motorcycles
they were riding, demonetized currency with face value of INR
100,000, mobile phones and CPI-Maoist literature from their possession.
“The accused were found with old currency notes and some important Naxal-related
documents. They were arrested and booked and were produced in
court,” said Indira Kalyan Elesela, (SP of Sukma said. Elesela
said those arrested included social activist Durga Prasad (36)
of Hyderabad, R. Laxmaiyya (45), Secretary of Adivasi Tudem Dubba,
Khammam, journalists B. Prabhakar Rao (52) and Rajendra Prasad
(28) from Hyderabad, High Court advocates Ch Prabhakar Rao (48)
and B. Ravindra Nath (42) Hyderabad and Mohammad Nazim (27), research
scholar Osmania University. One of the arrested people - Ch. Prabhakar
said the Police action was unwarranted because they were only
civilians. Police claimed that both the journalists used to instigate
the people while the advocates had enlarged support to the CPI-Maoists
in encounters and the research scholar was propagating CPI-Maoist
line of thinking. The seven men were booked under the CSPA.
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Non-Violent
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December 26
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Giridih District of Jharkhand
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Giridih Police arrested two JPC
cadres, including its Chief Nageshwar Ganju, from a forest under
Sariya Police Station in Giridih District of Jharkhand. The other
person arrested has been identified as Purushottam Ganju, who
was the ‘sub-zonal commander’ and a close aide of Ganju. SFs also
recovered three land mines (each weighing between 2-2.5 Kilograms),
a JPC letter pad and CPI-Maoist literature from the cadres. Police
said the duo was involved in at least 17 cases of levy collection,
loot, dacoity and murders in Hazaribagh and Chatra Districts.
Ganju carried a reward of INR 500,000 on his head, Police added.
"Based on inputs that the two accused were planning to meet
some local youths in Dhawaiya forests area, we arrested them," SP,
Abhishek B Variar said. "The duo was nabbed while they were
delivering a speech to lure villagers in their group. At least
25-30 youths managed to escape in the dark", Sariya-Bagodar SDPO,
Deepak Kumar Sharma said. "During investigation, Ganju, said
they were planning to expand their base in Giridih. Apart from
local traders, their main target for levy collections and other
criminal acts were contractors," Sharma added. JPC is
a splinter group of CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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December 26
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Warangal District of Telangana
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Hanamkonda Police arrested a person
who was allegedly acting as a courier for KKW Region Secretary
Damodhar in Warangal District of Telangana. A laptop, wall posters
and revolutionary literature was seized from the courier. Disclosing
this to media persons, Hanamkonda CI, A Sampath Rao said that
the courier, K Devender, was caught on a tip off on Mulgu Road.
He came to the city to repair the laptop and was apprehended by
the Police. Devender was earlier arrested in 2005 at Nagaram village
in Jayashankar Bhupalapally District. After his release, he was
living a normal life but when the Maoist platoon commander
Anne Sridhar alias Santosh met him in 2013 and
requested him to rejoin the organisation, he accepted the proposal
and joined KKW region secretary Damodhar. Devender was produced
before a court and sent to judicial custody.
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Non-Violent
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December 26
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Kerala
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Kerala Police have found video
clips from a pen-drive they recovered during their encounter with
CPI-Maoist. The video clips seem to be the propaganda
intended to influence the youth. The main objective of the narrators
in video seems to be to delegitimize the Electoral process. Kerala
Police have found video clips from a pen-drive they recovered
during their encounter with CPI-Maoists in Nilambur forest in
November. The said clips are said to have been recorded before
Assembly Elections in Kerala. In the video, the men and women
in uniforms are all seen narrating stories on how political parties
don't care about the common people and how elections are held
to deceive them. They discuss how the CPM is a party
that bombs for votes and seats, how parties sell your drinking
water to soft drink giants like Coco Cola, how Congress is a party
that specialised in scams (solar, CWG, 2G) and that ever since
the BJP came to power at the center, one is killed for eating
beef or for loving someone outside one's caste and religion.
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Non-Violent
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December 26
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Malkangiri District of Odisha
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CPI-Maoist cadres killed a villager
by slitting his throat, beaten up four others severely and taken
another villager into their custody in Malkangiri District of
Odisha. According to information, about 40 Maoists entered Chandanguda
village under the Kudumulugumma block and committed the acts.
The deceased was identified as Rabi Pujari and the abducted as
Nanda Goliri of Andrapalli village in the cut-off area. Meanwhile,
villagers of Chandanguda have strongly protested the Police inaction
and blocked the Balimela-Jeypore route keeping the dead body on
the road.
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Violent
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December 27
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Muzaffarpur District of Bihar
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Around two-dozen CPI-Maoist cadres
attacked a brick kiln in Marvapakar village under Saraiya Police
Station in Muzaffarpur District of Bihar and set off two cylinder
bombs, destroying the kiln before fleeing. The Maoists, equipped
with sophisticated firearms, raided the Sundaram brick kiln owned
by Tuntun Singh and caught hold of the kiln's caretaker, Jaggo
Singh. They assaulted Jaggo at gunpoint. Other workers at the
kiln fled sensing trouble. After setting off the cylinder bombs,
the rebels fired in the air to intimidate residents. Fearing an
influx of rebels, the residents too opened fire but the rebels
left under cover of darkness. Police sources said the Maoists
had demanded levy from kiln owner Tuntun. But Tuntun neither informed
the Police nor paid the extortion money.
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Violent
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December 27
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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One CRPF personnel was injured
as CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a patrol party in Bijapur District
of Chhattisgarh. The Maoists detonated a pipe bomb when the CRPF
168 Battalion team was patrolling in Sarkeguda village, SP, KL
Dhruv said.
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Violent
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December 28
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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As many as 12 Naxalites,
allegedly involved in an attack on Ranibodli Police outpost which
killed 55 Police personnel on the intervening night of March 14-15,
2007, have been arrested in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
The Naxalites, against whom warrants were pending,
were arrested from various villages under Farsegarh and Kutru
Police Stations last evening, Bijapur SP, KL Dhruv said. A joint
team of CAF and the District Police had launched a search-cum-area
domination operation at Kuprel, Mukram, Kattur and Telmedri villages,
during which the arrests were made acting on inputs from local
informers, he added. Pandu Vejja (25), Samlu Podiami (25), Kursam
Hiriya (22), Udde Chinna (35), Chinna Telam (26), Somlu Bedja
(35), Lakhmu Venjam (30), Michha Chinna (30), Mahngu Tati (26),
Mahadev Kartami (35), Baman Madvi (25) and Sukhram Tati (25) --
all active as platoon and jan-militia (lower-rung) members of
the CPI-Maoist -- were arrested, said the SP. Among those arrested,
Chinna Telam and Mahngu Tati were carrying a reward of INR 5,000
each on their heads while INR 3,000 was announced for the arrest
of Mahadev, he added.
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Non-Violent
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December 28
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Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand
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Two cadres belonging to JPC were
arrested and arms and ammunition seized from Paharia forests of
Katkamdag block, during a joint search by District Police and
paramilitary forces in Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand. DIG (Hazaribagh
range), Upendra Kumar, said that it was one of the biggest arms
haul involving any extremist outfit in the District. The recovered
arms were one AK-47, two self-loading rifles, one semi-automatic
gun, one .315 rifle, 143 rounds of rifle bullets, 24 rounds of
AK-47 bullets, nine magazines, three small bags, seven mobile
phones and a few caps. The arrested duos have been identified
as Prakash Yadav and Bablu Yadav. Sources said after the arrest
of JPC supremo Nageshwar Ganjhu alias Nagji,
and outfit 'commander’ Purushottam Ganjhu from Giridih on December
25, Police came to know about the huge cache of arms in Paharia
forests. The DIG said that the search was undertaken after CRPF
personnel and Police team, led by officers from Hazaribagh, Giridih
and Chatra Districts, reached the spot yesterday evening. "They
noticed suspicious movement inside the forests. When police gave
a chase, many rebels - Dasrath Yadav, Baljeet, Ishwar Yadav, Khanan
Yadav, Arun Yadav, Rewa Ganjhu and Suraj Ganjhu - managed to escape.
But their associates, Prakash and Bablu, were caught," Kumar
said. JPC pamphlets, mobile phones and two walkie-talkies were
found on them. The duo admitted that they were hiding in the forest
and kept the arms, wrapped in polythene, under the ground. "They
led us to the spot," the DIG added. JPC is a splinter of
the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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December 29
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Malkangiri District of Odisha
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A group of armed CPI-Maoist cadres
shot dead a villager of Sanyasiguda in Malkangiri District of
Odisha. According to reports, the Maoists came to Sanyasiguda
village of Andrapalli panchayat in Chitrakonda
block in the early morning hours with Nanda Golari whom they had
kept as hostage for two days. Later, they shot him dead in front
of his house and fled the area. It may be mentioned that the Maoists
had brutally killed Rabi Pujari of Chandanpur village under Kudumulugumma
block on December 27 by beating him to death. Later, they went
to Sanyasiguda village and abducted Nanda Golari.
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Violent
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December 29
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Malkangiri District of Odisha
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A group of CPI-Maoist cadres assaulted
a panchayat samiti member of Kudumuluguma in
Malkangiri District of Odisha and left him inside a forest. A
group of 20 armed CPI-Maoist cadres thronged Nakamamudi village
and forcibly took away the samiti member, Madhav
Sisa from his house to a nearby forest. They assaulted him severely
and left Sisa in the forest in a critical condition. Some villagers
rescued the samiti member and admitted him to
the District Headquarters Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment
now. His condition is stated to be critical.
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Violent
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December 29
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Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh
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As many as six Naxalites,
including a woman, surrendered in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh.
Citing disappointment with "hollow" Maoist ideology,
the Naxalites, two of them carrying cash reward on
their heads, turned themselves in before police and CRPF officials
at the District headquarters, a senior Police official said. Of
them, the woman ultra - Hemla Munni alias Rambati
(25) was a key member of military platoon number 16 of the CPI-Maoist
and has been allegedly instrumental in executing several Naxal incidents
in the region, he said, adding she was carrying a reward of INR
200,000 on her head. Similarly, Awapalli LOS member Kakem Nagesh
(23), who was among the surrendered, carried cash reward of INR
100,000 on his head, the official said. The four other Naxalites who
turned themselves in were Shivram Hemla (25), Korsa Sannu (24),
Ramesh Sodhi (25) and Raja Ram Kadati (40). The surrendered rebels
were allegedly involved in various crimes including targeting
security personnel, triggering blasts, damaging roads and others,
he said.
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Non-Violent
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December 30
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Gaya District of Bihar
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The SSB and Police, in a joint
operation arrested CPI-Maoist cadre Subedar Mistry alias Toofani
(45), after a raid in Korkati in Gaya District of Bihar. Subedar
was wanted in various cases.
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Non-Violent
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December 30
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Muzaffarpur District of Bihar
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Raja Rai (50), a CPI-Maoist cadre,
surrendered to the District Police in Muzaffarpur District of
Bihar. Rai was involved in loot and attack cases lodged with Sahebganj
and Saraiya Police Stations in the District.
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Non-Violent
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December 30
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Gumla District of Jharkhand
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A petrol bunk owner was threatened
to pay INR 300,000 as levy through a PLFI poster in Palkot area
of Gumla District of Jharkhand. The poster was pasted
on the boundary wall of the bunk. PLFI is a splinter group of
the CPI-Maoist.
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Non-Violent
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December 30
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Idukki District of Kerala
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As per the direction of Idukki
SP, A V George, the Idukki Special Branch submitted a detailed
report about the presence of the CPI-Maoist cadres at Edamalakudy
in Idukki District of Kerala. The report points out that the Government
should take necessary steps against intervention of the middlemen
in the area. Some organizations are prompting tribals to hold
protests against the Government. Some of the groups have already
opened Facebook pages and were posting messages
to encourage protests against the State Government. The report
adds that the Government should assure all types of developmental
activities at Edamalakudy, it should take steps to encourage agricultural
development of the area, water stability and better treatment
facility. The report has already been forwarded to the State Police
Chief for further action.
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Non-Violent
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December 31
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Andhra Pradesh
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The CPI-Maoist, who suffered a
major blow in a recent encounter with Police at the AOB, have
allegedly targeted Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu and
conducted a recce at the A.P. Bhavan in New Delhi. “Officials
of the Ministry of Home have alerted us over the threat to Mr.
Naidu and we are coordinating with the Delhi Police on increasing
security cover for him at the A.P. Bhavan,” DGP N. Sambasiva Rao
said in Vijayawada. Intelligence sources said suspected Maoists
conducted a ‘recce’ many times at the A.P. Bhavan, and the target
might be the Chief Minister or other Ministers visiting the place.
“We are on a high alert and are in contact with the Delhi Police.
We will increase the security for Mr. Naidu, if necessary,” the
DGP said. Police were trying to collect the photographs of those
who conducted the ‘recce’ through CCTV footage, report said.
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Non-Violent
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December 31
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Andhra Pradesh
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DGP, N. Sambasiva Rao has said
that the CPI-Maoist’s UG cadres have come down to all-time low
in Andhra Pradesh, which was once a stronghold for the Naxalite movement
in Vijayawada at Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. “The Left
Wing Extremism (LWE) ideology is losing relevance and the Andhra
Pradesh Police has succeeded in controlling Naxalite activities
in the State,” the DGP claimed in the year-ender press conference.
According to DGP, Rao, 105 underground cadres of Naxals were
operating in the State, of whom 45 are from Andhra Pradesh and
60 from outside. As many as 14 naxal-related incidents
had been reported in the State this year as against 25 in 2015.
“Naxalite movements are continuing in Visakhapatnam
Rural, East Godavari and Vizianagaram Districts. But in Visakhapatnam
Rural District, naxal activities were controlled
well,” Rao said appreciating the Police for taking initiatives
such as skill development programmes, sports and other activities.
“During our tenure as SPs in the State, naxal movement
used to be very high and many police personnel lost their lives
in the fight against then PWG. Due to the efforts of the Government,
LWE has been controlled and tribal youth are not getting attracted
towards Naxalism,” the DGP recalled. PWG is also known
as CPI-ML.
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Statement
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