Bihar (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2002

A news report on January 5 said that the State government proposes to purchase four landmine-resistant vehicles (LRVs) from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) by April 2002. The price of each such vehicle is about Rs 5.5 million. The LRVs will be used in the areas in which left wing extremists, Naxalites are active. A Naxalite outfit, the People’s War Group (PWG), has used landmines several times in the past to kill police personnel. Read less...

According to media reports, the Bihar government has proposed to purchase four landmine-resistant vehicles (LRVs) from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) by the end of the current financial year. The price of each such vehicle is around Rs 55 lakh. The LRVs will be used in the Naxalite-affected districts of the State. Read less...

Bihar Inspector General of Police (Operation) Neelmani, while speaking to the media in Patna, on January 6, said the forces had launched a special drive in the districts of Palamu, Rohatas, Garwah, Lohardaga and Kaimur of Bihar and Jharkhand and Chandauli, Mirzapur and Sonebhadra of Uttar Pradesh. He said the force, which received special training at Hyderabad to deal with the Naxalites, achieved its first success in Rohatas district on January 4 when it destroyed a bunker and a training camp of the Naxalites and killed two of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC). Police also recovered some arms, ammunition and several incriminating documents. Neelmani said a special drive had also been launched to bring the Naxalites to the mainstream. Those who would surrender would be provided with Rs 10,000 immediately, besides a house and Rs two lakh assistance for rehabilitation. Read less...

Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh police have launched a combined offensive against left-wing extremists, Naxalites, operating in their border districts. Read less...

In another incident, on January 6, MCC Naxalites raided the Adi Shakarya math (shrine) at Khajwati in Bihar’s Gaya district, and blew up a portion of the math. According to media reports, the Naxalites, numbering several dozens, used dynamite sticks to blow up the building. The attack caused extensive damage to the math property. Read less...

Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary, Home Affairs, Naresh Dayal, while addressing the media in Lucknow, on January 7, said, seven left-wing extremists, Naxalites of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), were killed in different encounters in Rohtas district in Bihar on January 6 and 7. He said the Uttar Pradesh police had tip-off their counterparts in Bihar and added that Bihar police had recovered some arms from the possession of the MCC cadres, which were stolen from various police stations of the State. Read less...

A joint-team of Bihar police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed five left-wing extremists, Naxalites of the People’s War Group (PWG) in an encounter in Kojiam Bara village, Jehanabad district, on January 8 night, reports said. Some arms and several rounds of ammunition were recovered from the slain Naxals. Read less...

The Bihar police have arrested 11 activists of the proscribed Ranvir Sena, a private army of landowners, in Central Bihar, and recovered a huge cache of firearms in raids in Amarpur village, Jehanabad district on January 28 night. Read less...

Two left-wing extremists, Naxalites of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) were killed in an encounter in the forests near the Tiur-Mahkaur village of Nawada district on the night of January 30. Police also recovered two rifles the Naxalites had earlier snatched from police personnel in Bihar and Jharkhand. Three hand grenades and a huge quantity of ammunition were also seized from the encounter site. Read less...

State police chief RR Prasad, while talking to the media in Patna on January 31, said that the police had stepped up the pressure on the Naxal outfits and private armies of landowners over the last few days in view of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s proposed visit to Patna on February 3. Read less...