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The Superintendent of Police of West Midnapore District, Manoj Verma, said on October 4 that photographs and other incriminating evidence have been found revealing links between the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and Chhatradhar Mahato,
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The Superintendent of Police of West Midnapore District, Manoj Verma, said on October 4 that photographs and other incriminating evidence have been found revealing links between the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and Chhatradhar Mahato, convener of the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) that led the agitation at Lalgarh and its adjoining areas, reports The Hindu. Details of the PCPA’s funding have also emerged in the course of the investigation.
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October - 5 
Statesman reports that two activists of a Kolkata-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), identified as Raja Sarkhel and Prasun Chatterjee, were arrested from Jadavpur on October 5 by a team of officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CI
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Statesman reports that two activists of a Kolkata-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), identified as Raja Sarkhel and Prasun Chatterjee, were arrested from Jadavpur on October 5 by a team of officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for their reported links with the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) leader Chhatradhar Mahato. The West Bengal Government, a few hours before, had approved the proposal of the West Midnapore District Police to frame charges under the Unlawful Activities [Prevention] Act (UAPA) against Mahato. Ajoy Ranade, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (Operations), confirmed the arrest. The two are also being charged under the provisions of the UAPA, he added. Both Sarkhel and Chatterjee are members of the Lalgarh Sanhati Mancha, a city-based group of intellectuals that supported the tribal movement in Lalgarh.
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October - 6 
Times of India reports that a day after two persons were arrested from capital Kolkata, Vivekananda Kumar, a former leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and now with the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)-backed Peo
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Times of India reports that a day after two persons were arrested from capital Kolkata, Vivekananda Kumar, a former leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and now with the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), was arrested from Arsha in Purulia on October 6 for links with the Maoists. Besides, Police also sealed a press in Manicktala for publishing PCPA posters and leaflets and arrested its owner Sadananda Singh. Two members of human rights organization Bandi Mukti Committee, Ramesh Das and Bhanu Sarkar, were also detained. Swapan Dasgupta, the editor of magazine People's March, was also detained in the same evening.
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October - 16 
A top leader of the CPI-Maoist supported People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) was arrested from his Hooghly hideout in the night of October 16, reports Times of India. Police said Sibu Murmu was wanted for sedition and murder. Sibu, th
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A top leader of the CPI-Maoist supported People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) was arrested from his Hooghly hideout in the night of October 16, reports Times of India. Police said Sibu Murmu was wanted for sedition and murder. Sibu, the secretary of PCPA's Bankura wing, had been absconding since the Security Forces started operations in Jangalmahal in June 2009. Police said he was sheltered by his elder brother Shankar Murmu at the latter's residence at Dihibagnan Adibasipara in the Hooghly District. "In the past two months, we managed to nab at least 25 senior and influential leaders of the tribal outfit. It is a major setback for them," said an unnamed senior Police officer.
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October - 20 
PTI reports that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) raided Sankrail Police Station in West Midnapore District on October 20 and shot dead two Police officers and kidnapped the officer-in-charge of the Police Station. They also
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PTI reports that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) raided Sankrail Police Station in West Midnapore District on October 20 and shot dead two Police officers and kidnapped the officer-in-charge of the Police Station. They also looted INR 923,000 from a bank located nearby. The Maoists numbering around 50, including some women, arrived in two groups on motorcycles and headed for the Police Station and the State Bank of India branch nearby, Police said. At the Police Station, they opened fire killing the second officer Dibakar Bhattacharya and abducted Officer-In-Charge Atindranath Dutta and an Assistant Sub-Inspector Swapan Roy, sources said. The body of Roy was later found from a swamp some distance away, they said, adding, the Maoists took away all the arms and ammunition at the Police Station. Times of India adds that the Maoists left behind posters demanding the release of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) leader Chhatradhar Mahato and withdrawal of Security Forces from Lalgarh. The CPI-Maoist politburo member, Koteshwar Rao alias Kishan, claimed responsibility for the strike. "The Police officer is in our custody. He will be killed if any attempt is made by security forces to follow our comrades," he said in a statement later.
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October - 26 
The Maoist backed-People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) announced on October 26 that it had turned into an armed outfit called Sidhu Kanu Gana Militia, reports Times of India. The announcement came with the claim that PCPA members had l
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The Maoist backed-People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) announced on October 26 that it had turned into an armed outfit called Sidhu Kanu Gana Militia, reports Times of India. The announcement came with the claim that PCPA members had looted 10 firearms by raiding a CPI-M armed rally in Goaltore. The PCPA spokesperson, Asit Mahato, who replaced Chhatradhar Mahato (under detention), said the tribal forum would "no longer continue democratic processes of rallies and agitations". "We have formed the People’s Militia Force," he said, adding "After facing continuous torture by the joint forces and the administration in Jangalmahal, PCPA has decided to pick up arms to combat the forces." Mahato threatened that the militia would soon hit state and central offices and Government agencies. He called for an indefinite strike in Jangalmahal from October 27.
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October - 27 
Times of India reports that armed cadres of the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) as well as that of Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) laid siege to the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express at Banstala Railway Station,
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Times of India reports that armed cadres of the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) as well as that of Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) laid siege to the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express at Banstala Railway Station, eight kilometres from Jhargram town in West Midnapore District, on October 27. The Security Forces rushing to the site for rescue operation were ambushed by the Maoists, triggering an encounter in which two PCPA men were killed and a Policeman was injured. After the gunfight, the PCPA cadres and the Maoists managed to escape. The Security Forces later reached the spot at 7.30pm (IST) and the train left an hour later. The PCPA cadres were demanding the release of Chhatradhar Mahato, the PCPA leader, who was arrested on September 26. Earlier at around 2:30pm, the Maoists held the train driver hostage and encircled the train for about five hours at Banstala. Some passengers were also injured in brick-batting. The driver and his assistant — initially taken to a building near the station — were later released.
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October - 28 
PTI reports that a day after the holding up of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express train by the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) and Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in West Bengal, the Orissa Government on October 28 iden
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PTI reports that a day after the holding up of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express train by the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) and Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in West Bengal, the Orissa Government on October 28 identified at least seven rail routes "vulnerable" to attacks by the insurgents, official sources said. The routes identified as "prone" to a Maoist attack are located mostly in the Koraput, Rayagada, Sambalpur, Jajpur, Keonjhar and Sundergarh Districts. These routes are: Rourkela-Bimalagah-Kiribur, Rourkela-Jariekela, Boinda-Jujumara, Tamka-Keonjhar, Rayagada-Koraput, Koraput-Gorapur and Rayagada-Jhimiripeta lines. The respective District Superintendent of Police has been directed to make adequate arrangements for passenger safety in consultation with the Railways, official sources said.
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October - 28 
The CPI-Maoist Polit Bureau member Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishan told The Hindu during a telephonic interview that the CPI-Maoist supported the PCPA’s cause and would provide supporters of the outfit strategic and military support to take on t
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The CPI-Maoist Polit Bureau member Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishan told The Hindu during a telephonic interview that the CPI-Maoist supported the PCPA’s cause and would provide supporters of the outfit strategic and military support to take on the Security Forces.
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October - 28 
Warning that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) sponsored violence was likely to escalate in the coming months as a retaliation to the yet to be launched offensive by the Union Government, the Government on October 28 said incidents of
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Warning that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) sponsored violence was likely to escalate in the coming months as a retaliation to the yet to be launched offensive by the Union Government, the Government on October 28 said incidents of landmine explosions, ambushes and train blockages would increase, reports Times of India. The Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai said as long as the Maoists had their one-point agenda of "so called armed revolution", they would continue to carry out incidents like the one on October 27 in West Bengal (Maoists laid siege to the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express train). "In the months to come, this is something I think the country should be prepared for," Pillai said. Describing the incident as nothing but a "publicity stunt", he said the entire operation was planned and executed by armed Maoists and not by the local outfit People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA). "This was an operation planned, operated and executed by the Maoists using the tribals as front," he said, adding the PCPA itself had lost its relevance.
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October - 29 
According to The Hindu, the Maoist-backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) has decided to call off its shutdown from October 29 (today). The PCPA has been demanding withdrawal of the Security Forces engaged in an operation to neutr
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According to The Hindu, the Maoist-backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) has decided to call off its shutdown from October 29 (today). The PCPA has been demanding withdrawal of the Security Forces engaged in an operation to neutralise cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) from Lalgarh and surrounding region and the unconditional release of its convener Chattradhar Mahato.
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October - 29 October - 30
Tapan Mody and Dilip Mahato, local leaders of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), were abducted by the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) supporters from Raghunathpur and Goaltore areas in West Midnapor
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Tapan Mody and Dilip Mahato, local leaders of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), were abducted by the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) supporters from Raghunathpur and Goaltore areas in West Midnapore District in the night of October 29. Their mutilated bodies were found on October 30 (today), Police said.
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October - 29 October - 30
The Hindu reports that the military wing of the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocity (PCPA) - Sidhu Kanu Gana Militia - vandalised property belonging to the State Government in two separate incidents in West Midnapore District lat
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The Hindu reports that the military wing of the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocity (PCPA) - Sidhu Kanu Gana Militia - vandalised property belonging to the State Government in two separate incidents in West Midnapore District late on October 29 and October 30. A group of armed men attacked the Silda Range Office in the Binpur block late on October 29 and ransacked and set ablaze six buildings. The group assaulted the officer-in-charge and looted money. It left behind posters demanding the unconditional release of PCPA convener Chhatradhar Mahato and other leaders of the outfit. In another incident on October 30, a group ransacked the Panchayat (village level local self government institution) office at Makli in the Goaltore area and later set it ablaze. Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Verma said the PCPA was behind both attacks and that they were being investigated. "The Police had been claiming that the PCPA is an offshoot of the Maoists and was involved in all kinds of violent activities. But only after they launched the so-called armed wing was it proved that there is no difference between the Maoists and the PCPA supporters," Verma said.
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October - 29 
Three CPI-M local committee members - Ratan Patra, Gadadhar Patra and Kartik Dey - were abducted from Goaltore in the same District on October 29 in retaliation for the abduction of a PCPA supporter from Hatipota village on October 28. The PCPA had a
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Three CPI-M local committee members - Ratan Patra, Gadadhar Patra and Kartik Dey - were abducted from Goaltore in the same District on October 29 in retaliation for the abduction of a PCPA supporter from Hatipota village on October 28. The PCPA had alleged that the CPI-M was responsible for the abduction.
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October - 30 
The Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on October 30 appealed to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) to halt violence so that the Union Government could facilitate talks between them and the State Governments on issues of land, forests a
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The Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on October 30 appealed to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) to halt violence so that the Union Government could facilitate talks between them and the State Governments on issues of land, forests and employment, reports The Hindu. The Home Minister sought to make a distinction between halting violence and laying down arms which could happen in future. While referring to the CPI-Maoist belief in armed liberation struggle, he stressed that the offer was simple: halt violence and come for talks. "The violence must end. The Central and the State governments have a duty to end the violence. It is with that objective that we have made a simple and straight forward appeal to the CPI (Maoist): "Halt the violence." These are three simple words, and I do not see why they should be subjected to tortuous interpretation and analysis," he told journalists. Chidambaram added that once the Maoists ended violence, the Union Government would persuade the State Governments to talk to them on all matters, including their concerns over land acquisition, forest rights, industrialisation and development. He, however, said, "I regret to say that the response so far has been disappointing," adding, that talks could not be held in an atmosphere of rampant violence. He said if the Maoists were "serious champions of the poor," they should come forward for talks. He said that Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh had attempted to hold talks with the Maoists but the moves were "futile." Asked when the Centre would launch anti-Naxalite (left wing extremist) operations, he said the Cabinet Committee on Security decided to provide all help and assistance to the States affected by Naxalite violence. Chidambaram also revealed that there was no anti-Naxal operation called "Green Hunt" which had been launched by the Security Forces. "I do not know from where this name came. We will give all assistance to the States as per their request to combat the challenge posed by Maoists," he added. Replying to the question whether the Centre would ban the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), he said it was for the State Government to decide as the activities of the outfit are confined only to the State, adds Times of India. "We are open to provide help. West Bengal Government is competent ....The organisation is confined to West Bengal only," he added. The "most serious threats" to the internal security this month came from the Maoists, Chidambaram said releasing the ministry's report card for October. He also listed the incidents of violence unleashed by the Maoists.
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