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  • Militants attack CRPF team in J&K, constable injured

    By PTI
    SRINAGAR: Militants on Saturday opened fire at a CRPF team in Jammu and Kashmir’s Chanapora area, injuring a constable, an official of the paramilitary force said.

    Militants opened fire at the road opening party (ROP) of the CRPF’s 29th battalion at Chanapora locality here, CRPF PRO O P Tiwari said.

    He said constable Manoj Kumar Yadav was injured in the foot during the attack. The injured constable has been taken to a hospital.

    The area has been cordoned off and a search has been launched to nab the attackers, he said.

    Further details are being ascertained, Tiwari said.

  • Farmers Protest: Deployment of CRPF companies for Delhi-NCR extended for two more weeks

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: The deployment of 31 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) companies including 16 Rapid Action Force (RAF) companies for Delhi-NCR, in view of farmers’ protests, has been extended for two more weeks.

    Earlier, the Centre had extended deployment period of four companies of Rapid Action Force (RAF) till 4th February to maintain law and order in Ghaziabad.

    Meanwhile, nails that were fixed near barricades at Ghazipur border (Delhi-UP border) are being removed today.

    In another development, opposition leaders who reached the Ghazipur border to meet the protesting farmers were stopped by Police.

    Singhu, Ghazipur and several other borders of the national capital with Uttar Pradesh and Haryana have continued to remain closed for traffic movement due to ongoing farmers’ agitation against the Central farm laws.

    Protesting farmers have announced a ‘chakka jam’ by blocking all state and national highways for 3 hours on February 6.

    Farmers have been protesting against three of the Centre’s laws: Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. 

  • Meeting of Unified Command chaired by Bhupesh Baghel, Home Minister, DGP, CRPF DG will be included today

    The Unified Command will meet in Raipur today under the chairmanship of Bhupesh Baghel. It will include Vice President of Unified Command and State Home Minister Tamradhwaj Sahu, Home Department Officer, DGP DM Awasthi, DG of CRPF including officers of all security forces deployed in Chhattisgarh.

    Apart from this, the strategy of Naxal operation will also be discussed in the meeting in the coming days. Let us tell you that the Unified Command was formed for this purpose. This is the first meeting of the Unified Command in Chhattisgarh after the Corona period.

  • Posthumous gallantry medal for CRPF ASI for bid to stop Pulwama attack 

    By Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: An assistant sub-inspector of CRPF who died in a blast while chasing an explosive-laden car in Pulwama in February 2019 is among those who will be awarded gallantry medals at the Republic Day function on Tuesday. He will be among the two who are being honoured with the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry.

    The other President’s Police Medal for Gallantry awardee is Jharkhand police assistant sub-inspector Banua Oraon who died in an anti-Maoist operation in 2018. Both are being awarded posthumously.

    Other 900 gallantry and service medal winners include an Inspector General of the Inod-Tibetan Border Police which has been at the forefront of vigil against PLA forces in Ladakh and two Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers who supervised probe into the Hathras gangrape-and-murder case.

    On February 14, 2019, ASI Mohan Lal was the picket commander of the road opening party at Lethpora in Pulwama on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.

    According to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) , at about 3.10 pm Lal noticed a civilian car, running alongside the CRPF convoy passing through the area.

    “Lal sensed something suspicious and rushed to stop the suspicious vehicle. He signalled and chased the car to stop, but could not match the car’s speed. Ultimately, finding no other option, he fired towards the suspicious car to stop, but the car rammed onto a CRPF bus, and a huge blast took place,” Lal’s citation read. The blast killed 40 CRPF soldiers, including Lal.

    ITBP’s Inspector General  Deepam Seth, who heads the force’s Northwest Frontier, is among the 89 recipients of the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service. Seth has been part of all Corps Commander-level meetings held between Indian and Chinese forces since June last year in Ladakh.

    CBI Joint Directors Sampat Meena and Vineet Vinayak are among six officers from the agency who have been awarded Distinguished Service medals.

    Apart from this, 73 personnel from fire services across the country have been awarded Fire Service Medals.

  • Bengal polls: Election Commission likely to deploy 1 lakh para troops

    By Express News Service
    KOLKATA: The Election Commission is likely to engage 1 lakh central security personnel in the upcoming Bengal Assembly elections. In the last Lok Sabha polls, around 70,500 CRPF personnel were deployed in the state. In the 2016 Assembly elections, the number was around 70,000.

    The decision was followed by the three-day visit of the ECI’s full bench to the state to take stock of the ground situation. “The full bench interacted with all major political parties. This was followed by a review meeting in Delhi and the decision to enhance the central forces was taken,” said an ECI official in Kolkata.

    Elaborating on the requirement of the record number of force, the official said the number of booths are also going to be increased. “Considering Covid-19 pandemic, around 22,000 auxiliary booths will be set up for a large number of electorates in the existing 78,903 booths. The volume of additional force will be required to ensure free and fair elections,” he said.

    The ECI will ensure the deployment of the central force well in advance as part of confidence-building measure among the electorates. Chief election commissioner Sunil Arora, during his Bengal visit, had said that the central force shall be in the state ahead of the polls.

  • Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi provided ‘Z+’ VIP security cover

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Centre has accorded the top category ‘Z+’ VIP security cover to former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, official sources said on Friday.

    They said that 66-year-old Gogoi will be protected by armed commandos of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) during his travel all across the country. A Rajya Sabha member now, Gogoi was earlier being provided with a security cover of the Delhi Police.

    He retired in November, 2019 and was later nominated to the upper house of Parliament by the government. Sources said that the CRPF has a VIP security unit and Gogoi is its 63rd protectee. They said an armed mobile team of 8-12 CRPF commandos will be securing the former CJI during travel while his house will be guarded by a similar team.

  • Empowered committee looking into rape allegations against sports officer: CRPF DG

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The CRPF has set up an “empowered” committee headed by a woman IG to probe allegations of sexual harassment and rape made by a 30-year-old constable against its chief sports officer and Arjuna awardee Khajan Singh and coach Surjit Singh, the force chief said on Thursday.

    CRPF Director General Anand Prakash Maheshwari told reporters that all due legal processes will be followed and anyone found guilty will be punished based on the recommendations of the committee.

    “We have set up an empowered committee headed by Inspector General of Srinagar sector Charu Sinha. that committee is highly empowered. No one can intervene in the proceedings of that committee.”

    “The woman has filed an FIR with the Delhi Police and the investigation will be done by them. What is the fact we do not know. We will follow the due legal process as stipulated by the Supreme Court in such instances and whosoever is guilty will be punished. It will be taken to its logical conclusion,” Maheshwari said.

    The DG said that the woman constable has not “come to us with any complaint that she has any threat to herself”.

    “I can assure you that CRPF provides a very cogent environment to our women warriors,” he said.

    The DG added that it has not come to his notice that any woman personnel has quit her job in the force “because of Khajan Singh”.

    The woman who filed an FIR in December is stated to have retracted her allegations, as per official sources.

    The sources had said in December that the woman had recorded her statement before the magistrate under CrPC section 164 where she retracted her allegations against the two CRPF sports officers.

    In the FIR registered at the Baba Haridas police station on December 3, the complainant, who had joined the force in 2010, alleged that the two accused sexually harassed women constables and later used them as “their accomplices” as she levelled charges of rape against the two.

    Khajan Singh, a DIG-rank officer in the force, had won a silver medal at the 1986 Seoul Asian Games in the 200m butterfly event which was India’s first medal in swimming at the event since the 1951 edition.

    Khajan Singh had denied the allegations and told PTI that these charges were “absolutely false and this was done just to spoil his image”.

    The Central Reserve Police Force first inducted women in combat ranks in 1986 and it has six all-female battalions at present with an overall strength of about 8,000 personnel in them.

    It also has women personnel in sports and other administrative wings.

  • CoBRA commando fatally shoots self during anti-Naxal operation

    By PTI
    RAIPUR: A commando of CRPFs elite unit CoBRA allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon in Chhattisgarhs Sukma district during an anti -Naxal operation in the wee hours of Friday, police said.

    As per preliminary information, Head Constable Harjeet Singh (40), belonging to CoBRAs 206th battalion, shot himself with his service rifle when a squad of his unit was out on an anti-Naxal operation in Chintagufa police station area, Sukma Additional Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma told PTI.

    A team of the 206th battalion of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) had launched the operation from its Temelwada camp on Thursday night based on inputs about movement of Naxals and laid an ambush on Koyalmeta hill, located over 450km from state capital Raipur, he said.

    During the operation, Singh allegedly shot himself and died on the spot, Sharma said, adding his body is being shifted to a local hospital.

    Prima facie the incident seems to be a suicide and an investigation is underway to ascertain the exact reason that prompted him to take the extreme step.

    “However, police will also probe whether he misfired from his service rifle,” Sharma added.

    Singh was a native of Ludhiana district in Punjab.

    The CRPF is deployed in south Bastar for anti-Naxal operations.

  • Shaheed Vikas Kumar’s valor and sacrifice will always be remembered: Minister Shri Choubey

    Water Resources and Agriculture Minister Shri Ravindra Choubey reached the battalion located today and saluted the martyred Deputy Commandant Vikas Kumar. He said that the valor and sacrifice of martyr Vikas Kumar will always be remembered, Vikas Kumar has achieved heroism by showing indomitable courage against Naxalites.

    On December 13, Cobra Battalion 208 was reported to have an IED bomb near Kasaram village near Kasaram Nala. After the information, the team of Cobra Battalion reached the spot and was defusing IED. During this time the bomb exploded and Vikas Kumar, Deputy Commandant of CRPF was hit by IED, the Deputy Commandant was brought from Sukma to Raipur in an injured state. He became a martyr during treatment. Shaheed Jawan Vikas Kumar was a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
    Parliamentary Secretary Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, DGP Mr. DM Awasthi, Special DG Naxal Mr. Ashok Juneja, Special DG of CRPF Mr. Kuldeep Kumar, arrived at the battalion of Mana to pay the last salute to Shaheed Vikas Kumar.

  • Chief Minister strongly condemned Sukma Naxalite encounter

    Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel condemned the Naxalite encounter in Sukma district and paid his humble tribute to the martyrdom of Shri Nitin Bhalerao, Assistant Commandant of CRPF’s Cobra Battalion and paid deep condolences to his family members. . The Chief Minister has wished speedy recovery of the injured soldiers in this incident.