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  • Chhattisgarh: Nine Naxalites Arrested In Bijapur District |

    New Delhi: Nine Naxalites, one of them carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, were arrested from separate places in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on Friday, police said.

    Five of them were held from the forest near Pusbaka village under Basaguda police station limits during an anti-Maoist operation, an official said.

    Among them, Raju Oyam, who carried a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, was a member of the Usur Local Organisation Squad of the outlawed Maoist outfit while Bhima Madvi was vice president of Gaganpalli RPC (Revolutionary Party Committee) Jantana Sarkar, he added.

    The other three were lower-rung cadres, the police official said.

    A cache of explosives, a `tiffin’ bomb, a battery, spikes, splinters, gelatin sticks, cordex and electric wires as well as anti- government Maoist pamphlets were recovered from their possession, he said.

    Three more lower-rung cadres were arrested from Usur and one person from Tarrem police station station limits, the official said.

    The Maoist held from Tarrem was involved in an incident of firing on a police team at a newly set up security camp, he said.

  • Chhattisgarh: Two Naxalites killed in encounter with police in Sukma

    By PTI

    SUKMA: Two Naxalites, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with police in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Monday morning, an official said.

    A cache of explosives and an automatic weapon were recovered from the encounter site, he said.

    The gunfight took place in a forest near Danteshpuram village under Bheji police station limits when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma told PTI.

    The Naxalites opened fire on the DRG’s patrolling team following which the gun-battle broke out, he said. After guns fell silent, bodies of two Naxalites were recovered from the spot, the official said.

    They were identified as Madkam Erra, who was active as commander of Golapalli Local Organisation Squad (LOS), and Madkam Bhime, deputy commander of the same squad, he said.

    Erra and Bhime were carrying rewards of Rs 8 lakh and Rs 3 lakh respectively on their heads, the official said. A search operation was underway in nearby areas, he added.

    SUKMA: Two Naxalites, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with police in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Monday morning, an official said.

    A cache of explosives and an automatic weapon were recovered from the encounter site, he said.

    The gunfight took place in a forest near Danteshpuram village under Bheji police station limits when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma told PTI.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    The Naxalites opened fire on the DRG’s patrolling team following which the gun-battle broke out, he said. After guns fell silent, bodies of two Naxalites were recovered from the spot, the official said.

    They were identified as Madkam Erra, who was active as commander of Golapalli Local Organisation Squad (LOS), and Madkam Bhime, deputy commander of the same squad, he said.

    Erra and Bhime were carrying rewards of Rs 8 lakh and Rs 3 lakh respectively on their heads, the official said. A search operation was underway in nearby areas, he added.

  • Chhattisgarh: Naxalites kill villager on suspicion of being police informer 

    By PTI

    GARIABAND: A 30-year-old man was allegedly killed by Naxalites on suspicion of being a police informer in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district, police said on Sunday.

    The incident took place in Amlipadar police station area, where a group of Naxalites stormed into a villager’s house in Kharipatha village, located on the border of Chhattisgarh and Odisha, an official said.

    The accused forcibly took the villager identified as Ramder to a nearby forest, he said. Later, the man’s body was found in a forest, around 7 km away from the village, this morning, the official said.

    A police team rushed to the spot and sent the body for post-mortem, he said.

    “Prima facie, it seems like the man was strangled but the exact cause of the death will be known after post-mortem,” the official said.

    A pamphlet was recovered from the spot, in which the Udanti area committee of Maoists claimed that the victim was acting as a police informer, the official said, denying the man’s association with the police.

    GARIABAND: A 30-year-old man was allegedly killed by Naxalites on suspicion of being a police informer in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district, police said on Sunday.

    The incident took place in Amlipadar police station area, where a group of Naxalites stormed into a villager’s house in Kharipatha village, located on the border of Chhattisgarh and Odisha, an official said.

    The accused forcibly took the villager identified as Ramder to a nearby forest, he said. Later, the man’s body was found in a forest, around 7 km away from the village, this morning, the official said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    A police team rushed to the spot and sent the body for post-mortem, he said.

    “Prima facie, it seems like the man was strangled but the exact cause of the death will be known after post-mortem,” the official said.

    A pamphlet was recovered from the spot, in which the Udanti area committee of Maoists claimed that the victim was acting as a police informer, the official said, denying the man’s association with the police.

  • Maoists abduct, kill journalist’s kin on suspicion of being police informer in Chhattisgarh

    By PTI

    BIJAPUR: Maoists abducted and killed the brother of a journalist on suspicion of being a police informer in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, a senior officer said on Wednesday.

    The victim, Basant Jhadi, was abducted by Naxalites on Friday and killed on Monday after they held a ‘jan adalat’ (people’s court or kangaroo court) at village Kotapalli on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border, said Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P.

    Jhadi, who was the brother of a local journalist, was killed on suspicion of being a police informer, he said.

    “As per information received so far, the victim’s relatives have performed his last rites, but they are yet to lodge a police complaint,” the IPS officer said.

    Maoists often hold ‘jan adalat’ where persons suspected to be loyal to the state are killed in full public view.

    BIJAPUR: Maoists abducted and killed the brother of a journalist on suspicion of being a police informer in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, a senior officer said on Wednesday.

    The victim, Basant Jhadi, was abducted by Naxalites on Friday and killed on Monday after they held a ‘jan adalat’ (people’s court or kangaroo court) at village Kotapalli on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border, said Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P.

    Jhadi, who was the brother of a local journalist, was killed on suspicion of being a police informer, he said.

    “As per information received so far, the victim’s relatives have performed his last rites, but they are yet to lodge a police complaint,” the IPS officer said.

    Maoists often hold ‘jan adalat’ where persons suspected to be loyal to the state are killed in full public view.

  • Bijapur Naxal attack: Involvement of multiple agencies led to leakage of intelligence, says BJP MP 

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: Two days after 22 security personnel lost their lives in the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh, BJP MP and Army veteran Lt General (Retired) DP Vats on Monday said that the involvement of multiple agencies led to the leakage of intelligence information.

    The BJP MP said, “Due to the involvement of multiple agencies, there was a leakage of intelligence information. Otherwise, ant-terrorist operations, anti-Naxal operations are always a surprise.”

    After Rahul Gandhi’s “intelligence failure” remarks, Vats on Monday termed the encounter a deliberate anti-Naxal operation and said that political blame games are harmful for such operations.

    The retired Army General said, “It was such a big deliberate anti-Naxal operation with 1500 central and state forces involved in it and an equal number of casualties of both the security forces and Naxals. Political blame games are harmful for Naxal operations. Such incidents were also active during the tenure of the Congress governments with casualties of big leaders.”

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    Gandhi on Monday, while reacting to Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director-General Kuldeep Singh’s “no operational or intelligence failure” remark, said this meant that the operation was poorly designed and incompetently executed.

    “If there was no intelligence failure then a 1:1 death ratio means it was a poorly designed and incompetently executed operation,” the Congress leader tweeted tagging a news clipping of CRPF DG’s “no operational and intelligence failure” remark.

    “Our Jawans are not cannon fodder to be martyred at will,” he added.

    Stating that there was an equal number of casualties on both sides, the BJP MP said that casualties after such operations are an established norm. However, he also said that the intelligence success of the Naxals is noteworthy.

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    He further said, “This was a deliberate anti-Naxal operation and casualties are expected in such operations. Deliberate anti-Naxal operation means central or state anti-Naxal forces were attacking the Naxals. Casualties after such an operation is an established norm. There have been Naxal casualties as well that too in equal numbers. But I would say that when such a deliberate operation is planned, then there is also an Intelligence gathering. and the involvement of multiple agencies like Cobra Forces, CRPF, state machinery, and local police. Law and order is a state subject especially when the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is not in force there. In such a situation, the Intelligence success of the Naxals is noteworthy.”

    He remarked that parties should not make it a political issue. Pointing out the shortcoming of the state government, the BJP MP said that it should not be lax in such kinds of operations.

    “I would advise the state government to provide monetary incentives to the families of the soldiers killed in the operation, declare them martyrs and provide jobs to their kin, to keep up the spirits of our armed forces,” he added.

    At least 22 security personnel lost their lives while 31 sustained injuries in an encounter that broke out between security forces and Naxals along the Sukma-Bijapur border on Saturday after a party of jawans was ambushed by Maoists near Jonnaguda village. 

  • Two wanted Maoists gunned down in MP encounter

    Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Two wanted Maoists, including an armed woman cadre, were gunned down in an encounter in the jungles of Mandla district on Friday night. 

    The slain Maoists – both members of the Vistar Platoon of the banned CPI (Maoist) – have been identified as 25-year-old Geeta and 22-year-old Dulla alias Mainu, both residents of the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.

    The slain Maoists were accused in 18 cases each in the Balaghat district of MP and Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh.

    Both Dulla and Geeta, who carried a bounty of Rs 8 lakh each (Rs 3 lakh from MP government and Rs 5 lakh from Chhattisgarh government), were Area Committee members of CPI (Maoist) Vistar Platoon 3.

    For the last few years, the Vistar Platoon of the CPI (Maoists) had been operating in the jungles of MP and Chhattisgarh. It was working to build a red corridor comprising Rajnandgaon and Kavardha districts of Chhattisgarh and the Balaghat and Mandla districts of MP as part of the larger plan to spread through the jungles of MP and Chhattisgarh till Eastern UP.

    According to MP police sources, the anti-Naxal police force comprising the state police’s specialized anti-Naxal Hawk Force and teams of Mandla district police, acting on specific inputs, spotted movement of over a dozen armed Maoists in the jungles near Lalpur village under the Motinala police station area of Mandla district on the intervening night of Friday-Saturday.

    The joint teams of Hawk Force and Madla district police surrounded the forest area near Lalpur village and asked the armed Maoists to surrender, but the Maoists allegedly started firing at the police. The cops also retaliated, resulting in the death of the two Maoists.

    The two bodies were found during the subsequent search operation by police in the jungle, Mandla SP Yashpal Singh Rajput said. A loaded .303 rifle and an SLR rifle were seized by the police near the slain Maoists.

    Earlier, in November 2020, a 25-year-old woman Maoist identified as Sharda (carrying a bounty of Rs 8 lakh on her head) was gunned down in an encounter in the Malkhedi jungles of Baihar police station area of Balaghat district. A month later two women Maoists Savitri and Shoba were killed in an exchange of fire with police in the Borvan jungles under the Kirnapur police station area of Balaghat district.

  • Naxalites kill villagers in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon

    By ANI
    RAJNANDGAON (Chhattisgarh): Two villagers were abducted and later killed by Naxalites at the Kohka police station area of Rajnandgaon district.

    According to the information received from the police, the Naxalites killed both the villagers based on the suspicion raised by their informer.

    Ramsay Gadve, aged 30 years, was picked up by them at 9 pm and later found dead in the Merapani area. The second victim, Inder Sai Mandavi (75), was beaten to death.

    These incidents have spread panic among the villagers.

    The Naxalites are said to have been increasing their influence in the area by means of fear. Earlier, they had thrown pamphlets to exert their ideology in the area and said that many of the villagers are their informers. 

  • Jharkhand: Woman killed in Maoist landmine blast

    By Express News Service
    RANCHI: A woman was killed while another injured in a series of landmine blasts triggered by the Maoists in Gotang jungles in Latehar on Saturday. Locals claimed that the Maoists also fired indiscriminately after triggering the blast.

    According to police, the landmine was exploded when a group of women had gone into the jungles to fetch fire-wood on Saturday killing Sanjho Devi and leaving Phoolmani Devi seriously injured. She has been admitted to the nearby referral hospital in Garu.

    When security forces reached the spot after being informed about the incident, an encounter took place with the Maoists. 

    The rebels escaped into the dense forests.

  • Rajasthan assembly elections: ‘Raag darbari’ of ‘naamdar’ call Naxals, Maoists revolutionaries, says PM Modi

    Courtiers around the “naamdar” believe Naxals and Maoists are revolutionaries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday in a sharp attack against Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Modi, who often refers to Gandhi as “naamdar” (dynast), was addressing a rally ahead of the December 7 elections in this Rajasthan town.

    “Raag darbari of the naamdar say Naxals and Maoists are revolutionaries,” he told the gathering.

    Close aides of the “naamdar” refer to the Army chief as street thugs, Modi said, asking whether they could protect the nation. Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit last year triggered a row after he likened Army Chief General Bipin Rawat to a “goon on the street”, prompting the BJP to demand his expulsion. The Congress distanced itself from the remarks. Dikshit withdrew his remarks and apologised