High alert in Balaghat as Maoists from Chhattisgarh hole up in forests
BHOPAL: Central and state security forces have been put on high alert after massive Naxalite movement was detected in the state’s sole Maoist-hit district, Balaghat. Intelligence inputs suggest that hundreds of guerrillas have infiltrated into Balaghat from neighbouring Chhattisgarh – a rebel hotbed. Armed cadres led by the former local guerrilla squad (LGS) commander Dilip were spotted in Bargud forests, 90 km from the district headquarters.
The area falls under the Daverveli police station. Dilip, an expert in explosives, is wanted by the state police in more than 30 cases, including murder of Likhiram Kawre, then transport minister of undivided Madhya Pradesh. The minister was hacked to death in 1999 at his native village in Sonepuri.
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