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Maoists still a threat in Santhal Pargana
DUMKA: With Maoists successfully carrying out attacks in the assembly and parliamentary elections in Dumka in 2009, forces are gearing up to counter the outlawed rebels during the coming elections. What has made matters worse is that the rebel outfit has in the course of time strengthened its might in the area largely due to the negligence of security forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations. In its maiden attempt of resorting to bloodshed during elections in Dumka, the rebels ambushed a polling party near Jodam under Kathikund police station of the district on the polling day of the last LS election in May 2009.
A village choukidar was killed and a banker engaged in polling duty injured when rebels opened indiscriminate firing on the vehicle ferrrying them after polls. Apparently, owing to the porous security measures, rebels once again managed to ambush a patrolling party in the subsequent assembly election in the same year in December without any resistance. Two BSF jawans of road opening party were killed at Chaypani under Shikaripara police station of the district. Rebels had also taken away sophisticated firearms and live cartridges of the slain BSF jawans. At a time when respective district administrations are gearing up for polls, no perceptible move has been made keeping in view the security concerns involved therein.
“We have not yet been directed by higher authorities regarding the security perception of the LS election,” said sources in the intelligence agencies, thereby underlying the gross indifference of the stakeholders towards the gravity of the Maoist threat. That Maoists have managed to strengthen their might in the last five years is evident from the string of fatal incidents triggered by them, including the recent ambush on Pakur SP Amarjit Balihar and his guards on July 2 last year near Kathikund in Dumka.
Around three dozen rebels equipped with sophisticated firearms fired indiscriminately on Balihar’s convoy along Dumka-Pakur road while he was returning from a meeting, which was presided over by newly posted DIG Priya Dubey in Dumka on the fateful day. Altogether six policemen, including Balihar, succumbed to the gunshot injuries. As is always the case, the rebels managed to escape without any resistance and also took away the firearms and live cartridges along with them. The site of ambush on the Balihar convoy was merely three to four km from Kathikund police station. The incident also put a spotlight on the poor intelligence network of the security forces.
So far only three rebels involved in Balihar’s assassination have been nabbed by the police. With the rest being still at large, they may trigger yet another attempt to disrupt the election process. The absence of IG for a prolonged period of over seven months since the transfer of Dumka IG Arun Oraon is also indicative of the state government’s lack of commitment towards the Naxal menace of Santhal Pargana. It is strategically suitable for the rebel org

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