India People's war attacks and red pamphets

CoBRA jawan injured in Maoist encounter
RANCHI: A constable of elite CoBRA battalion was injured in a gun-battle with Maoists at Baresarh in Latehar district, 100km from here, on Friday morning. The encounter is still going on and Maoists are reportedly giving a strong fight to the security forces. No injury to the Maoists has been confirmed. A team of state police with CoBRA with CRPF forces undertook anti-Maoist operation in Budha Pahar region under Baresarh police station on intelligence inputs that a group of Maoists led by top leader Arvindji have gathered in the area.
As the forces moved towards the target point, a volley of fire came from the invisible Maoists. The encounter started around 7am. Police spokesperson S N Pradhan said: “The constable sustained bullet injuries in one of his his hands. It is a minor injury and he is out of danger.” Sources however said that the constable is bleeding profusely. The spot lies in a forest which is not easily accessible by anyone let alone doctors from outside. Enough medical help is yet to reach the injured constable.
The state police is preparing to airlift him to a hospital in Ranchi. Pradhan said that the police are giving a strong reply to the Maoists. Friday encounter marks the growing aggression of the Maoists in Jharkhand. Last month Maoists had attacked a police team and injured Ranchi SSP and his bodyguard while his driver was killed in Khunti district.

CRPF personnel injured in Maoist attack
An Assistant Commandant of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was grievously injured in an attack by Maoists at a market place in restive Bastar region of Chhattisgarh on Friday. The incident took in Palnar village of Dantewada district where the CRPF’s 111th battalion was stationed.
The injured officer has been identified as B.K.Malik, the company commander of the battalion. “A small action team of Maoists attacked Mr. Malik with sharp edged weapons when he went to the weekly village market to gather intelligence today morning. He was already on the Naxal hit list,” Mr.Dinesh Pratap Upadhyay, the Deputy Inspector General of the CRPF, Dantewada range, told The Hindu. The injured officer was immediately shifted to Jagdalpur for treatment and is reported critical. ”He was lucky to have survived after such deep injuries on his head. The Maoists also snatched his pistol,” informed Mr.Upadhyay.

Kangaroo courts: Naxals punish locals through ‘Jan adalat’
After a brief lull, Chhattisgarh is witnessing an upsurge in Maoist-organised ‘Jan Adalat’ (people’s court or Kangaroo court) where persons suspected to be loyal to the state are murdered in full public view.

Two IEDs recovered during anti-Maoist operation
Two powerful explosives were recovered during a joint an anti-Maoist operation in Chengde village under Rania police station of Khunti district today, the police said. The Improvised Explosive Devices planted to target the security personnel were recovered when the CRPF and District Armed Police were on a routine combing operation in the extremist hit pockets of the district, said Superintendent of Police, Anish Gupta. Gupta said one IED weighed 100 kg and the other was of 50 kg. Later, the Bomb Disposal Squad defused the explosives in the jungle, he added.ads in their bastion and befriending locals. The Naxals held 13 jan adalats till July this year in different parts of the Bastar region, while the number was four last year, as per police statistics.

Police, Maoists exchange fire in Vizag Agency
A special police party and a group of Maoists were involved in an exchange of fire near Nadimineeda in Siribala area of the G.K. Veedhi mandal on Friday evening. The exchange of fire lasted for about 15 minutes as the Maoists were fast retreating and no other details were available, Superintendent of Police Koya Praveen told the media in Visakhapatnam. This was the fourth exchange of fire in the recent past.

Security forces, naxals exchange fire at Siribala
VISAKHAPATNAM: Maoists exchanged fire with security forces once again in the Visakha Agency on Friday evening at the Siribala area in the mandal. The gun battle is said to have lasted for about 25 minutes. Although cops suspect one or two Maoist casualties, sources said villagers claimed they did not hear any gunshot and expressed doubts about fake encounters by the security personnel. According to sources in the police department, the exchange of fire took place at around 6 pm near Siribala village, 6 km from GK Veedhi mandal headquarters.
They said that a large number of security forces were pressed into action after the ambush by Maoists at Palagarevu in Malkangiri district of Odisha, where three BSF jawans were killed and another six were injured. However, sources in Visakha Agency said there was no Maoist movement in the area since the past two and half years as the district authorities had laid a road to the village.
“Cops might have nabbed a squad member or sympathiser and killed him in the evening. If the incident had happened in the morning, the media would have been all over the place and the cops would have a tough time proving the incident as a real encounter,” claimed a source, adding that almost 24 hours before Friday’s alleged exchange of fire a few police officers had visited the Donkarai area of East Godavari and Chitrakonda in Malkangiri. However, a senior police officer said they had already deployed elite forces along all the possible routes through which the Maoists could venture into Visakha Agency from Odisha.
“There is a crossing point to Gunukurai of Galikonda area near Siribala village. While they were crossing the area, the cops might have noticed them and fired,” he said. When contacted, Visakha Rural SP Koya Praveen confirmed the incident and said they suspect casualties on the Maoists side. Meanwhile, Maoists pasted posters at Pochapalli and Polipaka in Kunavaram mandal of East Godavari warning businessmen and landlords of dire consequences if they continued to loot innocent tribals.


new committee, the ‘Malkangiri-Visakha-Koraput Divisional Committee’,
..As the Maoists come under sustained pressure in the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) region, their leadership has reportedly formed a new committee, the ‘Malkangiri-Visakha-Koraput Divisional Committee’, with an experienced leader at the helm, in an attempt to strengthen the rank and file and restore organisational capacities.
According to sources, the new committee was formed after the visit of Maoist central committee (CC) leaders to the Visakha Agency in Andhra Pradesh in May-June 2015. Around 14 leaders from the Dandakaranya Zonal Committee of Chhattisgarh, including the head of the Maoist Central Military Commission, Namballa Kesava Rao aliasGanganna, and Central Regional Bureau (CRB) chief Katakam Sudarsan alias Anand, are learned to have visited the District. A few days after their visit, another team of nine members interacted with squads and area committees in the AOB region.s in succession during late May the police and Maoist had exchanged fire in Koyyuru mandal and during June third week a Maoist was killed during an exchange of fire with the police in Munchingput mandal.

Red pamphlets oppose Parasnath devpt plan
Dhanbad: Cadres of CPI (Maoists) have distributed pamphlets to build support for their protest against the state government over Parasnath Action Plan (PAP) in the next few days, said police. Party cadres distributed the pamphlets among residents living across remote villages of Parasnath to register their opposition against PAP. “We were informed about the distribution of pamphlets through sources. Police were directed to verify claims. Appropriate action will be taken”, said Giridih DSP Vijay A Kujur.

In April, the state government chalked out schemes to benefit villages under PAP along the lines of Saranda Action Plan (SAP). Maoist-hit villages under Giridih and Dhanbad districts would be developed as part of the plan. These pamphlets have been issued in the name of North Chhotanagpur Zonal Committee. They say that state government has confined their developmental plan to only a few villages of Parasnath. The pamphlets also highlight various social development plans like the irrigation plan for farmers, pending Konar dam irrigation project and others issues which are pending implementation. “More than 69% villages and 49% schools in the state lack proper infrastructure”, read the pamphlets distributed.