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.
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