Four maoists, including a woman were killed in an encounter with Indian security forces

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Doordarshan Cameraman Achyuta Nanda Sahu's passes for various events that he had covered, hang at his residence in New Delhi, Tuesday, Oct 30, 1018. | Photo Credit: PTI

Two maoists are believed to be killed in the gunfight between the police and Maoists.

Two policemen and a Doordarshan cameraperson lost their lives and two maoists are believed to be gunned down in a gunfight between the police and Maoists in poll-bound Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Tuesday morning.

The police team was ambushed in a forest area near village, around 450 km from capital, police said.

The incident took place when the local police were carrying out patrolling on motorcycles from camp towards village, Deputy Inspector General (anti-maoists operations) told PTI.

A three-member team of Doordarshan engaged in election-related news coverage was caught in the crossfire, he said.

The deceased are Sub-Inspector Rudra Pratap Singh, Assistant Constable Mangalu and DD News cameraman Achyutanand Sahu, Deputy Inspector General (anti-maoists operations) said.

DD News cameraman Achyutanand Sahu had come from New Delhi for work. The other two members of the DD team, including a journalist, were safe, the officer said.

Constable Vishnu Netam and Assistant Constable Rakesh Kaushal, who sustained injuries in the gun battle were admitted to the district hospital. If required, they would be airlifted to state capital for further treatment, Deputy Inspector General (anti-maoists operations) added.

DM Awashti, Special Director General (anti-Maoist operations), said the exchange of fire between the Maoists and police went on for about an hour. The maoists then retreated into a village, while the police chased them.

The police saw two people being dragged away by the Maoists, which indicated that they were killed in the retaliatory action.

After the gun battle, the police recovered 8 to 10 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and defused them, DM Awashti, Special Director General (anti-Maoist operations) said.

'Attack not related to elections'

The attack was not linked to the coming Assembly elections but was aimed at discouraging men and contractors working on a road construction project, DM Awashti, Special Director General (anti-Maoist operations) said. “I would like to clarify once again that these two incidents - one which took place this morning and another which took place three days back - do not have any direct or indirect connection with the ensuing elections in the State.”

DM Awashti, Special Director General (anti-Maoist operations) said road construction work was on at several places across the maoists-affected areas over the last three years.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, condemning the attack,said insurgents won’t be able to weaken the Indian Establishment resolve.

“Strongly condemn the maoists attack on @DDNewsLive crew . Deeply saddened by the demise of our cameraman Achyuta Nanda Sahu and two jawans of @crpfindia. These insurgents will NOT weaken our resolve. We WILL prevail,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore tweeted.

Teams of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Special Task Force (STF) and the District Reserve Guard (DRG) were immediately rushed to the forest to trace the ultras, the Deputy Inspector General (anti-maoists operations) said.

Four CRPF personnel killed in attack on October 27
On October 27, four CRPF personnel were killed and two others were injured when Maoists blew up their bullet-proof bunker vehicle in AFSPA area of district.

The next day, a BJP leader and member of Zila Panchayat was seriously injured after ultras attacked him with sharp-edged weapons at his village .

The State is going to the polls next month and maoists have asked voters to boycott the exercise.

The first phase of polls, covering 18 constituencies of eight maoists-affected districts will be held on November 12.

The remaining 72 constituencies will witness polling on November 20.

Counting of votes will take place on December 11.

 

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https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...inst-perpetrators-says-cm/article25394812.ece

Kheronibari, November 01, 2018 23:12 IST
Updated: November 01, 2018 23:12 IST
“We will not spare the culprits of the killings and will be brought to book,” CM said.
Three members of a family were among the five persons shot dead by suspected ULFA (Independent) while two others were injured at Kheroni in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Thursday night, police said.

A group of assailants with sophisticated weapons came to this village near Dhola-Sadiya bridge and called out five-six persons from their house around 8 p.m., police said. They then opened indiscriminate fire upon those people before fleeing under the cover of darkness, a police officer added.

Police suspect the gunmen belonged to the ULFA (Independent) faction as they were in battle fatigue. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal condemned “the killing of innocent people” and conveyed his sympathy to the bereaved families.

“Strong action will be taken against the perpetrators of this dastardly violence. We will not tolerate such cowardly act,” he told PTI.

Mr. Sonowal said he has directed State ministers Keshav Mahanta and Tapan Gogoi along with DGP Kuladhar Saikia to rush to the spot.

“We will not spare the culprits of the killings and will be brought to book,” he said. The CM appealed to the people of Assam to maintain peace and harmony. He also directed all deputy commissioners and SPs to remain alert.

 

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In hidden IEDs, army fights unknown threat in Manipur

The predominant weapon of insurgent groups, IEDs have killed, maimed or injured hundreds of soldiers in India’s north-east, including Manipur, over the last three decades.
india Updated: Nov 03, 2018 09:01 IST
Hindustan Times, Leimakhong (Imphal)

It doesn’t take a seasoned insurgent to assemble an IED and even greenhorns can do it, experts said. In its most basic form, an IED is nothing but a homemade bomb.(AP File Photo/Representative image)


Improvised explosive devices are one of the biggest challenges confronting soldiers deployed in insurgency-hit Manipur and mitigating that threat is a top priority, senior army officers said. The predominant weapon of insurgent groups, IEDs have killed, maimed or injured hundreds of soldiers in India’s north-east (NE), including Manipur, over the last three decades.

“It’s a threat that can’t be wished away. And it’s very easy to make an IED. We are evolving our tactics, stepping up counter-IED training and learning from experience,” said Major General VK Mishra, who heads the Leimakhong-headquartered 57 Mountain Division. Seventeen IED explosions have rocked the state this year compared to 44 blasts in 2017.

It doesn’t take a seasoned insurgent to assemble an IED and even greenhorns can do it, experts said. In its most basic form, an IED is nothing but a homemade bomb. “A container, an initiating mechanism, some explosive and a power source is all that is required to put an IED together. A nine-volt battery can initiate it,” said an officer, not authorised to speak to the media.

Ambush and grenade attacks are other means that insurgents employ to target the army and Assam Rifles. The vast area that the security forces operate in, the state’s topography and a 398-km porous border with Myanmar present a thicket of challenges to soldiers who operate from 180 bases scattered across Manipur.

“The road length we have to secure is around 1,630 km. It takes relentless effort and vigil to detect and destroy IEDs,” said Mishra.

It can take up to three hours to sanitise a 10-km road stretch, said another army officer during the demonstration of a road opening party operation on a stretch between Imphal and Moreh on Asian Highway-1 (AH-1).

“Even if we don’t recover anything for, say, three months, we still have to keep at it. The insurgents perhaps are looking at one or more big hits in a year. Our job is to not let them succeed,” said the officer, also not authorised to speak to the media. A total of 59 IEDs have been recovered since the beginning of last year.

Dozens of insurgent camps allow the militants to carry out attacks against soldiers and return to safe havens. Eighteen soldiers were killed in one such attack in June 2015, following which the Special Forces carried out surgical strikes against a few camps in Myanmar imposing heavy casualties on insurgents.

The IEDs came to prominence in the NE, including Manipur, in 1990, when insurgents began emulating experts said.

“Hundreds of soldiers have been killed and injured since then. It’s an unknown threat. You don’t know where it’s lying or who’s operating it. IEDs allow insurgents to inflict high casualties on soldiers and disrupt counter-insurgency operations,” said Lieutenant General SL Narasimhan (retd), who commanded a corps in the NE and is currently a member of the National Security Advisory Board.

IEDs are a weapon of plausible deniability, said Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan (retd), who was heading the Assam Rifles until April 2018. “There are scores of insurgent groups and anyone can blast an IED and deny they had anything to do with it. Sophisticated IEDs can be sourced from Myanmar. Around 36 soldiers have been killed in the North-east during the last two years,” added Chauhan, who was recently appointed the chairman of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group responsible for implementing ceasefire ground rules between the Centre and Naga insurgent groups.

He said another problem was that security forces did not have enough mine protected vehicles and not all roads supported their movement.

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Kin of Bengalis shot dead in Assam’s Tinsukia recount horror, village in shock
Suspected ULFA(I) militants abducted and shot dead five Bengali-speaking men in Assam’s Tinsukia on Thursday.
india Updated: Nov 03, 2018 09:00 IST
Hindustan Times, Bisonimukh (Assam)

Protesters burn tyres and block roads against the killings.(PTI)

Around 7.30 pm on Thursday, villagers in Bisonimukh Kherabari in Assam’s Tinsukia district heard a loud noise and thought firecrackers were going up in flames. But when some of them reached a small bridge at the entrance of the village, they found five men with gunshot wounds lying in a pool of blood.

Abhinash Biswas, his brother Ananta Biswas, uncle Shyamlal Biswas, and Dhananjay Namashudra, Subel Das died soon after. While Ananta and Abhinash were at their house, Shyamlal was alone at his grocery store a few metres away. Dhananjay and Subal, too, were picked up from the village.

Police said they recovered 38 empty cartridges of AK-47 from the spot. The attack in the village, where majority of the people are Bengali-speaking scheduled caste Hindus, has again highlighted the fault lines between the state’s indigenous groups and Bengali speakers.

Arjun Biswas, the son of Shyamlal, said his father had four gunshot wounds, including one on his head. Urmila Biswas, the wife of Abhinash, said a short, stout man in army fatigues and carrying an assault rifle, walked into the courtyard of their house on Thursday. Three other men waited outside the gate. They did not speak much and asked the victims to accompany them to the bridge, she said.

“I thought something was not right. Why is the army taking them,” Urmila said. Minutes later she heard gunshots. Shadeb, who survived as he fell into the stream before he could be shot, told the family the gunmen did not talk much. “They just made them sit down and fired at them,” a villager quoted Shadeb as saying. Shadeb has been taken into protective custody.

 

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Pressure needs to be maintained, says Maj. Gen. Mishra of 57 Mountain Division

While the intensity of Manipur’s decades-old insurgency has been contained, with security forces ensuring there are no insurgent camps left in the State, militants continue to take advantage of the hilly terrain and porous border with Myanmar to carry out attacks with IEDs and sophisticated weapons, army officials said.

“A number of insurgent groups were active in Manipur,” Major General V.K. Mishra, General Officer Commanding of the Leimakhong based 57 Mountain Division, told a group of visiting journalists. “We have been able to control them, most of their activities have been contained. However, the effort by insurgent groups to disrupt the peace continues, which is evident by the recoveries of weapons, IEDs and apprehension of cadres. This pressure needs to be maintained,” he added.

With the forces conducting intelligence based operations that have limited the militants’ operational ability, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and ambushes have become the insurgents’ mainstay and pose the biggest challenges for the Army and the Assam Rifles.

“Yes, IEDs are a threat. It is so easy to assemble, easy to hide and it can be placed anywhere. And it has lethality,” Maj. Gen. Mishra acknowledged.

There have been 17 IED blasts so far this year, compared with 44 explosions in 2017. At the same time, 30 IEDs and 112 weapons were recovered this year, compared with 29 IEDs and 98 weapons in 2017.

Maj. Gen. Mishra said the terrain posed challenges, as it is mostly hilly and thickly forested and added, “Wherever there is insurgency, there are a number of over ground workers and there is also an element of agitation which is engineered.”

Addressing the media team before its departure to Imphal, Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat had said, “Nagas and Manipuri insurgents were given advanced weapons by outside powers. They have AK-47s, rocket launchers and missiles.”

Gen. Rawat observed that as part of the government’s Act East policy Manipur assumed greater significance. It becomes a key centre as the “Asian Highway 1 will link India to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) through Moreh,” he added.

This adds to the responsibility of the armed forces to ensure security along the highway to enable free movement. With the threat of IEDs and ambushes, the Army is already forced to conduct operations employing Road Opening Parties (ROP) to comb every inch of the 1,630 km of roads to ensure military movement. It takes up to three hours to sanitise a 10-km road stretch depending on the topography and needs more than 100 personnel.

In addition, Manipur and Myanmar have a 16-km Free Movement Regime along the border which allows local residents to move freely.

Deep in Myanmar
The insurgents have moved their camps, across the border in Myanmar, deeper into the neighbouring country’s territory after retaliatory strikes by the Army in the wake of a 2015 ambush of an Army convoy in Chandel district using IEDs, which killed 18 soldiers.

“Insurgent groups have moved deeper into Myanmar” following the strikes, an Army officer, who did not wish to be identified, observed. Myanmar has its limitations in acting and joint cooperation between the two armies has been limited so far, he added.

Another officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “there are an estimated 200-250 active insurgents in the State outside the camps monitored as part of the Suspension of Operations (SoO).”

The 2008 SoO was signed between the Centre, State and two Kuki insurgent groupings, the Kuki National Organisations (KNO) and United Peoples’ Front (UPF).

Under this, more than 1,800 insurgents are housed in monitored camps and their weapons are locked.

 

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Google Maps images locates Kherbari in Assam.


Officials say recent killings may have been the group’s handiwork

New recruits of an extremist group could have gunned down five Bengali-speaking people in eastern Assam’s Bisonimukh-Kherbari on November 1 to earn a ‘ticket’ to its hideout in Myanmar.

Indian Military police officials in Sadiya, the district where the five were killed, and adjoining Tinsukia said at least 10 youth from villages within 25-30 km radius of Bisonimukh-Kherbari joined the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) that Paresh Baruah heads. Four of them were arrested while two from Tengapani, a settlement straddling Assam and Aruanchal Pradesh and about 30 km from Bisonimukh-Kherbari, are believed to be in Myanmar.

Officials of an intelligence agency said the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, has virtually given a fresh lease of life to the anti-talks ULFA-I, which was down and almost out a couple of years ago. The ULFA-I claims to bat for the kind of ‘Assamese nationalism’ that the bill — viewed as a tool for dumping ‘Bangladeshi Hindus’ on Assam — is believed to have stoked.

The ULFA-I has denied its hand in the latest killing, but police say the incident has “all the trappings” of the outfit’s operation. Though Mr. Baruah is believed to operate from Ruili on the Myanmar-China border, most cadres of his outfit operate from the camps of the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland in Myanmar’s Sagaing division. “Almost like the 1980s, when the anti-foreigners movement had awakened Assamese nationalism, a number of young men have gravitated towards the ULFA-I. The outfit’s leaders and their masters in Myanmar and on the Myanmar-China border provide new recruits automatic weapons to carry out a major strike as a ticket for underground life in safe havens across the border,” an intelligence officer said, declining to be quoted.

The strikes, over the last two decades, have usually been in villages bordering Arunachal Pradesh inhabited by “mainstream” communities such as Bihari and Bengali that the ULFA-I see as colonisers who replaced the British.

In December 2000, the ULFA — not split into the pro-talks and anti-talks factions then — had killed 28 Bihari petty traders at Sadiya’s Sunpura on the border with Arunachal Pradesh. At least 70 more were killed in neighbouring areas.

“Arunachal Pradesh, where policing is suspect, is a blind spot for us. The extremists conduct hit and run operations from the neighbouring State and from the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. Myanmar is only 50-60 km through jungles,” Prasanta Sagar Changmai, said former Superintendent of Police of Sadiya.

“A difficult terrain comprising sandbars, water bodies and jungles with isolated villages of diverse communities make Sadiya vulnerable to extremist attacks. And because of lack of infrastructure, many locals feel alienated and are known to provide temporary shelter to the extremists to operate from,” he said.

According to the State’s former Director General of Police G.M Srivastava, the Bisonimukh-Kherbari killing has exposed the lack of proper analysis of intelligence inputs on extremist activities. “There has been a pattern to extremist strikes over the years. Handling insurgency and counter-insurgency has taken a bad shape and last week’s killings were a case of failure to analyse intelligence inputs properly,” he told The Hindu.

 

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November 11, 2018 10:58 IST
Updated: November 11, 2018 11:42 IST

BSF personnel injured in IED blast ; security has been heightened in seven districts which go to polls in first phase on Monday

A Maoist was gunned down in an encounter with security forceson Sunday morning, a day ahead of polling in the region for the State Assembly polls.

The exchange of fire took place at a forest, when a team of the Special Task Force (STF) was out on an anti-Maoist operation, a senior police official told PTI. As per the ground report, a body of a maoist clad in ‘uniform’ and a rifle were recovered from the spot, located around 450 km from capital, senior police official said. Further details are awaited as the search operation was still under way, senior police official added.

Improvised Explosive Device Blast

Meanwhile, a Border Security Force personnel was injured when Maoists detonated an improvised explosive device on Sunday.

A team of the Border Security Force was out on an area-domination operation when Maoists blew up the IED in a forest area located around 200 km from Capital, Superintendent of Police told PTI over the phone.

"Border Security Force's Sub-Inspector sustained injuries in the explosion," senior police official said.

Reinforcement was rushed to the spot and the injured personnel was being evacuated from the forest, senior police official said, adding that a search operation was under way in the region.

Security increased
Security has been heightened in seven districts which go to polls in the first phase on Monday. Around one lakh security personnel have been deployed to ensure smooth conduct of elections.

Maoists have asked voters to boycott the polls. Assembly will go to polls in two phases — on November 12 and 20 — and the results will be announced on December 11.

The first phase of polls will cover 18 constituencies of eight Maoist-affected districts .

 

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November 11, 2018 15:34 IST
Updated: November 11, 2018 15:46 IST

Voting will be held on Monday in 18 seats spread over eight maoist-affected districts in the State.

Nearly one lakh security personnel have been deployed in the maoist-affected districts going to polls in the first phase on Monday, amid the threat from Maoists who have called for a boycott of the elections.

On the eve of the polls, a sub-inspector of the Border Security Force (BSF) lost his life when maoist detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in district while a Maoist was gunned down in an encounter in district.

Voting will be held on Monday in 18 seats spread over eight maoist-affected districts in the State.

Maoist outfits have given calls for boycott of the election and executed over half-a-dozen attacks in the last 15 days, three of them major ones which left 13 people killed including a cameraman of national broadcaster Doordarshan who was covering the election campaign.

Escort to polling parties
According to police, escorting polling parties to their destinations and bringing them back after the polls pose challenges to them in the maoist hotbed.

“Around one lakh security personnel, including central paramilitary force, have been deployed to ensure peaceful polling in the first phase,” Special Director General (anti-maoist operations) told PTI.

All counter measures have been taken to thwart attempts by Maoists to disrupt the poll process, Special Director General said.

Massive security measures

A total of 650 companies (roughly around 65,000 security personnel), including of paramilitary forces like the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Border Security Force (BSF), the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and other state forces, have been sent by the Centre for poll duty, he said.

These units are apart from the paramilitary personnel and 200 companies of state forces already engaged in the anti- Maoist operations, Special Director General said.

Special Director General said around 650 polling booth parties were airlifted by helicopters on Saturday to remote areas while other teams were being sent by road on Sunday.

Helicopters of the Indian Air Force and the BSF were pressed into service for the purpose, he said.

“The challenge is to escort all polling parties safely to their destination in Maoist-affected areas and later to conduct polls and bring back them safely,” Special Director General said.

Special Director General said there are inputs of maoist planning to plant IEDs to target security men. “Therefore, a hawk eye was being kept on roads in such areas,” the official said.

Forces from other States
Special Director General said forces that have arrived from other States have been advised to avoid using any road unless it has been sanitised by “road opening parties” (ROPs) or subjected to a de-mining exercise to detect and clear IEDs.

Security men have also been asked to avoid patrolling on foot as maoist are known to place iron spikes to inflict injuries, Special Director General said.

Indian Security Forces have also been asked to maintain extra caution and sanitise polling booths and other premises in sensitive areas, Special Director General said.

In the last 10 days, over 300 IEDs were recovered from the region and district by security forces, Special Director General added.

Polling booths relocated
Another state Military police official said as many as 198 polling booths have been relocated in the eight districts going to polls, in view of the Maoist threat and convenience of locals.

The highest number of 76 polling booths were shifted in districts.

Indian Air Force Drones have been deployed in sensitive areas to track the movements of maoists as maoists might target polling personnel on way to the booths, another state Military police official said.

Another state Military police official have been asked to maintain a strict vigil on the borders.

Early start, early end
Due to the maoist threat, polling in 10 constituencies — will start at 7 am and end at 3 pm.

In the other eight seats the polling time will be 8 am to 5 pm.

On November 8, four civilians and a CISF jawan were killed when maoists detonated a bus with an IED in district.

Before that on October 30, three police personnel and a cameraman of national broadcaster Doordarshan were killed in a Maoist attack.

On October 27, four CRPF personnel were killed and two others injured after Maoists blew up their bullet proof bunker vehicle with an IED in district.

 

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Police said that a set of six IED blasts was reported to have been triggered by Maoists to target the security forces

Nov 11, 2018 18:09 IST

A sub-inspector of Border Security Force (BSF) was killed when Maoists reportedly triggered six IED blasts on Sunday, a day ahead of polling in the region.

In another incident, one Maoist was gunned down on in an encounter with security forces in insurgency-hit district.

Police said that a set of six IED blasts was reported to have been triggered by Maoists to target the security forces in between and villages.

The blast took place at around 8.30 am when a team of BSF was on routine area dominated by Maoists in region. The area comes under assembly constituency from where MP has been fielded in the assembly elections.

SP said BSF sub-inspector, Mahendra Singh was rushed to a hospital after he sustained splinter and bullet injuries.

Soon after being alerted, reinforcement was rushed to the spot and the injured was being evacuated from the forest.

“We have launched a combing operation in the area after the blast,” the SP added.

On the encounter in district, special director general of police (anti Maoist operation) said the exchange of fire broke out in the forest of the police station limits when a team of Special Task Force (STF) was out on an anti-Maoist operation.

Security has been heightened in seven districts going to polls in the first phase on Monday (November 12) and around one lakh security personnel has been deployed to ensure smooth conduct of elections.

The Maoists have called upon voters to boycott the polls.

 

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November 16, 2018 01:10 IST
Updated: November 16, 2018 01:10 IST

The incidents of Maoist violence and the increased seizure of improvised explosive devices by the security forces during the election campaign are not indicative of any growth in the strength of the banned outfit.

“Maoists are under tremendous pressure and they are unable to get new recruits. They are increasingly resorting to explosive devices to compensate for their inability to find recruits. Many of them have surrendered in recent months,” he told The Hindu while campaigning in the State.

Over 1,200 arrested

According to the countrywide figures, 131 Maoists were killed, 1,278 apprehended in Indian Security Forces operations, while 58 surrendered so far in 2018. Maoist violence dipped overall in 2018, but it recorded a spike since the election was announced.

“From 90 districts earlier, now there are only 10 or 12 districts that are under the threat of Maoists across the country,” adding that the outfit would be rendered ineffective in the “next two to three years.”

 

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Firearms factory busted in Bengal, third one in four months
“On the basis of a tip off, a team of policemen drawn from Kaliachak and Mothabari police stations conducted a raid just opposite to Alipur-II gram panchayat office,” police said.
india Updated: Oct 06, 2018 23:25 IST
Hindustan Times, Berhampore

Bengal police on Friday night arrested two persons and seized 24 weapons after it unearthed an illegal firearms in Malda district.(HT Photo)

Bengal police on Friday night arrested two persons and seized 24 weapons after it unearthed illegal firearms in Malda district. This is the third illegal firearms factory raided by police in the past five months. Malda district police superintendent said, the two persons who wee arrested belonged to Bihar’s Munger district.


“On the basis of a tip off, a team of policemen drawn from Kaliachak and Mothabari police stations conducted a raid just opposite to Alipur-II gram panchayat office. We have seized 24 illegal firearms and big quantity of materials used for making crude bombs. Most of these were one-shoters (crude but lethal firearms that need to be loaded after every shot). Initial questioning has revealed that they were engaged in making firearms at the unit for more than a month,” ” said Malda district police superintendent.

The owner of the grill unit is on the run, said police officers.

On May 31, Malda Police unearthed firearms in Naldubi area in the district and recovered 22 semi-finished pistols and arrested 10 persons. On July 30, the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police arrested six persons and seized 20 semi-finished firearms from a unit that used to operate behind the facade of a sweatmeat shop in Jagaddal in North 24 Parganas district, about 35 km away from Kolkata.

Fake Indian currency with a face value of Rs 1 lakh was also seized in the raid, said , deputy commissioner (zone 1) of Barrackpore Police . The six arrested were also residents of Munger.

On August 18, police in Murshidabad district arrested a class 11 student of Kaliachak High School with 20 firearms and 100 rounds of ammunition. Though investigation revealed that the weapons were made at a unit, police could not reach the manufacturers.

West Bengal has been turning into a terrorist den under the Hag's rule for so many years. Malda, Murshidabad.. and now this.... we really have a Taliban state acting in the shadows of democracy.

What scares me is that it is in a state which is right next door to me.

I just don't understand why isn't PM Modi harsh with the TMC rogue regime in Bengal?

 

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Updated: Nov 20, 2018 18:18 IST
A woman Maoist was Tuesday gunned down in an encounter with security forces in district, police said.

The firefight took place in the afternoon near village under police station limits when security personnel were out on an anti-Maoist operation, Deputy Inspector General (Anti-Maoist Operation) told PTI.

A combined squad of the state’s Special Task Force (STF) and the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was cordoning off a forest area located around 500 kilometres away from the capital, when maoists opened fire, Deputy Inspector General (Anti-Maoist Operation) said.

After a brief exchange of fire with the security forces, the ultras fled the spot, the Deputy Inspector General (Anti-Maoist Operation) said.

The woman ultra, identified was a member of local organisation squad (LOS) of Maoists. Her body was recovered from the spot, Deputy Inspector General (Anti-Maoist Operation) said.

The search operation was still underway in the region and further details were awaited, the Deputy Inspector General (Anti-Maoist Operation) added.

A Maoist, identified who was a “deputy commander” of “area committee” of the Maoist outfit, was killed in an encounter in the same area on Monday.

 

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Nov 26, 2018 17:24 IST

Nine Maoists and two personnel of the state police were killed in a gun battle in Sukma district on Monday afternoon, officials said. The encounter is taking place near Saklar village under Kistaram police station area. (PTI File)

 

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Mao ne pareshan kar dia hai

 

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Explosives expert took over in 2017. Explosives expert carries a reward of over ₹2 crore on Explosives expert head.

Maoists have released a statement saying their chief has stepped down voluntarily due to “falling health and old age”.

The current chief who has a reward of over ₹2 crore on current chief head, replaced last year.

According to a senior government official, current chief a B.Tech was last spotted in district in July.

The statement in Hindi dated November 10, said that at the fifth meeting of the central committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoists).

 

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As I always maintain, we need to have a deep-state system established rather than the rosy-eyed 'rights' based on. If we don't take a hard stance, we will never be respected. Terrorist groups need to be targeted with extreme prejudice and no sympathy. Sending in Army will only make them vulnerable.

We need well-armed, well protected folks in civilian clothes, taking out potential suspects one by one, through shadows and without any reason. Unless there is a sense of terror in the hearts of terrorists, they will not stop. Also, any villages or hinterland towns sympathetic to naxals must be wiped out with ruthlessness never seen before. Unless we are ready to show that we can do worse, we will never be able to overcome terrorism.

That's what all countries do; they are ready to take the collateral damage and fight terrorism.