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Maoists enforce strikes in four
Indian states

Shamsuddin Ahmed

Maoists in India have enforced strike in four states on March 13-14 when joint forces of police and paramilitary troopers encountered with the red rebels at different places. The strike was called in the states of Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar to protest the killing in police custody of a Maoist commander in West Midnapore district of West Bengal on March 10.
However, denying the Maoist claim the government said Shashadhar Mahato was killed in an encounter with joint forces. Similar official version on the killing of Maoist central leader Azad in Jharkhand in June last year was proved wrong by media investigation triggering severe criticism and demand by human right bodies and intellectuals for a judicial inquiry. The government had rejected the demand.
Heavy fighting between the Maoists and the government forces was reported from the Maoist heartland Chhattisgarh. Some 150 police and paramilitary forces were ambushed by the rebels killing at least three and injuring nine others on March 14. The encounter took place in the same district where Maoists had massacred 75 paramilitary troops and one police officer in April last year.
In Bihar, government forces fought with the Maoists for long 12 hours in Motihari region on the previous night. Police claimed 6 rebels were killed. The rebels torched 10 vehicles, shot and wounded a driver for defying the strike. Two mobile phone towers were blown away in Gaya district. In Jharkhand, two policemen were killed and three others injured in gunfight with the Maoists. In West Bengal, TV channels showed heavy contingents of joint forces were patrolling the troubled areas where shops remained closed and transport vehicles were off the roads. Banners and posters were put up by the Maoists saying Mahato was killed in a false encounter and pledging to take revenge of the killing.
In Orissa, the government has issued an advisory to district authorities and police officials asking them not to visit Maoist-hit areas, especially at night. All officials and law enforcers were advised to avoid use of official vehicles and not to divulge tour plans in advance. Political leaders were asked to avoid public meetings in Maoist-dominated areas - about half of the state. This shows the government has least or no control over a vast area of the state.
The security guideline was issued over the weekend in an apparent unwillingness of the government to implement the agreement reached with the Maoists in securing the release of district collector RV Krishna and engineer Pabitra Majhi. Abducted by the Maoists they were set free unhurt after eight days on February 24 following the government's concurrence to meet all the 14 demands reached with the Maoist through three mediators.
The demands included immediate halt of anti-Maoist 'Operation Green Hunt', release of 600 Maoist leaders and activists languishing in Orissa jails, scrapping of accords giving lands belonging to tribal people to the multinational companies and compensation to families of Maoist sympathizers killed in police custody.
"We will implement all the 4 demands," home secretary of the state U.N. Behera had told newsmen after securing release of Krishna and Pabitra from the Maoist captivity. No doubt the government entered into the agreement accepting all the demands to meet the exigency of saving the lives of two bright young officers. The central government was annoyed and worried. Central Home Minister P Chidambaram said it would create precedence for all other Maoist-hit states in future.
A selected group of newsmen met Maoist regional leader Gazi alias Sannu at a place of Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border few days after the two officers were set free. The Maoist cadres guiding the journalists' team stopped halfway. For, they received a surprise alert of the presence of joint forces ahead of their way. They took a different route and reached the destination. Maoist leader told the journalists that the agreement is clear; it is now the government's obligation to implement it. He appealed to the intellectuals and people to make sure that the government abides by its commitment. Sannu did not miss signalling a dire consequence for non-implementation of the agreement by the government.
Maoists claim they are fighting for the downtrodden adhivasis, tribals and dalits and 70 percent landless people of India. The movement intensified since 2002 with the merger of three factions into Communist Party of India (Maoist) and is gaining ground. The movement now extends with the presence of Maoist fighters in 18 out of 28 states. Chhattisgarh in central India is the de facto capital of outlawed CPI (Maoist). Admittedly, the government has no control in 44,000 square kilometres comprising four districts of the state. Anti-Maoist Operation Green Hunt launched more than two years ago involving about 1,50,000 paramilitary forces in addition to state police has failed to make any headway. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has repeatedly told the nation that the Maoists have posed the gravest threat to the internal security to India. He advocated holistic measures side by side combating the Maoists with arms.
CPI (Maoist) secretary nicknamed Ganopati explaining the party's immediate course of action few months ago has said they are going to create a liberated zone in the central India and upgrade its guerrilla force into Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). What unnerved New Delhi government is that the Maoists have adopted a policy of extending support to the secessionist movement in Kashmir, Gorkhaland, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura. Recent security intelligence reports suggest that the Maoist leaders have established operational links with the secessionist leaders of these states.
A section of national security experts and intellectuals tend to believe that the Maoist movement in India has close connection with the Chinese far reaching policy of disintegrating India, dividing the country into 22 or more independent states based on language and culture.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Police exchange fire at Naxals in Gadchiroli

Nagpur, Mar 19 (PTI) Police opened fire at a group of alleged Naxalites near Shivaghat in Dhanora taluka of Gadchiroli district early today morning.

Police said Naxals opened fire at the police party, and at least one ultra was believed to have been seriously injured the retaliatory fire.

However, all of them managed to escape, they said.

Police fired 90 rounds during the encounter that lasted 30 to 40 minutes.

Police later recovered 20 rounds of Self-Loading Rifle, five detonators and 100-ft wire, besides some printed material from the spot.

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Naxals kill senior citizen in Gadchiroli

Nagpur, Mar 20 (PTI) A group of armed Naxals allegedly killed a 60-year-old man in Jabti-Khandi village in Gadchiroli district in the early hours today, police said.

About 20 to 25 armed Naxals, including women, woke up one Keju Damaji Ichami from his house and forcibly took him to a nearby forest, they said.

Later, they killed the victim by attacking him with sharp weapons, police said adding that the motive of the murder was not immediately known.

Further investigation is on.

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[Abu Zolfiqar]

Police constable killed in landmine blast by Maoists

Jamshedpur, March 24: A police constable was killed while another injured in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists at Ghatsila in Jharkhand Thursday.

The blast took place after an encounter between the security personnel and Maoists at Daimari area in East Singhbhum district in the course of an operation to flush out extremists, DIG (Kolhan) Navin Kumar Singh said.

Police said that the blast occurred when security personnel, including district police, were scaling nearby hills after the encounter.

The constable killed was the body guard of the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Ghatsila, the police said.

Additional forces have been rushed to the spot and a massive search operation was launched in the Maoist-affected area, which borders west Midnapore of West Bengal.

Police constable killed in landmine blast by Maoists | Siasat


CRPF jawan killed, another injured in encounter

Medininagar (Jharkhand), Mar 25 (PTI) A CRPF jawan was killed while another suffered injuries in an encounter with CPI(Maoists) near Matnag village in Palamu district, a senior CRPF officer said today.

CRPF DIG B K Sharma told PTI that the security personnel were returning to their base in Palamu after recovering the bodies of an electrical engineer Jitendra Singh and another person Mukesh Yadav, who were allegedly abducted by Maoists from Porsam in Latehar district when they were fired upon by the Maoists last evening near Matang village.

One CRPF jawan Amandeep Singh, a resident of Hoshiarpur in Punjab was killed in the encounter while another jawan D K Rathi, a resident of Alwar in Rajasthan was injured, he said.

Sharma said the encounter lasted till this morning and the injured jawan has been airlifted to Ranchi for treatment.

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Maoists blast school building in Bihar

AURANGABAD: Armed Maoists blasted a state-run school at a village in Bihar's Aurangabad district, police said.

Over 50 ultras surrounded the school building in Tetrain village under Deo police station area and triggered a dynamite blast to blow it up late last night, they said.

Three rooms of the school building were destroyed in the blast, they said.

A powerful bomb was also recovered from adjoining Yadupur village where the Naxalites had blown up a school building previous year.

Raids are on in the area to nab the ultras.

Maoists blast school building in Bihar - The Times of India

 

[red_baron]

thanks for sharing....naxelites are planning to attack nuclear facilities in india next i read on an online indian defence forum

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

always a possibility, though im sure those facilities are well guarded.....unlike the insurgents we are fighting along the Afghan border, the naxals are pretty poorly armed. They seem to be decent at hit and run tactics, but not as tough as the enemy we are fighting. In neither country are the nuclear facilities at risk of attack; though i do seem to recall a couple years back a prominent nuclear scientist in the neighbour country did go missing in the restive region and was later found dead. Nobody knows yet if he revealed any information (of whatever kind) to his kidnappers.

 

[red_baron]

in india my friend everything is possbile....possibilities are endless when a tank can fall in well

http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/55241-indian-tank-falls-into-well.html

 

[mehru]

Maoist-police gunfight in Bihar
PTI, Mar 13, 2011, 08.21pm IST

DEHRI-ON-SONE/MOTIHARI, (Bihar): Gunfights have taken place between Maoists and security forces on Sunsay in Kaimur hills and Motihari in Bihar.

The police said the encounter at Kaimur hills in Rohtas district has ended on Sunday evening and the other encounter has been going on at Darmaha in Kesharia of East Champaran district.
Maoist-police gunfight in Bihar - Times Of India

Six Naxals killed in encounter with police in Motihari in Bihar
United News of India
Motihari, March 14, 2011


Six Naxalites were killed while three policemen sustained injuries in a fierce encounter at Kesaria in East Champaran district, police said today.

They said a joint team of Special Auxiliary Police (SAP) and local police conducted a raid late last night at a hide-out under Kesaria police station area when reports were received that the rebels were taking shelter and planning to engineer disruptive activities.

As soon as police reached near the hide-out, the ultras opened fire triggering a fierce encounter, police said.

Six Naxalites were killed on the spot while three policemen sustained injuries in the shoot-out that lasted several hours, they added.

The bodies were recovered from the spot today, police said, adding the injured policemen had been admitted to a local hospital.

During the combing operation, ten Naxalites were arrested from Kesaria police station area. Five rifles and eight guns were recovered from those arrested. A large number of live cartridges were also seized during the search operation, police further added.

Six Naxals killed in encounter with police in Motihari in Bihar | NetIndian | India News | Latest News from India | Breaking News from India | Latest Headlines

 

[mehru]

Maoists kill alleged police spy

Maoists on Friday shot dead a man at the forest area in Chattisgarh, alleging he was a police spy.

The Naxalites dragged 50-year old Kirtan Mandawai from his residence and shot him dead at Koracha village of Rajnandgaon district in Chattisgarh.

The Maoists after killing him left behind a note alleging that he was a police spy hence they killed him.

Earlier this month, Maoists killed two other people on similar charges.

Maoists kill alleged police spy

Maoists blast school building in Bihar
PTI, Mar 25, 2011, 01.11pm IST

AURANGABAD: Armed Maoists blasted a state-run school at a village in Bihar's Aurangabad district, police said.

Over 50 ultras surrounded the school building in Tetrain village under Deo police station area and triggered a dynamite blast to blow it up late last night, they said.
Maoists blast school building in Bihar - Times Of India

 

[mehru]

47006: India faces growing Naxalite menace

There is no chance Naxalites could threaten the Indian state, and the GOI is unlikely to eradicate Naxalism through police action. The most likely prospect is a continuing and bloody stalemate.

47006, 12/08/2005 08:36, 05 NEWDELHI 9245, Embassy New Delhi, CONFIDENTIAL, 05 CHENNAI 2761 | 05 NEWDELHI 1274, "This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.","C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 05 NEW DELHI 009245

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/08/2015 TAGS: PGOV, PINR, PREL, PHUM, PTER, KCRM, ASEC, SCUL, IN, NP, Counter-Terrorism

SUBJECT: INDIA FACES GROWING NAXALITE MENACE

REF: A. NEW DELHI 1274 B. CHENNAI 2761

Classified By: Political Counselor Geoff Pyatt, for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)

1. (C) Summary: Despite India's rapidly expanding economy, Naxalite groups in poor rural areas and their educated urban sympathizers continue to spread and have extended their areas of influence into 12 states, proving they can launch spectacular attacks on government facilities. The GOI has responded with the formation of an ""interstate joint task force,"" to enable state governments to devise a coordinated response. New Delhi has also committed 24 battalions of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to counterinsurgency operations. Embassy contacts and many commentators are skeptical that the new initiatives will accomplish very much, as they do little to address the persistent economic and social problems underlying Naxalism. Indian economic development has missed large portions of the countryside. India's scheduled tribes (STs), and scheduled castes (SCs) who live in these remote areas, often face lives of desperation and view Naxalites as the only groups willing to defend them. There is no chance Naxalites could threaten the Indian state, and the GOI is unlikely to eradicate Naxalism through police action. The most likely prospect is a continuing and bloody stalemate. To end the conflict, the GOI would have to convince Naxalites to renounce violence and embrace parliamentary politics. This would entail ending violent attacks on those Naxalites who have already entered politics and enacting comprehensive land reform and other measures aimed at dismantling the rural feudal power structure than oppresses India's poorest citizens. There is little sign that the GOI is willing to take such steps. India's Maoists are closely eyeing events in Nepal, and if their Nepali comrades eventually give up armed struggle, it could encourage the Naxalites to do the same. Meanwhile in parts of the countryside the bloodletting continues. End Summary.

Naxal Activity Spreading

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2. (U) The Indian Home Ministry in its 2004-2005 Annual Report documented the spread and continued success of the Naxalite insurgency. According to the report, there are currently 9,300 full-time Naxalite fighters active in 118 districts and spread across 12 Indian states (Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh). The insurgents are armed with 6,300 factory-made weapons (mostly WWII era bolt action rifles, supplemented by a few automatic weapons). The remainder are armed with ""country-made"" weapons, produced in rural gunshops of dubious reliability. Counter-insurgency experts estimate that every one Naxalite fighter is supported by four ""active sympathizers,"" who provide housing, food, money, weapons and other infrastructural support. Just two years ago, Naxalites were active in only 9 states and 76 districts. To date in 2005 some 510 persons have been killed in Naxalite violence, including over 90 security force personnel. The goal of the Naxalites is to create a ""revolutionary corridor"" from AP to Nepal, that will form the basis of a ""liberated zone"" governed by the Maoists (reftel). They currently administer areas in Jharkhand and AP where there is no GOI control and which provide safe-haven for Naxalite combat units.

3. (U) Experts concur with the GOI assessment that while Naxalite activity has spread over a wider geographic area, the number of violent attacks has remained constant. Increased tactical sophistication and the use of more lethal improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has pushed up the security force death toll, however. There have been a steady stream of Naxalite attacks throughout 2005. Some of the most notable include:

--November 2004 - 15 policemen killed in an Andhra Pradesh landmine attack.

--February 2005 - 38 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed in AP

--June 2005 - approximately 500 Naxalites attack the UP village of Madhuban destroying buildings, capturing weapons and killing several local policemen

--August 2005 - Naxalite murder of a member of the AP legislative assembly, his son and six others.

--August 2005 - 22 CRPF members killed in a Chattisgarh explosives attack.

--September 2005 - 15 police killed in Jharkhand

--November 2005 - Naxalites attack a Jharkhand police Training Center killing policemen and capturing 185 weapons

--November 2005 - an estimated 300 to 400 Naxalites attack the Jehanabad Prison in Bihar - killing several constables - freeing 341 inmates, including 20 members of the anti-Naxalite Ranvir Sena, whom they subsequently murdered.

Reasons for the Spread

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4. (U) Aggressive counterinsurgency operations by State police forces, supplemented by 24 battalions of the CRPF deployed by New Delhi, have failed to halt the spread of Naxalite activity. Experts agree that the Maoists are ahead of the game, adapting quickly to changed circumstances and growing in sophistication and capability since the September 2004 formation of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The formation of the banned CPI(Maoist), with the merger of the Peoples' War Group (PWG) and the Maoist Communist Center (MCC), has increased Naxalite capabilities, enabled intelligence sharing between formerly disparate Naxalite groups, increased the Naxalite support network, and allowed formerly localized groups to operate across state boundaries. The new party has implemented an extensive training program that has produced professional military-type cadres with improved tactics, better coordination, more sophisticated communication networks and better IEDs.

5. (C) Although Naxalites claim to represent the interests of India's oppressed Scheduled Castes (STs) and Schedule Tribes (STs), the leadership is almost entirely from the upper castes, including some highly educated individuals. The same applies to the extensive Naxalite support network, including above-ground organizations of educated middle class persons from academia, the media and the legal profession. As globalization and economic liberalization (neo-liberalism) expand in India, some within the largely middle-class anti-globalization forces disparage the Left Front (LF), a group of Communist and Socialist Parties who espouse parliamentary democracy and support the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government from outside. They feel that the Naxalites are the only ""true"" leftists, who stand up for the oppressed SCs and STs. The Naxalite movement would not have been able to expand without this middle-class, above-ground support.

New Delhi's Response

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6. (U) The Home Ministry, frustrated by the inability of Naxalite effected states to mount a coordinated response, on September 19 called the administrative heads, senior officials and Chief Ministers of the 12 states together in New Delhi. The participants established an ""interstate joint task force"" to ""facilitate coordinated and synergized anti-naxalite operations across state boundaries,"" and ""strengthen intelligence networks."" Home Minister Shivraj Patil hailed the meeting, claiming that it would foster a ""multi-track approach,"" rather than merely treating Naxalism as a law-enforcement problem. Patil emphasized that the new approach would work to develop the local economies in the effected areas, ensure political and social justice for the SCs and STs, and ""as a last resort"" act against those Naxalites who continue to insist on committing acts of violence.

An Opposition Viewpoint

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7. (C) Telegu Desam MP M. Jagannath represents an AP constituency with a large ST population in which Naxalites are quite active. Although he is in the opposition, he supported many of the views expounded by Home Minister Patil, but urged the Indian state to go much further. In a December 2 conversation with Poloff, Jagannath emphasized that the Naxalite problem is inherently political, and cannot be solved with a purely law and order approach. He pointed out that India's STs and SCs often live in the grip of feudalism, that in India's more backward areas the ""feudals"" are usually supported by the high castes, and local police do the bidding of the feudal/high caste nexus, leaving STs and SCs helpless. India's rural underclass, he noted, face an unrelenting cycle of poverty, unemployment and atrocities, including the rape of wives and daughters. Seeing no other option, the STs and SCs often turn to the Naxalites, who provide them the means to exact revenge and reverse their economic status.

8. (C) Jagannath urged the GOI to tackle the Naxalite problem by providing employment and subsidized loans to poor SCs and STs and investing in genuine rural development programs, including extensive land reforms aimed at breaking the back of the feudals. Jagannath blamed the AP government for the breakdown of negotiations with the Naxalites there, pointing out that to show ""progress"" in the anti-Naxalite campaign, state police forces have picked up innocent tribals, murdered them and claimed they were Naxalites killed in ""encounters.""

The View from the Left

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9. (C) Journalist and political activist AS Verma, himself a former Naxalite, told Poloff on December 2 that the GOI's September 19 meeting was little more than political theater and would do nothing to stop the spread of Naxalism. He pointed out that LK Advani had pursued a similar policy as Home Minister in the previous NDA government, when Naxal activity was confined to only four states. Verma accused the GOI of inherent hypocrisy, in that it claims that Naxalism is a ""social problem,"" but then relies on a law and order solution. In Verma's estimation, the UPA will rely more on the police than the NDA. This is because the LF, which keeps the UPA in power, is a sworn enemy of the Naxalites, as the CPI(M) used harsh police methods to crush Naxalism in West Bengal.

10. (C) Verma urged the GOI to differentiate between revolutionaries and terrorists. Terrorists, he emphasized, have no mass base, while Naxalites have a popular following throughout India. The Naxalites, unlike terrorists, target their violence and do not engage in mass killing of innocents. This was demonstrated in Jehanabad, when they warned civilians to remain indoors and assured them they would not face attack. Verma emphasized that the GOI must stop jailing illegally leftist activists who speak out on behalf of STs/SCs, especially those that are landless laborers and poor peasants, and should release those currently in illegal detention. Arguing that India is basically a ""criminalized state,"" he noted that the left parties and Naxalites are the only parties in India that are not corrupt and entrenched with criminal mafias.

11. (C) Verma urged Poloff not to take Naxalite assertions of eternal class war at face value. In his estimation, Naxalite violence is a bargaining tool and a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. Saying that ""this is not the 1960's and there is no possibility of a violent overthrow of the Indian state,"" Verma insisted that the Naxalites want to see a negotiated settlement, an end to violence, and their acceptance as above-ground political parties. The GOI should hurry this process along by declaring a cease-fire, and ending violent attacks against the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), the above-ground political party formed by former Naxalites.

Comment - Naxalism as Prelude to Bargaining

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12. (C) Naxalites cannot overthrow the government of India, and are unlikely ever to control more than a few remote areas of the country. Likewise, the GOI is unlikely to eradicate Naxalism, as the crushing poverty, lingering feudalism and inherent discrimination of Indian society has nurtured desperation that finds its only outlet through violence. Without a radical change of tack by both sides, the most likely outcome is an extended stalemate that can only grow bloodier as the Naxalites acquire more sophistication and better weapons. While the security forces can gain the upper hand in some Naxalite areas, they can expect to suffer reverses in others. Three factors hold the key to an eventual solution: events in Nepal, the development of India's left parties, and the nature of Indian economic development.

13. (C) India's Naxalites are watching events in Nepal closely. Nepal is a small and largely homogeneous state, with an entrenched feudal class, weak central government, and a desperately poor rural underclass, which provides much better conditions for a Maoist revolution than India. If Nepal's Maoists eventually give up armed struggle and come to a negotiated settlement, it will provide the impetus to India's Maoists to do the same, as the chances for a Maoist victory in India are much less than in Nepal. Some leftists, such as Verma, argue that Indian Maoists are well aware that they cannot win a class war, and intend to negotiate a settlement when conditions are right. A negotiated outcome in Nepal would provide a further impetus.

14. (C) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is India's leftist flagship and remains a committed enemy of the Naxalites. CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat dismisses the Naxalites as ""adventurists"" whose ""politics rely on anarchic violence directed at individuals and ordinary people."" Karat argues that Naxalite violence only invites state repression, hurting the very people it intends to help. He has pledged the CPI(M) to ""counter politically and ideologically the false posturing of such 'revolutionary' activities."" The fledgling CPI(ML) is committed to bringing the Naxalites out of the underground and into parliamentary democracy, but faces opposition from both the LF and the GOI. In order for India's Naxalites to renounce violence, the GOI would have treat the CPI(ML) as a legitimate political party and provide reformed Naxalites an opportunity to join and agitate on behalf of STs and SCs.

15. (C) Desperation often drives Naxalism. The onus is on the GOI to demonstrate to India's have-nots that it is crafting an economic development program that is genuinely aimed at alleviating this desperate situation. As long as India's political parties and elites are willing to accept the status quo and not take on feudal interests, the stalemate and the violence will continue.

The Hindu : The India Cables / The Cables : 47006: India faces growing Naxalite menace

 

[Omar1984]

Suspected KCF man dies in custody, family alleges torture; probe ordered



Sohan Singh, alias Sohanjit Singh, an alleged Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) operative, arrested on March 7 by the State Special Operations Cell (SSOC) for possession of arms, died mysteriously in police custody on Monday.

Manminder Singh, Assistant Inspector General (AIG), SSOC, said Sohan Singh, who was lodged in the lock-up of the SSOC Centre, hanged himself from the ceiling fan with the help of his turban.

Even as authorities have termed the death as suicide, his family members think otherwise. His widow Bhinder Kaur, alleged that Sohan died “due to police torture”.

A judicial probe, to be conducted by a chief judicial magistrate has been ordered into the cause of Sohan Singh’s death. The body has been sent for a post-mortem. The police personnel on duty at the time of the death have also come under scrutiny.

Sohan Singh’s arrest was a major breakthrough for the police as he was wanted in cases related to disruptive activities including planting an RDX bomb in a Maruti car that was found abandoned near the Circuit House in May last year. He had a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head and was nabbed while attempting to escape to Nepal. He was alleged to be close to Paramjit Singh Panjwarh, the self-styled head of the KCF who was plotting the revival of terrorism in the state, AIG Singh said.


Suspected KCF man dies in custody, family alleges torture; probe ordered

 

[Omar1984]

Mann reiterates demand for separate Sikh state

Had Master Tara Singh strongly put up the demand before British at the time of Independence, Sikhs would have had a separate state Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann. He also reiterated his demand for a separate Sikh state of Khalistan.

Addressing the political conference of his party on the occasion of Hola Mohalla at Anandpur Sahib on Saturday, Mann said he and his supporters would continue the struggle till the fulfillment of their demand.

He said chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and other leaders of his party, Congress state president Capt Amarinder Singh and former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, besides the SGPC had “betrayed the Sikhs by accepting the slavery of a Hindu nation“.

He added that Akali leader Master Tara Singh was responsible for the present “slavery“ of Sikhs. “Had he (Master Tara Singh) strongly put up the demand before the British at the time of Independence, the Sikhs would have had a separate state now,“ Mann said.

The conference was addressed among others by Dhian Singh Mand, Gurnderpal Singh Dhanaula, Prof Mohinderpal Singh, Karnail Singh, Kuldeep Singh Bhagowal, Sukhjit Singh Kala Afghana, Amrik Singh Nangal and Ranjit Singh Santokhgarh. Fifteen resolutions were also passed.

The conference was marked by pro-Khalistan slogans . Stalls were also set up at the conference venue to sell the literature and photographs relating to panthic leader Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

Global Sikh News » Mann reiterates demand for separate Sikh state

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Villager killed, four naxalites arrested

Jamui (Bihar), Mar 31 (PTI) A villager was killed and four naxalites were arrested following an encounter between the ultras and security forces in the forest at Hasikol in Jamui district, a police officer said.

The villager, identified as Dudha Murmu, was killed after he was hit by a stray bullet during the encounter between the security forces and the naxalites while he was collecting fruits from the forest, Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajnarayan Singh said.

The security forces arrested four hardcore naxalites and seized from them a haul of arms and ammunition in an encounter that lasted for six hours, he said.

The security forces, comprising CRPF, district armed police force, STF and SAP, used rocket launchers and explosive launchers over the 100 rounds of firing on the heavily-armed ultras, Singh said.

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[KS]

Global Sikh News » Mann reiterates demand for separate Sikh state

Simanjit Singh Mann....He is married to the sister of the wife of Capt.Amarinder Singh, the President of PCC.

Love the Irony.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Four CRPF men gunned down in Assam, one injured​

Diphu, Apr 2 (PTI) Two days before the first phase of Assembly polls in Assam, ethnic insurgent outfit Karbi Peoples Liberation Tiger (KPLT) today gunned down four CRPF jawans and injured another in an encounter in Karbi Anglong district.

Several CRPF men are missing after the encounter, police said.

Last night, an operation was launched by the CRPF in the Deothar area, under Bokajan police station, against the newly-formed KPLT militants, they said.

The CRPF personnel came face to face with a large group of KPLT rebels at Arlangso today and an encounter ensued in which four CRPF men were gunned down, they said.

An injured CRPF man was admitted to Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) Hospital in neighbouring Golaghat district.

Three of the victims were identified as Mika Singh, Debendra Shaw and Dilip Kumar.

The operations were continuing, the police said, and a search was on for the missing CRPF men.

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[Abu Zolfiqar]

Bomb, pistol seized from Dhubri​

Dhubri, Apr 3 (PTI) A powerful bomb and a pistol with ammunition, suspected to be of the ULFA, were today seized from a house in Dhubri district, figuring in the second phase of Assembly polls on April 11, police said.

Based on a tip-off, police raided the house of suspected ULFA linkman Narayan Rai at Gauripur and found one kg improvised explosive devise (IED) and a 6.62-mm pistol with four live cartridges, they said.

Documents related to the banned outfit were also recovered from the house.

Rai told the police that the ULFA had kept the explosives in his house after threatening him with dire consequences if he did not do so.

The seizure was made by the police in course of intensified combing operations in the sensitive areas ahead of the Assembly elections

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