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[Bang Galore]

A question to my indian friends .. what is it exactly that these maoist want from the indian gov and India in general i would like to gain some knowledge on these fools thanks.

You heard about those guys who ran Cambodia for some time? The guys who left behind mountains of skulls? The Khmer Rouge? These guys fancy doing that kind of ruling. Or atleast dreaming that one day they could do that.

 

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Two Security Force personnel injured in landmine explosion in Odisha:

Two Security Force (SF) Personnel were injured when three landmines planted by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres exploded during a combing operation in Sonepur Ghati forest of Daringbadi area in Kandhamal District on July 5, reports IBN Live. Two claymore mines were also recovered from the site.

Meanwhile, Maoists set ablaze a porcelain machine used in canal construction work in Malkangiri District in the night July 4, reports Times of India. No injury or casualty was reported in the incident, the Police said. According to sources, a group of about 20 Maoists reached near Malkangiri Poteru Village (MPV) 77 village under MV 79 Police limits at around 10 pm and set the vehicle on fire. The Maoists had earlier threatened the contractor engaged with the work not to go ahead with the project, the sources said, adding stalling the work was apparently aimed at preventing Security Forces’ (SFs) from moving into areas under Naxal [Left Wing Extremism] control. The Maoists, however, alleged in a letter that officials concerned are siphoning off huge sums of money in the name of repair of canals in the District, sources added.

Separately, three Maoists reportedly involved in the killing of SF personnel and many crimes were arrested from Jajpur and Keonjhar District, reports Orissadiary.com. "In a joint combing operation by Jajpur and Keonjhar police arrested three Maoists. Police also seized two guns from them. All the three arrested Maoists have been identified as Gora Hansada (24) of village Rangamatia, Shyamasundar Bakse (24) of village Rangamatia and Ramachandra Hemrum (22) of Chandipasi village. Gora Hansada was arrested from Jajpur Road and the other two from Ghasipura police station area of Keonjhar district ", Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar said.

In addition, a local court allowed Odisha Government to withdraw at least three cases against 42 activists of Maoist-backed Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS), including its president Nachika Linga, reports IBN Live. The order was passed by the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) court at Laxmipur. According to sources, of the 42 persons against whom cases were withdrawn, 12 persons, including Linga, were accused of destroying a home at Podapodar village in 2009 while 30 others had been booked for their alleged involvement in attacking one Debar Sagar and a liquor shop at Laxmipur in 2008 and 2009 respectively.

 

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Civilian abducted in Bihar:

Ranchi Express reports that one villager was abducted by the cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) from Ghoskotand village under Khaira Police limits in Jamui District in the evening of July 5. Around 30-40 Maoists raided the village and abducted Basudev Rai, a sympathiser of Munna Shah Squad of the outfit. Sources added that wife of Rai was elected as the panch member in the Panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) election.

 

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New militant group formed in Assam:

The Times of India reports that a new militant outfit, named Dimasa National Revolutionary Front (DNRF), headed by ‘chairman’ Hasong Dimasa and 'finance secretary' Diamond Dimasa, has been formed in Dima Hasao District. DNRF 'publicity secretary' Black Dimasa said that the aim of the outfit is to "ensure safety and security of the Dimasa people living in the region and all-round development of Dima Hasao District.” He also claimed that DNRF was concerned about the demand raised by the NC Hills Indigenous Students Forum (NCHISF) to bifurcate the Dima Hasao District. "We oppose the demand for bifurcation at all costs. We can't allow the district to weaken geographically by dividing it further in the name of any community or group of people,” it said. DNRF cadres have also been engaged in extortion activities for the past few days.

Meanwhile, The Telegraph on July 5 reports that the anti-talks faction of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-ATF) with instructions from senior ULFA-ATF leader Jibon Moran has started recruiting school dropouts. A source said, “The cash incentive, which is given right at the time of joining, ranges between INR 1,000 and INR 6,000. Moreover, the cadres are also promised monthly pay once they are trained and are fit for operations,”

Separately, the suspected RDX used in the 2008 Assam serial blasts by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were procured by NDFB operative Gajen Shah from the Army’s firing range in Baksa District, reports Hindustan Times.

 

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Naxals attack police in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh

Raigarh, July 6 (PTI) Police today claimed to have injured a few naxals in an encounter in Raigarh district of the Chhattisgarh state.

District Superintendent of Police, Rahul Sharma, said that a group of around 30 naxals attacked police team which was conducting a combing operation near Pardhiyapali village this morning.

Police returned the fire, and the naxals, outnumbered, fled from the spot, he said. It is suspected that they left for neighbouring Mahasamund district.

Earlier, the police had received information that naxals were holding a meeting at the village.

Police surmised from the blood stains on the spot that some of the naxals must have been wounded, he added. No policeman was injured.

Police also recovered an SLR rifle and 19 live rounds from the spot. PTI

 

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Woman Maoist killed in Chhattisgarh:

IBN Live reports that a woman Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre was killed in an encounter with the Security Force personnel in Balrampur Police District on July 6. The encounter took place in the forests of Navadih village under Chando Police limits when a group of Maoists opened indiscriminate firing on the team of Joint Police Force, during a routine patrol, Superintendent of Police (SP) N K Khare said. The deceased, identified as Meena Khalko (18) from Karpa Mutki village, was killed in retaliatory fire, the SP said. Some weapons and Maoists literature was also recovered from her, Khare added.

Meanwhile, Police claimed to have injured a few Maoists in an encounter in Raigarh District. SP Rahul Sharma said a group of around 30 Maoists attacked a Police team which was conducting a combing operation near Pardhiyapali village. Police returned the fire, and the Maoists, outnumbered, escaped towards neighbouring Mahasamund District, Sharma added. The Police recovered one SLR rifle and 19 live rounds from the incident site.

 

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Maoists abduct five villagers in Odisha:

Orissadiary.com reports that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres abducted five villagers, including one former Maoist, who was about to surrender before the Police from Potteru village under Kalimela block (administrative division) of Motu Police limits in Malkangiri District late in the night of July 5. More than 200 Maoists divided in two groups arrived at Potteru village in the midnight and held a public meeting at the outskirt of the village where the Maoist leaders flayed the Naveen Pattnaik Government for not addressing the people’s issues and anti-people policy, one eyewitness said. Later, one group of the Maoists entered into the village and abducted Suresh Bandami, Bandami Nala, Madkami Jaga, Bandami Mukta and Bandami Suba at the gun point from their houses alleging them as Police informers. Bandami Suba, a former Maoist of Motu Dalam (squad) was in contact with the District Police officials to surrender at any time, Superintendent of Police Anirudha Singh said.

Meanwhile, the other group of armed Maoist cadres assembled in the village, simultaneously carried out an hour long operation by looting the houses and decamped with valuables and household items, of Special Police Officer Rama Chandra Madkami, who is now undergoing training in Angul, and two other village headmen, Madkami Masa and Madkami Rama of the village in the District.

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Police neutralise Maoist den in Jharkhand:

Times of India reports that the Security Force (SF) during an between July 4-6in the Sarju-Gotag hills axis under Latehar Police Station neutralised a training camp of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Koel Sank Zone and recovered Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and indigenous arms factories spread over an area of two square kilometres. The SF also recovered around three tones of explosives, chemicals and parts of weapons. The recoveries also included books on making IEDs, chemical formulas and over 20 sacks of ammonium nitrates and other materials. The SFs also recovered a blueprint ofof May 3, 2011 Lohardaga serial IED blasts in which 11 Police personnel were killed. "The blueprint was recovered from the indigenous IED factory where real time testing of explosives was done," said Jharkhand Police spokesperson S. N. Pradhan.

The camp, considered the backbone of Naxalism [Left Wing Extremism (LWE)] in Bihar and Jharkhand, often remained guarded with over 100 Maoists and more than 500 IED were planted on the routes to the camp. The camp which falls under the Koel Sankh Zone, and spreads through Palamu, Garhwa, Latehar, Lohardaga, Gumla, Gaya, Aurangabad and Northern Districts of Chhattisgarh is considered the richest of the Maoists zones in Bihar and Jharkhand.

Meanwhile, a Maoist leader in the Panchparganiya area, identified as Heera Singh Munda (50), and Etwa Mahali, a 15-year-old Maoist courier, were arrested from a forest area under Bundu Police Station in Ranchi District on July 6. During the interrogation, the arrestees confessed to have hidden 310 explosive boosters at Aradih forest. Later, the Ranchi Police recovered the 310 explosive boosters hidden in the natural bunker.

Separately, another Maoist, identified as Sanjay Singh Munda (21), surrendered before the Police at Bundu Police Station in the District. Munda hailed from Lungtu village in Bundu and was wanted in nearly six Maoist cases. Munda joined the Maoist outfit at the age of 13. He has also worked actively in spreading the influence of Maoism and was an active cadre of the Kundan Pahan squad, the Police said. IBN Live, however, reported that the surrendered Maoist is Nishant, who was active in Saranda forests of West Singhbhum District for over last four years.

 

[Vibs]

A question to my indian friends .. what is it exactly that these maoist want from the indian gov and India in general i would like to gain some knowledge on these fools thanks.

They want to over throw the Indian Govt and install a communist regime following Mao's philosophy. Hence the name Maoists. They are called Naxalites as well because the movement started in Naxalbari region in WB. After their initial strategy failed in 1967,they've resorted to riling up tribals in neglected areas to take up arms and join the "cause".

"The Naxalite movement, though continued intensively from 1967 to the middle of 1970s and resurfaced after some years, could not go a long way achieving anything commendable because of the following reasons:-
1. The Naxalites wanted to surround the towns and cities by the villages, i.e. they wanted to encircle the urban centres with organized peasant forces of the villages. If the peasant militia could have occupied the cities, according to Majumdar, the so-called bourgeois government would fall making the passage to the coming of a socialist government; but the Naxalites could not and did not come up to a stage capable of organizing the peasants and thereby encircling the towns.
2. Majumdar gave sole importance to secret organization and armed training of its members for the purpose of eliminating the class enemies. As the Naxalites did not have mass level organization, they lacked mass support. Only with select few armed elements not properly educated in political line no big thing could be done.
3. "Khatam" or the action of eliminating the so-called class enemies in villages was a wrong principle of political mobilization by individual murder of select few people whose political class- character was never adjudged by their socio-economic conditions, and the properties they possessed, but very often only by their political affiliation or by the name and colour of the party or parties they directly or indirectly belonged to for a long or a short period of time. For example, in Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar they killed some petty jotdars who otherwise could have been comrades in action against the capitalists or could be friends in a revolution for radical change.
4. Recruitment in the Naxalite party was never done on proper judgment and scrutiny of the political characters and behaviours of the recruits. It so happened that many people only to feast on their animosities with their personal enemies got recruited in the Naxalite party only to utilize the help of the Naxalites to have their personal enemies in the neighbourhood killed on the basis of pseudo-identification of them as class enemies.
5. In many cases, dreaded criminals too enrolled in the Naxalite party with the aim of getting fire arms and to train themselves in the manufacture and use of fire arms. Thus very soon the party turned into an organization of professional criminal outfits who soon deserted the party after obtaining training or weapons. Many of these armed criminals soon began to carry out armed robberies. In many cases, they also informed the police about the hidden training centres of the Naxalites so as to avoid becoming victims of the Naxalites’ targets as approvers in favour of the government..
6. The ruling Congress party inserted spies inside the unguarded and porous Naxalite organization to gather information about its secret bases and arrest its supporters. Government intelligence personnel and police disguised as Naxalite sympathizers got into the party’s inner organization and rounded most of its leaders including Charu Majumdar into the jail. Thus police had information about the movements of Majumdar after he had gone underground in 1970, and he was arrested in Calcutta in July, 1972. He died in jail days after his arrest, probably in the night of 27th or 28th of July. It is not known how he died, although the government reported that he died of heart attack.
7. Ordinary people in villages were terrified at the brutal and gruesome ways they killed the fellow villagers vilifying them as class enemies. As for example, at Bholardabri in Alipurduar they killed Rajen Pandit who was a refugee from East Pakistan and arduously was running a family of 12 dependents. By any means he was no class enemy at all. In another case they killed a person, chopped his head off the torso and hanged the head and the torso down the branches of trees with ropes in two separate places, the horrible sights of which cast a gloom on the faces of bemoaning villagers. After that, Naxalites could count no support from the villagers.

 

[Don Jaguar]

Maoists abduct five villagers in Odisha:

Orissadiary.com reports that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres abducted five villagers, including one former Maoist, who was about to surrender before the Police from Potteru village under Kalimela block (administrative division) of Motu Police limits in Malkangiri District late in the night of July 5. More than 200 Maoists divided in two groups arrived at Potteru village in the midnight and held a public meeting at the outskirt of the village where the Maoist leaders flayed the Naveen Pattnaik Government for not addressing the people’s issues and anti-people policy, one eyewitness said. Later, one group of the Maoists entered into the village and abducted Suresh Bandami, Bandami Nala, Madkami Jaga, Bandami Mukta and Bandami Suba at the gun point from their houses alleging them as Police informers. Bandami Suba, a former Maoist of Motu Dalam (squad) was in contact with the District Police officials to surrender at any time, Superintendent of Police Anirudha Singh said.

Meanwhile, the other group of armed Maoist cadres assembled in the village, simultaneously carried out an hour long operation by looting the houses and decamped with valuables and household items, of Special Police Officer Rama Chandra Madkami, who is now undergoing training in Angul, and two other village headmen, Madkami Masa and Madkami Rama of the village in the District.

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Police neutralise Maoist den in Jharkhand:

Times of India reports that the Security Force (SF) during an between July 4-6in the Sarju-Gotag hills axis under Latehar Police Station neutralised a training camp of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Koel Sank Zone and recovered Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and indigenous arms factories spread over an area of two square kilometres. The SF also recovered around three tones of explosives, chemicals and parts of weapons. The recoveries also included books on making IEDs, chemical formulas and over 20 sacks of ammonium nitrates and other materials. The SFs also recovered a blueprint ofof May 3, 2011 Lohardaga serial IED blasts in which 11 Police personnel were killed. "The blueprint was recovered from the indigenous IED factory where real time testing of explosives was done," said Jharkhand Police spokesperson S. N. Pradhan.

The camp, considered the backbone of Naxalism [Left Wing Extremism (LWE)] in Bihar and Jharkhand, often remained guarded with over 100 Maoists and more than 500 IED were planted on the routes to the camp. The camp which falls under the Koel Sankh Zone, and spreads through Palamu, Garhwa, Latehar, Lohardaga, Gumla, Gaya, Aurangabad and Northern Districts of Chhattisgarh is considered the richest of the Maoists zones in Bihar and Jharkhand.

Meanwhile, a Maoist leader in the Panchparganiya area, identified as Heera Singh Munda (50), and Etwa Mahali, a 15-year-old Maoist courier, were arrested from a forest area under Bundu Police Station in Ranchi District on July 6. During the interrogation, the arrestees confessed to have hidden 310 explosive boosters at Aradih forest. Later, the Ranchi Police recovered the 310 explosive boosters hidden in the natural bunker.

Separately, another Maoist, identified as Sanjay Singh Munda (21), surrendered before the Police at Bundu Police Station in the District. Munda hailed from Lungtu village in Bundu and was wanted in nearly six Maoist cases. Munda joined the Maoist outfit at the age of 13. He has also worked actively in spreading the influence of Maoism and was an active cadre of the Kundan Pahan squad, the Police said. IBN Live, however, reported that the surrendered Maoist is Nishant, who was active in Saranda forests of West Singhbhum District for over last four years.

It seems like you have links with maoist leaders, you are aware of whatever they do!!!

itni information kahan se ati hai ap ke pass??? ap tu pechay hi par gae hain in ke!!!

 

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They want to over throw the Indian Govt and install a communist regime following Mao's philosophy. Hence the name Maoists. They are called Naxalites as well because the movement started in Naxalbari region in WB. After their initial strategy failed in 1967,they've resorted to riling up tribals in neglected areas to take up arms and join the "cause".

"The Naxalite movement, though continued intensively from 1967 to the middle of 1970s and resurfaced after some years, could not go a long way achieving anything commendable because of the following reasons:-
1. The Naxalites wanted to surround the towns and cities by the villages, i.e. they wanted to encircle the urban centres with organized peasant forces of the villages. If the peasant militia could have occupied the cities, according to Majumdar, the so-called bourgeois government would fall making the passage to the coming of a socialist government; but the Naxalites could not and did not come up to a stage capable of organizing the peasants and thereby encircling the towns.
2. Majumdar gave sole importance to secret organization and armed training of its members for the purpose of eliminating the class enemies. As the Naxalites did not have mass level organization, they lacked mass support. Only with select few armed elements not properly educated in political line no big thing could be done.
3. "Khatam" or the action of eliminating the so-called class enemies in villages was a wrong principle of political mobilization by individual murder of select few people whose political class- character was never adjudged by their socio-economic conditions, and the properties they possessed, but very often only by their political affiliation or by the name and colour of the party or parties they directly or indirectly belonged to for a long or a short period of time. For example, in Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar they killed some petty jotdars who otherwise could have been comrades in action against the capitalists or could be friends in a revolution for radical change.
4. Recruitment in the Naxalite party was never done on proper judgment and scrutiny of the political characters and behaviours of the recruits. It so happened that many people only to feast on their animosities with their personal enemies got recruited in the Naxalite party only to utilize the help of the Naxalites to have their personal enemies in the neighbourhood killed on the basis of pseudo-identification of them as class enemies.
5. In many cases, dreaded criminals too enrolled in the Naxalite party with the aim of getting fire arms and to train themselves in the manufacture and use of fire arms. Thus very soon the party turned into an organization of professional criminal outfits who soon deserted the party after obtaining training or weapons. Many of these armed criminals soon began to carry out armed robberies. In many cases, they also informed the police about the hidden training centres of the Naxalites so as to avoid becoming victims of the Naxalites’ targets as approvers in favour of the government..
6. The ruling Congress party inserted spies inside the unguarded and porous Naxalite organization to gather information about its secret bases and arrest its supporters. Government intelligence personnel and police disguised as Naxalite sympathizers got into the party’s inner organization and rounded most of its leaders including Charu Majumdar into the jail. Thus police had information about the movements of Majumdar after he had gone underground in 1970, and he was arrested in Calcutta in July, 1972. He died in jail days after his arrest, probably in the night of 27th or 28th of July. It is not known how he died, although the government reported that he died of heart attack.
7. Ordinary people in villages were terrified at the brutal and gruesome ways they killed the fellow villagers vilifying them as class enemies. As for example, at Bholardabri in Alipurduar they killed Rajen Pandit who was a refugee from East Pakistan and arduously was running a family of 12 dependents. By any means he was no class enemy at all. In another case they killed a person, chopped his head off the torso and hanged the head and the torso down the branches of trees with ropes in two separate places, the horrible sights of which cast a gloom on the faces of bemoaning villagers. After that, Naxalites could count no support from the villagers.

Thankyou kindly Vibs for the info they must be out of their damn minds thinking they will over throw the indian gov.

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You heard about those guys who ran Cambodia for some time? The guys who left behind mountains of skulls? The Khmer Rouge? These guys fancy doing that kind of ruling. Or atleast dreaming that one day they could do that.

Thx for the info Bang Galore.

 

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Three persons killed by Maoists in Maharashtra:

Three persons were killed allegedly by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border in two separate incidents in Gadchiroli District on July 7, reports IBN Live. Punjaram Durve (34) was killed by the Maoists in Kotgul village in Korchi taluka (revenue unit).

In another incident, two persons identified as Rakesh Goya (20) and Dalsu Pada (35) were killed by the Maoists on suspicion of being police informers in Peepli-Boorgi village in Kasansur.

Meanwhile, around 1,020 youth from Vidarbha have been recruited by Army over the last nine months, a senior official said. This year Army's Branch Recruitment Office (BRO) in Nagpur, conducted drive at Chandrapur and Amravati besides in Nagpur between April 2010 to January 2011 and recruited 1020 youths for selection in Army, Colonel M S Bains of BRO said. Akola topped the list with 246 youth selected from the city followed by 187 from Amravati, 49 from Gadchiroli and 97 from Nagpur.

 

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Maoists kill four persons in Odisha:

Orissadiary.com reports that four persons were killed by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres in two separate incidents in Rayagada and Koraput Districts on July 7. Kailash Majhi, of Godibali village, and Shashi Majhi, of Dhobasil village, of Godibali Panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) of Kashipur Block (administrative division) in Rayagada District were shot dead by around 50 armed Maoists of the Kashipur-Niyamgiri Area Committee, reportedly for being Police informers. The Maoists posters left behind demanded that anti-Maoist operations be stopped, and wanted the State and Central Governments as well as Vedanta Alumina Limited to drop their plans to mine the Niyamgiri hills, adds The Hindu.

Meanwhile, the Maoists killed Balaji Takri, a constable of Machkund Police Station and Binod Khemundu, a Home Guard, both residents of Koraput Town, while they were on their way back from Anakadeli weekly market to Machkund.

 

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Two shot dead by suspected Maoists:

Ara, July 8 (PTI) A man and his son were shot dead by a group of men at Jagdishpur Bazaar in Bihar's Bhojpur district, about 25 km from here, police said today.

Another person who suffered gun-shot injuries in the shootout was admitted to a government hospital here. PTI

 

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Garo militant chief escaped in encounter:

Shillong, July 8 (PTI) The commander-in-chief of a Garo militant group escaped in an encounter with Meghalaya Police commandos this morning in the state’s East Garo Hills district.

A heavy exchange of fire took place at around 7 am between SWAT commandos and a group of Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants who were in their camp at Nengmandalgre, about 8 km from the district headquarter town of Williamnagar, a police official said.

There were about 10-15 militants armed with sophisticated weapons, including GNLA ‘c-in-c’ Sohan D Shira in the camp when the encounter took place. There was no casualty.

The militants managed to escape in the 20-minute firing. Crockery, ration – sufficient for some 15 people - and some documents were found in the camp later.

Combing operations were on in and around the areas to trace the militants. PTI

 

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Maoists Kangaroo court punishes school teacher in Bihar:

Times of India reports that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) conducted a Kangaroo Court during the late hours on July 7 in Manjhar village in Gaya District, and punished Ranjit Malakar, a school teacher for reportedly molesting a girl student of 7th standard of his school. The victim’s mother told media persons that she was satisfied with the punishment ruled out to the tainted teacher and that she will prefer going to the Maoists for help than approaching to the Police.

Meanwhile, nine CPI-Maoist cadres, including two self-styled ‘area commanders’, surrendered before the Police in Sasaram in Rohtas District on July 9, reports IBN Live. Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said the Maoists, including ‘area commanders’ Anil Kushwaha and Nirmal Singh Kharwar, gave themselves up before Deputy Inspector General (Magadh range) S M Khopade with their firearms. The Maoists handed over to the Police their weapons one AK 47 rifle, eight regular rifles looted from the Police, besides around 3,000 rounds of ammunition, Maharaj said. The others surrendered cadres are identified as Nirmal Oraon, Nakharu Kharwar, Meghnath Paswan, Srinivas Singh, Rajendra Singh Kharwar, Chotelal Chero and Pramod Tiwari.

Separately, the State Government decided to recruit more Special Police Officers (SPOs) to counter CPI-Maoist attacks in all its 31 Naxal [Left Wing extremism]-affected Districts, reports Daily Pioneer reports on July 8. Director General of Police (DGP) Neelmani has said that the State Police will recruit 6,900 SPOs on a monthly remuneration of INR 4, 000 from villages where Maoists enjoy support or have been identified as Maoist stronghold. At present there are about 1,200 SPOs on Police rolls in Maoist-hit Districts like Jamui, Banka and Munger. "All SPOs are working under the direct supervision of the District Superintendent of Police, but there is no plan to arm them," DGP Neelmani said. "We're trying to provide training to the Special Police Officers so that they can do their work without being identified", a high-ranking Police Officer at the Police headquarters said. "The killing of police informers by the Maoists is proof that the Reds are feeling the heat of the revamped police intelligence network. It is a positive sign, but we're also mulling ways to protect lives of SPOs", Neelmani added. "The police managed to put the heat on Kabir Koda and Maoist leader of Kosi region with the help of regular feedback from the SPO there," officials pointed out.