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Maoist leader alleges govt insincere in implementing agreement:

Bhubaneswar, July 17 (PTI) A fortnight after his release from jail following withdrawal of case against him, Maoist leader Ganti Prasadam today slammed Orissa Government accusing it of being insincere in implementing the agreement with mediators for release of then Malkangiri collector.

"Naveen Patnaik government is not sincere enough to implement the agreement reached between it and the naxal-selected mediators", Prasadam said here.

Little progress had been made in implementation of 30-point agreement reached between Orissa government and mediators for release of collector R Vineel Krishna, who had been abducted by naxals on February 16, this year, he said.

Ganti Prasadam, whose release was one of the major demands of the abductors of Krishna, was freed from Koraput jail on July one following withdrawal of case against him by Orissa government.

Referring to the tribals lodged in jails on the charge of having links with ultras, Prasadam said during his days as a prisoner he had come to see the plight of the innocent jailed tribals from close quarters.

Endorsing Ganti's views, one of the naxal-chosen mediators Dandapani Mohanty said so far only five tribals had been released after withdrawal of charges against them. more PTI

Prasadam and Mohanty claimed over 500 innocent tribals were still languishing in several jails in the state and demanded that they should be immediately released.

Mohanty alleged that in violation of the agreement, the government was carrying out combing operation and implicating innocent tribals charging them as Maoists

Prasadam and Mohanty were here to attend a meeting of "Rajnaitak Bandimukti Committee" (release of political prisoners' committee) in which relatives of prisoners were also present. PTI

 

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Maoists announces ceasefire and stopping of violence.

 

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Maoists kill three civilians in Maharashtra:

IBN Live reports that a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres reportedly killed three persons including a sarpanch (head of village level local self-Government institution) in Korchi Taluka (Administrative unit) in Gadchiroli District in the night of July 17. The victims identified as Motiram Katenge (50), sarpanch of Dabri village, Sudhakar Koreti (40) and Paharsinh Kumre (55), were killed in the night of July 17 in Bijepar village and their bodies were dumped in neighbouring Mohgaon Tola village, Police said.

 

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One villager killed and one SF injured during an encounter in West Bengal:

Telegraph reports that one villager was killed and Sub-Inspector of Police Rajat Choudhary was injured, in an encounter between the Police and the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres in Purulia District in the night of July 15. With the Maoists running away after a 10-minutes encounter, the Police rescued Lakshmikanta Mahato, the abducted husband of a Congress Panchayat chief (president of Gram Panchayat, the village level local self-Government institution), who was left behind by the Maoists. The Maoists had demanded INR 150, 000 to release Lakshmikanta.

 

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Maoists kill civilian in Jharkhand:

The Hindu reports that a person, identified as Karma Sahu, was killed by suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Simdega District on July 18. The dead body of Sahu was recovered in Genmer-Chandsai village in the morning, the Superintendent of Police Anup Birthare said.

 

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40 ULFA-ATF militants trying to enter Assam before Independence Day:

Sentinel on July 18 reports that 40 Anti-Talks Faction of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-ATF) militants, trained by Kachin Independence Army (KIA), are trying to enter the State before Independence Day by crossing the Patkai hills from Lohit and Changlang Districts of Arunachal Pradesh.

Meanwhile, Army has ruled out the possibility for the militants to procure explosives from its firing ranges, reports Assam Tribune. The Army Public Relation Officer, Lieutenant Colonel SS Phogat, reacting to Assam Police suspicion that explosives for the Puri Express blast on July 10 were collected from the firing range of the Army at Tamulpur in Baksa District, said that well organized, systematic and safe procedures were followed in the firing ranges of the Army. He further said that the new generation fuses used since 2005-06, automatically explode on achieving the desired range in the target area. Also, Army keeps track of the bombs that are fired and even if a bomb remained unexploded, extracting TNT out of a solid casted artillery shell is not an easy task.

 

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Bru member killed by suspected UDLA militants in Mizoram:

Sentinel reports that a member of Bru community, Birguram (35), was shot dead by four unidentified assailants, suspected to be United Democratic Liberation Army (UDLA) militants, apparently tagging him as a Police informer, in Thinglian village of Kolasib District along the Mizoram-Tripura-Assam border on July 17. State Home Minister R. Lalzirliana told the Assembly on July 18 that Birguram, a resident of Thinglian village, was called out from his residence and shot dead by the suspected Bru outfit cadres.

Meanwhile, Mizoram Police arrested a Mizo arms smuggler, identified as Ngunthavnglina (58), during a search operation in south Vanlaiphai area under south Vanlaiphai Police Station in Lunglei District on July 15. One AK 56 rifle as well as one magazine was recovered from his possession.

 

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Policeman shot at in Jammu and Kashmir:

A Policeman, identified as Fareed Ahmad Khan (Belt no. 546/Armed Police, 5th Batallion) was injured on July 18, when a group of unidentified assailants opened fire at him outside his residence at Gutlibagh in Ganderbal District, reports Kashmir Times. Superintend of Police (SP), Ganderbal, Imtiyaz Hussain Mir said that the ‘district commander’ of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has been identified behind this incident. “He has been on the killing spree from the last few months where he has killed three persons and injuring one today”, he added.

Meanwhile, Security Forces (SFs) recovered a consignment of arms and ammunition from a hideout of HM at Khodra dhok under the jurisdiction of Budhal Police Station in Rajouri District, according to Daily Excelsior. Recoveries made form the site included one AK-56 rifle, three AK magazines, 251 bullets of AK-56, 15 bullets of Pika gun, six grenades of Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL), one RPG 7 grenade, one Chinese grenades, two Icom radio sets, one ALINCO radio set, 73 explosive sticks and some incriminating documents pertaining to HM. Sources said the AK-56 rifle recovered from the militant hideout carried the name of Abu Hussain, a HM militant, who happened to be the associate of slain HM ‘commander’ Abu Inqullabi.

 

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Explosives recovered in Bihar:

Acting on a tip-off, a raid was conducted by the Police in Naga Road locality close to the border under direct surveillance of the Deputy Superintendent of Police Rajeev Ranjan and a cache of explosives, including detonators, fuse wires and timer watch used in making crude bombs were recovered in East Champaran District in the evening of July 17, reports Telegraph. Several ornaments looted from a jewellery shop last month were also recovered. In addition five persons were also arrested.

Meanwhile, eight CPI-Maoist cadres, including a self-styled ‘area commander’ Sanjay Thakur, and a woman cadre, were arrested from Bashathpur village under Tariyani Police Station in Sheohar District, reports The Hindu. Acting on a tip-off, the Special Task Force of Bihar Police from Sheohar and Motihari raided the village where the Maoists had assembled last night and arrested them, Sub-Divisional Police Officer S M Vakil Ahmed said. Four of the arrested cadres were identified as Sanjay Thakur from Muzaffarpur, Kabita Kumari from Katihar, Umesh Thakur and Anjay Thakur residents of Sheohar. The identity of the four others is being ascertained, adds Telegraph. All the arrestees were reportedly involved in several operations carried out by the Maoists in Sheohar and East Champaran Districts, Ahmed added. Sanjay, a resident of Kasba Paigambarpur village under Minapur Police Station in neighbouring Muzaffarpur District, was involved in over a dozen Maoist-related incidents, including the abduction of former Block Development Officer of Tariyani, Manoj Singh last year [2010]. Sanjay was also involved in the attack on a Police team under Rajepur Police Station in East Champaran District in which the Station House Officer of the Police Station was injured. His name had also figured in the killing of a mukhiya (village head), Surendra Narain Singh.

 

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Investigators suspect the hand of a new militant outfit behind Mumbai serial blasts:

Investigators probing the July 13 triple bomb blasts in Mumbai suspect that the blasts could have been the handiwork of a little-known militant outfit, the JIAM (Jam-i-yyathul Ansarul Muslimeen), experts have started focusing on the involvement of JIAM, a relatively new terror outfit with a strong base in South India. Another investigator said the outfit functioned as a shadow organisation of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), according to DNA. The outfit recruited people from the IM and even from the underworld. An officer from a central investigative agency said JIAM, originally a organisation based in Bangladesh, has recruited several fresh faces from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Gujarat, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. There are unconfirmed reports that say JIAM could also have connections with the Taliban, the officer said.

 

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Maoists kill civilian in Jharkhand:

The Hindu reports that a person,

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Naxals kill three villagers in Gadchiroli:

Nagpur: A group of Naxalites allegedly killed three persons including a village-head in Korchi taluka of Gadchiroli district, police said on Monday.
The sarpanch of Dabri village Motiram Katenge (50), Sudhakar Koreti (40) and Paharsinh Kumre (55) were killed on Sunday night in Bijepar village and their bodies were dumped in neighbouring Mohgaon Tola village, they said.

 

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Congress delegation comes under attack, 3 party workers killed in Maoist ambush

RAIPUR: In an unprecedented attack, three Congress party workers were killed and four injured as the Maoists triggered a landmine explosion and opened fire on a vehicle part of a convoy carrying a high powered party delegation. Senior leaders, travelling in vehicles ahead, escaped unhurt. The convoy came under attack at five in the evening, on the periphery of Udanti wildlife sanctuary, 178 kilometers from the state capital.

The party top brass was returning from a kisan sammelan held in Durwagudi, a village in Deobhog block at the far end of Raipur district, on the border with Orissa. Senior leaders, including state congress president Nand Kumar Patel, leader of opposition Ravindra Choubey, and an array of MLAs, travelled at the head of the convoy, accompanied by police vehicles, while party workers formed the tail.

A few minutes before 5 pm, an explosion hit one of the cars of the tail as it neared a bridge. "Part of the bolero vehicle was damaged as it turned on its side. The Maoists then began spraying bullets, killing the driver," said Ram Niwas, additional director general of police. He said the casualties could go up to four.

There were 20-25 vehicles in the convoy and they were travelling in close succession, said Dhanendra Sahu, former congress president. "But not close enough for us to hear the blast. We realised a blast had taken place after we reached Mainpur, once we came into the range of mobile network, and our phone started ringing," he said.

"The blast was probably aimed at one of the police vehicles," said Ram Niwas . The Maoists are unlikely to target the opposition party, said police sources.