Six Naxals gunned down in WB, operation on in Jharkhand

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Kolkata/Ranchi: Security forces tasted success in the fight against the Naxals, Monday, as six Naxals were killed after a night-long encounter in the dense forests of West Midnapore district. An encounter is also currently on between the forces and the ultras in Jharkhand.

In, Midnapore, acting on a specific intelligence, a joint-team of the CRPF and special anti-Naxal force SAF went into the operation in the dense forests under Golatore police station last night.

Six bodies, including that of a woman cadre, were found from the site of the encounter which ended in the wee hours today, they said, adding twelve weapons, including SLRs and INSAS rifles, were also recovered.

According to initial reports, one of the six dead is suspected to be Siddhu Soren, a top Naxal commander in of the state.

A CRPF jawan also lost his life in the gunbattle, he has been identified as constable Ashish Tiwari.

Jharkhand encounter

A fierce encounter is on since yesterday night between the security forces and Maoists in the forests on the borders of Ranchi and Khunti district in Jharkhand.

The encounter has been going on for the last several hours but the details are yet to be received, the police sources said here.

The forces from the state police, CRPF and the anti-Naxal Jaguar Force has been in action against Maoists in the forests near Bundu, about 40 km from here.

A hardcore Maoist, Kundan Pahan, who has been the thorn in the anti-Naxal operation in this region, has been the main leader of CPI (Maoist) in Khunti area where Bundu falls.

Pahan is accused of masterminding the beheading of Special branch officer Francis Induwar in October last year.

Meanwhile, DGP control room ASI, R C Ram said the control room has no such information that the security forces have busted a Naxal camp during the encounterSix Naxals killed in an encounter in West Bengal

 

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Top Maoist CRPF commando among 7 killed in West Bengal encounter.


In a blow to the Maoists, one of their top leaders was killed along with five other Naxals after a night-long encounter with security forces at Motera jungle in the district which also left a CRPF commando dead.

Acting on an intelligence tip off,
special teams of CRPF and anti Naxal force SAF conducted an operation in the
dense forests under Golatore police station last night which continued till the wee hours this morning,official sources said.

The Maoists, who were caught by surprise fired back and during the more than four hour long gunbattle that followed, six were killed, West Midnapore Superintendent of Police Manoj Verma said in kolkata.

In the encounter, Sidhu Soren,the chief of Sidhu Kanhu Gana Militia, who was wanted in several cases of murder, arson and kidnappings was shot dead, the sources said.

Soren, who was also the secretary of the Maoist based People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), was in
the news earlier this year after he fell out with the political leadership of the outfit and spurned Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's offer for talks.

SAF commando Ashish Tiwari was killed in the gunbattle,they said.

"We have found six bodies of the Maoists,including that of a woman cadre," Verma said.

Twelve weapons,including SLRs and INSAS rifles, were recovered from the spot.

Earlier,on June 16 the joint forces had shot dead 12 Maoists, including three women cadre at Ranja forest under Salboni police station in the same district.



Top Maoist CRPF commando among 7 killed in West Bengal encounter. - Hindustan Times

 

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RIP Ashish Tiwari.
good job CRPF.

 

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May the fallen hero find peace. On the other hand, 6 is a very low number for these b***a*ds, who've murdered hundreds of jawans in the last 1 year. I hope the Army is called in to crush these **** before it spreads in the entire northeast.

The last thing I'd want in Sikkim is Communist scum brainwashing innocent people into violence. The weakness of a democracy is that we cannot make them illegal completely.