Archive for December 21st, 2007

Explosives seized from Naxals in TN

December 21, 2007

Madurai, Dec 20: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke of eliminating the Naxal “virus’ today, four tiffin box-type mines and an equal number of country-made pistols and hand grenades, explosive chemicals and detonators were recovered from the five Maoists arrested during a police encounter.
The items seized from the Maoists including sulphur and pottassium chlorate chemicals [...]

Indian Maoist insurgency spreading: PM

December 21, 2007

 
 
NEW DELHI (AFP) — India’s Maoist guerrillas have stepped up their insurgency and a dedicated security force must be set up to eliminate “this virus,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday. Last year, Singh described the ultra-leftist revolutionaries as the biggest single threat to internal security.
“It continues to be so and we cannot rest [...]

Maoist leader’s letter found at Dantewada jailer’s house

December 21, 2007

December 20, 2007, 
A letter from a Maoist leader and some pamphlets were found during a police raid at the house of a jailer in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada town, a police official said on Thursday, after the December 16 jailbreak engineered by Maoists in which 299 prisoners escaped.
“Police recovered a letter written in English by a leader [...]