A group of heavily armed Maoists opened fire early Saturday on a special police officers (SPOs) camp in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Dantewada district, but the attack was repulsed by the alert personnel.
Superintendent of Police Rahul Sharma said the rebels opened indiscriminate fire on the Chitalanka camp at around 1 a.m. The Maoists, numbering around two dozen, [...]
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Maoist attack on police camp repulsed
March 15, 2008Nepali Maoist continue on the rampage
March 15, 2008KATHMANDU, March 15 – CPN-Maoist cadres have been intimidating and mounting attacks on election campaigners of other political parties across the country. They have torched a Rastriya Prajatantra Party office, kidnapped a Nepali Congress candidate, beat up UML cadres and threatened Nepal Workers Peasants Party activists.
The Maoists stormed the RPP office in Chitwan Thursday evening [...]
10 CRPF battalions for anti-naxal operations
March 15, 2008MANGALORE March 15: The Union Government has sanctioned 10 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) battalions for ongoing anti-naxalite operations in the country, CRPF Additional Director-General of Police Niraj Ranjan Das has said.
Each battalion will consist of 1,100 personnel, and the battalions once raised will be trained exclusively in jungle operations, which is the terrain in [...]
15 Naxals surrender in Khammam, Kurnool
March 15, 2008KHAMMAM: Fifteen Naxalites of different groups, ten in Khammam district and five in Kurnool, surrendered to the police on Thursday.
The ten surrendered before Khammam superintendent of police DS Chowan included Vagaboina Saraiah alias Sagar (31), district committee secretary of CPI-ML Praja Prathighatana group.
He went underground in 2004, participated in bus robbery in Aswapuram police station [...]
Woman naxal chief arrested
March 15, 2008Varanasi, March 13 Babita, a woman Naxal chief with a price of Rs 20,000 on her head, was arrested on Thursday by the Sonebhadra police. With the arrest, the police claimed to have exposed some Naxal plans, which includes blowing up of the Sasaram Jail in Bihar.
Babita, the state head of CPI (Maoists) Women Guerrilla [...]
