Maoists gun down six in Bihar

Sasaram (Bihar) (PTI): Banned CPI (Maoist) guerrillas on Thursday shot dead six persons of a rival naxalite outfit in Bihar’s Rohtas district.
Six members of Sashastra People’s Morcha (SPM), a naxalite outfit mostly active in Jharkhand, were shot dead in Tardih forest in Rohtas, AIG (operations) S K Bharadwaj said.
The victims, involved in armed resistance against [...]

People’s army blames police, threatens to disband

Ranchi, April 9: Members of the Shanti Sena, a people’s army formed to counter Naxalite threat, are angry. They believe their founder Bhado Singh and seven others couldn’t have been butchered by rebels on Tuesday if the police paid heed to their renewed call for protection.
“The Shanti Sena, established six years ago with the help [...]