Cops fell prey to Naxal trap

VISAKHAPATNAM/HYDERABAD: Sunday’s assault which saw a large number of cops fall to a Maoist attack was a deadly operation planned with precision. The ultras first sent out information that a conclave was on at Malkangiri in Orissa with the purpose of enticing cops to enter into hostile territory. The cops, upbeat with the intelligence input [...]

39 ‘elite’ Andhra-Orissa cops feared killed in Naxal attack

VISAKHAPATNAM/HYDERABAD: Maoists struck a vicious blow on Sunday, launching a rocket attack on a 64-member joint Andhra Pradesh-Orissa police party — which included the elite Greyhounds — deep in the Vishakapatnam agency area close to the Orissa border.
The cops were returning on two launches on the Sileru reservoir along the Andhra-Orissa border when the Maoists [...]

Friendship route to net rebel robber

Jamshedpur, June 27: Jawans in Naxalite-affected areas of Khunti and Ranchi are counting on community policing to trap rebel leader Kundan Pahan, believed to have orchestrated the strike on ICICI’s cash van on May 21. The tactical change in police operations are being initiated after Pahan gave the police the slip on Wednesday, though he [...]

Four youths arrested

Ranchi, June 25: The city police claimed to have arrested four extremists with Naxalite literature from Paras Toli under the Doranda police station area of the city late Tuesday night.
Those arrested have been identified as Damodar Turi, Haradhan Mardi, Kanti Kumar Besra and Prakash Hansda. All are around 20 years old.
M.S. Bhatia, the senior superintendent [...]

Senior Maoist leader arrested

Sheohar (PTI): A senior CPI (Maoist) leader Devendra Sahni alias Ratnakar has been arrested from a Naxalite hideout in Bihar’s Sheohar district, police said on wednesday. Sahni, treasurer of the banned outfit’s North Bihar committee, was arrested late Tuesday night when, acting on specific information, a police team raided the hideout at Lakhminia village under [...]