Tag: Bastariya Force

Tribal versus Tribal?

It is a measure of the Maoist potential in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region that the raising of the CRPF’s specialised “Bastariya Force” has almost immediately been greeted with the formation of the Bastar Tiger Battalion by the extremists. In effect, the new unit of the CRPF will countenance the “Tigers”, who are intent on liberating a...

December 20, 2017