Tag: Maoist
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BSF busts ‘Maoist’ ammunition dump in Odisha
The explosive substances recovered from the dump included among other things gelatin sticks and detonators.
March 14, 2023 -
Khamar forest beat office, shut since 2009 due to Maoist menace, reopens
The Khamar beat office under Jhalda Forest Range of Purulia Division has reopened after thirteen years. In 2009, the Khamar beat office has been closed due to Maoist activities in the area. From 2004 to 2011, there has been bloodshed in Purulia and villagers and forest officials had fled away in fear. The Maoists used to abduct government officials and villagers.
December 26, 2022 -
Bombay HC acquits ex-DU professor, 5 others in Maoist links case
In their verdict, a division bench of Justices Rohit Deo and Anil Pansare acquitted Mahesh K. Tirki, Hem Keshawdatt Mishra, Prashant Rahi, Vijay Nan Tirki and Pandur Pora Narote who died in August this year.
October 14, 2022 -
Maoist ammunition dump busted along AP-Odisha border
Huge cache of explosives and Maoist items were seized during a joint operation by Malkangiri Police and Border Security Force (BSF) at the Maoists’ hideout along the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border.
December 31, 2021 -
Ex Maoist leader arrested with AK-47 rifle
The ex-Maoist identified as Pramod Majhi was arrested from Adava police station on the charge of murdering a man in February last in a sorcery killing.
December 26, 2021 -
Security cover of central forces deployed in Maoist affected areas beefed up
The battalions of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) are deployed in the LWE affected areas.
November 15, 2021 -
Chhattisgarh Maoist surrenders joins the mainstream
He will be properly rehabilitated and will receive monetary assistance as per the Surrender and Rehabilitation Scheme of the government of Odisha.
October 11, 2021 -
Maoist carrying reward of Rs five lakh gunned down in Odisha
This year, an active cadre of the outlawed outfit was also shot dead in an encounter in Swabhiman Anchal of Malkangiri district.
June 11, 2021 -
‘Air-strike’ on Maoist hideouts in Bastar ?
There was huge public outrage and an emerging ‘rightist intellectual’ section appeared highly critical of the current Modi regime for its alleged leniency towards hardened leftist insurgents.
April 22, 2021 -
22 security personnel killed in Bijapur Maoist attack
The gunbattle that took place on Saturday is said to be the biggest Maoist attack this year.
April 4, 2021 -
Peace-march in troubled Maoist hotbed Bastar
The march was flagged off by tribal leader and ex union minister Arvind Netam
March 14, 2021 -
Maoist ultras threaten ex-BBC scribe Chowdhary
Karma along with veteran leader Vidya Charan Shukla, then PCC president Nandkumar Patel and other Congress leaders was assassinated in Bastar on 25 May 2013 by the Maoist rebels.
February 13, 2021 -
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh condoles death of 17 soldiers in Sukma Maoist attack
Officials called it the biggest Maoist attack on security forces since the attack in Sukma in 2017 when 24 CRPF personnel, part of a road opening party, were killed.
March 23, 2020 -
Bodies of 17 jawans found a day after they went missing during encounter with Naxals in Sukma
In a gun battle which lasted for about two-and-a-half hours when around 250 ultras, who were heavily armed , ambushed the patrolling teams when they reached near Minpa village forests, leaving 15 personnel injured, according to Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P.
March 22, 2020 -
Amid tight security, first phase polling for Chhattisgarh rural bodies today
According to police, Maoist in remote villages of Bastar had recently put up posters calling for a boycott of the panchayat polls.
January 28, 2020 -
Chhattisgarh to withdraw over 300 cases against tribals in Maoist-Affected areas
The move comes after the indictment of security forces, by a one-member judicial commission set up to probe an alleged encounter in which 17 people, including six minors, were killed in Sarkeguda, in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, in June 2012.
December 12, 2019 -
Two security personnel injured in IED blast in Jharkhand while returning from poll duty
The security personnel were returning early on Sunday morning after conducting polls at Tamar assembly seat for the second phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections when Maoist Guerrillas triggered IED blast in which two CRPF personnel got injured, according to police.
December 8, 2019