Two villagers from a Left-wing affected region in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada were murdered by Naxalites on Wednesday evening, said the police. Representative image | Photo Credit: – Two villagers from a Left-wing affected region in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada were murdered by Naxalites on Wednesday evening, said the police. A senior police officer said that Baman Kashyap (29) and … Read more
Security personnel after an encounter with Maoists, in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh,on January 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Chhattisgarh police on Saturday (January 18, 2025) said that 18 Maoists — not 12, as initially announced — were killed in the South Bastar operation earlier this week, attributing the update to a press release in which … Read more
New details about last week’s encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Abujhmad have emerged with the police claiming on Tuesday that the Naxals had used villagers, including minors, in an unsuccessful bid to save the life of their senior cadre, Karthik. Karthik was among seven Naxals killed in the encounter on December 12 and at least four civilians … Read more
Google Maps image locates Abujmarh on the Narayanpur-Dantewada inter-district border in Chhattisgarh. Fourteen Maoists were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region on Friday (October 4, 2024), a senior police official said. The gunfight broke out at around 1 p.m. in the forest between Thulthuli and Nendur villages in Abujmarh on … Read more
The Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police has arrested two members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) from Suti in Murshidabad district. Arrested on Saturday, the two were produced before a city court on Sunday and sent to police custody till November 30. Those arrested were identified as Mantu Mallick and … Read more
Intensified vehicle checks at Tamil Nadu’s border with Karnataka at three places in Erode district continued for the third consecutive day, to prevent suspected Maoists from escaping. A Kerala police special forces Thunderbolt team exchanged fire with suspected Maoists in the Uruppumkutty forest in Karikkottakary, in Kerala on November 13, after which five suspected Maoists escaped into the forest area. Of the five, A. … Read more
The Special Operations Group and the Thunderbolt Squad had followed the Maoists to the house based on intelligence inputs. (picture for representational purposes) | Photo Credit: K. RAGESH The Special Operations Group (SOG) and the Thunderbolt Squad of the Kerala Police are continuing combing operations in rural Kozhikode and the Periya forest region following an encounter … Read more
Two Maoists were killed in an ‘exchange of fire’ with the police in Puttapadu forest area under Chhattisgarh’s Kistaram police station limits near Telangana’s border village of Yerrampadu in Charla mandal this morning. The incident took place at about 6 a.m. when a joint team of the Telangana’s Greyhounds police and the district special party … Read more
The Chhattisgarh Congress on Sunday objected to a judicial commission set up to probe the May, 2013 Naxal attack in Jhiram Valley, in which several leaders of the party were killed, submitting its report to Governor Anusuiya Uikey instead of the Bhupesh Baghel-led state government. The Jhiram Ghati Inquiry Commission’s secretary and registrar (judicial) of … Read more
Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the fight against Maoists is “reaching its end” but “needs to be accelerated and made decisive”. In the past two years (since Shah became the home minister), efforts have been made to increase security camps in areas which were inaccessible, especially in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Odisha, … Read more