Four Chhattisgarh Maoists held in Madhya PradeshSeptember 27th, 2009 BHOPAL - Four suspected Maoists who had allegedly crossed into Madhya Pradesh from Chhattisgarh have been detained in Shahdol district, police said Sunday. The four - Ramnath, Lalsai, Roopsai and Sunao, all of them Gond tribals aged 25-30 - had sneaked in from Narayanpur district in Chhattisgarh, a police official said.
Maoist leader killed, four held in ChhattisgarhSeptember 7th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh police Monday gunned down a deputy commander of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and arrested four of his colleagues, officials said. "We raided a CPI-Maoist hideout in a hilly area under Bhansi locality in Dantewada district and shot dead a deputy commander and arrested four of his colleagues including a minor boy," Superintendent of Police Amresh Mishra told reporters at the district headquarters in Dantewada, some 380 km south of capital Raipur.
Chhattisgarh not taking development to Maoist areas: Rahul GandhiAugust 21st, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoist violence was continuing in certain parts of the country because development was not reaching the troubled areas, particularly in states like Chhattisgarh, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said here Friday. Accusing Chhattisgarh's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of failing to reach the fruits of development to vast Maoist-hit areas, Gandhi said: "If the government fails to reach people, then problem begins, and this is the case in Chhattisgarh."
"See how Andhra Pradesh tackled the Maoist problem, it actually took the central government welfare schemes to problem-hit areas, but in Chhattisgarh the government is not reaching trouble-hit areas," the Congress leader told a press conference here.
15 cops suspended for refusing to join anti-Maoist driveAugust 13th, 2009 RAIPUR - About 15 policemen were suspended in Chhattisgarh after they refused to take part in anti-Maoist operations, the state police chief said here Thursday. "We have made groups of 100 policemen in insurgency-hit areas to launch anti-Maoist operations but 15 constables were reluctant to join the drive and were thus suspended," Director General of Police (DGP) Vishwaranjan told IANS.
Chhattisgarh on high alert as Maoists call for I-Day boycottAugust 13th, 2009 RAIPUR - India's worst Maoist insurgency hit state Chhattisgarh has been put on high alert after the Leftist rebels asked people to stay away from Independence Day celebrations Aug 15, the state police chief said here Thursday. "The entire state has been put on high alert in wake of possible Maoist attacks and their call for a boycott of Independence Day," Director General of Police (DGP) Vishwaranjan told IANS.
Congress shutdown against Maoist attack hits ChhattisgarhJuly 14th, 2009 RAIPUR - A dawn to dusk shutdown called by the opposition Congress in Chhattisgarh Tuesday to protest the killing of at least 29 policemen by Maoists crippled life in all districts with the public and business houses voluntarily joining it. The shutdown was total in all urban areas, including capital Raipur, Bhilai, Raigarh, Korba, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur -the headquarters of the restive Bastar region.
Shutdown paralyses life in ChhattisgarhJuly 14th, 2009 RAIPUR - A dawn to dusk shutdown called by the opposition Congress in Chhattisgarh Tuesday to protest the killing of at least 29 policemen by Maoists crippled life across all 18 districts with the public and business houses voluntarily joining it. According to initial reports reaching here, the shutdown was total in all urban areas, including Raipur, Bhilai, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur -- the headquarters of the restive Bastar region.
Maoists kill 23 policemen in Chhattisgarh (Second Lead)July 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - In one of their deadliest attacks since the government named CPI-Maoist as a terror outfit last month, Leftwing ultras killed at least 23 policemen in an ambush in a forested stretch of Chhattisgarh Sunday. "A contingent of the District Force (DF) and Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) drove into a booby trap laid by Maoists in a thickly forested area in Rajnandgaon district, in which 23 jawans were killed," Girdhari Nayak, additional director general of police, told IANS.
Van with detonators goes missing in Maoist den in ChhattisgarhJuly 5th, 2009 RAIPUR - A private van loaded with detonators for industrial use went missing in the Maoist stronghold of Bastar in Chhattisgarh Sunday, leaving police clueless. "Two Mahindra Max pickup vans loaded with detonators were going from Raipur to Kirandul town in Dantewada district's iron ore rich Bailadila area when one of them went missing somewhere in Bastar district.
Police gun down Maoist leader in ChhattisgarhMay 31st, 2009 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh Police Sunday gunned down a Maoist commander in a gun battle in the state's northern forested stretch. Officials said a police search squad had killed Ramesh Barua alias Mukesh in a gun battle in a thickly forested area of Surguja district, 400 km from here.
Chhattisgarh ups rail security after Maoist attacks in Orissa, BiharMarch 2nd, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh has heightened security along railway tracks in Maoist-hit districts following recent attacks by the rebels on rail facilities in Orissa and Bihar, police said Monday. 'Security at rail tracks and railway stations has been tightened after the attacks by Maoists on rail facilities in neighbouring Orissa and Bihar states,' Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general at the police headquarters here, told IANS.
Chhattisgarh seals Maharashtra border after Maoist ambushFebruary 1st, 2009 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh police Monday sealed off the border with Maharashtra, where Maoist radicals ambushed a police search squad in Gadchiroli district Sunday, killing 15 state police personnel, officials said. 'The Sunday attack took place very close to Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district border in Maharashtra and we sealed off the forested border because Maoists may sneak into Chhattisgarh following stepped up drive by the police from the other side of the border,' Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general of police, said here.
Narasimhan praises security forces at Chhattisgarh R-Day paradeJanuary 25th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan took the salute at the Republic Day parade held here Monday and praised the commitment of the security forces battling Maoist insurgency in the state.
Chhattisgarh on high alert after Maoists R-day boycott callJanuary 24th, 2009 RAIPUR - Security has been beefed up and Chhattisgarh put on high alert after Maoists rebels' call to disrupt the Republic Day celebrations Monday. 'A massive security blanket has been thrown in the state including the Bastar region,' a senior police officer posted in the special intelligence branch Pawan Deo told IANS.
Five Maoists gunned down in ChhattisgarhJanuary 23rd, 2009 RAIPUR - Five Maoist insurgents were killed in a shootout with a police team in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh late Saturday evening, a top police official said. The shootout took place when the joint team of the Chhattisgarh police and Special Police Officers (SPOs) came face-to-face with a group of Maoists in a thickly forested area under the Bhairamgarh police station of Bijapur district, about 400 km south of here, according to Director General of Police Pawan Deo.
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