Maoist leader takes responsibility for troopers’ killings

November 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - Three villagers were shot dead by suspected Maoist guerrillas in West Bengal's violence-hit West Midnapore district Friday night. The bodies were recovered from a forest area in the district early Saturday, police said.

October 16th, 2009 RAIPUR - Nine Maoist guerrillas have been arrested in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, police said Friday. The arrests were made late Thursday at Babri Kokaobhata and Chamai villages of Bastar, about 260 km south of state capital Raipur.

October 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - For the first time since the joint forces began their operation to flush out Maoists from the Lalgarh belt, the leftwing ultras Thursday admitted the death of one of their hardcore activists in a clash. "Marang, 21, one of our squad members, was killed by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-supported hooligans and the paramilitary troopers this (Thursday) afternoon," top rung Maoist leader Kishenji alias Koteswar Rao told mediapersons.

October 3rd, 2009 PATNA - Police were hunting Saturday for dozens of Maoist guerrillas who massacred 11 men and five children in a Bihar village Thursday midnight, triggering fears of a caste war. Police said they were looking for 62 people who took part in the slaughter, including 24 from the same village where the killings occurred -- Amausi in Khagaria district, about 200 km from here.

October 2nd, 2009 RAIPUR - Thousands of policemen and paramilitary troopers were relocated in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region Friday to strengthen security in vulnerable forested areas ahead of the Maoists' nationwide strike called Saturday. Amid a spree of Maoist violence in recent months in Chhattisgarh, state police and paramilitary troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were moved to key areas and government buildings Friday in Bastar region.

September 18th, 2009 RAIPUR - A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer and at least six Maoists were killed Friday as hundreds of security personnel launched operations against the guerrillas across Chhattisgarh's Bastar region. Gunfights broke out in thickly forested stretches in Bastar's Dantewada district, about 450 km south of the capital Raipur, described as India's worst Maoist-hit district.

September 13th, 2009 RANCHI - A Maoist commander was arrested with nine landmines in Jharkhand's Latehar district Sunday, police said. "On a tip-off, we raided the jungle area under Barwadih police station jurisdiction in Latehar.

September 9th, 2009 RAIPUR - Two troopers of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were critically injured Wednesday when they walked over a pressure bomb planted by Maoists in a thickly forested area of Bastar region in Chhattisgarh, an official said. The blast took place in Jagargunda of Bijapur district, about 450 km south of here.

September 4th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The Hizbul Mujahideen guerrilla involved in the killings of two paramilitary troopers in Srinagar Monday was shot dead by the police in north Kashmir's Baramulla district Friday, police said. A senior police officer told IANS that Shamim alias Rizwan, a senior Hizbul Mujahideen guerrilla, was killed by the local police in a gun battle in Pattan area of Baramulla district.

August 31st, 2009 SRINAGAR - Five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured Monday after separatist guerrillas struck in two separate localities of this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital. The guerrillas hurled a grenade at a CRPF bunker in Batmaloo area, barely 150 metres from the high-security Civil Secretariat, leaving injured seven people - four civilians and three para-military troopers.

August 3rd, 2009 RANCHI - A Maoist leader wanted in over a dozen criminal cases was arrested in Jharkhand's Latehar district Monday, police said. Praduman Sharma alias Kundanji alias Sudhansu Sharma, member of Bihar regional committee of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was arrested Monday at Tori railway station of Lathear district, some 160 km from Ranchi.

July 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoists guerrillas ambushed a team of paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sunday in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, injuring at least six troopers. The attack took place in violence-hit Dantewada district when a vehicle carrying eight CRPF personnel ran over a powerful land mine, Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general police, told IANS.

July 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - At least six troopers were injured Sunday when Maoist guerrillas triggered a landmine targeting two paramilitary vehicles in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, police said. Over two dozen Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were in the vehicles but the landmine damaged only the front portion of one of the vehicles in Dantewada district, some 350 km south of capital Raipur, late in the evening.

July 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - Two troopers were killed and four injured late Sunday when Maoist guerrillas ambushed two paramilitary vehicles and triggered a powerful landmine blast in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, police said. Over two dozen Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were in the vehicles when a landmine hit one of them and damaged its front portion in Dantewada district, some 350 km south of capital Raipur, said Deputy Inspector General Pawan Deo.

June 1st, 2009 RANCHI - At least six trains were cancelled in Jharkhand Monday after the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) called a strike to protest against the killings of their leader Sudhakar Reddy and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran. The cancelled trains include Garib Rath that plies from Ranchi to New Delhi.