Maoists attack police patrol, torch panchayat office in Maharashtra

October 12th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government has received intelligence inputs that Maoists from neighbouring states have infiltrated into the state to foment trouble during voting for the assembly elections Tuesday, a senior police official said here Monday. "We have got intelligence reports that Maoists are infiltrating here from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

October 10th, 2009 NAGPUR - The central government has sent 20 additional companies of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to hunt down the Maoists responsible for the massacre of 17 policemen in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district Thursday, a police officer said Saturday. "They are expected to reach here later this (Saturday) evening and will help us to flush out the Maoists who may have spread out in the region," Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police S.

October 10th, 2009 BANGALORE - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday affirmed the government's determination not to succumb to the increasing threat of Maoists but ruled out the use of the army against them. "It shows the measure of challenge we face.

October 9th, 2009 NAGPUR - The four policemen badly injured in an attack by Maoists in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra are responding to medical treatment, said doctors attending them in Nagpur on Friday. Maoists rebels had killed 17 policemen in Maharashtra on Thursday, a couple of days after they had beheaded a police officer in Jharkhand.

October 9th, 2009 NAGPUR - More than 300 security personnel Friday hunted for Maoists who massacred 17 policemen after ambushing them in a jungle strip in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. The bodies of the slain policemen were brought to Gadchiroli town for state honours before they are handed over to their families for the final rites, even as Chief Minister Ashok Chavan vowed to crush the Maoists.

October 8th, 2009 GADCHIROLI - At least 18 policemen were killed by the Maoists in an ambush in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra on Thursday afternoon. According to the police the left wing ultras attacked the police out post near Lahir village of Bhamragadh tehsil of Gadchiroli District.

October 8th, 2009 NAGPUR - Maoist guerrillas Thursday ambushed a police patrol and gunned down at least 18 policemen in a jungle stretch of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, officials said. The massacre occurred about a kilometre from Laheri village when the policemen were trekking through thick forests in search of hidden Maoists, an official of the Gadchiroli district police told IANS.

October 8th, 2009 NAGPUR - In a major attack days before the assembly polls, Maoist guerrillas Thursday ambushed a police patrol and gunned down at least 17 policemen in a jungle stretch of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. Suspected Maoists also slit the throat of a police informer and dumped his body in the same district, police said.

September 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoists blew up several buildings, including a police post, in Orissa's Sundergarh district early Thursday, police said. The rebels triggered the blast at Kalta village, located about 100 km from the steel city of Rourkela to protest against the arrest of some villagers last month by police.

September 8th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh has stepped up its anti-Maoist operations in the forests of Rajnandgaon district on the Maharashtra border after an attack by the guerrillas in the region killed a top police officer in July. "Our anti-Maoist operation has so far been focussed in the 40,000 sq km in southern portion of the Bastar region, considered the stronghold of the ultras since the late 1980s but now we have turned the heat on the rebels in the western region bordering Maharashtra," a senior police officer, who oversees the anti-Maoist operation in the state, told IANS.

August 20th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoists Thursday blew up a forest range office in Orissa's Sundergarh district, police said. About 30 rebels, in two vehicles, came to the office at Tamra under the Banki police station around 2 p.m.

July 29th, 2009 PATNA - Suspected Maoist guerrillas Wednesday shot dead a panchayat head in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar as he refused to pay levy to the rebels, police said. Premchand, head of Paigampur panchayat in Muzaffarpur, was killed outside his residence by a group of armed Maoist rebels at Dera Chowk in Minapur block, a police officer said.

June 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoist rebels blew up a police station after forcing policemen out of the premises and torched several vehicles in Orissa's Koraput district, an official said Monday. Five policemen were on duty when around 70 Maoists attacked the police station in Baipariguda village, about 550 km from here, Sunday night.

May 21st, 2009 NAGPUR/MUMBAI - At least 16 police personnel, including five women, were gunned down Thursday evening by Maoist guerrillas in Maharashtra, an official said. Following a tip-off, the police team had gone after a gang of Maoists in Hattigota forests of Dhanora sub-district in Gadchiroli, around 300 km from Nagpur, deputy superintendent of police Srihari Munde told IANS.

May 21st, 2009 NAGPUR/MUMBAI - Maoists killed 16 police personnel, including four women, in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district Thursday evening - the second major attack by the ultras in four months. Meanwhile, Minister of State for Home Nitin Raut has vowed to crush the Maoist menace in the state with a 'bullet for bullet' policy.