Orissa seeks report from Delhi Police on Kobad Ghandy

October 8th, 2009 RANCHI - Induwar Francis, a police Inspector of the Jharkhand intelligence department who was beheaded Tuesday by Maoist rebels had not received his salary for the past five months, officials said Thursday. Francis, who was transferred to the Special Branch from Bokaro district, was promoted to inspector rank in March this year.

October 6th, 2009 RANCHI - A Jharkhand police officer, who had been abducted by Maoist guerrillas and was sought to be swapped for three of their leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, was found with his throat slit on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway Tuesday morning. Francis Induwar, who worked as an intelligence official in the Special Branch, had been kidnapped five days ago.

October 6th, 2009 RANCHI - Police officer Francis Enduwar, abducted by Maoists five days ago, has been killed in Jharkhand, a senior police official said Tuesday. The Maoists had demanded that three of their leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, be released in exchange for Enduwar.

October 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming the killing of a Jharkhand police officer by Maoists as "cold blooded", Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Tuesday that no demand was being made for a swap of prisoners.

October 6th, 2009 RANCHI - The decapitated body of a Jharkhand police officer, who had been abducted by Maoists and was sought to be swapped for three of their leaders including Kobad Ghandy, was found on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway Tuesday morning. Francis Induwar, who worked as an intelligence official in the Special Branch, had been kidnapped Sep 30.

October 4th, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist guerrillas have demanded release of their senior leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, as a condition for freeing an abducted Jharkhand intelligence official, local media reports said Sunday. Samarji, claiming to be secretary of South Chhotanagpur Committee of Jharkhand, called local Hindi newspapers late Saturday and informed them about the condition.

October 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Suspected Maoist guerrillas triggered a landmine blast on the railway tracks in Purulia district of West Bengal early Saturday, police said. The explosive went off on the railway tracks near Urma station after midnight, affecting train movement in the Adra-Chandil division.

October 2nd, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist guerrillas blew up a railway track at the Jharkhand-West Bengal border Saturday to press their call for a nationwide strike. Rail services on the Kolkata-Mumbai route have been affected, police said.

September 30th, 2009 HYDERABAD - There are "no cases" pending against the arrested London-educated Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy anywhere in India but police could "concoct" them, claims revolutionary poet Varavara Rao. While the Andhra Pradesh police are tightlipped about the role they played in Ghandy's arrest in Delhi this month, Rao says there were no cases against Ghandy in the state.

September 29th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) Tuesday claimed that its London-educated leader and ideologue Kobad Ghandy was betrayed by his courier, leading to his arrest in New Delhi Sep 17. While admitting that the arrest of the politburo and central committee member was a big loss to the Maoist movement in the country, the Maoist outfit said it was only a temporary success for the authorities.

September 29th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Calling arrested Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy a "role model" for the youth, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) Tuesday also urged people to unite against "state terror". The CPI-Maoist, in a statement, termed the operation against their cadres a "cruel war" led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister P.

August 21st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoist rebels have threatened to blow up the residence of Orissa Finance Minister Prafulla Ghadei and kill his son, police said Friday. The letter was received at the office of Orissa Mining Corporation at Jajpur Thursday.

August 19th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday requested the central government to set up a National Institute of Design Technology (NID) in the state capital and offered to provide for it necessary infrastructure, including land. Patnaik met union Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma at New Delhi Wednesday and made the request, the chief minister's office said in a press release here.

August 18th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Orissa government has asked the centre to enhance its assistance under the police modernisation scheme from Rs.42 crore to Rs.80 crore, official sources here said. Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik made the demand Monday in New Delhi while addressing a conference of chief ministers on internal security chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

June 26th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik has said that he will discuss with Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram about the state's needs to check Maoists activities.