Wanted Maoist arrested in Jharkhand
India | September 17, 2019 15:51 ISTAccording to police, Shekahra Ganju, the wanted Maoist, was arrested from the Jajwaria village in Chatra district
According to police, Shekahra Ganju, the wanted Maoist, was arrested from the Jajwaria village in Chatra district
The body of the Maoist, identified as that of Dinesh Koda, with his throat slit was found in Satdharba jungle around 10 PM on Thursday, Munger Superintendent of Police Gaurav Mangla said.
"The FIR was lodged at Satbarwa police station of Palamau district on Sunday. The FIR was lodged based on compliant of the mother of the three-year-old girl," said Ajay Linda, SP, Palamau.
"The exchange of fire took place around 6 am in the forest near Dhurbeda village, located around 20 km away from Orchha police station in the district. It occurred when a DRG team was out on a counter-insurgency operation," Director General of Police (DGP) D M Awasthi told PTI.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday and sought Centre's assistance to deal with the Maoist threat plaguing some districts in the state. The two leaders discussed various subjects, including the modernisation of the state police force to face the threat
A Maoist was gunned down in an exchange of fire with security personnel inside a forest in Odisha's Kalahandi district on Wednesday, a police officer said.
The Maoists who carried out the arson belonged to the Jharkhand Janmukti Parisad, the JJMP claimed. They first attacked the Tori railway siding and came down heavily on the labourers sleeping at the spot.
A division bench of Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar made the observation Monday while upholding a single bench order granting Rs 1 lakh compensation to a man who was illegally detained by a special squad of the Kerala Police in 2014 on suspicion of being a Maoist.
A Maoist was killed in an encounter with the CRPF and district police personnel in Simdega district.
According to the police statement, all six Maoists laid down their arms before Dumka Range Deputy Inspector General.
Mandavi had joined the banned outfit in 2004 as a member of the Chetna Natya Mandli (CNM), the cultural wing of Maoists, in Pamed area committee where she worked till 2011.
Maoists set ablaze four vehicles involved in road construction work in Jharkhand's Chatra district early on Wednesday, according to police.
Torn apart by grinding poverty, a family of four in a Maoist stronghold in Jharkhand is barely able to hide its joy when a nine-year-old emerges muddied out of a dying pond with her catch: fish and snails.
The encounter took place in a forest under Padua police station limits in the morning when personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Force (DVF) were conducting a combing operation in the area.
The naxals had dug spike holes containing arrows made of iron rod to cause harm to election staff and CRPF personnel.
Five Maoists including a woman were killed in cross firing, during an encounter with the Police, at Kalimela in the forest area in Malkangiri district, early this morning.
BJP leader Sambit Patra accuses Congress' Digvijaya Singh of backing naxals
Bhima Koregaon Case: Several activists arrested in raids across India for alleged Maoist links. The arrested activists will be produced before the court today
Taking to Twitter, Rijiju has raised former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's stand on Maoists, wherein he had declared them to be the No. 1 threat to India's internal security.
Searches are being carried out at the homes of Left wing activist and poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, activists Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai, trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj in Chhattisgarh and civil liberties activist Gautam Navalakha, who lives in Delhi, a senior police officer said.
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