Maoist killed in encounter in Jharkhand
Jun 19, 2019, 11:22 PM ISTA Maoist was killed in an encounter with the CRPF and district police personnel in Simdega district.
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.
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.
The rebels are involved in such cultivation in the cut-off areas of Malkangiri, Koraput and Jeypore districts and trade in drugs is now their only source of income.
The meeting was attended by officials, including National Security Advisor (NSA), Home Secretary (HS), Director Intelligence Bureau (DIB) on Monday evening.
The encounter comes three days after two Naxals, including a woman, were gunned down by the security forces in an exchange of fire in insurgency-hit Sukma district on Thursday.
The encounter between the Maoists and the security personnel comprising of Jharkhand Jaguar, CRPF and District Armed police took place between 3 to 6 pm and then again between 6.30 to 7.15 pm, said Superintendent of Police, Prasant Anand.
The Naxals have close links with Maoist organisations in the Philippines and Turkey and get support from several organisations in Europe
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