Maoist raid killed four police men in Bihar
27 February, 2007
Maoist rebels have shot dead four policemen and wounded another four in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, police say. A police spokesman quoting local eyewitnesses said the officers were killed just after midnight when up to 600 rebels attacked a police camp. Read more
posted by Resistance 27.2.07,
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Bihar Police killed two naxalites
26 February, 2007
The police in Gaya district under Wazirganj police station on Sunday evening shot and killed two Naxal extremists while injuring half a dozen others in an encounter that lasted over an hour, Gaya Superintendent of Police (SP) Amit Jain said." Read More
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posted by Resistance 26.2.07,
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Maoist hunt for ‘traitor’ after leader arrest
22 February, 2007
| Hazaribagh, Feb. 21: Naxalites have started a hunt for insiders, who allegedly played a role in the arrest of zonal commander Bhagirath from Bundu of Keredari yesterday.Bhagirath’s arrest came as a big blow to the outfit as he was a “pillar” of the organisation.After the arrest of Sunil Ganjhu, Bhagirath had re-organised and strengthened the outfit in Hazaribagh, Giridih, Chatra and Latehar districts. Read more |
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posted by Resistance 22.2.07,
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Bihar Maoists threaten jailbreak to free rebel leader
21 February, 2007
Indo Asian News Service
Patna, Feb 17 Maoist guerrillas have threatened yet another jailbreak to free Ajay Kanu, the suspected mastermind of the sensational Jehanabad jailbreak in 2005, according to intelligence reports.
Kanu, who was arrested Feb 2, is currently lodged at the Beur jail here in tight security. Read more
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posted by Bimal 21.2.07,
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Bihar: Maoist leaders Arrested
HAZARIBAG: The Hazaribag police on Tuesday arrested four Maoists leaders, including the sub-zonal commander of a CPI(Maoist), Bhagirath Mahto, from separate places and recovered firearms and Rs 9.5 lakh in cash. Hazaribag SP Praveen Kumar Singh headed the task force, which comprised the jawans of JAP and CRPF. Read more
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posted by Resistance 21.2.07,
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Naxalite Movement in Bihar: A Domino Effect of Nepal?
14 February, 2007
The Maoists (also known as Naxalites) in India are emboldened by the recent success of their Nepalese counterpart, who emerged as a legitimate power center after a decade of protracted people’s war. The effects are already visible in Bihar, the neighboring Indian State. Despite convoluted security arrangement by the Bihar Police, partial successful of the Bandh (general strike) on Oct. 30, 2006, by the Maoists indicated that they are capable enough to strike at their will. The Naxalites have managed to blow up a forest bungalow and triggered a mine near Chamua railway station on the Narkatiaganj-Gorakhpur section under the Samastipur division of the East Central Railway in West Champaran district of Bihar. The blast damaged a 200-metre stretch of the track leading to the derailment of the engine and six bogies of a passenger train.
The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) had called a 24-hour bandh in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh from Oct. 29, 2006-midnight to Oct. 30, 2006-midnight to protest the recent arrest of their leaders Narendra alias Osho in West Champaran district of Bihar and Sheela Marandi at Raniganj in Jharkhand. The strike by the Maoists spread over four States had affected general transport services. In Sitamarhi district, armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist set ablaze three private buses. Armed cadres descended on Balua- Gausnagar village under Runni Saidpur police station and set on fire three private buses parked in front of the house of former Sitamarhi block development committee chief Rameshwar Yadav. Of late, Railway has become a soft target of the Maoists. Despite Bihar Chief Minster, Nitish Kumar's fervent appeal to lay down arms and join the mainstream society, the Maoists continue to blow up railway tracks, police outposts and loot banks
Bihar is a fertile ground for the breeding of Naxalites due to poor governance, complex social structure, chronic poverty and formation of private armies. Starting their movement against feudal forces in early 1970s from Bhojpur, the Naxalites under the banner of erstwhile MCC (Maoist Communist Centre) and PW (People’s War) are now active in over 33 Bihar’s 38 districts and operate three fronts- CPI-Maoist, New Democracy and CPI (ML-Malay group). Apart from these groups Nepalese Maoists make their presence in the State taking advantage of 700 kilometers of porous border between India and Nepal. Although security personnel are manning the boarder, it is not possible to check the movements of the Nepalese Maoists in the border areas because of forests and inhospitable terrain. Districts like East and West Champaran, Sitamarhi and Sheohar in North Bihar have been facing a spurt in Maoist violence ever since the Maoists have become active in Nepal. However, according to a reliable sources, the Maoists of Nepal, India and Bangladesh use the Dharan-Biratnagar (Nepal)-Supaul-Purnia (Bihar, India) –via chicken neck of West Bengal-Dinajpur (Bangladesh) route to coordinate themselves for a ‘United Front’ against India.
However, despite peace talks with the seven party alliance and commitment to the Democracy, the Nepalese Maoists in a joint resolution together with its South Asian counterparts have vowed to “advance revolutions for the seizure of power by armed force” and "turn South Asia into a flaming field of Maoist revolutions." At the fourth conference of the Coordination Committee of the Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA) in Aug. 2006, somewhere in Nepal, the Maoists of the South Asian counties vowed to advance the armed struggle for the seizure of power in the respective countries. General Secretary of Nepal Communist Party (Unity Centre, Masal), Mohan Bikram Singh, on Oct. 31 pointed out that the CPN-Maoist as one of the most unreliable political forces in Nepal and they would do anything to come to power. They once announced to dig bunkers to launch tunnel war against India but they have now established intimate relations with India to go to power, he added.
As India grapples with a difficult internal security situation in the wake of continuing Maoist attacks, the ‘United Front’ effort by the Asian Maoist outfits in general and linkages between the Nepalese Maoists and its Indian counterparts in particular have remained a cause of concern for India. The concern is obvious due to 1,690 kilometers of porous border with Nepal. In addition, internal security is in constant threat due to ideological, strategic and organisational linkages between the CPI-Maoist and the CPN-Maoist and misuse by the terrorist outfits. In late September, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Shriprakash Jaiswal expressed apprehensions that terrorists could sneak into the country through the open Indo-Nepal border. The evidence of linkages are also confirmed by the annual report of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) of India for the year 2004-05, which states that arms belonging to Nepali Maoists are finding their way to the underworld.
As a result, any qualitative development in the Maoists movement in Nepal has significant implications for India. A document on ‘objectionable’ moderate approach and its damage to the Maoists movement in Andhra Pradesh was circulated among the Indian cadres. They felt that the party should have followed the ‘militant’ line as practised by the Maoists in Nepal and the LTTE in Sri Lanka. A document of CPI (Maoist) titled "New Challenges: Our Perspectives", meant for internal circulation, has emphasised the need for an evaluation of the Indian scenario, and, then redefine its strategies and field tactics. With modernization of its weaponry by procuring new sophisticated weapons, the Indian Maoists are closely monitoring the developments in Nepal. The Maoists victory in Nepal has strengthened the morale of Indian counterpart to accelerate the activities in India.
While the Maoists in India are all set to start a United Front with the support of its South Asian counter parts, the state responses to the menace is incoherence and lackadaisical. Even the formation of Naxalite Coordination Committee and the Task Force comprising nodal officers of the nine Naxal-affected states have failed to coordinate between the states. Apart from so called multi-pronged actions against the Maoists, the authorities should take all necessary steps to check external influence over the Maoists.
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posted by Resistance 14.2.07,
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Ajay Kanu alias Raviji remanded
05 February, 2007
Escape architect back in jail, cops cautious
Patna, Feb. 4: Maoist commander Ajay Kanu alias Raviji was today booked under the Arms Act and remanded in judicial custody.
On the same day, a bomb was seized from a train and a bandh observed in parts of Bihar even as an alert was sounded apprehending attacks by the CPI(Maoist) to protest Kanu’s arrest.
“The police arrested Ajay Kanu with a revolver and six live cartridges on Friday and lodged a case against him under the Arms Act,” said inspector-general of police (operations) S.K. Bhardwaj, refusing to get into the details.
The Naxalite leader, who was freed by comrades during the Jehanabad jailbreak on November 13, 2005, was sent to Gaya Central Jail after being produced in a local court.
Railway Protection Force personnel, meanwhile, found a bomb in a compartment of the Hatia-Patna Express at Jehanabad where the Naxalites had given a bandh call. The bomb was later defused.
No untoward incident was reported from anywhere in the Naxalite-hit districts when the report was written.
“Ajay Kanu was arrested from near the Tankuppa police outpost in Gaya district,” said director-general of police A.R. Sinha. A joint operation of the special task force, Bihar police and central intelligence led to the arrest of the commander who had an award of Rs 5 lakh on his head and is wanted in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh as well. “He is on top of the priority list of the security forces,” said home secretary Afzal Amanullah.
The police, it has been learnt, are treading cautiously because of Kanu’s “proven skill and strength to organise cadre and turn the tables on security forces at will.”
Security personnel recall how the senior Maoist, who had been lodged in the Jehanabad jail, got hold of an AK-47 smuggled inside the prison and “started firing with precision”, killing one Bare Sharma and escaping with dozens of other Naxalites on the night of November 13.
Sources said the high-profile Maoist was taken to the Bihar Military Police guesthouse in Patna — which was guarded by CRPF and BSF jawans — for interrogation. He was shifted to Gaya last night under tight security.
Officials involved in the interrogation said Kanu admitted having played a key role in the jailbreak plan. “It was a three-month preparation during which I stayed in touch with comrades trained in guerrilla warfare. It culminated in the freedom of several inmates in November,” a sleuth quoted Kanu as saying.
“But he has so far not revealed anything important to help operations in the Naxalite areas,” the sleuth added.
Bhardwaj said Jehanabad police would take the arrested Maoist leader on remand for further interrogation.
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posted by Bimal 5.2.07,
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Mastermind of Jehanabad jail break arrested
04 February, 2007
Patna, Feb 3 (IANS) A prominent Maoist leader from Bihar who was suspected to be the brain behind the sensational Jehanabad jail break in 2005 has been arrested from West Bengal, reports here said Saturday.
According to a report front-paged in major Hindi dailies here, Ajay Kanu was caught in Kolkata by a Bihar Special Task Force team.
But officially, the state police have denied his arrest.Kanu, who is in his late 30s, hit the headlines after the Jehanabad jailbreak in November 2005 when about 1,000 Maoist guerrillas freed him and other prisoners and dragged away a few convicts belonging to the Ranvir Sena, the landlord militia. He carries a cash reward of Rs.500,000 on his head.
Kanu is considered to be the second in command of the Communist Party of India-Maoist in Bihar after top leader Arvind.
The report said that Kanu along with four Maoists, including a woman, was arrested at Howrah railway station Thursday when they were ready to board a Patna-bound train.
Kanu hails from Chauhar village in Arwal district, a stronghold of Maoists. Last year police have attached his property.
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posted by Bimal 4.2.07,
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