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Time of India
3 days ago
- Time of India
Surrender within 7 months or get neutralised, Andhra Pradesh DGP warns Maoists
Vijayawada: "Surrender within seven months, otherwise you will be neutralised," Andhra Pradesh DGP Harish Kumar Gupta warned Maoists on Saturday following the surrender of a Maoist couple, Jorige Nagaraju, alias Kamalesh, and his wife Medaka Jyoteeswari, alias Aruna, to security forces. The husband-wife duo from Krishna district, who carried a reward of Rs 25 lakh, ended their decades-long underground life after getting disillusioned with Maoist ideology, the DGP said. He added that 20 active Maoists from Andhra Pradesh are still operating in the AOB area and urged them to surrender and join the mainstream. The surrender of the two senior Maoist leaders marks a crucial step in Andhra Pradesh's counter-insurgency efforts. Nagaraju served as a member of the state zonal committee and previously headed the East Bastar divisional committee under the Dandakaranya special zonal committee. His wife Aruna was a divisional committee member and led the mobile academic political organization school (MAPOS) in East Bastar. Both were active in the Maoist heartland for over three decades. Frustrated with the policies and the waning influence of the Maoist central committee, the couple chose to abandon the armed struggle, the DGP said. Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 20 Things You Should Stop Wearing After 40 Undo by Taboola by Taboola As part of the surrender and rehabilitation process, Gupta handed them relief cheques of Rs 20,000 each. In a related development, police unearthed a Maoist arms dump in Alluri Sitharama Raju district following intelligence inputs. The cache included 18 modern weapons — an AK-47, two BGLs, five SLRs, two INSAS rifles, besides 606 live rounds of ammunition, 37 kilograms of CORDEX wire, and other explosive materials. As part of the ongoing efforts to curb Maoist activities, 13 underground cadres, including divisional committee member Madakam Deva, alias Bhagath, surrendered recently and received a total of Rs 22 lakh in financial assistance. Over the past year, 48 Maoist cadres have surrendered to AP police, and provided Rs 64 lakh under the state's rehabilitation scheme. The DGP, who reviewed the anti-insurgency operations conducted in the past one year, said six Maoists — including central committee member Uday, zonal leaders Aruna and Jagan, and divisional committee secretary Ramesh — were killed in five encounters in AP over the last 12 months. Seven others, including a divisional committee secretary, two area committee members, and three action team operatives were arrested. Of the 40 cadres who surrendered, two were divisional committee secretaries and 15 were area committee members. Gupta praised the relentless efforts of police personnel working in LWE-affected areas and reiterated the govt's commitment to facilitate the safe return of Maoists to civilian life. He urged those still underground — particularly the 20 Andhra-origin cadres operating in other states — to surrender and take part in the state's development.
Hindustan Times
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
NIA charges 17, including 16 absconders, in 2024 Chhattisgarh CRPF attack case
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheeted 17 accused, including 16 absconders, in the 2024 case of attacks on CRPF camps by CPI (M) terror operatives armed with automatic weapons and BGLs in Chhattisgarh, according to an official statement. One of the accused is under arrest and is identified as Sodi Baman, aka Deval. The absconders include two Central Committee Members (CCM), two Special Zonal/ State Committee Members (SZC/SCM) and other top cadres of PLGA BN No. 01, Telangana State Committee and Pamed Area Committee. The chargesheet filed on Friday before the NIA Special Court at Jagdalpur has charged all of them under various sections of the IPC, Arms Act, Explosive Substances Act, and UA(P) Act, the statement added. The case RC-01/2024/NIA/RPR relates to the attack on CRPF's new camp at Dharmavaram and two adjacent CRPF/CoBRA camps at Chintawagu and Pamed in District Bijapur, on January 16, 2024. The attackers had attempted to loot weapons and other belongings of the security forces from the camps. Twelve CRPF personnel at the Dharmavaram CRPF camp, which was set up on 17th December 2023, were injured in the attack. NIA had taken over the case from the local police on February 9 2024, and registered it against 21 named and 250-300 unknown armed cadres of the proscribed terrorist organisation CPI(Maoist). Investigations revealed that the charge sheeted accused had been involved in the recruitment of youth, as part of a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the democratically elected Government of India. They owned prohibited arms, ammunition and explosive materials, and had organised and attended conspiracy meetings, the statement said. They had also established a training dummy camp as a replica of the target camp, imparted training and given motivational speeches to their armed cadres to carry out an armed rebellion, besides conducting a recce of the said camps and executing the final attacks. Earlier on June 12, the NIA searched 15 locations linked with the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terror organisation in Punjab and Haryana in Amritsar police post grenade attack case. The places searched include Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Pathankot, Kapurthala and Rupnagar districts of Punjab and Sirsa in Haryana in connection with the January 2025 grenade attack at a police post in Amritsar district of Punjab, said the NIA in a statement. NIA said a host of incriminating materials, including mobiles and digital devices and documents, were seized during the searches, and are being examined for further clues to the terror syndicate of BKI.
Time of India
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
CRPF commandos honoured with Shaurya Chakra for anti-Naxal operations
CRPF's CoBRA commando Pawan Kumar was posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra for his exceptional bravery and sacrifice during an operation in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, where he was fatally shot by a Maoist sniper while establishing a new base. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads A CoBRA commando of the CRPF, who displayed raw courage before being fatally shot by a Maoist sniper while establishing a new base deep inside a Naxal stronghold in Chhattisgarh , is among the seven personnel of the paramilitary honoured with the ' Shaurya Chakra gallantry medal . Constable Pawan Kumar of 201 CoBRA battalion and his fellow Constable Devan C were awarded the military medal posthumously during the defence investiture ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on country's largest paramilitary force received the bravery decorations for two operations undertaken in the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) theatre, five personnel in one and two in the according to his citation accessed by PTI, was "fatally shot by a sniper" when his commando unit along with troops from the 150th CRPF battalion were establishing a forward operating base (FOB) at Tekalgudium in the Naxal "stronghold" district of Sukma in Chhattisgarh on January 30, 2024.A strong posse of Naxals launched "heavy" fire on the troops and launched multiple barrel grenade launchers (BGLs), a crude and improvised missile like explosive shell, towards the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Devan C "risked their lives by fiercely engaging advancing Naxals" and were killed in two men were decorated with the Shaurya Chakra posthumously for their "bravery, extraordinary courage and act of gallantry." Their families received the medals from the Commandant Lakhveer, Assistant Commandant Rajesh Panchal and Constable Malkit Singh of the same CoBRA unit were also decorated with the Shaurya Chakra for displaying extraordinary courage. Lakhveer was injured in a blast while Panchal suffered a bullet injury on his right hand."Malkit Singh exposed himself to heavy fire to recover Pawan Kumar's body, fighting despite a chest wound, and neutralising several Naxals," the citation second operation in which CRPF personnel were awarded the Shaurya Chakra took place on April 3, 2023 in Jharkhand's Chatra district in which Deputy Commandant Vikrant Kumar and Inspector Jeffrey Hmingchullo of the 203 CoBRA battalion displayed "fearless" about 50-minute long gun battle led to the killing of five "top" Maoists and recovery of some high calibre weapons and Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) is the specialised jungle warfare unit of the CRPF raised in Shaurya Chakra is the third-highest peacetime defence gallantry medal.
Time of India
22-05-2025
- Time of India
AK-47 Rifles, SLR-INSAS Carbines recovered: IG Bastar after 27 naxals including top leader killed - The Economic Times Video
Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh: IG Bastar P Sundarraj and other officials inspect the weapons recovered during the encounter between DRG jawans and Naxals in the forest area of Abujhmad in Narayanpur on 21st May. The recovered arms and ammunition include BGLs, carbines, INSAS, AK 47, SLRs, .303 rifles, and other firearms.
Time of India
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
In a 1st, CRPF does cave interventions in ‘biggest' anti-Maoist op
File photo BIJAPUR: CRPF DG G P Singh on Wednesday said Operation Blackforest — which demolished a Maoist 'bastion' in Karregutalu Hills (KGH) on Chhattisgarh-Telangana border — saw the force try out cave interventions for the first time, for the hills housed a network of 250 cave formations used by the Maoists as convenient hideouts, arms manufacturing units and to dump explosives and rations. 'CRPF has generally been doing house or vehicle interventions. For the first time, we tried cave interventions. We had use a technique and make sure that we do not suffer casualties but neutralise the Maoists who may be there,' he told a press conference here. Singh said the forces also learnt that Naxals are now using beer bottles to make IEDs, which involve the minimum use of metal. 'This now requires ingenuity in detecting IEDs and we will be revising our SOPs accordingly,' he said. Around 450 IEDs were detected and deactivated, though 15 IEDs that went off caused some injuries to force personnel. Singh said the force has been upgrading its IED detection equipment and technology to whatever is the latest available in the world. The CRPF chief said the recovery of a whopping 818 barrel grande launcher shells (BGLs) and 450 IEDs during the operation is significant as most of the Maoist attacks on security camps so far were done using BGLs. 'Also, most of our personnel out on operations are killed or injured by IEDs,' said Singh.
