The audacious strike on top Congress leaders by a Naxal battalion in Chhattisgarh on Saturday has proved that the left-wing extremists have no intention of pausing their armed struggle against the government. An official of the Central Reserve Police Force, the paramilitary force which has been deployed across Naxalism-hit areas, explained the situation on the ground to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
Complimenting the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Central Reserve Police Force for successfully eliminating two terrorists in Lal Chowk area of Srinagar on Wednesday, Home Minister P Chidambaram said the terrorists were in communication with their handlers outside the country.
The home ministry has tasked country's lead anti-Naxal operations force Central Reserve Police Force to take the responsibility with immediate effect after the proposal to this effect was cleared by the office of Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
Mueen, who works as an Information Technology manager at Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Pampore was offering late afternoon prayers with colleagues when three militants entered the campus on Saturday.
The Orissa government on Tuesday said that it would take the help of para-military forces like the Central Reserve Police Force to face the challenge. "We will initiate action through para-military force and the local police to stop children from joining Maoists," Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said. The banned CPI-Maoist had targeted poor children and school dropouts to expand their base in the area.
Slamming the Jammu and Kashmir government for "disarming" the police and Central Reserve Police Force in KashmirValley and making them "targets" to terror attacks, Opposition parties today staged a walkout over the killing of five CRPF personnel by militants in Srinagar.
In the first suicide attack in Kashmir in three years, terrorists stormed a Central Reserve Paramilitary Force camp in Bemina area of the city, killing five jawans and injuring seven others. The two militants, who carried out the attack, were also killed.
Three Naxals, including a woman, were killed in a police encounter in the jungles of Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, police said.
A case has been registered against a Central Reserve Police Force unit for allegedly using "excessive force" against persons protesting hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru that left one person dead and four others injured.
One person was injured on Sunday when police fired rubber bullets following clashes between protestors and security forces for the second day in north Kashmir Baramulla and adjoining Sopore towns.
A 55-year old man who was critically injured in alleged security force beating in south Kashmir's Pampore last week succumbed to injuries in a hospital in Srinagar on Friday morning, taking the toll in the over four-month-long Kashmir unrest to 111.
"Two militants of Jaish-e-Mohammed hiding inside the house began indiscriminate automatic gunfire at the security forces. The cordon around the house was further tightened, resulting in a sustained firefight at the end of which both militants were killed," a senior police officer said in Srinagar. Arms and ammunition,including two AK-47 rifles and two magazines were recovered from the encounter site.
At least 12 Maoists have been killed in the massive anti-Naxal operation launched jointly by security forces of Jharkhand and Orissa since Saturday in Saranda forest, a top police official said on Monday. Jharkhand Director General of Police Neyaz Ahmad said that ten to 12 Maoists have been killed since Saturday.Meanwhile, the Maoists blew up a hostel and panchayat bhawan at Anandpur and triggered three landmine blasts in the Tirilposhi jungle today morning.
Action and war films from Hollywood are being used as a training tool by Naxals, a senior police official has said.
Stone-pelting protestors clashed with security forces in Sopore town of north Kashmir, forcing Central Reserve Police Force personnel to open fire in which one person succumbed to his injuries.
Those who join the armed forces even at the upper age limit of 21 years under the Agnipath scheme can be recruited by the CISF till the age of 30 after four years of service in the Army, the Air Force or the Navy in the case of the first batch and till 28 years for the subsequent batches.
Security forces on Saturday afternoon rounded up 35 alleged stone-pelters from the Bemina locality of Srinagar on Saturday. Heavy contingents of police and the Central Reserve Police Force put up a cordon around Nundrishi colony in the uptown Bemina locality on Saturday afternoon and asked the residents to come out of their homes. They later picked up 35 persons from the locality and shifted them to the police station.
Seven Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed and at least nine others injured in a fierce gun battle with Maoist guerrillas in Latehar district, Jharkhand on Monday.
The body of Bilal Ahmad Wani, the 23-year old youth killed during clashes with Central Reserve Police Force personnel on Friday, was buried in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Monday morning. Angry locals carried the body of the youth to the main chowk, shouting pro-freedom and anti-India slogans. Security forces fired warning shots and tear smoke shells and resorted to baton charges to disperse the agitated protestors who were trying to march to the police station.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has expressed a desire to withdraw from all interior locations of the worst-hit Naxal area of Bastar in Chattisgarh, a move opposed by the state police. Official sources, who referred to this wish by CRPF, said the para-military force has also approached Chhattisgarh Police to provide security to its camps at Narayanpur where 27 security personnel were killed in a Naxal ambush recently.
The country's specialised snoop department, the National Technical Research Organisation has set up its first base in a naxal hotbed in Chhattisgarh to monitor the movement of armed Maoist cadres and fly Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to help security forces to track them.
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Authorities imposed strict security restrictions in certain areas of Srinagar on Friday to foil a Muharram procession.
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Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar on Sunday to foil a Shia Muharram procession in the city even though small processions are being allowed in the city interior without any restrictions.
Major changes in the Central Reserve Police Force's operational strategies are underway following the recent setback against Naxals, especially in Dantewada where it lost over 75 personnel. The post of CRPF Inspector General of Police (Operations) is likely to be created in every state where the force is deployed for anti-Naxal operations, official sources said.
More than one armed policeman for every five unarmed, sleeping protestors. Add to that several security personnel from the Rapid Action Force and the Central Reserve Police Force. Not a fair equation, really. Sahim Salim reports from Ramlila grounds.
Four troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force were seriously injured in a powerful blast in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Thursday afternoon. Militants hurled a grenade at the battalion headquarters of the CRPF, located in a hotel building near the main bus stand, said a spokesperson of the police.
Arunachal Pradesh government on Wednesday released Rs 19 lakh as ex gratia for families of victims of the October 29 bridge collapse incident at Seppa in East Kameng district in which six persons died. Newly appointed Chief Minister Nabam Tuki directed the immediate release of the funds to the East Kameng district administration for disbursement.
In a revival of Maoist violence in junglemhal after a year-long lull, two Central Reserve Police Force personnel were shot dead by the ultras during an encounter in West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Monday.
Import of gadgets and weapons for the security forces is "not a happy situation" as foreign manufacturers do not meet Indian requirements in an optimal fashion, the CRPF chief on Friday said.
Suvendu Adhikari's father Sisir Kumar Adhikari and brother Dibyendu Adhikari have been provided the cover by the ministry on the basis of a threat perception report prepared by central security agencies, they said.
A one-man inquiry committee appointed to probe the recent Naxalite attack in Chhattisgarh which killed 76 police personnel, has begun investigation and will visit the spot next week and interact with injured jawans and officials in Dantewada.
A jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force was killed and seven others, including three CRPF men and a few civilians, injured in a powerful grenade explosion at Paltan Bazaar in Guwahati near the Assam State Transport Corporation bus stop on Saturday night.
In a major breakthrough, the joint forces killed top-ranking Maoist leader Sasadhar Mahato and arrested a person at Kapgari in the Jamboni police station area in West Midnapore district.
Kashmir is shut for the second consecutive day following strict curfew-like restrictions imposed by authorities to prevent the separatist march to the historic Jamia mosque in old city.
Banda chief judicial magistrate Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, additional chief judicial magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said.
Srinagar continued to be on the boil for the third day with protestor-security force clashes rocking it even as strict curfew-like restrictions remained in force in the old city on Sunday.
Curfews like restrictions were imposed in more parts of Srinagar Monday to thwart a proposed separatist march.Early on Monday morning, police paramilitary and Central Reserve Police Force fanned out across the city restricting pedestrian and vehicular movement in Srinagar, which has been on the boil since Sunday last when a schoolboy was killed after being hit by a tear smoke shell.
Heavy deployment of police and Central Reserve Police Force manning roads, lanes and traffic intersections disallowed all pedestrian and vehicular movement in old city areas of Srinagar, which in the last 5 days witnessed fierce clashes between security forces and protestors.
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