"The identity of the terrorists are yet to be ascertained. While no collateral damage has been registered," police added.
Forces were sent on information about presence of terrorists.
In an apparent damage control exercise in the Rajdhani hijacking case, a second First Information Report naming Maoists and a group backed by them has been filed by the Central Reserve Police Force, as against the Railway police's first FIR in which no group was mentioned. The CRPF had joined the state police in securing the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express to end the five-hour hostage drama in Banstala in West Midnapore district in West Bengal on Tuesday.
In another sign of a rift between the Central Reserve Police Force and the Chhattisgarh police over the handling of Naxal problem, the central force's Special Director General Vijay Raman has slammed the state police chief Vishwaranjan for not "listening".
The input shared by the state police had attached the twitter handle that carried a 33 second video of troops in Somalia being attacked by militants in a similar fashion as was replicated on Thursday on a bus carrying CRPF personnel at Pulwama in South Kashmir.
One of the two cases was registered by NIA's Delhi branch in 2021, and the other was lodged by the anti-terror agency's Jammu branch in 2022.
"Nine bodies of the Maoists were recovered after the encounter at Luhur jungle under Barwadih police station," Latehar Superintendent of Police Kuldweep Diwedi told PTI over phone.
Daily yoga has now been made compulsory for the 10 lakh-strong central paramilitary forces as part of their physical drill.
'Today, both in the hills and valley there is radicalised militant activity which poses a direct national security threat.' 'This kind of militancy in Manipur is unprecedented, I have never seen such largescale militancy in my life.'
After allegations of sexual harassment by a group of female CRPF personnel, the force conducted an investigation and determined his guilt, sources said.
A total of 946 medals have been announced by the Union home ministry for personnel and officers of Central Armed Police Forces and state police forces, out of which three have been decorated with the President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) while 177 have been awarded the PMG.
Country's largest paramilitary force CRPF has decided to appoint Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu as it's brand ambassador and bestow the honorary rank of Commandant on the ace badminton player. Official sources said the force has moved a formal proposal in this regard to the Union Home Ministry and after getting required sanctions, Sindhu will be honoured and presented the rank badges and camouflage combat fatigues of the CRPF at a ceremonial event.
The plan to relieve NSG from VIP security tasks has been in the making since 2012 when NSG commanders foresaw an event where simultaneous terror attacks could be witnessed at one time on multiple centres in the country and the commandos will have to be rushed in different directions.
The search operation is underway in nearby areas.
A Rajya Sabha member now, Gogoi was earlier being provided with a security cover of the Delhi Police.
It said the decision will immediately benefit approximately 7.8 lakh paramilitary personnel of the ranks of constable, head constable and assistant sub-inspector who were otherwise not eligible earlier.
Terrorists killed a Central Reserve Police Force head constable at the main bus stand at Magam in Kashmir's Budgam district.Police said that the CRPF trooper was shot at from a close range. The bus stand has been surrounded and search operations are on to trace the terrorists.
Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayiba could be assisting Maoists in carrying out attacks that have killed troops of the Central Reserve Police Force, the state police force and innocent civilians, said Chattigarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Wednesday.
Vijay, despite the loud message from his delayed arrival at the road-show/stampede venue, and more so his continued inaccessibility for fans-turned-cadres after graduating from a super-star to a political party leader with electoral ambitions, refuses to change. Or, so it seems, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Samboora village of Pampore area following information about the presence of some terrorists there.
Eight policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector, were injured in the operation, which saw security forces surrounding the Ahmadnagar area on Wednesday evening on specific information about the presence of a militant commander in a house
Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju, the powerful general secretary of Communist Party of India-Maoist killed in an encounter along with 26 others on Wednesday, had masterminded several major attacks on security forces in Chhattisgarh and his death is a big blow to the armed movement, said officials.
Around 800 police and paramilitary personnel sacrificed their lives in the past one year during operations or attacks on them with Central Reserve Police Force topping the list with 191 such cases.
The Centre on Friday sent about 500 security personnel to Hyderabad to strengthen law and order situation in the wake of twin blasts in the city that claimed 16 lives.
Rediff.com takes a look at the most deadly Naxal attacks on security forces over the last five years.
The children were stranded in the boarding school, Bharwada Ashramshala, for the last four days following heavy rains in Kheda district.
Six Naxalites, including "deputy commander" Punem Nagesh, his wife, and another female cadre, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Wednesday, a police officer said.
Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist on Saturday demanded a judicial probe into the killing of Maoists in a recent operation by police and Central Reserve Police Force personnel in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh, claiming they were "innocent tribals".
A civilian was also injured when terrorists opened fire on a CRPF team deployed on law and order duty at Achabal Chowk in Anantnag and escaped, the sources said.
A terrorist holed up in a border village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district was killed by security forces on Wednesday in a more than 15-hour operation during which his partner was also shot dead and a CRPF jawan lost his life, officials said.
While there was no resistance, some women expressed resentment, saying the exercise could have been done away from the public glare.
DIG Vishwaranjan and a top CRPF official said there were no casualties from the security personnel team.
A round-the-clock three-tier security ring has been thrown around the special cell office of the Delhi police where the prize catch in 26/11, Sayed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal of the Lashker-e-Tayiba, has been kept.
People belonging to different areas of Anantnag assembled at Mattan bus stand on Tuesday morning to protest the killing of five youths in Sopore and Baramulla, police said. Police and paramilitary forces deployed in the town, 65 km from Srinagar, asked them to disperse but when they refused to budge, they fired tear gas shells and batons to disperse them.
Police sources said grenades were lobbed at the CRPF camp located in Budshah Chowk, near the city centre this afternoon. The injured have been rushed to the nearby hospitals, they added.
With coordination issues between central and state forces being raised in the wake of the Dantewada massacre, the Central Reserve Police Force on Thursday said it is conducting anti-Maoist operations in close consulation with the Chhattisgarh police and a joint offensive will be carried out.
The inter-state anti-Naxal operation, along the Jharkhand-West Bengal border, has led to the unearthing of administrative and military units of the Naxals.The operation, which started on Tuesday evening, is a result of several months of planning, and is being lead by over 4,000 central forces including the Special Action Force of the Central Reserve Police Force, besides local police teams of the two states.
As Maoists continued to strike at will, the Centre is planning to deploy approximately 15,000 additional paramilitary personnel by April in the Naxal-affected states, to deal with the extremists.These men will be in addition to the 60,000 central security personnel currently deployed to assist the state governments to counter the Naxals.The men, who are now being acquired from forces like CRPF, BSF and ITBP.
The Indian government will launch an offensive against Naxals in various states later this year using Indian Air Force helicopters for movement of troops and satellite images to carry out surgical strikes.
An assistant sub-inspector, who was kidnapped by suspected Maoists in Odisha's Nuapada district on Tuesday has been killed.
