Five policemen killed in Chhattisgarh Maoist attacks
By Indo Asian News Service | IANS – Sun, Jun 26, 2011
Raipur, June 26 (IANS) Five security personnel, including two Border Security Force (BSF) troopers, were killed Sunday in two separate attacks by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, police said.
The two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were killed Sunday in a gun battle with Maoists at Koilibera area in Kanker district, some 250 km south of Rapiur, when a search squad of the BSF came under heavy police firing. The BSF claimed to have killed a few Maoists as well but recovered just one body.
'Maoists carried out a flash attack on a squad of the BSF and the troopers retaliated strongly but we lost one head constable and one constable. Four troopers were injured too,' a BSF official told IANS. The injured troopers were rushed to a government hospital.
Three state policemen were killed in another incident in Dantewada district when a police vehicle ran over on a landmine planted by Maoists.
'At least three District Force jawans were killed and four others injured when a powerful landmine blast hit a vehicle carrying a squad the Kirandul area,' Dantewada police chief Ankit Gardg told IANS over phone.
Efforts were on to take them to a government hospital at Jagdalpur, headquarters of Bastar region, he added.
Chhattisgarh's sprawling 40,000 square km Bastar region, comprising five districts, has been a Maoist hotbed since the late 1980s
Maoists threaten families of security officials in Orissa
By ANI | ANI – Wed, Jun 22, 2011
Rebana Palaspal (Orissa), June 22 (ANI): Maoist cadres operating in Orissa threatened family members of security officials to prevent them from taking action against the ultras.
Family members of Kailash Mahanto, a police officer killed by Maoists almost a year ago, and villagers living in Rebana Palaspal near Keonjhar District complained of being threatened by the ultras.
Dropadi Mahanto, mother of Kailash Mahanto, said that her son was serving as a police officer and the Maoist cadres used to threaten him by saying they would kill his family members if he did not quit his job. So, he quit his job and started a business in the village but still the ultras killed him.
"They took my son from the house when I was not in the house. As they left the houses, they locked the door from outside. The other locals came out and called me and my husband. We were sleeping at one of our relative's place. We looked for our son, but as it was too dark in the night so we could not find him. Nobody in the village helped us due to the fear of Maoists. We could not save my son and they killed him," she added.
Dropadi also said that the fear of Maoists has restricted locals from stepping out of their house and people have sent their children to their relatives place to keep them safe.
"We all are still living in trauma and are scared. My grand children cannot sleep at night in the house due to fear of the Maoists. My daughter in law and her children sleep at relatives place due to fear of the ultras. Only me and my husband are staying here," she added.
His uncle Ganeswar Mahanto said the locals are living under the fear of Maoists and they cannot go out of their houses at night.
"The situation here has worsened. We always live under fear. Earlier, the Maoists killed two locals, so we cannot go out from the house at night. We do not feel secure here. The police do patrol at times, but it is not possible for the police to patrol regularly," he added.
Kailash Mahanto, was a Special Police Officer (SPO) posted in Brahmanipal area in 2008. He was killed by Maoists on July 1, 2010. (ANI
Maoists slit throat of person in ''kangaroo court''
PTI – Sun, Jun 26, 2011
Koraput (Orissa), Jun 26 (PTI) Maoists killed a man by slitting his throat at a ''kangaroo court'' in Orissa''s Koraput district holding him guilty of passing on information to the police.
The body of the victim named Sapaura Sirika, who had been missing from his village since Friday night, was found in a pool of blood at Kalam-Jhadipada chowk, about 90 km from here yesterday, police said today.
Quoting a letter purportedly written by Maoists and found from the spot by villagers, police said the ultras claimed to have punished him at a Kangaroo court (people''s court) as he was a "police informer".
Sirika was also held responsible for a police-Maoist encounter that took place in a dense forest in Narayanpatna area last year.
The red rebels slit the throat of Sirika with a sharp-edged weapon after tying his hands at the back.
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