A villager in Chhattisgarh was allegedly killed by Naxals on the suspicion of being a "police informer" near Minpa village, Superintendent of Police, Sukma Kiran Chavan said on Friday.
"Body of a naxal was recovered in a search operation after an exchange of fire between naxals and security forces under Orchha Police Station on Monday morning," SP Sharma said.
The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) on Friday got the 10-day custody remand of three out of five alleged Naxals who were arrested in Ballia district on August 15, said officials.
Naxals do not let political parties carry out campaigns in areas under their dominance. In the last six months, insurgents have allegedly killed four BJP workers in the Bastar region
In a significant achievement for the local administration in its efforts to take development to the areas affected by Naxalite violence, households in Elmagunda village in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh have got electricity. The feat of electrifying households in this remote Naxal v
Two jawans of the Jharkhand Jaguar (JJ), a special unit of the state police department unit lost their lives in an encounter with Naxals in Chaibasa, said the police on Tuesday.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday paid tribute to Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable Sushant Kumar Khuntia who lost his life during an encounter with Naxals in Chaibasa.
Congress state president and Bastar MP, Deepak Baij, on Wednesday claimed that under previous BJP government, tribals were shot and clad in Naxal uniforms so that they could be passed off as Leftist outlaws.
Serving as a source of inspiration for many in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, where the Naxals once ran their writ, the daughter of a retired bus driver secured a job at a government hospital in London.
Security forces in the insurgency-hit Bastar region are all set to foil every wicked design of the ultras during ‘Martyrs Week’ of the Naxals, commencing from July 28.
As a preventive measure, forces have stepped up anti-naxal exercises in Maoist-hit districts claiming that the ‘Martyrs Week’ to be observed by the banned organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist) will not make any impact on the lives of common people.