Maoists

A member of prohibited CPI-Maoist Prasant Majhi, with his five associates, have been arrested by the Jharkhand Police near Khukhra police station. The police have arrested five associates including two women and also confiscated an AK-47 rifle from the arrested. As per reports, the Superintendent of Police Amit Renu-led team has arrested Prasant after a tip-off that he was lurking in between Parvatpur-Pandeydih villages bordering Giridih-… read-more

Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada police have translated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) document in Gondi - a tribal dialect. With over 500 translations, the UDHR aims at empowering the Maoist-hit tribal population. The police have released the document along with audio format at the first-ever Human Rights seminar of Dantewada, attended by activists, academicians and media. Reportedly, nearly 2 million people in MP, Telangana,… read-more

To promote peace through Diwali celebrations, a social organisation has planned to gift sanitary pads and menstrual cups to women Maoists of Chhattisgarh's Bastar forest. This will be done under "New Peace Process" campaign. The organiser Shubhranshu Choudhary said women Maoists would receive a gift pack worth Rs 1000 that would consist re-useable sanitary pads and a menstrual cup. He added the funds were being raised and the offerings would… read-more

Chhattisgarh Police on November 9 informed that they had arrested 6 Maoists, including a woman, in Damavaram and Basaguda area. A joint-team of the District Reserve Guard(DRG), Central Reserve Police Force(CRPF) and its CoBRA teams made this operation possible. The police have also recovered pipe bombs, wires, switches and batteries from Maoists. The six Maoists are identified as Madvi Bichchem(30), Uika Rama(26), Uika Lakhi (woman cadre), … read-more

The husband of Karhi village’s sarpanch in Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari district was killed by Maoists on November 3. The victim, identified as Niresh Kumar Kunjam (35), was allegedly suspected of being a police informer. The police found a handwritten pamphlet on a tree near the dead body in which Maoists claimed responsibility of the murder. “It seems that Kunjam was strangled, but exact cause of death will be known once post-mortem report… read-more