Top cops' meet charts joint border coordination in anti-Maoist ops
Raipur: Ten days after the most successful anti-Naxal operation in Bastar in which CPI(Maoist) general secretary Basavaraju was gunned down, a high-level inter-state border coordination meeting on anti-Maoist ops was held at Rajnandgaon SP office in Chhattisgarh on Saturday.
Senior police officers from Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra gathered to discuss collaborative strategies to counter Naxal activities in the border regions. Top officers from eight districts — Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon, Kabirdham, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki and Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai, MP's Balaghat and Mandla and Maharashtra's Gadchiroli and Gondia —attended the meeting. So did officers from ITBP and MP's Hawk Force.
They focused on efforts to bolster coordination on state borders, particularly within the MP–Maharashtra–Chhattisgarh (MMC) zone. They said that authorities are focusing on developing joint strategies to neutralise Maoist presence, while intensifying operations aimed at encouraging surrenders and facilitating arrests. Key measures include establishing clear protocols for joint intelligence sharing, coordinated search operations, and synchronized patrolling efforts.
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Border surveillance is being strengthened through deployment of mobile checkposts and barrier-checks designed to intercept illegal materials such as arms, drugs, and other contraband potentially linked to Maoist activities. Continuous monitoring of infiltration routes and suspicious movements across districts remains a top priority in order to disrupt the Maoist network.
Officials emphasized the importance of inter-agency cooperation to eradicate the Maoist threat from MMC zone.
The meeting concluded with the adoption of a joint action plan focused on accelerated anti-Naxal operations, with a unified commitment to securing border areas, dismantling Maoist networks, and encouraging surrender through outreach and legal processes.
Among the high-ranking officials who attended the are Balaghat Zone IG Sanjay Kumar, Rajnandgaon Range IG Abhishek Shandilya, Gadchiroli Range DIG Ankit Goyal, ITBP DIG Anwar Elahi, Rajnandgaon SP Mohit Garg, Kabirdham SP Dharmendra Singh, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki SP Y P Singh, Balaghat SP Nagendra Singh, Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai SP Lakshya Sharma, Gondia SP Gorakh Dhamre, ASP-Gadchiroli Ops M Ramesh, Balaghat Hawk Force commander Shiyaz K M, Balaghat additional SP Rakesh Kumar Pandro and ITBP ops deputy commander Jith James.
The meeting marks a crucial step toward cross-state synergy in internal security, aimed at ensuring peace and stability in Naxal-affected zones through collaborative law enforcement and strategic operations.
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