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Hans India
23-05-2025
- Hans India
Seven-day police custody for Siraj and Sameer
Vizianagaram: The Additional Judicial First-Class Magistrate (AJFCM) Court of Vizianagaram on Thursday ordered for seven days police custody for Siraj and Sameer, who were arrested by two-town police with alleged conspiracy for bomb blasts to create terror by blasting Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in various parts of the nation. The accused were in Visakhapatnam Central Prison for 14-days judicial remand now. After getting permission for police custody, the Vizianagaram two-town police stepped into action to submit necessary documents to Visakhapatnam Central Prison to take them into their custody on Friday morning. They have also been preparing the ground to inquire the accused in a secret place to obtain the key information regarding their conspiracy behind the making of IEDs and links with the terrorists and their sympathizers. On the other side police especially National investigation agency (NIA) officials have already seized the bank accounts of Siraj suspecting that he received huge funds from terror organizations. They found that the two have developed close contact with Soudi Arabian organizations which have funded a lot to plan for blasts in Vizianagaram and some other places.
Indian Express
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
One CoBRA commando killed in encounter on Sukma-Bijapur border
A jawan of the specialised Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) of the Central Reserve Police Force was killed in an encounter with the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoists) Thursday morning on the border of Bijapur and Sukma in Chhattisgarh, officials said. A Maoist was killed in the encounter. The encounter broke out between 10 am and 11 am in Tumrel, an area that falls in Bijapur district close to Sukma border, after security forces received intelligence reports on the presence of Maoists in the area. A joint operation was then undertaken by Sukma District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF) and Central Reserve Police Force's elite force CoBRA battalion 210. Significantly, this operation comes at a time when the state is making a massive anti-insurgency push in an attempt to meet the March 26 deadline set by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to root out Left-Wing Extremism. It also comes a day after 27 Maoists were killed in a major encounter in the state's Abujhmad – an area located largely in Narayanpur district but also extends into Bijapur, Dantewada and Kanker in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, and Bhamragarh in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. Among the significant casualties in that operation was Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basava Raju, the 70-year-old chief of CPI (Maoist). It also comes days after the security forces called off a major anti-insurgency operation codenamed 'Operation Black Forest' on Karegutta Hills on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border. Security forces have hailed the operation as a success, claiming that it has broken up the Maoists dreaded Battalion 1 of its armed People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA). Another CoBRA jawan who was injured in Thursday's encounter is currently being evacuated using a chopper, police said. 'During the encounter, a Maoist was gunned down. Unfortunately, one of our jawans suffered a bullet wound and succumbed,' one official said. This is the third jawan to have lost his life in Naxal violence in the state in the last two days, taking the total toll of jawans killed this year to 17. On Wednesday, two DRG jawans were killed in separate Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts during the Abujhmad operation. The latest development takes the total number of Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh in 201, of which 184 were in Bastar region alone.
India Today
21-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Maoist Basavaraju killed: How 50-hour-long Op Kagar ended era of red terror
Security forces on Wednesday neutralised Nambala Keshava Rao, alias Basavaraju — the General Secretary and supreme commander of the CPI (Maoist) — in a prolonged and high-stakes anti-Naxal operation in the dense Abujhmad forests of Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur the most-wanted Naxal in the country with a bounty of Rs 1.5 crore on his head, was the ideological and tactical brain behind some of the deadliest Maoist attacks in India. His death is being hailed by the security establishment as one of the most decisive blows to the Maoist insurgency in recent RED COMMANDERBorn in 1955 in Jiyannapet village in Andhra Pradesh, Keshava Rao graduated in engineering from NIT Warangal before joining the People's War Group in the early 1980s. He reportedly received guerrilla training from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1987 and went on to mastermind numerous Improvised Explosive Device (IED) ambushes and attacks across Maoist-affected his most infamous operations:2010 Dantewada massacre, where 76 CRPF personnel were killed2013 Jeeram Ghati ambush, which claimed 27 lives including senior Congress leaders2003 Alipiri bomb blast, an assassination attempt on then Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu NaiduIn 2018, Basavaraju took over as the General Secretary of CPI (Maoist), succeeding Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathy, and led the movement's strategic operations from underground hideouts, evading multiple intelligence dragnets over the 'OPERATION KAGAR'advertisementThe offensive that brought down Basavaraj followed weeks of coordinated intelligence-gathering that tracked the movement of senior Maoist commanders in the rugged, forested tri-junction of Narayanpur, Bijapur, and 'Operation Kagar', the operation was launched on May 19 by joint District Reserve Guard (DRG) teams of Chhattisgarh Police, supported by the Special Task Force (STF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The operation culminated in a massive 50-hour-long encounter that left over 30 Maoists officials recovered a significant cache of arms, ammunition, and strategic documents from the site, calling it a serious blow to the Maoist logistical and command structure in central reports suggested several senior-level Maoist leaders from the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) and the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) were either killed or seriously injured. Search operations are underway to locate any injured or fleeing cadres in the surrounding jungles.A HEAVY PRICEThe forces paid a price for the high-stakes mission — one District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel was killed during the fierce gunfight. His body is being brought to Narayanpur district treacherous terrain and formidable resistance, Chhattisgarh's DRG and allied forces pressed on, reaffirming their commitment to dismantling Maoist strongholds in the Abujhmad region, considered the last bastion of the REACTIONadvertisementPrime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah took to social media to congratulate the armed forces and particularly praised the Chhattisgarh Police's DRG unit for the successful execution of the operation."Proud of our forces for this remarkable success. Our Government is committed to eliminating the menace of Maoism and ensuring a life of peace and progress for our people," PM Modi wrote in a post on hailed the encounter as 'a moment of national pride' and reaffirmed the Centre's commitment to eradicating left-wing extremism."A landmark achievement in the battle to eliminate Naxalism. Today, in an operation in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, our security forces have neutralized 27 dreaded Maoists, including Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, the general secretary of CPI-Maoist, topmost leader, and the backbone of the Naxal movement," Amti Shah said.
India.com
19-05-2025
- Politics
- India.com
Pakistan: Car bomb targets Frontier Corps, leaves several people dead in Balochistan
Pakistan's southwest Quetta city. (File image/Xinhua/Asad/IANS) Quetta: A car bomb explosion in Gulistan Area of Qila Abdullah, a border area of Pakistan's Balochistan province with Afghanistan, has killed at least four people and injured more than 20 others, eight of them critically injured. The explosion occurred in Jabbar commercial market situated on the Quetta–Chaman National Highway in Gulistan town, adjacent to the fort of Pakistan's Frontier Corps (FC). As per details, the massive explosion destroyed many shops and vehicles parked in the area and walls of the FC Fort were also damaged. Locals said that many shops in the market also caught fire. Sources stated that the target of the attack was also a tribal warlord Faizullah Ghabizai, a pro-government leader, who was present in the market when the car bomb exploded. However, Ghabizai remained safe while one of his guards was killed and others were injured in the explosion. 'Apparently, the attackers wanted to target the back wall of the FC fort located adjacent to the commercial market. After the huge blast, security forces engaged in heavy exchange of fire with the attackers,' said Muhammad Riaz Dawar, Deputy Commissioner Qila Abdullah. 'An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was fitted in the car and was used for the explosion. It seems like the car was detonated with a remote control,' he added. The banned terror outfit, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack on the FC Fort and the levies are investigating into the incident while security in and around Qila Abdullah and Chaman has been beefed up. Analysts say that there is a clear coordination between the proscribed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who have intensified their attacks in the recent past. 'TTP footprints deep inside Balochistan re-establish the fact that both TTP and the BLA are in allegiance and operating in coordination against the Pakistani security forces. We also have seen the other separatist groups in Sindh province – including the Sindh Desh Revolution Army which has connections with the BLA and TTP – starting to carry out targetted killings in areas bordered with India,' said analyst Qamar Cheema. 'Pakistan has repeatedly stated that these militant groups are getting all the support and facilitation from Afghanistan,' he added. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has intensified its attacks on security forces in the province. Social media campaigns have also been launched by the BLA-led groups, calling for what they term as liberation from Pakistan and expressing allegiance with India.
The Hindu
17-05-2025
- The Hindu
Pakistan continues using Chinese drones to drop narcotics and arms along Punjab border, BSF data shows
Despite a heightened vigil both on land and in the air along the western border after India and Pakistan announced a cessation of military operations on May 10, Pakistan continued to drop narcotics and arms into India with the help of Chinese drones, recoveries made by the Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab Police show. On May 10, before the cessation of operations was announced in the evening, the BSF, based on specific information, recovered a yellow packet adjacent to Sheikh Bhatti village in the Amritsar district of Punjab, bordering Pakistan. The packet had an improvised metal wire loop attached to it, indicating it was dropped by a drone, a BSF official said. The packet contained 2.7 kilograms of high-grade explosive, two hand grenades with accessories, two pistols, four magazines, 30 live rounds of ammunition, two detonators, and an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) circuit. 'Despite the heightened situation on the border, the arms syndicate across the border has not stopped its malicious designs to push weapons onto Indian soil,' the BSF official said. On May 11, amid blackouts, when several areas in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Gujarat were reportedly swarmed with armed drones from Pakistan despite the pause on military operations, the BSF recovered a 'DJI Mavic 3 Classic' drone from a field adjacent to Gola Dola village of Gurdaspur in Punjab, and another drone of the same make along with a pistol in Kahangarh village. The same day, BSF personnel recovered 559 grams of heroin from a farming field near Rajatal village in Amritsar district. On May 12, around 11:20 a.m., the BSF recovered another Chinese-made drone in a broken condition from a field near Nishoke village in Amritsar. Subsequently, on May 14, the BSF recovered a pistol, a drone, and a packet of heroin in three different incidents in Amritsar, Ferozepur, and Gurdaspur along the Punjab border. On May 15, the BSF recovered another 'DJI Mavic 3 Classic' drone from Tarn Taran in Punjab. 'The drone is presumed to have fallen due to technical interference of electronic countermeasures deployed on the border,' the BSF said. Overnight on May 15-16, BSF troops observed suspicious activity in the Ferozepur border area and, on inspection, recovered a 'DJI Mavic 3 Classic' drone along with a pistol and two magazines from a farming field adjacent to Kalash village in Tarn Taran district. In 2024, the BSF seized 294 drones along the Punjab border, double the figure from the previous year.
