20 Maoists gunned down in Orissa; Six CRPF personnel and 11 Maoist killed in Chattisgarh
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  • A day after some 600 Maoists stormed a local police training school, district armoury and three police stations in Orissa’s Nayagarh district, as many as 20 Maoists were gunned down during the combing operation by the security forces in border area of Nayagarh-Ganjam-Kandhamal districts of Orissa, between February 16 and 17. Three policemen were also killed in the operation1.

    Meanwhile, in the aftermath of the Maoist attack in Nayagarh, policemen in Orissa demanded declaration of the entire state as Maoist-affected instead of identifying only some districts as prone to Maoist violence. Blaming the Orissa Government for the recent upsurge in Maoist violence, the Orissa Police Association (OPA) and the Orissa Havildar, Constable and Sepoys’ Confederation demanded adequate fortification of police stations and armouries across the state2.

    Elsewhere in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar forests, as many as six Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and 11 Maoists were killed in two separate incidents of gun battles between security forces and extremists on February 183.

    In West Bengal, The police arrested a top Maoist leader and the CPI-Maoist state secretary Somen alias Himadri Sen Roy, from Hridaypur railway station in North 24-Parganas on February 23. Since the formation of CPI-Maoist, Somen had been overseeing its Bengal operations4.

    The Bihar Police seized 6,000 kilograms of explosives, including 40,000 gelatine sticks and 8,640 detonators belonging to Maoist insurgents from a truck in the Nawada district on February 235.

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