Raipur: The Chhattisgarh government on Sunday ordered a judicial inquiry into Friday night's encounter between security forces and suspected naxals near Edasmeta village in Bijapur district, in which eight villagers were killed. The locals alleged today that the encounter was fake.
A commission headed by Justice VK Agrawal, which is already probing the encounter with Maoists at Sarkeguda in Bijpaur district on June 28-29, 2012, will conduct inquiry into this incident too. The decision was taken at a meeting of senior officials, chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh, an official statement said.
The government also announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of the villagers who were killed. According to police, eight villagers, including three minors, and a personnel of elite Cobra battalion of CRPF were killed in the gun-battle between security forces and the ultras near Edasmeta village in southern Chhattisgarh on the intervening night of May 17-18. The Cobra (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) battalion 208 was on a combing operation at the time.
A senior police official claimed that one of the killed men was identified as Karam Masa (27), a naxal, who was active in the region for the past several years. Other deceased were identified as Karam Pandu, Karam Guddu, Karam Joga, Karam Somlu, Karam Badru, Punem Sonu and Punem Lakh, Bijapur Collector Mohammad Kaiser Abdul Haq told PTI over phone....
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10:44 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: In yet another incident of civilian causalities during police action; eight villagers, including three children, were killed in an alleged encounter between security forces and the ultras in Naxal-affected Bijapur district in southern Chhattisagrh. Police claim they don't have any information that the dead are innocent civilians and that they will investigate the matter. Earlier they had said that Naxals are among those killed in the gun battle....
04:31 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Eight villagers, including 3 children, and a securityman of elite Cobra battalion were killed in an encounter between security forces and the ultras in Naxal-affected Bijapur district in southern Chhattisagrh. Police say suspected Naxals are among those killed in the gunbattle late on Friday. "Eight villagers, including suspected Naxals died, apart from one security personnel, in cross-firing between security forces and Maoists late on Friday night in the...
11:48 AM, May 19, 2013
Raipur: Eight villagers, including suspected Naxals and a securityman of elite COBRA battalion, were killed in a gun battle between security forces and the ultras in Maoist-affected Bijapur district in southern Chhattisgarh on Saturday. "Eight villagers, including suspected Naxals died, apart from one security personnel, in cross-firing between security forces and Maoists late on Friday night in the forest near Edesmeta village (under Gangalur police station)," Additional Director General of...
10:20 PM, May 18, 2013
A ten-year-old boy who immolated himself in Bijapur succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. The fourth standard student was reportedly depressed because his teacher had threatened to punish him if he did not do his homework. ...
04:13 PM, Dec 02, 2012
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01:45 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Two weeks after the controversial 'Naxal' encounter in Bijapur of Chhattisgarh, that allegedly left innocent villagers dead, the Union Home Ministry has finally woken up. It has called for a meeting of nine Naxal-affected states and the paramilitary forces to discuss the use of villagers as human shields by Naxals. On the discussion table will be standard operating procedures to deal with human shields in Naxal operations. The...
09:07 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Bijapur: Nearly two weeks after an anti-Naxal operation by the CRPF forces in the Basaguda village in Bastar region in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh killed 16 people, the central reserve force is facing allegations of killing innocents. Basaguda village today looks haunted with fallen trees and messages nailed to them. It looks haunted by the June 29 encounter, in which 22-year-old Sariah lost his brother-in-law. He recounts the horror of the...
08:45 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Facing severe criticism over the Bijapur encounter in Chhattisgarh where some civilians including minors were allegedly gunned down by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel during an anti-Naxal operation, the Union Home Ministry has called a meeting to discuss standard operating procedures (SOPs) to deal with human shields. Home Minister P Chidambaram, who has defended the CRPF, will meet all Naxal-affected state government and paramilitary forces on...
04:10 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Raipur/New Delhi: The divide between the Congress party and the state government over the killings in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur have deepened with a report by the former saying that innocent children were killed in the crossfire. The report by the Congress committee disagrees with Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's clean chit to the CRPF. The internal report of the Congress has named seven innocent children...
08:45 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: The report of the Congress party on the encounter between the Naxals and the CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh has claimed that at least seven tribals, including minors, were killed in the crossfire. The report by the 11-member panel is different from Home Minister P Chidambaram's version of the encounter. The report, however, said that panel members were unable to make it clear who started firing. It also attacked...
05:27 PM, Jul 04, 2012
KC Deo openly questioned the CRPF operation, alleging that half of those killed were teenagers. ...
11:25 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Tribal Affairs Minister KC Deo on Tuesday slammed Home Minister P Chidambaram over the Bijapur encounter in which the CRPF claims to have killed 20 Naxals. Deo told CNN-IBN that according to his information half of those killed in Bijapur were teenagers and said that the encounter was unacceptable. "They say bullets don't recognise who is a Naxal, who is not. But people behind the guns can recognise,"...
05:52 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: In Chhattisgarh 18 suspected Naxals have been killed in two separate operations in Bijapur and Sukma. Six CRPF personnel were injured, two are said to be critical. 16 alleged Naxals were killed in Bijapur, Chattisgarh with a combing operation that began on Thursday night ending on Friday morning. And in an operation at Sukma district, two suspected Naxals were shot dead. The encounter, which took place in the...
09:05 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Raipur: In a major crackdown by CRPF, at least 20 naxalites, including a woman, were killed in a fierce overnight encounter in the dense jungles of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh that left six jawans wounded. The encounter, which took place in the forests of Silger, an uncharted Maoist zone between the Naxal hotbed of Jagargunda and Basaguda in Bijapur district of Bastar region, was launched on Thursday night in a joint...
12:42 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Raipur: Sixteen suspected Naxals have been killed in an encounter with CRPF in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada area. Six CRPF personnel have also been critically injured. The 6-hour Naxal-CRPF encounter ended on Friday morning at the Basuguda police station in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh. Two jawans who were seriously injured have been shifted to Raipur. The encounter, which took place in the jungles of Silger, a "liberated" Maoist zone between the Naxal hotbed...
09:19 AM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: An encounter between Naxals and CRPF perosnnel is underway in Chhattisgarh. Reports said that nine 9 CRPF men and 3 Naxals have been injured in the incident. Two CRPF perosnnel, who were seriously injured have been shifted to Raipur. The encounter is on at the Basuguda police station in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh. ...
08:45 AM, Jun 29, 2012
Belgaum: Dundappa Athani, a 63-year-old man of Kolhar village in Bijapur district, can still ride any cycle at a speed of 40-50 kms per hour! Yes, You should see him to believe it. He returned from New Delhi after seeing Indira Gandhi to Kolhar in just four days cycling at a speed of 70 kms per hour. He peddled to Gwalior Jail to see bandit queen Phoolan Devi and cycled...
12:36 PM, May 30, 2011
Bijapur: The Chhattisgarh Police have nabbed four Maoists during a raid in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh. Some arms, ammunition and literature have also been recovered from a Maoist hideout. The arrested Maoists have been identified as Oyami Chinmaya, Mudium Supari, Phontru and Sukhram. The police also clashed with the Maoists during another search operation in the region. The cross-firing lasted for over an hour but the ultras managed to escape. Rajendra...
02:36 PM, Oct 14, 2010
Chhattisgarh: The 12-day-long hostage drama ends with the Naxals releasing four policemen whom they'd taken hostage. They were handed over to local mediapersons on Wednesday night inside the Bijapur forests and taken to the Dantewada police station. "All four cops have been freed and handed over to local mediapersons who had been mediating for their release", Dantewada district's Senior Superintendent of Police S.R.P. Kalluri said. He said Assistant Sub-inspector Sukhram...
07:12 AM, Oct 01, 2010
