Gurgaon: The CRPF, a key force in anti-Maoist operations, will have to acquire an intelligence-based strategy to combat Maoists who have organised themselves as a "regular fighting army", Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday. Chidambaram said this while inaugurating the first-ever intelligence training school for Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers and personnel at its academy at Kadarpur in Gurgaon, adjacent to Delhi. "Counter-insurgency and countering Left-wing extremists(LWE) require...
03:42 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Gurgaon, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram fired a couple of rounds from a Light Machine Gun (LMG) to give a sound start to the opening of a shooting drill on Wednesday. Chidambaram pulled the trigger like a professional shooter prompting reporters to ask whether he hit the bull's eye but there were no answers from officials present at Kadarpur school where he had gone to inaugurate the Intelligence School of...
04:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Midnapore: A Maoist squad leader was killed on Sunday in an exchange of fire with joint security forces in Jamtal jungle in West Midnapore district, police said. Yudhistir Mahato alias Aryun was killed when security forces purportedly opened retaliatory fire after Maoists attacked them during a combing operation in the area. Police said the joint forces had raided the area on a tip-off that Mahato was holding a meeting in...
08:11 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Imphal: At least five people including a woman and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel have been killed in election related violence in Manipur. The violence took place in Chandel district of Manipur during polling on Saturday. The dead also included two civilians and one polling officer. According to eyewitnesses some militants tried to capture a booth and fired at the CRPF personnel present there. One of the CRPF...
02:34 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Imphal: Two CRPF personnel on poll duty were killed in an ambush by militants even as four powerful bombs planted near polling stations were seized and defused before polling for the Manipur Assembly began on Saturday morning. The CRPF personnel were killed on Friday when militants ambushed them in Ukhrul district, official sources said. They said the bombs were suspected to have been planted by militants in Khurai Chingangbam area,...
11:24 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Srinagar: Separatist leader Yasin Malik and six others were arrested in Srinagar on Friday. They were protesting over the death of a Kashmiri youth in CISF firing on Monday. Kashmir has been reeling under day-long power cuts for the past several weeks. The massive load shedding led to a series of protests in the state. In Uri, a youth was killed when the CISF opened fire at the protesting villagers....
03:40 PM, Jan 06, 2012
This is the first incident of fratricide incident in CRPF this year in the Kashmir Valley. ...
01:32 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Srinagar: Three CRPF jawans were killed and another injured in a fratricide incident, the first of this year in the force, at a camp in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said on Sunday. Firing shots were heard inside the barrack of 18th Battalion CRPF at Kulgam town, 75 km from here, at around 10.45 PM on Saturday night, a senior police officer said. Head Constables Suman Pillay and P Sibbu...
10:40 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Gaya: A suspected Naxalite was injured after a group of heavily-armed Naxalites attacked a CRPF's CoBRA battalion camp in Bihar's Gaya district, police said on Monday. After a three hour encounter, the suspected ultra was arrested last night while he was found lying injured outside the camp under Dumaria police station area, Magadh range Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) N Hasnain Khan said. The injured has been admitted to...
04:00 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Cobra battalion picket of the CRPF was attacked by armed Naxals in Gaya district in Bihar on Sunday. There were no casualties or injuries reported in the Naxal attack. Police said that the encounter lasted for half hour. Naxals also fired at a police picket in Palamu district in Jharkhand. They fled after firing at the police picket. ...
10:17 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Jhargram/Kolkata: A day after killing senior Maoist leader Kishenji, security forces on Friday hunted for his comrades in a large swathe of West Midnapore in West Bengal amid charges that he was captured alive, tortured and then murdered in cold blood. Officials maintained that Communist Party of India-Maoist's politburo member Kishenji, whose real name was Mallojula Koteshwar Rao, died in a firefight on Thursday afternoon in Burishole, 10 km from...
02:31 AM, Nov 26, 2011
New Delhi/Kolkata: The CRPF has denied that Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji was killed in a fake encounter, but questions have been raised given the way he was killed and absence of his own security. The hunt is on for fellow Maoists cadres, even as nine states have been put on high alert. It was a violent end for Bengal's most wanted. After tracking him for two days, Kishenji,...
11:23 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Jhargram (West Bengal): The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Friday ruled out that top Maoist leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji was killed in a fake encounter. CRPF Director General K Vijay Kumar claimed that the encounter at Burishol village in Junglemahal area of West Bengal on Wednesday in which Kishenji was killed was "clean". "We are confident that Kishenji has been killed. We were surprised that the normal security...
03:42 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Kolkata: Top Maoist leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji has been killed in an encounter with security forces at Burishol village in Junglemahal area of West Bengal. The CRPF has confirmed that 207 Cobra Battalion, 184 CRPF battalion along with Bengal state police killed the Maoist leader in a joint operation. Union Home Secretary RK Singh said, "Our officers have told us that Kishenji has been killed. It's a huge setback...
06:16 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: A mentally challenged teenager gave birth to a premature baby after allegedly being raped by a CRPF personnel. The baby died on November 6, a day after being born. The girl was staying in a hostel for the mentally challenged which is located next to a CRPF camp in Warangal. The police have registered an FIR against the unidentified CRPF personnel. Police suspect that the victim was raped...
06:21 AM, Nov 08, 2011
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