Patna: A self-proclaimed Maoist spokesman on Saturday claimed that the three policemen abducted by the rebels were safe and the proof about this would be provided shortly, but demanded the Bihar government immediately halt operations and call for talks. The spokesman, Avinash, rang up media offices and said they would provide by 4:00 pm an audio CD containing the voices of the three policemen kidnapped on Sunday from Lakhisarai district....

02:23 PM, Sep 04, 2010
Patna: The mastermind behind the Bihar hostage crisis has been arrested. Bihar Police on Saturday morning arrested the two senior Naxal leaders during a combing operation near the jungles of Lakhisarai and claimed that one of them is the mastermind behind the abduction of four Bihar policemen, one of whom was killed on Thursday. The alleged mastermind has been identified as Pintu, a senior Naxal leader. The other leader has...

08:43 AM, Sep 04, 2010
Patna: In a cruel twist of fate it was the body of Lokus Tete, an assistant sub-inspector with the Bihar Military Police, that was found in a pool of blood on Friday. For three other families, the harrowing wait continues. Naxals shot Tete after holding him in captivity for five days. Contrary to the reports that appeared on Wednesday, it was not inspector Abhay Yadav who was killed. But the...

10:27 PM, Sep 03, 2010

Bihar Military Police Sub-Inspector Lokus Tete, who was killed by the Maoists, was given a guard of honour by Bihar Police in Lakhisarai on Friday. Earlier Tete's family members identified the body. ...

04:34 PM, Sep 03, 2010
Patna: The body found in the forests of Lakhisarai has been identified as that of Bihar Military Police Sub-Inspector Lokus Tete. Tete’s body was found with a note reportedly written by the Maoists in which they warned that the other abducted policemen would be killed if their demand for the release of their eight jailed comrades was not accepted. "The body found in Lakhisarai is of Sub Inspector Lokus Tete....

11:35 AM, Sep 03, 2010