A suspected Naxalite gunned down

Sringeri Dec 27: A suspected Naxalite gunned down in an encounter by Sringeri police, in association with the anti-naxal force (ANF), at Kigga near Sringeri Chikamagalur district on Monday night, has now been identified as Dinakara Malekudia son of Koraga Malekudia of Kandlur Naravi, Belthangadi Taluk.
Dinakar's residence in Naravi
Initially the police had identified the person as certain Vikram Gowda of Hebri near Karkala. However, they retracted their statement after the parents of Vikram Gowda revealed that the body was not their son's. Even ADGP Shanker Bidri in his address to the media persons earlier said that the deceased was identified as Vikram Gowda.
Dinakar's parents reading the local news paper
But today Dinakar's brother Yashavanth and his close relatives went to Chikamagalur and identified Dinakar's body.
It is learnt that, Dinakar was missing since past 3 years and he had joined the Naxals.
The police upon receiving the information that naxalites had organised a meeting at the house of certain Yogappa at Kesumudi in Sringeri on Christmas night, swiftly surrounded the house of Yogappa at around 10.20 p.m. However, by then the naxalites had left Yogappa's house. A group of armed naxals after learning that they were surrounded, fired at the police. The police returned the fire in which one person was killed. On Tuesday morning, the police found the body of a man at the spot of the encounter.
This is the second encounter killing in Chikmagalur district, the first being the death of naxalite kingpin Saketh Rajan and his associate on February 6, 2005, at Menasinahadya. Senior police officers including IGP Satyanarayan and Mr. Vipul Kumar are camping in Sringeri. The police have intensified their search for naxalites in the region.
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Police lathicharge at Singur; Naxal leader Kanu detained

Singur (WB), Dec 08: Police today stopped the activists of a Naxalite outfit on way to Singur and resorted to lathicharge in which three scribes were injured while veteran Naxal leader Kanu Sanyal was detained at Noapara in North 24-Parganas. The CPI-ML (Liberation) activists led by its general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya took out a procession from Seoraphuli and tried to break the police cordon. Police then resorted to lathicharge to disperse them, police sources said. Three newsmen were injured in the lathicharge. The Naxalites, however, continued their march even after the police action. Police reinforcements were rushed to stop them. Describing the incident as "unfortunate", Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told reporters in Kolkata that an incident had occurred at Singur. "There was a scuffle. I am enquiring about it," he said. CPI(ML) general secretary Kanu Sanyal and three others were detained at a ferry jetty when they were about to cross the River Hooghly in a mechanised boat en route to Singur. Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who was on an indefinite fast in Kolkata, condemned the police lathicharge and said it showed that the lf government has imposed an undeclared emergency in the state. Even the journalists were not allowed to move freely.

naxal attack on CRPF

A major attack was launched by Naxalites on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Bijapur district in Dantewada, Chattisgarh.
The CRPF company was stationed at the Sherpal camp. Around 700 Naxals stormed the camp late on Sunday night resulting in gun fire. No details on the casualties are available so far. It’s the second time the same camp was under attack.
On November 30, 4 ultras were killed, when they tried to storm the camp. Also, this comes just 2 days after 14 policemen were killed and 3 injured when Naxalites blew up the vehicle they were travelling in with an Improvised Explosive Device in a village near Bokaro in Jharkhand. In fact, TIMES NOW last week had also reported on the first visual proof of the existence of a female militant wing in the Naxal movement in this belt itself. Training to these extremists is being imparted in dense jungles in camps that dot the infamous ‘Red Corrridor’ that stretches from the Nepal till down south to the Dandakaranya region in Andhra Pradesh. Though the government has been working on a four-pronged strategy to improve internal security Naxal menace has been growing in the past couple of years especially after the ‘Red Corridor’ was literally opened up following the merger of the Maoists with the People’s War Naxal outfit that has been active down South

14 policemen killed in Bokaro blast

RANCHI: Fourteen police personnel were killed and three injured on Saturday in a landmine blast at Kanchkir in Bokaro district of Jharkhand.

Among the victims were an assistant sub-inspector, two havildars and 10 jawans of the Special Task Force were killed in the blast triggered by suspected Maoists, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Anil Palta said. Two vehicles carrying security personnel were returning from patrolling around 3 p.m. While the first one crossed the spot safely, the second, carrying at least 16 personnel, hit the landmine planted on the road.

Last week, the Jharkhand police, with the assistance of the Central Reserve Police Force, destroyed three bunkers of the Maoists in the Jhumra hill of the district. The police managed to drive out the naxalites from the area, once a naxal den. — PTI