Maoist News

A wanted Maoist named Binda Singh was arrested from a village in Bihar's Naxal-hit Aurangabad district, Director General of Police Abhayanand said. A country-made pistol, five live cartridges, liquor and Naxal literature were seized from his possession. He was wanted in connection with the murder case of two persons in Pipra village of the district.

Fourteen Maoists, including six women, surrendered before Home Minister R R Patil in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra on Thursday. The surrendered Maoists belong to remote and tribal villages in Gadchiroli district and adjoining Chhattisgarh. The Maoists, aged between 16 years and 40 years, will be provided financial assistance under the state's surrender policy, police said.

Disillusionment with rebel activities has caused Six Maoists, involved in several Naxal operations(including blasting of pipeline of a private steel company, blowing up of several buildings, loot and extortions for the last five years) to surrender before the police in Odisha's Malkangiri district. They decided to return to the mainstream to lead a normal life realising the Maoists ideological deviation.

Maoists, on Thursday, detonated a cane bomb to blow up a vehicle, killing all its seven-occupants, in the Maoist-infected Aurangabad district of Bihar. Zila Parishad member Usha Devi's husband Sushil Pandey was among those killed while the identities of the others were yet to be ascertained

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's slack approach in tackling Maoists in Bihar is the reason why there has been a 41% rise in casualties in Maoist violence this year as compared to 2012, says a Central Intelligence Committee report to the PM. The report also says top Maoist leaders stuck inside jails in Bihar are guiding their cadres from inside them.

Three bodyguards of Jharkhand excise minister, Jai Prakash Bhai Patel, were on Saturday night robbed of their arms, which included two AK-47 rifles and one service revolver. Police sources suggested that all the three guards were drunk and had no recollection of events of the night, when they lost the weapons and ammunitions in the Maoist zone of Hazaribagh.

Centre's Joint Intelligence Committee has accused the Bihar government of being soft towards the banned CPI (Maoists), and not taking effective steps to control the Red terror. It says that despite substantive decline in Maoists violence in India, Bihar has registered an increase of 41% in killings in Maoists-sponsored violence this year compared to last year.