Chhattisgarh on Maoist alert after intelligence warning
Apr 10, 2007 - 3:20:47 PM
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'The inputs have been passed on to senior police officers deployed in the insurgency-hit Bastar belt and top commanders of the Central Reserve Police Force, Nagaland Armed Police and Mizo battalion deployed in Bastar's interiors,' official sources added.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] Raipur, April 10 - The Chhattisgarh government is gearing up to ward off fresh Maoist attacks on police bases and government installations following intelligence reports warning of deadly militant activity.
Fresh intelligence inputs suggest that Leftist guerrillas have suddenly stepped up their movements in the Bastar region's Bijapur, Bhopalpattanam, Kutru, Chintanpalli and Narayanpur areas, a home department official said Tuesday.
Senior police officers met Monday in the backdrop of alarming intelligence reports. Security, including night patrolling, has been beefed up in and around police posts, outposts and government installations in areas vulnerable to Maoists' attacks.
The reports come in the wake of one of the deadliest attacks by the guerrillas on a police post in the state's southern Bijapur area in which 55 cops were butchered March 15.
'The inputs have been passed on to senior police officers deployed in the insurgency-hit Bastar belt and top commanders of the Central Reserve Police Force, Nagaland Armed Police and Mizo battalion deployed in Bastar's interiors,' official sources added.
Security has also been tightened at a dozen government-run relief camps where 50,000 people, mostly tribals, have ben sheltered for the past two years following threat to their lives.
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