Tag: Naxal attack

  • India To Be Free Of Naxal Menace By 2026, Time For Final Assault: Amit Shah |

    RAIPUR: India will be free from Left Wing Extremism (LWE) by March 2026 and a strong and ruthless strategy is required for the final assault against the menace, Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Saturday. The minister stated this during a press conference here after he along with Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai and senior central and police officers reviewed the Maoist issue in the state and adjoining areas.

    Urging Naxals to shun violence, Shah announced that the Chhattisgarh government would announce a “new look” surrender policy in 1-2 months. “A strong and ruthless strategy is required for launching the last assault against Naxals,” he said.

    The home minister said Naxal violence is a challenge to democracy and the menace has claimed about 17,000 lives in the country. He said there was a 53 per cent drop in Naxal incidents during 2014-24 as compared to 2004-14.

    It is time to deal the final blow to the problem of Left Wing Extremism with a strong strategy, Shah said. The minister said the government has been working to fill the security vacuum in LWE-hit areas and the security personnel have undertaken operations along with development works.

    He said that besides the security forces, central agencies like NIA and ED have also worked to dismantle Maoist finances. “We believe we will be able to free the country from Left Wing Extremism by March 2026,” Shah said.

    Asked about the now-scrapped Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, the home minister said that the provision will not be restored ever.

    On the probability of starting the delayed decadal census, Shah said it would be carried out at an appropriate time.

  • Naxal assault on former MLA: NIA recordsdata 2d payment sheet in opposition to two accused in Jharkhand

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI:  The NIA has filed its 2d supplementary payment sheet in a case associated with a Naxal assault on former MLA Gurcharan Nayak through which two police body of workers had been killed in Jharkhand in January 2022, an professional stated on Monday.

    The payment sheet used to be filed in a unique NIA court docket in Ranchi in opposition to two armed cadres — 25-year-old Tivari Bankira alias Shaka and 20-year-old Sadan Korah alias Sajan — of the proscribed CPI (Maoist) terror team on Saturday, a spokesperson for the federal company stated.

    The professional stated the pair, hailing from Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, has been charged underneath more than a few sections of the Indian Panel Code and the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act.

    Whilst Bankira used to be arrested on November 30, Korah has been in custody since February 13, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) spokesperson stated.

    In keeping with the NIA’s investigations, they had been offering fortify to the CPI (Maoist) for furthering its terror and violence-related actions and waging a warfare in opposition to the federal government of India.

    “They had been a part of the conspiracy to hold out the terrorist assault on Nayak and his bodyguards. They had been additionally a part of the particular motion workforce established via the banned terror outfit to execute the crime,” the spokesperson stated.

    The NIA stated the 2 accused had attended the assembly through which the conspiracy to assault Nayak with fatal guns at Top College Jhilrua used to be hatched.

    “That they had executed a recce of the spot an afternoon sooner than the incident and had additionally participated within the coaching to execute the assault,” the NIA stated in its payment sheet.

    The previous MLA used to be attacked at the faculty premises in West Sighbhum district on January 4, 2022.

    The police had first of all registered the case on the native station however the investigation used to be taken over via the NIA on June 30 ultimate yr.

    On December 31, the NIA charge-sheeted 14 accused other people within the case.

    NEW DELHI:  The NIA has filed its 2d supplementary payment sheet in a case associated with a Naxal assault on former MLA Gurcharan Nayak through which two police body of workers had been killed in Jharkhand in January 2022, an professional stated on Monday.

    The payment sheet used to be filed in a unique NIA court docket in Ranchi in opposition to two armed cadres — 25-year-old Tivari Bankira alias Shaka and 20-year-old Sadan Korah alias Sajan — of the proscribed CPI (Maoist) terror team on Saturday, a spokesperson for the federal company stated.

    The professional stated the pair, hailing from Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, has been charged underneath more than a few sections of the Indian Panel Code and the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Whilst Bankira used to be arrested on November 30, Korah has been in custody since February 13, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) spokesperson stated.

    In keeping with the NIA’s investigations, they had been offering fortify to the CPI (Maoist) for furthering its terror and violence-related actions and waging a warfare in opposition to the federal government of India.

    “They had been a part of the conspiracy to hold out the terrorist assault on Nayak and his bodyguards. They had been additionally a part of the particular motion workforce established via the banned terror outfit to execute the crime,” the spokesperson stated.

    The NIA stated the 2 accused had attended the assembly through which the conspiracy to assault Nayak with fatal guns at Top College Jhilrua used to be hatched.

    “That they had executed a recce of the spot an afternoon sooner than the incident and had additionally participated within the coaching to execute the assault,” the NIA stated in its payment sheet.

    The previous MLA used to be attacked at the faculty premises in West Sighbhum district on January 4, 2022.

    The police had first of all registered the case on the native station however the investigation used to be taken over via the NIA on June 30 ultimate yr.

    On December 31, the NIA charge-sheeted 14 accused other people within the case.