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Deccan Chronicle Dated: August 31, 2020 The National Investigation A gency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge-sheet in court against four persons, including Telangana State Committee member Yapa Narayana (52) alias Haribhushan, for recruiting and raising funds for the banned naxalite group, CPI (Maoist). While Yapa Narayana remains underground, the chargesheet filed in the Nampally criminal courts names three others for allegedly carrying out radical activities under the guise of front organisations. They are Telangana Vidyarthi Vedika (TVV) president Bandari Maddileti (31), general secretary Menchu Sandeep (26) aka Praveen, and Telangana Praja Front state vice-president Nalamasa Krishna (38) alias Rathnamala. Bandari Maddileti, 31, state president of the Telangana Vidyarthi Vedika (TVV) was arrested in 2019 for allegedly trying to carry out under-cover activities for the CPI (Maoist). Subsequently NIA arrested Menchu Sandeep, 26, general secretary of TVV, Nalamasa Krishna, 38, vice-presi...

First Post July 19,2020 Former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, who is serving life sentence in a prison in Nagpur for alleged Maoist links, has filed a bail application before the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court, citing his weak health and the outbreak of coronavirus in the jail. After Saibaba filed the bail plea seeking urgent hearing into it, a division bench of Justices Atul Chandurkar and Amit Borkar on Tuesday issued notices to the Maharashtra government and other respondents to file their replies before 24 July, when the court will hear the case. In his bail application, Saibaba said his weak health along with comorbidities make him vulnerable to contract the coronavirus infection. He is lodged at the Nagpur Central Prison, where over 150 prisoners and 40 jail staffers have so far tested positive for coronavirus. The jail houses nearly 1,800 inmates while 265 police personnel are attached to it. Follow Latest updates on coronavirus outbreak here In...

First Post MArch 26,2020 Debobrat Ghose Rebutting the Chhattisgarh police's claim that a large number of Maoists have been eliminated in the fierce gun-battle that took place on 21 March, the Naxals – in a first -- issued a statement along with photos today claiming that they lost only three fighters against  17 jawans  of the security forces. It seems that the Maoists have unleashed a propaganda war against the State to counter the claims made by Chhattisgarh police. As a proof of their claim, they have issued photos of the three Maoists killed along with their names, area of operation and villages they belonged to. Unlike in the past, this is probably for the first time that they have mentioned all these details. It may be an attempt to prove Chhattisgarh police wrong as the latter had claimed on 22 March that eight to 10 Maoists were killed during the gunfight. On 21 March, a fierce gun-battle took place -- inside the hilly and forested area of Minpa-Ela...

News 18 March 22, 2020 S uhas Munshi ,  Arunima Bodies of 17 security personnel, who went missing after a major encounter in Bastar's Sukma between Naxals and state forces, were found on Sunday. Seventeen security personal were injured in the attack. A 150-strong search party combed the jungles around Chintagufa, where the encounter broke out on Saturday afternoon, to locate the missing men. IG Bastar P Sunderraj told reporters in Bastar that a joint team of STF, DRG and CRPF's CoBRA team were ambushed by an estimated 250 strong Naxal force in Sukma's Minpa area on Saturday afternoon. "It was a joint operation of DRG, STF and CoBRA, in which more than 600 of our jawans were involved...It was a very tough encounter in which our estimate is around 250 Naxals were firing on our jawans from the other side." He added that 5 different teams of DRG and STF came under heavy fire but despite being trapped in an ambush the teams did not lose their composure an...

Daily Hunt July 15, 2019 Cuttack: Union minister Nityanand Rai, Sunday, urged Naxals to shun violence and lead a peaceful and dignified life, but made it clear that if they don't do so, the Centre will exercise all options, including deployment of Army, to free areas held by left-wing extremists. The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs said Naxals should return to the mainstream by accepting the flexible rehabilitation scheme offered by the government. If they don't, Rai warned, the Centre will be forced to weigh the option of using the Army to crush Naxals. 'Naxal-prone areas in the country are shrinking everyday and there has been a drastic reduction in the cadres of left-wing extremism,' he told reporters here. Para-military forces are deployed in sufficient numbers in the last Naxal-hit pockets, he said. Rai said many rebels have given the path of violence and returned to the mainstream because of the anti-Naxal operations by security ...