Bhopal/Balaghat, 5 December
Naxals burnt a road roller engaged in construction work in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district and called a bandh in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh on December 10 to protest the killing of insurgents in an encounter in Gadchiroli last month, police said. did. Leave the prescription behind.
He told that the incident happened in the intervening night of Friday-Saturday near Korka village of Balaghat.
Superintendent of Police Abhishek Tiwari said on Saturday that a group of 18 to 20 rebels, angry over the killing of Naxalites in a police encounter in Gadchiroli of neighboring Maharashtra, set ablaze a roller engaged in road construction work near Korka village of Birsa police station. . Area. Gave.
He said the Maoists have also left pamphlets calling for a bandh in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh on December 10.
Police patrolling has been increased in the affected areas for the past one-and-a-half months, the official said, adding that the Maoists involved in burning of road rollers are also being traced.
Police officials said that a banner containing seven pamphlets was also found from the spot, in which the names of Chhattisgarh Regional Committee and Malajkhand Kshetra Samiti of Maoists are mentioned.
He said the pamphlet mentions the killing of 26 Maoists, including prominent Maoist leader Milind Teltumbde (57), who had a reward of Rs 50 lakh on his head. This encounter of the police took place on November 13 in Gadchiroli.
Madhya Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Rajesh Rajora said on Saturday that the state government has decided to bring three Naxal-affected districts – Dindori, Balaghat and Mandla – into one police zone from December 1.
Dindori was part of Shahdol Police Zone, but now it has become a part of Balaghat Zone as all the three Naxal-affected districts have been brought into one zone.
Balaghat has been one of the most Naxal affected districts in MP.
Last month, a group of Maoists had allegedly killed two villagers on suspicion of being police informers in Malikhedi village of Balaghat.
In a similar incident, in June this year, a 42-year-old man was killed by militants in Bamhani village under Rupjhar police station area of Balaghat.
In August this year, in a major breakthrough against Naxalism, Balaghat police arrested a 25-year-old rebel, identified as Sandeep Kunjam alias Lakkhu, with a reward of Rs 8 lakh on his head. ,
During a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on November 29, officials had told that seven hardline Maoists (Area Committee Members or ACMs) were killed and three others arrested in police encounters in the last two years in MP, leading to this. can be curbed. In MP also extortion activities of extremists among tendu patta contractors as well as seizure of arms and ammunition.
Officials had earlier said that 18 people have been arrested during this period for supplying arms to the Maoists. — PTI