Maharashtra (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2008

The Chandrapur district police arrested two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, identified as Manoj Maroti Sonule and Vinayak Sonule, from Ramnagar on January 6, reports Hitavada. Police said that both are suspected to be members of the ‘Chandrapur Area Committee’ of the outfit. A hi-tech Chinese carbine gun, ammunition magazines and 135 live cartridges (9-mm) along with a large quantity of Maoist literature were recovered from the arrested Maoists. The Superintendent of Police, Cherring Dorje, informed that the literature includes Maoists posters and handbills, CDs, dairies having details of correspondence between Vishnu Shriniwasan and Warnan Gonsalves, two hardcore Maoists who were brought to Chandrapur recently from Mumbai for investigation into the offence registered there, and full report of ninth congress of the CPI-Maoist. Read less...

Three Communist Party of India–Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were arrested from Ballarpur on January 11, reports Times of India. Police also neutralized a firearms production factory and a printing press, operating in Ballarpur in the Chandra district by the Maoists during the last few days. Maoist literature, sensitive diaries and CDs have been seized along with sophisticated firearms and electronic devices during the raids conducted in various towns in the district. Read less...