Maharashtra (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2011

A sympathiser of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Sudhir Dhawale was arrested at Wardha railway station in Wardha District on January 2. Read less...

Two Maoist cadres identified as Srinivas alias Sachin Ailayya Zumble (27) and Bhaskar alias Akshay alias Sachin Kore (27) were arrested in a Police raid in Saundad village in Gondia District on January 4. The arrested duo, Srinivas, resident of Anandnagar, and Bhaskar, a resident of Matanagar of Chandrapur, were living in the house of one Shantabai Shahare for the last three years and were involved in Maoist activities there. After reading the news of Bhimrao alias Bhanu Bhaskar Bhovate arrest on December 25, 2010, they thought that they would also be arrested. So they changed their room and had shifted to the house of one Satyavijay Baraskar, but could not avert their arrest. A lot of incriminating Maoist literature along with four pen drives, three mobile phones and six SIM cards, one micro adapter, two memory cards were seized from their possession, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Vishwa Pansare said. Read less...

Constable Manikrao Khadse received bullet injury after cadres of the Communist Part of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) fired upon a combined Security Force (SF) from Kasansur Police Station near Punnoor village in Etapalli Tehsil (revenue unit) of Gadchiroli District on January 11. Khadse was part of the combined SF of Kasansur Police post, including around 60 Central Reserve Police Force troopers, which had gone to Punnoor village. Additional Superintendent of Police of Aheri, Ranjan Sharma, said SFs found blood stains on 3-4 places during the search at the encounter site. "This suggests that at least three-four Maoists might have been injured in the exchange of fire. No one could be arrested," he said. He further said Police have not recovered any body or Maoist material from the encounter site either. Read less...

Police seized 300 Maoist pamphlets aimed to popularise Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) doctrine, letters written in Gondi language, paper clippings about Maoist activities and the Government's efforts to bring the activities under control, banners against the Government and in support of Naxalism [Left Wing Extremism] and incriminatory documents and from the room of one Jeevan Kolhe (30) in Yavatmal District on January 11. However, Jeevan managed to escape. Jeevan had been staying in the room for the last two years and was reportedly supplying information to Maoists in the Chandrapur-Gondia belt while staying in Yavatmal. Read less...

Security Forces and cadres of the Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) exchanged fire at Gudekasa forest, around 10 kilometres away from Murumgaon in Gadchiroli District in the early morning of January 14. "It was probably a section of the military dalam (squad). The armed Naxals [Left Wing Extremist] had halted overnight in the jungle," said Sub-division Police Officer Amit Kale of Dhanora. "The Naxals were around 50 in number," he added. Though there were no casualties reported on the either side, sources claimed to have spotted blood stains at nearly seven places where the Maoists had taken position. Police has pressed for efficient C-60 commandos into service from Gadchiroli Police Headquarters to continue search operations in the area. Read less...

Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has called for a Bharat bandh (all India general shut down) in eight States on February 7 and three days of protests against price rise, the Government's move to further hike petrol price, rampant corruption cases like 2G spectrum allocation and the Centre's offensive against Maoists, according to a statement released by the party's Central Committee (CC) on January 15. In the statement, spokesperson of the party, Abhay said the recent petrol price hike would lead to further inflation and manifest itself as a rise in the prices of food and essential items. He called on party cadres and supporters to protest against the rise in prices and the recent 2G scam. The release also added, "We are making it clear that there would be no bandh during the protest days and that ‘Bharat Bandh’ would be observed in six States West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and three Districts in Maharashtra - Gadchiroli, Gondia, Chandrapur and one District in Madhya Pradesh - Balaghat. Medical services and people attending examinations and interviews will be excluded from the bandh activities." Read less...

Suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) triggered a low-intensity landmine blast in Yerkad in Dhanora Tehsil (revenue unit) in Gadchiroli District on January 15. In the blast a Police jeep was damaged and Prashant Muktavaram, the jeep driver, sustained some cuts, Police said. Read less...

Security Force personnel recovered about 32 kilograms of explosives planted by the cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) near Repanpalli-Chhlewada village in Aheri Taluka (administrative division) in Gadchiroli District on January 22. Dog squads and a special Police party, deployed in the area, stumbled upon a cable line during a demining operation on the road stretch, which led to recovery of the explosives and 95 metres of wire from the area, the Police said. Read less...