Maharashtra (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2013

The State Government's industrial policy announced on January 3 in Mumbai has significant incentives for Naxal [Left Wing Extremism]-affected areas and backward regions like Vidarbha, reports The Times of India. It has a strong emphasis on micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with sops ranging from power tariff subsidy to tax refunds. It also calls for encouraging industry clusters in the state. A package scheme of financial incentives will be extended up to 90% of the permissible capital investment to a MSME unit in Naxal-affected areas. Read less...

A top Maoist, identified as Thakkalpalli Vasudeorao alias Asanna alias Satish alias Vasu alias Sujit (46), who carries a reward of INR 2.5 million on his head, has entered Gadchiroli, Police said on January 8, reports Zee News. Asanna is a member of CPI-Maoist Central Military Commission and its Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC). Read less...

Cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) carried out a small explosion near the venue of sports event organized by Police department for people along Dhanora-Heti road in Dhanora in Gadchiroli District on January 8, reports The Times of India. No casualties have been reported in the blast. Police officials have deduced it as an attempt to terrorize the villagers. Read less...

Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres sabotaged the road construction work underway between Aheri and Medpalli on Bhamragad Road near Mirkal village in Aheri tehsil (revenue unit) in Gadchiroli District by setting ablaze three tractors and a JCB in the evening of January 9, reports The Times of India. Before burning the vehicles they chased away the labourers from the construction site. Read less...

Police arrested the ‘deputy commander’ of Kasansoor Dalam (armed squad) of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Ramesh alias Kaju Gawde (28), during anti-Maoist operation in Reknar village in Etapalli tehsil (revenue unit) of Gadchiroli District on January 9, reports The Times of India. Gawde is native of Reknar and is active in Naxal dalam since 2008. Later his wife too joined Naxal dalam but was arrested. At present she is in jail. Read less...

A group of around 40 cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) set ablaze 27 vehicles at a road construction site near Lekha (Menda) village on Godalvahi-Dhanora road in Gadchiroli District on January 13, reports The Times of India. The area is some 6km from the state highway connecting Gadchiroli and Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh). The Maoists, most likely to be members of Tippagarh dalam (armed squad) and a platoon dalam, chased away the site supervisors before setting the vehicles afire. Reports said 20 tractors, two JCB machines, a road roller, two water tankers and two bikes were set afire. There were no injuries or casualties in the incident. Read less...

There were reports of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres setting ablaze three vehicles deployed at a construction site on Sawargaon-Gyrapatti road in Dhanora tehsil (revenue unit) of Gadchiroli District on January 15, reports The Times of India. However, the Police department could not confirm the reports. Sources claimed that three vehicles belonging to a Hyderabad-based construction company were set ablaze near Kosmi village in the afternoon. A gang of over 30 armed Maoists reached the construction site and set ablaze a JCB, tractor and water tanker, with the help of fuel taken out from the same vehicles. Read less...

Security Forces (SFs) killed six Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including four top leaders, near Jimulgatta, in Aheri tehsil (revenue unit) of Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra, on January 20, and recovered all their bodies, reports The Times of India. The encounter with at least 12 Maoists against the elite C-60 Commandos lasted for half-an-hour. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Gadchiroli, Ravindra Kadam, said the encounter was an intelligence-based operation. He further said "Two more Naxals are likely to have suffered serious injuries, but their cadres took them away." Among the senior cadres killed were Muneshwar Lakda alias Shankar, ‘divisional committee member of Aheri Local Guerilla Squad’, Chandrayya Kodape alias Vinod, ‘commander of Aheri dalam’, Vinod's wife Geeta Usendi, ‘deputy commander of a platoon’, Mohan Kowase alias Tulsi, ‘deputy commander of Aheri dalam’, Jhuru Mattami, ‘body guard to a senior cadre’ and Sunita Kodape, ‘member of Sironcha Local Organisation Squad’. All the Maoists were in uniform. The SFs recovered two SLRs, a couple of .303, an 8mm single barrel gun and ammunition. A radio set, LWE literature, water bottles, snacks and some food materials too were recovered. Read less...

During a melawa or mass gathering earlier this week at Potegaon in Gadchiroli District, the senior Police officials unveiled their plans to take five villages in adoption for catalyzing the developmental processes in such interior localities, reports The Times of India. The villages earmarked for adoptions are Nagbeli, Devapur, Rajoli, Kharadguda and Devda in north Gadchiroli. Sub-divisional police officer, Potegaon, Rahul Khade, during the melawa at armed outpost, said Police aims to reach the development at the grassroot level. The decision to adopt villages has been undertaken to ensure that the amounts sanctioned under various heads and schemes of development are duly spent for the purpose. Read less...

Southern Gadchiroli divisional committee of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has strongly criticized its former secretary Shekhar alias Mallaya and his wife Vijaya who surrendered before the Andhra Pradesh government in 2012. Western regional committee of CPI-Maoist, in a press release, has condemned Shekhar for his anti-party activities and association with such sections of the society who the Maoists considered as enemies of the masses. Read less...