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Tamil Nadu (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2017

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January - 2	Police have received evidence that the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist), with the support of tribal people, took control of forest land, along Kerala and Tamil Nadu border, by cutting down hundreds of trees, reports Times of India on January 3. A series of video clip, released by Police, show t Read more... Police have received evidence that the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist), with the support of tribal people, took control of forest land, along Kerala and Tamil Nadu border, by cutting down hundreds of trees, reports Times of India on January 3. A series of video clip, released by Police, show that the armed CPI-Maoist and tribal people are jointly removing trees in forest and installing CPI-Maoist flag in the area. Police suspect that the area shown in the video is Agali forest region of Palakkad District. According to Police, the visuals were recovered from the digital documents that were seized after the recent Police encounter with CPI-Maoist in Nilambur forest in which two CPI-Maoist leaders, Kuppu Devaraj and Ajitha, were killed. Police has also released a note, recovered from the encounter site, which says that the CPI-Maoist were encouraging tribal people living in Kerala-Tamil Nadu border area to encroach 120 acres of forestland. According to Police sources, this method of encroaching land by destroying forestland and establishing a circle of tribal area is being followed by CPI-Maoist groups in their strong holds. Police source also said that the visuals show that the Maoist group is mainly focusing on Palakkad forest areas for their major programmes and activities and the group has already scaled up their campaign activities. Read less...
January - 8	The Q Branch of Crime Investigation Department (CID) Police have arrested an advocate from S. Alangulam village in Madurai District on the charge of having links with Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on January 8, reports The Hindu. The Q Branch CID Police had been conducting surveillanc Read more... The Q Branch of Crime Investigation Department (CID) Police have arrested an advocate from S. Alangulam village in Madurai District on the charge of having links with Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on January 8, reports The Hindu. The Q Branch CID Police had been conducting surveillance on advocate A. Murugan ever since the two alleged CPI-Maoist cadres – Kala (53) and Chandra (51) – were arrested in Karur District on July 2016. Sources said that Murugan’s younger brother, Velmurugan (35), an active CPI-Maoist cadre, was accused in two naxal cases in Varushanadu in Theni District and Uthankarai in Coimbatore District. The advocate used to appear for CPI-Maoist in court. The Q Branch CID team seized a huge quantity of homeopathic medicines allegedly in possession of the advocate, which, sources claimed, were being supplied to some Maoists. A few printed literatures relating to Maoists were also alleged to have been recovered. Read less...

*Data till , December 05, 2019

Source:Compiled from news reports and are provisional.

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