A Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district that claimed the lives of 10 policemen and the driver of their vehicle on Wednesday fuelled speculation about possible violations of the standard operating procedure that could have led to gaps in security. A former police official said the troop movement in an open minivan appeared to break protocol, especially because of the …
Annoyed with “glaring shortcomings” at the planning level that made three Central Reserve Police Force jawans easy targets of Naxal guerrillas in Odisha, director general of CRPF Kuldiep Singh has asked inspector generals to suspend all road-opening parties until they fulfill checks and drills given by the headquarters and “certify” them. “The DG has said that a sufficient number of …
Besides a security lapse, several factors like a failure to follow SOPs, ground-level Naxal intelligence, sudden changes made in the MLA’s route plan, etc contributed in the successful execution of the Naxal plan to eliminate Bhima Mandavi Dantewada: Another election, another blast and a few more lives lost. Tuesday’s fatal blast and death of the only BJP MLA from the …
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