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Top Maoist among 8 extremists killed
Ultras kill 4 SSB men along Bhutan border
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Sohrabuddin Fake Encounter Case
CPM: Somnath agreed to quit on his own
Telangana movement faces bypoll test
Houses may adjourn on price rise today
Interceptor missile tested successfully
Indefinite ‘chakka jam’ from August 6
Kerala HC annuls Cong MP’s
election
Pacheco gets bail
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Top Maoist among 8 extremists killed
CRPF’s project head
suffers brain stroke Kolkata:
CRPF Special Director General and head of the anti-Naxal operations Vijay Raman has been admitted to a hospital here following a massive brain stroke which resulted in a partial paralytic attack on his left
side. Official sources said the 1975-batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre was admitted in the Apollo hospital here on Sunday after a brain stroke while visiting the Belur Mutt in Howrah district.
— PTI
West Midnapore/Ranchi, Sidhu Soren, chief of the Sidhu-Kanhu Gana Militia-the armed wing of the Naxal-backed People Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), was among six Maoists killed during the raid by CRPF and Special Action Force on a Maoist hideout in dense forests in Golatore area in West Midnapore, which also left a commando of the specialised anti-Naxal force SAF dead. “We have found six bodies, including of a woman cadre and Sidhu Soren, chief of the Sidhu-Kanhu Gana Militia,” West Midnapore SP Manoj Verma said. Soren, who was running the militia after the arrest of PCPA convenor Chhatradhar Mahato, was wanted in several cases of murder and kidnap, besides setting fire to the Lalgarh police station, Verma said, adding that the encounter stretched for four hours. The police claimed that the Maoists were planning to attack a police station and a CPM party office. Verma said the nearby Sarenga police station and a CPM party office in the area were marked on a map found from the encounter site. “It is certain that the Maoists had a definite plan to attack these two places,” he said. Special commando Ashish Tiwari, who was critically injured in the gunbattle, died while being taken to hospital. Another top Maoist Kundan Pahan, however, managed to escape during an encounter in Kunthi district of Jharkhand, which left two other Maoists dead. Khunti is the operational area of Pahan who Jharkhand police believes plotted the beheading of Special Branch officer Francis Induwar last October. Security forces unearthed a Naxal camp following the fierce 12-hour encounter along the Ranchi-Khunti border and a “large cache of weapons and explosives” were recovered. “Two Maoists were killed in the encounter,” Deputy Inspector General of Police (Chhotanagpur Range), RK Mallick said. The bodies were, however, taken away by the Maoists. The operation involving personnel from specialised state force for Naxal operation - Jaguar, CRPF and Special Action Force had begun yesterday following intelligence inputs about the presence of Pahan in the forests of Rabou village. However, the encounter ended following heavy rains and security forces suspect Pahan escaped. The police said one SLR rifle, one INSAS rifle, one 9 mm pistol, two .303, two 12 bore rifles, three country-made guns and a huge quantity of ammunition were seized after the encounter in West Midnapore. This was the second major success for the security forces within a fortnight. Earlier, on June 16 the joint forces had shot dead 12 Maoists, including three women cadre, at Ranja forest under Salboni police station in the same district. Soren was also the secretary of the PCPA and was in the news earlier this year after he fell out with the political leadership of the outfit and spurned Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s offer for talks.
— PTI
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Ultras kill 4 SSB men along Bhutan border
Guwahati, July 26 An official source said Maruti Gypsy, in which the SSB men were patrolling the border, came under heavy firing of militants inside a dense forest between Siklajhar and Kuhibari area, about 40 km from Bijni town in Chirang district. The personnel were from the 15th Battalion of the SSB and posted in a new company-level border outpost (BoP) along the Bhutan border near Manas National Park. The slain SSB men were identified as Assistant Commandant Kishore Konal, sub-inspector Pratap Singh, constable Amit Kumar Tiwari and driver H Sherpa. The injured included one head constable and one constable. One of the constables managed to slip out of the vehicle under attack and called up the company headquarter from his mobile from inside the jungle to inform about the incident.
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Sohrabuddin Fake Encounter Case CBI no Cong bureau of investigation:
PM New Delhi: With the BJP left almost politically isolated on the issue of arrest of former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah yesterday, PM Manmohan Singh aggressively defended the CBI action and strongly refuted the charge of any bias on part of the
CBI. “I refute this allegation that the CBI is using. There is no truth in the allegation that it is the Congress Bureau of Investigation. The Opposition knows it jolly well... that it is a Supreme Court directive, the Central government has not tried to influence investigation process in any way," Singh said.
— TNS
Jaipur, July 26 The saffron brigade is peeved at the reports that senior party leaders Gulab Chand Kataria and Om Mathur may be questioned by the CBI in connection with the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Kataria was the Home Minister of Rajasthan and Om Mathur the state BJP president when Sohrabuddin and his aide Tulsi Prajapati were killed in two separate encounters in Gujarat in 2005 and 2006, respectively. The state BJP has strongly reacted to such reports with the party dubbing it as part of a conspiracy to tarnish the image of its leaders. Rajasthan BJP chief Arun Chaturvedi said, “The leaders of our party are always prepared to cooperate with the law and investigating agencies but there should be no political agenda.” Both the BJP leaders -- Kataria and Mathur -- have accused the CBI of acting like a “Congress agent”. They said they were willing to cooperate with the premier investigating agency but it should help unravel the “political conspiracy” in the case. “I don’t understand on what ground I am being linked with the matter. I am surprised to see my name coming up in news reports in connection with the case,” said Kataria. He also raised questions as to why the CBI took so long in investigating the case. “It has been going on for about five years now and the CBI sleuths have visited Udaipur many a times. If they wanted to interrogate me they could have done it in the past,” he added. Mathur, on the other hand, denied any comment on the issue but said the CBI has a right to question people if it so desires. Meanwhile, according to sources, the CBI may also interrogate Azam, a historysheeter in Udaipur. Azam had invited Sohrabuddin and Prajapati to Udaipur, after which the trio had formed a gang and started extorting money from the marble traders in Rajasthan. To create fear among the local traders, the gang had shot dead Hameed Lala, who was close to a prominent marble trader in Rajasthan in December 2004.
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CPM: Somnath agreed to quit on his own Kolkata/New Delhi, July 26 “Somnath Chatterjee had earlier, in a letter to the party dated July 9, 2008, agreed to abide by the decision of the party and resign from the post of Speakership. He later backed out from this commitment to abide by the party decision,” CPM Politburo said in a statement here. The former Lok Sabha Speaker’s autobiography — Keeping the Faith: Memoirs of a Parliamentarian — to be released formally by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a function in New Delhi on August 21, has criticised CPM’s present leadership, particularly general secretary Prakash Karat. Chatterjee was shown the door by the party for his controversial role as Speaker during the confidence motion moved by the BJP, which the CPM also supported against the UPA-I on the nuclear deal issue. In his book, the former Speaker alleged that Karat’s arrogance and high-handedness and his odd style of functioning had caused an enormous damage to the party. (With PTI inputs)
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Telangana movement faces bypoll test
Hyderabad, July 26 The battle of the ballot is being held against the backdrop of a series of flip-flops by the UPA government over Telangana issue and a prolonged statehood agitation, often marred by violence. The bypoll was necessitated by en masse resignations, mainly by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) members, which is spearheading the movement. By now, it has become a familiar tactic by the TRS to quit the elected posts on Telangana issue and force bypoll. Though a similar strategy in 2006 and 2008 saw erosion of its support base and its tally in the Assembly, the TRS stuck with the same tactic this time around.
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Houses may adjourn on price rise today New Delhi, July 26 On the first day of the session today, the two Houses were adjourned for the day without transacting any other business, after paying obeisance to the sitting members, who died in the interregnum. Later in the evening, BJP deputy leader in the LS Gopinath Munde articulated the Opposition demand, while emerging from a strategy session of the NDA, at the alliance’s working chairman LK Advani’s house. He said, “All parties, including the Left, SP and RJD are pressing for adjourning the Question Hour tomorrow and putting motion on price rise to vote.” On the other hand the government clearly spelt out its opposition to any adjournment motion. It pointed out how the same issue was taken up under Rule 184 requiring a division last session, and was badly defeated by an overwhelming majority in the Lok Sabha. — TNS
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Interceptor missile tested successfully
Bangalore, July 26 To mimic the incoming enemy’s ballistic missile trajectory, a target missile was launched from Launch Complex-III, Interim Test Range, Chandipur. The interceptor missile fitted with directional warhead was launched from Wheeler Island and it destroyed the incoming missile, which broke into fragments and was tracked by radars and other sensors. All weapon system elements, including command and control, communication and radars performed satisfactorily. DRDO chief VK Saraswat and others including IAF vice-chief Air Marshal PK Barbora and Maj Gen VK Saxena of Army Air Defence witnessed the flight test.
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Indefinite ‘chakka jam’ from August 6
Jalandhar, July 26 A meeting of the AIMTC, which represents lakhs of truckers, was held this evening in New Delhi. Ex-president of the AIMTC Charan Singh Lohara told TNS that other issues were toll tax, tyre prices and rules related to Carrier Act. AIMTC chief GR Shanmugappa said an ultimatum was served on the Centre in March regarding the issues. He said the south chapter of the AIMTC would start an indefinite “chakka jam” from August 2.
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Kerala HC annuls Cong MP’s election Kochi, July 26 Allowing the election petition of defeated candidate AS Anil Kumar (CPI) and two others, Justice M Shasdhidharan Nambiar found that Suresh was not a member of the “Cheramar”’ community and thereby he was not a Scheduled Caste. Justice Nambiar held he was “disqualified” to contest from the Mavelikara constituency as it was reserved for Schedule Caste candidates. — PTI
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Pacheco gets bail
Panaji, July 26 Margao District and Sessions Judge BP Deshpande granted bail to Pacheco, who was admitted to a hospital here last evening after he complained of chest pain, on a Rs 25,000 bond and surety of an equal amount. The 46-year-old NCP legislator, who surrendered before the court on July 3, has been asked not to leave the country and surrender his passport to the court.
— PTI
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