Maoists play mind game to discredit forces
Having received some severe blows at the hands of State police and
paramilitary forces in recent weeks, the Maoist insurgents have now
resorted to mind game claiming that many of their cadre have infiltrated
into the ranks of security forces fighting against the menace in
Bastar.
The State police recently had smashed their supply line by arresting
four persons who were allegedly engaged, for quite some time, in
supplying of high quality arms and ammunition, which is generally used
by security forces, besides supplying daily need merchandise to top
Maoists camping in the dense and inaccessible forests of Bastar.
The arrests also exposed the fact that the racket was not merely
limited to Chhattisgarh but its roots are spread to much more beyond its
borders.
As the doubt about making available these high quality ammunition
ultimately pointed towards the presence of some black sheep among the
security forces, it also provided a chance for the Maoist leadership to
create confusion about appointment of some Salwa Judum workers by the
State Government as Special Police Officers (SPOs) who fight against
Maoists by providing logistic support to security forces in the
inaccessible terrain of Bastar. The mastermind of this game is said to
be Ramanna alias Rawula Shrinawas, the undisputed leader of over a dozen
dalams of insurgents including Dakshin Bastar Area Committee active in
State’s vast of southern forested tips.
Ramanna, a chemical engineer and explosive expert by profession, is
said to be very close to Konta residents Abdul Mujib, who was recently
apprehended with his accomplice Anjali Chouhan by the Raipur Police
while carrying 270 cartridges of AK-47 and SLRs, and Ishaq, who is now
residing in Andhra Pradesh and is presently out of reach of the
Chhattisgarh Police. These two are said to be supplying arms and
ammunition to Ramanna for more than a decade and are known to each
other.
Top police sources say that Mujib and three others _ Anjali, her
husband Sheikh Anwar and Babloo alias Hardev Daud, _ during
interrogation reportedly told the police that Maoists have infiltrated
into the ranks of security forces and are facilitating not only the
supply of arms and ammunition but also providing information regarding
their movement and planning to the insurgents. Additional Director
General of Police (Naxal Operations) Ram Niwas ruled out any possibility
of infiltration saying “Till now we do not have any information in this
regard. Rather, many old cadre of Maoists who have renounced violence
are working with us and have helped us successfully to execute a number
of operations in Bastar. If some of them have infiltrated into the ranks
of security forces, they could hardly do any wrong.”
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