Maoists In West Bengal

• Lalgarh firing death toll rises to nine

  With the death of an injured woman undergoing treatment, the death toll in the January 7 firing at a Lalgarh village in West Midnapore district rose to nine.     Hospital sources said Arati Mondal, who was admitted to SSKM hospital died of her bullet wounds on Sunday morning.     She was rushed to the hospita...

• Maoists behead Lalgarh villager

  Maoists have struck again in West Bengal. They kidnapped, shot and then beheaded a villager from Lalgarh.The man's decapitated body was found on Sunday morning, with its head in its hands, on the state highway near Jhargram, some distance from his village.The man, is believed to be a CPM supporter.Later in the evening, two local CPM leaders were sh...

• Maoists gun down CPM leader in West Bengal

  A top CPM leader, Ananta Mukherjee, was gunned down by suspected Maoists in Silda district of West Bengal.The  Maoists pulled up on a motorbike at the Silda High School premises and shot at Mukherjee. His body guard was also injured in the attack.When the news came to light, angry CPM supporters  gheraoed some  joint security force p...

• Maoists to Mamata: Why don't you oppose Operation Green Hunt?

  Days after Kishenji supported Trinamool Congress chief and Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee's Lalgarh rally on August 9, the Maoists have now written an open letter to Banerjee.In the letter, the Maoists have asked Mamata why is she not opposing Operation Green Hunt launched by the government against them, and why is she in favour of using t...

• Bengal government reaches out to Maoists, issues rehabilitation plan

  The West Bengal government on Wednesday formally issued a rehabilitation package for Maoists who wish to come overground. While the policy was put in place earlier, it only became operational now, two days after Jiten Giri, a member of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), surrendered before the Jhargram court. There are reports ...

• Bengal: Maoists kill headmaster in West Midnapore

  Suspected Maoists shot dead the headmaster of a primary school in West Midnapore district of West Bengal for refusing to let his students join a pro-Maoist procession. Rabindranath Mahato was just leaving his Indraboni Primary School on Friday around 3 pm when six persons in three motorcycles swooped down on him, hacked at him with choppers and the...