A camp in Chintalnar comprising two to three companies of 62nd battalion of CRPF, have had their supplies aidropped as the state police refused to accompany the paramilitary force in reaching there.
Nearly a month after the Dantewada strike, the battle for CRPF continues even on other fronts as Chhattisgarh police is believed to have dragged its feet in ensuring safe passage of ration to paramilitary jawans due to heavy Maoist presence, prompting airdropping of supplies.
A camp in Chintalnar comprising two to three companies of 62nd battalion of CRPF, one of which was wiped out by Maoists on April 6, have had their supplies aidropped two days back as the state police refused to accompany the paramilitary force in reaching there, official sources said.
Chintalnar was the site of the Naxal attack which killed 76 security personnel.
The Naxal presence in the area was picked up by the security agencies who suggested that Maoists had laid an ambush and were blocking all the supplies to the CRPF camp.
The jawans, virtually facing a blockade, sent messages to its headquarters in Raipur and Dantewada following which a
high-level meeting was held.
However, the meeting could not end up in any decision after the CRPF sought protection of state police in ensuring that supplies, which also included anti-malaria drugs and osquito repellent creams because of coming rainy season, reach the area. State police officials said it was not possible for it to send a road opening party to Chintalnar as heavy presence of Moaists was reported around Errabore.
Pushed to wall, the CRPF was left with no other option than to send the supplies through helicopter which airdropped the items at the camp, the sources said.
Neither the state police nor the para-military force officials were willing to come on record and privately they blamed each other for lack of coordination.
The lack of cohesiveness between the state police and the CRPF has been brought forward by the one-member committee of E
Rammohan, who probed the Dantewada incident.
According to the reports discussed during the meeting, it was said that the Naxals had heavily mined the area and were ready to ambush any relief supply party going towards Chintalnar.
Besides this, reports suggest that the so-called military commission, which finalises the Maoist strategy, has rushed in
its activists from the neighbouring Jharkhand towards
Chintalnar area, the sources said.
Maoists have been restless ever since the CRPF camp came in Chintalnar. They consider it as 'capital' of Dandakaranya, a forest tract in the country's central-southern region covering parts of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, where the Maoists virtually run a parallel government envisioning a "liberated" zone.
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