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Maoists inducting fresh blood to hoodwink police

Maoist groups operating in West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand have reportedly reshuffled their rank and file.

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Intelligence reports say they are planning to launch fresh attack

KOLKATA: Maoist groups operating in West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand have reportedly reshuffled their rank and file. As part of the reshuffle, these groups have replaced their most-wanted guerrillas of the region with comparatively new faces from other zones.

The Intelligence Branch (IB) of West Bengal police suspect that this is not just a routine reshuffle aimed at bringing new leaders at the forefront. Rather, the reshuffle is aimed at organising a fresh series of insurgency attacks in this part of the country.

Since the security agencies would take some time to gather information and prepare record files on the newly-appointed core commanders and action-squad guerrillas, the Maoists can conduct insurgency action taking the security forces by surprise.

According to the information available with the IB, the core commanders of the action squads in the Maoist-prone districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Puruliya have already been replaced by comparatively new faces.

“The old commanders have been given new assignments somewhere else in India. Apart from commanders, some most wanted action squad guerrillas have also been replaced by new faces,” an IB official said on condition of anonymity.

The IB has recently submitted a confidential report to the West Bengal home department where it cautioned of possible Maoist attacks on different correctional homes of the state in a bid to free their comrades.

According to the IB report, the prime target of the Maoists is the correctional home at Krishnagarh in Nadia district, where most of the high profile Maoist leaders are currently detained.

The state IG (prisons), BD Sharma, said that security systems in all the correctional homes, especially the one at Krishnagarh, have been overhauled.
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