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Meet to review anti-naxal measures

NEW DELHI: Shocked by the massacre of 15 policemen by Maoists in Maharashtra’s Gadhchiroli district on Sunday, the Union Home Ministry has summoned the police chiefs of four naxal-violence affected States here on Thursday to rework the operational strategy in fighting the Maoist cadres. Sources in the Ministry said Directors-General of Police from Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Orissa were called.

The sources said the modus operandi of the Maoists was not new. In the Maharashtra incident, they reportedly lured the policemen into a trap using an informer. The policemen’s plight and their helplessness could be gauged from the fact that they ran out of ammunition and were encircled by Maoist cadres.

“What is more shocking is that deep inside the jungle there was no means of communication available to the policemen to seek reinforcement. If only satellite phones and helicopters were available at the district headquarters, some reinforcements could have been rushed to them in time. The slain policemen turned out to be sitting ducks for the Maoist cadres, who were hiding in the deep forest waiting for police patrol party. We have to devise a strategy to tide over such situations,” an official of a paramilitary organisation said.

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