The district police have laid renewed focus on strengthening coordination with the police of the Maoist-affected areas of the neighbouring Chhattisgarh to enhance intelligence sharing for effectively tackling the Maoist activities in the remote tribal pockets along the volatile Telangana-Chhattisgarh border.
The move is apparently aimed at detecting and defusing the landmines allegedly planted by the Maoists to target the police forces, who venture into the forests spanning along the inter-State border as part of combing operations, sources said.
Collaborative efforts
Four top police officials from Telangana, including District Superintendent of Police Ambar Kishor Jha, had attended a meeting of senior police officials on inter-State coordination to check Maoist activities held in Chhattisgarh four days ago.
Collaborative efforts involving the police forces of both the States and the Central agencies to share intelligence inputs was discussed at the meeting.
Among other issues discussed were the need for stepping up surveillance on the forest fringe areas along the inter-State border with a view to ward off potential threat of landmines, sources added.
The meeting of the senior police officers is understood to have deliberated on various anti-Maoist strategies to rein in rebel activities in the border areas. The senior officials were in favour of a multi-pronged approach to combat the armed insurgents.
Spurt in activity
The meeting of the police officials assumed significance in the backdrop of the spurt in Maoist related activities in the border areas in the past couple of weeks.
In separate incidents, the Charla police detected two landmines allegedly planted by the Maoists on a busy road near Pedamidisileru in the tribal sub-plan mandal of Charla in the Bhadrachalam Agency in the past two months.
A CRPF constable was grievously injured in a pressure bomb explosion allegedly triggered by the rebels in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency hit Sukma district, a hotbed of Maoist activities, in close proximity to the inter-State border around two weeks ago. There was another incident recently in the Maoist dominated areas of Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, that is close by.
