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Centre sends additional forces to Bihar to rescue abducted cops | The Union Home Ministry on Friday dispatched another
helicopter and additional paramilitary personnel to Bihar to assist the cops in locating the three policemen, who are still in the Maoists' custody. The Bihar
Government had sought 4,000 additional paramilitary forces from the Central Government
to deal with the rising Maoist violence. It has been reported that a comprehensive
plan is being worked out to launch a joint operation along the Bihar-Jharkhand
border to get hold of the Naxals. Earlier today, the body of police constable
Lucas Tete was found in the Lakhisarai jungles of Bihar with a note from Naxals
saying, "We have killed a hawaldar since our colleagues were not released. If
our colleagues are not released we will kill other cops as well." A new deadline
set by the Naxals for releasing the abducted cops in exchange for their jailed
comrades had ended at 10 a.m. today. The Maoists called local TV channels on Thursday
to declare that one of the four policemen they had kidnapped had been killed as
the state government had failed to respond. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
had on Thursday assured all support to the families of the cops taken as hostage,
and police top brass have also been asked to do everything possible to get the
kidnapped cops released. Earlier on Thursday, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai
said that the Bihar Government is trying its best to secure the release of the
four policemen kidnapped by Maoists. "The State government has been making all
efforts to secure the release of the police personnel who have been taken hostage,"
said Pillai. "The State government is now negotiating with the Maoists and, we
are extending full cooperation. We hope that there would be a successful outcome,"
he added. The four policemen - Mohammad Ehsaan, Rupesh Kumar Sinha, Abhay Prasad
Yadav, Lokus Tete- were taken hostage on Sunday, during an encounter in the forests
of Lakhisarai. Seven other policemen were killed and eleven were injured in the
same encounter. The encounter began on Sunday evening when over 150 armed Maoists
attacked search teams of the Bihar police combing the area following intelligence
reports of the Maoists presence in the forest area. |
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