Mangaluru: After spending Rs 20 crore and firing 1.7 lakh bullets, the 3,000-member-strong Anti-Naxal Force hasn’t captured a unmarried rebel alive previously seven years. The best fatality is one of its own members when the drive opened hearth on a cop believing him to be a Naxalite in 2011.
This is part of the ANF’s reaction to TOI’s RTI question about its operations since 2010. Except media reviews of a few Naxal sightings and brushing operations, the drive doesn’t have a lot luck to its credit.
ANF sources mentioned 5 suspected Naxalites are operating in the state — Vikas Gowda, BG Krishnamurthy, Mundagaru Latha, Vanajakshi and Angadi Pradeep. Either their hideout isn't identified or no longer printed. However, a police source claimed that Gowda and Krishnamurthy have since shifted their base to Kerala.
Since 2010, the Karnataka executive inducted 1,127 police officers of the rank of assistant sub-inspector or above and employed 1,540 head constables and constables. At provide, the ANF has relieved 2,263 staffers, leaving the unit with 432 members. The workforce drafted for the drive are paid more allowance —Rs 1,000 to Rs eight,000 in keeping with head — but even so a day-to-day food allowance of Rs 130. The executive has so far spent Rs 19.7 crore on ANF.
Former Naxal chief Noor Zulfikar alias Sridhar mentioned Naxalites have shifted their base out of Karnataka. “Naxalites have consciously shifted their activities to Wyanad and Karnataka-Kerala-Tamil Nadu tri-junction so that factions from the three states come together and post a show of energy. That is a strategic transfer, but they're going to no longer succeed,” Noor Sridhar informed TOI. The tri-junction house covers the forests of Nagarahole and Bandipur in Karnataka, Mudumalai in Tamil Nadu and Muthanga in Kerala.
Noor Sridhar mentioned Naxalites have learned their reason behind social justice cannot be accomplished through fighting from the jungles. Thirteen rebels from Karnataka have surrendered since 2010.
The ANF, which hasn’t heard of any Naxal process in Dakshina Kannada since 2012, introduced an operation in the first week of January bringing up the presence of 3 suspected Naxalites at Shiradi in Uppinangady. They drew a blank.
In June 2017, three suspects — Kanyakumari, Suma and Shivu — surrendered to Chikkamagaluru police. District best cop Okay Annamalai later mentioned there have been no contemporary recruitments in the state after this incident.
Force superintendent of police (Karkala) BM Lakshmi Prasad justified the investment on the unit and mentioned that as a result of its presence that Naxal motion was once on the wane. “They will come back strong if the ANF is weakened,” he mentioned.
The state has 14 ANF camps, and is currently organising its 15th at Gundlupet in Chamarajnagar district. An offer has additionally been sent to the government to set up a camp in either at Belthangady or Sullia.
It is also recalled that the ANF killed one of its constables, Mahadev Mane, on the night of October eight, 2011. Suspecting Naxalites’ presence during a combing operation, the lads began indiscriminate firing and a bullet ricocheted into Mane in Manjal woodland close to Belthangady.
This is part of the ANF’s reaction to TOI’s RTI question about its operations since 2010. Except media reviews of a few Naxal sightings and brushing operations, the drive doesn’t have a lot luck to its credit.
ANF sources mentioned 5 suspected Naxalites are operating in the state — Vikas Gowda, BG Krishnamurthy, Mundagaru Latha, Vanajakshi and Angadi Pradeep. Either their hideout isn't identified or no longer printed. However, a police source claimed that Gowda and Krishnamurthy have since shifted their base to Kerala.
Since 2010, the Karnataka executive inducted 1,127 police officers of the rank of assistant sub-inspector or above and employed 1,540 head constables and constables. At provide, the ANF has relieved 2,263 staffers, leaving the unit with 432 members. The workforce drafted for the drive are paid more allowance —Rs 1,000 to Rs eight,000 in keeping with head — but even so a day-to-day food allowance of Rs 130. The executive has so far spent Rs 19.7 crore on ANF.
Former Naxal chief Noor Zulfikar alias Sridhar mentioned Naxalites have shifted their base out of Karnataka. “Naxalites have consciously shifted their activities to Wyanad and Karnataka-Kerala-Tamil Nadu tri-junction so that factions from the three states come together and post a show of energy. That is a strategic transfer, but they're going to no longer succeed,” Noor Sridhar informed TOI. The tri-junction house covers the forests of Nagarahole and Bandipur in Karnataka, Mudumalai in Tamil Nadu and Muthanga in Kerala.
Noor Sridhar mentioned Naxalites have learned their reason behind social justice cannot be accomplished through fighting from the jungles. Thirteen rebels from Karnataka have surrendered since 2010.
The ANF, which hasn’t heard of any Naxal process in Dakshina Kannada since 2012, introduced an operation in the first week of January bringing up the presence of 3 suspected Naxalites at Shiradi in Uppinangady. They drew a blank.
In June 2017, three suspects — Kanyakumari, Suma and Shivu — surrendered to Chikkamagaluru police. District best cop Okay Annamalai later mentioned there have been no contemporary recruitments in the state after this incident.
Force superintendent of police (Karkala) BM Lakshmi Prasad justified the investment on the unit and mentioned that as a result of its presence that Naxal motion was once on the wane. “They will come back strong if the ANF is weakened,” he mentioned.
The state has 14 ANF camps, and is currently organising its 15th at Gundlupet in Chamarajnagar district. An offer has additionally been sent to the government to set up a camp in either at Belthangady or Sullia.
It is also recalled that the ANF killed one of its constables, Mahadev Mane, on the night of October eight, 2011. Suspecting Naxalites’ presence during a combing operation, the lads began indiscriminate firing and a bullet ricocheted into Mane in Manjal woodland close to Belthangady.
20cr and 7 yrs later, ANF hasn’t captured a single Naxal
![20cr and 7 yrs later, ANF hasn’t captured a single Naxal]()
Reviewed by Kailash
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March 22, 2018
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