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 only fatality is one in every of its personal contributors when the force opened hearth on a cop believing him to be a Naxalite in 2011.
This is a part of the ANF’s reaction to TOI’s RTI query about its operations since 2010. Except media studies of a couple of Naxal sightings and brushing operations, the force doesn’t have a lot success to its credit score.
ANF resources said 5 suspected Naxalites are working in the state — Vikas Gowda, BG Krishnamurthy, Mundagaru Latha, Vanajakshi and Angadi Pradeep. Either their hideout is not recognized or no longer revealed. However, a police supply claimed that Gowda and Krishnamurthy have since shifted their base to Kerala.
Since 2010, the Karnataka govt inducted 1,127 police officers of the rank of assistant sub-inspector or above and hired 1,540 head constables and constables. At provide, the ANF has relieved 2,263 staffers, leaving the unit with 432 contributors. The workforce drafted for the force are paid more allowance —Rs 1,000 to Rs eight,000 in line with head — but even so a daily food allowance of Rs 130. The govt has up to now spent Rs 19.7 crore on ANF.
Former Naxal chief Noor Zulfikar alias Sridhar said Naxalites have shifted their base out of Karnataka. “Naxalites have consciously shifted their actions to Wyanad and Karnataka-Kerala-Tamil Nadu tri-junction in order that factions from the 3 states come together and put up a show of energy. That is a strategic transfer, however they'll no longer be triumphant,” Noor Sridhar instructed TOI. The tri-junction area covers the forests of Nagarahole and Bandipur in Karnataka, Mudumalai in Tamil Nadu and Muthanga in Kerala.
Noor Sridhar said Naxalites have realized their reason for social justice can't be achieved through preventing from the jungles. Thirteen rebels from Karnataka have surrendered since 2010.
The ANF, which hasn’t heard of any Naxal task in Dakshina Kannada since 2012, introduced an operation in the first week of January citing the presence of three 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 K Annamalai later said there have been no recent recruitments in the state after this incident.
Force superintendent of police (Karkala) BM Lakshmi Prasad justified the funding at the unit and said that on account of its presence that Naxal motion was at the wane. “They will come again solid if the ANF is weakened,” he said.
The state has 14 ANF camps, and is currently setting up its 15th at Gundlupet in Chamarajnagar district. A suggestion has additionally been despatched to the federal government to set up a camp in both at Belthangady or Sullia.
It could also be recalled that the ANF killed one in every of its constables, Mahadev Mane, at the night time of October eight, 2011. Suspecting Naxalites’ presence all the way through a combing operation, the boys started indiscriminate firing and a bullet ricocheted into Mane in Manjal forest near Belthangady.
This is a part of the ANF’s reaction to TOI’s RTI query about its operations since 2010. Except media studies of a couple of Naxal sightings and brushing operations, the force doesn’t have a lot success to its credit score.
ANF resources said 5 suspected Naxalites are working in the state — Vikas Gowda, BG Krishnamurthy, Mundagaru Latha, Vanajakshi and Angadi Pradeep. Either their hideout is not recognized or no longer revealed. However, a police supply claimed that Gowda and Krishnamurthy have since shifted their base to Kerala.
Since 2010, the Karnataka govt inducted 1,127 police officers of the rank of assistant sub-inspector or above and hired 1,540 head constables and constables. At provide, the ANF has relieved 2,263 staffers, leaving the unit with 432 contributors. The workforce drafted for the force are paid more allowance —Rs 1,000 to Rs eight,000 in line with head — but even so a daily food allowance of Rs 130. The govt has up to now spent Rs 19.7 crore on ANF.
Former Naxal chief Noor Zulfikar alias Sridhar said Naxalites have shifted their base out of Karnataka. “Naxalites have consciously shifted their actions to Wyanad and Karnataka-Kerala-Tamil Nadu tri-junction in order that factions from the 3 states come together and put up a show of energy. That is a strategic transfer, however they'll no longer be triumphant,” Noor Sridhar instructed TOI. The tri-junction area covers the forests of Nagarahole and Bandipur in Karnataka, Mudumalai in Tamil Nadu and Muthanga in Kerala.
Noor Sridhar said Naxalites have realized their reason for social justice can't be achieved through preventing from the jungles. Thirteen rebels from Karnataka have surrendered since 2010.
The ANF, which hasn’t heard of any Naxal task in Dakshina Kannada since 2012, introduced an operation in the first week of January citing the presence of three 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 K Annamalai later said there have been no recent recruitments in the state after this incident.
Force superintendent of police (Karkala) BM Lakshmi Prasad justified the funding at the unit and said that on account of its presence that Naxal motion was at the wane. “They will come again solid if the ANF is weakened,” he said.
The state has 14 ANF camps, and is currently setting up its 15th at Gundlupet in Chamarajnagar district. A suggestion has additionally been despatched to the federal government to set up a camp in both at Belthangady or Sullia.
It could also be recalled that the ANF killed one in every of its constables, Mahadev Mane, at the night time of October eight, 2011. Suspecting Naxalites’ presence all the way through a combing operation, the boys started indiscriminate firing and a bullet ricocheted into Mane in Manjal forest near Belthangady.
20crore and 7 years later, ANF hasn’t captured a single Naxal
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