A jawan of the newly-created Chhattisgarh Auxiliary Armed Force was on Sunday critically wounded when he was attacked with sharp weapons by a group of armed Naxals at his native village of Kondru under Jangla police station in Bijapur district in south Bastar, the police said. The tribal youth, R.K. Kodam, ran nearly 3 km in forested area to reach the Jangla police station, bleeding profusely. He was rushed to the local government hospital. He was shifted to district headquarters hospital at Bijapur when his condition worsened. “He was yet to be declared out of danger. He injured two Naxals with a knife while trying to defend himself,” Bijapur district ASP (Naxal operation) Ashok Singh said.
The CAAF has been established recently to absorb the special police officers (SPOs) — tribal youths recruited by the Chhattisgarh police to fight Naxals — following a directive from the Supreme Court to disband SPOs.
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Army to hold wargames with US, Russia, France
New Delhi, Jan. 29: Top global powers, including US, Russia, France and some friendly neighbours like Bangladesh, will engage in warga-mes with the Army to learn from its over five decades of experience of counter-terrorism and urban warfare operations. The Army will hold around 15 exercises this year with friendly foreign countries, including the who’s who in the global arena, Army officials said. The countries with which the Army will conduct these joint training exercises include Bangladesh and Singapore. The wargames with friendly foreign countries will be kicked off with Bold Kurukshetra with the Singapore Army at Babina near Jhansi. — PTI
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Three wood bison poisoned to death
age correspondent
Raipur, Jan. 29
Three wood bison, listed as endangered species, were allegedly poisoned to death in a reserve forest in Chhattisgarh, official sources said on Sunday.
The bodies of the bovine mammals were spotted in the Baranbapara reserve forest in Mahasamund district on Sunday morning by local tribals, who immediately reported the matter to the forest officials concerned.
Veterinary doctor C.S. Chandrakar, who checked the bodies, said the wild animals died of poisoning. He suspected that they might have been given poisoned water by poachers. However, the exact cause of deaths would be ascertained after post-mortem of the bodies, he said.
The wood bison have a population of barely 11,000 in the world and are facing extinction due to large scale poaching.
Many reserve forests in Chhattisgarh are home to quite a good number of bison.
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K’taka honour killing prime accused held
age correspondent
mysore, Jan. 29
The prime accused in the Abalawadi honour killing was arrested in Bengaluru by Maddur police on Sunday. Ramakrishna, who allegedly murdered his daughter Suvarna (22) on November 6 for falling in love with a dalit boy Govindaraju (27), was caught at Anjananagar on Magadi Road in Bengaluru. Maddur CPI Prashanth and team made the breakthrough. “We enquired about Ramakrishna’s whereabouts and arrested him based on specific information. The accused was about to shift from his hideout when we arrested him,” Mr Prashanth told this newspaper. The police was under pressure to arrest Rama-krishna and 10 other accused in the case against whom the police had framed atrocity and murder charges.
The police has arrested eight persons, including Ramakrishna, till now and is looking out for Badera Krishna and Mallesh.
Deputy superintendent of police (Malavalli subdivision) M.K. Uttappa recorded the statement of Ramakrishna, who has reportedly confessed to the crime. He was later produced before a magistrate and has been remanded to judicial custody.