The Intelligence Bureau has warned that the Maoists are setting up bases on the tri-junction of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and have adopted a fresh strategy to counter anti-Naxal operations by security forces in 2012.
The IB, in a report submitted to the Union home ministry, has said that the CPI (Maoist) have issued special instructions to target “specialised enemy units” such as Cobra, Special Action Force, Greyhounds, State intelligence bureau of Andhra Pradesh, Special Task Force, Koya Commandos. “To counter large scale security forces operations being undertaken against it, the outfit plans to scatter company or battalion level units of the ‘enemy’ for trapping and eliminating smaller vulnerable formations,” the report says. The PLGA, strike force of the Maoists, has been instructed to replenish its ranks and “arm” the jan militia to ensure “preservation of battle capabilities of its primary and secondary fighting units”.
A review of LWE in 2011, done by the IB has also noted Maoist front activities in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana , Rajasthan. It says that the arc of Naxal violence has spread to newer areas, including upper Assam and on Chattisgarh-Orissa border. Sporadic activities of Maoist fronts were reported from parts of Uttar Pradesh (Mainpuri, Aligarh and Kanpur districts) and Uttarakhand (Nainital, Almora and Dehradun districts). During the PLGA week observed in first week of December 2011, the Uttarakhand-UP coordination committee of the CPI (Maoist) called upon its sympathisers in Kumaon region to form PLGA in the area for “developing armed agrarian revolution”. Meanwhile, the south-west regional bureau of the CPI (Maoist) remained active in augumenting its armed capabilities in parts of Karnataka. Efforts of the outfit, aimed at establishing a forest route from Wayanad to Mysore district in Karnataka were also discernible, the report says.
Maoist foray in Maharashtra also emerged as a serious concern.