Naxals have launched major initiatives to achieve their mission of having a pan India presence, intelligence sources said here on Friday.
The initiatives included preparation of an email data bank of Naxal sympathisers and supporters across India besides compilation of data on its cadres in various states in the country.
“We have received information that Naxals are preparing a databank of their supporters and sympathisers across India through their local networks with an objective to tapping them when needed. This apart, the CPI (Maoist) has also begun a move to prepare a data bank of their cadres in various states for strategic reason,” a senior intelligence officer told this newspaper.
Maoists have also gone hi-tech to upgrade their weaponry.
Intelligence inputs received at the state police headquarters said the Naxals have acquired technology to trigger blasts with voice or wireless sets. They have also developed paper bombs.
“A huge bundle of paper bombs have recently been recovered in a jungle in Magadh range in Bihar. Following this, we have alerted our security forces not to touch Maoist posters without screening them,” the police officer said.
It has also been revealed that the Maoists have started using high frequency communication system. Security forces were yet to acquire technology to intercept signals of the system.
What worried the police the most was the latest tactic adopted by Maoists in which they have been sending threat mails to senior police officers deployed in anti-Naxal operations through their proxy servers, being operated from secret places.
Several such incidents have been reported in conflict zone of Bastar in recent time, the police officer said.