The appointment of K. Vijay Kumar, a Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer, as new director general (DG) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will give a major boost to the on-going anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh, senior police officers of the state opine.
“Mr Vijay Kumar has expertise in jungle warfare and urban tactics. His skills will greatly help CRPF men in the battlefields of Bastar in Chhattisgarh in minimising their casualties”, senior police officers, who have served in insurgent-hit Bastar region, told this newspaper here on Sunday.
Mr Vijay Kumar, a 1975-batch officer, had shot to fame when he led the operations to eliminate the forest brigand Veerappan in the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in October 2004. He had also had a stint in Border Security Force (BSF) as inspector general (IG) in trouble-torn Kashmir for two years.
“Mr Kumar, a sharp shooter, has specialisation in strategised operations, which the CRPF needed badly to adopt in Bastar region. Besides, he leads from the front and his doggedness and intensity can be gauged from the way he led the Operation Cocoon in jungles of TN and Karnatak for 10 months to liquidate the dreaded sandalwood smuggler Veerappan,” a senior police officer closely involved in anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh, told this newspaper. A senior officer said that Mr Vijay Kumar would like to have maximum stay in Bastar.
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Woman kills children,ends life
Age Correspondent
Raipur
Oct. 3: In a tragic incident, a woman on Sunday jumped into a river along with her two kids, aged 2 and 4, following a small tiff with her husband at Palegaon in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district, police said.
Their bodies were fished out of water in the afternoon. According to the police, Radha Kanwar (32) had a heated argument with her husband over delay in his arrival at home. She got furious when her spouse refused to explain the cause of the delay and left the house in a huff.
In a fit of rage, the woman carried her two children — son and daughter — and threw them in the flooded Shivnath river and later jumped into it.