Recruiting youth to “wage a conflict in opposition to the state”, organising “dummy coaching camps” and “conspiracy conferences”, and maintaining “prohibited arms and ammunition and explosive supplies” – these are the allegations in opposition to 17 individuals charged with the 2024 Maoist assault on three Central Reserve Police Drive campus in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur.
In its chargesheet, filed earlier than a particular court docket in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) Friday named 17 individuals for the assault, of whom 16 are absconding. The only accused in custody is Sodi Baman @ Deval.
The case pertains to the assault on the Central Reserve Police Drive’s (CRPF) new camp at Dharmavaram and two adjoining CRPF/CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Motion) camps positioned alongside the northern financial institution of the Chintavagu River and Pamed, the southernmost village of Bijapur, on January 16, 2024. Historically a part of south Bastar, this was for a decade thought-about the stronghold of Battalion No. 01 of the Individuals’s Liberation Guerilla Military (PLGA), the armed wing of Communist Occasion of India (Maoist).
The absconding accused embrace two Central Committee Members (CCM), two Particular Zonal/ State Committee Members (SZC/SCM) and different high cadres of Battalion 1, Telangana State Committee and Pamed Space Committee. These accused additionally recruited kids to wage conflict in opposition to India, the NIA stated.
The chargesheet filed Friday earlier than an NIA particular court docket in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, was underneath varied sections of Indian Penal Code, Arms Act, Explosive Substances Act, and Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, an official assertion from the NIA stated.
Armed with barrel grenade launchers (BGLs) and automated weapons, the assailants — a gaggle of 250-300 members of the banned Communist Occasion of India (Maoist) — tried to loot weapons and different belongings of the safety forces from the camps, the NIA, which took over investigation into the case in February 2024, stated, including that 12 safety personnel had been injured within the assault.
The NIA registered a case in opposition to 21 named and 250-300 unknown armed cadres of proscribed terrorist organisation CPI (Maoist).
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Investigations revealed that the chargesheeted accused had been concerned within the recruitment of youth, as a part of a prison conspiracy to wage conflict in opposition to the democratically-elected authorities of India, the assertion went on to say.
“They had been in possession of prohibited arms, ammunition and explosive supplies, and had organised and attended conspiracy conferences. In addition they established a dummy coaching camp as a duplicate of the goal camps, imparted coaching and gave motivational speeches to their armed cadres to hold out an armed rebel, moreover conducting recce of the stated camps and executing the ultimate assaults,” the assertion stated.
Requested concerning the significance of the CRPF camps, Inspector Normal for Bastar Vary Sundarraj P instructed The Indian Categorical: “The exceptional achievement of the camps was (that it was) facilitating the profitable implementation of Chintavagu river bridge undertaking, which had lengthy remained a distant dream for native inhabitants. The civil transportation has begun within the space connecting Pamed to the district headquarters of Bijapur. Over time, greater than 90 safety personnel have attained martyrdom within the Pamed Basaguda-Awapalli-Usor axis as a consequence of varied ambushes/IED blast incidents”.