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Bihar Naxals fleeing to UP areas: DGP
IT IS now official that Naxalites have sneaked into some districts of Uttar Pradesh bordering Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. This was stated by director general of police Yashpal Singh at a Press conference here on Monday. ?There are credible reports about movement of Naxalite elements. Naxalites have sneaked into the districts of Mirzapur, Chandauli, Sonebhadra,? Singh said.
IT IS now official that Naxalites have sneaked into some districts of Uttar Pradesh bordering Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. This was stated by director general of police Yashpal Singh at a Press conference here on Monday.
“There are credible reports about movement of Naxalite elements. Naxalites have sneaked into the districts of Mirzapur, Chandauli, Sonebhadra,” Singh said.
He said in order to avert tragedies like the one in November 2004, in which more than a dozen PAC jawans were blown up in a landmine blast in Naugarh area of Chandauli district, a contingency plan was being formulated to deal with the situation.
Asked if a change of guard in Bihar had led to Naxalites fleeing to UP, the DGP did not give a satisfactory reply. It is, however, believed that Naxalites have fled to UP following pressure on them in Bihar after a change of guard there.
Presenting a rosy picture of law and order in the State, the DGP said the crime graph had gone down considerably during the last year in comparison to 2004.
Surprisingly, the DGP, before talking about reduction of crime in the state, said, “You may not believe the figures.”
“There were three encounters in 2004 with Naxalites which went up to 15 in the year gone by,” he said, adding, “There was no serious crime-related incident in the State in 2005.” Though he admitted that it was impossible to control
gang wars in eastern UP, he expressed hope that killers of BJP legislator Krishnanand Rai would be brought to justice.
Earlier, the DGP held a meeting with police officials of Naxalite-hit districts of Chandauli, Mirzapur and Sonebhadra at the conference hall of the Traffic Police Lines.
