WB to intensify combing operation after recent Maoist attack

A day after Maoists killed 24 soldiers in a deadly strike on a security force camp in West Bengal,Ardhenu Sen, Additional Chief Secretary of the state, on Tuesday said the security forces would soon redouble their combing operations.Sen said the security forces would not be cowed down by such audacious acts.Sen said the state police forces could not give hot pursuit to Maoists taking shelter in neighbouring Jharkhand, Orissa and Bihar states due to jurisdiction,and the possibility was being sorted out with coordinated efforts of Home Ministry.