MAOISTS GOUGES OUT THE EYES AND CHOPPED OFF THE TONGUE OF AN INDIAN CENTRAL RESERVE POLICE FORCE (CRPF) OFFICER IN RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES COMMITTED ON LOCAL PEOPLE:

MAOISTS GOUGES OUT THE EYES AND CHOPPED OFF THE TONGUE OF AN INDIAN CENTRAL RESERVE POLICE FORCE (CRPF) OFFICER IN RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES COMMITTED ON LOCAL PEOPLE:

HABIB YOUSAFZAI


The central reserve police force also known as CRPF is India’s largest central armed police force. It functions under the aegis of Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India. The CRPF’s stated stance is to assist the State/Union Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and contain insurgencies. It came into existence as the Crown Representative’s Police on 27 July 1939. After Indian independence, it became known as the Central Reserve Police Force upon enactment of the CRPF Act on 29 December 1949. Since India received its freedom on August 15, 1947 from the British government, the state of Assam, Nagaland along with many other states have ongoing movements which are fighting for their freedom. These movements can largely be attributed to the elite interests that the Indian government has been pursuing for over six decades. It is an established fact that India has failed to provide justice, basic services, and equitable distribution of wealth to its citizens. While the masses are suffering, the Indian system has been serving the elite (Brahmin Hindu) interests of society who have concentrated enormous amounts of wealth into their own hands. Inequitable income distribution also is a reality in Pakistan where wealth has been polarized into the hands of the highest echelons of society. However, the major differentiation between India and Pakistan is that the latter is one nation. If the Pakistani government does not take action and change its course it too will face similar attempts at separatist movements which has become commonplace within the Indian state.    

 
MAOISTS GOUGED OUT EYES WHILE CRPF MAN WAS STILL ALIVE, MR. INDIA WAKE UP: ASHRAF ALI ANDRABI, SRINAGAR, OCCUPIED JAMMU AND KASHMIR [AKA INTERNATIONALLY DISPUTED AREAS OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR (IDA: JK)] 

The Maoists gouged out the eyes and chopped off the tongue of a CRPF man probably while he was still alive during an ambush at Ambatikar forest in Jharkhand’s Latehar area on January 6. A senior police officer said on Friday the basis of the suspicion was that the jawan, Shankar Lal, was “found with his hands tied behind his back”. He said the Maoists had practiced planting light-sensitive improvised explosive devices on animals for six months before placing the bombs in the stomachs of two other CRPF men. As security forces mounted an offensive against the Maoists, government officers in Delhi said Prabhat Mochi, the arrested general secretary of the Maoists’ Koel-Sankh zonal committee that covers Jharkhand, parts of Bihar and north Chhattisgarh, gave details of how the method of planting bombs in the stomach was perfected. One bomb had exploded while the body was being removed from the jungles. But CRPF officials thought it was a pressure bomb Maoists use to booby-trap bodies of slain policemen. The second body was flown to Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences for autopsy where doctors spotted stitches in the abdomen and called in senior police officers.