Raipur : Fearing their plans will be leaked ahead of Lok Sabha polls, Naxals are allegedly keeping a close watch on people who could pass on information using mobile phones in villages of their hot-bed Bastar.
In some pockets of restive Narayanpur district comprising a major part of the Abhujmad region, local cadres are visiting villages and collecting information about mobile users and even asking them to hand over mobile phones, assuring to return them after the Lok Sabha elections.
"The strategy is being witnessed as a part of their plan ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. It could be an attempt to maintain secrecy of their evil design," a senior Intelligence Bureau official said.
Naxals have taken up the task in Mad region villages of Kutulpara, Orchhameta, Kutul and several others, he added.
Following their failure in executing some of the plans during the state Assembly elections, Maoist's top leaders believe that the lower rank cadres have failed to maintain secrecy of their operations as the information about gathering of rebels, placement of IEDs and landmines was already leaked to police, he said.
The recent crackdown on the urban network of Maoists in the state with the arrest of 17 alleged Naxal conduits has also posed problems for the ultras in monitoring the intelligence channel working inside forests, he said.
Every kind of suspicious move is under the scanner in the disturbed zone, he added.
In some pockets of restive Narayanpur district comprising a major part of the Abhujmad region, local cadres are visiting villages and collecting information about mobile users and even asking them to hand over mobile phones, assuring to return them after the Lok Sabha elections.
"The strategy is being witnessed as a part of their plan ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. It could be an attempt to maintain secrecy of their evil design," a senior Intelligence Bureau official said.
Naxals have taken up the task in Mad region villages of Kutulpara, Orchhameta, Kutul and several others, he added.
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Following their failure in executing some of the plans during the state Assembly elections, Maoist's top leaders believe that the lower rank cadres have failed to maintain secrecy of their operations as the information about gathering of rebels, placement of IEDs and landmines was already leaked to police, he said.
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The recent crackdown on the urban network of Maoists in the state with the arrest of 17 alleged Naxal conduits has also posed problems for the ultras in monitoring the intelligence channel working inside forests, he said.
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Every kind of suspicious move is under the scanner in the disturbed zone, he added.
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