Armed Spo

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  Have Nothing To Do With Polls: Supreme Court Tells Centre, Chhattisgarh

  The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down the submissions of the centre and Chhattisgarh government to adjourn a case, which challenged the deployment of erstwhile special police officers (SPOs) as "auxiliary armed force" allegedly for anti-Maoist operations in the state, till conclusion of the Assembly polls there.

• Chhattisgarh's terror boys: once feared now fearful

  They were tagged as the terror boys ruling the heart of India's insurgency zone. Once striding down jungle roads with AK-47s on their shoulders, the ragtag band of special police officers (SPOs) who formed the dreaded Salwa Judum have been stripped off their arms and now fear for their lives.

• Chhattisgarh DGP Vishwaranjan removed

  Chhattisgarh Director General of Police (DGP) Vishwaranjan was shunted out on Tuesday, apparently as a fall-out of his widening rift with state Home Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar over allegedly inadequate scale of anti-Maoist operations in the state.Appointed as the state's top cop in July 2007, Vishwaranjan, a 1973 batch IPS officer, has been replaced...

• Govt to move Supreme Court to seek review of judgement on armed SPOs

  The government will move the Supreme Court to seek a review of its two-day-old judgement ordering disbanding of tribals as Special Police Officers (SPOs) in anti-Naxal operations and terming it as "unconstitutional".Government sources said a process had already been set afoot by the Home Ministry and hectic consultations are on with Solicitor Gener...