Maoist Recruitment

Maoists are trying to expand their urban footprint in Maharashtra by roping in youngsters from poor sections in slums in big cities like Mumbai and Pune for military tasks and setting up safe havens, according to police.

A charge sheet has been filed by the NIA against five people in a case linked to the alleged radicalisation and recruitment of young girls in the banned Maoist organisation CPI (Maoist).

Kamlu Vetti, recruited by Maoists at the age of 12, had to get a vasectomy a decade later when he got married. For Maoist cadres, this is compulsory, he said.

A US State Department report on human trafficking in India has said terrorist groups continue to recruit and use children as young as 14 years in direct hostilities against the government in Jammu and Kashmir.

A set of two striking pictures of women groups on a recent feature on career choices catches ones eye. One picture lines up some 30 beauties vying for Miss India contest and the other shows 32 commandos recruited to protect women from Maoists who have lorded pockets of Bastar region for nearly 52 years now.

After the arrest of five rights activists on Tuesday, which has been challenged in the Supreme Court, Pune police sources claim that their investigations pointed at Maoist activities and a "big conspiracy" that involved recruiting university students.

250 young people from the 'Red Corridor' of West Bengal joined the Army today and regular recruitment drives have now been started in the area to bring youngsters of Maoist affected areas in the state into the mainstream.

Four police officials, recruited by the state police as auxiliary personnel, were on Monday evening kidnapped by suspected Maoists in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.

A leader of the Trinamool Congress was shot dead by the Maoists in Midnapore. The killers left a poster at the spot, warning Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee and the West Bengal government against their attempt to recruit from the 17 Maoist-affected blocks of the state.

The first look at them one may think they are just getting ready to go to school but at the very next instant they appear holding weapons. Five young girls - all below 17 years of age - surrendered to the police with their arms. Recruited by Maoists two years ago the girls say they were disillusioned with the party."We chose to run away because the...

Children as young as 12 are being recruited by Maoist rebels in Jharkhand in their propaganda war against the government and security forces. At least 300 children are being trained by the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) group and also being provided training in small arms, police say.

Maoists are trying to expand their urban footprint in Maharashtra by roping in youngsters from poor sections in slums in big cities like Mumbai and Pune for military tasks and setting up safe havens, according to police.

A charge sheet has been filed by the NIA against five people in a case linked to the alleged radicalisation and recruitment of young girls in the banned Maoist organisation CPI (Maoist).

Kamlu Vetti, recruited by Maoists at the age of 12, had to get a vasectomy a decade later when he got married. For Maoist cadres, this is compulsory, he said.

A US State Department report on human trafficking in India has said terrorist groups continue to recruit and use children as young as 14 years in direct hostilities against the government in Jammu and Kashmir.

A set of two striking pictures of women groups on a recent feature on career choices catches ones eye. One picture lines up some 30 beauties vying for Miss India contest and the other shows 32 commandos recruited to protect women from Maoists who have lorded pockets of Bastar region for nearly 52 years now.

After the arrest of five rights activists on Tuesday, which has been challenged in the Supreme Court, Pune police sources claim that their investigations pointed at Maoist activities and a "big conspiracy" that involved recruiting university students.

250 young people from the 'Red Corridor' of West Bengal joined the Army today and regular recruitment drives have now been started in the area to bring youngsters of Maoist affected areas in the state into the mainstream.

Four police officials, recruited by the state police as auxiliary personnel, were on Monday evening kidnapped by suspected Maoists in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.

A leader of the Trinamool Congress was shot dead by the Maoists in Midnapore. The killers left a poster at the spot, warning Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee and the West Bengal government against their attempt to recruit from the 17 Maoist-affected blocks of the state.

The first look at them one may think they are just getting ready to go to school but at the very next instant they appear holding weapons. Five young girls - all below 17 years of age - surrendered to the police with their arms. Recruited by Maoists two years ago the girls say they were disillusioned with the party."We chose to run away because the...

Children as young as 12 are being recruited by Maoist rebels in Jharkhand in their propaganda war against the government and security forces. At least 300 children are being trained by the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) group and also being provided training in small arms, police say.