Maoists In Kerala

A gunbattle has erupted between the Kerala Police's specialised team Thunderbolt and Maoists in a forest area in this northern district, police said here on Monday.

Two Kerala students who were charged under an anti-terror law for alleged Maoist links have won a legal battle in the Supreme Court, which ruled their bail was valid.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the Kerala government never had any intention to kill anyone after the CPI on Thursday condemned the killing of a suspected Maoist in Wayanad district two days ago.

A suspected Maoist in his early 30s was killed in Kerala's Wayanad on Tuesday in an encounter between five uniformed men and a 20-member "Thunderbolt" patrol, according to Kerala Police. Sources said, according to the preliminary probe, the man has been identified as Velmurugan from Tamil Nadu; however, further procedures, including DNA testing and...

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Maoists have put up posters and banners asking farmers and plantation workers in Kerala's Mundakkai, a part of Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency from where Congress President Rahul Gandhi is contesting, to boycott the April 23 elections.

Days after a school teacher was killed by the Maoists in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, the rebels have issued a letter calling it a mistake, the police claimed on Thursday.

A Maoist leader has been killed in an encounter with the Kerala Police's Thunderbolt unit, a senior officer said.

This is a planned conspiracy by Maoists in league with Kerala government, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and CPM against the devotees of Lord Ayyappa, said BJP leader V Muraleedharan.

The CPI(M)-led LDF government in Kerala today ordered a magisterial probe into the recent encounter of two Maoists at Nilambur forests in Malappuram district.

At least two Maoists have been killed, according to sources, in a police encounter today in Kerala's Malappuram district.

Police personnel and Maoists today exchanged fire at Kadukumanna in Agali, a remote tribal area in Palakkad district, Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said.

Being a Maoist is not a crime and a person cannot be sent to custody for being one, the Kerala High Court said in a significant judgement on Friday.

A law graduate wanted in 20 criminal cases and his wife are among five top Maoists arrested in Tamil Nadu on Monday in what has been described as a major breakthrough for the police of four southern states.

A top Maoist leader, wanted in at least 20 cases in Kerala, his wife and three others, were arrested today near Coimbatore in a "big breakthrough" for the police of four southern states.

A Suspected team of five maoists attacked a stone-crusher unit in Kerala's Kannur district in the early hours of Friday. The team vandalised the office, set it on fire and before leaving pasted posters of CPI Maoists Western Ghats Regional Committee on it's premises.

A gunbattle has erupted between the Kerala Police's specialised team Thunderbolt and Maoists in a forest area in this northern district, police said here on Monday.

Two Kerala students who were charged under an anti-terror law for alleged Maoist links have won a legal battle in the Supreme Court, which ruled their bail was valid.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the Kerala government never had any intention to kill anyone after the CPI on Thursday condemned the killing of a suspected Maoist in Wayanad district two days ago.

A suspected Maoist in his early 30s was killed in Kerala's Wayanad on Tuesday in an encounter between five uniformed men and a 20-member "Thunderbolt" patrol, according to Kerala Police. Sources said, according to the preliminary probe, the man has been identified as Velmurugan from Tamil Nadu; however, further procedures, including DNA testing and...

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Maoists have put up posters and banners asking farmers and plantation workers in Kerala's Mundakkai, a part of Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency from where Congress President Rahul Gandhi is contesting, to boycott the April 23 elections.

Days after a school teacher was killed by the Maoists in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, the rebels have issued a letter calling it a mistake, the police claimed on Thursday.

A Maoist leader has been killed in an encounter with the Kerala Police's Thunderbolt unit, a senior officer said.

This is a planned conspiracy by Maoists in league with Kerala government, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and CPM against the devotees of Lord Ayyappa, said BJP leader V Muraleedharan.

The CPI(M)-led LDF government in Kerala today ordered a magisterial probe into the recent encounter of two Maoists at Nilambur forests in Malappuram district.

At least two Maoists have been killed, according to sources, in a police encounter today in Kerala's Malappuram district.

Police personnel and Maoists today exchanged fire at Kadukumanna in Agali, a remote tribal area in Palakkad district, Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said.

Being a Maoist is not a crime and a person cannot be sent to custody for being one, the Kerala High Court said in a significant judgement on Friday.

A law graduate wanted in 20 criminal cases and his wife are among five top Maoists arrested in Tamil Nadu on Monday in what has been described as a major breakthrough for the police of four southern states.

A top Maoist leader, wanted in at least 20 cases in Kerala, his wife and three others, were arrested today near Coimbatore in a "big breakthrough" for the police of four southern states.

A Suspected team of five maoists attacked a stone-crusher unit in Kerala's Kannur district in the early hours of Friday. The team vandalised the office, set it on fire and before leaving pasted posters of CPI Maoists Western Ghats Regional Committee on it's premises.