Silda Massacre

The Special Task Force of the Kolkata Police has arrested two dreaded Maoists who were close to Kishenji, the Naxal leader from Andhra Pradesh, who ruled the roost in at least three districts of West Bengal for more than two years.

An alleged Maoist, wanted in several murder cases including the Silda massacre, was arrested in Coimbatore in the early hours today, police said.

A rifle that had the arsenal number of a weapon missing from Silda after Maoist attack on Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) camp was part of a huge cache of arms recovered by police near a CPM party office in West Midnapore on Sunday prompting the CID to probe whether there is any CPM link to the massacre of 24 jawans."Among the arms recovered from Ena...

Barely a week into assuming office, the Mamata Banerjee-led government has swung into action against the CPM.The state government has ordered a probe into a possible CPM connection to the Silda massacre early last year.The state director general of police ordered the probe after the cops found a cache of arms, including Insas rifles, near the CPM p...

Four days after the massacre of the 24 Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) jawans at Silda, the anger among the bereaved families continues to be on the boil. Families of the EFR jawans blocked the road at Salua in West Midnapore district to protest their deaths.

Twenty-four families are grieving in the aftermath of the massacre at Silda, but in the family of the cook at the Eastern Rifle Frontier Camp there is also enormous anger. Anger at the Maoist specially Kishenji, who has left so many widows and fatherless in what he has called Operation Peace Hunt.

The Special Task Force of the Kolkata Police has arrested two dreaded Maoists who were close to Kishenji, the Naxal leader from Andhra Pradesh, who ruled the roost in at least three districts of West Bengal for more than two years.

An alleged Maoist, wanted in several murder cases including the Silda massacre, was arrested in Coimbatore in the early hours today, police said.

A rifle that had the arsenal number of a weapon missing from Silda after Maoist attack on Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) camp was part of a huge cache of arms recovered by police near a CPM party office in West Midnapore on Sunday prompting the CID to probe whether there is any CPM link to the massacre of 24 jawans."Among the arms recovered from Ena...

Barely a week into assuming office, the Mamata Banerjee-led government has swung into action against the CPM.The state government has ordered a probe into a possible CPM connection to the Silda massacre early last year.The state director general of police ordered the probe after the cops found a cache of arms, including Insas rifles, near the CPM p...

Four days after the massacre of the 24 Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) jawans at Silda, the anger among the bereaved families continues to be on the boil. Families of the EFR jawans blocked the road at Salua in West Midnapore district to protest their deaths.

Twenty-four families are grieving in the aftermath of the massacre at Silda, but in the family of the cook at the Eastern Rifle Frontier Camp there is also enormous anger. Anger at the Maoist specially Kishenji, who has left so many widows and fatherless in what he has called Operation Peace Hunt.