Intel alert on pre-poll Maoist strikes

KOLKATA: Based on the findings of what happened at Netai village on January 7, district intelligence officials have sent specific inputs to camps-in-charge under various police stations in West Midnapore about an impending attack by Maoists and PCPA. The attack, sleuths have warned, may be on the likes of the Silda camp attack as well as the onslaught carried out on Sankrail police station.
Policemen have been asked to ensure area domination following an alert that "CPI (Maoists) activists may attack police or CPM supporters/members/leaders at any opportune moment" and "as elections come nearer, more and more violent clashes (like Netai) may take place."
It's clear that the investigations by CID and the state police have been fruitful in a different way.Officials said that the probe into the carnage have prompted police to make its inquiries at the grass roots. "Thus the police have now had the opportunity to have its ear to the ground, listening for any impending attack by Maoist. Interrogations and tap sources in the remotest village in West Midnapore. The result is this very important and specific input on a probable attack anytime soon," said an official at Writers' Buildings.
A two-page report on the Netai killings and the facts relating to an impending attack have been circulated to camps-in-charge under Kotwali, Salboni, Lalgarh, Goaltore and Jhargram police stations have been alerted about, "PSBJC (PCPA) and its frontal organization will try to organize villagers with a view to dominate as it was done in the year 2008. Moreover, in non-naxal areas. Political clashes may take place in order to take revenge."
The alert which has also be extended to DSPs in the area reads: "It is very clear that CPI (Maoist) activists as well as miscreants have collected huge arms and ammunition. There is every possibility of an acute law and order problem, not in the Left-Wing-extremist areas but also in non LWE areas."
The report adds, "Maoist activists may cause major incidents like the Silda camp attack or Sankrail police station attack. Police Santrash Birodhi Janaganer Committee (People's Committee Against Police Atrocities) and Sidhu Kanu Gana Militia (SKGM) and other frontal organizations backed by CPI (Maoists) activists may cause subversive activities like murder, kidnapping, setting fire on houses, government officers, vehicles and causing damages to roads." According to it, in the run-up to the Netai attack, Maoists have been escalating movement in the area and that they had been up and about 15 or 20 days ahead of the killings on January 7.
The report said, "Large number of arms and ammunition have been collected by CPI (Maoists)/PCPA and SKGM supporters as well as criminals and miscreants supported by various political parties."