Lalgarh: Security forces begin op to flush out Maoists

26 June,2009 10:03 AM IST |   |  PTI

Security forces on Friday started fresh operations to flush out Maoists from the trouble-torn region in West Midnapore district.


Security forces on Friday started fresh operations to flush out Maoists from the trouble-torn region in West Midnapore district.

"Our forces are moving towards Pingboni and Kharasole area. We have sufficient forces there and we are moving ahead," IGP (law and order) Raj Kanojia said.

"Our forces are deployed in the entire forest area from Goaltore to Pingboni, a 2-km stretch," he said.

Nearly 600 CRPF personnel arrived in the district yesterday as reinforcements for the existing security personnel, Kanojia had said that another four companies would arrive as per the Centre's assurance to dispatch a total 10 companies (around 1,000 personnel) to the troubled district in the campaign against agitating Maoists.

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Lalgarh Security forces operation flush out Maoists