-Live Mint Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s Manesar plant was witness to prolonged labour strife last year, but the violence unleashed on Wednesday that led to one person being killed caught its victims completely unawares. “Some of us jumped off the first floor to save our lives as we saw a mob of workers, hundreds of them, rushing towards us,” one of the injured Maruti officials told reporters at a hospital in Gurgaon...
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Don’t engage Maoists if they use human shields, security forces told-Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Facing flak for the alleged killing of villagers last month in an encounter between the Central Reserve Police Force and Maoists in Chhattisgarh, the Union government on Friday asked all security forces deployed in the left-wing extremism affected States not to engage Naxalites if they are found to be using innocent people as human shields. The government is planning a major shift in its rehabilitation policy for Maoists whereby these...
More »Fact-finding team claims CRPF killed villagers, not Maoists on June 28-Rakhi Chakrabarty
-The Times of India A fact-finding team of 21 rights groups alleged that joint forces comprising CRPF and state police "killed 17 villagers in cold blood" at Sarkeguda on June 28. "It was plain slaughter that night near Sarkeguda," said Asish Gupta, convener of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations (CDRO) on Wednesday. The team visited the encounter site at Sarkeguda on July 6 and 7. Speaking to reporters, Gupta said, "There were no...
More »'Deeply sorry if civilians died in anti-Naxal op'
-The Hindustan Times Even as the Congress upped its ante on last week's anti-naxal encounter in Chhattisgarh and claimed innocent tribals and children were killed by the security forces, union home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said he was "deeply sorry" if any civilian died in the anti-Maoist operations. Union tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo told HT that he is also collecting information from various sources and will present them...
More »Chhattisgarh encounter 'unacceptable': tribal affairs minister
-The Hindustan Times In a clear indication of growing unease within the Congress party over last week's anti-naxal operation in Chhattisgarh in which 19 alleged Maoists were killed, tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo on Tuesday termed the action "completely unacceptable". Deo's comments echo the Chhattisgarh Congress state unit's view that the encounter by the state police and the CRPF in Bijapur district was "completely fake". Deo said he will raise the...
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