06/23/2009: On Tuesday at around 0000 midnight, in Kharati village, Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants detonated explosives on a mobile phone tower, damaging the tower but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
03/11/2009: On Wednesday night, in the Parsando village of Munger, Bihar, India Communist Party of India- Maoist Nexal militants dragged a Janata Dal (United) political party member from his house and killed him for being a police informer. It is unknown if this attack caused any property damage.
04/06/2009: On Monday, in Mankachar, Dhubri, Assam, India, suspected militants threw a grenade at a police station, injuring two police officers. Authorities suspect the United Liberation Front of Assam in the attack, claiming that the attack was coordinated, occurring on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the militant group which have been linked to many acts of terrorism in Assam.
08/01/2009: On Saturday late in the day, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists after awarding them the death sentence in the Maoists' court.
11/30/2009: On Monday, in Baldih, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, a landmine exploded when it was struck by a police vehicle, wounding three police officers and lightly damaging the vehicle. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
10/12/2009: On Monday late in the day, 45-50 Communist Party of India-Maoists blew up and destroyed the tower of a private telecom firm, Airtel, and later set a truck on fire in the Brindabazar area of the Sheohar district in India's Bihar. The villagers of the Brindaban bazaar were ordered not to venture out of their homes. The occupants of the truck were asked to vacate it before the Maoists set it on fire. No casualties were reported in the attack. The attack is one of many occurring on the second day of the two day bandh called by the Maoists.
06/08/2009: On Monday, in Pavnar, Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh, India, five police officers were injured in an ambush by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants. No group claimed responsibility.
05/19/2009: On Tuesday morning at 0800, between Mahur and Phaiding railway stations, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, approximately six armed assailants fired upon a goods train, causing no casualties or damage.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
09/01/2009: On Tuesday, assailants fired upon a passenger bus on the Imphal-Churachandpur Road in the Phoubakchao Ikhai area of Bishenpur, Manipur, India, killing the driver and damaging the bus. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) was responsible.
11/19/2009: On Thursday evening, near Manoharpur, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, a bomb exploded on railway tracks as the Tata-Bilaspur passenger train was passing by, killing one child and one civilian, wounding 45 civilians, and damaging the train and the railway tracks. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
11/10/2009: On Tuesday night, in Pandratola village, Rayagada, Orissa, India, around 50 assailants entered the town and fired upon and also used sharp edged weapons civilians for being suspected police informers, killing four civilians and wounding two others. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
04/26/2009: On Sunday, unidentified militants shot and killed a Janata Dal leader as he was returning home from Sinhia Bazaar on his motorcycle in Sivaiya village in Samastipur, Bihar, India. No group has claimed responsibility.
01/10/2009: On Saturday at 0600, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants set a motorcycle of a member of a local resistance group on fire in Anjan village, 16 km outside Gumla, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility.
01/10/2009: On Saturday morning at 0600, 40 to 50 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants killed two villagers in Anjan village, about 16 km outside Gumla, Jharkhand, India. The victims were identified as Vijay Nayak and Charku Nayak, both members of Shanti Sena, an anti-Maoist body. The two were shot while on the way home from a nearby field. No group claimed responsibility.
05/13/2009: On Wednesday, in North 24-Parganas district, Barasat, West Bengal, India, assailants killed one civilian and wounded ten during local polling. No damage or motive were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
03/24/2009: Late Tuesday evening,  in the East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, India, CPI-Maoist cadres abducted four persons from Bhupalapatnam village, took them into the forest between Dharma Tallagudem and Bhupalapatnam, and subsequently crossed the inter-State border to enter Chhattisgarh, where, after branding them as Police informers, the Maoists killed them. The victims were identified as Jangam Jagdish, A. Srinu, Kurasam Sudhakar and P. Rajasekhar of Dharma Tallagudem in the Khammam District of Andhra Pradesh. According to Police sources, the youth had gone to Bhupalapatnam, close to the border of Chhattisgarh, and were captured by the Maoists on their way back late in the evening. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)  rebels attacked construction workers and set fire to several road construction vehicles, damaging the vehicles but causing no casualties in Gaya, Bihar, India.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed CPI-Maoists were responsible.
07/21/2009: On Tuesday, in the village of Diha, Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants blew up a house of a Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC) ‘commander,’ Vinod Marandi, and raided the village after calling for a shutdown of the city and protesting against rising prices of essential commodities. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were responsible for the attack.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday morning at about 0900, in Bhejanwada, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels attacked security forces at a polling station. No casualties or damages were reported in the attack.
04/09/2009: On Thursday, in Majholi village, Palamau, India, one civilian and four Security Force (SF) Personnel were injured when a bomb exploded as it was being defused. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/15/2009: On Monday, Communist Party of India (Maoist) rebels detonated a landmine at Nawadih, Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, killing 11 security personnel of the Jharkhand Armed Police and Special Armed Force.
10/01/2009: On Thursday night, in the village of Binpur, about 200 kilometers from West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a local leader of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party and left his body on a roadside. JMM local committee president Panchanan Tudu had been kidnapped from his home in Patiyari village in Binpur. The body was found in a roadside on 10/02/2009. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/25/2009: On Sunday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, four hundred Communist Party of India-Maoist militants attacked a vehicle garage and set 24 vehicles on fire. No motive or casualties were reported.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday, a separatist group blew up a mobile phone tower at Lalegaon village in the Latehar district of Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility.
04/02/2009: On Thursday, in Moktama village, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants detonated explosives in the house of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, damaging the house. Around 50 militants were involved in the attack. No casualties were reported.
04/02/2009: On Thursday, in Padia, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, approximately 100 assailants set fire to Aircel mobile phone towers, damaging two towers but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
03/25/2009: On Wednesday, around 1910 hrs,  in the Tezpur Town of Guwahati, India, militants riding on a motorcycle lobbed a grenade into a crowded marketplace and injured at least 12 people, including a paramilitary trooper and two women. Two of the 12 persons were seriously injured and are in critical condition. The paramilitary trooper, a member of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) identified as Virendra Ojha was one of the critically injured. Police blame the attack on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). Police Official A. Doss says "the ULFA is trying to make its presence felt ahead of the general elections in Assam". It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
11/06/2009: On Friday night, near Kushbon forest in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Maoist guerillas shot dead three villagers and active members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)–backed Gana Pratirodh Committee, formed to combat growing Maoist violence in the district. Eight posters were left beside the dead bodies claiming the three were being punished for being members of Gana Pratirodh Committee.
04/02/2009: On Thursday, in Moktama village, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants  blew up a school, damaging the school but causing no casualties. Around 50 militants were involved in the attack.
03/25/2009: On Wednesday,  in Tinsukia district, Assam, India, one civilian and one United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militant were shot and killed by ULFA militants during an incidence of inter-factional fighting in the Kristhi Sangh playground. The two persons killed were identified as the pro-talks United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leader, Robin Gogoi, and Luit Boishya, a cloth merchant. According to the police, Boishya, who is from Nalbari, died on the spot while Gogoi succumbed to injuries on the way to a hospital in Tinsukia. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
06/20/2009: On Saturday, in Kudura Village, Kandhamal District, Orissa, India, four village officials were kidnapped by 15 Communist Party of India-Maoist militants. The status of the hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility.
03/17/2009: On Tuesday morning,  in the main market of Kokrajhar, Assam, India, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants shot and killed a fellow militant, Nayanjyoti Roy. The man was surrendering to police when he was shot. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible. It is unknown if this attack caused any property damage.
11/29/2009: On Sunday, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated a bomb on railway tracks between Mahaguan and Bano, damaging the tracks but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
01/25/2009: On Sunday, in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India, two civilians were wounded by a bomb blast in the Sonapur area. There was no damage reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
12/04/2009: On Friday, in Lodhasuli, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants set fire to vehicles on the National Highway-6 Mumbai Road, destroying two buses and one automobile but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) - India was responsible.
08/24/2009: On Monday morning at about 0630, in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated a bomb on the railroad tracks between Kumundi and Hehegarha, damaging the tracks but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/16/2009: On Tuesday, in Inavi, Peren District, Nagaland, India, a large group of National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah militants set approximately 500 residences on fire in the village. No casualties were reported.
06/07/2009: On Sunday evening, in Padbeda village, Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, approximately 12 assailants kidnapped two brothers from their home because they were suspected of being police informers. They were later beaten to death by their captors. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/15/2009: On Monday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants set fire to a police camp at Dharampur outpost, damaging the camp, but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities was responsible.
2/28/2009: On Saturday, 60 assailants bombed the Bhalulata Railway Station near Rourkela and abducted two railway officials, including the station master of another railway station, in the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district. The Maoists, several of them women, used landmines and powerful explosives. The station building was nearly destroyed. Train services on the Tatanagar-Rourkela route, under Chakradharpur division of South Eastern Railway, and train services on the Howrah-Mumbai route were interrupted due to the attacks. No one was injured in the explosion. On 20090301, the victims were released. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/15/2009: On Monday early in the morning, in Chakarbandha Village, Gaya, Bihar, India, approximately 70 assailants detonated a bomb on a community hall, causing damage to the building, but no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. This event is one of three incidents in the city of Gaya, Bihar, India.
06/23/2009: On Tuesday, assailants stopped two vehicles and forced the drivers to drive them to the Cherchaun forest office at an unspecified location in Orissa, India. Later, the assailants released the drivers. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. This is one of three related attacks.
06/23/2009: On Tuesday, in Thikathiya village in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, about 25 assailants exploded dynamite on a cultural center, destroying the building but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. Police said the extremists were demanding levy from the local contractor since long and when they failed to pay the same the Maoists blew up the centre.
06/23/2009: On Tuesday, in Chahapur Village, Palamu, Jharkhand, India, around 10 assailants detonated explosives on a municipal-level self-government building, damaging the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/26/2009: On Wednesday, in the Nungadang area of Tamenglong, Manipur, India, assailants attacked three government surveyors. National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants were responsible for the attack.
04/22/2009: On Wednesday night, Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Gorlosa) militants attacked an army camp with gunfire, killing one soldier, Sanjay Singh, and injuring two others, Lt Colonel Rajesh Shukla and Mohinder Singh, in Langting in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India. Twelve militants were involved in the attack.
07/10/2009: On Friday afternoon, in Kakkanad, Kochi, Ernakulam, Kerala, India, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device in the Ernakulam District Collectorate building, wounding one Revenue Department employee and damaging the building. No group claimed responsibility.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday, in Rohtas, Bihar, India, assailants set alight vehicles after setting up a road block, destroying four vehicles but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
05/13/2009: On Wednesday, in Dindigul, Tamil, Nadu, India, an unknown assailant stabbed and killed a Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) party member. The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party was responsible for the attack.
06/13/2009: On Saturday, members of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), CPI-M, detonated a landmine in the district of Khunti, Jharkhand, India, injuring five policemen.
06/14/2009: On Sunday, in Dharmapur, West Bengal, India, the dead bodies of three Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) workers were found. People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) backed by the Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible for the attack.
05/05/2009: On Tuesday, in the Baghjaan area of Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, suspected Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants ambushed a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Assam Police personnel, killing two security personnel and wounding two others.
09/14/2009: On Monday morning at 0900, in Belatikri area near Lalgarh in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
11/13/2009: On Friday, in MV-66 village area of Malkangiri, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants detonated an improvised explosive device near a police vehicle killing three police officers, including a senior officer.
10/25/2009: On Sunday, early in the morning, Communist Party of India-Maoists, also known as Naxals, opened fire on an anti-naxal squad that was patrolling the Basguda police station limits. The police killed one naxal in retaliatory fire. The body was recovered from the incident site along with arms and ammunition. Communist Party of India (Maoist) were believed to be responsible.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants detonated a bomb near two cellular telephone towers, damaging both towers but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
03/13/2009: On Friday, in Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, the CPI-Maoist's Belatikri local committee secretary Mr. Kandi Karan, accompanied by security officers, was caught between two landmines allegedly triggered by the Maoists. The CPI-Maoist's district committee member, Mr. Dahareswar Sen, alleged that Jharkhands conspiring with the Maoists were behind the attack. No casualties were reported and there was no claim of responsibility in the incident.
10/31/2009: On Saturday, in Lalgarh, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot dead a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, Madhab Mundi. No damages were reported in the attack.
09/23/2009: On Wednesday evening, in the Goaltor area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped two members of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Nemai Bishayi (60) and Samir Singha Mahapatra (50). On 09/24/2009, the bodies of the kidnapped victims were found, having been killed by unknown means. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
02/27/2009: On Friday night, 30 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants blew up the Panchayat (village-level local self Government) building in Mahdand village in Palamau, Jharkhand, India. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
08/09/2009: On Sunday afternoon at about 1230 in Harimura, Goalpara, Assam, India, assailants detonated bombs on a railway track, damaging the track and five train cars but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible.
01/17/2009: On Saturday afternoon at 1330, six Policemen were killed in a landmine blast triggered by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) as their patrol passed along the Patki-Maneka road in the Do-Pahani area of Latehar district in the state of Jharkhand. Five police officers died on the spot and another succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. Police suspect the possibility of Maoists triggering the blast to avenge their zonal commander Sashi Bhuiyan''s arrest in the Gumla District on 01/15/2009. The explosion coincided with a bandh (shut down) called by the CPI-Maoist in Gumla, Simdega, Latehar, Lohardaga and Ranchi Districts in protest against Bhuiyan''s arrest.
06/15/2009: On Monday early in the morning, in Chakarbandha Village, Gaya, Bihar, India, approximately 70 assailants detonated a bomb on a government middle school, causing damage to the building, but no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. This incident was one of three that targeted the city of Gaya, Bihar, India.
11/06/2009: On Friday night, at Gopiballavpur in Paschim, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) activist, Subhas Soren, was shot at and injured by suspected Maoists.
06/15/2009: On Monday, in Tampargarh, Sambalpur, Orissa, India, assailants killed one senior police officer during an attack. Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were responsible for the attack.
11/10/2009: On Tuesday evening, in Munidaha, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped two employees of the Dharampur police camp. On 11/11/2009, the assailants released both victims. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that a Maoist faction was responsible.
12/11/2009: On Friday, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants beheaded a civilian in the Pannugani area of Sonbhadra district in Uttar Pradesh, India. The civilian was accused of being a police informer. The victim, identified as Shiv Prakash, 25, was beheaded by 10 armed Maoists in which they held a panchayat in Pannuganj village. After the attack, Maoists fired several rounds in the air and told the villagers that they could now inform the police. No group claimed responsibility.
10/28/2009: On Wednesday night, in Manidaha village, in Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped a local committee member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist), Dilip Mahato, from his home and later shot and killed him. Mahato's home was also set ablaze. The People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) is believed to be responsible for the attack.
03/25/2009: On Wednesday,  in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India, CPI-Maoists militants attacked a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force travelling on the National Highway 221. An encounter ensued after militants opened fire on the convoy and CRPF personnel retaliated. The CRPFDIG Sahi, who was leading the convoy, and some 40 of his colleagues escaped unhurt in the attack. No casualties were reported in the attack. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
11/26/2009: On Thursday, in Jorana, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, a landmine exploded as a police vehicle was driving by, killing one police officer, wounding 4 others, and damaging the vehicle. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
03/25/2009: On Wednesday, in the Imphal West District, Manipur, India,  a person, identified as M.  Tombi Singh, was wounded when suspected militants opened fire at the residence of the Chairperson of Imphal Municipal Council, Meinam Ranisana Devi, at Uripok Achom Leikait. Tombi Singh is Meinamas brother-in-law. There has been no claim of responsibility. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
04/11/2009: On Saturday, in the Dijaodra area of North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a goods train, killing two Special Police Officers (SPO), wounding one other, and damaging the train. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
11/08/2009: On Sunday morning at 1000, in Bilasipara, Dhubri, Assam, India, a bomb kept in a jute bag exploded near Roukhapa Higher Secondary School. There were no casualties or damage reported. No group claimed responsibility.
03/17/2009: On Tuesday at 2105,  in Langol Ningthou Leikai of Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade into a house, causing no casualties. No group has claimed responsibility.
04/12/2009: On Sunday evening at about 2130, in Damanjodi, Koraput, Orissa, India, approximately 200 assailants fired upon the National Aluminum Company (NALCO) bauxite mine, killing seven Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) members, wounding eight others, and damaging the mine premises. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
06/04/2009: On Thursday evening around 2045, in Sunderpur, near Gokulnagar, West Bengal, India, assailants shot and killed Trinamul Congress leader, Nabi Mandal, as he was on his way home. It is unknown if the attack caused any damage. No group claimed responsibility, but the Communist Party of India-Maoist is believed to be responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday, in the Gorla Nala area of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants targeted a vehicle with an improvised explosive device, killing two security personnel and two civilians. No group claimed responsibility.
07/24/2009: On Friday, near No.1 Dharmapur Street, in Chirang district, Bongaigaon, Assam, India, assailants shot and killed a BPF worker, Issac Narzary (35). No group claimed responsibility; but it is believed that National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants were responsible for the attack.
2/28/2009: On Saturday, CPI-Maoists bombed a railway station at Chandiposh on Rourkela-Barasuan section, about 30 kilometers from Rourkela. Soon after, station master S K Singh and his assistant Samir Mukherjee were found missing. Police suspect the two might have been kidnapped by the Maoists. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
06/07/2009: On Sunday, in Ramgiri, Koraput, Orissa, India, approximately 70 assailants detonated explosives on a police outpost, damaging the outpost but causing no injuries. The Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility for the attack. This incident was part of a series of three linked attacks that targeted police posts around Koraput.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Singhpur village, in Gaya, Bihar, India, over a dozen Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire on a polling station, killing a policeman, a home guard, and injuring another security personnel. No damages were reported in the attack.
04/06/2009: On Monday afternoon at about 1400, in Maligaon, Guwahati, Kamrup, Assam, India, assailants detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in the parking area of a busy market, killing nine civilians, wounding approximately 57 others, and damaging two bicycles, two cars, approximately 20 motorcycles, and one police station. About two hours later, in Dhekiajuli, Sonapur, Assam, India, assailants detonated a VBIED in a marketplace, killing one civilian, wounding three others, and damaging the market.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible.
05/29/2009: On Friday, near Mantriput in Malkangiri District, Orissa, India, that assailants killed a construction contractor to dissuade contractors from taking up construction works in the insurgency-affected remote areas. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were responsible for the attack. There was no reported damage.
05/29/2009: On Friday evening at 2100, in Chitrakonda, Orissa, India, assailants set fire to five vehicles that are being used in laying a road. The Communist Party of India-Maoist/Naxalites (CPI-Maoist) was responsible for the attack. There were no reported casualties.
07/30/2009: On Thursday, in Muchler village, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, approximately 10 assailants with sharp weapons assaulted and killed one Special Police Officer (SPO). No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/30/2009: On Thursday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a local committee member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, Sagar Masanta, was shot and killed by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres. His body was found in a field near the village. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, four polling officials were abducted by Communist Party of India (Maoists), CPI-M, rebels from a polling booth 118 in  Hata village, Manika block, Latehar, Jharkhand, India.
03/18/2009: On Wednesday at 1930,  in the Uripok Kombirei Keithel area of Thoubal, Manipur, India, a bomb exploded outside of Suba Hospital and Assisted Reproduction Centre, injuring four people. No group has claimed responsibility and it is unknown if this attack caused any property damage.
10/03/2009: On Saturday night at 0430, in the West Singhbhum district at the Jharkhand-West Bengal border, India, the Communist Party of India-Maoist exploded bombs on a railway track near Maharesal railway station under Chakradhapur railway division. Ten meters of track was damaged, there were no causalities reported. The Maoists were protesting the arrest of one of their leaders.
06/25/2009: On Thursday, in Kakiriguma village, Koraput, Orissa, India, assailants detonated explosives on infrastructure targets, damaging three communications tower control rooms and a railway building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/15/2009: On Thursday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire at Tadgaon polling station in Bhamragad sub-district.
02/16/2009: On Monday, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants blew up a bridge with dynamite near Baghaura in Nawada, Bihar, India. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/18/2009: On Thursday, near Goaltore, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants with sharp weapons assaulted and killed four Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
06/26/2009: On Friday, in the village Digorko, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, armed assailants set fire to over 100 residences, and shot and killed one civilian and injured another. No group claimed responsibility, though it is believed that Zeme Naga ethnic militants were responsible for the attack.
12/07/2009: On Monday evening, in Dariani Chapra, Sheohar, Bihar, India, assailants entered a market place and fired upon civilians in the area, killing three civilians and wounding three others. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Maoist faction was responsible.
05/11/2009: On Monday morning at 0730, near Mupa station, North Cachar Hills, India, unknown assailants removed a stretch of rail tracks suspending train and food delivery service to villages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/27/2009: On Sunday around 0130, near Raipanka, Gajapati, Orissa, India, around 40 assailants stopped buses belonging to the Orissa State Road Transport Corporation, forced the passengers off, and set fire to the buses, destroying four buses but causing no injuries. The Maoists had given the bandh call in protest against the alleged police excesses against tribal’s, particularly the police firing in Narayanpatna block of Koraput last month that led to the death of two tribal’s. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
09/02/2009: On Wednesday night, a group of armed assailants raided the house of a ration dealer and Marxist supporter in Memul village in Salboni, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, causing damage to the house but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed that the Communist Party of India-Maoist was responsible.
07/29/2009: On Wednesday evening, around 2100, in Bastar, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, heavily armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres fired several rounds on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) post. The CRPF personnel returned fire. No casualties were reported.
05/11/2009: On Monday, two policemen were killed and five others injured when they struck a landmine in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh, India. No group claimed responsibility.
07/02/2009: On Thursday, in Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants detonated two landmine improvised explosive devices near a police checkpoint, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believe the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/29/2009: On Wednesday, near Brahmanipal police outpost, in Keonjhar, Orissa, India, assailants fired upon and killed two police officers, Muralidhar Bastia and Hadibandhu Mahanta. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/08/2009: On Wednesday, in Bishnipur Sagahan village, Aurangabad, Bihar, India, assailants detonated explosives on a mobile phone tower, damaging the tower and its generator but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/03/2009: On Friday, in Naharani Grant village, in Rangapara, Sonitpor, Assam, India, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants attacked a Hindi-speaking family, killing four people including a pregnant woman and a three-year-old child. No damages were reported in the attack. The specific motive is unknown and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/05/2009: On Thursday, in Anandpur village on old Ranchi road in Sundargarh, Orissa-Jaharkhand border, India, about 15 militants set ablaze two trucks. No casualties were reported, but the trucks were destroyed. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
06/12/2009: On Friday, in Malapatti, Tamil Nadu, India, a bus was gutted and set on fire by unidentified militant. Six suspects, who travelled in the bus, had asked the other passengers and the crew to get down before setting it ablaze. No one was injured. No group claimed responsibility.
02/22/2009: On Sunday evening between 2100 and 0200, in one of four linked attacks, 40 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants attacked the house of a contractor, P.K. Swain in Govindpali village in Malkangiri, Orissa, India. The militants dragged Swain from his house and shot and killed him before detonating explosives on his house and setting four vehicles on fire. Later, the militants ransacked a police outpost and then set it on fire. The militants also triggered explosives in two mobile phone towers belonging to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and damaged another. Several vehicles parked on the road were also set on fire. No other casualties were reported in the attacks. The ultras had left behind leaflets and posters asking the Central Reserve Police Force to leave the place and the contractors and officials to stop 'exploiting' the poor tribalâs. Police suspected the role of the Malkangiri unit of the Maoist.
07/08/2009: On Wednesday, in Imphal West District, Manipur, India, a worker from the State of Bihar, identified as Mohammad Kalamudin (24) was shot at by unidentified militants. No group claimed responsibility.
10/28/2009: On Wednesday around 0000 midnight, in Konapur village, in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, about 20 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels shot and killed Narasimhapur Reddy, an activist of the CPI-Maoist party outside of his house, accusing him of being a police informer. No damages were reported in the attack.
04/02/2009: On Thursday, in Moktama village, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants  blew up a healthcare center, damaging the center but causing no casualties. Around 50 militants were involved in the attack.
02/22/2009: On Sunday evening between 2100 and 0200, in one of four linked attacks, 40 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants triggered explosives in two mobile phone towers belonging to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and damaged another in Govindpali village in Malkangiri, Orissa, India. Prior to that, Maoists attacked the house of a contractor, P.K. Swain in Govindpali village in Malkangiri. The militants dragged Swain from his house and shot and killed him before detonating explosives on his house and setting four vehicles on fire. Later, the militants ransacked a police outpost and then set it on fire. Several vehicles parked on the road were also set on fire. No other casualties were reported in the attacks. The ultras had left behind leaflets and posters asking the Central Reserve Police Force to leave the place and the contractors and officials to stop 'exploiting' the poor tribalâs. Police suspected the role of the Malkangiri unit of the Maoist.
11/26/2009: On Thursday, in Chandri, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated a bomb at the Anant Madhya Vidyala middle school, lightly damaging the school but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Maoist faction was responsible.
06/05/2009: On Friday, in Keonjhar, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres killed a contractor, Tukuna Sahu, for being a police informer. Sahu's body was found near a pond in Harichandanpur village. No damages were reported in the attack. The Maoists left a handwritten note near his body saying they had been looking for Sahu for a long time as “he was a police informer”.
03/17/2009:  On Tuesday, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants lobbed a powerful bomb at the Imphal Hospital and Research Centre but it failed to explode.  It was later defused by bomb experts from Imphal West district police station.  The motive behind the crime was not known.  No group has claimed responsibility for this incident and there were no reported casualties.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday, in one of two related attacks, in the Padmagiri village of Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants detonated explosives on a mobile phone tower, damaging the tower but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) militants killed a Central Reserve Police Force paramilitary trooper in an exchange of fire. No damages were reported.
10/23/2009: On Friday, in the night, a group of about 20 suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist cadres abducted Pappu Singh and Mohammad Ansari, former cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a rival outfit. They were taken from their houses and shot on the outskirts of the village. The bodies were recovered on 10/24/2009. The cadres left a note accusing the two men as working as police informers. Police, however, believe the killings were due to a turf war with the TPC. Communist Party of India (Maoists) were responsible.
03/21/2009: On Saturday,  in Gaya district in India's Bihar state, India, CPI-Maoists blew up a section of railway tracks between the Buraru and Pairayya stations. No casualties or damage reported in the incident.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday, in Nadaura village, Gaya, Bihar, India, approximately 50 assailants detonated dynamite on the home of the village head, Rajendra Yadav, damaging the home but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/03/2009: On Thursday, unidentified militants kidnapped a local stated government official in the Wangkhei Ayangpali area of Imphal East district, Manipur. No groups have claimed responsibility. No casualties have been reported in the attack and the status of the hostage is unknown.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Disobai, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, police defused an improvised explosive device targeting a polling station. No group claimed responsibility for the planting of the device.
05/29/2009: On Friday, in Lumding, Assam, India, at a railroad stretch between Lumding to Badarpur, assailants removed railroad tracks. No group claimed responsibility. There were no reported casualties.
06/07/2009: On Sunday, in Baipariguda village, in Koraput, Orissa, India, approximately 70 assailants with bombs and incendiary devices attacked and damaged a police station. The assailants detonated explosives on the station and set fire to five vehicles. No injuries were sustained and the Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility for the attack. This incident was part of a series of three linked attacks that targeted police posts in Koraput.
06/23/2009: On Tuesday, assailants assaulted and wounded a forest guard and an anti-poaching staffer and set fire to and destroyed documents at the Cherchaun forest office in an unspecified location in Orissa, India. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. This is one of three related attacks.
07/13/2009: On Monday night, in Dharampur, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attacked a security force (SF) camp that was located about 15 kilometers from Lalgarh. The Maoist rebels fired about 20 rounds into the Inspector General of Police (Western range). Subsequent to retaliatory action by the SFs, the Maoists retreated. No casualties were reported. No group has claimed responsibility.
07/07/2009: On Tuesday at about 0000 midnight, in Ninder, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon and killed one off-duty Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) paramilitary member in his home. It is unknown if the attack caused any damage. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday in the early morning, in Gosain-Bersa village, Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants detonated explosives on a school being used as a polling center, damaging the school but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday, in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, assailants hijacked the vehicle of a Janata Dal-United (JD-U) political party candidate, along with the driver. They later set the driver free but set fire to the campaign vehicle, damaging the vehicle but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/10/2009: On Friday evening at about 2030, in Imphal East, Manipur, India, miscreants hurled a hand grenade into the residential campus of Haobijam Rajen (46), who is the son of H Mangi of Wangkhei Khunou Soibam Leikai, and proprietor of Raj Polyclinic, North AOC. The bomb exploded inside the temporary work-shed where local carpenters were working. A carpenter, Lourembam Samananda (27), son of L Mangi of Nambol Leimapokpam, sustained injuries to his head, chest, and left leg from the splinters, and Khwairakpam Shanti (55), wife of the late Lilasingh, and aunt of Rajen, sustained an injury to her left knee. Both injured persons were evacuated to Raj Polyclinic for medical attention. No group claimed responsibility.
09/10/2009: On Thursday morning, in Sundargarh, Orissa, India, assailants detonated improvised explosive devices targeting a police station, damaging the police station, but causing no casualties. The motive for the attack was to intensify the pressure for the release of 30 people branded as Maoist. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. This is one of four related attacks.
11/19/2009: On Thursday, in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, assailants fired upon and killed a government-contracted engineer. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/06/2009: On Tuesday, in the Pannemara area of Gadchiorli district, Maharashtra, India, a women Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militant was killed by retaliatory fire by a police patrol, when a group of militants attacked the police patrol.
11/06/2009: On Friday night, in the late evening, in Phulpar village, Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, some 80-100 assailants detonated a bomb at a primary school, damaging the school but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/31/2009: On Saturday morning at 1100, in Ramhari, Darrang, Assam, India, assailants kidnapped an irrigation department employee, Nur Rahman. Later that afternoon at about 1500, authorities rescued the victim. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible.
03/19/2009: On Thursday, in the Lapnam area of Tirap district in India's Arunachal Pradesh, at least two National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants were killed and another three were injured when they were attacked by National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Khaplang (NSCN-K) militants.
12/27/2009: On Sunday in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, in one of two related attacks, assailants detonated a bomb at a forest service building, lightly damaging the building but causing no injuries. The Maoists had given the bandh call in protest against the alleged police excesses against tribal’s, particularly the police firing in Narayanpatna block of Koraput last month that led to the death of two tribal’s. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
12/02/2009: On Wednesday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants detonated an improvised explosive device that destroyed a culvert in the Matiobera area of Giridh district of Jharkhand. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the Communist Party of India (Maoist) were believed to be responsible. No casualties were reported in the attack.
12/10/2009: On Thursday, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed one Communist Party of India - Marxist activist and wounded another in the Chirakuti area near Lalgarh in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal state. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
06/15/2009: On Monday, in Lalgarh, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants destroyed the house of a senior Marxist activist. Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were responsible for the attack.
05/11/2009: On Monday, in Dhamatari, Chhattisgarth, India, assailants killed 12 policemen from the Kanker District Force and one civilian driver in an ambush. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible for the attack.
08/22/2009: On Saturday, in the Belpahari area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped two members of the Jharkhand Party who they later fired upon and killed. The next day their bodies were recovered by authorities. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
03/10/2009: On Tuesday,  in Mahore village in Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir, India unidentified militants killed a village chief. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed Hizbul-Mujahedin (HM) was responsible..
01/25/2009: On Sunday, in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants kidnapped three police officers in the Amabeda area, then on 01/25/2009,  the assailants released the victims.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
11/07/2009: On Saturday evening at around 1900 on the Tihu-Akhara Road at Guardal in Nalbari, Assam, India, two unidentified United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) cadres were shot dead by the Police in an encounter. The ULFA ambushed the police and the encounter that followed the police shot them.
08/11/2009: On Tuesday evening, in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon and killed two police officers near a local market. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/04/2009: On Tuesday, in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon members of the Jharkhand Liberation Front (JMM) political party, killing one member and wounding one other. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/16/2009: On Saturday, in Imphal, Manipur, India, militants detonated a bomb at the western wall of the Regional Institute of Medical Science near the Langol View Hospital. No damage was reported, but a woman, Ak Bala, fainted during the explosion. No group claimed responsibility.
11/05/2009: On Thursday night at about 2300, in Balichapori, Jorhat, Assam, India, armed assailants shot and killed the 13 year old nephew of a surrendered United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militant, Dipak Bora, as they were entering their home. Bora was being targeted by the ULFA on suspicions of being a police informer. No damages were reported in the attack.
07/08/2009: On Wednesday, in Imphal West District, Manipur, India, a worker from the State of Bihar, identified as Rajeshchandra Talukdar (20), was shot at by unidentified militants. No group claimed responsibility.
04/20/2009: On Monday, Black Widow militants ambushed a Vinay Cement Company 20-truck convoy, targeting the vehicles carrying the 16th India Reserve Battalion escorting the convoy, in Panimur Kalanala of North Cachar Hills, Assam, India. Five soldiers and a civilian driver were killed in the attack.
05/29/2009: On Friday afternoon, in Chitrakonda, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants assaulted and killed the town traders' association president.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. There was no reported damage.
04/29/2009: On Wednesday, suspected Zeliangrong assailants attacked Dimasa village in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, in retaliation for a suspected Black Widow attack, killing ten people and injuring 16 others.  No group claimed responsibility.
07/24/2009: On Friday, in the village of Jurpukhuri, Sonitpor, Assam, India, assailants abducted a manager, Dipok Gurung, at the Institute of Integrated Rural Management (Dhekiajuli branch), Dipok Gurung. The status of Dipok Gurung is unknown. No group claimed responsibility.
03/17/2009: On Tuesday, in Imphal, Manipur, India, a militant outfit placed a grenade in front of a private Babina medical clinic.  No casualties were reported and it is unknown if this attack caused any property damage. No group has claimed responsibility.
03/17/2009: On Tuesday, in Uttar Borbil of Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, unidentified militants threw a grenade at a market, injuring 15 people.  No group has claimed responsibility and it is unknown if there was any property damage.
03/17/2009: On Tuesday afternoon,  in Bokok area of Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants shot and killed a local Congress party leader of Borkok Block during an attack on his residence. It is unknown if this attack caused any property damage.
06/04/2009: On Thursday, near Tentulia village, Margram, Birbhum, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist assailants lynched the husband of a member of Congress, and wounded a civilian. It is unknown if the attack caused any damage.
06/15/2009: On Monday early in the morning, in Chakarbandha Village, Gaya, Bihar, India, approximately 70 assailants detonated a bomb on a local-level village government building, causing damage to the building, but no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/29/2009: On Wednesday, Communist Party of India- Maoist militants blew up an electricity supply tower in Bodli village in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India. No casualties were reported.
03/28/2009: On Saturday, unidentified militants attacked the residence of a state minister of education with a grenade in Imphal East, Manipur, India. The grenade failed to explode and authorities safely disarmed it. No casualties or damages were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
06/07/2009: On Sunday, in Machhkund, Koraput, Orissa, India, approximately 70 assailants detonated explosives on a police station, damaging the station but causing no injuries. The Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility for the attack. This incident was part of a series of three linked attacks that targeted police posts in Koraput.
06/15/2009: On Monday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants set fire to a police camp at Belatkri outpost, damaging the camp, but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities was responsible.
03/23/2009: On Monday,  in Tarlaguda village, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh district, India, four villagers were killed allegedly by naxalites. Superintendent of Police Ankit Garg said that these villagers were kidnapped by naxalites two days ago as the ultras believed them to be police informers. Later, they were killed and their bodies disposed of in the hilly Annaram region. The police on Monday recovered their bodies from Annaram after villagers informed the police about them. While three victims belonged to Kautor village one hailed from Dudhera village. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
04/17/2009: On Friday morning, unidentified militants hurled a grenade, which failed to detonate, at the house of a government contractor in the Singjamei Liwas area of Imphal West, Manipur, India. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
02/26/2009: On Thursday, in one of three related attacks, assailants detonated a bomb at the Congress Party office in Imphal East, Manipur, India, damaging the office but causing no injuries. A second bomb was detonated at the Congress Party office inBishnupur, Manipur, India; and a third bomb was detonated at the Congress Party office in Thoubal, Manipur, India. The Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) claimed responsibility.
06/15/2009: On Monday, armed members of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), CPI-M, raided the village of Dharampur, Lalgarh, West Bengal, India. A police post and zonal secretary's home and party office were set ablaze. Three rebels were reportedly killed in the incident.
04/13/2009: On Monday, near Dadamchilmi village, in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, assailants attacked the vehicle of a Shoshit Samaj Dal political party candidate, forcing the occupants to flee, then assaulted them, wounding the candidate and six civilians. The assailants also set fire to the vehicle, damaging the vehicle but causing no further casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/22/2009: On Tuesday morning at 1150, police defused a hand grenade wrapped in a newspaper left by Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) militants on the campus of Little Master Higher Secondary School at Samurou in Imphal, Manipur, India. According to reports, some people who identified themselves as activists of the KCP left the wrapped grenade with instruction for the headmaster to come to them bringing the same bomb package. It is reported that around two months back, a caller identifying himself as a KCP cadre had demanded INR 0.5 million from the headmaster through telephone. No casualties were reported.
10/02/2009: On Friday evening at around 1830, in the market at Kapgari village in Jamboni Police station area, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Amalendu Patra (43), leader of the Jharkhand Janamukti Morcha (JJM) was shot dead by about six Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres.
07/04/2009: On Saturday evening around 2150, in one of two related attacks, in the Baherwal village in Attari, Amritsar, Punjab, India, Pakistan-based terrorists launched three rockets targeting two villages, injuring one child, leaving a crater in a field, and spreading panic within the region. One of the rockets landed within the Pakistani territory. The specific motive of the attack is unknown, although authorities believe it may have been in retaliation to the killing of a Pakistani intruder by the Border Security Force on Saturday afternoon.
07/10/2009: On Friday evening, in Chandra, Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, armed assailants kidnapped two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporters and later assaulted and killed them. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) rebels attacked election polls, killing three security staff. No damages were reported.
06/20/2009: On Saturday evening around 1800, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, armed assailants kidnapped the Chhattisgarh Water Resource Department sub-divisional officer and later fired upon and killed him the next day. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/07/2009: On Wednesday afternoon at around 1700, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants exploded a hand grenade near the residence of state Health and Family Welfare Director. No casualties or damage were reported in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/17/2009: On Wednesday, in Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants set fire to three residences belonging to Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members, damaging three homes but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants are suspected.
10/25/2009: On Sunday, an anti-naxal police patrol came under fire early in the morning in the jungles of Anjrel, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India. The police returned fire killing a woman naxal. Arms and Ammunition were recovered from the site. Communist Party of India (Maoists) were responsible.
10/31/2009: On Saturday night, in Sarwaha forest, in Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India, assailants opened fire on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) security personnel, causing no casualties and no damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is believed to be responsible
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, assailants kidnapped five villagers to use as forest guides, then detonated a landmine improvised explosive device on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) bus, killing two CRPF members, the bus driver, five civilians, wounding 11 CRPF members, and damaging the bus. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/10/2009: On Thursday at 1500, in the Goorubandha Bazaar area near the Missamari Police Station, Sonapur, Assam, India, assailants threw a grenade into a crowded marketplace, killing one child and three civilians and wounding 15 civilians. Six to seven of the injured were said to be in critical condition. No group claimed responsibility, although it was police believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
09/27/2009: On Sunday evening, in Jaldega village of Simdega, Jharkhand, India, assailants set fire to vehicles at a construction site, destroying one dump truck and one road paver after their levy demand was denied. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
03/29/2009: On Sunday morning, around 0100,  in Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India, about 25 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants set two vehicles on fire in the Similipal Tiger Project (STP). No casualties were reported.
11/10/2009: On Tuesday, at about 0000 midnight, at Pusparampara in Kusharambai, North Tripura, Tripura, India, assailants raided the village and kidnapped eight civilians and fired upon and killed eight and wounding one other. The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) claimed responsibility.
06/15/2009: On Monday, in Lalgarh, West Midnapur, West Bengal, India, assailants set ablaze three police camps. People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) backed by the Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible for the attack.
11/07/2009: On Saturday, near Asharambari village, in West Tripura, Tripura, Bangladesh, assailants fired upon a farmer, Dinu Telenga, who had crossed the India-Bangladesh border to tend his fields, killing him. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was responsible.
11/19/2009: On Thursday afternoon, in Bakar, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, a landmine exploded as a police vehicle was driving by, wounding 10 police officers and lightly damaging the vehicle. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday night, in Jamdohora village, 12 kilometers from Pirrakhuli, in the Lalgarh region of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, about 100 suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels raided and torched four Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) leader's houses, damaging the houses. There were no casualties reported in the arson. This is part of a multiple incident.
10/28/2009: On Wednesday, in Simdega, Jharkhand, India, railway authorities discovered a five kilogram bomb on the railway track near Bano Railway Station. Two trains were halted at Bano and two trains were cancelled. There were no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/08/2009: On Friday, in Sanjenthong, Imphal, India, at the residence of an officer of Manipur Agricultural Department, three militants triggered a bomb blast wounding the wife of the officer. No damage or motive were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/22/2009: On Wednesday, in Pyrnihat, Meghalaya, India, suspected militants abducted an Assam-based businessman, Amit Agarwal (30), a resident of Beltola area of Guwahati, while he was on his way to Assam from his factory in the industrial estate along Assam-Meghalaya border. The status of Agarwal has not been reported. No group claimed responsibility.
06/28/2009: On Sunday night around 0130, in Boildura, Haflong, Assam, India, assailants set ablaze two houses belonging to Zeme-Naga tribals but was rented out to Lunglo Jeme, completely destroying the houses but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
02/26/2009: On Thursday, in one of three related attacks, assailants detonated a bomb at the Congress Party office in Bishnupur, Manipur, India, damaging the office but causing no injuries. A second bomb was detonated at the Congress Party office in Imphal East, Manipur, India; and a third bomb was detonated at the Congress Party office in Thoubal, Manipur, India. The Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) claimed responsibility.
06/17/2009: On Wednesday, in Lalgarth, West Bengal, India, assailants killed three Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers after they killed three workers the previous day. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible for the attack.
10/10/2009: On Saturday, in Durgkondal, Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, Shakti Dey, a member of the Chhattisgarh state committee, was sprayed with bullets by five armed naxalites, who stormed his house. The assailants also slit his throat with a sharp-edged weapon in front of his wife Mina. Dey had received several threats to his life by the naxals and blamed the state government for its ''failure'' to provide security to the people. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/14/2009: On Wednesday, in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants attacked and fired upon a motorcycle-borne police team, killing two police officers, kidnapping one female constable and damaging several motorcycles.  According to the police, the police team was attacked in a thickly forested area of Pakhanjoor. Officials said that the militants fired on six cops, killing one police officer on the spot, while the other succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. On 24 January 2009, the assailants released the hostage. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/18/2009: On Monday, Communist Party of India-Marxist leader, Shital Hembram, was abducted from his house by a group of left wing ultras on 10/18/2009 and his body was found 10/19/2009 after he was shot and killed.
05/12/2009: On Tuesday, in Hzaribag, Jharkhand, India, three railways officials were kidnapped by the Jharkhand Prastuti Committee (JPC) or Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) belonging to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist). The status of the hostages is not known.
03/30/2009: On Monday evening, at 1900, in Mayang Imphal Bazar, Imphal West, Manipur, India, assailants threw a grenade at a grocery shop, wounding eight civilians and damaging the shop. No group claimed responsibility.
07/17/2009: On Friday evening, in Katingia, Bamunigaon, Kandhamal, Orissa, India, assailants attacked a police outpost, they tied up three constables and detonated explosives which destroyed files, documents, and other assets. They also set ablaze a motorcycle and damaged the buildings of the police outpost. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/29/2009: On Wednesday, unidentified militants ambushed a convoy of senior police officers and government officials in the Thumpabasti area of North Cachar Hills, Assam, India. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
06/17/2009: On Wednesday, in Lalgarth, West Bengal, India, assailants set a police post on fire causing no casualties. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible for the attack.
03/19/2009: On Thursday, near Diphu, Assam, India, a bomb exploded on a railtrack targeting the Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express. The bomb caused no damage to the train and no casualties, but it created a two and a half foot deep crater on the track. Police suspect Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) to be behind the attack.
05/20/2009: On Wednesday, in the vicinity Erode, Tamil Nadu,  India, three passengers were injured when a petrol bomb was thrown onto a state-owned bus bound for Rameswaram. The bomb pierced the rear window screen of the bus. The indicent was said to be a fallout of the killing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief, V. Prabakaran. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday night between 0140 and 0700, in Dhansa Valley, Rhotas, Bihar, India, about 200 Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) rebels armed with automatic guns and rocket launchers attacked a Border Security Force (BSF) encampment, injuring one officer.
06/17/2009: On Wednesday, in Banksole village, Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, motorcycle-borne assailants fired upon a group of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members while they were at a tea shop, killing one CPI-M branch secretary and two members. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/08/2009: On Saturday, in Guwahati, Kamrup, Assam, India, two assailants kidnapped one railway engineer, Sanjay Kumar Lama, as he was supervising bridge work. Authorities did rescue the victim on 08/26/2009. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) - Ranjan Daimary Faction was responsible.
02/26/2009: On Thursday, in Langting, Maibong, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a police patrol, killing one police officer and wounding one civilian. Official sources said police personnel Mahendra Baglari was killed while railway gangman Anil Dey was injured when the militants opened indiscriminate fire. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
01/22/2009: On Thursday, two Communist Party of India-Maoist militants dragged a village guard from his home in Karkatpali village and took him to a nearby forest where they shot and killed him in Malkangiri, Orissa, India. The abducted was identified as Mangala Khilla. A Police official said Khilla was on the Maoists'' hit list. No group claimed responsibility.
09/28/2009: On Monday afternoon around 1630, in Gandacherra, Agartala, Tripura, India, six tribal villagers were kidnapped at gunpoint from a road by National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants when they had gone to sell kerosene at Ratannagar. They were taken to Bangladesh. Three of them were released on 10/1/2009, after paying a 1,193.65 (Rs 56,000 ransom) note. The outcome of the three other hostages is unknown.
04/19/2009: On Sunday morning around 0700, in Purulia, West Bengal State, India, two civilians were wounded and a liquor shop was damaged when a improvised explosive device detonated near a liquor shop. No group has claimed responsibility, but the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is thought to be responsible.
04/13/2009: On Monday, in Pandu village, in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, 100 Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants raided a government building being used as a polling center and blew it up with dynamite, damaging the center, but causing no casualties.
02/28/2009: On Saturday, just past midnight, around 12 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants set fire to the Ratanpur railway station on Kiul-Bhagalpur section of Eastern Railway in adjoining Munger, Bihar, India. The militants ran off the station master Lalit Kumar and cleared people out before setting fire to the building. The track-changing panel and documents kept in the cabin of the station master was destroyed. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2009: On Sunday night, unidentified militants attacked the residence of the Biren Yambem, general secretary of the All Manipur Working Journalist Union in the Bashikhong Kongba Irong area of Imphal East, Manipur, India. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
01/05/2009: On Monday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed Raju Singh, accused of killing social activist Lalit Kumar Mehta, near Kelari in Palamau, Jharkhand, India. Singh was abducted by Maoist rebels from his home on 1/04/2009 in the evening. His body was later recovered from the Telari roundabout in Palamau, some 190 km from Ranchi. Singh was one of five persons accused in Megta's murder.  Maoists subsequently claimed responsibility for the murder and threatened to kill the others accused in Mehta's murder.
06/20/2009: On Saturday, in Beijingwada, Malkangiri District, Orissa, India, a bus was hijacked by about 20 Communist Party of India-Maoist militants. The bus was released, along with its occupants, the following day as the militants demand for reintroduction of bus service to Bejingwada area in the District was met.
10/21/2009: On Wednesday, unidentified militants on a motorcycle shot and wounded a senior member of the "pro-talks" faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) at a crowded market in Udalguri, Assam, India. No group claims responsibility.
11/13/2009: On Friday, in the Manika area of Latehar, Jharkhand, India, a leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party, Ramchandra Singh, was kidnapped by suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The status of the hostage is unknown.
12/07/2009: On Monday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon a local supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), killing him. The body of Sanatan Pratihar, 44, was found near a forest at Pingboni area. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
03/19/2009: On Thursday,  in the Rourkela area of Sundergarh district in the state of Orissa, an Indian union leader was killed and beheaded by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. It is unknown if this attack caused any property damage.
03/18/2009: On Wednesday, National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Khaplang (NSCN-K) militants shot and killed a National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) militant in the Bor Lingiri area of Karbi Anglong, Assam, India.
07/13/2009: On Monday night at about 2200, in Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, eight armed assailants kidnapped Swapan Debsingha and Tarini Mahato, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporters and later fired upon and killed them. Their bodies were found in the forest area of Melmur. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
07/12/2009: On Sunday, in one of two related attacks, between Khoregaon and Karkoti village, Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) ambushed a team of policemen while they patrolled the heavily forested Raj Nandgaon. After the ambush, there was intense firing in which 23 policemen were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/29/2009: On Sunday, around 0100,  in Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India, 25 Communist Party of India- Maoist militants blew up a forest office. This was one of three offices blown up in the area. One state employee was wounded in the attack, but it is unclear which attack caused the injury. Four other employees were missing after the attacks, but it is uncertain whether they fled the scene or were kidnapped.
05/02/2009: On Saturday evening, at Kathalguri Chariali under Samaguri police station, Nagaon, Assam, India, a grenade exploded inside a closed bicycle shop, damaging the shop but causing no casualties. There was no claim of responsibility.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday, in Ukhrul, Manipur, India, one soldier was killed and six others wounded when they were ambushed by the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) militants on a road connecting the Leishang and Kongkan villages. The militants belonged to the UNLF's Manipur People's Army (MPA).
04/20/2009: On Monday, in Dimapur, Nagaland, India, armed assailants kidnapped one student, Banjong Wati, from his residence. He is the younger brother of a surrendered NSCN(K) cadre.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khapling (NSCN-K) was responsible.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday morning, in the Giridih district of Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists blew up the Upgraded Dharpahari School, causing no casualties but damaging its structure. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, Maoists usually trigger blasts in schools used by security forces as shelters during anti-naxal operations.
07/04/2009: On Saturday evening around 2150, in one of two related attacks, in the Dhandae village in Attari, Amritsar, Punjab, India, Pakistan-based terrorists launched three rockets targeting two villages, injuring one child, leaving a crater in a field, and spreading panic within the region. One of the rockets landed within the Pakistani territory. The specific motive of the attack is unknown, although authorities believe it may have been in retaliation to the killing of a Pakistani intruder by the Border Security Force on Saturday afternoon.
06/03/2009: On Wednesday, in Boro Chamon village, Haflong District, North Cachar Hills, India, Dima Halam Daogah-Jewel (DHD-J) militants attacked and set fire to the village, killing five tribal members, injuring ten civilians, and damaging the village.
06/03/2009: On Wednesday, in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, an exchange of fire took place between rival factions of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) at the Kokrajhar bazaar. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/10/2009: On Wednesday, in Karchuli, Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh, India, a senior police officer was shot and killed and five other police officers were wounded when militants attacked a police patrol. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the militants were members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M).
05/13/2009: On Wednesday, in Ashoknagar, Madhya Pradesh, India, a Forward Bloc's Barasat Lok Sabha constituency candidate and his bodyguard were injured and his vehicle damaged in an attack by unknown militants. Trinamool Congress workers were responsible for the attack.
08/22/2009: On Saturday evening, in Sono town, Jamui, Bihar, India, at least 50 assailants fired upon a special auxiliary police patrol, killing five police officers and wounding one other. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/28/2009: On Wednesday afternoon at 1615, in Bhaderwah, Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants detonated a bomb targeting the restaurant of Hotel Broadway located in Seeri Bazaar, damaging most of the window panes of the hotel and adjoining shops, but causing no casualties. The blast was caused by a crude explosive device fitted with fuse and gelatin under a table. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2009: On Wednesday evening around 1800, near Panasagondi, in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, approximately 40 assailants set fire to equipment at a road construction site, damaging six vehicles and one construction machine but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/29/2009: On Thursday, in the Binpur block of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, armed assailants ransacked and set ablaze six buildings of the Silda Range Office, damaging the buildings and injuring one range officer. Assailants left behind posters demanding the unconditional release of Chhatradhar Mahato and other leaders of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA). The Sidhu-Kanhu Gana Militia, the armed wing of the PCPA claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2009: On Sunday, in Koraput, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels set fire to an election office. No casualties were reported in the attack.
04/11/2009: On Saturday, in Jalko, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants ambushed a police patrol, killing five police and injuring three others. No group claimed responsibility.
02/13/2009: On Friday evening, 20 Communist Party of India- Maoist militantsâ assaulted two villagers for giving land to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in order to put up mobile towers in Churhatpat village in Balrampur, Chhattisgarh, India. The victims, identified as Sagar Yadav and Bandhan Ram, were thrashed and asked to take their land back from the BSNL, police said. The Times of India reported that the Maoists also looted BSNL cellular and wireless in local loop (WLL) phones from residents of Churhatpat village near Kusmi under the Samri Police Station in the Balrampur District in an effort to block communication between villagers and police. According to police, the Naxalites entered the village and asked children about the villagers who owned either a cellular and WLL set and then set about taking them. Subsequently, the Maoists went to Sabagh village nearby and set the BSNL generator afire by using the diesel in its fuel tank. According to a senior police officer, the generator set was completely damaged. No group claimed responsibility; however, a police officer mentioned that the rebels may have attacked the residents to prevent them from passing on information about Naxalite movement in the region.
08/01/2009: On Saturday, in the Bhadodih area of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India, assailants set vegetable trucks on fire, destroying two trucks but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/20/2009: On Monday, in Wayanad, Kerala, India, V.N. Saseendran, vice-president of Poothadi Grama Panchayat, was abducted by four suspected Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders from the Panchayat office. Saseendran recently moved to the United Democratic Front (UDF), reducing the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) to a minority in the Panchayat. As the UDF planned a no-confidence motion to dethrone the LDF, this prompted CPI-M leaders to kidnap Saseendran. Saseendran was released on a highway in a neighboring district on 04/27/2009. No group claimed responsibility, although four CPI-M leaders surrendered to police on 05/02/2009.
05/13/2009: On Wednesday, in the district of Tamil Nadu, India, assailants killed one civilian and injured 13 others in election related violence. No group claimed responsibility.
12/06/2009: On Sunday afternoon, four civilians were killed when Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) a landmine exploded as their vehicle drove over it in the Keralapal area near Sukuma of Dantewada district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The vehicle was destroyed. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
08/19/2009: On Wednesday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon the Ramgarh police station, causing no injuries or damage. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
05/07/2009: On Thursday morning, in Gobindpalli region, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, a police patrol was ambushed by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels. No casualties or damage were reported during the firefight and no group claimed responsibility.
09/04/2009: On Friday, unknown assailants detonated improvised explosive devices at a police checkpoint in the Pokharia area of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, damaging the checkpoint but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
10/24/2009: On Saturday, suspected Maoists triggered three simultaneous landmines, targeting a motorbike convoy of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans near Kantapahari, seven kilometers from Lalgarh in West Bengal, India. The rebels subsequently opened fire on the jawans immediately after the explosions. A gun battle ensued when the jawans retaliated until the Maoists finally fled the scene. Paschim Midnapore Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Verma said six CRPF jawans were on their way to the Kantapahari camp when the landmines went off. The exchange of fire continued for a few minutes. Combing operations have been launched. There were no casualties reported in the attack. Communist Party of India (Maoist) was responsible.
09/29/2009: On Tuesday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, a bomb exploded at the Imphal Hospital, damaging the hospital but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
09/04/2009: On Friday, unknown assailants detonated multiple improvised explosive devices at a police checkpoint in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, damaging the checkpoint but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/22/2009: On Wednesday morning, in Madhupur village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, five assailants fired upon and killed one Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader, Fagu Baskey. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/21/2009: On Tuesday afternoon at 1630, in Sangla, Punch, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a bus, killing five civilians, one child, wounding seven civilians, and damaging the vehicle.  Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) claimed responsibility.
11/19/2009: On Thursday, near Meghatpur, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, a bomb exploded in the Meghatpur mine belonging to the Steel Authority of India Limited, lightly damaging the mine but resulting in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
10/27/2009: On Tuesday afternoon around 1430, at Banstala station, about eight kilometers from Jhargram, Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, about 25 armed Maoists backed by 400 activists stopped and captured the Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express Train and held hostage approximately 1,200 people. At about 1830, the passengers were instructed to get out of the train and sit on the platform. The assailants then detained the train engineer and fled the area. No damages were reported in the attack, but one civilian was injured by gunfire. The hostages were released after about five hours. The train was detained to demand the release of a top rebel leader, Mahato Gandhy. The People's Committee Against Police atrocities (PCPA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/08/2009: On Friday, in Bagnan, Howrah, West Bengal, India, a bomb exploded, killing one civilian and one child. No group claimed responsibility.
12/10/2009: On Thursday at 1800, in Dhekiajuli, Sonapur, Assam, India, assailants on a motorcycle threw a grenade into a crowded market place. No casualties or damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
05/08/2009: On Friday morning, in Joraigaon, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, Naga gunmen set fire to all of the houses in the Dimasa village, injuring one villager. The Citizen's Rights Protection Volunteers claimed responsibility.
05/07/2009: On Thursday, in the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency of West Bengal, India, a voter was killed and eight persons, including three policemen, were injured when armed men opened fire on them. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/23/2009: On Thursday, near New Changsu village, in Wokha, Nagaland, India, assailants fired upon and killed one civilian, Tokivi Sumi. The National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) claimed responsibility.
09/30/2009: On Wednesday at about 1730, in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, six unarmed assailants beat up and kidnapped a police officer from Hembram market. On October 6, 2009 in Khunti, the victim's beheaded body was found near the Namkom police station. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/23/2009: On Monday,  in Seraikela-Kharsawan District, Jharkhand, India, Shankar Das Goswami, the Jharkhand state president of the Forward Bloc Farmer's Wing was shot and killed by four gunmen late in the night at Chaliama. Goswami was returning home after taking part in a devotional program. Superintendent of Police, Sheetal Oraon said the mode of killing does not indicate that the Maoists might be responsible, but they are investigating all angles. No one has claimed responsibility and it is unknown if this attack caused any property damage.
10/18/2009: On Sunday early in the day, Pradeep Ganju, a naxal commander of the Jharkhand Prastuti Committee (JPC), was killed in an encounter with activists of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) in the Bearjungaha forests of Latehar district. Two other JCP extremist were injured in the incident.
05/16/2009: On Saturday, in Larigam-Shatigam area of Handwara, Kupwara, India, a forest guard, Ghulam Mohiuddin Sheikh, was beheaded and the head was later discovered. Police search for the remaining torso. The motive of the killing was not clear and no group claimed responsibility. This was one of two linked attacks.
05/16/2009: On Saturday night at 2200, in Katwa, Burdwan, India, a Trinamul Congress district secretary, Sheikh Abdul Mannan was critically injured after bombs were thrown at him while he was on his way home from his sister's house. He fell from his bike and sustained splinter injuries on his shoulder and neck. It was suspected the attackers were Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres, but the CPI-M denied the charges.
07/28/2009: On Tuesday, in one of two related attacks, in the Tandapali village of Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants detonated explosives on a mobile phone tower, damaging the tower but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/17/2009: On Wednesday, in Salkosa, Dhubri District, Assam, India, former United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militant, Khiren Chandra Nath (36), was shot dead and another former militant, Bishnu Barman, and a civilian, Dulal Sil Sarma, were wounded by a group of militants who opened fire on them in a saloon. United Liberation Front of Assam was held responsible for the attack.
12/10/2009: On Thursday, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up a forest department office in the Jhitka area near Lalgarh in the West Midnapore district. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
07/23/2009: On Thursday evening at about 1915, in Lamphel Sana Keithel, Imphal West, Manipur, India, assailants threw a bomb at the residence of the Deputy Taxation Commissioner, wounding the commissioner's child and damaging the home. No group claimed responsibility.
10/30/2009: On Friday night at around 0330, at the Bamunimaidam market in Noonmati, Guwahati, Assam India, four National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants attempted to plant explosives at the market to mark the first anniversary of deadly serial blasts that occurred in the city last October of 2008. After entering the market, the militants engaged in crossfire with security forces near Railway Gate Number Six. One militant was killed in the attack. Two programmable timer devices, an electronic detonator, batteries, and a pistol were recovered from the dead militant. No damages were reported.
07/15/2009: On Wednesday morning at about 0000, in Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants set fire to an excavator machine, damaging the machine but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/19/2009: On Wednesday, in Lalgarth, West Bengal, India, assailants attacked security forces causing no casualties. Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were responsible for the attack. Superintendent of Police, West Midnapore, MK Varma said eight suspected Maoists were arrested from Gohamichak under Lalgarh police station.
04/10/2009: On Friday, in the Chintagufa area of Dantewadad, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants ambushed a security forces patrol, killing nine Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, a police officer, and wounding eight others. No damages were reported in the attack.
06/03/2009: On Wednesday around afternoon at 1245, in Simlipal, Bankura, West Bengal, India, five assailants fired upon a group of police officers while they stopped to eat lunch at a hotel, killing three police officers, wounding two others, and damaging the hotel and a police van. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/19/2009: On Saturday morning, at 0030, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, 70 assailants set fire to a section of the Balimela Hydel power station, lightly damaging the station but causing no injuries. Maoists left posters at the scene demanding power be restored to cut off villages on the Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border.
12/02/2009: On Wednesday, one police officer was killed after Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres detonated an improvised explosive device near a police patrol in the Teliabahiar area of Giridh district of Jharkhand. Communist Party of India (Maoist) were believed to be responsible.
01/31/2009: On Saturday morning, in Khuti, Jharkhand, India, four civilians were shot and killed by suspected People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) militants in the Chalgi village. The killings came about from an internal rivalry. There was no damage reported in the attack.
05/08/2009: On Friday afternoon at around 1245, alleged Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres arrived at the Seta Kanyapur booth in Asansol, West Bengal, India, and threw bombs at the sector officer's vehicle and started firing indiscriminately. The cadres then walked into the polling booth and shot and killed the Trinamul Congress polling agent at point-blank. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
05/09/2009: On Saturday morning at 0600, in Fiding Dimasagaon, nearly 350 km from Guwahati, Assam, India, assailants set fire to 43 houses dominated by the anti-talks faction of the Dima Halam Daogah. Three civilians identified as Thanagjam Dibhrakete, Ripunjay Dibhrakete and Hatulal Dibhrakete were killed in the attack, while an unknown number of people were injured. Citizen's Rights Protection Volunteers claimed responsibility.
07/03/2009: On Friday evening, in one of two related attacks, in Tandar village, Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, four militants of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), three of whom were later identified by their code names as Dawood, Wasim and Prince, fired upon the residence of a surrendered militant, Abdul Majeed, killing him, wounding his uncle, Tariq Hussain, and damaging the home. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed Hizbul-Mujahedin (HM) was responsible. Abdul Majeed was a top militant of the Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HuJI) until 2007 when he switched over to the HM and worked with his killers Dawood, Wasim and Prince. However, he surrendered before Security Forces in May 2008.
04/12/2009: On Sunday, in the Dautohaja area of North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, Black Widow militants attacked the railway police force personnel guarding a railway station. No casualties were reported.
06/17/2009: On Wednesday, in Misadui village in the North Cachar Hills district, Guwahati, Assam, India, twelve people were killed during a raid on a village by unknown militants. Heavily armed tribal militants attacked the village of a rival tribe, indiscriminately firing on villagers and set ablaze more than 20 houses. No group claimed responsibility, but police suspected that the Black Widow militant group was behind the attack.
08/27/2009: On Thursday, unknown assailants threw an incendiary device at the Uripok Cheirap Court complex in the Uripok area of Imphal, Manipur, India, but caused no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
05/07/2009: On Thursday, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, suspected militants lobbed a petrol bomb at a polling booth. There was no damage to the polling booth and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2009: On Friday evening at 1800, in Bhulabheda, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a branch committee member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/30/2009: On Thursday, in Patharpara village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants killed one Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) member by unknown means. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/24/2009: On Saturday, in Bishnupur, Manipur, India, militants attacked a police checkpoint in the Ithai area, killing two officers and wounding another. There was no damage reported and The Manipur People's Army, the armed wing of the United National Liberation Front, claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants fired upon and killed two police officers. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
03/19/2009: On Thursday at 0200, in Rudiguma village in Kandhamal, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist militants shot and killed a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist, Prabhat Panigrahi, at the house of another RSS activist. Fifteen CPI-Maoist militants were involved in the attack. It Is unknown if the attack caused any property damage.
07/13/2009: On Monday morning at about 0530, in Berada village, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, between 20 and 25 assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device on an under-construction community hall, damaging the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
09/07/2009: On Monday, in the Gharmurra area, 60 kilometers from Hailakandi, Assam, India, assailants injured 11 civilians from neighboring Reang community under the suspicion of being United Liberation Front of Barak Valley (ULFBV) members. Police have identified all the 11 Reang people who are Kritwaj Reang (30), Kishomiska Reang (24), Sitaram Chakti (23), Dilip Kumar Reang (22), Rajesh Apate (29), Padmajay Reang (45), Bidhujay Reang (45), Jadarjoy Reang (35), Raju Reang (35), Debendra Reang (20) and Chiranjoy Reang (20). All of them are the residents of the various villages of south Hailakandi. Bibekananda Das Security Police confirmed that the injured 11 Reangs have no relation with the UDLA. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2009: On Wednesday, near Chitrakonda, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants set fire to five vehicles of the Essar Steel Company, damaging one dump truck, one excavator, one truck, and two sport utility vehicles but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/10/2009: On Thursday at 1330, in the Sebaytan village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed three local supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). No damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/31/2009: On Friday, in the Lamphel Sana Keithel area in Imphal West, Manipur, India, a powerful bomb exploded at the residence of a Deputy Commissioner of Taxation and wounded his 18-year-old daughter. The daughter sustained splinter injuries to her legs. No group claimed the responsibility for the attack.
10/25/2009: On Sunday, in Bicheli, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh, India, a landmine triggered by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (Naxals) killed four Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawans, wounded two others, and blew up a jeep. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/16/2009: On Thursday night at around 2300, in Champajharan, Sundargarh, Orissa, India, approximately 30 assailants fired upon a vehicle transporting explosives and a police escort van, wounding a civilian driver, damaging both vehicles and stealing the explosives. Then, the assailants kidnapped one police officer and later fired upon and killed him. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
05/07/2009: On Thursday, in Pharsgaon village, Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels assaulted and killed a police officer. Rebels struck him with a large stick before slitting his throat in the weekly market. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/12/2009: On Monday night, two personnel of the Border Roads Organization (BRO) were killed and another injured as three National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) insurgents fired at the personnel camp in Upper Assam's Dhemaji district. The attack occurred at Sapori when the BRO staff had retired after dinner. One of the ultras, armed with ak-47 rifle waited outside while two others armed with ak-47 and a revolver went in and opened fire at random killing two. The deceased were identified as operator Pritam Chand from Jammu and Kashmir and Driver Priyam Chand from Himachal Pradesh. Bhisan Das from Jammu and Kashmir was injured after being hit by rifle butt. Eight persons have been picked up for questioning. No group claimed responsibility; however, the NDFB had reportedly demanded Rs 50 from each laborer working in the BRO project but they had paid only Rs 20.
07/23/2009: On Thursday night, in Datgari, Chirang, Assam, India, along the India-Bhutan border under Runikhata border outpost, militants fired upon and killed a Bodoland People's Front (BPF) youth leader, Issakak Narza (38), at his residence. No group claimed responsibility.
10/21/2009: On Wednesday night at about 0200, a group of Maoists fired upon and killed Umesh Mali, head of the naxal outfit ‘Sastra People’s Morcha’ (SPM); Umesh Singh Bhokta, a local leader of the Lok Jan Shakti Party, and Ranjit Rajjak. Six others were critically injured, including a police driver, in the attack. The attack occurred near the Rajpur Middle School as they were watching a cultural program in the Chatra district. The CPI (Maoist) is engaged in a turf war against the SPM, the Jharkhand Prastuti Samiti and the Tritiya Prastuti Samiti. Communist Party of India (Maoists) were believed to be the perpetrators.
10/28/2009: On Wednesday night, in Goaltore, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped an activist of the Communist Party of India -Marxist (CPI-Marxist), Tapan Mudi. The victim's body was found shot dead on 10/29/2009 in Binpur. No damages were reported in the attack. The People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) is believed to be responsible.
06/19/2009: On Friday, in Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, an improvised explosive device was triggered by the Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres and hit the Domkal Sub Divisional Police Officer's car, injuring three officers.
02/03/2009: On Tuesday, around 1700, in Balarampur, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon several people on a motorcycle, killing one Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) member, Haradhan Majhi, and wounding two civilians, Ravi and Chandra Sekharwere. No damage or motive were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/04/2009: On Sunday evening, two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed a trader, suspecting him of being a police informer, at his grocery store in Almonda village in Koraput, Orissa, India. The trader was identified as Kalivarapa Kanta Rao. No group claimed responsibility.
07/13/2009: On Monday evening at about 2130, in Lamphel Sanakeithel, Imphal West, Manipur, India, assailants threw a grenade at the Shanti Hospital, causing no casualties or damage because the grenade failed to explode. The Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council claimed responsibility.
07/23/2009: On Thursday, at Pirrakhuli in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, supporters of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)-backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) armed with traditional weapons ransacked the house of a local committee member of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) for allegedly informing the Police about the PCPA. The committee member, Madan Mahato, fled his home before the attackers arrived. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/08/2009: On Wednesday, in Damhal-Hanjipora, Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants fired upon a group of shepherds, killing one Village Defense Committee member and wounding one child. No group claimed responsibility.
09/04/2009: On Friday, assailants detonated a bomb at a mobile telephone tower belonging to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, damaging the tower but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/08/2009: On Tuesday, unidentified militants opened fire on a police patrol killing two police officers in the Sarasdangal area of Dumka district in Jharkhand. While one died on the spot, the other succumbed to his injuries in hospital. The deceased were identified as head constable Dharamvir Singh and constable Dinesh Sharma. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/19/2009: On Friday evening at about 2100, in Dalgate, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants threw a grenade at a tourist bus but missed the target, killing one roadside vegetable vendor and wounding three civilians. No group claimed responsibility.
10/09/2009: On Friday, on Koyal canal in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra a group of Maoist ultras exploded dynamite and blew up a culvert in the Kachanpur village. Maoists blew up the bridges over alleged non-payment of the extortion amount by the contractors constructing them in the District. No casualties were reported in this attack. There was no claim of responsibility.
06/04/2009: On Thursday night, in Sunderpur, Gokulnagar, West Bengal, India, assailants set a house on fire, damaging the residence but causing no causalities. No group claimed responsibility.
08/25/2009: On Tuesday night, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon police officers responding to the area where the assailants had set fire to vehicles along National Highway-33, wounding two police officers and damaging one vehicle. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
01/12/2009: On Monday afternoon at about 1715, in Wahengbam Leikai, Imphal, Manipur, India, assailants threw a Chinese hand grenade at Hotel Bheigo which exploded outside the hotel, damaging the glass window panes of a reception counter and a Honda Activa scooter. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) was responsible.
07/30/2009: On Thursday, in one of two related attacks, in the Salboni village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped three Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members, identified as Arun Mahato, Amal Mahato and Brahmanya Singha Roy. The status of the hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/22/2009: On Thursday, a joint team of Police and Army personnel defused an improvised explosive device on a bus belonging to Raj Nandini in Barkura Chwak on NH-31 in Nalbari, Assam, India. The bomb was kept in a bag on the bus and weighed around three kg. The police picked up five persons for interrogation in this connection. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
10/09/2009: On Friday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up a culvert in Bhedhna Village in Aurangabad district of Bihar, with dynamite. Maoists blew up the culvert over alleged non-payment of the extortion amount by the contractors constructing them in the District. There was no claim of responsibility.
01/04/2009: On Sunday morning, Black Widow (BW) militants triggered a bomb blast on the railway track between Harangajao and Mailongdisa railway stations in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India. Three train cars were derailed and 40 meters of track were damaged. Train services in the Hill section were affected due to the blast. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but police suspect that Black Widow militants were responsible.
04/10/2009: On Friday, in Furrow, Garhwa, Jharkhand, India, Communist Part of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attacked a police camp. No casualties or damages were reported.
07/13/2009: On Monday morning at 0630, in Sonitpur District, Assam, India, Prasenjit Lahary alias La Fanjari, an army colonel, Colonel S.M. Perumal, and his driver Jawan Naik Ashwini Kuma, were killed by a landmine. The army vehicle hit the mine near the Balipara reserve forests in Sonitpur district, 210 kilometers north of the state’s main city Guwahati. The impact of the landmine was so severe that the vehicle blew up, killing the colonel and his driver on the spot. The explosion caused a crater four-and-a-half feet wide and one-and-a-half feet deep. The vehicle was completely destroyed. Police blame the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland for the attack, but no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/23/2009: On Friday, a bomb exploded when children picked up a bag laying next to a pond in Rohini village in Deogarh, Jharkhand, India. Seven children were injured in the blast, no damage was reported, and no group has claimed responsibility.
09/29/2009: On Tuesday, in Uripok, Imphal, Manipur, India, a bomb exploded at the Langol View Clinic, wounding a medical worker and damaging the clinic. No group claimed responsibility.
07/15/2009: On Wednesday, in Dhanyarukhi village, Burdwan, West Bengal, India, eight Congress legislators of West Bengal, seven journalists, and three policemen were injured in an attack by suspected armed Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). They were visiting Dhanyarukhi village, about 150 kilometers from Kolkata, to distribute relief to opposition party workers whose houses had been burnt following clashes with CPI-M cadres.
06/03/2009: On Wednesday morning around 0500, in the Boro Chenam and Kampai villages, in Haflong, North Cachar Hills, India, militants opened fire killing five civilians, wounding one child, and setting ablaze 54 houses. No group claimed responsibility, but the Black Widows are suspected to be responsible.
06/19/2009: On Friday, near Lohandiguda village, in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants fired upon and killed a village council president, Vimal Meshram (42). No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
06/10/2009: On Wednesday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) rebels ambushed a police party in West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand state, killing 12 security personnel belonging to the State police and CRPF. Six others were injured.
09/07/2009: On Monday, in the Kadasole area near Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped two Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) activists. The motive for the attack was in retaliation for the arrest of one Maoist militant. The status of the hostages is unknown. No casualties or material damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility, but the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was thought responsible for the kidnapping.
10/09/2009: On Friday, near Majrabari under Salbari sub-division of Baksa district, unidentified militants opened fire and shot dead rice mill owner, Supen Swargiary, and injured a Central Reserve Police Force trooper, Ajay Basumatary. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/07/2009: On Monday, in the village of Keudi outside of Salbani, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a local leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). No material damage or motive for the attack was reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. Police arrested one militant suspected in the attack.
06/20/2009: On Saturday evening, in Tonagapal, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, twelve Indian police officers were killed and twelve officers wounded when their vehicle went over a land mine planted by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels. Other police officers watching the attack, fired upon the rebels, leaving seven dead.
10/09/2009: On Friday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up a culvert in Berhani village in Aurangabad district of Bihar, with dynamite. Maoists blew up the culvert over alleged non-payment of the extortion amount by the contractors constructing them in the District. No group claimed responsibility.
01/24/2009: On Saturday, in Belpahari, West Bengal, India, assailants shot and killed a senior Communist Party of India- Maoist militant. There was no damage reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
09/30/2009: On Wednesday evening, in the Ranjia area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped three supporters of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). On 10/01/2009, the victims were found shot to death. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/24/2010: On Sunday, between Baunsaput and Katharagada villages, Koraput District, Orissa, India, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist triggered a landmine explosion, targeting the Security Forces personnel. Two personnel of Central Reserve Police Force received minor injuries. There was no reported damage.
01/25/2010: On Monday, in the Kalta area of Keonjhar, Orissa, India, a group of 50 to 60 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants attacked the iron ore mines. The militants fired blank rounds at the workers and forced over 3,400 workers to leave the site. They summoned the administrative officials of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) raw material division to sign a declaration to cease work. The workers were warned to break all ties with the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. No casualties were reported in the attack. Police officials claimed the attack was part of the militants 'economic blockade'. The militants also abducted Communist Party Marxist (CPM) leader, Thomas Munda, from the Kalta Iron ore Mines at gun point. CPM state secretariat member Bishnu Mohanty and CPM District Secretary Banamali Dhopal alleged that the Maoists were trying to establish their supremacy in the area and terrorizing the villagers for opposing their dictatorship. No casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
01/24/2010: On Sunday, in Deka Mising Gaon, under Simenchapari outpost, Dhemaji District, Assam, India, cadres of anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland exploded a bomb on railway tracks. There were no reported casualties.
04/19/2010: On Monday, at Batkanta village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh province, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) rebels vandalized a section of railroad tracks by removing 32 pendel clips, which caused a freight train that was carrying 4,000 tons of iron ore from the state-run National Mineral Development Coorporation (NMDC) to derail when it passed over the vandalized section. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in the Karrampada area of West Singbhum, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up two pump houses, one belonging to the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and the other to the railways. Water supply was affected in the area as a result of the attack. No casualties were reported. Maoists left behind a pamphlet at the explosion site describing the attack as an offensive against operation greenhunt. The ultras had warned of disrupting water and electricity supply with such attacks after special operation of security forces was initiated against Maoists in the forests of Saranda.
03/01/2010: On Monday evening around 1800, in a forested area near the Kherkridih village of Puruliya, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants on motorcycles shot and killed a worker of the ruling Communist Party of India – Marxist. The victim was identified as Kalu Sona (Kalosona) Mondal, village council joint president and younger brother of local CPI-M leader Judhistir Mondal. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and no damages were reported.
04/01/2010: On Thursday night around 2200, near the Avantipora station in the Gulbugh area near Kakapora town of Phulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba activists detonated an improvised explosive device on a section of railway tracks, damaging about two to three meters of track but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/20/2010: On Tuesday night around 0000 midnight, in one of two related attacks, in Lankapakalu village in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants went to the home of Pangi Seethamma, a former Maoist, and beat her up, alleging that she was a police informer. Later the militants went to a nearby coffee nursery and burned down 5,000 saplings. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
01/25/2010: On Monday, in Leimakhong, Manipur, India, an improvised explosive device attached to a vehicle was discovered and defused by Indian soldiers during a counter-terrorism operation. No group claimed responsibility; however, the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) are suspected to be behind the attempted attack.
06/14/2010: On Monday night, in Rohtas, Bihar, India, unidentified assailants fired upon one police station and one Special Auxiliary Police camp, causing no casualties or damage. According to police, around 100 armed rebels attacked the Rohtas police station and a camp of the Special Auxiliary Police, but were repelled by the Gorkha battalion stationed in Rohtas. The specific motive for the attack is unknown, however police suspect that the attack was carried out to enforce their two-day shutdown in Bihar and Jharkhand to protest the arrest of two Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres in Bihar. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
12/23/2010: On Thursday, in Kirandul area in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants placed explosives under three bridges and triggered blasts, destroying the bridges. No casualties were reported. Two of the bridges were under construction while the third one had been recently constructed. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
07/04/2010: On Sunday, on National Highway 221 at Jeeram, about 40 kilometers from Jagdalpur, Bastar divisional headquarters, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants blew up a culvert. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/20/2010: On Tuesday night around 0000 midnight, in one of two related attacks, in Lankapakalu village in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants went to a coffee nursery and burned down 5,000 saplings and a small hut that was used as a toilet for workers. Earlier, the Maoists went to the home of a former Maoist and beat her up, alleging that she was a police informer. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
09/24/2010: On Friday night, in one of two related attacks, a large group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set ablaze a community hall in Radhanagar village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the building, but caused no casualties. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
06/30/2010: On Wednesday, in the Birihari forest area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants fired at a patrol party on a routine combing operation. One trooper, identified as, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ajay Gupta, was injured in the attacked. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were responsible.
03/20/2010: On Saturday, in Jharkhand, India, five government officials were abducted at gun point by more than five suspected Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) from the Palahia area in Latehar District. The victims were identified as ADM Shrawan Soya, PWD officer H. Bhengra, assistant engineer Adish Sayru Ram, dairy officer Vinod Sinha and driver Kiran Singh. According to police, the victims went to Palahia area in Latehar District to supervise works done under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme when they were kidnapped by suspected Naxalites but released hours after. The officials were freed five hours later. There was no claim of responsibility.
12/24/2010: On Friday, in Nagratonagra village near Saranda forest in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device on a culvert. One Central Reserve Police Force troops was killed, three others were injured and a police vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
10/24/2010: On Sunday morning, in Usur, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants abducted a panchayat (village level local self-government institution) member, Bhothraj Sodi. The status of the hostage is unknown. No group claimed responsibility but the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) was suspected.
12/14/2010: On Tuesday, in Rajpur village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants triggered a landmine blast minutes after a polling party crossed the area. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
10/23/2010: On Saturday between 0400 and 0600, in Nulliguda of Podia block in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, a group of 20 to 40 cadres blew up a panchayat (village level local self-government institution) office and destroyed a godown (warehouse) using pickaxes and spades. Some plastic pipes and documents in the warehouse were also set on fire. No casualties were reported the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack. Leaflets left at the scene of the attack demanded that the Government stop killing their cadres in the name of Operation Green Hunt and withdraw the Border Security Forces (BSF) from the district.
11/17/2010: On Wednesday, at Pathargittim area in an unspecified city of Meghalaya, India, unidentified militants hurled two grenades at a petrol pump. One failed to explode, but the other grenade detonated, damaging the petrol pump. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants were responsible.
07/08/2010: On Thursday night between 0100 and 0115, between the Tetulmari and Nichitpur stations in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants blew up railway tracks, causing damage to the up and down lines. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack occurred during the second day shutdown called by the militants to protest the killing of one of their top leaders ‘Azad’. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that militants belonging to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were responsible.
02/09/2010: On Tuesday night at approximately 0200, in Giridih District, Jharkhand, India, the Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres blew up a stretch of railway track under Nimiaghat Police station. Tracks were blown up near the east cabin of Parasnath railway station and six meters of track was damaged. Three meters of tracks were also blown up between Chaudharybandh and Karmabad railway stations. No group claimed responsibility.
04/01/2010: On Thursday, in the Kalinga Nagar area of Jajpur district, in Orissa, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants set fire to a mobile phone tower owned by a private company, partially damaging the structure. Some posters bearing the CPI-M name were found near the tower. No casualties were caused and the CPI-M claimed responsibility. The handwritten posters opposed the common corridor road project which was being constructed with police protection. The posters warned the administration and the people who supported them.
09/21/2010: On Tuesday, in Kharik village in Jamui, Bihar, India, the bodies of two cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were recovered from Kharik. According to police, the victims were killed by their colleagues and their throats had been cut. Ravidas is said to be the former area commander of the banned ultra-left outfit, while Yadav is believed to be a hardcore member of the Maoist group. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/17/2010: On or around Monday, unidentified foreign militants killed Basharat Saleem, a local Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) militant, in the area around the Haphruda forests of Handwara in Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Saleem was killed by the foreigners on the mere suspicion of being in contact with Security Forces. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/24/2010: On Sunday, in Gandhoiguri village, Dibrugarh, India, an improvised explosive device was recovered. The device was defused. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. No casualties were reported.
10/13/2010: On Wednesday afternoon at 1700, at Rowta reserve forest in Mazbat, Udalguri district, Assam, India, a cadre of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) attempted to kidnap a contractor but was thwarted by security personnel. The cadre who was in charge of finance of the NDFB was killed and the contractor was rescued. One 7.65 millimeter pistol, extortion notes and documents about extortion related activities of the outfit were recovered. No group claimed responsibility.
10/22/2010: On Friday evening around 2045, at Jhitkahi Bridge near Lalgarh in Sheohar district, Bihar, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine targeting police personnel, killing six men. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/25/2010: On Tuesday evening, in Barabsapur village, Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, six unidentified assailants set fire to construction vehicles, destroying several vehicles, while another 150 unidentified armed assailants watched from the hills. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
01/25/2010: On Monday night at 2300, in the Chandapathar area of Bankura, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants attacked a police camp. A second camp in the same district in Satnala was also attacked by the militants. During the attack in Satnala, two police officers were abducted and a large supply of self-loading rifles and AK-47s and ammunition were stolen. The attacks lead to heavy firing between the policemen and the Maoists that lasted for over one-and-a-half hours. Eight policemen were wounded in the two attacks. The body of Constable Sanjay Ghosh was discovered in a forest near the camp on 01/26/2010. Ghosh had been shot and killed by the assailants. Another police constable, Ajay Pande, reported to the Barikulk police station on 01/27/2010. Bankura Superintendent of Police Bishal Garg said that Pande returned to the police station unharmed and details about where he was for the last two days had not yet been determined. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/15/2010: On Saturday night, in Raj Nandgaon about 100 miles west of the state capital of Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants kidnapped one village chief, Bhilsai Mandwai (36), and five civilians. Later, assailants slit the throats of all the victims, killing them. On 05/16/2010, in the morning, villagers found the bodies of the victims in a densely forested area between Uchapur and Taregaon villages. According to police, two or three villagers remained in custody of the assailants. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, according to police, the villagers were abducted and killed on suspicion of being police informers. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible. The status of the other villagers is unknown.
07/30/2010: On Friday morning around 0800, on Soulmari-Goalpara PWD road where Soulmari meets National Highway 37 at Bhalukdubi near Goalpara, Assam, India, an improvised explosive device detonated near a bus. At least five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and 33 others injured. Reportedly, the bomb was planted on the western edge of the highway and was triggered off by a 50-foot long wire. The bus carrying 45 jawans of the CRPF's 12 battalion was returning to its Goalpara camp from Balijana, 13 kilometers away, where they undergo regular counter-insurgency training. Upon reaching Bhalukdubi near Kali Mondir, the bomb was detonated. The bus was badly damaged in the attack. Four of the five killed were identified as Punam Sen, Ranbir Singh, Sri Nibas and Mongal Nayak of the 12 Battalion of CRPF. Anu Buragohain, the spokesperson of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the attack was carried out in retaliation against security forces continuing to target its cadres. He also warned of more attacks. However, police officials believe that the anti-peace talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were responsible for the attack.
06/14/2010: On Monday evening, in Belpahari, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) kidnapped two brothers, Sambhu (Samar) Singh and Sunil Singh. On 06/15/2010, the bodies of the two brothers were recovered from Chakadoma in the Belpahari area, showing evidence of being hacked to death. The two men were ex CPI-M cadres who later joined the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA). According to police, the brothers were killed as a result of internal rivalry within the PCPA. No damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
10/09/2010: On Saturday night at 2330, in Tilia village, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, militants shot and killed two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) supporters, identified as Kalipada Chakrabarty and his brother Sukumar Chakrabarty. Several Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters claiming responsibility were recovered from the spot, stating that the brothers were given capital punishment for acting as police informers.
06/16/2010: On Wednesday night, in the village of Markapalli, Malkangiri district, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres killed Manoram Durua, a jawan serving under Border Security Force (BSF) of the Shasastra Seema Bal (SSB). Reportedly, Durau returned to his native village to attend the Raj festival when an armed group of eight to10 Maoists called on him at his home and asked him to accompany them. The Maoists slit his throat and then dumped his body near the village. No damages were reported. Maoist posters left in the village issued warnings to SPO and village guards to quit their jobs. The attack and warnings resulted in the resignation of five people in Kalimela police station jurisdiction.
09/24/2010: On Friday night a little after 0100, in one of two related attacks, a large group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) blew up a building housing the office of the Krishak Sabha, a farmers’ organization in Bandhgora village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the building, but caused no reported casualties. The CPI-Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/31/2010: On Monday, in Kherua village, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, unidentified assailants fired upon and killed one political activist of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
09/23/2010: On Thursday afternoon at 1700, in Radhanagar village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified assailants fired upon and threw explosives at the village, wounding one civilian and damaging the village. The assailants opened fire at the villagers from Joynagar forest in which a gun battle ensued as the villagers returned fire. Nidarshan Paul was received injuries in the attack and was stated to be critical. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) was responsible.
11/08/2010: On Monday afternoon at 1330, at a residence in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, five unidentified militants on motorcycles shot and killed Kanai Rai, a former member of Patashimul panchayat (village level local self government institution) belonging to the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). His wife, Basanti Rai, was also injured in the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack came during a shutdown called by militants to protest Obama’s visit to India. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/01/2010: On Monday night, in Thoubal, Manipur, India, a group of Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP)- Puranthaba Meiraba faction militants attacked the private residence of a computer engineer. The victim was identified as Oinam Tombi Singh, working at the Thoubal Deputy Commissioner’s office. No casualties or damage were reported in the attack. The wife of the engineer alleged that a gunman, who claimed to be a cadre of Puranthaba Meiraba faction of the KCP, came to their house on February 27 and wanted to know why the engineer could not pay INR five lakh as demanded by them through a letter delivered on an unspecified date in the January and was warned that the amount must be paid. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/17/2010: On Wednesday night at 0430, in the Nongalbibra coal mining belt in South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, unidentified militants attacked and killed a coal miner, identified as Kuki Boro. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants were responsible. Police suspect the attack was carried out to cause fear and extort money.
10/09/2010: On Saturday afternoon, in Laltenganj village in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, over 100 militants surrounded a vehicle and kidnapped a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Mohammad Nehaluddin of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and his bodyguard. The militants also torched the vehicle he was travelling in and damaged the window panes of three other vehicles in his convoy. Nehaluddin was released three hours later, but the status of the bodyguard was not reported. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
10/30/2010: On Saturday night, in Bundu village in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India, over 50 militants raided the village and damaged the houses of six villagers with a bulldozer. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect that the attack was carried out to protest against the arrest of the zonal commander of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), Mohammad Irfan. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the TPC were responsible for the attack.
03/07/2010: On Sunday, in Golbandhi, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), killing him. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
02/10/2010: On Wednesday, in Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, Maoists opened fire on the helicopter carrying the West Bengal Director General of Police while he was conducting aerial surveillance of Lalgarh and other Maoist-controlled areas. No damage or casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility but it is believed that CPI-Maoists were responsible.
02/21/2010: On Sunday night, in Maheshwari, Jamui, Bihar, India, around 10 to 15 suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants on motorcycles using dynamite blew up a state-run school and then fled. No casualties were reported, but the school was damaged in the attack. Reportedly, the local administration planned to set up a police camp in the school building to launch an operation against the Maoists. No group claimed responsibility.
03/19/2010: On Friday, in Chintalwada, Malkangiri District, Orissa, India, three construction vehicles were attacked and set on fire by a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist militants. Three vehicles were damaged. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/16/2010: On Friday night, in Patahi, Pakridayal, East Champaran, Bihar, India, over 50 unidentified armed militants blew up Sinheshwar Seminari High School using cane bombs. The structure of the school was partially damaged. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Vaishali district of Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set ablaze several trucks belonging to a construction company. The Maoists attacked the office of the construction firm in Madarna and set fire to two bulldozers, a tractor, truck and dumpsters, creating panic among the workers and officials of the company. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/21/2010: On Thursday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, suspected Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) militants planted an improvised explosive device at the residence of a local chief in the Kodompokpi Mamang Leikai area. The device failed to explode. No casualties were reported in the attack.
05/15/2010: On Saturday, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, two to three masked assailants on motorcycles fired upon and killed one police officer of the Andhra Pradesh Special Police force. The deceased was identified as Constable V. Ramesh. The officers were on patrol in the Old City to prevent community violence in the days leading to the anniversary of the 2007 bombing at the Mecca Masjid in which 15 people were killed. Tehrik-e-Galba Islami claimed responsibility. Investigators found a compact disc apparently left by the attackers. On the disc, a group identifying itself as Tehrik-e-Galba Islam took responsibility for shooting the police officers and said the attack was an act of revenge for the 2007 bombing. Hyderabad Police Commissioner A.K. Khan said that a terrorist known as Vicaruddin may have planned the killing along with another killing of a police officer last year.
12/11/2010: On Saturday, in Mahupada village in Sundargarh, Odisha, India, unidentified militants attempted to kidnap three civilians; however, security forces foiled the abduction before it was carried out. Reportedly, the villagers, along with Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Special Operation Group (SOG) forces chased the militants and rescued all three hostages. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M0 militants were responsible. Security forces arrested the five militants from Nuagaon village in the same police limits of the Mahupada village. Two rifles and some unknown explosive materials were seized from the arrested Maoists, identified as Bagana Tarkot, Kande Tarkot, Nancy Tarkot (woman), Mangara Tarkot and Matara Tarkot. Mangara and Matara were top Maoists of Jharkhand and relatives of most wanted Maoist Madhusudan Tarkot while Kande and Nancy are siblings.
06/30/2010: On Wednesday, in Bijapur, Karnataka, India, a landmine blast injured seven Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. The landmine reportedly detonated while the CRPF were trying to defuse it. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Aurangabad district of Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants set ablaze three construction vehicles belonging to a construction company at Seema village. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/25/2010: On Monday, in the Salboni area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, one Communist Party of India - Marxist activist was abducted from his home at Deulkunda by suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The body of Bapi Rana was discovered in an adjoining forest riddled with bullets on 01/26/2010. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/14/2010: On Monday night, in Jamui district, Bihar, India, around 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) activists looted Rs 92,000 (2014.90 USD) from an SBI branch at Khadigram and set it on fire. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect that the attack was carried out to enforce their two-day shutdown to protest the arrest of two of their comrades. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
03/01/2010: On Monday, in the Bagdhasba area of Banka, Bihar, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants armed with sharp weapons killed a civilian on suspicion of being a police informer. Rajo Hansda's throat was cut by the assailants. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/01/2010: On Wednesday night, in Laxmipuram village in Eturunagaram, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, unidentified militants kidnapped local Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Mandal Secretary Majid. The body of Majid, who had been shot and killed, was recovered by police from a nearby forest on the morning of 12/02/2010. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/09/2010: On Tuesday morning at about 0500, as a police team was about to enter Gorkha village, in Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, a landmine exploded and they came under heavy fire from the Naxalites. Special Police Officer, Hari Ram, lost his legs in the blast and another constable sustained severe injuries. Naxalites fled when police returned fire. No group claimed responsibility, but police believe a Maoist faction was responsible.
01/25/2010: On Monday night at about 2300, in one of two related incidents, in the Satnala area of Bankura, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants kidnapped two police officers during an attack on a police camp. During the attack two police officers were abducted and a large supply of self-loading rifles and AK-47s and ammunition were stolen. A second camp in the same district in Chandapathar was also attacked by the militants. The attacks lead to heavy firing between the policemen and the Maoists that lasted for over one-and-a-half hours. Eight policemen were wounded in the two attacks and three of them were seriously wounded. The body of Constable Sanjay Ghosh was discovered in a forest near the camp on 01/26/2010. Ghosh had been shot and killed by the assailants. Another police constable, Ajay Pande, reported to the Barikulk police station on 01/27/2010. Bankura Superintendent of Police Bishal Garg said that Pande returned to the police station unharmed and details about where he was for the last two days had not yet been determined. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/25/2010: On Tuesday, near Jhargram town, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot and injured a newspaper distributor and his cousin in the Manikpara market. Debashis Banerjee (50), a social worker and former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) member, was shot when three to five assailants on two motorcycles opened fire on him. His cousin, Prasanta (52), was injured when he tried to aid Debashis. Banerjee was hit twice in his back and once in his right leg, and his cousin, was hit in his right leg and right arm. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police believe that the Maoists were trying to create panic in the area to make it easier for them to extort money. A relative of Banerjee claimed that he quit the CPI-Marxist, fearing an attack by the Maoists. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
10/13/2010: On Wednesday night, in Markapadar village in Khairput Block in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, more than 50 armed militants blew up a panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) building and a godown (warehouse) using a powerful landmine. The attack was part of a strategy by the rebels to destroy buildings being used to accommodate Central paramilitary forces for carrying out anti-Maoist operations in the region. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
01/07/2010: On Thursday night, in one of two related attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoists abducted Communist Party of India-Marxist activist, Mintu Ali, alias S.K. Manur Ali (25) from his residence in the Salpatra village of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. The bullet-riddled body of Ali was recovered by police from the Muraboni village of Jhargram, Midnapore, on 01/08/2010. Posters left at the scene of the incident by the Maoists read that Ali was given a death sentence after he was found guilty of corrupt activities. Posters found near the bodies claimed both were police informers.
11/16/2010: On Tuesday around 0000 midnight, in the Kakiriguma area of Koraput, Orrisa, India, 30 unidentified militants blew up a police station, causing damage to a jeep on the premises. There was only one official manning the police station when it was attacked and he escaped unharmed. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
08/30/2010: On Monday night around 0100, in Balichera village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around 40 unidentified armed militants shot and killed a member of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist, identified as Jawahar Chalak, as he was sleeping on the roof of Kumar Primary school. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the Communist Party of India - Maoists were responsible.
01/21/2010: On Thursday, in Bishenpur, Manipur, India, unidentified militants triggered an Improvised Explosive Device blowing up an excavator used for clearing Phumdis (Floating Biomass) at Loktak Lake. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. No casualties were reported.
02/10/2010: On Wednesday, in Khurai Ayangpalli, Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade on the residence of Horticulture Director, Khuraijam Ratankumar. The hand grenade which landed in the courtyard failed to explode and was later defused. No group claimed responsibility.
07/03/2010: On Saturday afternoon, in Waikhom Khongnang in Imphal East, Manipur, India, unknown assailants threw one Chinese hand grenade at the residence of one Nameirakpam Surendra, an assistant agriculture officer, causing unreported casualties and damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/25/2010: On Saturday night, in Nubasai village in the Nayagram area in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of three linked attacks, a group of 30 militants set ablaze a house of a ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporter, Ranjit Adhikary, burning the house to ashes. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants and People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) militants were responsible.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday afternoon at about 0130, near Sundargarh, Orissa, India, a landmine exploded on a section of railway tracks between the Bishra and Bandhamunda stations. The tracks and three sections of the Manoharpur-bound train were damaged. No casualties reported. The attack disrupted train services at different stations and three express trains were cancelled. The specific motive of the attack is unknown; however, the Maoists have called the protest in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh and three districts of Maharashtra - Bhandara, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli - to oppose a sweeping crackdown on them. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist faction was responsible.
01/07/2010: On Thursday night, in one of two related attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoists abducted Communist Party of India-Marxist activist, Nirmal Bhakta (29) from his residence in the Muraboni village of Jhargram, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. The bullet-riddled body of Bhakta was recovered by police from the Muraboni village of Jhargram, Midnapore, on 01/08/2010. Posters left at the spot by the Maoists read that Bhakta was given a death sentence after being found guilty of corrupt activities. Posters found near the bodies claimed both were police informers. No group claimed responsibility.
11/17/2010: On Wednesday night at 0430, in the Nongalbibra coal mining belt in South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a coal miner, identified as Nazrul Islam. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants were responsible. Police suspect the attack was carried out to cause fear and extort money.
10/24/2010: On Sunday, in Chandra village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and injured a Class 10 student, identified as Kartik Mahato. Though the exact cause of the attack on Kartik is not known, the West Bengal police claim that the Maoists wanted the school student to join the movement. However, Kartik's parents were against his joining the Maoists. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/21/2010: On Wednesday in the Purnapani area near Lalgarh in West Midnapore district, West Bengal, India, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) leader was kidnapped and subsequently killed by suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The victim, identified by security officials as Sailen Mahato, was accused by the militants of being a police informer. Maoist posters were found on the spot claiming Mr. Mahato was a police informer.
06/05/2010: On Saturday, in Mader, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, around 50 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres carrying guns and wearing uniforms set fire to a rest house owned by the Indian Forest Department, destroying it but causing no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack occurred during the first day of their Revolutionary week and also Maoist posters left at the site warned people to stay away from security forces. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
01/21/2010: On Thursday night at 0220, in Bishenpur, Manipur, India, a bomb planted by unknown militants exploded at Loktak Development Authority (LDA) office complex, damaging a machine and parts of the office building in the Ningthoukhong area. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. No casualties have been reported.
12/07/2010: On Tuesday evening around 1830, near a temple along the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, an improvised explosive device placed on the steps of a dock leading to the river was triggered, causing an unreported amount of property damage. A two-year-old girl was killed and at least 30 others, including four foreigners, were injured in the attack. One of the injured succumbed to her injuries on 12/11/2010. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place when hundreds of people, many of them foreigners, gathered at the ritual bathing ghats for a daily Hindu prayer. Minutes after the attacks, various media outlets received an email by the Indian Mujahideen (IM) claiming responsibility for the attack. Reportedly, the five page e-mail was sent from Malad in the suburb of Mumbai and signed by Al-Arbi.
05/18/2010: On Tuesday, more than 12 heavily armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) planted two car bombs, weighing more than five kilograms each, on the railway tracks at level crossing between Guraru and Ismailpur stations in Gaya District, Bihar, India. Despite their efforts to beat up the gangman who was present there, the gangman still alerted senior officials and the bombs were removed, with no casualties resulting. Nearby, CPI-Maoists put up posters of unreported content. No group claimed responsibility.
08/22/2010: On Sunday night, in Letham village in Bandwan, Purulia, West Bengal, India, around 10 to 12 unidentified armed militants kidnapped Anima Besra, after killing her uncle Nandalal Besra, a supporter of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). According to police, the militants raided the house of Nandalal and dragged him out along with his niece. Nandalal‘s body was found by locals in a field nearby. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible. The status of the hostage is unknown.
02/17/2010: On Wednesday in Jamui, Bihar, India, armed assailants entered a village kidnapping civilians and setting fire to residences, and blowing several up with dynamite. Eleven civilians were killed, 20 civilians were wounded, 12 civilians were kidnapped and 35 residences were destroyed. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. It is believed that the attack was in retaliation for the murder of eight Naxals by villagers. The status of the hostages is unknown.
12/02/2010: On Thursday night, in one of two linked attacks, in the Palmela area of Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of 20 unidentified militants kidnapped a Communist Party of India- Marxist Leninist activist (CPM-L), identified as D Tirupathi. Tirupathi was branded as a police informer and his status is unknown. No casualties or damages were reported in the attack. The militants had earlier gone to the house of another former CPM-L supporter, Kommu Satyam, and shot and killed him, also branding him as a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
05/18/2010: On Tuesday night at 0200, suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) triggered a landmine blast on a railway track at Khatkhura Halt Station near Jhargram in West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India. The explosion wounded two drivers of a goods train and damaged the engine of the freight train. The engine and windshield of the train were damaged and a two-feet deep crater was left due to the blast. The driver and assistant driver were injured by shards of glass. Police and railway officials also said that several rail sleepers were blown up and the overhead power cable cut on both tracks, that rail services were halted, several trains including Howrah-Puroshattampur Express were diverted and other trains such as Howrah-Tata Nagar Steel Express, UP and down Howrah-Hatia Express, Sambaleshwari Express and other local and passenger trains have been stranded at various stations as a result of the blast. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack came during the two-day five-state bandh (shutdown) called by the Maoists. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/27/2010: On Tuesday night at 0120, in the Puturia area four miles outside Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants detonated a landmine, blowing up a section of railway track between the Midnapore and Bhadutala stations. Train services on the Midnapur-Adra section of South Eastern Railway were affected by the blast and normalcy could be restored only at 0915. The driver of the train found a second landmine planted on the tracks and alerted the police around 0230. The second landmine was safely defused. No casualties resulted in either attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, a 48-hour bandh had been called by the Maoists in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Orissa in support of the demand to produce four of their arrested cadres at a court. The cadres were reportedly arrested from the Lalgarh region of Paschim Medinipur district two weeks back. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/22/2010: On Monday night at 2300, near West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a landmine exploded on a meter section of railway tracks of the Down line between Gidhni and Khatkhura Halt stations near Jhargram, damaging the tracks and leaving a three-foot crater. No casualties were reported. Several trains had to be detained or diverted due to the explosion. A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) poster was found at the site. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack came during a protest called by the Maoists to protest the sweeping crackdown on them.
05/02/2010: On Sunday, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified assailants fired upon and killed a civilian associated with Salwa Judum, an anti-Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) movement in Chhattisgarh, India. The victim, identified as Rajkumar Nayak, the chief of Salwa Judum, was killed while on his way home. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the CPI-Maoists were responsible. According to police, the Maoists were watching him closely for many days before killing him.
10/18/2010: On Monday afternoon at 1500, at Topodisa village in Haflong, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, the chief of the Black Widow (DHD-J), Maurong Dimasa was shot and injured when unidentified gunmen attacked him and his two colleagues. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/27/2010: On Tuesday, on a bridge at Boirasole village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants detonated a landmine, blowing up a culvert which cut off the bridge and caused an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
07/06/2010: On Tuesday morning, at MPV21 village in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, a group of about 70 Maoist gunmen came into the village and blew up a school building with land mines. Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) cadres claimed that they destroyed the school building because it was to be used by security forces during the anti-Maoist operations. No casualties were reported, and the Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility.
12/24/2010: On Friday night between 0030 and 0230, in Chirogora village in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, militants killed a Jharkhand Party (Aditya) worker, identified as Raghunath Murmu, by stabbing him to death. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
09/23/2010: On Thursday evening, a grenade was thrown at the home of joint director of Municipal Administration Housing and Urban Development (MAHUD) Bhaktaraj Singh in Wahengbam Leikai, Imphal East, Manipur, India. The grenade failed to explode and police were successful in disarming it, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/11/2010: On Thursday, in the Achanbigei Mayai Leikai area of Imphal, Manipur, India, two unidentified militants attacked the residence of Chief of Imphal East Zila Parishad (District level local self-Government institution), Bimola Devi and her husband. Both were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
07/05/2010: On Monday, in the Korkunda block of Mandapalli, in Kalimela, Orissa, India, around 50 Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPN-M) militants blew up two government office buildings in the same block with land mines, destroying the buildings but causing no reported casualties. The police suspect that the attack was an attempt to destroy the infrastructure which would likely be used by security forces during anti-Maoist operations in the region. The CPI-Maoist claimed responsibility. A pamphlet left behind at the scene, stated that the attack was the consequence for the killing of Maoist leader ‘Azad’.
10/23/2010: On Saturday at 0000 midnight, in Barabhum, Ayodhya, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants abducted an intelligence branch inspector, identified as Partha Biswas, and an non-governmental organization (NGO) worker, identified as Samarjit Basu. As of 01/13/2011, the police still had no information on the hostages’ whereabouts or condition. The Communist Part of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/08/2010: On Thursday night around 0030, in Nakulnar village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of two related attacks, unidentified militants attacked the home of Congress leader Avdesh Gautam after attacking the Kuakonda police station. According to Gautam, the rebels triggered a blast near the gate of his house and then stormed the house opening indiscriminate fire. Two relatives of the Congress leader were killed, and two others were injured. Gautam escaped the attack unhurt. The deceased were identified as Gutam’s brother-in-law Sanjay (35) and a servant, while the injured were identified as his wife, son and a security guard. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/07/2010: On Wednesday, in the Darbhanga district of Bihar, India, around 50 suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) abducted Sitaram Rai, headman of Usri village in Darbhanga District, and took him away to an unknown location. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. The status of the hostage is unknown.
02/27/2010: On Saturday, in the Kotshila area of Puruliya, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants bombed an unspecified number of liquor stores. The Maoists reportedly dressed in civilian clothing and military uniforms told store owners to give up the profession and told them to leave. The store owners were not harmed. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
02/10/2010: On Wednesday night at 0200, Maoists blew up railway tracks in Sundargarh district, Orissa, India, derailing eight wagons of a goods train disrupting service on the Howrah-Mumbai line. The attack occurred between Bisra and Bhalulata stations. The train was damaged and a section of the track was damaged. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday night, in Birikot, Gajapati, Orissa, India, three mobile phone towers were blown up by Communist Party of India-Maoist militants. One mobile tower belonged to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and two unspecified private companies. According to police, 30 to 40 Maoists arrived at Birikot and planted landmines at the towers and then fled. The three towers were damaged in the attack. No casualties were reported and there was no claim of responsibility.
01/15/2010: On Friday, in Gumla, Jharkhand, India, a land mine was triggered by Maoists killing six policemen, and a civilian, near the Gurdari mines. The Communist Party of India - Maoists claimed responsibility. There were no reports of damage.
12/01/2010: On Wednesday evening, in the Kumardi area of Balarampotre, Purulia, West Bengal, India, four unidentified militants shot and killed a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), Bikash Mondol. According to police, the militants fled to Jharkhand on Mondol’s motorcycle. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
06/30/2010: On Wednesday morning, in Salehatu village, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, three unidentified assailants kidnapped one civilian, prior to killing him. The victim was identified as a contractor, Kedar Munda. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
12/24/2010: On Friday, in Garhwa, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants set ablaze three vehicles in order to disrupt balloting at a polling booth. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
09/12/2010: On Sunday night around 0400, near Jhargram in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants blew up a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) party office at Lodhasuli with a powerful landmine. The three-room building was completely destroyed, but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
10/13/2010: On Wednesday morning, in Belatikri area near Lalgarh in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, four militants shot and killed Tapan Dolui, a member of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Belatikri local committee, while he was working in his field. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
12/04/2010: On Saturday, in the Chatra Bazaar area of Giridih, Jharkhand, India, a group of unidentified militants attacked the vehicle of Nunulal Marandi, the younger brother of former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. According to police, Nunulal was inaugurating a campaign office of a Zila Parishad candidate for the ongoing panchayat elections at Chatro bazaar when about six cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) opened fire on him. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
03/28/2010: On Sunday late in the day, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) bombed a government school in Rohtas district, Bihar, India. The school was badly damaged but there were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
07/26/2010: On Monday, at Kuhighat in Chirang, Assam, India, unidentified militants shot and killed four Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel and injured three others. The deceased were identified as assistant commandant Kishore Kunal, Constables Pratap Singh and Harsh Sherpa and driver Amit Tiwari; and the injured were identified as Constables Amit Kumar, Giridas Singh Bisht and Balwant Singh Yadav. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the militants belonged to the Ranjan Daimary faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
02/10/2010: On Wednesday evening at around 1915, in Taokhong Khunou Nityainanda Leirak area of Imphal West, Manipur, India, a diesel auto rickshaw was hijacked and set ablaze by unidentified militants. No group claimed responsibility.
09/29/2010: On Wednesday evening, in Mahupada village in Sundargarh, Orissa, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a 60-year-old civilian, suspecting him to be a police informer. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility, leaving a poster near his body stating that he was a police informer.
03/20/2010: On Saturday night, in Buduguda village, Malkangiri District, Orissa, India, assailants fired upon and killed Nityanand Nag (50), suspecting him to be a police informer. In a banner put up nearby the body of the victim, the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) demanded that Operation Greenhunt be stopped. The Maoists also warned the villagers that all those acting as ''police informer'' would face the fate of Nag.
01/15/2010: On Friday, six policemen and a truck driver were killed in a landmine blast and indiscriminate firing by Maoist rebels in Gumla district of Jharkhand. Rebels triggered a landmine and opened fire on nine security personnel who were returning in a bauxite-laden truck to Gurdari police picket. Six policemen, including an assistant sub inspector, were killed as well as the truck driver, while two cops were injured. No group claimed responsibility but the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were suspected.
08/04/2010: On Wednesday night, in Balumath, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, around 15-20 assailants shot and killed Munna Gupta, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. Gupta, along with four other supporters were traveling to Balumath from Hehegara near the Ranchi-Chatra road when they were attacked. The four other supporters, identified as Vijay Yadav, Ajay Gupta, Uday Ganju and Anandi Ganju, were also assaulted in the attack. No damages were reported in the attack. Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a breakaway faction of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for this incident. Pamphlets left at the scene accused the BJP leader of extorting money in the name of the organization.
05/18/2010: On Tuesday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres blew up an unused Government warehouse at Bodigata in Malkangiri District, Orissa, India. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police said that the incident occurred during the CPI-Maoists' two-day shutdown and that it is believed they targeted the building anticipating that paramilitary forces would use it for anti-Maoist operations.
10/17/2010: On Sunday night, in Phulwar village in Dandai, Garhwa district, Jharkhand, India, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) shot and killed a former cadre of the outfit, identified as Raj Kumar Sao. A note left by the Maoists accused Sao of informing the Police about their movements.
02/22/2010: On Monday, near Pillar No. 63 in an area between Chak Fakira and Benglard villages in Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) causing damage to a section of border fence. No casualties were reported. Two other IEDs were later discovered and defused. No group claimed responsibility.
06/23/2010: On Wednesday afternoon around 1700, in Golapalli, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) shot and killed three police officers and then ran in the woods. According to police, one head constable, Ramesh Kujur, and two other constables, Santosh Yadav and Ashok Markam, ventured out of Golapalli to visit a nearby local market when they were surrounded and shot by the rebels. The Maoists also triggered a blast and fired upon the nearby Golapalli police station to prevent any rescue team from reaching the incident site. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
12/07/2010: On Tuesday night, near Mathurapur in Mali, Aurangabad, Bihar, India, 20-25 armed militants set fire to a bus after asking the passengers to get down. Police officials claim said that there were around 50 passengers on board when the bus was intercepted. The attack caused no casualties and an unreported amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) were responsible.
07/21/2010: On Wednesday afternoon around 1330, at Chingmathak Pishum Leirak in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade at the residence of Dr. Mayengbam Modhumangol. Dr. Modhumangol works for the ENT Department of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). However, the grenade did not explode, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
03/12/2010: On Friday, in the Rajhania area of Jamui in Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants detonated a landmine targeting a Central Reserve Police Force patrol (CRPF). Sukar Yadav, a passer-by, was critically injured in the blast. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/15/2010: On Saturday night, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) supporter was kidnapped from his home at Boredanga in Nayagram. The assailants later fired upon and killed the political affiliate. The victim was identified as Paltu Bag (35) and his body was recovered from the Jhargram-Nayagram road on the morning of 05/16/2010. No damages were reported in the attack. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) posters were recovered from the incident site threatening more such killings.
09/02/2010: On Thursday morning, near Aguiboni, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed two persons, identified as Ast Mahato and Girija Mahato. Police recovered the bodies from a road at Ektal village. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility. A poster left at the scene claimed the victims were killed for being suspected police informers.
12/02/2010: On Thursday, in the Sarvaipeta village of Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, unidentified militants attacked and injured three civilians who were reportedly family members of a former Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militant, identified as J. Ganapathi. Reportedly, the militants went to Ganapathi’s house and asked for him. When his family informed the militants that he was not staying there, they took Ganapathi’s wife, Bhagyalaxmi, father Sammaiah and his brother Rammurthy to the village and thrashed them near the martyr’s memorial and warned that they would kill Ganapathi for acting as Police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
06/08/2010: On Tuesday night, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, police recovered three bombs weighing anywhere from two to five kilograms, four to five kilograms and six to 18 kilograms respectively, in an empty auto-rickshaw near the district passport office. Acting on a tip off, the police searched the rickshaw and questioned the driver, in which a bag was discovered containing the bombs. According to police, the bombs were aimed at damaging the passport office in Sector 2 of Dhruva. The attack was unsuccessful and caused no damages or casualties. No group claimed responsibility but police speculate that Communist Party of India-Maoist is responsible for the attack.
11/18/2010: On Thursday evening at 1930, in Baruhatu village in Bundu, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants on motorcycles shot and killed four civilians, identified as Pradip Munda, his eight-year old daughter, and two friends, Sanjay Mahto and Soram Munda. The militants suspected Munda of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) commanded by Kundan Pahan were responsible.
02/15/2010: On Monday, in the Hiyanglam Tera Pishak area of Thoubal district in the Indian state of Manipur, unidentified militants detonated a grenade targeting the residence of a state government employee, Oinam Ibotombi Singh (52). No casualties or damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
06/05/2010: On Saturday, in a village in Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, five improvised explosive devices were recovered and defused by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) paramilitary personnel. Each explosive device weighed 60 kilograms. The attack was unsuccessful, therefore causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/01/2010: On Thursday night, in Charai village in Palamu, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres attacked a middle school using two explosive devices. One bomb flattened a room of the school, and the other bomb did not explode. The motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack occurred on the second day of a two-day shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the anti-people policies of the Central Government, referring to the disinvestment policies and recent price rise in Jharkhand, Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Chhattisgarh. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that CPI-Maoists were responsible.
12/20/2010: On Monday, on a road connecting Manatu and Padma in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, a landmine was discovered and defused, causing no casualties or damages. It was believed that the bomb was targeting security forces carrying ballot boxes after a village election. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/12/2010: On Sunday night, in the village of Panchadumar, in the Garhwa area of Jharkhand, India, one civilian, believed to be a police informant, was shot and killed by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) assailants. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/19/2010: On Sunday morning at 0830, in Nunnungeria village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants set fire to a bulldozer after killing a railway worker, Srikant Saren, who had brought the bulldozer to the village in order to dig a pond. Supposedly the Maoists wanted unemployed villagers to be given the task under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), instead of using machines for the purpose. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
09/12/2010: On Sunday night, in the Dompara area of Nachupatina village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, five Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) supporters were taken from their huts by suspected militants and shot and killed. The victims were identified as Amrit Aagyuan, Rohin Aagyuan, Samaresh Aagyuan, Swapan Aagyuan, and Prasanta Aagyuan. One other, Amrit Aagyuan, was also injured in the attack. The Communist Party of India Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened to kill anyone helping the CPM.
11/08/2010: On Monday, near the Timanpur village in Raighar block of Nabarangpur, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) shot and killed two civilians. Reportedly, the victims were driving their motorcycles on their way to Binayapur when they were fired on by Maoists. The militants later set fire to the two motorcycles, causing an unreported amount of property damage. A poster left at the incident site near the bodies stated that the victims were given the death sentence for being involved in anti-social activities and extorting money in the name of the Maoists.
01/25/2010: On Monday, in Dhubri, Assam, India, an improvised explosive device weighing ten kilograms was recovered and defused from a Dhubri-bound Assam State Transport Corporation bus coming from Siliguri at Chagolia inter-State check post. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. There were no reported casualties.
12/01/2010: On Wednesday, in the Doodhapani area of Jamtara, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a farmer identified as Pradeep Singh, then beheaded him. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it was suspected that the attack was carried out because the militants believed Sing to be a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/08/2010: On Thursday night around 0145, in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, around 100-120 unidentified militants attacked the Hehegara railway station using dynamite and explosives, causing an unreported amount of damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack occurred on the second day of a shutdown called by rebels to protest the killing of one of their top leaders. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected militants belonging to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were responsible.
02/01/2010: On Monday, in Bankura, West Bengal, India, a large group of Communist Party of India-Maoist militants and pro-CPI-M tribal militiamen attacked a police station, leading to an armed exchange. The attack reportedly consisted of a mob of men marching behind women in order to protest stepped-up patrols in the area. Six women were reported to be hit in the Police firing, in which two died on the way to the hospital. Six policemen were reportedly injured from spears and other sharp weapons. Urmila Singh Sardar, a Maoist women's squad leader and wife of Maoist leader Rajaram Sardar, was arrested during the attack after she tripped and fell. Three more suspected Maoists were arrested in a subsequent counter-terrorism operation in the area. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
12/22/2010: On Wednesday, on a road in the Belpahari area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants triggered an improvised explosive device on a road. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
12/26/2010: On Sunday, in the forest of Konta area in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a Central Reserve Police Force trooper during a clash. The victim was identified as Manveer Shah. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
09/05/2010: On Sunday, in Dharampur near Lalgarh of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, six to eight unidentified gunmen fired upon and critically injured a civilian relative of the Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPM) Binpur zonal committee secretary Anuj Pandey. The victim Bidyut Pandey was shot four times. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed that a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
12/30/2010: On Thursday, at the Hanumantpur weekly market in Hanumantpur village at Chandrapur block in Rayagada, Odisha, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a Central Reserve Police Force trooper, identified as Tek Chand. A police constable of the Orissa State Armyed Police, identified as Ramesh Kandhapani, was also injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
12/25/2010: On Saturday night, in Bachurkhoire village in the Nayagram area in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of three linked attacks, a group of 30 militants set ablaze a house of a ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporter, Anam Bera, reducing the house to ashes. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants and People’s Committee against Police Atrocities militants were responsible..
07/01/2010: On Thursday morning around 1045, in Bijulibon, Tinsukia, Assam, India, seven unidentified assailants attacked and beat Sadhan Kumar Tamuli, a manager of the Luit tea estate, and an employee, Bhaskar Jyoti Changmai Phukon, while they were on their way to the garden. The assailants then set on fire two mini trucks and a motorcycle in the estate, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants were responsible.
05/12/2010: On Wednesday, in Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, unidentified assailants detonated a landmine on the highway at Bhat More, damaging a culvert on the road. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack came during a bandh (shut down) called by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA). Asit Mahato of the PCAPA said the Maoists and PCAPA activists have jointly called for an indefinite blockade in the area to protest against the CPM cadres camping in many villages of Lalgarh and Belpahari. No casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
01/27/2010: On Wednesday, in Bankura, West Bengal, India, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) leader Ranjit Hembram. Police suspect Hembram, a Sarenga zonal committee member, was abducted by Maoists and shot and killed soon after. The Police recovered the bullet-riddled body of Hembram from Sarenga forest. Police Superintendent, Vishal Garg, confirming the incident, said that the Maoists left some posters at the scene. Two suspected Maoists have also been arrested.
12/24/2010: On Friday, at Birmadal and Odolchua village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, militants killed two ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist workers, identified as Manorajan Mahto and Rathindranath Gope. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
11/20/2010: On Saturday night, at Grawfund Litter in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a former militant, identified as Showkat Ahmad Rather. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/18/2010: On Friday, in Dibrugarh, Assam, India, assailants attacked a Bajrangpur tea estate by unknown means, damaging the business but causing no casualties. Intelligence sources said the attack by a group of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) cadres was an attempt by the group to recover lost ground in the district. The assailants attempted to kill the manager, Indra Kumar Baruah, for refusing to pay the RS 10 lakh extortion demanded in January. No group claimed responsibility.
10/09/2010: On Saturday evening around 1845, in Tura market in West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, India, unidentified militants lobbed a crude bomb from a moving vehicle at Ma Bakery shop injuring seven people. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants were responsible.
07/08/2010: On Thursday night around 0030, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of two related attacks, around 200 unidentified militants opened indiscriminate fire on the Kuskonda police station. Six Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres were killed during the attack. According to police the attack was carried out to distract security forces while another group of rebels attacked a Congress leader’s house. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that CPI-Maoists were responsible.
12/29/2010: On Wednesday morning, in Halewara village in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, around 100 unidentified armed militants entered the house of a local Nationalist Congress Party leader, identified as Preeti Godshelwar, and set the house ablaze. No one was present in the house at the time of the incident, causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
12/02/2010: On Thursday, in the Laxmipuram village of Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, around 20 unidentified militants shot and killed a tailor, identified as Shaik Majeed, who was accused of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/21/2010: On Sunday night at 0030, in Dulukti, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants abducted and later shot and killed two local Communist Party of India - Marxist leaders. Baleswar Singh Sardar and Karali Mahato were abducted from their homes and shot and killed in a nearby forest area. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. Maoist posters, claiming that Sardar and Mahato used to act as police informers, were recovered from the incident site.
12/02/2010: On Thursday night, in one of two linked attacks, in the Palmela area of Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of 20 unidentified militants shot and killed a former activist of the Communist Party of India- Marxist Leninist (CPM-L), identified as Kommu Satyam. According to police, the militants arrived at Satyam’s residence and shot him suspecting him to be a police informer. The militants later barged into the home of another former activist, D. Tirupathi, and kidnapped him, also branding him as a police informer. The status of Tirupathi is unknown. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
06/01/2010: On Tuesday night at 2330, in Senapati, Manipur, India, unidentified assailants set the house of Manipur tribal welfare minister DD Thaisii on fire, destroying the residence but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility; however, it is believed that supporters of the bandh (shutdown) called against the Autonomous District Council (ADC) polls in Senapati, Ukhrul, and Tamenglong are responsible.
06/30/2010: On Wednesday, on the Munger-Jamui Road in Bihar, India, unidentified militants abducted the driver of a jeep and beheaded him for defying their bandh (shutdown) called on that day. The driver of the jeep reportedly carried a wedding party out. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) cadres were responsible.?
01/21/2010: On Thursday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants placed a bomb at the residence of Moirangthem Dolen Singh, Upper Division Clerk of the Manipur Irrigation and Flood Control Department's Dolaithabi project, at Hiyangthang Maning Leikai. The bomb failed to explode it was defused by Police. Police also recovered a note inside the bomb from the Military Council faction of the United Kuki Liberation Army (UKLA). No casualties were reported. There was no reported damage.
05/23/2010: On Sunday night, in one of three related attacks, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants kidnapped 20 civilians. The victims were taken from the Rudraram Madded, Pamgal and Lodad villages on suspicion of being police informers. The number of hostages was provided cumulatively; therefore it is unclear how many were taken from each village. The assailants killed three of the hostages later that day, and released the rest on 05/25/2010. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night, in Sarodag village, in the Kaimur district of Bihar, India, in one of four linked attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a middle school with dynamite, but no casualties were reported. A community hall and two health centers were also blown up in the related attacks. On 04/11/2010, villagers found three Maoist leaflets urging the police to stop Operation Green Hunt. They also warned that Ranchi SSP Praveen Kumar Singh and Ranchi SP (rural) Michael Raj S. will be punished in a 'jan adalat'. The ultras claimed that these officers had killed two of their members, Ashok and Suman, in a fake encounter. Finally, the leaflets also claimed that the school was targeted because the police used schools as their camps during anti-Maoist operations. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/20/2010: On Tuesday morning at 1030, in the Matwada village of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, 25 suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants fatally shot a postman. The victim, identified as Vinay Kodium, 35, who was shot in his back, chest and neck, succumbed to his injuries on the spot. Kodium was running his local business establishments when the Maoists, disguised as villagers, stormed the market and fired on him. It is reported that the Maoists suspected him to be a supporter of their opponents. No group claimed responsibility.
12/24/2010: On Friday evening around 2100, in Gatta village in Dhanora, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a civilian on suspicion of being a police informer. The victim was identified as Dayaram Madavi. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
11/14/2010: On Sunday night, near Karma Lahan village in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, unidentified militants triggered a dynamite blast, blowing up a bridge, causing an unreported amount of property damage and no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/01/2010: On Monday, in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon a police patrol, wounding eight police officers. Three senior police officials, including an additional superintendent of police and a deputy superintendent of police, and five constables were wounded when the ultras attacked them while the police were preparing to raid Kumra village following a tip-off that the left-wing extremists were assembling in the area. When the police arrived, they were reportedly attacked with arrows and bricks. Police officials said that Purulia ASP C. Sudhakar officer was hit with bricks on his face and head, while DSP (headquarters) officer Tanmay Sarkar fractured his right hand. The officer-in-charge of Bandwan also sustained injuries. Five constables were struck by arrows. The police retaliated and opened fire, reporting no injuries. However, unconfirmed reports indicate that two villagers may have been injured in the police fire. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/17/2010: On Saturday, at Chintalnar in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India (Maoist) gunmen dressed in Central Reserve Police Force uniforms fired at the Dantewada massacre probe team headed by former Border Security Force (BSF) Director General E. N. Rammohan. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/13/2010: On Tuesday night, near Sankrail in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants abducted one person. Police did not identify the victim but locals identified him as Churamani Mahato. On 07/14/2010, the body of Mahato was recovered by police in Murakati village. He had been shot and killed. Police suspect Mahato was an activist of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
07/01/2010: On Thursday, in Ningom Thongiao, Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated a bomb, damaging the residence of contractor Thongam Bisorit. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/06/2010: On Saturday, in Jamboni, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a pickup truck loaded with paddy was set ablaze by suspected People's Committee against Police Atrocities or suspected Maoists. No group claimed responsibility. According to police, a group of armed Maoists intercepted the truck and dragged its driver and helper out of the vehicle before setting it on fire.?
07/22/2010: On Thursday morning around 1000, at Gurlapenda village in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants killed Raghu Singh, the President of Salwa Judum (anti-Maoist vigilante group) in Bhopalpatnam. According to police, Singh was shot several times and his throat was slit. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/22/2010: On Saturday evening between 2000 and 2015, suspected cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) fired on a police patrol at the Steel Express, which runs between Howrah and Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), while it was passing through Banstala station near Jhargram in West Midnapore District of West Bengal, India. Pallab Tripathi, a university student, who was standing near the carriage door, was hit by a bullet on his leg, and at least one member of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) paramilitary Ketan Ram sustained minor injuries in the firing. It is unclear is if the shots were fired from the train or while the train was passing through the area. According to police sources, unidentified assailants from the second and last compartments of the train opened fire on a team of joint forces standing on the train platform. The joint forces then returned fire. However, West Midnapore SP Monoj Verma, claimed that the train entered the area while a gunfight was occurring between Maoists and security forces, and locals and rail employees denied both of these claims made by the police and instead said that the gunfight took place between the members of joint forces and railway protection forces. The joint force team had been waiting to board in the train and they tried to stop it at the halt. The rail police personnel mistook them to be Maoists and opened fire, which had been retaliated by the joint forces. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/10/2010: On Wednesday, in Plandu village, Jharkhand, India, suspected Tritiya Prastuti Committee cadres shot and killed Paramanand Ojha, a local leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party. No group claimed responsibility.
11/07/2010: On Sunday morning around 0830, at the residence of Khaidem Samungou in the Kongpal Khaidem Leikai area of Imphal East, Manipur, India, security forces discovered a grenade planted by unidentified militants. The grenade was successfully defused, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/15/2010: On Thursday night, in Pukuria village near Jhargram in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed Pijus Kanti Mahato, a Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM) supporter. According to police, the militants entered Mahato’s shop when he was closing down and shot four rounds into Mahato, killing him on the spot. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
11/07/2010: On Sunday evening around 2000, in Ganakkata village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of three related attacks, four suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) militants attacked the village and shot and killed three people. The victims were identified as Sandhyarani Mahato, Rashbihari Mahato, and Owahed Ali. Reportedly, the militants wearing black dresses went to the house of Wahed Ali, a Group D employee at the Jhargram Block Development Office (BDO) and took him away. The militants also took Sandhyarani Mahato, the mother of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) worker, and Rashbehari, a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) from their homes. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is suspected that Sandhyarani was targeted because her son was working for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Jharkhand, Ali was targeted because his joined the police as an assistant inspector in Howrah, and Rashbehari was targeted for being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/08/2010: On Monday, in Erka forest of Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed to have kidnapped two security personnel, identified as Khemchand Sahu and Jitendra Patel. Ramesh, ‘commander’ of the Keshkal Dalam (squad) sent messages to local media in Kanker District on 11/15/2010 saying that the personnel are safe and would be released if the authorities in the District set free several local people who were in Police custody after reportedly being labeled as Maoists. On 11/20/2010, a day after Chhattisgarh police released seven suspected Maoists, the rebels released the two abducted security personnel.
08/03/2010: On Tuesday night, in Poornanagar, Giridih, Jharkhand, India, around 100 unidentified assailants detonated a landmine using a remote-controlled device as security guards were driving by in a car. Five guards of a security agency Security and Intelligence Services (SIS) were killed. The victims were identified as Rajesh Kumar, Chhotu Oraon, Sury-anath Singh, Suresh Singh and Akhileswar Dubey. The agency’s bulletproof vehicle was completely destroyed. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during the second day of a two day shutdown called by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoist rebels were responsible.
03/25/2010: On Thursday, in Dohnadrup, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon and killed Yamuna (Jamuna) Yadav. According to police, Yadav was taken to the jungles near Dohnadrup village and killed. It is unclear whether Yadav was tried in a Kangaroo Court by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) and branded as a police informer or if Yadav was killed for being a member of the Sanjay Yadav 'Splendor' group. According to a Mahuadar police official, Yadav was killed for being an active member of the breakaway faction of the Communist Party of India-Maoists, Sanjay Yadav group. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
02/14/2010: On Sunday, in the Baipariguda area of Koraput District, Orissa, India, Maoist guerrillas blew up a mobile phone tower using a landmine. About 20 armed Maoists first asked the guard to leave and then they proceeded to blow up the tower. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
02/04/2010: On Thursday afternoon at 1745, in Singjamei Kakwa, Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device at a private residence of Lotongbam Lata, wife of Tejmani. No casualties or damage were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
01/31/2010: On Sunday, in Manipur, India, an employee of the local newspaper the Sangai Express was abducted by unidentified militants. There were no reported casualties. There were no claims of responsibility.
03/20/2010: On Saturday night, over 50 Communist Party of India-Maoists attacked Balipeta village in Koraput District, Orissa, India, and abducted Gokuli Panda and seven other villagers. The Maoists later released all the villagers except Panda. His mutilated body was found lying on the road in Narayanpatna on 03/21/2010. Several Maoist posters and leaflets accusing him to be a corrupt man and a police informer were recovered from the incident site.
05/22/2010: On Saturday night, two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) supporters were abducted from Ladabahara village, Jhargram, West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India. On 05/23/2010 in the morning, the bodies of two unidentified people were discovered, suspected to be the CPI-Marxists that were abducted the night before. The victims were shot in the head and throat, in a village near Jhargram. No damages were reported in the attack. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) posters were found near the bodies, accusing the two victims of being involved in dishonest practices and being hired criminals of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).
04/09/2010: On Friday morning at 0630, in Imphal East District, Manipur, India, an 18 year old girl, Thangkhoi Haokip, was injured when unidentified militants hurled one hand grenade inside the residential complex of former Deputy Speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly, T.T. Haokip. Thangkhoi Haokip is the daughter of T.T. Haokip. No damages were reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/25/2010: On Thursday evening at 2100, in Telia Bahiar, Giridih, Jharkhand, India, a security guard was abducted by Communist Party of India-Maoists and his body was recovered by police on the morning of 03/26/2010. According to police, a group of 30 Communist Party of India-Maoists abducted Chotu Manjhi and took him to a nearby forest area where they slit his throat on suspicion of being a police informer. Manjhi was accused of supplying vital information related to the activities of extremists to the police in the presence of some villagers. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/21/2010: On Thursday, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants placed a Chinese-made hand grenade at the residence gate of Toijam Kanto, a local chief, at Kodompokpi Mamang Leikai. Police detected the grenade after it failed to explode. No group has claimed responsibility for the grenade.
06/17/2010: On Thursday, near Bhuiyadih village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, unidentified assailants set fire to two industrial vehicles, destroying the vehicles. Reportedly, 20 to 25 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) reached the construction site of the Mini Construction Company and set fire to a road roller and a truck. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect that the company refused paying levy to the rebels. Later, assailants assaulted and wounded several employees of Runta Group Industries. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
02/03/2010: On Wednesday night, a suspected People’s United Liberation Front (PULF) militant was killed during an exchange of fire with the 28th Assam Rifles in Kiyamgei Muslim Takok Palli under Irilbung Police Station, Imphal East district, Assam, India. Assam Rifles personnel were patrolling in the area when militants fired at them causing the exchange of fire. One AK-56 rifle and nine live rounds of ammunition and some incriminating documents of the outfit were recovered from the possession of the slain militant. No group claimed responsibility.
11/08/2010: On Monday night, at Madanpur in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, on one of two related attacks, unidentified militants blew up a mobile tower, causing an unreported amount of property damage and no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/16/2010: On Tuesday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, armed assailants belonging to the Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC) torched a road construction machine near Banahi village and kidnapped an engineer who was supervising the road construction work. Bose was released after six or seven hours and after being threatened by the assailants. The construction machine was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction, the Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC), was responsible. Police suspect the attacks were carried out in order to collect levy from the owner of the construction firm.
03/25/2010: On Thursday, in the village of Dharampur, West Bengal, India, assailants detonated five landmines targeting security forces, injuring one police constable. No group has claimed responsibility, but Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were thought responsible for the attack.
09/22/2010: On Wednesday afternoon around 1400, in Sebayatan village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed Srikanta Mondal, a clerk at a girls’ school. His elderly parents were also injured in the attack. According to police, Mondal had people from Radhanagar and its neighboring villages to resist Maoists in the past few months. The assailants surrounded Mondal when he exited the school and asked him why he had torn down Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters. Using revolvers, the militants fired at Mondal. His father Helu and Mother Sabita tried to resist, but the militants also fired on them before escaping. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/30/2010: On Thursday night, in Marda village in Chamorshi, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a group of unidentified militants attacked and set ablaze the Gram Panchayat (village level local self government institution) building. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
12/21/2010: On Tuesday, at Pindiki in Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha, India, in one of two related attacks, around 40 armed militants, including women, raided the make-shift camp of the ARSS Infrastructure Limited, a private construction company, and set ablaze at least 14 vehicles used for road construction work. The vehicles included seven tippers, two road-rollers, two mixers, a water tanker, a grader, and an excavator. No casualties were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoists claimed responsibility. A letter purportedly written by the head of the Basadhara division of the Maoists, left at the spot said the ultras opposed road construction work in the area.
11/08/2010: On Monday, at a school in Gomphakunda village in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, around 30-40 militants blew up a newly constructed high school building managed by the Tribal Welfare using landmines, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident. A poster left at the incident site indicated that the attack was carried out to protest Obama's visit to India.
07/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Gonta, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of six related attacks, unidentified militants opened indiscriminate fire on Salwa Judum (anti-Maoist vigilante group) activists located near camps of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Police, triggering gun battles. Five other camps were targeted in the attacks. Reportedly, these Salwa Judum camps now act as camps for security forces. No casualties and no damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
10/05/2010: On Tuesday, in Talewada jungle in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine blast as a police rescue team was traveling in an anti-mine vehicle to retrieve the body of one of the slain cops killed a day earlier. Eight commandos were injured in the blast and the attack caused an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/04/2010: On Sunday evening, in the Chapee area of Palamau district, in Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a non-governmental organization, Alternative for India Development (AID) -run school. The Maoists had damaged the same school in 2009 as well. The school has been targetted by the rebels as it is often used to house security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/08/2010: On Wednesday night, in Siromoni village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, five unidentified militants on motorcycles shot and killed Trinamool Congress party supporter Jithen Soren. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/21/2010: On or before Friday, three activists of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) were killed in Sarenga in Bankura District, West Bengal, India. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although CPI-M leaders have put the blame on cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and on the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA). One CPI-M party activist is still missing.
01/27/2010: On Wednesday, at Manipur in Banka, Bihar, India, cadres of Terai Janatantrik Party (Madhes) abducted the Sitapur Village Development Committee (VDC) secretary Indra Bahadur Shrestha and subsequently shot him. The outfit's Banke-Bardiya in-charge Aadarsha owned up the responsibility over telephone. The action against Shrestha was taken for the embezzlement VDC funds.
02/14/2010: On early Sunday, two hundred Maoists attacked Phulwaria Korasi village, Jamui district, Bihar, India, where they detonated a home and set fire to 30 mud huts, burning forty houses in the span of two hours. The attack left twelve dead, including a woman and a child. The attack is believed to have been carried out because villagers allegedly killed eight CPI-M militants at the beginning of February.
05/18/2010: On Tuesday, a suspected National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) cadre was killed when the bomb he was planting under a bridge along the stretch of the Imphal-Mao section of the National Highway-39, in Senapati District, Manipur, India, blew up. The slain militant was identified as Doni Anal (24) of Liwa Sarei village in Chandel District. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, police officials believe that a Naga militant group was responsible and that the attack was carried out to cut off road links between the rest of India and Manipur as a mark of protest.
02/18/2010: On Thursday, in Kodasi Phulwaria village, Jamui, Bihar, suspected Communist Paryty of India-Maoists (CPI-M) raided the village killing 11 villagers, kidnapping a dozen others, and wounding at least 10. Two women and a child were among those killed in the attack. The militants also set fire to 35 houses and police believe that some villagers could have burned alive. According to police, it is possible the Maoists wanted to avenge the deaths of eight cadres who were lynched by the villagers recently. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. The status of the hostages is unknown.
04/27/2010: On Tuesday night at 0120, in the Puturia area four miles outside Midnapore, West Bengal, India, on the railway track between the Midnapore and Bhadutala stations, a train driver found a landmine planted on the tracks just after another landmine was detonated. Railway officials and police arrived at the spot in an inspection train around 0230 and found another IED in a steel can on the Up line along with some electrical wire. Police suspect the electrical wire was used to trigger the first blast. No casualties were reported in the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack came during the second day of a two-day bandh called by the Maoists in Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh to protest Operation Green Hunt. Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants are suspected of being responsible for the attack.
05/09/2010: On Sunday evening, at Behbeda village in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, a member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) killed a former police officer. Mangal Dehari, was shot and killed by several men near his house. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/08/2010: On Thursday afternoon, in Laksmanpur village near Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a local leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), identified as Lankeswar Mahato, outside his home. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
11/20/2010: On Saturday, near Londa village in Gaya, Bihar, India, a landmine improvised explosive device detonated as a Bihar Military Police (BMP) bomb disposal squad attempted to defuse it. Two police officers were killed and nine others, including three journalists, were injured. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India (Maoist) militants were responsible. Six CPI-M cadres connected with the attack, identified as Paras Yadav, Dashrath Yadav, Bhola Yadav, Mahesh Yadav, Kedar Yadav and Kailash Yadav, were arrested by police on 12/08/2010.
02/06/2010: On Saturday night, a group of Maoists entered Kumakela village about 30 kilometers from Sundargarh, Orissa, India, and abducted Sukura Oram from his sister’s wedding ceremony. Oram’s bullet riddled body was recovered from a bridge in Champajharan on Sunday morning. Oram was branded as a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/22/2010: On Thursday afternoon, in Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a powerful improvised explosive device placed by unknown assailants was discovered and reported to the police. The bomb was planted near a boundary wall in the playground of government Higher Secondary School in Shanguan. A bomb disposal squad soon arrived and defused the device, resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
12/16/2010: On Thursday evening at 1800, at a coal depot in Warima, South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, two unidentified militants abducted a coal exporter, identified as Rimudu Sutnga. Sutnga was released by his kidnappers on 01/16/2010. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants were responsible.
09/25/2010: On Saturday night, in Kotagunnalu village in Chintapalli Mandal, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of 100 militants killed two civilians, identified as Pangi Prasad and Pangi Srikanth, for being police informers. The victims were hacked to death with unidentified sharp weapons. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack. Posters left near the bodies warned tribals and home guards of the consequences of acting as police informers.
11/07/2010: On Sunday evening around 2000, in Ganakkata village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of three related attacks, four suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) militants attacked the village and shot and killed three people. The victims were identified as Sandhyarani Mahato, Rashbihari Mahato, and Owahed Ali. Reportedly, the militants wearing black dresses went to Sandhyarani’s house and asked her to go with them. The militants also took Wahed Ali, a Group D employee at the Jhargram Block Development Office (BDO), and Rashbehari, a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) from their homes. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is suspected that Sandhyarani was targeted because her son was working for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Jharkhand, Ali was targeted because his joined the police as an assistant inspector in Howrah, and Rashbehari was targeted for being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/18/2010: On Wednesday night, in Sopor, Jammu and Kashmir, India, militants attacked the house of legislator Muhammad Ashraf Dar of ruling National Conference party. A Special Police Officer (SPO) was killed and two policemen were injured in an exchange of fire with the militants. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
11/25/2010: On Thursday, in the Kakwa area in Imphal West, Manipur, India, a Chinese hand grenade was found hanging in front of the offices of the MS Manipur Gas company. Police defused the grenade before it detonated, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/11/2010: On Wednesday morning around 0900, at Dera-k-Gali, in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a group of militants waiting on hill tops fired at the vehicle of a Commanding Officer of Rashriya Rifles. A bus passing through the area also got hit. A woman was killed and nine others, including two Army jawans, were injured in the attack. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/13/2010: On Monday, in Parangir village in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants fired upon voters during the third phase of the panchayat elections. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
10/24/2010: On Sunday, in Awapalli village, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants abducted five youths on the suspicion that they had applied for the post of Special Police Officer (SPO). On 10/31/2010 the militants released the victims, Ramesh Wasam, Potram Raju, Hemla Potram, Dinesh and Nakka Raju when they denied having applied for the post of SPO along with the warning to refrain from anti-naxal activities like 'Salwa Judum' and 'Gandhigiri'. The Maoists had reportedly tied their hands, feet and eyes and took them to forest. While in captivity, they were questioned whether they had applied for the post. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
12/03/2010: On Friday night around 2315 to 2330, in one of two linked attacks, between the Tilrath and Begusarai train stations in Bihar, India, militants blew up a section of the East Central Railway track, causing an unreported amount of property damage and no casualties. One of the gatemen claimed that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) gave him a poster that mentioned two bombs that were placed on the tracks and asked him to inform higher authorities about it. According to the gateman, 10 minutes after receiving the poster, he heard a loud explosion. The explosion had left a large crater in the tracks and destroyed about one meter of tracks. The militants also detonated a bomb on a railway line near Kursela station in Khagaria District, causing no casualties or damages. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the blasts were in retaliation for the death of 10 colleagues in a gun-battle with criminals near the Ganga-Gandak River in Munger on 11/29/2010.
11/15/2010: On Monday, in MV-105 village in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, 25 armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres slit the throat of a class IV government employee, identified as Dama Madkami. A Maoist poster recovered from the incident site claimed that the victim was a suspected police informer.
02/10/2010: On Wednesday, the Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres set two vehicles ablaze to enforce its call for north Bihar bandh. A jeep and a sand laden truck were set ablaze in the Aaatkali village and Samhouti village, in the Munshi Chowk area of Sheohar, Bihar, India. No injuries were reported, but the vehicles were completely destroyed. No group claimed immediate responsibility.
04/17/2010: On Saturday afternoon at 1515 and 1530, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, ten people, including four police personnel, five civilians, and a security guard were injured when unidentified militants detonated two low-intensity improvised explosive devices (IEDs) targeting the Chinnaswamy Stadium. The attack occurred as spectators were gathered to watch the last league match between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians. The first IED went off around 1515, at Gate 12 on Cubbon Road, damaging a wall. Fifteen minutes later, the second IED exploded in front of the State Police Wireless headquarters near the Anil Kumble Circle, close to the stadium. The second explosion caused no damages. A third IED was discovered at Gate eight on Queen’s Road around 1930 and was defused by security forces. On 04/18/2010, around 0900 in the morning, a fourth explosive was found near a bus stop close to Gate One, and more explosive material was found after a flex board near the stadium was opened during search operations. Sources said all the five bombs contained ammonium nitrate-based material known as powergel, commonly used in quarrying as the main explosive ingredient. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, police officials believe that an Indian Mujahedeen cell led by Mohammad Zarar Siddi Bawa may be behind the attack. On 04/20/2010, five people suspected were arrested in connection to the attacks.
10/12/2010: On Tuesday afternoon, in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, India, 40 to 50 unidentified militants shot and killed two police constables, identified as Rajesh Prasad and Ritesh Jha. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres were responsible.
02/22/2010: On Monday evening at 2030, near the Kantapahari camp in Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) president Lalmohan Tudu and at least two other PCPA cadres, Suchitra Murmu and Yubaraj Murmu were killed; however only the body of Tudu (53) was recovered. Superintendent of Police Manoj Verma said that around 100 armed men of the PCPA assembled near the camp of the Central Reserve Police Force and fired, prompting the security forces to exchange fire with the assailants. Locals claimed that five persons were killed in the exchange of fire and that the missing corpses were dragged into the five kilometer long Jhitka forest at the edge of Badapelia, one kilometer from the encounter spot. It has not been confirmed whether or not there were more casualties on the side of the PCPA. The PCPA; however claimed that Tudu was drug from his home by security forces and shot and killed near his home in Narcha village. Unconfirmed reports said that Tudu's body was recovered from Narcha rather than Katapahari. No group claimed responsibility.
10/26/2010: On Tuesday, in a forested area in Badakihathiya, Munger, Bihar, India, 45 heavily-armed militants set ablaze three Tarapur Assembly constituency, Congress and Janvadi Samajwadi Party campaign vehicles. The militants thrashed and pulled the occupants of the vehicles out before setting them on fire. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
03/22/2010: On Monday night at 2225, in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, a section of railway track was blown up by Communist Party of India-Maoist militants in an area between Kokpara and Dalbhumgarh. Railway services were temporarily affected. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
03/22/2010: On Monday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, an improvised explosive device exploded near a section of railway tracks between the Midnapore and Godapia stations. The tracks were damaged. There were no casualties reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist faction was responsible. The attack occurred during the 48-hour bandh called by CPI-Maoists in seven states to protest anti-Maoist operations.
02/19/2010: On Friday morning at 0630, in the area between Agijang and Khellen in the Chandel district of India's Manipur, unidentified assailants detonated an explosive device killing one civilian and wounding three others. The deceased was identified as James Jou (15) of Khullen Khailet village of Chandel. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/01/2010: On Monday, near a bridge on the main Chakai-Jamui Road in Betia forest in Jamui, Bihar, India, unidentified militants triggered a blast, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack came in the early hours of polling for 42 Assembly constituencies in Bihar. The assailants fled when Border Security Forces (BSF) retaliated. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
12/07/2010: On Tuesday night, in Kedmara village under Tadgaon sub-police station in Bhamragad tehsil of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) killed their former colleague, identified as Rakesh Chandu Veladi. According to police, upon learning of his presence in the Kedmara village, the militants went to the village and took Veladi. Veladi’s body was recovered from the Tadgaon-Mannerajaram Road on the morning of 12/08/2010. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/13/2010: On Friday night, in Chandebila village in Kotwali, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) supporter, identified as Chotu Mahato. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
08/12/2010: On Thursday night, in Belpahari, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants abducted Santosh Dutta, a worker of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and then hacked him to death. Dutta’s body was discovered near his residence on 08/13/2010. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
01/28/2010: On Thursday, in between the towns of Sungajan and Bokajan, Assam, India, unidentified militants detonated a small improvised explosive device on a railway line. The explosion damaged a goods train passing at the time but there were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night, in Sarodag village, in the Kaimur district of Bihar, India, in one of four linked attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a second health center with dynamite, but no casualties were reported. A community hall, another health center and a school were also blown up in the related attacks. On 04/11/2010, villagers found three Maoist leaflets urging the police to stop Operation Green Hunt. They also warned that Ranchi SSP Praveen Kumar Singh and Ranchi SP (rural) Michael Raj S. will be punished in a 'jan adalat'. The ultras claimed that these officers had killed two of their members, Ashok and Suman, in a fake encounter. Finally, the leaflets also claimed that the school was targeted because the police used schools as their camps during anti-Maoist operations. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
05/10/2010: On Monday morning at 1030, at Manikonta village near Dornapal on the Jagdalpur-Hyderabad National Highway 221, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants fired upon police officers, causing no casualties or damage. At the time of the attack, authorities were defusing two landmine improvised explosive devices (IED) weighing 50 kilograms and 25 kilograms. Authorities safely defused the landmine IEDs. Acting on a tip-off, a team of 30 district police, bomb disposal squad and special police officers responded to the threat. The joint team can under attack by about 20 rebels when they reached the area. A gun-battle ensued for nearly 40 minutes, before the militants retreated. The two defused IEDs and about 75 meters of wire were seized. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
06/29/2010: On Tuesday evening at about 2000, in Barkol village, Garhwa, Jharkhand, India, unidentified assailants kidnapped a tribal leader. On 06/30/2010, in the morning, the tribal leader Bardhan Kachhu (45), was shot and killed. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
07/16/2010: On Friday morning around 0900, between the Rowta and Mazbat railway stations in Dhansiri, Golaghat, Assam, India, a bomb planted under the railway bridge over a river detonated. The bridge and the tracks were damaged. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the Daimary faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
06/29/2010: On Tuesday afternoon at 1500, in a remote forested area on Daurai Road area in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh, India, dozens of heavily armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) security patrol with automatic weapons, killing at least 26 CRPF and injuring seven others, including four special police officer, in a gun battle that lasted three hours. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
12/19/2010: On Sunday night, in the Chotokhakri village of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around 20 militants raided a house and shot and killed a primary school teacher, identified as Kalicharan Mahato, who is also a local ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility. Posters left at the incident site branded Mahato as a police informer.
09/08/2010: On Wednesday around 0000 midnight, in Nimiadih Tola village in Garhwa, Jharkhand, India, militants shot and killed a civilian, identified as Ajay Yadav. Yadav was shot three times after being taken from his home. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility. A Maoist note left at the incident site accused Yadav of being a police informer.
05/21/2010: On Friday evening, in Ramban village, Sheohar, Bihar, India, in one of three related attacks, about 100 assailants fired upon and killed four civilians. The assailants also assaulted and killed one other civilian. Later the assailants set ablaze the market, damaging 25 houses and seven businesses. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. Maoist literature was left behind as the assiants fled. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, according to police, the Maoists resorted to the violence apparently to avenge the killing of a Maoist cadre, Virendra Bhagat. Bhagat's body was found in the village a fortnight back, and the Maoists suspected involvement of the five villagers in the killing.
11/12/2010: On Friday, at Saliya village in Gaya, Bihar, India, a landmine blast was triggered as personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF) were driving by. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
05/01/2010: On Saturday, in Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Dayal Mahato, a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) was abducted and killed by unknown militants. On 05/02/2010, the body of Mahato was discovered. According to police, Mahato was taken away at gunpoint and suspected of being a police informer following a series of raids by joint security forces. Mahato was beaten in a kangaroo court before being shot. No group claimed responsibility but the Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-M) are suspected.
06/14/2010: On Monday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants attacked the Islampur railway station, damaging the station. The assailants later abducted the station headmaster and two other railway employees and took them to an unknown location. No casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist faction was responsible. The status of the hostages is unknown.
09/23/2010: On Thursday, in Nongpok Kakching, Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified assailants threw a grenade targeting the residence of a personal assistant to the State Health Minister, Huirem Bimol, causing no casualties or damage. Police successfully disarmed the grenade. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) was responsible. On 09/24/2010, a female KCP-Military Council cadre, Thoibi of Khurai Sajor Leikai, was arrested for engineering the attack.
05/08/2010: On Saturday afternoon around 1700, on National Highway 16 near Padekodepal, about 14 kilometers from the district headquarters of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unknown militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting an Indian military convoy. Eight Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 168th Battalion personnel were killed. One other CRPF personnel and one civilian were injured in the attack. The deceased were identified as ASI Santosh Kumar, head constables H K Ghosh, Hajarilal Verma and Subramaniam and constables Santosh Kumar, Rakesh Meena, Tekram Verma and Salad Singh. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is responsible for the attack.
06/12/2010: On Saturday night at 0230, in Villupram, Tamil Nadu, India, unidentified assailants detonated an improvised explosive device, damaging a section of railway but causing no casualties. A passenger train, the Tiruchirapalli-Chennai Rockfort Express, was almost derailed as a result of the attack and a three foot crater was left in the tracks. Police have found posters at the scene placed by people sympathetic to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) protesting the visit by Sri Lankan President Mahindra Rajapakse to India earlier this week. Activists of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) claimed responsibility.
02/25/2010: On Thursday morning, in the Amaradhalan village on Visunpur and Ghaghra national highway in Gumla district in Jharkhand, India, People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) militants shot and killed a truck driver. Three trucks, transporting bauxite, were also set on fire but the other drivers escaped safely. The bauxite laden trucks were going to Hindalco factory. The People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) claimed responsibility. A pamphlet left by the PLFI area commander Bhushan Lakra claimed that PLFI wanted to resolve some public interest issue with Hindalco, but Hindalco did not come forward to resolve the issue. The incident is the outcome of the indifferent attitude of Hindalco towards PLFI demands. Superintendent of Police Narendra Kumar Singh believes the attack was due to denial of Hindalco to pay a levy to the PLFI.
10/22/2010: On Friday, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants abducted five members of a Special Police Officer’s family from a bus. On 10/24/2010 the militants released three of the hostages. The status of the two remaining hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility but the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) was suspected.
12/02/2010: On Thursday night, at Salempur Lodi Road in Pali, Jehanabad, Bihar, India, over 50 armed militants set ablaze construction equipment, including a mixer machine and a water tanker, at the office of a private road construction firm. The attack caused an unreported amount of property damage and no casualties. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack. Leaflets left at the incident site threatened the contractor with more attacks unless the contractor paid extortion money to the group.
12/02/2010: On Thursday night, in Tupakulagudem village in Eturnagaram, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of five unidentified militants broke the diesel tank of an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APARTC) bus and poured the fuel on the vehicle, setting in on fire. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicle. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
12/02/2010: On Thursday night, in Banspal village in Keonjhar, Odisha, India, around 30 unidentified armed militants triggered a landmine at an abandoned Bansapani Police outpost. No casualties were reported, but the front portion of the one-room building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
11/07/2010: On Sunday, at Satbahani railway station in the Satbahani area of Palamau, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported, but a station manager was kidnapped during the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack was carried out as militants called for a shutdown to protest United States Barack Obama’s visit to India. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. The status of the hostage is unknown.
11/07/2010: On Sunday, in Rajhara village of Vishrampur block in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants detonated improvised explosive devices at a local government building, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack was carried out as militants called for a shutdown to protest United States Barack Obama’s visit to India. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
06/20/2010: On Sunday, in one of three related attacks, in Bakrakocha, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon and killed one civilian, Lakhiram Mardi. No damages were reported in the attack. Pamphlets left by the rebels described the victims as police informers and warned villagers against helping the police. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
03/30/2010: On Tuesday, in the Kalsibhanga jungle of Salboni, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Binod Mahato, from his residence then fired upon and killed him. According to police, Mahato had earlier received threats from Maoists who accused him of being a police informer. The body of Mahato was recovered by joint security personnel from Kalsibhanga jungle, with his hands tied to the back side and bullet wounds to the head. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
09/09/2010: On Thursday, in the Padia block of Malkangiri, Orissa, India, nearly 30-50 militants planted landmines and blew up the building of a panchayat (village level local self Government institution) office at Materu. No casualties were reported. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility, leaving a poster at the incident site which stated that the building was targeted to protest against the camp of Border Security Force (BSF) at Sikhapalli near Materu.
02/14/2010: On Sunday, in Dariyaghat, Hailakandi District, Assam, India, a group of unidentified militants attacked the village. However, the attack was repulsed by villagers and there were no casualties reported. No group claimed responsibility.
10/26/2010: On Tuesday night, in Marwah, Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, militants abducted two Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers, identified as Ghulam Mohammad and Irshad Ahmed. One of the victims, Ghulam, was able to escape that same night. On 10/27/2010, Irshad was released. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. Two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) militants, including Sajjad Ahmed alias Rezwan and Shakir Hussain alias Chota Hafeez, have been identified in connection with the attack; while two others remain unidentified.
05/02/2010: On Sunday, near Bhelburu forest in Badkaduil, Simdega, Jharkhand, India, militants attacked a suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) activist, Sudama Singh. Singh was a close relative of the CPI-Maoist's self styled ‘zonal commander’ Debu. The People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/23/2010: On Tuesday, near the Murtanda village in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device targeting a police vehicle. Two police officers were killed in the blast and the vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/18/2010: On Saturday, on the Indo-Bangla border in Karimganj, Assam, India, a group of at least six unidentified militants with AK 47s attacked a vehicle transporting six employees of the Dulbcherra tea estate. Two employees of a tea garden, identified as Kasab Chandra Baroi, the plantation supervisor, and Nilam Sinha, his assistant, were shot and killed. A security guard of the plantation, identified as Hemanta Nath, was also injured in the attack. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the United Democratic Liberation Army (UDLA) were responsible.
11/10/2010: On Wednesday, in Jamuguri village in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, in one of five related attacks against mostly Arunachal government employees and Hindi-speaking people, suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants led by Ranjan Daimary shot and killed a woman, identified as Kalwa Chauhan. Three other civilians were also injured. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, eyewitnesses say that they heard the militants saying that if one more of their cadres were killed, they would kill 20. On 11/01/2010, the NDFB warned the Center and state governments of retaliation if any of its cadres were killed in fake encounters. One militant, Hagrama Basumatary, arrested in connection with the attacks, revealed that groups of three militants simultaneously carried out the attacks before escaping into the Arunachal Pradesh forests.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night, in Sarodag village, Kaimur, Bihar, India, in one of four linked attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a community hall, damaging the building but causing no casualties. A school and two health centers were also blown up in the related attacks. On 04/11/2010, villagers found three Maoist leaflets urging the police to stop Operation Green Hunt. They also warned that Ranchi SSP Praveen Kumar Singh and Ranchi SP (rural) Michael Raj S. will be punished in a 'jan adalat'. The ultras claimed that these officers had killed two of their members, Ashok and Suman, in a fake encounter. Finally, the leaflets also claimed that the school was targeted because the police used schools as their camps during anti-Maoist operations. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/10/2010: On Saturday, in the Koraput district of Orissa, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI - Maoist) militants blew up a culvert on the crucial Narayanpatna-Laxmipur road using a landmine and put up posters opposing ‘Operation Green Hunt'. They also put up posters near the Roxy area of the K.Balanga block of Sundergarh District. No casualties were reported in the attack.
12/24/2010: On Friday, at Odolchua village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of two linked attacks, unidentified militants killed a ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist worker, identified as Rathindranath Gope. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
01/27/2010: On Wednesday, in Keonjhar, Orissa, India, over 20 armed cadres of the Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) set ablaze four vehicles (10-wheeler dumpers and excavators) and ransacked the office of a private construction company at Remal. No casualties were reported in the attack.
05/19/2010: On Wednesday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting the vehicle of paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers in an area between Pingboni and Ramgarh, badly damaging the vehicle. The attack killed five officers; identified as Deputy Commandant Vijay Pal Singh, head Constable BL Santara, and Constables DK Samanta, D Ramesh and Rakesh Kumar. Another Constable, NK Ghosh was injured in the attack. The CRPF team had set out from their camp at Goaltore market to patrol nearby villages when the blast took place. According to police, the device was planted on a road between Pingboni and Ramgarh on the outskirts of Lalgarh. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/02/2010: On Sunday, in the Khangna area of Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unknown militants threw a grenade into the home of a local official. Two civilians were injured as a result of the attack. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/02/2010: On Sunday, in Bota village, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, unidentified assailants fired upon and killed one health care worker. The victim, identified as Subhash Mahato, was killed while on his way to Jamshedpur from Bota village when the assailants forced him to stop and shot him from close range three times. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police officials claim that Mahato was branded as a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the CPI-Maoists were responsible.
12/04/2010: On Saturday morning around 1030, near a private residence in the Keishamthong Elangbam Leikai area of Imphal West, Manipur, India, four unidentified militants kidnapped a government assistant engineer of the Public Works Department, identified as Ningthoujam Bimol, at gunpoint. According to Bimol, two unidentified militants had come on a Dio scooter and asked him to go with them on the pretext of official work. They took him to near the Tiddim Oil Pump on Imphal-Churachandpur road, where two other kidnappers were waiting in a white colored Maruti car. They drove away with Bimol towards Moirang. He said the kidnappers demanded a list of sub-contractors of tenders announced by the government. Bimol was released around 0900 in the morning on 12/08/2010. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
09/29/2010: On Wednesday evening at 1930, in Hundung, Ukhrul, Manipur, India, unidentified assailants threw two grenades at the residence of an Executive Engineer of Electricity, damaging the residence but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Volunteers of Innocent People of Nagas (VIPN) was responsible.
07/02/2010: On Friday night, in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, three suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) on a motorcycle kidnapped a former colleague, identified as Umesh Mehta, for extracting money in the name of their organization. On 07/03/2010 in the morning, the body of Mehta was found lying near a temple at Pheku Bigha village. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that (CPI-M) cadres were responsible.
07/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Gorkha, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of six related attacks, unidentified militants opened indiscriminate fire on Salwa Judum (anti-Maoist vigilante group) activists located near camps of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Police, triggering gun battles. Five other camps were targeted in the attacks. Reportedly, these Salwa Judum camps now act as camps for security forces. No casualties and no damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
11/20/2010: On Saturday night, in the Rashidpur area of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants kidnapped an activist of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), identified as Ganesh Ahir. The hostage was beheaded later that day. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/16/2010: On Tuesday, in Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). The bullet –riddled body of Tapan Dolui was found in the forest at Dherua village in Lalgarh on 03/17/2010. According to the police, Communist Party of India-Maoist posters were found near his body claiming responsibility for the murder.
03/25/2010: On Thursday, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants fired upon and killed a civilian suspected of being a police informer near the Kalimela-Moutu road at the MV-82 village. Literature recovered from near the body cautioned that police informers would face a similar fate and also asked the state government to immediately stop the proposed anti-Maoist operations.
02/11/2010: On Thursday evening at 1930, in Belpahari, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a Communist Party of India-Marxist worker, Baren Singh, was shot dead by Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres. Baren's house was raided and he was dragged out and shot. No group immediately claimed responsibility.
04/22/2010: On Thursday, at Chapiyamadgadh village in Garhwa District, Jharkhand, India, about 20 armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres raided the house of a man and took him to a nearby place before shooting him dead, suspecting him to be a police informer. The identity of the victim is unknown. A Maoist note recovered at the incident site stated that the villager was a police informer.
01/29/2010: On Friday, in Sundergarh, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants kidnapped and killed a senior local trade union official. The CPI-M alleged that the official was a police informer. There were no reports of damage.
09/08/2010: On Wednesday night, between 2210 and 2300, in Daiphang, Udalguri, Assam, India, unidentified assailants detonated an improvised explosive device on a railway, wounding the train engineer, his assistant, and five Railway Protection Force (RPF) officers and damaging one train and the train track. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible. Security forces claimed to have identified a four-member group of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants who were involved in the blast.
07/21/2010: On Wednesday night, in Lidreri village, Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, three unidentified militants abducted a contractor, Mohammad Ramzan Khandey, from his home. Later, the militants took Khandey to a forest area of Panjradi and tortured him to death. The victim’s body was recovered on 07/22/2010 with his throat cut. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but police suspected that cadres of the Hizbul Mujahedeen (HM) were responsible.
03/30/2010: On Tuesday night, in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon and killed a local leader of the Congress Party, Gobardhan Mahali. According to police, around six to 25 assailants raided Mahali's house in Maacchbhandhar village and took him towards the jungle area at gunpoint and then shot him three times in the head. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible. The Maoists had earlier warned that it would kill Congress leaders if the operation is not stopped against them.
12/25/2010: On Saturday night, in Bachurkhoire village in the Nayagram area in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of three linked attacks, a group of 30 militants set ablaze a house of a ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporter, Naren Mahato, burning the house to ashes. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants and People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) militants were responsible.
05/11/2010: On Tuesday night at 0200, in Katama village, Gajapati, Orissa, india, suspected Basadara divisional committee of the Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) militants killed two villagers, Dinabandhu Mantri and Sadananda Sual Singh, a village guard, on suspicion of being police informers. More than 20 Maoists dragged Mantri and Singh from their homes and tied their hands with ropes. The victims were then hacked to death. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) pasted posters and leaflets asking people not to help the police or join the police force. They also warned of consequences if people joined the police.
08/16/2010: On Monday at 0000 midnight, in Kuwangkoda, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants blew up a newly-built tehsil (revenue unit) office. A large portion of the office building was damaged and the walls were destroyed. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
02/23/2010: On Tuesday, in one of two related attacks, in Hawai village, Aurangabad, Bihar, India, vehicles and equipment belonging to a construction company, were set on fire by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. There were no casualties in the attack. Reportedly, the attack occurred as the road construction company failed to meet an extortion demand. No group claimed responsibility.
05/08/2010: On Saturday night at 0000 midnight, at Nahoria village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Sudhandshu Maitit (53), a Lodhasoli local committee member of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist), shot and killed by 25 Communist of India-Maoist cadres (CPI-Maoist). Maitit was dragged from his house to his courtyard and was fired on at close range. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
03/07/2010: On Sunday evening, private security personnel, Vinday Kumar Chouhan (26), with the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) unit in Bastar was abducted by suspected Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) from the Gorli area in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India. Police said that Chouhan and his friends had gone to Gorli to play cricket and were intercepted by four suspected Maoists and taken away. Police also said Chouhan's friends informed his family members that the Maoists told them that would release him after 'questioning' but that he did not return until the morning. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/23/2010: On Saturday, over 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) raided the Raxi village in Sundargarh, India, and abducted three people. The victims were identified as Communist Party of India- Marxist leader and Sundargarh Zilla Parishad Member Anand Masi Horo, and dhaba owner Harinath Mindari and his brother Narendra Mundari. Mindari and Mundari were released later that night unharmed. Horo was later released on the night of 01/24/2010. There were no reported casualties.
09/24/2010: On Friday, at Satparaghata village in the Gumla area of Jharkhand, India, a group of approximately 25 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist), shot and killed a gangster Vimal Oraon, and an activist of Jharkhand Sangharsh Janmukti Morcha (SJM), N K Singh. Oraon was wanted by the police in about two dozen cases including kidnapping and murder in Gulma and other districts. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Injaram, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of six related attacks, unidentified militants opened indiscriminate fire on Salwa Judum (anti-Maoist vigilante group) activists located near camps of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Police, triggering gun battles. Five other camps were targeted in the attacks. Reportedly, these Salwa Judum camps now act as camps for security forces. No casualties and no damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
09/21/2010: On Tuesday evening, between Usoor and Awapalli in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants opened fire on the construction site of a culvert. A Special Police Officer (SPO) was killed and eight others, including an assistant Sub-Inspector and three civilians, were injured. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/10/2010: On Wednesday afternoon, in the Nimlabadi area of Koraput, Orissa, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed a trader outside of his residence. The victim was identified as Mandia Sahu Loknath (45). Though the exact reason behind the killing was yet to be ascertained, the trader was believed to have been targeted as he had opposed activities of Maoist-backed Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) in several areas of the District. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/19/2010: On Sunday night, at Podapodar of Narayanpatna Block near the Dhepaguda village in Koraput, Odisha, India, unidentified militants used a landmine to blow up a culvert to obstruct the Border Security Force (BSF) troopers deployed in the area. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
12/24/2010: On Friday, in Kalaberia village in Beliabera, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants hacked to death a Trinamool Congress activist, identified as Hikim Murmu. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
07/19/2010: On Monday, near Bhaduwa village in Ghatsila, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, around 200 to 250 unidentified militants attacked the site office of a contractor and set ablaze all of the equipment and machinery used in executing the Pradham Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, but caused no casualties. Reportedly, the militants shouted “Long live Maoists”, and also pasted several posters at the site.
08/12/2010: On Thursday night, in Malavaram village in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, around 20 militants using landmines blew up the office of the Gram Panchayat and a warehouse attached to it, causing an unknown amount of damages. No casualties were reported. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) posters left at the scene claimed responsibility for the attack because the building was being used by security personnel as camps for anti-Maoist operations.
11/26/2010: On Friday, on a national highway near Sukma in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, about 30 unidentified militants set fire to a truck loaded with coconuts on its way to Korea, causing an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
11/01/2010: On Monday morning around 0500, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, two hand grenades planted by unidentified assailants were found near the Heirangoithong Makha Leikai residential gate of Leisangthem Kumar, the District Fishery Officer (DFO). Both hand grenades failed to explode, causing no casualties or damages. One grenade was found inside the gate, while the other was found outside of it and both were without detonators. The pin of the one found outside the gate also had its pin removed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/08/2010: On Monday night around 0330, near the Kurhani Railway Station in Hajipur-Muzaffarpur section of Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, around 50 unidentified armed militants triggered a dynamite blast, blowing up a railway track. At least ten train carts of a freight train were derailed from the blast. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected the cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
07/02/2010: On Friday morning, at Palaspala village in Keonjhar, Orissa, India, around 20-30 militants dragged two villagers out of their homes and hacked them to death, accusing them of being police informers. The victims were identified as Kailash Mohanta and Tuna Behera. The militants also ransacked their homes and then set them on fire. They also set an unidentified number of vehicles on fire and laid explosives on the road in an effort to prevent security forces from launching a combing operation. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) leaflets left behind warned that all police informers would meet the same fate.
07/01/2010: On Thursday, in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants shot and killed three civilians. According to police, the three victims were suspected of being police informers and their bodies were recovered from a forested area in Narayanpur. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
07/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Errabore, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of six related attacks, unidentified militants opened indiscriminate fire on Salwa Judum (anti-Maoist vigilante group) activists located near camps of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Police, triggering gun battles. Five other camps were targeted in the attacks. Reportedly, these Salwa Judum camps now act as camps for security forces. No casualties and no damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
06/12/2010: On Saturday, in Bangalipara village of Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh, India, a joint team of Central Reserve Police Force and State Police recovered a 10 kilogram improvised explosive device planted by unknown assailants during a road opening exercise in the area. The explosive was later defused by authorities, preventing any damages or casualties from taking place. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
03/22/2010: On Monday night at 0130, in Sareikela, Sareikela Kharsawan District, Jharkhand, India, a police officer, Kalicharan Bodra, was killed when suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres opened indiscriminate fire on a police patrol near Chouka Police station. There was no claim of responsibility.
05/30/2010: On Sunday night around 2300, approximately 50 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres blew up buildings of a panchayat (village level local self government institution) office and a warehouse attached to it at Kangurkonda village under Kalimela Police Station in Malkangiri District, Orissa, India. The assailants cornered off the village and then went to the Panchayat office, planted landmines and exploded the structures. No casualties were reported. Preliminary investigation revealed that property worth Rs 25 lakh has been damaged in the explosion. The assailants also took away some official documents, four tables and eight chairs. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, is suspected that the infrastructure was targeted because the revels believed it could serve as temporary camps for security personnel. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/05/2010: On Friday night, in the Barwadih area of Gaya, Bihar, India, militants kidnapped two members of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) party. The victims were identified as Amrendra Kumar and Uday Prasad. Uday Prasad was released unharmed by the captures on 11/06/2010 and Amrendra Kumar was shot and killed for allegedly being involved in extortion on 11/07/2010. His body was recovered near a primary school in the district. A note left by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) was recovered from the incident site.
05/07/2010: On Friday, in Kudumuluguma, Koraput, Orissa, India, around 20 unidentified assailants set fire to the Integrated Child Development Scheme government office, damaging the office but causing no casualties. According to police, the assailants were shouting slogans against the government and security forces, ransacked office furniture and set ablaze documents and files. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
05/04/2010: On Tuesday night at 0000 midnight, in Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, Haripada Mahato, a Jharkhand Party worker, was drug out of his house and shot and killed. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) is thought to be responsible although no group claimed responsibility.
02/03/2010: On Wednesday, in Saraikela-Kharsawan district, Jharkhand, India, one Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper, identified as Janardan Reddy, was killed and two others injured when Communist Party of India-Maoist militants detonated a landmine near a police patrol. A CRPF patrol party was on its way in long range patrol in the Chowka area of Saraikela, when the landmine was detonated when the party was crossing a jungle close to Gairakocha village. No group claimed responsibility.
07/06/2010: On Tuesday, on RIMS Road in Imphal West district, Manipur, India, unknown assailants lobbed a grenade into a parking area of the Langol View Charitable Hospital, which injured three people and damaged two vehicles. The injured have been identified as Laikangbam Ibochou Singh, Yengkhom Birchandra Singh and Moidangpok Khunjao. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/03/2010: On Friday night, in one of two linked attacks, in the Kursela area of Khagaria, Bihar, India, a group of militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a section of railway track, causing no casualties. The militants also detonated an explosive on a section of the East Central Railway track between the Tilrath and Begusarai train stations. One of the gatemen claimed that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) gave him a poster that mentioned two bombs that were placed on the tracks and asked him to inform higher authorities about it. According to the gateman, 10 minutes after receiving the poster, he heard a loud explosion. The explosion had left a large crater in the tracks and destroyed about one meter of tracks. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the blasts were in retaliation for the death of 10 colleagues in a gun-battle with criminals near the Ganga-Gandak River in Munger on 11/29/2010.
05/15/2010: On Saturday, a group of five to seven armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed a tribal man in Parpalguda village in Etapalli taluka (administrative unit) of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra, India. The victim was identified as Kumusur Hedo (30). According to police, the assailants accused Hedo of being a police informer and killed him with sharp weapons. Police denied that he was working as a police informer. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
10/21/2010: On Thursday night, in one of two related attacks, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) cadres abducted Mohamed Kaiser from Jaigir village and GovardhanYadav from Chando village, Gaya, Bihar, India. The status of Mohamed Kaiser is unknown. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that CPI-Maoists were responsible.
01/31/2010: On Sunday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants opened fire on the residence of a doctor, Nilachandra, at Khwairakpam Leikai Sega road. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
11/14/2010: On Sunday morning, in Boulia, Rohtas, Bihar, India, over 75 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) triggered a landmine blast, blowing up a culvert and killing one person believed to be a CPI-M cadre. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the blast took place under the Chenari constituency which is going to polls in the sixth and final phase of Assembly elections on 11/20/2010 and it is possible that the attack was carried out to create panic in order to enforce a poll boycott called by the Maoists. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
09/22/2010: On Wednesday, in Raikal, Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India, three assailants kidnapped a husband and wife from Allipur village, and later fired upon and killed the husband, M. Komaraiah, for allegedly being a police informer. The victims were taken from their home to the outskirts of the village were the assailants killed Komaraiah. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. They left a note stating that they killed Komaraiah as he informed to police about the movement of a Maoist leader, Sathaiah in 1997. The status of Kimaraiah’s wife is unknown.
11/23/2010: On Tuesday evening, in the Eragatta area in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, an improvised explosive device prematurely detonated during its installation on the roadside, killing one militant and injuring two others. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. Unconfirmed reports indicated that the attack was aimed at targeting patrolling police and military forces in the area.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday, in Belsand, Sitamarhi District, Bihar, India, six police officers, including five Special Auxiliary Police constables and Station House Officer Virendra Yadav, were injured when Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) exchanged fire with the police at a market. It was said that 500 Maoists arrived at Belsand Bazaar and asked shopkeepers to pull down shutters. The police arrived to the spot and the exchange of fire began. Police officials said that the Maoists raided Belsand bazaar and ordered shopkeepers to observe a shutdown in response to their 48-hour bandh in seven states, including Bihar. No group claimed responsibility.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday, in Kanta Chowk, Sheohar District, Bihar, India, a police jeep was set ablaze by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M). Reportedly, several Maoists surrounded the jeep, carrying policemen from Tariyani for patrol and asked the officials to return to the police station before setting the jeep on fire. There were no casualties reported. There was no claim of responsibility.
07/15/2010: On Thursday night, in Nemaipur village near Simlipal in Bankura, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants dragged Nirmol Soren, a zonal committee member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), from his house and shot him and killed him. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/23/2010: On Sunday night, in one of three related attacks, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants kidnapped 20 civilians. The victims were taken from the Rudraram Madded, Pamgal and Lodad villages on suspicion of being police informers. The number of hostages was provided cumulatively; therefore it is unclear how many were taken from each village. The assailants killed three of the hostages later that day, and released the rest on 05/25/2010. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
03/30/2010: On Tuesday, in Pipawar, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, around 25 assailants in two cars fired upon vehicles at the coal-mining complex of Central Coal Field Limited and set the vehicles on fire after the drivers of the vehicles fled the area, destroying four vehicles but causing no casualties. A scuffle between the assailants and truck drivers also followed but no one was seriously injured. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) was responsible.
06/05/2010: On Saturday night beginning at 0030 and lasting until 0130, in Jhagram town of West Midnapore, India, the Communist Party of India-Maoist-backed People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) cadres ransacked homes and held over 40 villagers hostage who refused to join their rally. The villagers were dragged 10 kilometers before being released later that morning with a warning. Reportedly, around 500 PCPA cadres gathered in the Dahijhuri side of the town, and stormed the Bhalukkhulia and Balaramdihi localities of Ward one and asked the residents to join the rally. The rally then progressed towards Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader Gaur Puchha's home in Balaramdihi around 0130, in which the militia ransacked his home and destroyed the boundary wall. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/28/2010: On Thursday, in Guhnandi village of Koira, Patamda, Jharkhand, India, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed one person and injured two others, including a woman. The victims have been identified as Sagar Mahato, and the injured Bankimchandra Mahato, both members of the Gram Suraksha Samity (the newly floated anti-Naxal committee formed by the villagers), were on night duty when around 10-12 armed Maoists intercepted the duo and fired indiscriminately. Soon, Parmila, a resident of Guhnandi village, was attacked by the Maoists when she came out on hearing screams. There was no reported damage.
06/24/2010: On Thursday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) kidnapped, fired on and killed one primary school teacher, Ranjit Dey, who was also a former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) member. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible, as posters were found at the location.
03/05/2010: On Friday afternoon, in the Sarulia area of Bankura, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants kidnapped a school headmaster, Ranjit Duley, from the Shibram Satpathy School. The headmaster was also reported to be a member of the Communist Party of India - Marxist. Two gunmen entered the Shibram Satpathy School and shouted for the headmaster, who went out to confront them. The men ordered Duley onto their motorcycle at gunpoint. The Maoists threatened to kill Duley if the government did not release six villagers arrested for the killing of Sarenga police station in-charge Rabi Lochan Mitra on 2/25/2010. Five Maoists were injured and one other, Gurcharan Hembram, was killed in an encounter when Security Force personnel went to rescue the abducted headmaster in the Bhalukbasa jungle in West Midnapore on 03/07/2010. On 03/09/2010 at about 0115, the headmaster was released unharmed at a remote place between Goaltore and Pingboni in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India. People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) militia commander Sidhu Soren claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
11/06/2010: On Saturday night, in the Bandhgora area of Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants abducted two villagers from their home. The victims were identified as a local leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), Sukhchand Mandi and his son Nepal Mandi. The militants later shot at close range and killed the two men. Sukhcahand had been threatened several times by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) for working with the CPM and as a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but police suspected that Maoists were responsible.
09/03/2010: On Friday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants killed a policeman at a weekly market. The victim was identified as Nobel Khalko. According to police, Nobel was talking to some people when he was suddenly attacked and his throat was slit. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/09/2010: On Friday afternoon, at Rasua village in West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI - Maoist) cadres kidnapped two supporters of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxists. The victims were identified as Kaushik Dutta (35) and Paban Mahato (38), members of the Trinamool Congress. Dutta, an employee of the Manikpara Electric Office, and Mahato went missing when they went to distribute electric bills to households in Rasua village. On 04/10/2010, the bodies of Dutta and Mahato were discovered in the Bandhghora area of Jhargram sub-division in the District bearing stab wounds and bullet injuries. The Maoists fired 11 rounds at them from close range before cutting of the victims’ fingers and limbs. Police have recovered Maoist posters from the spot, which claimed Dutta and Mahato were police informers. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
11/07/2010: On Sunday evening around 2000, in Ganakkata village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of three related attacks, four suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) militants attacked the village and shot and killed three people. The victims were identified as Sandhyarani Mahato, Rashbihari Mahato, and Owahed Ali. Reportedly, the militants wearing black dresses went to the house of Rashbehari, a supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and took him away. The militants also took Sandhyarani Mahato, the mother of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) worker, and Wahed Ali, a Group D employee at the Jhargram Block Development Office (BDO) from their homes. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is suspected that Sandhyarani was targeted because her son was working for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Jharkhand, Ali was targeted because his joined the police as an assistant inspector in Howrah, and Rashbehari was targeted for being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/28/2010: On Sunday, in the Jarawandi area of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a police officer and a civilian. The attackers used an unknown type of pistol in the attack. The constable and the civilian were identified as Chanu Fakira Peala of the city police, and Vilas Kombre. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
02/19/2010: On Friday, in the Phulkusma area of Bankura District in India's West Bengal state, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants set ablaze several shops and houses during an attack at a busy market in Phulkusma. The assailants took with them nearly INR 300, 000 (6371 USD) in cash. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/02/2010: On Wednesday night, in Balaghat, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, assailants set fire to one car and two construction vehicles, destroying the three vehicles but causing no casualties. According to police officials, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres who were opposed to construction of road from Korka to Dodori, had threatened the contractor to stop the work and that four of the assailants belonging to Malajkhand 'dalam' (unit) set afire the vehicle and the JCB machines. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
01/23/2010: On Saturday morning at 0700, in Koraput, Orissa, India, unknown militants triggered a landmine blast. Four civilians were killed, and eight were injured. A vehicle was damaged in the blast. The Communist Part of India - Maoists were suspected of the attack.
06/19/2010: On Saturday evening, in one of three related attacks, in Kasiabeda village, Jamsehdpur, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon and wounded the president of the public distribution system (PDS) dealers, Ramchandra Mardi, alias Hopan Mardi. No damages were reported in the attack. Pamphlets left by the rebels described the victims as police informers and warned villagers against helping the police. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
10/12/2010: On Tuesday evening at 1920, in Kabow Leikai, Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a grenade at the private residence of executive engineer of the Manipur Electricity Department, Chabungbam Rajbabu. No casualties were reported, but a bicycle was damaged in the attack. Inquiries found that a militant outfit had earlier demanded Rs 10 million (220,669 USD) from the official. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Kangleipak Communist Party- Military Council (KCP-MC) militants were responsible.
11/08/2010: On Monday night, at Rafiganj in Aurangabad, India, on one of two related attacks, unidentified militants blew up a mobile tower, causing an unreported amount of property damage and no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
11/08/2010: On Monday, at Kekerichuchi in Baksa, Assam, India, in one of five related attacks against mostly Arunachal government employees and Hindi-speaking people, suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants led by Ranjan Daimary shot and killed a civilian, identified as Mohan Das, and injured two others. The victims were Arunachal government employees. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, eyewitnesses say that they heard the militants saying that if one more of their cadres were killed, they would kill 20. On 11/01/2010, the NDFB warned the Center and state governments of retaliation if any of its cadres were killed in fake encounters. One militant, Hagrama Basumatary, arrested in connection with the attacks, revealed that groups of three militants simultaneously carried out the attacks before escaping into the Arunachal Pradesh forests. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/08/2010: On Monday, in the office premises of Banke Bazar block in Sherghati, Gaya, Bihar, India, a can bomb detonated while a bomb disposal squad was trying to defuse the bomb, killing two members of the Bihar Military police bomb disposal squad and injuring two other police officers and two members of a TV news channel. The deceased were identified as Vijay Kumar and Jai Chand Prasad. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/18/2010: On Saturday evening around 2030, in Lachhmani village on Laxmipur Block in Koraput, Orissa, India, a group of around 20 unidentified armed militants slit the throats of two civilians, Kapur Khara and his son Dhisa Khara. According to police, the militants held a “people’s court” in which Khara and his son were found guilty of carrying on with the liquor trade despite warnings to stop the business. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility. Posters were recovered from the incident site. Police suspected the Maoists were from the Srikakulam division of the Maoists' outfit.
03/24/2010: On Wednesday, in Joynagar, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Basir Khan, from his residence. The assailants then fired upon and killed him. No group claimed responsibility, although police believed that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/25/2010: On Saturday, on the outskirts of Jambani village near Dekai Pahar area in Jhalda, Purulia, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants triggered an improvised explosive device as security forces were combing the area. One Combat Battalion for Resolute Action trooper of the Central Reserve Police Force was killed and eight others were injured. It is unknown if the blasts resulted in any property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
10/03/2010: On Sunday night, in Chirogora village in Purulia, India, around 50 militants armed with sophisticated weapons took three Forward Bloc activists from their homes and shot and killed them. They were identified as Leru Majhi, Dasrath Majhi, and Choto Majhi. Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) posters claiming responsibility for the killings were found at the site, stating that all the Forward Bloc leaders were corrupt and were leading an anti-Maoist movement in the region.
08/01/2010: On Sunday, in Doki, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, a local government employee, identified as Sudhansu Bhusan Ram, was kidnapped. The hostage was released an hour later unharmed. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the abductors complained to Ram about corruption before releasing him. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/28/2010: On Wednesday evening at 1800, in Salboni, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres abducted a People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) supporter from his home and then shot and killed him on the suspicion that he had turned to be a police informer. The victim was identified as Ranjit Mahato (39), a former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activist that joined the PCPA under pressure. Maoist literature, recovered from the spot, stated that Ranjit was acting as a police informer.
09/13/2010: On Monday afternoon around 1330, in Bishnupur, Imphal East, Manipur, India, three unidentified militants kidnapped a female Government doctor, R.K. Joymati Devi, and a female nurse, Kh. Kavita Devi, from Mekola primary health center. On 09/14/2010, around 1130, at Lake Loktak in Wahengkhum Santipur village, Manipur, authorities rescued both victims. Reportedly, the militants took the women at gunpoint from their office when the militants, posing as civilians asked the victims to accompany them to a nearby place to attend a man injured in a road accident. No casualties were reported. A caller who claimed to belong to an unspecified militant outfit told the medical officer's family members that the two were kidnapped because state Health and Family Welfare Minister Ph Parijat refused to appoint two persons proposed by the militant outfit in the health department and also failed to give money demanded by them.
03/18/2010: On Thursday night, in one of two related attacks, in Simdega District, Jharkhand, India, three laborers were kidnapped by a group of more than 15 members of a breakaway Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction called "Hill Panther". The Vijeyata Construction Company workers, identified as Sangram Singh, S Sinha, S N Chowdhary, and one more unidentified employee were abducted from the Ramrekha Dam site in Simdega. The victims were taken away in a pickup van owned by the construction company. The assailants also looted 35 mobile phones, Rs. 2 lakh (4319.82 USD) in cash and one gun from the Dam site. The workers were released on 03/20/2010. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/08/2010: On Friday, in Tippapur Village, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants shot and killed a local tribal leader, identified as Nupa Babu, on suspicion of being a police informer. Before leaving the village, the militants left behind some leaflets warning the villagers of dire consequences if they act as police informers.
03/18/2010: On Thursday night, in one of two related attacks, in Simdega District, Jharkhand, India, by a group of more than 15 members of a breakaway Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction called "Hill Panther" abducted a junior engineer Ranjeet Kumar while he was returning home from his office. Ranjeet Kumar and three other Vijeyata Construction Company workers were released on 03/20/2010. No casualties were reported in this attack and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/05/2010: On Friday, in Baratand village in Banka, Bihar, India, around 30 armed militants attacked the village, firing several rounds, killing two villagers and injuring two others. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspected that the incident was an act of retaliation for the recent killing of a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) leader in the district. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
07/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Maruiguda, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of six related attacks, unidentified militants opened indiscriminate fire on Salwa Judum (anti-Maoist vigilante group) activists located near camps of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Police, triggering gun battles. Five other camps were targeted in the attacks. Reportedly, these Salwa Judum camps now act as camps for security forces. No casualties and no damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
08/30/2010: On Monday, in Ulung forest in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants stoned a villager to death, identified as Joseph Kandulana, for suspecting him to be a police informer, causing no damage. No group claimed responsibility, although the Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-M) were thought to be responsible.
12/07/2010: On Tuesday, on a bus in the Maram area of Senapati, Manipur, India, unidentified militants stabbed and injured two Assam Rifles personnel with knives, identified as P. Mahesh and Rahman. One of the injured later succumbed to his injuries and died on 12/08/2010. There were no damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/07/2010: On Tuesday morning, in the Charla area of Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, around 15 armed militants set fire to a private owned mobile phone tower, causing an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility. Leaflets were left at the incident site.
01/22/2010: On Friday, in Machkund area, Koraput, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist cadres ransacked the Tehsil revenue division office and set ablaze records. There were no reported casualties. There was no reported damage.
12/21/2010: On Tuesday, at Pindiki in Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha, India, in one of two related attacks, around 40 armed militants, including women, set ablaze a mobile phone tower after setting ablaze construction vehicles. No casualties were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoist militants claimed responsibility.
07/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Bhejji, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of six related attacks, unidentified militants opened indiscriminate fire on Salwa Judum (anti-Maoist vigilante group) activists located near camps of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Police, triggering gun battles. Five other camps were targeted in the attacks. Reportedly, these Salwa Judum camps now act as camps for security forces. No casualties and no damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/14/2010: On Friday night around 0100, approximately 30 to 50 armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres planted landmines inside, then blew up the office building and newly constructed godown and conference hall of the Telarai village Panchayat (village level local self Government Institution), which is under Kalimela Police Station limits in Malkangiri District of Orissa, India. No casualties were reported in the bombings. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is suspected that the office building was targeted because it was suspected to have been used to provide shelter to security forces. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
07/09/2010: On Friday, near Chikalmari village in Koraput, Orissa, India, about 10-12 unidentified armed cadres attacked a road construction camp and killed contractor A.S. Chawla. The rebels also torched a machine used for lifting sand and a tipper truck, causing an unreported amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) rebels were responsible.
11/07/2010: On Sunday, in the Jhumra hills area in Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, a bomb was triggered when a trooper of the 26th Battalion in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) removed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) flag spotted during a search operation. The police officer, identified as Basu Matari, was killed in the blast. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible. Maoists have used flag-triggered bombs in the past to trap security personnel.
09/07/2010: On Tuesday, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, around 50 armed militants planted landmines in the newly constructed Padia block office building, destroying the building. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. After attacking the building, the militants raised anti-Government slogans.
03/09/2010: On Tuesday, in the Nava area of Simdega in Jharkhand, India, 15 Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants led by Jageshwar, alias Debu, shot and killed a local leader of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha party near his residence. The victim was identified as Birsa Badaik, Block President of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Officials said the attack may have been related to a turf battle with the Naxalites over "levy collection." No group claimed responsibility.
09/11/2010: On Saturday evening at 2130, near Kunjibangi junction in Munchingput Mandal in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, around ten armed militants set fire to the Visakhapatnam-Jolaput night halt Road Transport Corporation (RTC) bus. Reportedly, 10 armed militants attacked the bus and asked the 13 passengers on board to get down and then took the bus two kilometers away before setting it on fire. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, but caused no casualties. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility. They left leaflets demanding the government order a judicial inquiry by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court into the Azad encounter case in the Adilabad forests.
05/23/2010: On Sunday night, in one of three related attacks, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants kidnapped 20 civilians. The victims were taken from the Rudraram Madded, Pamgal and Lodad villages on suspicion of being police informers. The number of hostages was provided cumulatively; therefore it is unclear how many were taken from each village. The assailants killed three of the hostages later that day, and released the rest on 05/25/2010. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
06/24/2010: On Thursday night, in Binpur, West Midnapore, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) gunmen kidnapped Srimanta Tudu, the son of a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader, Motilal Tudu, from a bus stop. Later the Maoists telephoned the victim’s residence demanding the release of their "action squad member" Durga Mandi from police custody. No casualties and no damages were reported. The CPI-M claimed responsibility and the status of the hostage is unknown.
08/26/2010: On Thursday at 0000 midnight, in Kalabani village near Jhargram in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants killed three supporters of ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) after branding them police informers. The victims were identified as Gopal Mantri, Rajiv Mantri and Tapan Mantri of the same family. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was suspected that CPI-Maoists were responsible.
05/17/2010: On Monday afternoon at 1645, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres blew up a bus by triggering an improvised explosive device on a road between Gadiras and Bhusaras near Chingavaram village in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh, India. The explosive device with gelatin sticks was planted on the road. Twenty six civilians and 16 special police officers (SPOs) were killed, and four civilians and two SPOs were injured in the attack. The passenger bus was completely mangled with its front portion squeezed into a steel ball and the road was damaged by the explosion. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
11/08/2010: On Monday afternoon around 1600, in Boimara area in Sonitpur, Assam, India, in one of five related attacks against mostly Arunachal government employees and Hindi-speaking people, six suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants led by Ranjan Daimary opened fire on the Arunachal Pradesh state transport bus. Eight people, mostly Arunachal Pradesh government employees, were killed and 12 others were injured. According to police, the militants stopped the bus and identified the Hindi-speaking people and asked them to get down. The militants then told the bus driver to leave and shot the Hindi-speaking passengers on the spot. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, eyewitnesses say that they heard the militants saying that if one more of their cadres were killed, they would kill 20. On 11/01/2010, the NDFB warned the Center and state governments of retaliation if any of its cadres were killed in fake encounters. One militant, Hagrama Basumatary, arrested in connection with the attacks, revealed that groups of three militants simultaneously carried out the attacks before escaping into the Arunachal Pradesh forests.
05/04/2010: On Tuesday evening around 1800, in Bagmari, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a seven-member group of assailants kidnapped one leader of the Jhargram Congress from his home. The victim, identified as Bikash Mahato, the working president of the Jhargram Block Congress Committee, was later fired upon and killed by the assailants. On 05/05/2010 at 0500, the body of Mahato was recovered with pamphlets saying that he was killed by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) for being a police informer.
11/12/2010: On Friday afternoon, in Jhumra hills in Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine blast, injuring three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and causing an unreported amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/28/2010: On Wednesday, in Bijapur District, Chattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) cadres triggered a pressure bomb causing serious injuries to two engineers of the Central Government owned telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). It was reported that the Maoists first cut the cable link from the spot so as to hamper any possible communication with others and planted the pressure explosives. Consequently, a team of engineers and technicians were summoned to rectify the line and the pressure bomb blasted injuring two of the engineers severely. No group claimed responsibility.
12/05/2010: On Sunday, in the Bachurkhayar area near Nayagram of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) gunmen shot and killed a Maoist-backed Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadharaner Committee (PSBJC) supporter, also known as the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), identified as Ajit Bera. Posters left at the incident site claimed that Bera was a police informer and that he was involved in the arrest of two PSBJC supporters at Nayagram.
07/25/2010: On Sunday morning, in Sankrail, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, the body of Trinamool Congress supporter, Hemanta Mahato, was discovered. According to police, Hemanta had been missing for the past few days. The exact amount of time that the victim had been missing is unknown. No damages were reported in the attack. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters left by the body claimed that Hemanta was suspected of being a police informer.
11/15/2010: On Monday, in Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants assaulted a wine-seller by pouring liquor on his head and then beating him with sticks. Reportedly, residents alleged that the victim abused villagers after drinking liquor and sold it in the locality. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
01/20/2010: On Wednesday afternoon at 1330, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants opened fire upon the residence of Sanasam Rajen, an engineer during his daughters marriage ceremony. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/24/2010: On Sunday, in Bhagirathpara village, Dhalai, Tripura, India, 12 militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura attacked the village and rounded up members of the Gana Mukti Parishad and Tribal Youth Federation, frontal organizations of the Community Party of India-Marxists and assaulted them. No group claimed responsibility. There were no exact reports of casualties.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night, in Sarodag village, Kaimur, Bihar, India, in one of four linked attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a health center with dynamite, damaging the building but causing no casualties. A second health center, a community hall and a school were also blown up in the related attacks. On 04/11/2010, villagers found three Maoist leaflets urging the police to stop Operation Green Hunt. They also warned that Ranchi SSP Praveen Kumar Singh and Ranchi SP (rural) Michael Raj S. will be punished in a 'jan adalat'. The ultras claimed that these officers had killed two of their members, Ashok and Suman, in a fake encounter. Finally, the leaflets also claimed that the school was targeted because the police used schools as their camps during anti-Maoist operations. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
07/29/2010: On Thursday, in Kirandul, Bailadila Hills, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants set ablaze five trucks of the Essar Group, causing an unreported amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack occurred during on the second day of the week –long shutdown called by the militants to observe the memory of their fallen leaders. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
10/14/2010: On Thursday, in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants abducted three government officials from a passenger bus. On 10/15/2010 the employees were released after being held for 24 hours. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
11/08/2010: On Monday morning, in Gaya, Bihar, India, unidentified militants set ablaze four trucks, causing an unreported amount of property damage and no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however it is suspected that the attack was carried out to enforce the shutdown called by militants in the area. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
10/21/2010: On Thursday night, in one of two related attacks, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) cadres abducted GovardhanYadav from Chando village and Mohamed Kaiser from Jaigir village, Gaya, Bihar, India. On 10/22/2010, the body of GovardhanYadav was recovered by police from the Gobaria forest at Barachatti, Gaya. The status of Mohamed Kaiser is unknown. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that CPI-Maoists were responsible.
03/28/2010: On Sunday late in the day, around 40 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) blew up the building of a missionary school and a government school building with dynamite in Kaimur, Patna, Bihar, India. No casualties were reported, but the schools were damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
04/08/2010: On Thursday evening at 1930, in the Keishampat Thiyam Leikai area of Imphal West district, Manipur province, India, unidentified assailants lobbed a hand grenade at the residence of Longjam Bhagaton, Superintendent Engineer of Loktak Development Authority. The grenade failed to explode, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/22/2010: On Monday, on the Gaya-Mughalsarai section of the East Central Railway, in Gaya District, Bihar, India, a section of railway track was blown up by Communist Party of India-Maoist militants in an area between Kasta and Paraiya during 48-hour bandh (shutdown). Seven coaches and engine of the 2445 UP Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express were derailed. Train movement on the Howrah-Delhi route, via Gaya, was also affected, while three trains, including Patna-Ranchi Janshatabdi, were cancelled, and the routes of 17 other trains were changed due to the damage caused to the tracks. No casualties were reported and there was no claim of responsibility. The attack occurred during the 48-hour bandh called by Communist Party of India-Maoists in seven states to protest anti-Maoist operations.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday, at a residence in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, around seven assailants fired upon a civilian identified as Rampati Gorain (65), killing him. Assailants suspected him of being a police informer. There was no damage reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/25/2010: On Monday, in the Minuthong area of Imphal West, Manipur, India, two police officers were injured when suspected Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) militants detonated an improvised explosive device near an Assam Rifles training camp. There were no reports of damage.
04/12/2010: On Monday night around 2200, at Khairachatar marketplace, in Bokaro District, Jharkhand, India, Ajay Kumar was branded as a police informer as well as an impostor by a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) kangaroo court and was beheaded. According to police, Kumar was taken by 12 armed Maoists and brought to Khairachatar where they pronounced him guilty of informing the police about their movement between Jharkhand and Bengal and of collecting levy posing as a rebel leader. Kumar’s hands and legs were tied and his throat slit before the Maoists cut off his head and dumped his body in the marketplace. Maoist posters were posted in Khudibera warning that persons collecting money in the name of the CPI-M will meet the same fate.
11/22/2010: On Monday, in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants planted an improvised explosive device (IED) in a public bus. Reportedly, security forces found the device contained in a plastic can during a routine checking of the vehicles. The bus driver and conductor were immediately taken into custody. The IED was safely defused, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/21/2010: On Sunday, in one of two related attacks, in Chakua village, Jhargram District, Medinipur, West Bengal, India, a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants attacked and set fire to two or three houses belonging to Communist Party of India-Marxist members. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/11/2010: On Thursday, in Laxman Bigha village in Gaya, Bihar, India, in one of two related attacks, unidentified militants set fire to the campaign vehicle of Anil Kumar, a Janata Dal-United (JD-U) candidate from Tekari Assembly seat. The attack caused an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/06/2010: On Tuesday morning around 0830, in the Naoda Police Station area of the Murshidabad district, in West Bengal, India, seven unknown gunmen took two security guards, Saidul Sheikh and Mohar Sheikh, into a jute field and shot and killed them. The victims were shot in the chest and their throats were slit. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters were recovered from the site claiming the two victims were killed for being police informers. Police officials claim that the two victims had no connection with the Maoists and had never worked for the police.
12/07/2010: On Tuesday, in the Chintapalli area of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, unidentified militants attacked a coffee plantation by unknown means. No casualties were reported, but four quarters of the plantation were damaged, the roofs were completely destroyed and the walls suffered damages. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/08/2010: On Thursday night around 0225, in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, unidentified militants blew up a stretch of railway tracks causing five bogies and engine of the Kolkata-bound Garibrath Express to derail. The engine and the first coach of the train were badly damaged. At least 13 people, including the driver, were injured in the blast and one child was killed. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming that the attack was to express the militants’ objection against the treatment that their leader Ranjan Daimary received while in police custody. They also threatened to blow up more passenger trains and buses and they asked that inhabitants of South East Himalayan Region do not use trains or other government vehicles, threatening to resort to October 2008 like serial blasts.
09/12/2010: On Sunday morning, in Lalgarh, Barddhaman, West Bengal, India, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) party member was shot and wounded by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist). The victim was identified as Tarun Banerjee, 35, who was shot in the chest outside his house. Banerjee told the police that he recognized the man who walked up to him outside his house and shot him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/24/2010: On Sunday, in Koraput District, Orissa, India, a landmine explosion injured two Central Reserve Police Force officers while they were trying to defuse it. No group claimed responsibility.
11/08/2010: On Monday afternoon, near Hugrajuli, Sonitpur, Assam, India, in one of five related attacks against mostly Arunachal government employees and Hindi-speaking people, suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants led by Ranjan Daimary shot and killed a woman. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, eyewitnesses say that they heard the militants saying that if one more of their cadres were killed, they would kill 20. On 11/01/2010, the NDFB warned the Center and state governments of retaliation if any of its cadres were killed in fake encounters. One militant, Hagrama Basumatary, arrested in connection with the attacks, revealed that groups of three militants simultaneously carried out the attacks before escaping into the Arunachal Pradesh forests.
08/06/2010: On Friday morning at 0915, in Ratia, Dhalai, Tripura, India, unidentified assailants triggered an improvised explosive device near a group of Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on foot patrol. Two BSF paramilitary troopers, identified as Bajrangi and Arup Das, were killed in the blast. The assailants also fired on the BSF personnel immediately after the blast. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, reportedly, the attack was aimed to stall the installation of barbed wire fencing along the Chowmanu-Govindabari border in Dhalai district. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that militants belonging to Biswamohan Debbarma faction of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) were responsible.
10/02/2010: On Saturday night, in Saitola village in Dhanora tehsil, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants dragged a woman, Mayabai Dugga, out of her house and slit her throat. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
09/09/2010: On Thursday, in Imamganj, at Kotiya village in Gaya, Bihar, India, around 400 militants set ablaze several houses, including that of Dhanraj Sharma, a Bharatiya Janata Party District Vice-President, causing an unknown amount of damage. Reportedly, the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) held a kangaroo court that passed an order for “attachment of properties” of Dhanraj Sharma, BJP's Gaya district vice-president and a close aide of the Bihar Assembly Speaker U N Choudhury, and eight others at Kotiya village for working against them. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
07/12/2010: On Monday evening around 2100, in Kirandul, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, around 50 unidentified armed militants attacked a state-owned National Mineral Development Corporation complex, setting fire to two trucks. The attack triggered a gun battle between CISF personnel guarding the establishment which lasted through the afternoon of 07/13/2010. Reportedly, the complex houses large quantities of explosives and the attack was carried out in an effort to loot explosives from the complex. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
10/25/2010: On Monday night, at a private residence in Karaki village in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, a group of 30 militants killed a civilian, identified as Dhansai Kovasi. Kovasi was beaten and then shot. The militants were angry that the man’s two daughters had joined the Chhattisgarh police force and that he had refused to budge under ultras pressure asking him to force his daughters to quit the force. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres were responsible.
08/17/2010: On Tuesday, in Ghatshila, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants shot and killed contractor D. Pal, suspecting him to be a police informer. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
11/25/2010: On Thursday, in East Champaran, Bihar, India, four armed militants shot and killed two employees of Narayanpur Princely Estate, identified as Ranjit Sah and Arun Sah, while they were working in a field. A note left at the incident by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants was recovered by police claiming responsibility for the attack.
02/11/2010: On Thursday evening at 2050, in Shillong city, Meghalaya, India, a person was wounded when an unidentified young male threw a petrol bomb at the office of a Khasi newspaper, U Nongsain Hima. The office building, two computer sets and a scanner were damaged in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility.
05/23/2010: On Sunday, in the Goaltore region of West Midnapore District, West Bengal, Orissa, India, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) backed- People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) abducted Kamal Ahir (38), a Communist Party of India (Marxist) member. His body was found on 05/26/2010; Ahir had been stabbed to death. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
11/01/2010: On Monday, in Chatti village in Lohardaga, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) shot and injured a man for donating land to the police to set up a picket. The victim was identified as Chedi Singh. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/19/2010: On Friday, in the Sankrail area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, 20 Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants attacked and triggered two explosions targeting the Dhanghori village local government office, destroying furniture and computers, and burning files. No casualties were reported and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) claimed responsibility. Posters left at the incident site claimed the attack was carried out in retaliation for the 'atrocities' by the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres on villagers at Chunapara area on 11/04/2010 and to protest the killing of two People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) activists.
09/25/2010: On Saturday afternoon around 1600, in Ramgiri village in Baipariguda Block of Koraput, Orissa, India, three militants shot and killed Nrusimha Panda alias Babuli Panda, a leader of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Panda sustained four bullet injuries to the head, chest and leg from close range. The Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack. A letter left at the incident site accused Panda as being a supporter of 'Shanti Committee' which is opposed to CPI-Maoist and Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) being sponsored by the Maoists and that he was exploiting the poor people.
05/01/2010: On Saturday night, in the Kudumuluguma area of Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants detonated three explosive devices, damaging one school but causing no casualties. According to police, about 200 armed assailants barged onto the school premises at Dhepaguda, and set off at least three blasts, causing extensive damage to furniture and other goods. The Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility by putting up posters and shouting slogans before leaving the place.
05/26/2010: On Wednesday afternoon at 1600, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot and killed Bhartiy Janata Party (BJP) local leader, Budhara Sodi, while he was attending a wedding at Keralapal village in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh, India. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/09/2010: On Friday, on the Geedam-Bijapur road near Parleda village in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) triggered twin landmine blasts targeting a vehicle carrying a police team. The landmines missed and caused no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the (CPI-M) was responsible.
01/23/2010: On Saturday, in Chirang, Assam, India, unidentified militants exploded a remote-controlled Improvised Explosive Device on a subway at the Garibangha area along the India-Bhutan border. A vehicle was partially damaged. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. There were no reported casualties.
05/16/2010: On Sunday around 1200 noon, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, three unidentified assailants fired upon and killed a police officer, Ramachandra Rao. Rao was patrolling at a haat (market) at Padia under Kalimela when he was fired on. No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
12/10/2010: On Friday night, in the Jangalmahal area near Lalgarh in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed two supporters of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), identified as Mahesh Soren and his brother Narayan. Their bodies were found on the outskirts of the Chotopelia village on 12/11/2010. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/16/2010: On Thursday evening, in one of two related attacks, in Pannemara village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a group of unidentified armed militants abducted and later killed Vilas Kolhe. According to police, the victim was killed on suspicion of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
09/26/2010: On Sunday, near a tea stall in Mathiliput village in Koraput, Orissa, India, four suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) abducted a sarpanch (president of panchayat, the village level local self government institution), identified as Chingu Jani. According to police, he was forced into a nearby Tata Sumo. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that (CPI-M) cadres were responsible. The status of Jani is unknown.
11/11/2010: On Thursday, between the Vishunpur and Dhanauti villages in Gaya, Bihar, India, in one of two related attacks, around 10 unidentified militants using kerosene set fire to the campaign vehicle of Rajendra Singh, an Independent candidate from Guruwa Assembly constituency. Reportedly, the militants asked the six supporters of Sing to get out of the vehicle before setting it on fire. The attack caused an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
11/10/2010: On Wednesday, near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp atop Jhumra hills in an unspecified location in Jharkhand province, India, unidentified militants allegedly poisoned a pond that is used as drinking water for hundreds of CRPF troopers and villagers. The CRPF troops were alerted and were able to divert the attack, resulting in no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, militants had called a boycott panchayat election in Jhumra and its surrounding areas. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/30/2010: On Friday, in Chatra District, Jharkhand, India, suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) backed Jharkhand Janmukti Parishad shot and killed two employees of Rungta Transport Company. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is reported that the organization targeted the employees for carrying out their activities without permission by the Maoist outfit. No group claimed responsibility.
08/18/2010: On Wednesday night, in the Phaiton village in Tamenglong, Manipur, India, two unidentified militants abducted a former cadre of the Military Council faction of the Kuki National Front (KNF-MC) from his house. The victim was identified as Tolen Singson. Singson was later shot and killed near a river bank in Phaiton Part II. His body was recovered on the morning of 08/19/2010. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/04/2010: On Sunday evening, in Malabati village near Binpur in West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India, six suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on motorcycles shot and killed the Secretary of Students’ Federation of India (SFI), Partha Biswas. SFI is the student wing of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist). No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/13/2010: On Sunday evening at 2100, in Tilaiya village in the Luggu Hill area of Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, assailants kidnapped one civilian before beheading him. According to police, Kajaru Thakur was captured by 30 armed assailants while he was returning home in Tilaya. In the presence of some other villagers, the assailants accused the victim of supplying vital information related to the activities of extremists to the police and then slit his throat. According to police, the killing took place in the Mahuatard forest area of Tilaya, where police managed to recover the body of Thakur in two pieces. The Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility.
04/26/2010: On Monday night, in Bamal, Lalgarh, West Midnapore, India, militants kidnapped Aditya Lohar (50), a Communist Party of India-Marxist leader, and Mihir Singh from their home. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres came on motorcycles and took the men, and later shot at the two men at close range and then fled. Lohar was killed on the spot, while Singh was rushed to Jhargram Hospital in critical condition. Maoists posters found at incident site claimed that the two men were targeted for being police informers.
05/26/2010: On Wednesday early in the day, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened indiscriminate fire on a village near the Pinboni area killing a civilian, identified as Santosh Mal. There was no damage reported. No group claimed responsibility.
09/14/2010: On Tuesday morning, at Amas bazaar in Gaya, Bihar, India, unidentified militants set fire to the machine room of a private mobile tower, damaging the room. The militants also beat up a security guard when he resisted the militants. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
11/23/2010: On Tuesday night, near Choppalanka village between Rallegedda and Balapam in Chintapalli, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine as a van drove by, killing three civilians identified as Naharaju, Aasi, and Nookaraju. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the civilians were traveling in a 407 van which is typically associated with police vans, and it is possible that the militants triggered the landmine targeting what they thought was a police vehicle. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the van and a 10-foot crater in the ground. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. Reportedly, the Maoists had planned to blow up the Annavaram police station to send a warning signal to the cops combing the heavily Maoist-infested area.
04/28/2010: On Wednesday, in Gohomidanga village, Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India Maoist (CPI-M) cadres shot and killed Subodh Mondal, a farmer and a People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) supporter, while he was working in a field. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/19/2010: On Saturday evening, in one of three related attacks, in Jiyan village, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, assailants fired upon and killed one civilian. According to police, a group of armed ultras barged into the home of Bosko Singh (36) and shot him. No damages were reported in the attack. Pamphlets left by the rebels described the victims as police informers and warned villagers against helping the police. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
09/20/2010: On Monday, in Adaki thana, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, assailants killed two civilians by unknown means for allegedly working as police informers. The People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) claimed responsibility. Claiming responsibility through a note found near the spot, the ultras warned that anyone acting as police informers will also meet the same fate.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday, in Latehar District, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) blew up a meter of railway track between Chhipa Dohar and Hehegarha railway stations. Blasts were triggered on the tracks in two places. No casualties were reported. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during a 48-hour bandh called by Maoists in Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Chhatisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and three districts of Maharashtra to protest against the stepped up anti-Maoist operations, price rise and arrests of some of their cadres. There was no claim of responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in Mayanglangjing Mayai Leikai in Imphal West District, Manipur, India, unidentified militants lobbed a Chinese grenade at the residence of pradhan (chief) of Mayang Langjil gram panchayat (village level local self-Government institution), identified as Takhelambam Tompok (48). The bomb however failed to explode and was subsequently defused by the Police. No group claimed responsibility.
07/19/2010: On Monday night around 2300, in the Sindurpur village in Purulia, West Bengal, India, a group of about 50 militants raided the house of Hrishikesh Kumar, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) committee member, and abducted and killed him and his son, Kashinath. The victims’ bodies were discovered by villagers bearing bullet wounds. No damages were reported in the attack. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters found at the scene claimed that the victims were killed for acting as police informers.
05/17/2010: On Monday evening around 1930, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed Hemant Bage, a local Congress party leader, inside his vehicle before setting it ablaze in the Lumbatoli village of Simdega District, Jharkhand, India. Bage and his fiancé were traveling to his fiancé’s village when they were ambushed and fired on near Lumbatoli village of Kolebira Block. The rebels went to the nearby village and forced one of the residents to provide some kerosene oil which they used to burn the victim's vehicle. Simdega Superintendent of Police Durga Oraon said that the Debu Jee group of CPI (Maoist) was suspected to be involved in the incident. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
10/22/2010: On Friday, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants kidnapped a Special Police Officer, identified as Irpa Dinesh. On 10/31/2010, the militants strangled Dinesh to death. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/02/2010: On Tuesday, in Girighati village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, an activist of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) was kidnapped and shot and killed by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants. Around 25-30 Maoists abducted Patul Singh Sardar from his home at Jhargram in Girighati. The bullet-riddled body of Sadar was found at the outskirts of the village along with some posters left behind by the Maoists claiming Sadar to be a police spy.
05/26/2010: On Wednesday evening, in Gopiballavpur, Nayagram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants kidnapped four Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members, then assaulted, fired upon, and killed one of the victims. The body of Shatrughan Ghosh, 42, a Group D employee of the CPM-run Patina panchayat in Nayagram, was found by the side of a road in a neighbouring village. Later, the assailants released the remaining victims, Satyajit Giri, the secretary of the panchayat, Gouranga Patra, an assistant secretary, and job assistant Sanat Das, unharmed. According to a villager witness, a group of 15 armed assailants stopped the panchayat workers' auto-rickshaw on the Nayagram-Gopiballavpur road and asked the four to get out and took off with them towards Chamarbandh near Keshia forest. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. Maoist posters, found near the body of the CPM branch committee member, accused him of being a police informer.
05/14/2010: On Friday, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set ablaze two dumpers and two rollers belonging to a road construction company near Sherghati in Gaya District, Bihar, India. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, according to the police, the construction company was targeted to extort money. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
08/07/2010: On Saturday night around 2330, in Kanda village in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants blew up a school building. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) rebels were responsible.
11/09/2010: On Tuesday night, under Tekari Assembly constituency in Mathurapur, Gaya, Bihar, India, over 50 armed militants set ablaze a makeshift party office of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), causing an unreported amount of property damage and no casualties. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants claimed responsibility for the attack. Leaflets left at the incident site asked people to stay away from voting on 11/20/2010, the sixth and final phase of Assembly elections.
08/20/2010: On Friday afternoon around 1440, in Charaipung Bimalapur near the Assam-Arunachal border, Sivasagar, Assam, India, a group of 30 to 40 unidentified militants ambushed an Assam Police patrol, opening indiscriminate fire. An encounter followed for about half an hour between the police personnel and the militants. One police officer, identified as Nareswar Taran, and two militants were injured in the attack. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants were responsible.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday night, in Mahapur village, Gaya District, Bihar, India, around 200 armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) attacked a government toll plaza. A private security guard, identified as Wakil Singh, was shot and killed and 16 to 25 weapons including rifles, carbines and ammunition were looted. Maoists fired indiscriminately and hurled bombs at the toll gate. A truck driver, identified as Krishna Kant was also shot and killed in the encounter and an unspecified number of security personnel were also injured. An encounter between police and the assailants followed the attack and lasted over 20 minutes. The ultras used dynamite to blow up the office of the toll plaza before leaving the spot besides taking away five computers, damaging 12 computers and destroying papers. The Maoists also took off with around Rs three lakh (6479.73 USD) in cash from the toll plaza. Police claimed that during the encounter some of the Maoists were killed but while fleeing from the spot they took away the dead bodies. The Police claim has not been confirmed. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
07/12/2010: On Monday, in a jungle near Maa Kapali village in Bandwan, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, a local leader of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Srikanta Hansda, was shot and killed by militants. Police suspect that Hansada was killed by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M); while the JMM claim that the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) were responsible for the attack. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/15/2010: On Thursday night at 2350, in the Calicut district of Kerala, India, unknown assailants threw three improvised explosive devices at the Chombala police station. One of the bombs exploded inside the office of the Sub-inspector and the other two on the premises of the police station. No casualties were reported, but a portion of the wall and furniture were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/19/2010: On Friday, in the Bhimpur area in Salboni, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine blast targeting an office of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), causing an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
05/10/2010: On Monday, in Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, six tribals were wounded when Community Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) fired on their vehicle in the R. V. Puram forest area of G. K. Veedhi mandal (administrative unit). The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, according to police, the Maoists fired on the vehicle believing it to be carrying police personnel. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/17/2010: On Sunday, in Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a former Communist Part of Indi - Maoist, was hacked to death by his rivals near the Ngarajunasagar Project Guest house. There were no claims of responsibility. There were no reports of damage.
07/05/2010: On Monday, between Malewada and Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, India, a group of unidentified militants set fire to a state transport corporation bus. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack occurred during a bandh (shutdown) called by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres to protest the recent killing of Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias 'Azad' in Andhra Pradesh. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the bus and no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the CPI-Maoists were responsible.
01/21/2010: On Thursday night, in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, around 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants set ablaze three mobile towers and poured petroleum products on the generator and machines room and set it ablaze. The equipment including the towers, belonged to BSNL, Airtel and Idea, were badly damaged. The purpose of the attack was to disrupt telecommunication system in the district. No casualties have been reported.
05/04/2010: On Tuesday night, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified assailants shot and killed a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) branch committee member of Lalgarh. On 05/05/2010, the body of Shankar Pal was discovered near his residence at Murari. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, allegedly the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) used to take money from him and he refused to pay in the last two months because business had not been good. No group claimed responsibility; however, the Maoists were suspected to be responsible for the attack.
03/22/2010: On Monday night, at Khatri Tola, in Bokaro District, Jharkhand, India, six villagers were abducted by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M). The hostages were identified as Sushil Sao, as Santan Sahay, Santosh Vishwakarma, Sidam Thakur, Aswini Goswami and another youth belonging to harijan community. According to the police, about 50 masked ultras went into the home of Sushil Sao and ransacked it. Then they dragged Santosh Sao out and later took five others hostage. Four of them, Santosh Vishwakarma, Sidam Thakur, Aswini Goswami and the other unidentified youth were released in the early hours of 03/23/2010. Santan Sahay and Sushil Sao were released later that evening. No casualties or damage were reported. There was no claim of responsibility.
11/08/2010: On Monday afternoon, at Belsiri Railway Station in Sonitpur, Assam, India, in one of five related attacks against mostly Arunachal government employees and Hindi-speaking people, suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants led by Ranjan Daimary shot and killed five Hindi-speaking people, including a woman, as they were getting down from a train. No damages were reported in the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, eyewitnesses say that they heard the militants saying that if one more of their cadres were killed, they would kill 20. On 11/01/2010, the NDFB warned the Center and state governments of retaliation if any of its cadres were killed in fake encounters. One militant, Hagrama Basumatary, arrested in connection with the attacks, revealed that groups of three militants simultaneously carried out the attacks before escaping into the Arunachal Pradesh forests.
05/25/2010: On Tuesday, approximately 40 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot at a civilian supporter of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), in the Salbani area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India. The victim, identified as Biswanath Mahato, was injured when 40 assailants wearing masks opened fire on him. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
12/21/2010: On Tuesday afternoon around 1545, on Sironcha-Aheri Road in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine blast targeting a police vehicle. One policemen was killed and at least six others were injured. The damages caused are unknown. Commander Gangadhar Sidam leading the commandos survived the attack. This is the second time that he survived an attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-Maoist) attacked and killed two Communist Party of India - Marxist supporters. The victims were identified as Ranjit Mal and Goutam Mal, residents of Dhula village. On 04/14/2010, the bodies of the two Marxists were recovered. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/16/2010: On Thursday night, near Nareli village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres set fire to seven trucks transporting iron ore from mines of Bailadila to Visakhapatnam, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The militants warned the drivers not to venture into the area. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
09/13/2010: On Monday night around 0200, near Karmavad railway station in Giridih, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants blew up a stretch of railway track. A meter-long stretch of the track and the wheels of a goods train were damaged in the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during a two-day shutdown called by militants to protest the killing of their leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad in Andhra Pradesh. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
09/20/2010: On Monday afternoon at 1430, near Kudumul village in Damanjodi, Koraput, Orissa, India, militants shot and killed Rabi Khara, a sarpanch (President of Village Level Local Self Government Institution) and his associate Puri Sirka. Another associate of the sarpanch, identified as Suresh Sirka, was seriously injured in the attack. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for this incident. A letter written in Telugu near the spot claiming that they had killed these persons as they were acting as Police Informers and were also involved in exploitation of local tribals. Maoists also alleged that they were key elements behind the disruption of a rally planned by Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) at Koraput on 09/13/2009.
07/15/2010: On Thursday evening around 2145, in Kundei village in Nabarangpur, Chhattisgarh, India, about 30 heavily armed militants, including women, triggered a powerful explosion to blow up the police station, causing an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters and banners recovered from the incident site stated that the attack was an act of revenge against the killing of Maoist leader Azad in Andhra Pradesh on 07/01/2010.
06/08/2010: On Tuesday, in Gang village, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed two civilians. No damages were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility. According to police, a poster found near the unidentified bodies claimed that Maoists had killed the two men as they were extorting money from the tribal men in the name of the ultras.
11/25/2010: On Thursday night, at Surar village in Nabinagar, Aurangabad, India, over 50 unidentified armed militants raided a construction site for a proposed 2000 MW power plant and set fire to several of the equipment including four dumpers, three hydra cranes and a mixer machine. Reportedly the militants also briefly held hostage some of the workers present at the site and assaulted them. No casualties were reported and the attack caused an unreported amount of property damage to the equipment. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/13/2010: On Saturday evening at about 1915, a bomb blast ripped through the city's popular German Bakery, close to the Osho Ashram and across from the Jewish Chabad House. More than forty five people have been rushed to the hospital with varying degrees of injury such as burns and fractures. There was an unattended packet which exploded when a waiter tried to open it. The blast left a 6ft x 4ft hole in the wall. It appears a battery operated improvised explosive device was used. Two more deaths brought the death toll up to thirteen. A Reliance Group employee and a Sudanese footballer died on 02/20/2010. Vikas Tulsiyani died on 02/21/2010 and a college student, Rajeev Agarwal died on 02/20/2010 which brought the death toll up to fifteen. Final count is seventeen dead, 49 wounded. The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and the Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack. The 313 Brigade, an operational arm of Al Qaeda, did not specifically claim responsibility for the attack, but a statement from top guerrilla commander Ilyas Kashmiri implies their involvement.
11/07/2010: On Sunday, in Basna village of Nava block in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants detonated improvised explosive devices at a local government building, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack was carried out as militants called for a shutdown to protest United States Barack Obama’s visit to India. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/07/2010: On Tuesday night at 2200, near Sihauta village in Gaya, Bihar, India, unidentified militants abducted and killed a youth, identified as Sanjay Prasad Kumar, for working as a police informer. According to police, militants had earlier threatened the victim for allegedly working as a police informant. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/12/2010: On Wednesday evening around 2000, in Daimara village in West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India, 11 suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) youth armed with automatic rifles and grenades, arrived at the residence of former Panchayat (village council) member Lam Norvu, and beat up a casual worker and a guide. The casual worker of the Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department and a guide, who were accompanying Indian Forest Service (IFS) official of the Maharashtra cadre, V. S. Bardekar, were attacked by the militants before the militants kidnapped Bardekar. On 08/01/2010, Bardekar was released. No ransom was paid. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/10/2010: On Saturday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants abducted two villagers, identified as Soumen Bhakat, chief of Kenddangri gram panchayat, and Kamal Mahato. On 07/11/2010, the militants shot and killed the two men. Their bodies were recovered four kilometers from their homes in Jamboni’s Balidiha village. Reportedly, the militants demanded Rs 5 lakh from Soumen but the panchayat chief said he could not pay more than Rs 50,000. According to police, no rebel posters were recovered, but police recovered several AK-47 cartridges form the incident site. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres were responsible.
10/19/2010: On Tuesday, in Narayanpur, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) kidnapped a former village head, identified as Gulab Singh. On 10/21/2010, the militants held a kangaroo court in which Singh was accused of corruption and awarded the death penalty. The militants first beat Sing, before shooting and killing him. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility; however, the police suspected that Maoists were responsible.
12/21/2010: On Tuesday evening, in Gufa Para village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, a group of 10 unidentified militants killed a villager, identified as Sudhru Ram, on suspicion that he was a police informer. According to police, the villager was hacked to death. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/28/2010: On Wednesday evening at 1930, in Nuapada, Orissa, India, 30 to 40 militants on motorcycles bombed a check gate in the Bharuamunda forest area of the Sunabeda wildlife sanctuary. The militants also shot at point blank and killed Forest guard Sangram Swain in the attack. According to police, the presence of iron chains on his leg indicated brutal torture. Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) posters were found with messages against the alleged collection of bribes at the forest gates.
03/02/2010: On Tuesday night, in the village of Goghaldiha in Munger, Bihar, India, 200 Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants beheaded a village guard and a civilian on suspicion of being police informers. The victims, identified as Rameswar Mandal and Kailash Pundit, were taken from their homes and dragged through the village before they were beheaded at a Jan Adalat (Kangaroo court). District police chief Ashish Chandra said the Maoists first looked for the village head, but since he was not available, his brother, Ramsundar, was picked up. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/26/2010: On Tuesday evening, near Jhargram in West Midnapore, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot dead a Trinamool Congress worker. The dead body of 26-year-old, Rishi Dolai, was recovered from the Barokuria ghat (river bed) on the Kangsabati River.
10/25/2010: On Monday, at the residence of Meitram Kesho in Taothong Apheiba, Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants hurled two hand grenades at the house. One grenade hit the roof and caused some damages to the upper portion of the house. The other grenade landed in front of the verandah but did not explode. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/22/2010: On Wednesday morning at 0600, in Bishenpur, Manipur, India, assailants threw a grenade at the residence of a political affiliate, causing no casualties or damage. The political affiliate was identified as Yumnamcha Dilip, president of United Committee Manipur (UCM). Police successfully disarmed the grenade. The Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) claimed responsibility. A letter left at the incident site claimed that the attack was a last warning. Dilip said he wanted a clarification from the militants why they hurled the grenade at his house for he had not received any threat letter or monetary demand from any militant outfit.
10/02/2010: On Saturday, at a market on Sukma block in Keralapal village, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, 10 unidentified militants armed with unidentified sharp weapons and axes attacked and injured a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper and a police official. The victims were identified as Anil Tondon and Ashok Yadav. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
10/08/2010: On Friday night, at a forested area in the Surimetta area of Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a laborer, Vantala Bhaskara Rao, was shot and killed by a group of 25 Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M). A leaflet left beside his body in the name of the Korukonda area committee secretary, Narender, claimed that Rao was warned previously by the Maoists for helping the police, and the he was working as an informer for the G Madugula police.
02/15/2010: On Monday, Maoist guerrillas, mostly females, stormed an Eastern Frontier Rifles camp in Shilda, 75 kilometers from Midnapore, West Bengal, India, killing at least twenty four policemen. The rebels then set fire to the camp and two policemen, who took bullets in their legs and couldn't escape, pretended to be dead when the Maoists set the tents on fire. Police reinforcements found bodies.
02/02/2010: On Tuesday morning at 0615, on Thakurbari road in Rangapara, Sonitpor, Assam, India, a doctor was kidnapped by three suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants. The victim, identified as Nani Gopal Dutta, 70, was rescued by police from National Highway 52 at Dhansirighat in the neighboring Udalguri district within hours of his abduction during the afternoon. The driver, Nayan Basumatary, has been arrested and police are on the lookout for others. Police suspect this was a case of extortion. No group claimed responsibility.
05/14/2010: On Friday evening, in Kandhamal, Orissa, India, in remote Ranaba panchayat, suspected Basadara divisional committee of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants along with their local supporters targeted the construction site of a Pradahan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) road and set fire to concrete and tar mixing machines of the construction company. Militants also threatened the local laborers to refrain from getting involved in similar road construction work. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
02/13/2010: On Saturday, in Jhalnacherra village in Hailakandi, Assam, India, unidentified militants abducted, Nazimuddin Majumdar, a forest guard. It is believed that the United Liberation Front of Barak Valley were responsible, however, the group denied responsibility for the kidnapping on February 17, 2010. The victim was subsequently released on February 26, 2010.
10/22/2010: On Friday, in Saiko village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, two militants killed a civilian identified as Roopnath Bhengra. A note left at the scene by Communist Party of India (CPI-M) branded the victim a police informer.
02/08/2010: On Monday night, in Bishnupur, Manipur, India, unidentified militants attacked and set ablaze a bridge connecting Nongmaikhong and Ithai Wapokpi, damaging the bridge. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
11/30/2010: On Tuesday, in the Jhargram area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants attacked and set ablaze the private residence of a local Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader, causing an unreported amount of property damage. Reportedly, a group of assailants ordered the family of Harish Mahato to leave the house. Then the militants took away everything and then set the house on fire. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/17/2010: On Saturday morning, at Kutmu More in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, a landmine detonated near a patrol van carrying Jharkhand Jaguar Force personnel. Five Indian security personnel were killed and five others were injured. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
09/20/2010: On Monday morning, at Dakshinsole in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, two improvised explosive devices were detonated near Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) office. The building was damaged in the attack, but caused no casualties. Reportedly, the office was targeted because the CPM was planning to set up an armed camp at the party office. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) are suspected of being responsible.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Bandwan area of Puruliya district, in the West Bengal province of India, suspected Communist Party of India (Maoist) militants abducted Mansaram Singh, an alleged former Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader who had recently joined the Trinamool Congress, and took him away to an unknown location. The abductors shot and killed Singh later that night. There was no claim of responsibility.
03/17/2010: On Wednesday, in an unspecified area of Manipur, India, suspected Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) militants attacked and wounded a teacher. The specific motive of the attack is unknown; however, the teacher was allegedly attacked for his inability to regulate the use of unfair means by students taking the High School Leaving Certificate exam. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/11/2010: On Thursday, in Beluaghati, Giridih, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants severed the head and legs of a man who was given a death sentence in a kangaroo court. A poster left at the incident site stated that the man was killed after being branded as a supporter of the reactionary forces at a jan adalat staged by the guerrillas on 11/10/2010.
08/29/2010: On Sunday, in Laksisharai, Bihar, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants ambushed a police patrol and kidnapped four policemen. Seven policemen were killed and eight others injured in the attack. One abducted policeman, Lucas Tete, was killed and his body bearing bullet wounds was recovered on 09/02/2010. On 09/04/20120, two Maoist leaders were arrested from Jamui, Bihar, in order to interrogate them about the abduction. On 09/06/2010, the three remaining abducted policemen, identified as Abhay Prasad Yadav, Rupesh Kumar Sinha and Ehshan Khan, were released after intense search operations. The Maoists issued an ultimatum to Bihar government to release eight of their jailed colleagues by 09/01/2010 or else the kidnapped policemen would be killed. The government did not release any of the jailed colleagues. On 09/13/2010, another three militants, Bikram Kumar, Dheeraj Kumar, and Sanjeev Kumar, were arrested in connection with the attack. On 09/23/2010, Amlesh Singh alias Amlesh Rana, an ‘area commander’ of the Maoists and two more cadres, Gopal Hembrom and Rajesh Murmu, were arrested in connection with the attack.
05/10/2010: On Monday evening around 1900, in Chowdapali village, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, three armed assailants shot the vice chairman of Zilla Parishad. The government official identified as U. Somalingam died as a result of the assault. According to police, Somalingam was warned by the police that he could be targeted by the extremists as he was on the hit-list of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M). No damages were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the CPI-M was responsible.
03/18/2010: On Thursday, 12 civilians were wounded when suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a civilian bus en route from Barairpur to Jamui in India's Bihar state. Reportedly, as soon as the bus carrying passengers reached a petrol pump near Lakshmipur, a crude bomb kept in the vehicle went off. No group claimed responsibility; however, police suspect that the Communist Party of India-Maoists is responsible because the bus continued to run during the time that they had called a bandh.
08/29/2010: On Sunday, in Ladhoura village in Sheohar, Bihar, India, armed militants stopped a vehicle and kidnapped a Block Development Officer (BDO), identified as Manok Kumar Singh. The victim was taken away on a motorcycle to an unknown location. Three others, who were accompanying him, identified as Vishwanath Rai, Kanhaiya Prasad, and Dr. Ishtekhar Ram, were also taken hostage and released later. On 08/31/2010, the BDO was released during the morning. No casualties or damages were reported. The militants demanded the immediate release of 12 comrades for the release of the victims. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for this incident.
03/21/2010: On Sunday night, in one of two related attacks, in Bagihappa village, Jhargram District, Medinipur, West Bengal, India, a group of over 20 Communist Party of India-Maoist militants attacked and set fire to a Communist Party of India-Marxist office. Two CPI-Marxist supporters were also beaten up by the group of Maoists and admitted to a hospital at Jhargram. No casualties were reported and there was no claim of responsibility.
08/28/2010: On Saturday night, in Chandabila village in Nayagram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around 40-50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist were (CPI-M) militants poured petrol and set ablaze a community hall where security forces were planning to set up a camp, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that Maoists were responsible.
04/28/2010: On Wednesday night, on the Koraput-Rayagada State Highway at place between Tayaput and Laxmipur, Orissa, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants detonated an improvised explosive device on a culvert between Tayaput and Laxmipur. The road was severely damaged by the explosion, causing a five-foot deep pit. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility; however, the attack is said to be part of the continuing weeklong bandh (shut down) called by Maoists in Orissa on 04/24/2010.
07/17/2010: On Saturday, in Kankerlanka village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a tribal, identified as Sodhi Hunga, suspecting him to be a police informer. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
09/14/2010: On Tuesday, from a house in Banaladhipa village in Sundargarh, Orissa, India, unidentified militants kidnapped and later killed a civilian, identified as Rajesh Lugun. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
06/28/2010: On Monday, in a village of Simdega District, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres shot and killed two villagers. The assailants reportedly tricked them into going to a nearby jungle and later shot them and threw their bodies at a crossroad. No damages were reported in the attack. A letter found at the site claimed that the dead men were police informants and members of the Jharkhand Liberation Tigers (JLT).
05/06/2010: On Thursday evening, at Mater market in Mater, Saran, Bihar, India, assailants set two buses on fire destroying both buses but causing no casualties. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the CPI-Maoists called for a bandh in North Bihar for 05/06/2010 and 05/07/2010 to protest the alleged police atrocities and price rise of essentials.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday night, at Chitrokonda in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, the Essar office cum guest house was attacked and ransacked and two vehicles were set on fire during an attack by Communist Party of India-Maoist. According to police, the assailants assaulted the guards present at the site, torched the guest house, and looted the television, laptops and computers. A Sumo, crane and mini truck at the plant site were also set on fire. The assailants then asked the employees to vacate the building and then planted landmines and blew up the building, destroying the pump house extensively. The damages were estimated to be Rs 1 crore (213,153.00 USD). No casualties were reported. A poster left by Communist Party of India-Maoists asked the company to quit and opposed Operation Green Hunt.
03/23/2010: On Tuesday night, in the Gajapati district of Orissa, India, assailants fired upon a 30 member police party in the Ambajiri forest, killing three policemen and injuring four others. No group has claimed responsibility, but Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were thought responsible for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, near Jairolpokpi under Jiri Police Station in Imphal East District, Manipur, India, suspected People's Liberation Army (PLA) cadres set ablaze a Mithana-ma (betel leaves) laden truck, damaging the vehicle. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday night around 2200, on a Sampark Kranti Express train travelling from Manikpur to New Delhi, in Mahoba of the Uttar Pradesh province of India, passengers discovered an improvised explosive device planted (IED) in the toilet of a S-2 sleeper-coach car. Bomb disposal personnel took the IED to an open location and defused the bomb through a controlled blast. According to police officials, the entire structure of the bomb suggested that it was planted to create panic. No casualties or damages resulted and no group claimed responsibility, but the Students' Islamic Movement of India was suspected.
08/29/2010: On Sunday, in Dhusura village at Semiliguda block in Koraput, Orissa, India, three unidentified militants shot and killed a congress leader, identified as Anand Kirsani, while he was overseeing the construction of his house. He was also the president of Shanti Sangh, an organization formed against violent activities of Narayanpatna-based Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh which is backed by the Maoists. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the Communist Party of India - Maoists were responsible.
04/06/2010: On Tuesday, in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) cadres opened fire with small arms and detonated a land mine targeting a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicle, killing 76 security personnel, including 15 commandos of the Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (Cobra) force. The Maoists claimed responsibility and admitted to losing eight of its cadres in the attack. Godsa Usendi, spokesman of the outfit's Dandakaranya special zone committee, stated that about two companies (300 men) of People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) participated in the operation. He also claimed that the attack, which they had planned for five to six months, had three objectives: crippling Operation Green Hunt, avenging the killing of top leaders in fake encounters, and saving the people of Bastar region.
10/02/2010: On Saturday, in Mendhatola village in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants took Murlidhar Mahadole, a government employee, into a nearby forest and slit his throat. Mahadole was reportedly killed on suspicion of being police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
11/24/2010: On Wednesday afternoon around 1630, at Chahmol hills in Chandel, Manipur, India, two militants shot and killed a village chief, identified as Ngamkholet Baite. The United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF) militants claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that Baite was targeted for suspected links to the Kuki National Liberation Front (KNLF). Police officials, however, suspect that the motive behind the attack may have been a result of tribal enmity.
03/21/2010: On Sunday morning at 0800, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, a “crude bomb-like object” containing gunpowder was found from the cargo section of a Kingfisher flight from Bangalore at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport. The object was the size of a cricket ball and was wrapped in the Bangalore edition of a Malayalam newspaper and was spotted by the cleaners after the passengers deplaned from IT 3174 flight. There was no detonator or timing device. The bomb was later defused by state police. No group claimed responsibility.
11/27/2010: On Saturday night, in the Dukulpadu area in Brahmanigaon, Kandhamal, Orissa, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting an ambulance. Five civilians, including two women and a three year old child, were killed in the blast. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
03/25/2010: On Thursday, in Etela, West Bengal, India, 100 assailants attacked a forest beat office and set it ablaze. The Maoists then damaged the staff quarters, broke down walls of a quarter under construction and set ablaze the entire complex. The Maoists also beat up two guards and were armed with crowbars, rods and shovels. No group has claimed responsibility, but Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were thought responsible for the attack.
03/18/2010: On Thursday, in the Venkatapuram area of Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed a grocery shop owner identified as Shaik Khaja at his shop under Venkatapuram Police Station. The militants accused the victim of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
03/18/2010: On Thursday, in the Dhanbhumghar area of East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up an electricity tower of the Damodar Valley Corporation. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/21/2010: On Saturday morning, in Bhamragad, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, around 150 militants stormed the Medpalli village and set fire to a police camp used to provide protection to Border Roads Organization (BRO) personnel, causing no casualties and an unknown amount of damage. Later the Maoists entered the village and dragged two villagers, Purushottam Alam and Bajirao Madavi, from their homes and brought them to the police camp where they beheaded them on suspicion of being police informers. No damages reported in this attack. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) pamphlets left at the incident site claimed the two victims were targeted for being police informers.
09/01/2010: On Wednesday, in Barihatu village in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, around 20 militants raided the village and set ablaze three vehicles using petrol. Afterward, the militants beat up an uncle of Prakash Ram, a former RashtriyaJanata Dal (RJD) legislator. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
12/16/2010: On Thursday, in the Soya area of Ranchi, Simdega, Jharkhand, India, suspected People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) militants fired upon and killed two civilians and wounded two others. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the victims were said to be Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) sympathizers. No group claimed responsibility.
04/22/2010: On Thursday night, at Kudmuluguda in Malkangiri District, Orissa, India, armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) blew up a cellular phone tower of the Airtel service provider. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
05/28/2010: On Friday morning at approximately 0830, at Gidhni turning near Chak basti in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device, killing one police officer and wounding one other police officer. The deceased was identified as Upendra Kumar Singh, and the wounded was identified as Ashok Kumar Sao. No damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
10/02/2010: On Saturday, in the Boipariguda police station area of Ramgiri, Koraput, Orissa, India, around 15 heavily armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) stormed the forest office and set off a landmine, blowing up a portion of the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/18/2010: On Saturday, in Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) kidnapped and later killed Kondu Ram, the village headman of Madanwada village by unknown means.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/13/2010: On Saturday, in Dalbhumgarh, East Singhbhum District, Jharkhand, India, a local government official, Prashant Kumar Layek was kidnapped by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants. The group demanded the release of jailed CPI-M militants and warned that the official would be killed in seven days if the demand was not met. He was set free on Friday 02/19/2010 at around 1835 after the Shibu Soren government agreed to release jailed prisoners.
04/29/2010: On Thursday, in one of two related attacks, in Haflong, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, unidentified militants threw two grenades at a police station. The assailants also threw a grenade at a police team patrolling near a school. No damages or casualties were reported. The assailants missed their targets. No group claimed responsibility.
08/02/2010: On Monday night, in Kongba Laishram Leikai, Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a non-local migrant worker. One live ammunition of 6.55 millimeter was recovered from the incident site. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/09/2010: On Thursday evening around 1815, at Khairasol, Birbhum, West Bengal, India, four to five unidentified militants entered the Khairasole zonal committee office and shot local ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader, Sashti Bauri, three times at close range and killed him. The militants then fled on motorcycles. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. Party leaders claimed that Maoist posters were left around the room where Bauri was killed.
11/23/2010: On Tuesday, in Tonder village in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants beheaded a civilian, identified as Bajirao Chandriya Soyam, suspecting him to be a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
11/03/2010: On Wednesday, at a school in the Kutumba area of Aurangabad, Bihar, India, an improvised explosive device and a landmine planted by unidentified militants were recovered. Security forces defused the explosives, causing no casualties or damages. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the school was an area proposed for use as a polling station. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/07/2010: On Sunday morning, in Solabu village, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres abducted a Congress party leader and a former Telugu Desam Party panchayat ward member. Four assailants, including two women, abducted Koyyuru mandal Congress president, Kone Somaiah, and former panchayat ward member of Makavaram, Kakarla Balaiah. Somaiah was released on 02/10/2010. The status of the other hostage, Balaiah, is unknown. No group claimed responsibility.
02/07/2010: On Sunday, in Khargaon, Kokrajhar District, Assam, India, three Hindi-speaking migrant workers were wounded, two critically, when suspected separatists opened indiscriminate fire at a group of people waiting on the roadside. No group claimed responsibility; however, police blamed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) for the attack. A police spokesperson said a group of about four militants attacked a locality inhabited by Hindi-speaking people using automatic weapons. The attack was seen as an attempt to make the NDFB's presence felt ahead of Wednesday's scheduled visit by union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai to Kokrajhar to review the law and order situation in the Bodo tribal heartland.
09/20/2010: On Monday, at Silda near Jhargram in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants shot and killed Ananta Mukherjee, a local leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). His security guard was also critically injured. Mukherjee and his two bodyguards were at the Silda High School, where Mukherjee is a clerk, at the time of the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoist militants were responsible.
05/28/2010: On Friday night around 0130, near Jhargram, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, the Calcutta-Mumbai Express passenger train derailed and was hit by a cargo train. At least 115 people were killed and more than 140 were injured. Officials disagreed on the cause of the derailment, with some saying it was caused by an explosion but others blaming sabotaged rail lines. No group claimed responsibility, but a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was blamed for the attack. According to police, Umakangta Mahato and Bapi Mahato of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) sabotaged the train track which caused the train to derail. The CPI-Maoists denied being involved with the incident. On 08/27/2010, Umakangta Mahato was killed in a clash with security forces in Lodhashuli in Jhargram.
03/24/2010: On Wednesday night at 2345, in the Bhelbi area of Saran, Bihar, India, over 50 armed assailants opened indiscriminate fire on and blew up a newly constructed police station. Reportedly, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) surrounded the building and fired indiscriminately before setting off dynamite. No casualties were reported in the attack but the building was razed to the ground. A note left behind by Maoists asked the State Government to halt Operation Green Hunt and set free its top leaders that are being held in various jails.
11/04/2010: On Thursday morning, at Chunapara area of Sankrail in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, militants attacked a group of policemen, who were conducting a raid on a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) meeting, with bricks and batons. One Maoist supporter was killed and eight other Maoists and thirteen police personnel were injured in an exchange of fire between police and militants. The militants also looted a few firearms, including an AK-47, and ammunition. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/14/2010: On Saturday night, in a village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants abducted five people, including two supporters of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). The two CPM supporters, identified as Shankar Jana and Nishikanta Mondal, were shot and killed and their bodies were recovered outside the Kamalapukuria village on 08/15/2010. The other hostages were released. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) banners left by the bodies accused the victims of being CPM supporters.
03/13/2010: On Saturday morning, in the Dumraon area of Buxar, Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants set fire to a JCB machine and one tractor of a road construction company at Dumraon. Two vehicles were destroyed. There were no casualties in the attack. According to police, the Maoists allegedly targeted the construction company for levies. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/17/2010: On Tuesday night, in Ziyan village in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, around 15 to 20 militants blew up a school building with explosives and detonators. No casualties were reported and the attack caused an unknown amount of property damage. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for this incident. Maoist pamphlets left at the scene claimed that the building was targeted because it was being used by security personnel.
12/21/2010: On Tuesday, near Lankachen village in Chhinnavatra forest of an unknown city in Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants set ablaze a Tata Sumo (vehicle) and boat belonging to the Forest Department. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
05/03/2010: On Monday night around 2330, in Khuzama, on the Natinal Highway 39 sector of Nagaland, India, 10-15 unidentified militants set five trucks on fire on their way to Manipur, India. The militants, armed with AK-rifles, came in two Maruti vans and set on fire the trucks stranded between Viswema and Khuzama villages in Nagaland. They also fired a few rounds. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility; however, the Naga Students' Federation is believed to be responsible. It is suspected that the attack was carried out by Naga militants to protest against the Okram Ibobi Singh government’s decision not to allow National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah faction (NSCN-IM) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah to enter the state.
01/19/2010: On Tuesday, at Noremthong in Imphal West, Manipur, India, near the residence of Manipur Director General of Police Yumnam Joykumar, two civilians were injured in a bomb blast. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/09/2010: On Tuesday, in Nagma village in Gaya, Bihar, India, over 50 heavily armed unidentified militants set ablaze a bus after pulling out the driver and helper, causing an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/12/2010: On Monday night around 0000 midnight, in Bishanpur village in Jamui District, Bihar, India, in one of two linked attacks, around 50 to 150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres abducted and killed two people. They were identified as panchayat samiti (block level local self Government institution) member Arjun Paswan, and his brother Prasadi. In the second attack, the Maoists also attacked adjoining Rajaun village and kidnapped and killed Bishundeo Yadav, village chief of Poorest Areas Civil Society program. On the morning of 04/13/2010, the bodies of all three victims were found hacked to death in Baba hills, a forest near the Rajaun village. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/16/2010: On Thursday evening, in one of two related attacks, in Kanghadi village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a group of unidentified armed militants abducted and later killed Mansaram Parchaki. According to police, the victim was killed on suspicion of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/06/2010: On Thursday night around 0000 midnight, in Poleru, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, more than 50 unidentified assailants triggered a landmine blast to damage the house of contractor P Rama Rao and set fire to two of his motorcycles, destroying them. Rao who was not at home remained unharmed; however, his son Ashok was severely thrashed in the attack. The militants also broke a cupboard and looted Rs 1 lakh in cash, bonds worth Rs 1 lakh and 50 grams of gold. According to police, Rao’s house was targeted possibly because the Maoists thought that Rao’s younger son was working as an informant for the Andhra Pradesh police. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
03/06/2010: On Saturday night, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India Maoists (CPI-Maoist) called Shibshankar Das out of his residence. On 03/07/2010, the bullet-riddled body of Das was discovered near Chotokalsibhanga village. Posters left near the body claimed that he was a Police informer and was given the death sentence by the "people's court". The armed wing of People’s Committee against Police Atrocities, Sidhu Kanhu Gana Militia, claimed responsibility for the killing.
12/09/2010: On Thursday morning, in Nangalakata village in Sundargarh, Odisha, India, around 200 armed militants barged into the village and abducted six villagers at gun point. The militants than took the victims to a nearby school building where the villagers reportedly had a heated exchange of words with the militants. Subsequently, four villagers were released while the other two were killed. The two victims, identified as Anup Singh and Bisra Singh, had their throats cut and were suspected by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants as being police informers. Posters were left at the incident site warning villagers not to support the police.
01/25/2010: On Monday, in Golaghat, Assam, India, along the Assam-Nagaland border, a suspected National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) militant abducted a business man. There were no reported casualties.
01/25/2010: An explosive device planted inside a vehicle was discovered and defused near Halwara Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Halwara, Punjab, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that a Khalistan Liberation Force member was behind the attempted attack.
05/19/2010: On Wednesday night, at Kaliam village in West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India, seven to eight cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) kidnapped a worker of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Gurucharan Mahato. The cadres later shot and killed the worker, and his body was found on 05/20/2010. Maoists posters, stating him as a police informer, were found near his body.
05/26/2010: On Wednesday, in the Goaltore region of West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India, around 20 to 25 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) cadres killed a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) worker, Sujit Mal (Mallot), 20. According to police, Sujit was hacked to death when the assailants attacked the house where he and other party collegues had taken shelter. The Maoists also beat other CPM members before fleeing the area. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
12/06/2010: On Monday, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device at the crowded Nagamapal Market, injuring five civilians. One police official suspected that the militants lobbed a grenade from a motorcycle and sped away, but that report has not been confirmed. The attack caused an unreported amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
09/14/2010: On Tuesday morning, near Sakra railway station in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, unidentified militants blew up a railway track of the East Central Railway, damaging the track. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is suspected that the attack was carried out to enforce a two-day general shut down. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
02/13/2010: On Saturday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated a landmine and then fired upon a mobile police patrol near Bamal village, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India. Personnel of combined forces went to investigate the area from Lalgarh camp. The landmine was detonated as the police personnel approached the area. Police personnel pursued the Maoists, who then opened fire on the personnel. The police force opened retaliatory fire, but the assailants escaped into the nearby forest. No casualties and no damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
09/15/2010: On Wednesday night at 0200, over 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) using petrol and kerosene, set fire to two buses in Basantpatti Chawk, Sheohar, Bihar, India. The buses were destroyed but caused no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/23/2010: On Friday, in Mardadand village, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants hijacked a bus belonging to a private travel company, Tomar Travels, after evacuating all 22 passengers. Reportedly, the rebels stopped the bus, searched the luggage of the passengers and then asked them to get down. The rebels also warned the people against travelling on buses driving on that route, saying the vehicles could get caught in landmine blasts. Security personnel later recovered the bus from State Highway 16. No casualties or damages were reported. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect the attack was carried out to extort money from the bus operators. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
10/06/2010: On Wednesday night at 2215, between Churk and Agorikhas railway stations in deep forests in Sonebhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India, a group of 40 militants held a lineman, identified as Kharpattu, hostage for hours while they damaged the railway tracks by removing fish plates and 42 sleeper clips near Ghagra bridge. The hostage was later released and no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
12/10/2010: On Friday night, at Kaliatal in Baipariguda, Koraput, Odisha, India, more than 10-12 unidentified militants set fire to a mobile tower to disrupt communications, causing an unreported amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/17/2010: On Wednesday night, at Bachhurdoba in the Jhargram town’s ward six area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around 25 to 30 Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants ransacked and then set fire to a Communist Party of India - Marxist office. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, police suspect that the Communist Party of India-Maoists were responsible.
01/25/2010: On Monday morning at 0600, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, two hand grenades were recovered by Security Forces (SF) personnel from Naoremthong Yumnam Leirak junction leading to Manipur Director General of Police Y. Joykumar's private residence in Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/07/2010: On Thursday, in Chingmeirong, Imphal East, Manipur, India, two suspected militants riding a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade in front of the Misao gas station. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/17/2010: On Friday morning around 0930, between the Tuitang and Sehlon villages in Chandel, Manipur, India, suspected Manipur People’s Army (MPA) militants ambushed a 36 Assam Rifles division military patrol by unknown means injuring six soldiers and causing an unknown amount of property damage. In a statement issued by its senior publicity officer, Ksh Yoiheiba, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility, stating that the attack was in response to the visit of Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram to Manipur.
10/04/2010: On Monday, in Perilimili village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) rebels detonated a landmine under the vehicle of paramilitary and police personnel as they were returning to their camp, killing two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and two police officers and badly damaging their vehicle. The victims were identified as Inspector Nauroti Yadav and Constable Anand Kumar of the 9th battalion (CRPF) and sub-inspectors of Maharashtra Police, Shashi More and Mahendra Mangul. The suspected motive for the attack is retaliation against arrests made on Sunday in which 20 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were arrested on suspicion of involvement in an encounter with police that killed 16 officers in May 2009. No group claimed responsibility.
04/29/2010: On Thursday, in one of two related attacks, in Haflong, Assam, India, unidentified militants threw a grenade at a police patrol. The assailants also threw two grenades at a police station in Haflong. No casualties or damages were reported. The assailants missed their targets. No group claimed responsibility.
09/04/2010: On Saturday morning around 1130, in Lalgarh, Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, five to six unidentified militants on three motorbikes arrived at Garsalboni Primary School in search of Dibakar Mahato. The militants took Mahato from his classroom to the Lodhasuli-Jhargram state highway, around 60 meters away and shot him in the head with a revolver. According to police, Mahato was killed because he was a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) local committee in Jhargram. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
09/13/2010: On Monday, at Sahapur in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set on fire a piece of construction equipment, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during a two-day shut down called by Maoists to press for a probe into the death of top Naxal leader Cherakuri Rajkumar alias Azad on 07/02/2010 in Adilabad. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/14/2010: On Tuesday afternoon at 1700, in Patina, Nayagram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants fired on a boat ferrying about 15 villagers. According to police, Kanai Dutta, a supporter of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) was targeted in the attack. The militants missed Dutta and injured one of his associates, Santosh Bera. A three-year old child was also injured in the attack when a bullet hit the mirror of a motorcycle loaded on the boat and a shard from it hit the child. Also according to police, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) earlier threatened to kill Dutta. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
06/26/2010: On Saturday, beneath a culvert on NH-215 near Kamarposh, Sundargarh district, Orissa, India, a 10 kilogram landmine planted by Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-M) was defused by police, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
11/12/2010: On Friday afternoon, outside Jamia Masjid in Aglar village in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified gunmen shot and killed a ruling National Conference (NC) worker with a pistol. The victim was identified as Ghulam Mohammad Rather aka Kanna. Reportedly he was on his way to afternoon prayers when he was shot in the head and chest. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/08/2010: On Monday, assailants blew up a railway track between Bhalulata and Jareikela stations in Rourkela, Orissa, India, derailing two wagons of a train. A section of the track was damaged but no injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility although it is believed a Maoist faction was responsible.
04/24/2010: On Saturday night, in Bankura, West Bengal, India, Parmeshwar Murmu, a local leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (Jamagoria committee) was abducted from his home by a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists. On 04/25/2010, the body of Murmu was found near his house in the Ranibandh Police station area. Police were investigating whether it was carried out by Maoists. No group claimed responsibility.
11/30/2010: On Tuesday evening around 2030, in the Keithelmanbi area of Senapati, Manipur, India, unidentified militants abducted the Manipur Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF), identified as S Singsit. Reportedly, Singsit was taken from his mother-in-law’s house along with his brother-in-law in a Maruti car. The brother-in-law was released shortly thereafter, and Singsit was transferred to a motorcycle. The PCCF was injured in an accident and was rescued and taken to the hospital. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF) militants were responsible.
09/16/2010: On Thursday, in Nuapada, Orissa, India, around 50 unidentified assailants detonated several explosive devices, destroying several Forest Department subdivision office buildings inside the Sunabeda sanctuary. According to police, an abandoned forest range office, an inspection bungalow and ranger’s quarter were targeted in the attack. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, but no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
08/23/2010: On Monday night, in Dingpai village, Koraput, Orissa, India, a group of 25 to 30 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres abducted 12 people from Tentulipodar and neighboring Dingapai villages. The militants killed Sikunu Meleka around 2100 using an axe on suspicion of being a police informer and released the other 11 hostages. A letter left at the incident site by Maoists claimed Meleka was killed for being a suspected police informer.
06/28/2010: On Monday, in the village of Pattegaon, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres shot and killed three civilians on charges of being police informers. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/19/2010: On Tuesday night, in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot dead Malinder Singh (19), an intermediate student of Chandil College. There were no reports of damage.
07/10/2010: On Saturday night, on the outskirts of Balimela in Nilakamberu, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, about 50 unidentified heavily-armed militants triggered a landmine, blowing up a mobile tower of a private telecom operator. The blast destroyed the tower. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
06/26/2010: On Saturday, on the Gobindpalli Ghat road in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, a landmine exploded as authorities were attempting to defuse it, wounding one police officer. The police were able to defuse six landmines before they failed to defuse the seventh, preventing any casualties or damages from taking place. It was suspected that rebels were planting landmines in different locations to target the security personnel ahead of the proposed bandh called by them on Monday. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction was responsible.
09/22/2010: On Wednesday, near Sitapala in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a trooper of the Madhya Pradesh Police’s Hawk Force, identified as Harish Rahgdale, and wounded another, identified as Kamlesh. Six jawans of Madhya Police's Hawk Force, along with Platoon Commander, were heading to Sitapala on motorbikes when they were ambushed by the armed assailants. The surviving jawans entered a village in a nearby jungle to search for the militants, which resulted in an exchange of fire between the police and militants. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
11/11/2010: On Thursday morning, in Imphal, Manipur, India, militants armed with a nine millimeter pistol kidnapped a university engineering official, Thongam Dolan. The militants demanded a ransom of RS 72 lakh (1,671 USD). On 11/16/2010, the Imphal West District police rescued Dolan from the foot of the Arabati Mountain in the Imphal East District and arrested two militants of the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK). No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
10/19/2010: On Tuesday evening at 1830, in front of a tea shop in the Balarampur area in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, in one of two linked attacks, two unidentified militants on a motorcycle shot and killed Yudhisthir Mondal, and influential Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader and vice-president of the Balarampur panchayat samiti. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
12/27/2010: On Monday night, in Bhimpur village in Dhanora, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a group of unidentified armed militants shot and killed a civilian, identified as Gowardhan Shedmake, on suspicion of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
04/05/2010: On Monday morning around 1000, in the Tanginiguda area of Koraput district, Orissa, India, nine Special Operations Group (SOG) jawans were killed and eight others seriously wounded when suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres triggered a landmine targeting their mini bus. Two other jawans on the bus were reportedly missing. The deceased personnel were identified as Hemanta Kumar Nayak, Brajendra Nath Rout, Sanjay Kumar Pradhan, Umakanta Nayak, Subrat Kumar Samal, Hikim Hembram, Pratap Raju Behera, Ashok Kumar Behera and Jayanta Kurudi. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/28/2010: On Sunday night at 2300 and 0000, in the Khura area of Latehar, Jharkhand, India, militants detonated two different improvised explosive devices at a village council building. The blasts were believed to be in objection to the elections that were being held at the time. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
01/29/2010: On Friday, in Yaripora Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a civilian and an activist of the Communist Party of India - Marxist were wounded when unidentified militants opened fire on them. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/23/2010: On Friday afternoon around 1630, near Indraboni village in Manikpara, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, three suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants on a motorcycle shot and killed a teacher of the Indraboni Primary School, Rabindranath Mahato. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect that the attack was carried out because Rabindranath had stopped a group of Maoists from forcing the students of his school to take part of a rally on 07/20/2010. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. On 08/02/2010, Kartyk Dutta, a CPI-Maoist cadre, was arrested in connection with the attack.
10/27/2010: On Wednesday around 1215 noon, on Lumding-Silchar meter gauge hill section between Lower Haflong and Bagetar stations in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, unknown explosives were triggered by unidentified militants, which derailed four coaches of the 5963 Down Barak Valley Express. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place a few kilometers from where Assam governor Janaki Ballabh Patnaik was inaugurating an international tourism festival at the famous Jatinga village. Furthermore, although it is unclear which group is responsible for the attack, the Dilip Nunisa faction of the Dima Halom Daoga (DHD) had called an indefinite bandh in the hill district on Tuesday night, complaining of harassment by the police. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/29/2010: On Friday, in Ettegata area of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, an Indian police officer was killed when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device emplaced by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants.
10/06/2010: On Wednesday night, in Chhotoparulia village near Jhargram in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a group of militants abducted a teacher, identified as Gurucharan Mahato, from his house. He was kidnapped under suspicion that he was a police informer. On 10/07/2010, the militants shot and killed Mahato. A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) poster saying that Mahato was an agent of the Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM) and a police informer was found near his body.
12/24/2010: On Friday, in Godda district of Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants detonated landmines during the final phase of the village elections, killing two troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force. It is unknown if the blasts resulted in any property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
09/18/2010: On Saturday night at 0400, in Rajabandha village, Malkangiri, Orissa, around 30 assailants kidnapped a village guard, Lalit Hantal, suspected of being a police informer. Later, the assailants assaulted and killed the victim. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/11/2010: On Sunday night at 2130, at Kurupalli village in Sironcha taluka of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra, India, a group of about 20 to 25 suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed the former Sarpanch (village head), Malliya Gawde, after branding him to a police informer. The Maoists drug Gawde from his house in Kurupalli and attacked him using an axe. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/30/2010: On Friday, at a road construction site in the MV-69 village in Kalimela area of Malkangiri District, Orissa, India, three Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres shot at close range three rounds at a road contractor, Chitta Rai, and killed him, suspecting him to be a Police informer. A note left by the Maoists alleged that Rai, who had undertaken construction works under rural development programs, was a police informer.
01/17/2010: On Sunday evening at 2100, in Gaya, Bihar, India, 35 Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI) detonated an explosive device destroying the Airtel cell phone town in Sherpur village. There were no reported casualties.
10/19/2010: On Tuesday evening around 1830, near Burma village in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, in one of two linked attacks, unidentified militants shot and killed Sitanath Singh Sardar, a secretary of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/04/2010: Assailants armed with knives and an axe chopped off the hand of T.J. Joseph, a Newman College professor, in Kizhakkekara neighborhood, Muvattupuzha, Kerala, India. Following the assault, the assailants threw explosive devices as they escaped the area. The Popular Front of India claimed responsibility for the incident and stated "this hand which insults Islam will not be used in future."
10/20/2010: On Wednesday, in the Usur area in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants fired at a passenger bus carrying civilians and police personnel, causing no casualties. The bus driver sped up as the firing began in which only three bullets hit the bus, denting it. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
09/19/2010: On Sunday afternoon at 1400, near Jama Masjid, in New Delhi, Delhi, India, an improvised explosive device planted in a car parked near a transformer exploded, damaging the vehicle but causing no casualties. According to police, the explosive was crude and poorly integrated, consisting of a plastic box containing wires, batteries, a timer and a pressure cooker. The police suspect that the assailants planted the explosive in the vehicle because it was parked next to the transformer which would cause maximum damage. According to police, the car fire was not the result of an explosion caused by the device. The Indian Mujahideen (IM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/20/2010: On Thursday night around 2200, in Chandrapur, Rayagada, Orissa, India, around 100 assailants detonated landmine improvised explosive devices, destroying one government research center, but causing no casualties. The assailants later torched a mobile tower before leaving the site. Posters left behind by the Red brigade of the Vansdhara Divisional Committee of the CPI (Maoists) opposed the Operation Green Hunt. The Red brigade also called a bandh (shut down) on 05/22/2010.
04/05/2010: On Monday night, in the Matlong area of Latehar district, in the Jharkand province of India, around a dozen armed Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) cadres blew up a guest house with dynamite. The Maoists raided the guest house which was vacant at the time and later triggered the blast, causing no casualties, but badly damaging the house. A pamphlet recovered from the site claimed that the Maoists targeted the guest house because it had been used by security forces.
09/19/2010: On Sunday, seven police officers conducting operations were abducted by unidentified militants in an unspecified location in Chhattisgarh, India. On 09/21/2010, in the jungle in Bhadrakali, Chhattisgarh, India, the militants killed three of the seven abducted police officers. On 09/30/2010, the militants released the remaining four police officers in response to pressure from family members, officials and non-governmental organizations. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
06/09/2010: On Wednesday at 0000 midnight, in Panchanpur village in Gaya, Bihar, India, about 25 members of Sashastra People's Morcha (SPM), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M), bearing small arms torched three dumpers, a generator, a motorcycle, a hydraulic motor and a pressure machine. They also destroyed about 1,500 liters of diesel stored at the work site. Mobile phones of the drivers/operators of the dumpers and other machines were also stolen. Reportedly the company had refused to oblige the ultras with the extortion money demanded by them and in retaliation, they resorted to arson. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
05/13/2010: On Thursday night, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed a supporter of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in Pathardihi village near Arsha in Puruliya District, West Bengal, India. The victim was identified as Srikanta Mahato. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/22/2010: On Thursday, in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, India, unknown assailants threw a Molotov cocktail into the office of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Members of Legislative Assembly, Sureshwar Sing, injuring an unspecified number of civilians. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
08/23/2010: On Monday evening, in Tentulipodar, Koraput, Orissa, India, a group of 25 to 30 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres abducted 12 people from Tentulipodar and neighboring Dingapai villages. The militants killed Sikunu Meleka around 2100 with an axe on suspicion of being a police informer and released the other 11 hostages. A letter left at the incident site by Maoists claimed Meleka was killed for being a suspected police informer.
11/10/2010: On Wednesday morning, at a private residence in Uripok Polem Leikai of Thoubal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants planted a grenade. The residence belonged to Leishangthem Joychandra, an Executive Engineer in Thoubal Division of Electricity Department. Police found and defused the grenade before it was triggered, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/17/2010: On Sunday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, Communist Party of India - Maoists militants set ablaze a truck on Grand Trunk Road. No casualties were reported.
04/11/2010: On Sunday night, in the Kathasirisi area of Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed a timber merchant, identified as Goutam Hapoi (50). According to police, around eight Maoists barged into Hapoi’s house and took him away assuring his family members that he will be released in 10 minutes. On 04/12/2010, the body of Hapoi was recovered by local villagers who formed a search party after Hapoi never returned. Police said that before escaping from the spot the Maoists left behind some posters in Bengali and Odia which stated that dalals (middlemen) would be punished in a similar fashion. No damages were reported and the CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
05/05/2010: On Wednesday morning, in Chatti, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist shot a former member of an anti-Maoist vigilante group Salwa Judum. The victim, identified as Ravva Chaitanya (23), was shot and killed by assailants who came from the Banda area of Chhattisgarh. Chaitanya was shot once from a country weapon and his throat was slit before the assailants fled. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Chaitanya was reportedly cautioned by some of his relatives working for the Maoists in Bastar region.
09/19/2010: On Sunday, in a nearby forest area in Kaimur, Bihar, India, around 150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) shot and killed two villagers, including village head, Satyanarayan Singh. According to police, the militants attacked the residence of Dugha and Bandha villages and the villagers returned fire. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/18/2010: On Saturday, in Urmal village in Chowka, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants shot and killed Mukund Singh, a contractor and a former block Congress Party president. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/12/2010: On Monday night around 0000 midnight, in Bishanpur village in Jamui District, Bihar, India, in one of two linked attacks, around 50 to 150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres attacked Rajaun village and kidnapped and killed Bishundeo Yadav, village chief of Poorest Areas Civil Society program. In the first attack, the Maoists abducted and killed two people. They were identified as panchayat samiti (block level local self Government institution) member Arjun Paswan, and his brother Prasadi . On the morning of 04/13/2010, the bodies of all three victims were found hacked to death in Baba hills, a forest near the Rajaun village. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/27/2010: On Monday, in Anandpur, Gosaintola, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist) detonated an explosive device near a boys’ school hostel and a government building, Panchayat Bhawan, damaging the compound wall of the government building and the school. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the buildings were used by security forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/24/2010: On Saturday, in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres set on fire two lorries loaded with iron metal scrap belonging to S.R.Steel Company and another belonging to state police and blocked roads by chopping down trees at Chintalamma and Koyyur ghat road in Koyyur mandal. There were no casualties reported. No group claimed responsibility.
08/13/2010: On Friday around 0000 midnight, at Bhatur in Jamboni, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, 30 suspected People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) militants stormed the houses of Mr. Prabir Shuin and his brother Mr. Samir Shuin and set ablaze two mini-trucks and a pick-up van, causing an unreported amount of damage. According to police, when the Shuin brothers were not home, the militants then dragged out Mr. Koushik Shuin, the son of Mr. Samir Shuin, to the nearby forest and beat him as a punishment for not ferrying the PCPA activists to Trinamul Congress rally at Lalgarh. A little later, the militants returned and set the vehicles on fire. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) backed PCPA militants were responsible.
10/28/2010: On Thursday night, near Ranchi in Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants attacked a staff member and set fire to two vehicles of the state-owned Central Coalfield Ltd (CCL). A Bolero vehicle and a pay loader were set ablaze. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/13/2010: On Thursday night between 2330 to 0000 midnight, in Chandabila, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, four supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) were taken from their residences by a group of at least 20 militants wearing battle fatigues and then were later shot and killed. The victims, identified as Ashok Ahir, Swapan Ahir, Sanatan Ahir and Nazrul Mir, were shot at point blank range and their bodies were found on the Silda-Bankura State highway at Belpahari near Lalgarh. The victims were discovered on 05/14/2010 at 0730 in the morning, with their hands tied behind their backs. The police have seized Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) literature and posters strewn near the bodies condemning the four as police informers.
08/04/2010: On Wednesday night, in Vikrampur village in Ghatsila, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants killed Lakhai Soren, an employee of the state-run Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) working on at the Bagiata mine. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it was suspected that the attack was carried out because the victim was accused of being a police informer. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
01/26/2010: On Tuesday night at 0200, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, over 100 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set 19 vehicles ablaze including trucks and excavators. All the four-wheeler vehicles were a part of a project of the National Mineral Development Corporation in Kirandul area of the District.
05/12/2010: On Wednesday evening around 1950, in Gidhni, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, six suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres fired upon and wounded a leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). The assailants, on three motorcycles shot at Aloke Mahali, 52, five times. Mahali was the Power Department Secretary of the Panchayat Samiti. No damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/20/2010: On Wednesday morning, in Koraput, Orissa, India, around 15 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attached landmines to the mobile communication tower of Airtel and exploded them at Kaliatola village. The explosion damaged the mobile tower and its control room. No casualties were reported in the attack.
04/24/2010: On Saturday, in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, on the National Highway 34 at Basudebpur, bombs that were kept in a bag under the rear seat of a bus exploded. Fourteen people were injured as a result of the bombing. According to police, a passenger accidentally stepped on a bag containing the explosives when the driver applied the brakes to avoid a lorry. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/29/2010: On Friday night, in Salboni in the West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, three armed Communist Party of India-Maoists arrived at a primary school in Dhanshol village and asked for Shibu Mahato who is a Communist Party of India-Marxist supporter. When the villagers refused to hand over Mr. Mahato, the assailants started firing indiscriminately. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday night, in the Thiruvallur panchyat of Calicut district, in the Kerala province of India, unidentified assailants set fire to the workshop of P. Anandan, a blacksmith who is also a Communist Party of India (Maoist) activist. No casualties were reported but the shop was damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/24/2010: On Saturday night, in Dhangasole village in West Midnapore district, West Bengal, India, Shashiranjan Mahato, a supporter of Communist Party of India-(Marxist), was abducted from his home by 10 armed persons, suspected to be Maoists. His body was found outside a nearby village, four kilometers away from Mirgan, on 04/25/2010 morning. No group claimed responsibility.
11/21/2010: On Sunday, in a forested area of Bhairamgarh locality in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants shot and killed Nandu Karma, a key leader of the Salwa Judum (an anti-Maoist vigilante group). No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
02/07/2010: On Sunday night, in Jamui District, Bihar, India, around 40 Maoists, using an improvised explosive device, blew up railway tracks to enforce their 72-hour bandh near Rajla station on Jhaja-Jasidih section of the East Central Railway. A stretch of two and a half by five feet was damaged and train movement was consequently paralyzed completely for about 10-12 hours. Maoists have called the bandh in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh today to protest the proposed 'Operation Green Hunt' to be launched by Center against them. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
01/18/2010: On Monday, in Jehanabad, Bihar, India, over a hundred members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) blew up a railway track near Nadaul railway station. The Maoists forced railway officials on duty to leave the place. They then blew up the railway track. The blast was low intensity that only damages three concrete railway sleepers. There were no reported casualties.
04/23/2010: On Friday morning around 0600, in Baro Negui, Nayagram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, armed militants shot and killed a timber merchant and ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) worker. The victim, identified as Ashok Sinha (42), was shot in front of his house by two or three Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres on a motorbike. No damages were reported in the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Sinha was allegedly being targeted by the Maoists for not paying the extortion money demanded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/07/2010: On Wednesday night, at Daitari Police Station in Keonjhar, Orissa, India, around 30 armed militants attacked the police station and kidnapped Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Umesh Chandra Marandi. The militants ransacked and then set the police outpost and a forest guest house located close to the outpost on fire. No casualties were reported in the attack. Official sources said that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) leader Sushil via television clip to the local television channel ETV Oriya, had set certain conditions for the release of ASI Marandi which demanded that police release of the 68 innocent tribal men arrested in Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar and Jajour districts, and that police oppression in Kalinga Nagar industrial complex be stopped. The status of Marandi is unknown.
12/06/2010: On Monday morning around 0900, in the Topadihi area of Sundargarh, Odisha, India, unidentified militants kidnapped Daud Munda and took him to the dense Saranda forest. The militants later released Daud after around 100 Topadihi villagers appealed to the militants to release him. Around 1200 noon, the militants numbering around 60 again entered the village and abducted Daud Munda and two others identified as Juan and Nuan Munda. The victims’ throats were later cut and their bodies were found lying near the Topadih railway tracks in the Saranda forest. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
10/18/2010: On Monday, on National Highway 221 near Tongpal, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, a dozen unidentified militants set ablaze three vehicles and two tippers engaged in road construction work, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
09/13/2010: On Monday night, in a pre-dawn attack in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified assailants fired upon and killed two police officers of the District Force (DF) outside the Bhejji police station. According to police, a group of armed militants attacked the Bhejji police station and started firing indiscriminately at police personnel who retaliated, and in the ensuing exchange of fire, two cops were killed. No group claimed responsibility, although police believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
12/17/2010: On Friday night around 0200, in Baghbinda village of Jhalda, Puruliya, West Bengal, India, 10-12 armed militants shot and killed seven Forward Bloc workers on suspicion that they were police informers. The victims were identified as Chapala Garai, Tapan Singh Sardar, Kinkar Singh, Rajesh Singh, Gopeswar Mahato, Gobardhan Singh and Arjun Singh Mura. According to police, the victims were taken from their homes and shot at close range in a field in the hilly village bordering Jharkhand. Reportedly, the militants first raided the house of Chandicharan Singh Sardar, president of the local level Gitalaya village government, and upon discovering the he was not at home, took his brother Tapan Singh Sardar and killed him near the house. The militants then took the six remaining victims to the field in which their bodies were discovered. The Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack. Maoist posters left at the incident site claimed that the villagers were spying for the security personnel.
02/23/2010: On Tuesday morning at about 1000, two unknown motorcycle-borne gunmen shot and killed Thokchom Farista alias Uttam, 23, from Nambol of Bishnupur district, a surrendered member of the Military Defense Force (MDF) faction of the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) in Imphal West's Lamphel area. The two people shot him on the campus of the North East Institute of Science and Technology. The former militant was staying at the government rehabilitation center at Lamphel after he surrendered in October 2009. No group claimed responsibility.
09/19/2010: On Sunday evening around 2110, in the Singjamei Mayengbam area on the outskirts of Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants exploded a grenade at the residence of a contractor, identified as Takhellambam Bipin. No casualties were reported and the window panes of the house were shattered. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/25/2010: On Sunday night, in Lankapakala village under GK Veedhi Mandal, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set two buses of the Road Transport Corporation on fire in an effort to draw security forces in an ambush. One bus was traveling from Chitrakonda to Tuni, and the other was going from Pileru to Visakhapatanam. Both buses were completely destroyed in the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, according to the police, the Maoists are claiming to be resorting to these attacks protesting the Green Hunt operation when their actual intention is to carry out an ambush as well as to show their presence. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
01/29/2010: On Friday evening, in Andhra Pradesh, India, the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set a passenger bus, which was bound for Rinthada in Visakhapatnam District, ablaze. No casualties were reported in the attack.
08/29/2010: On Sunday, in a thickly-forested area in Bhuski village in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, around 100 unidentified militants fired upon security personnel who were patrolling the area. Five security personnel, including two Border Security Force men, two District Force personnel and a Special Police Officer, were killed in the firefight. Three militants were also reportedly killed in the attack. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India - Maoists were responsible.
08/14/2010: On Saturday night, in Manyamkonda village in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, unidentified militants blew up a newly built school building, causing an unreported amount of damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack occurred a day before the country’s Independence Day. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
08/13/2010: On Friday, in Salbani, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants blew up a culvert (low bridge) with a landmine. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
06/25/2010: On Friday, in Bagdubi village in Bankura, India, four militants set ablaze the house of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) zonal committee member Nabin Hembram. Two women were killed in the fire. The victims were identified as Kamala Hembram (80) and Saraswati (55). According to police, the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) have been hunting for Nabin since the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) shot and killed two squad members on 12/15/2006 and they believed him to be the one who tipped off the police about their presence. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the police believe that the attack was the result of revenge. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
11/21/2010: On Sunday, in the Ovkharikasuli area of West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants kidnapped two supporters of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), identified as Rahim Patar and Pashupati Singh. Both hostages were shot and killed later that day. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday night, near Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around 30 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist) abducted and killed Tapan Das (42), a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) branch-committee secretary from Domohini village. The CPI-Marxist leader was dragged from his in-laws’ house and shot in the head and killed at a village near Lalgarh. On 04/15/2010, around 0530 in the morning, the body of Das was discovered at Bagjhapa village. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/26/2010: On Friday night, in the village of Tilauthar, Rohtas, Bihar, India, 100 assailants opened indiscriminate fire on and detonated dynamite destroying a police station and a block office; no casualties were reported. They also torched 12 trucks, including eight of a private construction company engaged in road construction. No group has claimed responsibility, but Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were thought responsible for the attack.
10/18/2010: On Monday morning, along a road at Sikhapalli in Malkangiri, Orissa, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine blast near a Border Security Force (BSF) camp, damaging a portion of the road. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however according to police, the attack may have been carried out to interfere with a health and awareness camp which was scheduled to be held by the BSF personnel deployed in the area. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
08/04/2010: On Wednesday, in Lohardaga, Jharkhand, India, around 20 to 25 unidentified militants set ablaze three trucks carrying bauxite mineral, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack occurred on the second day of a five-state shutdown called by militants. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Kundagari village in Gopiballavpur, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a group of 10-12 militants abducted and later killed a woman, identified as Neelmani Tudu. She was a local leader of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and former panchayat. According to Tudu’s husband, the militants came to their house and asked for some drinking water then accused Tudu of being a police informer and took her. Tudu’s body was found on a road four kilometers from her house the next morning on 07/15/2010, with a bullet wound to the back of the neck and multiple stab wounds. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres were responsible.
12/08/2010: On Wednesday night at 2300, in Odiapentha village in Koraput, Odisha, India, a group of 60 armed militants killed a tribal youth, identified as Sambharu Huika, after he refused to join their ranks. According to witnesses, Huika was dragged from his office and shot a few feet from his residence. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/23/2010: On Tuesday night, in the Hasanpur area of Motihari in Bihar, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed a farmer, Basudeo Singh (55), at his residence on suspicion of being a police informer. Police recovered four posters, 12 empty cartridges of 9 millimeter pistol, two live cartridges and one live cartridge of a Self Loading Rifle (SLR) from the incident site.
08/04/2010: On Wednesday night, in Nayagram, Gopiballavpur, Medinipur, West Bengal, India, about 12 unidentified armed militants abducted a supporter of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), Nirmal Routh. No casualties or damages were reported. On 08/05/2010, Routh escaped captivity with two bullet injuries to his chin and shoulder. He also bore other wounds from being beaten. According to police, Routh was targeted for being a CPM supporter. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
07/14/2010: On Wednesday night, in Handibhanga village in Suliapada, Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India, about 50 armed cadres killed a villager identified as Sukanta Murmu (20). Reportedly, Sukanta’s father was suspected by the militants of being a police informer and when asked where Shibu Murmu had gone, the boy was killed because he could not tell them his father’s address. The militants dragged Sukanta from his home and stabbed him multiple times. Sukanta succumbed to a stab wound in the head. The militants also set the house of Rama Marandi, a home guard stationed in Baripada, on fire, destroying the home. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/24/2010: On Saturday morning, in Banglwa panchayat, Munger, India, around 40 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants bombed a primary health center by triggering a dynamite explosion and also blew up a Panchayat Bhawan (hotel). No injuries have been reported as a result of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/23/2010: On Tuesday, in Pedabayalu, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of 25 suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants and 30 militia members set ablaze a telecommunications tower room. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/04/2010: On Wednesday, near Mahipani village in Sundargarh, Orissa, India, unidentified militants blew up a culvert (low bridge). No casualties or damages were reported. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it was reported that Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) had demanded the immediate release of their colleagues that were arrested in the area on 08/03/2010. It was also reported that the militants also threatened to not allow any workers to enter the Kalta mines. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/28/2010: On Thursday, near the Jordi School building in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, unidentified militants planted four improvised explosive devices. Three explosives were successfully defused, while the fourth explosive detonated as it was being defused, injuring one police constable. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
04/25/2010: On Sunday, on a road near Bandhugaon in Koraput, Orissa, India, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) blew up a culvert by triggering a landmine. Vehicular movement was disrupted by the blast between Koraput and neighboring Andhra Pradesh. According to police, the militants also fired a few rounds in the air in Chitrakonda area of Malkangiri District in an apparent bid to mislead Security Forces. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police officials claim the attack occurred on the second day of a weeklong bandh against Operation Green Hunt called by the Maoists. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
11/21/2010: On Sunday night, in Murakati village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed two supporters of the ruling Communists Party of India-Marxist (CPM). The victims were identified as Sushil Mahato and Paresh Rana. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
05/06/2010: On Thursday, in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, unknown militants attacked a section of the East Central Railway line. Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists detonated an explosive device, damaging a section of railroad track near the Kurmi railway station but causing no casualties. The militants reportedly were aiming to enforce a 48 hour "bandh" or shutdown in the state. A few railway tracks were damaged as a result of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is suspected.
02/23/2010: On Tuesday, in one of two related attacks, in Mauar Khaira village, Aurangabad, Bihar, India, vehicles and equipment belonging to a construction company, were set on fire by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. There were no casualties in the attack. Reportedly, the attack occurred as the road construction company failed to meet an extortion demand. No group claimed responsibility.
11/03/2010: On Wednesday, near a bank in the Lalitashole area in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, six unidentified militants riding on motorbikes shot and killed a supporter of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). The victim was identified as Bimal Das. The militants then fled towards Indraboti forest. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were responsible.
08/13/2010: On Friday around 0000 midnight, on a road between Bhansi and Bacheli in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, around 60 militants set ablaze six trucks belonging to private contractors carrying iron ore for the Essar Steel Company, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) literature recovered from the incident site asked people not to celebrate Independence Day on 08/14/2010.
05/27/2010: On Thursday afternoon, in Delanguda village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, assailants attacked and killed two police officers. The victims were identified as Balaji Bhosale (40) and Tushar Bandewar (26). According to police, the two constables were traveling via motorcycle on their way back from Etapalli to Gatta when they were forced to get down from the bike by the assailants and were shot. The assailants also set the motorcycle on fire before leaving the incident site. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
07/15/2010: On Thursday night, near the Shani Mandir in Guwahati, Assam, India, an explosive hidden in a bag planted at Fancy Bazaar detonated, causing no casualties or damages. The explosion occurred while police were defusing the improvised explosive device. No group claimed responsibility for this incident, but it was suspected that militants of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) were responsible. Police arrested three men in connection with the attack, including a captain of the PLA called Benjamin. During interrogation, the militants revealed that four bombs were planted in total. The militants did not reveal where the other bombs were hidden.
01/18/2010: On Monday, in the Nabha area of Patiala, Punjab, India, an improvised explosive device was discovered and defused by Indian police outside a petroleum gas bottling facility. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but authorities arrested a member of the Khalistan Liberation Force suspected of carrying out the attack.
05/21/2011: On Saturday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) shot and killed a civilian, Kawasi Dev, mistaking him to be a police officer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/04/2011: On Monday, in Kanaudha village in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, 25 unidentified militants assaulted and injured five laborers of a private road construction firm. The militants also set fire to two road construction vehicles, damaging the two machines. The militants demanded money from the owner of the company. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday night at 2200, under Mahuataad Police Station in Daka Saram village, Bokaro District, Jharkhand, India, Jaleshwar Prajapati, a councilor of ward VI of Tilaiya panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) was abducted by a group of around 50 militants and later sentenced to death in a kangaroo court. The victim was repeatedly beaten before the militants slit his throat. His body was found in Tilaya village around 0400 on 04/13/2011. A pamphlet left by the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) near the body warned that "Supporters of police will meet this fate."
05/15/2011: On Sunday night, in Loki village, Raidih, Gumla, Jharkhand, India, a group of around 15 members of the Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) killed five members of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) and injured one other during an armed assault at a wedding. The deceased were identified as Gurdev Oraon, Cheta Oraon, Jairam Oraon, Samar Oraon and Budu Oraon. According to police, the Maoists were in search of the PLFI squad leader Mangal Nagesia but upon failing to find him, the Maoists killed five of his supporters. Two suspected Maoists also sustained injuries, but managed to escape. No group claimed responsibility for the assault, but it is suspected that the Maoists were responsible.
07/13/2011: On Wednesday evening at 1855, in one of three related attacks, in Kabutarkhana, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, suspected militants of the Indian Mujahideen detonated an improvised explosive device at a bus stop near the Dadar Suburban Railway Station. The car that passed by the location of the improvised explosive device was shattered and the driver was injured. A bus's windows and nearby shops windows were also shattered from the explosion. The improvised explosive device was composted of 200 grams of Ammonium Nitrate with a timer detonator. A total of 26 civilians were killed and about 130 civilians were wounded in the three bombings. It is unclear how many casualties were caused in each of the bombings. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but police suspected that the Indian Mujahideen militant group was responsible.
10/02/2011: On Sunday, at Saroa village in Salboni area of West Bengal, India, two landmines believed to be embedded with sensors were spotted on a culvert at an important transit point for the forces and villagers. Police safely recovered the explosives and there were no casualties or property damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing but the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is suspected.
08/19/2011: On Friday afternoon around 1730, at a river crossing between Bhadrakali and Bhopalpatnam in Metlaperu village, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India Maoist group (CPI-M) militants ambushed a joint group of District Police and Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) personnel on patrol. Nine military personnel and one civilian were killed in the attack and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/13/2011: On Wednesday evening at 1854, in one of three related attacks, in the Zaveri bazaar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, suspected Indian Mujahedeen militants detonated an improvised explosive device that was placed on a stolen scooter in Zaveri bazaar. The improvised explosive device was composed of about 400 to 600 grams of ammonium nitrate and a timing mechanism. A total of 26 civilians were killed and about 130 civilians were wounded in the three bombings. It is unclear how many casualties were caused in each of the bombings. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The police are suspecting Abdullah Khan of being the master mind of the attack. Abdullah Khan is a known militant belonging to the Indian Mujahedeen. Police and security forces suspect that Abdullah Khan was hiding in Bangladesh. Police also identified three suspected militants from closed circuit television footage from an opera house. Some investigators also suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) group and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) could be responsible for the attacks.
06/20/2011: On Monday, near Jhumra Hills in Borkaro, Jharkhand, India, over 70 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated an improvised explosive device on the railway tracks between the Jageshwar and Dania Railway Stations. One Railway Protection Force (RPF) Policeman identified as Anil Kumar Rai was killed and his colleague, B. Chand, the engine driver, S. Mahto and his assistant N. Mehta were injured in the attack. The militants later looted the policemen’s weapons and set fire to the railway engine. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the tracks and the train, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/04/2011: On Tuesday, in Jajpur, Odisha, India, unidentified militants planted a landmine that had been improvised packed with 100 kilograms of explosives under a small bridge. Police defused the bomb, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
06/26/2011: On Sunday, near Kirandul in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, four police officers were killed and four others wounded when suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated a landmine targeting a police SUV on patrol six kilometers from Raipur. The police van was destroyed and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/28/2011: On Thursday, in Brinda Bahuartoli village, Gumla, Jharkhand, India, suspected members of the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) shot and killed a shopkeeper, Bindeshwar Sahu. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack may have been carried out over an issue of $2,252 (RS 1 lakh) levy demanded by militants. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was suspected that the PLFI was responsible.
07/16/2011: On Saturday night, in the Etko village in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, a member of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a break-away faction of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M), was reportedly killed Maoists. The attackers dragged the victim, Guddu Khan, out of his house, shot and killed him. The attack was reportedly carried out for his involvement with the TPC. A hand written Maoist note left at the incident site claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/02/2011: On Sunday, in the Banspahari area of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres abducted the son of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader, Tarun Mondal, when they couldn't find Tarun at his house in Sigdi. The son, Lalit, was later discovered by the Central Reserve Police Force from a nearby forest on 10/03/2011. No groups claimed responsibility but the CPI-Maoists are suspected in the abduction.
10/02/2011: On Sunday morning, near Bhiwankojhi village in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, four Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured in an ambush carried out by the cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist). A convoy of seven CRPF vehicles was returning to the area when militants carried out a blast to stall the movement, and then fired indiscriminately on the forces. A Claymore mine and a hand grenade left by militants were recovered from the scene. No group claimed responsibility, but CPI-Maoists are suspected.
02/07/2011: On Monday night around 0115, in one of two related attacks, between Dania station in Bokaro District and Bihar's Jageshwar station, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants blew up a portion of the railway tracks, damaging one meter of the track. Similarly another stretch of railway track was blown up four kilometers from Mile station in Ramgarh, causing an unknown amount of property damage. Both railway tracks are situated in the Coal India Cord (CIC) section. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during a day-long strike in three states of Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa by Maoists in protest against corruption and inflation.
11/16/2011: Unidentified gunmen shot and wounded Zakir Hussain at Grahampur Bazar in Kokrajhar district, Assam state, India. Hussain was a leader in the Assam Minorities Students' Union (AMSU); he held the position of Kamandanga unit assistant secretary. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspect that the Adivasi People's Army was involved in the attack.
11/16/2011: Maoists injured a school teacher in Malkangiri district, Orissa state, India. The assailants cut off the teacher's finger as he was trying to open his school. The assault happened on the first day of a two-day bandh; the bandh was calling for a withdrawal of security forces from the area.
05/12/2011: On Thursday morning around 0530, near pole number 51 between the Gomia and Dumri railway stations in Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, around 50 members of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated and improvised explosive device on the Eastern Central Railway track. One meter between the Yogeshwar and Chenpur track was damaged, but the attack caused no casualties. The Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack. A handwritten note left at the incident site said that the outfit had given a 12 hour call for shut down in Jharkhand to protest the arrest of its leader Uday Ji at Gomia in Bermo on 05/05/2011.
10/01/2011: On Saturday, in the Jojoda area, between Porahat and Saranda forests, in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants abducted Bimal Lumga, headman of Jojoda village, and killed him by unknown means. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction and the killing, but the CPI-Maoists are suspected.
06/15/2011: On Wednesday, in Kalyanpur Kata village, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, about 15 to 20 suspected Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) assaulted three coal truck drivers and later set fire to their vehicles. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect that the attack was carried out because the coal businessmen refused to meet the extortion demands of the militants. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the trucks and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/04/2011: On Thursday night, in Gangaloor village in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants killed a villager on suspicion of being a police informer. The identity of the villager was unreported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/28/2011: On Monday night, at Lakrai More in Tandua area in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine as a jeep carrying seven policemen drove by. Three policemen were killed, four others were injured and the jeep was damaged in the attack. The Maoists also seized the weapons from the Policemen before escaping. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/26/2011: On Tuesday morning around 1100, at Karuna Singnar gaon near the New Life School in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, a civilian identified as Bordeka Kro was shot and killed by unidentified militants. No group claimed responsibility, however it was suspected the Karbi People’s Liberation Front (KPLF) was responsible for the attack.
05/15/2011: On Sunday night around 2200, in Jhujhaka village, Jamshedpur, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) attacked two civilians, Haradhan Baske and Vinay Shaw, for being police informers. According to Baske, they were intercepted by the militants and dragged off of their motorcycles towards the jungle and taking advantage of the darkness, Baske fled from the militants. The militants then opened fire on Baske, leaving him injured. Vinay had been left behind. According to police, there was no report of any missing persons and the status of Vinay is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was suspected that the Maoists were responsible.
04/20/2011: On Wednesday, in Hailakandi, Assam, India, Zakir Hussain Laskar was kidnapped by United Democratic Liberation Army (UDLA) militants. On 04/25/2011, the commander in chief of the UDLA claimed responsibility for the abduction of Zakir Hussain Laskar by unknown means. The status of the hostage remains unknown.
02/07/2011: On Monday night around 0115, in one of two related attacks, four kilometers from Mile station in Ramgarh, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants blew up a portion of the railway tracks causing an unknown amount of property damage. Similarly another stretch of railway track was blown up between Dania station in Bokaro District and Jageshwar station in Bihar, damaging one meter of the railway track. Both railway tracks are situated in the Coal India Cord (CIC) section. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during a day-long strike in three states of Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa by Maoists in protest against corruption and inflation.
09/07/2011: On Wednesday night, from the Haldibari bridge in Haldibari village, West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, in one of two related attacks, 11 suspected militants of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) abducted a contractor of the Meghalaya Public Health Engineering Department identified as Abdul Rashid. Reportedly, a ransom of $104,913 (Rs 50 lakh) was demanded. On 09/09/2011, Rashid was released unharmed. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/04/2011: On Thursday night, in Bhopalpatnam village in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants killed a villager on suspicion of being a police informer. The identity of the villager was unreported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday morning, in Lumding, Nagaon, Assam, India, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel recovered explosives weighing 37.5 kilograms from a general compartment of 15692 up Kachar Express which arrived at Lumding station from Silchar. The explosives contained 300 gelatin sticks, 1200 detonators and a large quantity of fuse wire packed in three bags. The attack caused no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility.
07/17/2011: On Sunday, in Koraput, Odisha, India, military personnel out on a patrol discovered six improvised landmines planted by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoists) militants. The landmines, three of which were claymores, were contained in steel boxes along the patrol route knowing the military would be in the area. Gelatin sticks were also found. As the landmines were safely defused the attempted attack resulted in no casualties or property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
09/07/2011: On Wednesday, in Koraput, Odisha, India, in one of two related attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants abducted seven villagers from the Borigi and Nangelbeda village. On the night of 09/09/2011, the militants killed two villagers suspected of being police informers and released the five remaining hostages. The deceased were identified as M Shankar and P Santosh. A Maoist note recovered from the incident site claimed responsibility, stating that the civilians were killed for being police informers.
09/22/2011: On Thursday, in Gondia, Maharashtra, India, militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) group opened fire on police forces during a police operation. Police were searching for members of the group once they received a tipoff from a police informant. Two CPI-M militants were suspected of being wounded. Police recovered 13 detonators and ten kilograms of explosives, a walkie talkie and Maoist literature. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however it was suspected that the CPI-M group was responsible for the attack.
05/19/2011: On Thursday morning at 0730, in Nargonda village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, 200 suspected rebels of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) ambushed four teams of C-60 police commandos on a search patrol. An exchange of fire resulted, in which two Maoists and one policeman were killed, and two other commandos were seriously injured. The deceased police officer was identified as Chinna Vetta, and the two injured were identified as Sadhu Palli and Shankar Govase. Police recovered two fully loaded AK-47s and suspect that the Maoists were also using semi-automatic weapons. No group claimed responsibility.
05/15/2011: On Sunday night around 2330, in Morangi, around 13 kilometers from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India, around 250 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to 29 vehicles that belonged to the GR Infraprojects Limited (GRIL) private road construction company working on the expansion of National Highway-33 into four lanes. According to an employee, Bhagirath Saran, he, along with security guards Parshu Ram Sharma, Anil Sharma, Dileep Sharma, Mukesh Kumar and Pramod Sharma and a few others, were held at gunpoint before the militants set the vehicles on fire. The attack caused damage worth $890,121-$111,251 (Rs 40-50 crore) to the construction machines. The militants then engaged Muffasil police that were on a routine patrol in a gun battle that left one assistant sub-inspector, R. Das injured. No group claimed responsibility.
05/22/2011: On Sunday evening at 2030, at the Gandhi Square in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated a bomb at the northern wall fencing of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on Mahatma Gandhi Avenue. The statue was not damaged in the attack; however, the blast shattered window panes of many buildings nearby which were hit by splinters, including shutters of the SBI ATM booth to the northern side of the statue and damaged metal roofs of the office buildings of City Police station and Imphal West Traffic Police station. The attack resulted in no casualties and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/07/2011: On Wednesday morning at 0740, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, unidentified militants abducted a minor identified as Jirsong Engti. The motive for the attack is unknown; however, the father of the boy was Rajen Engti, a local congress leader. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and the status of the hostage is unknown.
04/04/2011: On Monday morning at 1100, in a forest at Singhikhola-Laubheta in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, unidentified militants ambushed a Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) paramilitary convoy of the 31G company. Two SSB troopers were killed and another two were injured. Three of the victims were identified as Subhash Ranjit, Bhagat Kumar and Radhyashyam. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that militants of the anti-talks faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were responsible.
03/27/2011: On Sunday night around 0300, in Kharwa village in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, unidentified militants detonated a bomb near a bus stand, destroying two shops and damaging one other on a highway near the Masuda area. Police suspect that the attack resulted from gelatin rods kept in one of the shops. The attack caused no casualties and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
08/17/2011: On Wednesday evening, at the Balapam village in Chintapalli mandal of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, armed cadres of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detained Paderu K.R.D. Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO), Prasada Rao and at least two others on his staff. The hostages were released unharmed later that evening after holding them for over two hours. Reportedly, Prasada Rao, along with Deputy Tahsildar and a few other Revenue employees went to the village of Balapam to conduct a Gram Sabha in connection with the long distribution program where they were abducted by cadres belonging to the Korukonda area committee of the Maoists. The hostages claimed they were warned of dire consequences if the police cases filed against the cadres who were involved in APFDC’s coffee garden issue a few years back were not withdrawn. No group claimed responsibility.
09/14/2011: On Wednesday night, at a construction site in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, a group of 25 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres and 100 of their supporters set fire to and damaged several road construction machines and vehicles. The Maoists, after overpowering the security guard, set ablaze two excavators, two tractors and other construction equipment. They also left posters at the site protesting against road construction in the area and they warned those involved of dire consequences. The posters also demanded withdrawal of Security Force personnel from their strongholds.
04/01/2011: On Friday evening around 2030, near the Koel River at Jologhat, Gumla, Jharkhand, India, 10-12 unidentified militants beat up employees, Dilu Lohra, Kartik, Chhotu, and an unknown amount of others of a construction site. The assailants also used diesel stored to run the machines to set fire to two excavators and a motorcycle of a construction company building a bridge. The attack caused $223,278 (INR 10 million) in damages. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) militants were responsible.
07/28/2011: On Thursday, in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, suspected militants hurled two handmade bombs at the central range office under Kachugaon forest department. The bombs did not explode. No group has claimed responsibility for this bombing.
08/20/2011 (Default date): On Saturday, at the weekly market in Nagahong village of Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, three Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) shot and killed a man identified as Tinku Mehta suspected of being a police informer.  A Maoist note left near the body accused Mehta as a police 'informer'.
11/9/2011: A group of at least 50 Maoists attacked a middle school in Dhangai village, Bihar state, India. The assailants razed the school to the ground with a bulldozer in the early hours of the morning. This was one of two schools that they demolished on the same day. Officials believe that the attacks were in response to the combing operations conducted by security personnel in the area directed towards finding the Maoists.
08/04/2011: On Thursday night, in Jubaguda village in Kandhamal, Odisha, India, two people suspected of being police informants were killed by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist). Reportedly, a large group of militants, including women, called the victims identified as Peter Mallick, who had his throat cut and Sitaram Uthansingh who bore a shot gun wound from their homes and took them to the outskirts of the village. A Maoist poster was recovered from near the incident site. Police arrested Tripati Kapat Majhi, Andrew Mallik, Sebastian Mallik, and two women Radhika Mallik and Lurdu Patamajhi in connection with the attack.
10/18/2011: On Tuesday morning between 0500 and 0900, in Tamenglong, Manipur, India, a suspected group of National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah Militants attacked a Zeliangrong United Front militant hideout. Two National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah militants were wounded in the armed assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/14/2011: On Sunday night, at the forest of Singabaram village in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, Security Forces (SFs) and Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) militants exchanged fire resulting in injuries to some of the Maoists, according to police. The encounter ensued when Special Operation Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Forces (DVF) jointly conducted raid in the area following a tip-off about the presence of a large number of Maoists. Upon seeing the security men, the Maoists fired on them and a 30 minute to one hour exchange of fire ensued before the militants escaped under the cover of darkness. No SOG and DVF casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/3/2011: An explosive device detonated on a railway bridge near Ditackchera railway station, Assam state, India. The explosion damaged the railway tracks, halting all train activity on the rail line between Lumding and Badarpur. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspect that the Hill Tiger Force (HTF) executed the attack.
08/22/2011: On Monday, in the village of Tungbhedua in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a civilian identified as Tapan Deswali was shot and killed by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants. CIP-Maoist militants claimed responsibility for the killing by leaving posters in the area claiming that Deswali was a police informant.
10/22/2011: On Saturday, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, suspected militants of the Karbi Peoples’ Liberation Tigers group shot and killed a Congress leader identified as Langtuk Killing. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault, but the Karbi Peoples’ Liberation Tigers Militant group was suspected.
01/11/2011: On Tuesday morning around 1025, near Punnoor village in Etapalli, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants opened fire on a combined security force including 60 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. One Kasansur police constable, identified as Manikrao Khadse, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. Police suspect that at least three or four militants were injured in retaliation fire; however, this information was not confirmed.
05/21/2011: On Saturday night, in one of two related attacks, on National Highway No. 215 at Chunaghati in Sundargarh, Odisha, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants set ablaze twelve dump trucks, causing an unknown amount of property damage and resulting in no casualties. Reportedly, 30 to 40 armed militants intercepted the dumpers in the wee hours and set them on fire after damaging the fuel tanks. This attack took place during a two day shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the arrest of their central committee leaders. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/23/2011: On Sunday morning, at a tea shop in Rameswarpur village in Salboni, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed three Communist Party of India - Marxist supporters and injured several others. According to police, around 10 militants came from the Laxmanpur forest and began firing on them. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were responsible.
11/3/2011: The body of Jeetu Singh Sardar, a Trinamool Congress worker, was found by a pond hours ater he was taken from his home in Ghatbera village, West Bengal state, Inida. Sardar had been strangled and his body was surrounded by Maoist posters; the posters stated that he had been killed for being a police informant and for involvement with an anti-Maoist vigilante group. Members of Trinamool Congress have been campaigning against Maoists.
07/24/2011: On Sunday night, in the village of Lungpha in Ukhrul, Manipur, India, a couple identified as Vareingam Mahonao Shimray and Ngaherla Shimray were killed by six suspected National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants. The husband and wife were shot in their house. Vareingam was a clerk in the local church and teacher, and involved in the work of National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (NREGS). Reports said the militants may have demanded a large amount of money from the victim since he was a village authority in the area. The assailants also fired at the house of the victim's sister, but no casualties were recorded. No group claimed responsibility, although NSCN-IM was suspected.
01/04/2011: On Tuesday morning around 1000, in the Bhramarbari village of Daringbadi block in Kandhamal, Odisha, India, six unidentified armed militants shot and killed a trader accused of being a police informer. The victim was identified as Udaynath Sahu. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. Reportedly, the Maoists had warned him twice of dire consequences and Udaynath informed the police about the matter.
02/10/2011: On Thursday night, between Kurhni and Turkey Railway stations in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, over 50 militants triggered a mini cylinder blast, badly damaging the tracks. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/01/2011: On Tuesday evening around 2030, in Garhi village in Jamui, Bihar, India, in one of three linked attacks, over 100 militants damaged a two-storey school building with bulldozers. Reportedly, the militants brought four JCB bulldozers from a private road construction firm and bulldozed three government buildings, including an irrigation office, the two-storey school building and an inspection bungalow of the water resources department. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the school, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
05/16/2011: On Monday, in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, two members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) shot and killed Ramakrishna, a general manager of the AP Rayons factory (Ballarpur Industries Limited), and wounded senior manager, K Sadanandam. Sudhakar, the secretary of the Khammam-Karimnagar-Warangal (KKW) zone of the Maoists, made telephone calls to reporters on the evening of 05/17/2011 in Eturunagaram claiming responsibility for the attack. Sudhakar claimed that Ramakrishna was killed for his anti-worker policies. However, police suspected that the attack may have been carried out by the Praja Pratighatana Group (PPG) of the Maoists for extortion.
07/21/2011: On Thursday night, at Keirao market area, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unknown militants fired at the house of M I Khan, a social worker and a former chairman of the People's United Liberation Front (PULF). No casualties were reported. Damage was unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/5/2011: Suspected Maoists shot and killed Manik Mandy, the CPM branch committee secretary, in Kapoorkukri village of West Midnapore district, West Bengal, India. Mandy was cycling home from his uncle's house when the assailants attacked him, taking him to a nearby river where they shot and stabbed him. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police stated that the Maoists had been watching Mandy for months.
10/22/2011: On Saturday, in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) group militants shot and killed Ramdas Gawde, a police official. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault, but the (CPI-M) group was suspected.
09/23/2011: On Friday afternoon at 1700, in Wangjing Bazar, Thoubal, Manipur, India, a group of unknown militants tossed a grenade at a private residence of a social activist, Paonam Brojen, who is preparing to contest the upcoming Assembly election. The grenade failed to detonate resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/28/2011: On Friday, near Khunera in Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants opened fire on a joint party of Chhattisgarh Armed Forces and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), killing one trooper of the ITBP, identified as Bhoop Singh. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
08/19/2011: On Friday night, at a shop on Chowka-Kandra Road in Saraikela-Kharswan, Jharkhand, India, three suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants on motorcycles shot and killed the headmaster of a government school, Indra Kumar Sao. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/21/2011: On Saturday, in Balud village, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to two construction machines and truck. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicles, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/26/2011: On Tuesday afternoon, in the Kalyani sub-district of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, one child, identified as Piklu Roy, was injured when an improvised explosive device that had been planted in a bush near a field detonated. The blast caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/16/2011: On Saturday night, in East Champaran, Bihar, India, 24 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres raided the Bharpurva village in Bihar, captured a villager and slit his throat. Maoist leaflets left at the incident site claimed responsibility saying that the attack was carried out because the victim was allegedly working as a police informer.
07/13/2011: On Wednesday evening at 1905, in one of three related attacks, on Charni road, at an Opera House, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, suspected militants of the Indian Mujahideen group detonated an improvised explosive device placed in a manhole. The Improvised explosive device was composed of 200 grams of Ammonium Nitrate and had a timer as a detonator. The immediate area was severally damaged. Police and security forces identified three suspected of the bombing from a closed circuit television recording. The three men were seen making phone calls and walking in circles around the targeted area an hour prior to the explosion. A total of 26 civilians were killed and about 130 civilians were wounded in the three bombings. It is unclear how many casualties were caused in each of the bombings. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the police and security forces suspected that the Indian Mujahideen was responsible.
10/02/2011: On Sunday, in Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra, India, about 10 to 15 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres entered the Kothi village and kidnapped Mahendra Bawankar, who they thought was a police informer. Police found Mahendra dead the next morning on 10/03/2011. He was killed by unknown means. No groups claimed responsibility, but the Maoists are suspected in the attack.
02/13/2011: On Sunday, at Gopiballavpur in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, militants abducted a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supporter, identified as Parimal Hansda. According to the victim’s family, a group of 15 armed cadres dragged Hansda from his house, and later shot and killed Hansada a few meters from his residence. Several Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters left at the incident site claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that Hansda was killed for being a police informer.
09/15/2011: On Thursday, at Bahaopur on National Highway 31 in Dhubri, Assam, India, two Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) militants were traveling with an improvised explosive device in their car. The explosive weighed more than ten kilograms and had a timer. The two men were stopped and arrested by troops of 19 Madras Regiment and police acting on a tip off, and the explosive was recovered before it detonated. The attack resulted in no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. The two militants were identified as Jalaluddin and Shahidul Islam.
06/22/2011: On Wednesday afternoon, in Magra village, Gaya, Bihar, India, six suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) on two motorcycles shot and killed Arvind Kumar, a former Sarpanch (president of the local self-Government institution) of Sewra. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Kumar is the husband of newly elected Sarpanch Mamata Devi, and a close political aide of the assembly speaker and local Legislative Member (MLA), Udai Narain Chaudhary. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/18/2011: On Tuesday, in Richadih village, Seraikela Kharsawan, Jharkhand, India, a tribal elder, Sudarshan Samad, and his son, Laxman Samad, were abducted by unidentified militants. The two hostages were later killed, and their bodies were recovered by security forces on 10/23/2011. Both victims had their throats slit. No group claimed responsibility, but Communist Party of India-Maoist militants are suspected.
10/19/2011: On Wednesday night, near Kumarganda village of Bandhugaon block in Koraput, Odisha, India, suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) group fatally cut the throat of Puala Sadaram, suspecting him of being a police informer. He was abducted on 10/18/2011. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault, but the CPI-M group was suspected of being responsible.
12/25/2011: Individuals from the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) burned road construction equipment in Sitamarhi, Bihar, India. No injuries were reported. A note was left at the scene, however the information in that letter was not released.
02/07/2011: On Monday around 0000 midnight, in Kothi, Gaya, Bihar, India, around 200 heavily armed militants attacked Sohail Police picket. Police retaliated and repelled the attack. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/04/2011: On Monday, in an unspecified location in Manipur province, India, unidentified militants targeted and fired upon an officer of the Indian agriculture department. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/07/2011: On Wednesday night, at Kherapara Songma in West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, in one of two related attacks, 11 suspected militants of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) abducted a contractor of the Meghalaya Public Health Engineering Department identified as Deepak Saha at gunpoint. On 09/09/2011, Saha was released unharmed. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it was reported that Saha is a top contractor involved with government work. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/19/2011: On Friday, in Rayagudem village, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist –New Democracy (CPI-ML-ND), Ganesh dalam (squad) militants opened fire on a group of police on patrol. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
05/21/2011: On Saturday, in one of two related attacks, in Sundargarh, Odisha, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants triggered a landmine blast that damaged a stretch of railway track in on the Rourkela-Kibur railway section. The militants targeted the tracks at three different places of the stretch identified as the milestones 46,922 kilometers, 46,923 kilometers and 46,925 kilometers between Ranjeda and Roxy. This attack took place during a two day shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the arrest of their central committee leaders. The attack resulted in no casualties and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in Baresand village in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants kidnapped two villagers, Harbar Singh and Chetu Singh. On 04/12/2011 a Kangaroo Court was convened in the forest in which the villagers were shot and killed. The bodies also bore cuts by unknown sharp weapons. The Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the killing through a note left near the bodies. They accused the duo of being brokers and indulging in theft.
04/26/2011: On Tuesday afternoon around 1400, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants placed a bag containing an improvised explosive device made from a high power gel on a bicycle in front of the Center Point Market. Police recovered and defused the explosive device resulting in no casualties or damages. No group has claimed responsibility, but it is suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CP-M) was responsible.
08/14/2011: On Sunday morning, in Parsawan village in Gaya, Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) abducted four villagers, identified as Umesh Prasad, Manoj Prasad, Manoj Kumar and Chandrika Prajapat. Three of the villagers were activists of the Sangharsh Samiti (Struggle Committee) formed for the construction of a bridge over river Morhar. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the Maoists are reportedly opposed to the construction of the bridge for it will facilitate faster Police movement in the area. The status of the hostages is unknown and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/10/2011: On Saturday night around 0330, at Depa Garat, seven kilometers from Dainadubi in East Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, five to seven suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants hurled a grenade at a transport department checkpoint. The militants then opened indiscriminate fire on security forces deployed there using automatic weapons. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/16/2011: On Tuesday, in one of two related attacks in Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, two truckers were shot dead at Tapa Darenchi village near Mendipather town after suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants opened fire on three trucks carrying coal from Meghalaya to Assam. The truck driver and a handyman were killed in the shooting. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicles. Later the rebels barged into the office of the BDO at Chokpot in South Garo Hills district and manhandled the staff before detonating a grenade. The specific motive for the attacks are unknown; however, police said the attack was carried out during a 12 hour shutdown called by GNLA militants in protest of the killing of four of its senior cadres by police commandos earlier that week. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/29/2011: Maoists attacked the gram panchayat office in Vairagadh village, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. Approximately 150 assailants broke into the office, gutted it, and set it on fire; there were no reported casualties or injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown; however, sources indicate that the attack was likely in protest of the shooting of Mallujola Koteshwar Rao, a Maoist military leader.
04/06/2011: On Wednesday morning around 1000, near Hesatu village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, two unidentified teenagers killed the General Manager of Reliance Power, Manoj Ojha, and injured seven others. The others were identified as Bhujh, Mayank Murari, Devjit Deogharia, I.K. Singh, R.S. Yadav, Anil Kumar and I.K. Rao. Reportedly, two gunmen with rifles blocked the vehicles of the employees and started firing on them from close range. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) militants were responsible.
08/14/2011: On Sunday night around 0230, at Darrangiri in Goalpara, Assam, India, suspected militants of the Anti-Talks Faction of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA-ATF) blew up a stretch of railway tracks, damaging a 10 meter portion of the track. No injuries or casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
06/11/2011: On Saturday, in Nimatand village, Jamui, Bihar, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) kidnapped civilian identified as Javed Ansari. On the morning of 06/13/2011, the militants hacked Ansari to death. Police recovered the body of Ansari from the Salaiya village and also recovered a leaflet near the body claiming responsibility for the attack. The Maoists claimed that the victim was killed for his alleged involvement in seeking extortion in the name of the Maoists.
04/14/2011: On Thursday morning at 0900, near Sarpanchguda in Chintalnar Police Station limits in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, three Koya Commando personnel were killed, nine injured and two went missing while about 30 suspected Communist Part of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres were killed during an over four-hour-long encounter. As many as 300 Koya Commando personnel on regular patrol between Tirpur and Sarpanchguda were surrounded by three companies of armed rebels numbering 1,000. The deceased were identified as Mandawi Mukesh, Dasamu and Vicky while Kamlu Sukara, Karti Singh, Podiyam Unna, Naresh Kunjam, Kawasi Deva, Kadwa Unna, Madawi Singa, Warsa Ganga and Minkuram Nag were severely injured. The status of the missing is unknown and no group claimed responsibility.
09/07/2011: On Wednesday, in Koraput, Odisha, India, in one of two related attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants abducted seven villagers from the Borigi and Nangelbeda villages. On the night of 09/09/2011, the militants killed two villagers suspected of being police informers and released the five remaining hostages. The deceased were identified as M Shankar and P Santosh. A Maoist note recovered from the incident site claimed responsibility, stating that the civilians were killed for being police informers.
05/22/2011: On Sunday evening at 1930, at Nongada in Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated a powerful bomb near the western wall of Agriculture Minister Ph Parijat's residential complex. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the complex but resulted in no casualties. According to police, the bomb could have been a lethode bomb and fired from a distance targeted at the minister's residence. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/21/2011: On Tuesday, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade at the residence of an executive engineer identified as Thokchom Kesho. The grenade failed to detonate resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/18/2011: On Tuesday, in Bishnupur, Manipur, India, suspected militants detonated a low intensity improvised explosive device (IED) inside the State social welfare minister’s office. The bomb was tossed in the office by militants. The blast caused no casualties and an unknown amount of property damage to the office. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
10/01/2011: On Saturday, in Sonbhadra District, Uttar Pradesh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants planted a huge cache of explosives and bombs, and attempted to blow up a police patrol van. Police personnel safely defused the explosives. There were no casualties and no groups claimed responsibility, but the CPI-Maoists are suspected.
01/19/2011: On Wednesday, in Khursha village, in an unspecified location in Odisha, India, unidentified militants triggered two bomb blasts in the Tangi Block Office. No casualties or damages were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoists claimed responsibility. Maoist posters recovered from the wall of the Block Office mentioned that the corruption of the Block is increasing and the Block Development Officer is involved in corruption.
06/16/2011: On Thursday, in one of four related attacks, at Pankadih village under Imamganj block in Gaya, Bihar, India, around 70 Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) destroyed two mobile towers using improvised explosive devices. The attack resulted in no casualties and was carried out during a 24 hour shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the arrest of a CPI-M leader identified as Jagdish Master (Jagdish Yadav) in Gaya. Members of the CPI-M distributed leaflets and pamphlets and declared to avenge the arrest of Jagdish.
11/1/2011: Militants threw a grenade at a picket of the Rashtriya Rifles (military) in Kupwara district town, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The grenade fell short of the picket and exploded near pedestrians, injuring five bystanders. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/14/2011: On Saturday night, in Arvel forest, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set ablaze a pickup truck after taking two people, Anwar and Parag Pandhre, hostage. The pickup truck was carrying groceries meant for Paramilitary Forces camping at various places in Bhairamgarh tehsil. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the truck, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible. The status of the hostages is unknown.
03/28/2011: On Monday evening around 1930, at Langthabal Kunja Awang Leikai in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants planted a hand grenade near the veranda at the residence of a Manipur University Professor in the Computer Science Department, Oinam Imocha. Police recovered and safely defused the grenade, causing no casualties or damages. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it was reported that on 03/12/2011 around 1600, an unidentified youth demanded Rs 3 lakh (6629 USD). Then on 03/22/2011, another demand of Rs 6 lakh (13259 USD) was made. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that a National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) faction, the Government of People’s Republic of Nagalim (GPRN) militants was responsible.
05/13/2011: On Friday night around 2300, in Pararya village, Rohtas, Bihar, India, four farmers, identified as Jaidurak Tiwari, Dhiraj Tiwari and Rajgrih Tiwari and Vibhishan Tiwari, were abducted by 40 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M). No group claimed responsibility for the attack and the status of the hostages is unknown.
08/14/2011: On Sunday night a few minutes after 0230, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, militants from the Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT) attacked the ceasefire- designated camp of Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF). The KPLT claimed to have killed several KLNLF militants in a gunfight that lasted two hours. Police have yet to verify the claim. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the KPLT are opposed to peace talks.
03/25/2011: On Friday night, in Tilaiya Khurd village under Barachatti police station in Gaya, Bihar, India, in one of two related attacks, around 50 unidentified militants using gasoline and kerosene oil burned the house of Vijay Yadav, causing an unknown amount of property damage, but resulting in no casualties. Yadav, reportedly a member of the rival Shastra Pratirodh Manch (SPM) faction, was allegedly targeted for being a police informer. Prior to burning the house, the militants blew up a primary school building, causing no casualties, but badly damaging three rooms in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. The militants fled the incident sites shouting pro-Maoist slogans.
04/04/2011: On Monday, at a private residence in Wangkhei Wangkheimayum Leirak, Imphal East, Manipur, India, militants shot and killed a Reliance Base Transceiver Station (BTS) mobile tower caretaker, identified as Oinam Borbabu. According to official sources, Borbabu was killed for not paying the extortion demanded by the militants. In a statement issued on 04/06/2011 on Wednesday, the Yaiphaba faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/01/2011: On Tuesday evening around 2030, in Garhi village in Jamui, Bihar, India, in one of three linked attacks, over 100 militants damaged an inspection bungalow of the water resources department with bulldozers. Reportedly, the militants brought four JCB bulldozers from a private road construction firm and bulldozed three government buildings, including an irrigation office, a two-storey school building and the inspection bungalow of the water resources department. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the bungalow, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/07/2011: On Wednesday morning around 1015, at a High Court building in New Delhi, Delhi, India, at least 10 people were killed and 45 others wounded when five to seven militants detonated an improvised explosive device. Reportedly, the explosive device was hidden in a briefcase and placed at gate number four and five to the entrance of the court, which detonated just minutes before the court opened. Officials believe the explosive was assembled two hours before the attack and constructed using a chemical compound, shrapnel and had a cell phone as a detonator. Sources said that there were at least five militants present near gate number five while three others remained at the getaway car. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the court but created a deep crater at the incident site. On 09/14/2011, another victim, identified as Mridul Bakshi succumbed to his injuries increasing the death toll. The Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (HUJI) claimed responsibility for the attack through an email message, saying that the HUJI called on Indian authorities to overturn the death sentence of a man convicted in connection with an attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001. Reportedly, investigators believe the attack was carried out by the HUJI with the support of Indian Mujahideen (IM). Three people were arrested in connection with the attack, including an internet café owner identified as Mehmood Aziz and his brother Khalid Aziz. On 09/17/2011 another victim, identified as Rattan Lal succumbed to his injuries, bringing the death toll to 15.
06/06/2011: On Monday evening beginning around 1830 and ending around 2130, in Kaura village, Pratappur, Chatra, Jharkhand, India, around 150 Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) used three bulldozers to destroy the Kaura Government High School. The militants using semi-automatic weapons also held 40 villagers at gunpoint and forced them to watch as the Maoists destroyed the 10 room school. No casualties were reported and Sub-divisional Police Officer S.A. Rizwi confirmed the attack, saying that ‘area commander’ Ajay Ganjhu of the Maoists led the operation. No group claimed responsibility.
07/02/2011: On Saturday morning, in Bangalwa Kareli village, Munger, Bihar, India, around 50 Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) killed six villagers and abducted at least seven others. One source indicates that as many as 12 people were abducted, and that of the 12, eight of them were children. The hostages were later released in Basraha-Chormara forest near the Bangalwa Kareli village. According to the victims, Commander Arvind Yadav received a phone message by a Maoist cadre in Kareli compelling the Maoists to release the hostages because other villagers were preparing to attack them at their hideouts. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/24/2011: Unidentified militants opened fire on a Territorial Army (TA) soldier at a bus stand in Naidkhai town, Bandipora district, Kashmir state, India. The soldier and two other civilians were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown.
08/10/2011: On Wednesday night, in Tahab, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device, slightly damaging the window panes of an office of Animal Husbandry Department along with some shops and a shed. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/18/2011: On Tuesday evening around 2100, in the Chandrapur village of the Belatikri area near Lalgarh in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of two related attacks, between 10 and 15 militants raided the village and abducted and later killed Khagen Das Adhikary, a supporter of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist. The body of Adhikary was recovered from a nearby forest the next morning. Adhikary had been shot. The Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility for the attack. Maoist posters were recovered from beside the body, labeling him as a police informer.
03/14/2011: On Monday around 0000 midnight, in Gaya, Bihar, India, in one of three related attacks, over 50 militants blew up a mobile tower of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) using an improvised explosive device (IED). The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the tower, but resulted in no casualties. The militants attacked another BSNL mobile tower using an IED and also set a generator room of a BSNL telecom firm on fire. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants claimed responsibility. A note left at the incident site asked the Bihar government to stop the “undeclared execution of the Operation Green Hunt” and “killing innocent Dalits” by naming them as Maoists.
12/11/2011: The Jammu and Kashmir Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Ali Muhammad Sagar, was attacked by members of Jamiat ul-Mujahedin (JuM) using firearms in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. While the minister was unharmed, one of his bodyguards was killed, and two others were injured. A civilian was also wounded in the attack. JuM claims that the attack was due to a statement made regarding re-opening of movie theaters and liquor stores. The also claimed that it was the Al Jabbar squad that carried out the attack.
10/03/2011: On Monday, in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, a group suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants killed a civilian named Santosh Yadav by unknown means because he was suspected of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility, but the (CPI-M) group was suspected.
10/24/2011: On Monday, in Vishakhaptnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants shot and killed a former home guard identified Korra Balaraju. No group claimed responsibility, but the Communist Party of India-Maoist group were suspected.
03/14/2011: On Monday evening around 1850, 10 feet from the main gate to Rajiv Bhaban in Guwahati, Assam, India, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants detonated an improvised explosive device near the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) headquarters, damaging a portion of the building. Two congress leaders, identified as congress spokesperson Medhi Alam Bora and party general secretary Ranjan Borah, were among the four people injured in the attack. Earlier, police had reported that a grenade was used in the attack; however, police later confirmed that a bomb was planted inside the party headquarters in a garbage bin. Immediately after the blast, ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Barua claimed responsibility for the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, ULFA militants sent an email on 02/19/2011 warning the Congress of dire consequences ahead of the elections for the alleged divisive tactics adopted by the party to divide the ULFA.
08/13/2011: On Saturday afternoon around 1430, along the Imphal-Moreh route at Chajing in Thoubal, Manipur, India, unidentified assailants detonated an improvised explosive device near the Lilong Bridge, causing an unknown amount of property damages but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/21/2011: On Thursday night, in Yadunathpur village, Rohtas, Bihar, India, 12 suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist group (CPI-M) set fire to a house of Maheshwar Singh. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the arson, but police suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoist group (CPI-M) was responsible for the attack. Same night militants blew up a house of Singh’s brother, Gangeshwar Singh, a former head of village local self-government institution.
04/30/2011: On Saturday evening at 2030, in Sopore Town, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a civilian, Shamsuddin Mir (Jana), outside his residence. Reportedly, Mir was suspected of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/19/2011: Maoists abducted nine people, including the block president of Nuapada district, Orissa state, India. Eight of the captives were released the same day unharmed. The block president was killed and his body was found the next day in Bharuamunda village, surrounded by several Maoist posters. The specific motive behind the attack is unknown.
08/04/2011: On Thursday night between 0100 and 0200, at a construction site in Posaita in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, nine to 10 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) using kerosene set fire to three dumpers, three JCB vehicles and one roller-cutter vehicle of a private construction company involved in the laying of the third lane of the Mumabi-Howrah railway track near Posaita station. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicles, but resulted in no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police believe that it could have been carried out either to divert the attention of the police from a combing operation in Saranda forest or in retaliation for a levy demand not paid. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/14/2011: On Monday morning, at the Mosanga village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in a series of encounters, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) led by Kundan Pahan of Platoon 39 fired on security forces that were waiting, anticipating the militants’ arrival. One Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper of the 133 Battalion, identified as ML Meena, was injured in this attack. Reportedly, the militants, fearing they would be surrounded, split up into groups of eight to 12 and fled, and four other encounters ensued which lasted until 1630 that afternoon. The encounter caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
05/20/2011: On Friday morning at 0830, in Jharkhand, India, a squad of 50 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres ambushed a paramilitary and police team on a combing operation at Duragarh, 70 kilometers from Hazaribagh District headquarters. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper, Gulam Hussain, sustained bullet injuries during the attack. Authorities suspect at least three rebels were also injured when security forces retaliated. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday morning, at Nagram, Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw two Chinese hand grenades at the residence of an independent member of the Chingai Assembly constituency, Khasim Ruivah. The grenades failed to explode, and were later defused by police, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
03/24/2011: On Thursday night, in Yadupur village in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, police recovered and defused an explosive device planted by unidentified militants in a school, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. The assailants fled the incident shouting pro-Maoist slogans.
06/22/2011: On Wednesday night, Chorwa village in East Champaran, Bihar, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to the mixing plant of a construction company, causing an estimated $ 22,300 (INR 1,000,000) in damages. The tires of one truck and dumper, AC wiring and other equipment were destroyed in the attack, but no casualties were reported. According to police, the Maoists left some literature citing the company's failure to pay 'levy' to the local CPI-M as the reason behind the attack.
06/25/2011: On Saturday afternoon, at Murumgaon village in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) called a civilian identified as Ramchandra Bahirwar from his house and after an exchange of heated words, shot and killed him. Reportedly, the civilian is a former deputy sarpanch (deputy chief of gram panchayat, the village level local self-Government institution), and also a road contractor. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, sources claimed that the attack may have been carried out because the Maoists believed Bahirwar was a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/03/2011: On Tuesday, in Dhardhariya jungle, Lohardaga, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) targeted security forces, consisting of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Jharkhand Jaguar, Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) and the District Armed Police, killing eleven security personnel and injuring at least 40 others. The militants ambushed the security personnel, detonating several landmines planted in a two kilometer radius, each at a distance of one and half to two feet apart. The militants then opened fire on the personnel. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility for the incident. Four Maoists, including one woman, identified as Suna Kharva, Bishnu Asur, Sudhua Asur and Rehena Khatun, were arrested in connection with the attack on 05/18/2011.
03/01/2011: On Tuesday night, in Mahugayen village in Sonu, Jamui, Bihar, India, in one of two related attacks, around 50 armed unidentified militants blew up the control room of telecom facility using dynamite. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the control room, but resulted in no casualties. It was believed the bombing was in protest against the killing of six Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres on 02/26/2011. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that Maoists were responsible.
08/22/2011: On Monday evening at 2100, in Baija area of East Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commandos were ambushed by a group of six suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants. The vehicle carrying the team was damaged in the attack. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility. The GNLA denied its involvement in the attack and blamed instead its rival group the Achik National Volunteers Council (ANCV) claiming that they fired on the police vehicle suspecting the police to be GLNA militants.
04/30/2011: On Saturday morning at 1100, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, four unidentified militants shot and stabbed an Andhra Pradesh legislator and prominent Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leader, Akbaruddin Owaisi, wounding him severely. Another MIM legislator, Ahmad Balala, and MIM member were also injured in the attack. Balala's security guard fired in retaliation, killing one of the attackers and injuring another. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is suspected that the attack was carried out because of a fall-out of the political rivalry between MIM and a local group, led by Mohammed Pehlwan. Pehlwan, once an aide of Owaisi, allegedly quit MIM following a dispute over the control of a cemetery. No group claimed responsibility.
01/13/2011: On Thursday morning around 1130, on Dhannagari Road in Chandpal village in Sankrail, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around 100 armed militants, 15 with firearms and the rest with rods and sticks, set ablaze the houses of Communist Party of India-Marxists (CPI-Marxist) members, including the house of Bibek Mondal. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and it is unknown how many people were injured in the attack. Several homes were burnt and an unknown number of villagers were beaten. The militants warned the villagers to stop supporting the CPI-Marxist and threatened another midnight attack if the fires from the homes were put out. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
06/02/2011: On Thursday afternoon, in Tongpal village in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh, India, five to six suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) opened indiscriminate fire at a weekly marketplace, killing Constable Budharuram Poyam and injuring Constable Rakesh Bhaskar. It is possible that two other villagers were also killed during the attack, but this information was not confirmed. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
06/16/2011: On Thursday, in one of four related attacks, at Dobhi block (administrative division) in Gaya, Bihar, India, around 70 Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) destroyed a mobile tower using an improvised explosive device. The attack resulted in no casualties and was carried out during a 24 hour shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the arrest of a CPI-M leader identified as Jagdish Master (Jagdish Yadav) in Gaya. Members of the CPI-M distributed leaflets and pamphlets and declared to avenge the arrest of Jagdish.
12/20/2011: Four police officers were injured when they were attacked by members of the Garo National Liberation Army in the Rongreng Baiza forest reserve in Meghalaya, India. It is believed that the ambush was in response to recent security force operations in the area. No deaths were reported.
10/31/2011: On Monday, in East Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, 12 to 15 suspected militants from the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) ambushed a highway police patrol in Nengpatchi village, killing four officers and a civilian. Two other police officers were wounded. The deceased policemen were identified as N.R. Marak, Probinson Sangma, Victor Marak and E. Sangma. The two policemen who survived the attack have been identified as Peter Sangma and D. Sangma. Two Kalashnikov AK-47s, two self loading rifles, and one M4 Carbine were stolen by militants from the police. No groups claimed responsibility but the GNLA, allegedly led by its ‘central area commander’ Rakkam Marak and former Police constable Savio Ch Marak, the ‘area commander’ of West Khasi Hills, is suspected of being involved.
01/06/2011: On Thursday night, in Nadaria village near Salboni in West Bengal, India, a group of 15-20 unidentified armed militants triggered a landmine blast inside the house of Nemai Sen, a local Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader, after beating up his father. A large portion of the house was damaged in the blast and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/27/2011: On Sunday at 1240 noon, at a hardware shop at Hatta in Imphal East, Manipur, India, a bomb detonated in front of the shop, causing an unreported amount of property damage to the shop. Seven people, including two traffic personnel, two non locals and a shop owner, were injured. Fragments of a Chinese made grenade were recovered from the incident site. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, officials suspect that the shop owner was being extorted by the militants. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that People’s United Liberation Front (PULF) militants were responsible.
04/06/2011: On Wednesday at 0000 midnight, at Leimapokpam Awang Leikai, Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade the residential compound of Oinam Inaoba, the son-in-law of Social Welfare and Minor Irrigation Minister, N Loken. A dog was injured in the attack, but no other casualties were reported. The attack caused damage to the windows of an excavator nearby and the walls and ceiling of an outhouse on the property. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/17/2011: On Sunday night, in Bandra village, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in one of two related attacks, suspected People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) cadres abducted Sukra Pahan from his house and subsequently fired on and killed him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/28/2011: On Wednesday, in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist) shot and killed a forest ranger working for the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation (APFDC). The victim was identified as Majji Madhava Rao. All APFDC officers and men had also received warnings from the Maoists in the past not to take up work on coffee plantations. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but CPI-Maoists are suspected.
07/21/2011: On Thursday night, in Yadunathpur village, Rohtas, Bihar, India, 12 suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist group (CPI-M) used dynamite to blow up the house of Gangeshwar Singh, a former head of village local self-Government institution. Later that night militants set fire to a house of Singh’s brother, Maheshwar Singh. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but police suspected that the CPI-M group was responsible.
02/28/2011: On Monday evening around 1900, near a fire and emergency department in Batamaloo area in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants hurled a grenade towards police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) paramilitary personnel. Two policemen and a civilian, identified as Showkat Ahmad Khan, were injured. Khan later died from his injuries on 03/01/2011. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
05/27/2011: On Friday night at 2230, in Bawan village, Handwara, Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, India, four suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) militants killed a father and son, identified as Ghulam Rasool Mir and Manzoor Ahmad Mir. According to Mir’s wife, the four militants barged into Mir’s home and asked for milk. After they had the milk, the militants asked for her son and husband to sit down and opened fire on them. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, one source indicates that Ghulam was suspected of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/02/2011: On Friday night, in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants kidnapped and later shot and killed Purna Chandra Dalai, local Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader. Dalai was suspected of being a police informer and was killed because of it. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/21/2011: On Saturday night, near the Chakant Railway halt number 65C, Gaya District, Bihar, India, unidentified militants abducted two railway employees identified as Suresh Ram and Dhanraj Paswan and released the hostages the next day. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during a 48-hour bandh called in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Orissa. The militants also burned down a log book and took a telephone set and the keys of a cabin of the railway halt. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/17/2011: On Friday, in Parsahi village, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, around 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to a truck, a jeep and two drilling machines of the RK Drilling Company, causing an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicles. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, non-payment of extortion demanded was said to be the reason behind the attack. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/10/2011: On Sunday evening at 2030, in Guwahati, Assam, India, militants of the Adivasi People's Army (APA) bombed the Guwahati-Puri Express train. Four of the train's coaches were derailed and over 100 people were injured. The blast caused an unknown amount of property damage to the tracks and train. Police said the bomb was placed on the track with wires and other trigger materials, which were found after the bombing. The APA claimed responsibility for the attack through an email on 07/11/2011. Police however suspected that National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants were responsible for the attack.
04/30/2011: On Saturday night at 0200, in Bandhugaon, Koraput, Odisha, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants kidnapped Ganesh Khosla, a contractor, from Mahaguda village and later shot and killed him. The Maoists left a letter at the incident site claiming that Khosla did not pay wages to his laborers and exploited the tribals. He was also accused of working against the Maoist backed Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh.
04/25/2011: On Monday, in Saude village, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) killed Tofique Ansari by slitting his throat. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect that the incident was the outcome of rivalry among militant groups. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
03/20/2011: On Sunday, in Jabti-Khandi village in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, around 20 to 25 unidentified militants took Keju Damaji Ichami from his house to a nearby forest and killed him using sharp weapons. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in Machipora village in Handwara area of Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants set ablaze a Panchayat (village level local self government institution) building. The multi-phased Panchayat elections will be held in State over the next six weeks after a gap of 10 years. No casualties were reported, but the building was badly damaged. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
06/07/2011: On Tuesday night, at a residence at Balipathar, Bokajan, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, suspected Karbi Peoples’ Liberation Tiger (KPLT) militants shot and killed Narendra Kiling, a member of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) and Congress Youth leader. The militants also took away three service rifles and around 70 rounds of ammo from the security guards at the residence. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/28/2011: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Alampatti, Tamil Nadu, India. The device was intended to target the vehicle of L.K. Advani, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/12/2011: Suspected members of National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) threw hand grenades at D.D. Thaisii, the Manipur education minister, near Koide village in Senapati district, Manipur state, India. The majority of Thaisii's convoy escaped unharmed; however, one member of the India Reserve Battalion was injured . At the time of the attack, Thaisii was en route to visit his Assembly constituency of Karong to inspect development activities. Specific motive behind the incident is unknown; however, authorities believe that Thaisii was targeted because of his continuing role in the Ibobi Singh government.
09/29/2011: On Thursday, in Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants triggered a landmine blast targeting Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers. The blast caused an unknown amount of damage, but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/26/2011: On Saturday night, in an unspecified location in Manipur, India, unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade at the residence Konjengbam Onbi Leima, the president of a local government institution. However, the bomb failed to explode, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
10/11/2011: On Tuesday, in Chinari village, Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, a suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist group militant opened fire on a police patrol; one police officer and was killed by retaliatory fire. The dead militant was identified as Negi Rawat. Some weapons and naxal literature were also recovered from the spot. No group claimed responsibility.
05/31/2011: On Tuesday, in one of three related attacks, in an undisclosed village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to an unknown number of vehicles engaged in sinking ponds, causing an unknown amount of property damage, but resulting in no casualties. A total of 10 tractors and five other machines were set on fire by the militants and it is unclear how many vehicles were targeted in each attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/06/2011: On Friday evening, in the Jharkhandi village in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, four suspected militants of the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) on motorcycles, shot and killed a civilian identified as Christopi Horo. The specific motive for the attack was unknown; however, police suspected that Horo was killed for being a sympathizer of the rival Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militant group. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/07/2011: On Monday, near the Chitrakot waterfall in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants blew up an under-construction police building, damaging two rooms of the outpost. According to police, the attack was aimed at protesting and obstructing the proposed steel project of TATA in Bastar. No casualties were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants claimed responsibility. Maoist leaflets left at the incident site warned against proposed steel plant in Lahandigudda area of Bastar.
05/19/2011: On Thursday morning at 0915, in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, two Special Police Officers, Sudhakar Munsi and Surendra Arjun Kothare and one Constable, Munsi Chukku Pungati, were killed when police were ambushed by Maoist forces. Eight to 10 militants were also killed during the attack. Reportedly, two police teams on a search operation discovered an improvised explosive device on the Tadgao-Bhamragad road and when they proceeded to the Bejur hillock the militants ambushed them. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
11/9/2011: A group of at least 50 Maoists attacked a middle school in Hahesarhi village, Bihar state, India. The assailants razed the school to the ground with a bulldozer in the early hours of the morning. This was one of two schools that they demolished on the same day. Officials believe that the attacks were in response to the combing operations conducted by security personnel in the area directed towards finding the Maoists.
01/11/2011: On Tuesday afternoon, in a forested area of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants killed one Special Police Officer (SPO) and injured two others during a clash with Chhattisgarh police. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. Two suspected militants were arrested during the encounter and police suspect that at least 12 militants were killed. Maoist casualties have not been confirmed.
04/29/2011: On Friday night, in Barcha village, Rohtas, Bihar, India, three civilians, identified as Amit Chaube, Phulendra Chaube and Suresh Sah, were abducted by a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M). The victims were later released. Reportedly, the victims defied an edict by the militants to appear at the kangaroo court held to settle land disputes. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/19/2011: On Thursday night in a pre-dawn attack, at an anti-Maoist vigilant camp in Cherpal village, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) attacked four policemen that had arrived to attend a wedding. One police officer, Pawan Mandavi, was shot and killed and another police officer, Chirpul Ramaya, was taken hostage. One militant was also killed in the attack. The status of the hostage is unknown and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/14/2011: On Monday morning, at the Mosanga village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in a series of encounters, a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan of the 94 Battalion, identified as Babu Keshri, was injured by a small group of suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) led by Kundan Pahan of Platoon 39. Reportedly, the militants, fearing they would be surrounded, split up into groups of eight to 12 and fled, and three other encounters ensued which lasted until 1630 that afternoon. According to sources, over 1, 500 rounds were fired by security forces and over 50 explosives were detonated by the militants in total. The encounter caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
01/06/2011: On Thursday night, in Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants abducted and killed a local leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist, identified as Dilip Mahato. Mahato was taken from his house by militants and his body was recovered the next morning on 01/07/2011, with multiple bullet wounds near a field. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
07/06/2011: On Wednesday, in Navadih village, Balrampur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants opened fire on a security patrol in the village, resulting in no casualties to the security forces. One female militant, identified as Meena Khalko, was shot and killed in retaliatory fire. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Police recovered some weapons and Maoist literature from the body of the slain militant.
11/23/2011: Maoists abducted two brothers from their village in West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand state, India. The two men, Kubokerai and Kutekerai, were found the next day with their throats slit outside of Silphori village. The assailants left pamphlets with the corpses; they claimed the brothers were police informants.
01/07/2011: On Friday, in Gumla, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants killed a youth by slitting his throat. The victim was identified as Surendra Sao. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect that the attack was carried out due to rivalry of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) groups as Surendra is said to be a supporter of PLFI’s rival group. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) were responsible.
01/25/2011: On Tuesday night, in Kathor village in Munger, Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist militants raided a village and set ablaze a thatched house, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Maoists have called for a boycott of Republic Day celebrations and hoisted black flags in several Bihar districts. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/25/2011: On Monday evening, on the 12313 Sealdah-Rajdhani Express train between Asansol and Dhanbad, West Bengal, India, three crude explosive devices in polythene bags were recovered from under berth number 27, B-4 coach. The explosives failed to explode, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/05/2011: On Tuesday evening, in Vada village in Puruliya, West Bengal, India, three people were injured when a crude bomb detonated inside a bus. Two of the injured people were unidentified militants carrying the bomb inside a bag. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
08/04/2011: On Thursday night, in Basaguda village in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants killed a villager on suspicion of being a police informer. The identity of the villager was unreported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/02/2011: On Wednesday night, in Jerua village in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants abducted and subsequently killed Neyamat Ansari, a functionary attached to a local organization campaigning for the rights of laborers, by beating him to death with sticks. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in Nari village in Munger, Bihar, India, unidentified armed militants beat up the drivers of five passenger vehicles before setting the vehicles on fire. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicles. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/25/2011: On Monday, in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) assaulted employees of the Patil Construction Company (PCC) of Maharashtra by unknown means and threatened them with dire consequences if work continued at the extension of National Highway 75 from Padwa More in Palamu District to Murisemar in Garhwa District. The amount of casualties was not reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/28/2011: On Thursday, in the village of Kota near Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, three unidentified militants dressed in school uniforms and armed with pistols fired upon and injured a Salwa Judum leader (an anti-Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) group), P. Vijay Kumar, at a market. According to top official sources, the Maoists targeted Vijay after he was named in a police report for leading a group that assaulted Swami Agnivesh when he was on his way to Tametla where policemen were accused of burning down nearly 300 huts. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
06/26/2011: On Sunday, in Kanker, Chhattigarh, India, around 150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) ambushed a contingent of paramilitary soldiers belonging to the Border Security Force (BSF), killing two soldiers and wounding four other solders. At least one militant was killed in retaliatory fire, and it is possible that there were more militant casualties, but only one body was recovered. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/14/2011: On Monday night, at Barhara in Chakkarbandha forest in Gaya, Bihar, India, over 50 armed militants blew up a state-run school building using dynamite, causing an unknown amount of property damage. According to police, the building was being used as a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/22/2011: On Tuesday night, in an unspecified location in Tamil Nadu, India, unidentified militants threw a petrol bomb at the residence of Sampath Kumar, a Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) candidate for the Trichengode in the 04/13/2011 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. No casualties were reported, but the front door, a two-wheeler and the window panes were damaged from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
10/27/2011: On Thursday night at 2305, in Dima Hasao, Assam, India, a crude bomb blast caused minor damage to the train tracks between the Mahur and Phiding railway station on Lumding-Silchar section of North-east Frontier Railway. Haflong Police said the blast was of low impact and did not hamper train service. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the Hills Tiger Force was suspected of being behind the bombing.
05/15/2011: On Sunday, at a polling center in the Lauria block of West Champaran, Bihar, India, a policeman on patrol was injured after unidentified assailants threw stones at him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/30/2011: An explosive device detonated at the entrance to the Sangai Festival, a large tourist event, near the convention center in East District, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. A rickshaw puller carried the device to the entrance where it exploded, killing him and two women that were in the vicinity of his rickshaw. No group claimed responsibility; however, police suspect that the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) orchestrated the event. It is unclear whether the rickshaw operator was a willing participant in the incident. Specific motive is unknown; however, the KCP had called a 72-hour strike that was due to end the day following the explosion. The strike was in protest of economic roadblocks of national highways.
11/30/2011: Approximately 30 suspected Maoists attacked the Devadula irrigation project located between Gangaram and Mukunur villages in Karimnagar district, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The assailants approached the site by boat and, upon arrival, took all personal phones from the workers, warning them not to leave. The attackers set several pieces of machinery on fire, damaging an excavator, a generator and two tractors. A site supervisor and a driver were taken hostage as the assailants fled. The two abductees were later released in a nearby forest and they returned to site unharmed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown; however, sources note that the attack occurred shortly after the death of a top Maoist leader.
03/23/2011: On Wednesday night, in Netabhara near the Jhargram area in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) militant, identified as Sambhu Mahato, after a dispute over the distribution of extortion money between cadres. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/06/2011: On Wednesday evening around 1815, at Samuror along the Mayang Imphal road stretch in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants shot upon a team of Wangoi District Police commandos while they were conducting a search operation. One police commando, identified as Muhammad Riyas, was injured. Police recovered empty .32 ammunition cases from the incident site. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/06/2011: On Wednesday night around 0145, 10 kilometers from Baghmara in South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, nine unidentified militants using AK 47s fired indiscriminately on a group of laborers, killing five laborers and injuring another laborer of the Gokha Coal Depot. The deceased were identified as Ram Badan Yadav, Suha Gin, Habibul, Noor Muhammad, Jamin, and the injured was identified as Rakib Miya. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants were responsible.
08/16/2011: On Tuesday, at Changkegre village in South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, militants of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) shot dead a civilian identified as Nimot Singh. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, sources indicate that the incident took place during the closing hours of the 12 hour shutdown called by GNLA to mourn the death of four militants during an encounter on 08/09/2011. This was the third violent act committed by GNLA within the past 12 hours. Police sources said that the militants who were involved in three incidents have been identified and that the killers of Singh were the same militants who were involved in the grenade attack on the Chokpot BDO office. The assailants involved were seven to eight militants, led by Baichung Ch Momin and Readin Sangma.
02/18/2011: On Friday night, in Beliabera village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around six to eight militants abducted and later shot and killed Bablu Mahato, a worker of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) poster found at the incident site claimed responsibility, saying that Mahato was a police informer.
07/15/2011: On Friday in the early morning, in Saraun Village in Jamui, Bihar, India, 50 members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) set fire to machinery at the plant office of Pradhan Road Construction Limited, a private construction company. One excavator, one pay loader, and two dump trucks were damaged in the fire. They had asked the night guards to leave the premises before they committed the arson so there were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/13/2011: On Tuesday, in Mahatobandh village in Belpahari, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres assaulted 30-40 villagers with sticks after they refused to join the Maoist squad. One villager was reportedly injured during the incident. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/04/2011: On Wednesday, in Mayang Langjing Akham Leikai, Imphal West District, Manipur, India, a hand grenade was lobbed by unidentified militants at the residential complex of Zila Parishad (District level local self-Government institution) member Tongbram Ongbi Manitombi Devi (50). The grenade failed to explode and was later recovered by Indian Security Forces, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/01/2011: On Friday, along National Highway 31 in Golokgunj Chariali near Dhubri, Assam, India, acting on a tip off, a joint patrolling team of police and army recovered a 3.3 kilogram improvised explosive device from a private bus concealed in a bag under a seat planted by unidentified militants. The explosive device was defused, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/26/2011: On Saturday, in Keri forests in Budhal, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India, two militants fired upon five to six Village Defense Committee (VDC) members. One VDC member, identified as Raj Kumar was seriously injured. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
08/21/2011: On Sunday evening, in the Sarkaphung village of Ukhrul District in Manipur, India, executive engineer for the state Public Works Department (PWD), Wungshungmi Kasar, was kidnapped by the Kuki National Liberation Front (KNLF) at his residence. He was later released near Luwang Sangol Kuki Village in Senapati District of Manipur on 08/29/2011. The KNLF issued a press statement claiming responsibility on 08/24/2011. The issue stated that Wungshungmi Kasar was in the outfit’s custody and that there is nothing personal against him in the detention, but that the organization was forced to take action because despite several warnings to the PWD, the department did not perform their development works. The statement was signed by the outfit’s information and publicity secretary, Lunglen.
11/30/2011: Suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) members abducted a bus driver, Partho Mishra, Wednesday evening in Karkel in Khunti district, Jharkhand, India, after he had finished dropping off a wedding party in a nearby village. While his assistant, Sanjay Topno, was released, the assailants took Mishra and his bus to the nearby village of Kenbaki, 15km away, where his body was discovered early Thursday morning. It is believed that the perpetrators held the victim for approximately six hours before shooting him and leaving his body and his bus behind. While the exact motive for the attack is unknown, authorities believe that Mishra was targeted because he was a supporter of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a rival organization of the CPI-M. It is unknown whether a ransom was demanded by the perpetrators.
01/31/2011: On Monday afternoon, near the Indo-Bangladesh border in an unspecified location in Tripura province, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a government official of the National Building Construction Corporation identified as C. N. Muni. His driver was also injured during the attack. According to police, militants on the Bangladesh side of the border opened fire at Muni’s jeep, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that National Liberation Front of Tripura militants were responsibility.
09/02/2011: On Friday evening around 1850, in Nalbari, Assam, India, a grenade was thrown by a suspected Anti-Talks Faction of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-ATF) militant at the Barrack of Tihu Police Station. The blast caused damage to the wall of the barrack, but resulted in no casualties. Police later arrested a youth identified as Bakul Swargiary in connection with the attack, but ULFA-ATF denied Swargiary's involvement. The ULFA (Anti-talk faction), Arunodoy Dohotiya, claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/03/2011: On Sunday morning, near Hari Mandir area in Nalbari, Assam, India, unidentified militants planted an improvised explosive device near railroad tracks. Police defused the bomb, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/16/2011: On Tuesday, in one of two related attacks in Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, a group of suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants attacked a Chokpot government block office, assaulting the watchmen while other employees fled. The militants lobbed two grenades inside the building, one of which exploded causing some damage to the building. Earlier, the militants fired on three trucks carrying coal from Meghalaya to Assam, killing two people.  The specific motive for the attacks are unknown; however, police said the attack was carried out during a 12 hour shutdown called by GNLA militants in protest of the killing of four of its senior cadres by police commandos earlier that week. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/12/2011: On Thursday night, in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) abducted a civilian, Lalsay Chandy Helami. The body of Helami was recovered from Nawatola village in Korchi tehsil in Gadchiroli on 05/13/2011. According to police, the victim was stabbed and shot to death and was suspected of being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility.
02/09/2011: On Wednesday around 0000 midnight, at Subarnagiri in Kandhamal, Odisha, India, around 40 militants attacked a police outpost, ransacked it and then set it on fire, damaging documents and furniture. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters and leaflets left at the incident site warned the government of dire consequences for anti-Maoist operations in the area.
07/01/2011: On Friday evening around 1930, in Moreh, Chandel, Manipur, India, two suspected Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) militants attacked the Customs Office using firearms. Reportedly, the two militants enquired about the whereabouts of the Customs Office Superintendent R K Darendraji, and upon hearing that the official was not in the office, the militants fired on the office. An unspecified amount of property damage occurred to office property, but the attack resulted in no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, sources said some militants had already served extortion notices to the office which was not met by the officials. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/26/2011: On Wednesday evening at 2000, in Imphal, Manipur, India, outside Milan Enterprises unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) that wounded three civilians. The explosion ripped the metal shutters of Milan Enterprises and caused damages to a major portion of the shop. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
09/21/2011: On Wednesday night at 0045, in Tamenglong, Manipur, India, unidentified militants set three vehicles on fire at a Tamenglong Bazar. The vehicles were coming from Imphal and carrying artists and musical instruments for a function which was scheduled to be held at a public school complex. Two of the vehicles were Bolero jeeps, registration numbers MNO4A/5795 and MNO3P/2323, both belonging to Hijam Suresh. The other vehicle was a Tata Safari, registration number MNOIK/6893, which belonged to Z Kikhonbou. All of the vehicles were completely burnt. Musical instruments costing more than $5,642 (Rs 3 lacs) were also burnt in the blaze. No group claimed responsibility.
01/30/2011: On Sunday evening around 2030, in Hulsu village on the outskirts of Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, 10 to 15 suspected Jharkhand Liberation Tiger militants abducted three youths and subsequently killed them by slitting their throats. The victims were identified as Alok Sahu, Mahabali Sahu, and Bhola Sahu. The victims are suspected to be members of a rival militant group. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/14/2011: On Sunday evening, at Telenpali village of the Khaparakhol area in Bolangir, Odisha, India, an armed group of suspected Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-Maoist) arrived at the home of Kishore Panda, the block President of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), and asked him to accompany them. Reportedly, the militants suspected Panda of being a police informer and asked him to accompany them to a nearby area for a meeting. Panda followed them where he was then shot five times. Panda later succumbed to his wounds in the hospital. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/30/2011: On Saturday, in Kalahandi, Odisha, India, Maoists killed a contractor who was working as Village Coordinator for Vedant Project at Lanjigarh. Ajit Patnaik was on a motorcycle with one of his relatives when the armed Maoists intercepted them near the Ujurpa forest. They slit the throat of Patnaik who died on the spot. His relative, however, fled from the scene after the incident. The Kashipur Niyamgiri Area Committee of the CPI (Maoist) division left a poster near the body which claimed the responsibility of killing Ajit Pattanik, branding him as a police informer and an employee of Vedant.
08/08/2011: On Monday afternoon, in the jungles of Sawanga at Lekha-Mendha in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, two C-60 commando personnel were injured when the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) attacked the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights' (NCPCR) convoy. The attack took place when the anti-child labor activist and NCPCR chairperson, Shantha Sinha, were returning from Kamabguda village this afternoon, when a group of 20-25 armed militants attacked their convoy resulting in a 15 minute encounter. The other officials included in the convoy were identified as several senior government officials and the tribal development commissioners, Sambhaji Sarkunde and Anshu Sinha, district collector Abhishek Krishna, the chief executive officer of the district Sumant Bhange and commission members Deepa Dixit, SK Rao and Venkat Reddy. It is unknown if the attack resulted in any damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/14/2011: On Saturday, in a forest near Kurab village in the Malkangiri town of Bodigeta panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) in Kalimela, Odisha, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) fired on a joint police team from Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. Security forces retaliated with gunfire but no casualties were reported on either side. No group claimed responsibility.
04/04/2011: On Monday, near Jhargram in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a state government employee and a former activist of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), identified as Gagan Mahato. According to police, Mahato was pulled from his vehicle and beaten severely before being shot. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
08/13/2011: On Saturday morning around 0415, on National Highway 37 in Panbari, Dhubri, Assam, India, one person was killed and 11 others were injured when suspected Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers (KPLT) militants opened fire on vehicles. Six of the individuals who were injured were Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) activists. The AJYCP activists, including state vice-president Ranjit Changmai, were returning from Guwahati to Sivasagar in a Bolero, when the vehicle was sprayed with bullets fired from inside Panbari reserve forest. Four trucks and a Bolero were also damaged in the heavy firing. No group has claimed responsibility for this attack, but KPLT militants are suspected.
05/06/2011: On Friday, in Padia, Malkangiri, Odisha, India, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) attacked a government liquor store. Reportedly, a group of slogan shouting armed rebels escorted by villagers reached the liquor store, broke open the licensed outlet and destroyed the stock. The Maoists also looted an unspecified amount of cash from the store. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage but resulted in no casualties. The CPI-M claimed responsibility for the attack. A letter recovered from the incident site accused the state government of failing to meet the demands made by rebels for the release of then Malkangiri Collector R V Krishna, who had been abducted by Maoists in February.
09/10/2011: On Saturday afternoon around 1300, at Bhimojit of Thangmeiband Lourong Purel Leikai in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants tossed a grenade at the residence of RK Chandrajit, a former Nationalist Congress (NC) party candidate. The grenade failed to explode, resulting in no casualties or damages. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, sources indicated that this was the third grenade attack against Chandrajit. Police retrieved the grenade from the incident site and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/22/2011: On Monday evening around 1830, in Senapati, Manipur, India, suspected Naga activists attacked and set fire to a rice truck (AS 01 DC-4543) to express support for a strike called by the United Naga Council (UNC). Reportedly, the truck was set on fire a second time after firefighters put out the fire from the first attack. The attack resulted in an unknown amount of property damage but no casualties and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/06/2011: On Sunday night, at Karam Makha Leikai in Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified militants hurled a hand grenade at the residence of Manipur Panchayat secretary K Arun of Rural development and Panchayati Raj department at Karam. The outhouse was damaged in the attack, but there were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
03/14/2011: On Monday around 0000 midnight, in Gaya, Bihar, India, in one of three related attacks, over 50 militants blew up a mobile tower of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) using an improvised explosive device (IED). The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the tower, but resulted in no casualties. The militants attacked another BSNL mobile tower using an IED and also set a generator room of a BSNL telecom firm on fire. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants claimed responsibility. A note left at the incident site asked the Bihar government to stop the “undeclared execution of the Operation Green Hunt” and “killing innocent Dalits” by naming them as Maoists.
04/25/2011: On Monday night, in Chama village, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants shot and killed Rankan Kumar, a mining engineer of the Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) Company. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) is thought to be responsible.
03/17/2011: On Thursday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, unidentified militants set fire to the solar system installed at the house of Anuj Singh, a member of the Bihar Legislative Council. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
05/15/2011: On Sunday morning around 0630, near Chhurchuriya village in Jamui, Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated a landmine targeting a tractor carrying nine people including polling personnel, killing driver Arun Mandal and seriously injuring election official Surya Narayan Yadav. Seven polling officers were also taken by the militants. The polling officers were on their way to the Chhurchuriya polling booth numbers 31 and 44 when the landmine was triggered, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack. According to police, the Maoists have also demanded the release of two of their cadres in exchange for the release of the officials. All seven officials were released on 05/17/2011.
01/04/2011: On Tuesday, on Ranchi-Daltonganj National Highway in Hotwag village in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants planted a 50 kilogram improvised explosive device (IED) under a road. Police defused the IED, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
12/9/2011: Unnamed suspects threw grenades at the home of the president of the Manipur People's Party in Thoubal, Manipur, India. While the explosion from the grenade did destroy part of the house, no deaths or injuries were reported. The attack occurred just before a similar attack on the home of the district Congress committee president. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/16/2011: On Saturday night, near Chatti village in Chintur, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants set fire to a hydraulic excavator engaged in road construction. No casualties were reported, but the machine was badly damaged in the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the militants have made similar attempts to disrupt the ongoing road construction. No group claimed responsibility.
05/31/2011: On Tuesday night, in Buruda village, Bhanja Nagar, Ganjam, Odisha, India, about 25 to 30 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) raided a house and cut off the hand of Bhagabat Nayak. The specific motive for the attack is unknown, but one source indicates that the attack was carried out when he refused to join the Maoist faction. According to police, however, the attack was carried out by the militants for allegedly collecting money in the name of red rebels and that he was warned to stay from his activity about five days prior to the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
01/12/2011: On Wednesday night, in Jhakia village in Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants killed a civilian, identified as Bhusan Marandi, by slitting his throat. Marandi was suspected of being a police informer and tipping off the police about militant movements leading to the killings of three cadres on 01/11/2011. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
12/7/2011: Fifteen suspected members of the Communist Part of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) attacked construction workers in Bataloka in the district of East Singbhum, Jharkhand, India. At least three workers were injured and a number of cycles were burned. No official claim of responsibility was reported.
06/16/2011: On Thursday night around 0130, in Jehanabad, Bihar, India, over 25 Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) charged the Nadaul Railway Station detained the railway employees and set fire to it, damaging a portion of the control room and the booking counter. According to the stationmaster of Nadaul, Rajesh Kumar, most of the documents in the control room and the booking counter, including $127.11 (Rs 5,700) cash and tickets, were reduced to ashes. The militants also took Kumar hostage to a nearby field but freed him about a half-an-hour later. No casualties were reported and the attack was carried out during a 24 hour shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the arrest of a CPI-M leader identified as Jagdish Master (Jagdish Yadav) in Gaya. Members of the CPI-M distributed leaflets and pamphlets and declared to avenge the arrest of Jagdish.
08/28/2011: On Sunday around 1230 noon, at the Regional Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) and Hospital in Imphal West, Manipur, India, a Chinese-made grenade, wrapped in paper and bearing the name Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), was discovered at the outpatient department. The Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) are suspected to have placed the grenade there as a response to their failed attempt to extort money from the hospital. Experts later defused the grenade resulting in no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/24/2011: On Thursday night, in Tetrain village in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, around 50 unidentified armed militants bombed a state-run school building using dynamite. No casualties were reported, but three rooms of the school building were destroyed. No group claimed responsibility for this incident, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. The assailants fled the incident shouting pro-Maoist slogans.
06/10/2011: Assailants detonated an explosive device and opened fire on two Indian Police Service (IPS) vehicle at a bridge near Gatam, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India. At least ten officers were killed and three other officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
10/01/2011: On Saturday, in Khunti District, Jharkhand, India, Naomi Mirdha, a Jharkhand Vikas Morcha–Prajatantric (JVM-P) leader, was dragged out of his house at Gamaria village, and shot and killed by Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The CPI-M claimed responsibility for the attack through a note left behind at the scene.
06/01/2011: On Wednesday morning at 0610, in Bareda Forest 70 kilometers from Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, 15 suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) faction opened fire on a joint police team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, Jharkhand Jaguar and District police. One civilian, Neelmani Mahato, was killed and three militants were injured during the exchange of fire. Police recovered a nine-millimeter pistol with four rounds, three mobile handsets and four SIM cards from the incident site. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/31/2011: On Monday night, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) shot and injured two policemen who were on their way to guard a Salwa Judum camp. The two policemen were critically wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but CPI-Maoists are suspected.
05/05/2011: On Thursday evening around 1800, in Iroisemba Maning Leikai, Imphal West District, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a grenade at the gate of the house of Naorem Iboton, Dean of Central Agricultural University (CAU). The grenade failed to explode, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/15/2011: On Tuesday night, at Dorhama in Kreeri, Pattan, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants opened fire on the house of an engineer for the state Roads and Buildings Department, identified as Ghulam Mohiuddin Akhoon. Two girls, identified as Shaista Akbar and Momina, were injured, while Akhoon escaped unhurt. Reportedly, the militants, carrying pistols broke the window panes of the house and opened fire on the inhabitants. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/10/2011: About 25 Maoists torched six vehicles in Saraikela, Odisha, India. The vehicles were being used to help build a road in the area. The assailants asked the construction workers to leave the site and then set the four tractors and two utilities on fire. They claimed that they burned the vehicles because the construction workers were building the road during a declared strike by the Maoists due to the assassination of one of their leaders. No deaths or injuries were reported.
10/20/2011: On Thursday, in Keonjhar, Odisha, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists group militants detonated a land mine targeting military vehicles. The windows of the vehicle were damaged. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the Communist Party of India-Maoist group was suspected.
04/05/2011: On Tuesday, at Galoora Handwara in Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants set fire to a Panchayat building a week before the Panchayat polls, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday, in Atikheta village in Latehar District, Jharkhand, India, two former cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were shot and killed by Maoist cadres. The bullet-riddled bodies of Nirmal Singh and Birendra Singh Kharwar were recovered during the day and a note left by the Maoists accused the duo of rape and robbery after quitting their ranks to Jharkhand Janmukti Parishad (JJP), a CPI-Maoist splinter group.
10/20/2011: On Thursday, in Mizoram, India, a group of suspected militants abducted two drivers of Indian Railways identified as P K Bhattacharrya and A K Sharma. No ransom was given and the status of the hostage is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the hostage taking.
02/10/2011: On Thursday afternoon around 1600, in the Shingjamei area in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants hurled a grenade near the private residence of a Manipur Irrigation Flood Control Department (IFCD) Engineer, Chogtham Ranbir Singh, causing an unknown amount of property damage. One escort commander of the Seventh Battalion Manipur Riles, identified as Khaidem Muhi Singh, was killed and four others, including two civilian carpenters, were injured. The injured were identified as Havildar Kh Muhi, M Guno, M Ingocha and Md Amusana. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Ranabir said that he had been threatened by militants for not meeting their monetary demands. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
10/26/2011: On Wednesday afternoon, in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, in the Tadvai forest area, a group of militants from the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) fired on a Special police party that was combing the forest area. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but the CPI-Maoist group was suspected.
03/14/2011: On Monday, at the Mosanga village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in a series of encounters lasting until 1630, a small group of eight to 12 suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) led by Kundan Pahan of Platoon 39 fired on security forces. No casualties were reported. Reportedly, a group of 50 militants fled to the Mosanga village after attacking security forces in the Jorabeda forest, where more security forces were waiting for them. After another two hour encounter ensued, the militants split up into groups of eight to 12 in which three more encounters ensued. According to sources, over 1, 500 rounds were fired by security forces and over 50 explosives were detonated by the militants in total. The encounter caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
03/24/2011: On Thursday night, near the forest in Koracha village in Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants dragged Kirtan Mandawai from his house and then shot and killed him for being a police informer. A note left at the incident site by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/09/2011: On Wednesday night around 2200, at the Sukirti village of Puruliya, West Bengal, India, militants abducted and later shot and killed an All India Forward Bloc supporter, identified as Rabi Lochan Singh Mura. On 02/10/2011, Mura’s body was found on the outskirts of the village. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants claimed responsibility for this incident. Maoist posters left at the incident site claimed Mura was killed for being a police informer.
04/05/2011: On Tuesday afternoon, at a residence in Haobam Marak Chingtham Leikai, Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants hurled a hand grenade at the residence of RK Chittaranjan, a tax inspector. It is unknown if the attack caused any damages, but the attack resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/21/2011: Heavy machinery used in the construction of roads was set on fire by Maoists in the Palamu district of Jharkhand, India. While no claim of responsibility was reported, road construction sites are often targeted in this region.
01/15/2011: On Saturday, in an unspecified location in the West Bengal province of India, unidentified militants kidnapped two Communist Party of India-Marxist leaders. One of the victims was identified as Sheikh Mohammad Ali, while the other victim was yet to be identified. On 01/26/2011, the bodies of the two leaders were recovered from a grave in the outskirts of the Pathari village in Jhargram. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
02/20/2011: On Sunday, in Sankrail in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, militants shot and killed a civilian for being a suspected police informer. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters claiming responsibility for the crime were recovered from the spot. The posters stated that the victim was a corrupt local worker of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and was killed for being a police informer.
01/06/2011: On Thursday, in Arki market in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, militants abducted and beat Karam Singh Munda, a sarpanch (president/chief of the village level local self Government institution). The militants later shot and killed Munda. The Communist Party of India-Maoist militants claimed responsibility for the attack by leaving a pamphlet at the incident site accusing him of being a police informer.
02/07/2011: On Monday, in the Retegaon area of Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants killed a civilian, identified as Chainuram, with sharp-edged weapons. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during a shutdown called by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants in several states to protest the rising prices of essential commodities and corruption. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/23/2011: On Friday, on Satwari Belicharana road in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India, suspected militants planted a timed improvised explosive device. The IED never detonated. Police forces recovered the timed IED during a police operation. The timed IED composed of six capacitors and two packets of explosive power that weighed 500 grams each. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
06/02/2011: On Thursday afternoon at 1530, in Murhu, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, 14 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) using knives and firearms attacked the Murhu Branch of the State Bank of India. At least three security personnel were injured in the attack and three militants were killed during a counter attack. The injured policemen were identified as Christopher Dung Dung, Shivlal Oraon and Firu Oraon. The militants fled the area and took away three rifles. According to State Police spokesperson SN Pradhan, the motive for the attack was not looting the bank, but rather looting the firearms of the security personnel. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/25/2011: On Tuesday, near Gindra More, Jharkhand, India, a youth, identified as Dhondha Mahto was abducted by two suspected cadres of People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a breakaway faction of the Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist). Mahto was held captive a kilometer off the village of Ginda. No group has claimed responsibility but the PLFI is suspected of being involved. The body of Mahto was found beheaded on 10/25/2011.
02/10/2011: On Thursday night at 0200, at Rewaghat in Muzzaffarpur, Bihar, India, in one of three linked attacks, unidentified militants overpowered the drivers and cleaner of three trucks and set fire to the trucks. One of the trucks was loaded with fish while the other two were empty. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and was said to be carried out in protest against the recent arrest of a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) commander, Nakulji. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
01/25/2011: On Tuesday morning, on National Highway 39 at Deopani, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, a group of five to six unidentified militants fired indiscriminately at a Guwahati-Dimapur bus. Five civilians, including the driver, a woman, and a boy, were injured in the shooting. Three of the injured were identified as Jabey Musai, Dimao Singh and N Angami. The bus was badly damaged and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that cadres of Karbi Peoples’ Liberation Tigers were responsible.
03/17/2011: On Thursday evening around 2000, at the Abhijeet power plant in Chandwa in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants kidnapped at gunpoint an engineer, identified as Jitendra Kumar Singh and the site supervisor, Mukesh Yadav. Reportedly, family members and company officials received a ransom demand of $ 1.11 USD (Rs 50 lakh) for the safe release of both employees. The employees were later killed on 03/24/2011 and their bodies were recovered in the Kerum forests. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
02/17/2011: On Thursday night, in Raghunathpur village in Gurua, Gaya, Bihar, India, 30 heavily armed militants raided a construction site of Gammon India Limited and set fire to one dumper truck and one road construction machine. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the construction machines, but caused no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI0M) militants were responsible. Before leaving the incident site, the assailants raised slogans in favor of the Maoist ideology and organization.
03/14/2011: On Monday, at the Mosanga village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in a series of encounters lasting until 1630, a small group of eight to 12 suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) led by Kundan Pahan of Platoon 39 fired on security forces. No casualties were reported. Reportedly, a group of 50 militants fled to the Mosanga village after attacking security forces in the Jorabeda forest, where more security forces were waiting for them. After another two hour encounter ensued, the militants split up into groups of eight to 12 in which three more encounters ensued. According to sources, over 1, 500 rounds were fired by security forces and over 50 explosives were detonated by the militants in total. The encounter caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
05/19/2011: On Thursday morning at 1100, in Tadgaon village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) ambushed a security patrol, resulting in an exchange of fire. Three security personnel and one rebel were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, at Krishnapur in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants attacked a Trinamool Congress (TC) procession with bombs and sharp objects. Three TC activists were injured and twelve persons were arrested in connection with the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/17/2011: On Thursday around 0000 midnight, at a private residence at Kotapalli village in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, four unidentified masked militants shot a village priest identified as Sukra Hantal, six times injuring him, and also shot and beat his wife, Hiramani. Hiramani suffered serious head injuries. Reportedly, 25 other militants were waiting outside of the house during the attack. According to Hantal, he didn’t have any personal enmity with villagers, nor had he received any threats from militants. No group claimed responsibility, but police suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible based on the modus operandi of the attack.
07/07/2011: On Thursday, in Koraput, Odisha, India, three suspected Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) fired on and killed one constable from the Machkund Police Station and one home guard. The victims were identified as Balaji Takri and Binod Khemundu. The two men were on their way back from the Anakadeli weekly market when they were fired on from close range by the militants hiding near a temple. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/08/2011: On Sunday night, in Gagrimetla village, Malkangiri, Odisha, India, around 100 Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) raided a police officer's house and assaulted his family. According to police, the militants ransacked and looted the house of Police Constable Sukra Madhi and also set fire to a bike on the premises. Furthermore, the militants assaulted and threatened his family to press upon Madhi to quit his job. A Maoist poster was recovered from the incident site.
10/20/2011: On Thursday night, in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists assaulted a forest guest house. No casualties were reported in the armed assault. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault, but the Communist Party of India-Maoists group was suspected.
12/5/2011: A school was destroyed by members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Bodari, Jharkhand, India. Explosives were detonated inside one of the rooms of the school. No deaths or injuries were reported. The attack happened just before the end of the declared bandh which was in protest of the assassination of a CPI-M leader.
04/03/2011: On Sunday morning at 0530, at Keirao Makting Makha Leikai in Imphal East, Manipur, India, police recovered and defused a hand grenade at the private residence of former People’s United Liberation Front (PULF) militant turned politician MI Khan. The grenade failed to explode, resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
10/25/2011: On Tuesday, in Mundher village, Sambalpur, Odisha, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants set fire to 20 vehicles and equipment of a private construction company. Maoists then attacked a group of security forces during an operation in the area. The militants fired 150 rounds at the security forces. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the arson, but the CPI-M was suspected.
04/18/2011: On Monday morning around 0730, in Wahthre village near Shillong in East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya, India, suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants, using small firearms shot at the tires of 15 empty trucks bound for coal quarries, damaging at least seven of the trucks. The militants demanded $446 (INR 20,000) from each truck driver, and also beat up some of the truckers for refusing to pay the demand. Six drivers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
09/11/2011: On Sunday night at 2330, at an unspecified village in Imphal, Manipur, India, four civilians were wounded when a grenade was tossed at the residence of Hazi Abdul Ganj, a retired school teacher. The victims were identified as Ganj’s four children, including two little girls. The windows, walls and doors of the house were partially damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/16/2011: On Thursday night, in Keta village, Garwah, Jharkhand, India, around 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated three can bombs containing ammonium nitrate at the Lohia-Samata High School, damaging three-fourths of the school. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police officials claimed that the militants planned to carry out the attack during their 24 hour shutdown in Jharkhand, Bihar and North Chhattisgarh, but security forces foiled their attempt on that day. The attack resulted in no casualties and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. However, officials suspect that Munna Vishwakarma, the Maoist inter-state zonal head, led the attack.
02/06/2011: On Sunday, at Sawombung in Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified gunmen shot and killed a police constable at point blank range, identified as Ningombam Sunder. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
08/17/2011: On Wednesday morning around 0700, along the Imphal-Moreh route at Chajing near Lilong Bridge in Thoubal, Manipur, India, a patrol party of the 28 Assam Rifles recovered and safely defused an improvised explosive device weighing about 2.5 kilograms. According to police, the explosive device was meant to target the convoy of the Chief Minister and other VIPs that was supposed to pass through. The attack caused no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/28/2011: On Thursday, in Tinsukia, Assam, India, two civilians were kidnapped by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants. The hostages were identified as Bhagawati Prasad Sarma and Bijoy Sarma. The victims were taken into a nearby jungle and beaten up by the armed militants. The militants took Bhagawati away at gunpoint, but Bijoy was released immediately after the ordeal. The status of the hostages was not reported. No group claimed responsibility for this hostage taking, but ULFA is suspected.
04/20/2011: On Wednesday, at the polling booth number 118 at Ramsinghdih in Jamui, Bihar, India, three Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) shot and killed an Assistant Sub-Inspector, identified as Rajendra Jha, and then set fire to the police jeep. The militants called for a poll boycott and later demanded a matchbox from a woman, identified as Aisa Khatton in order to torch a tractor near the booth. Khatton refused and the militants fired on her at close range killing her and injuring two others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/25/2011: On Friday afternoon, near Masihatu in Balumath, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, around 30 armed unidentified militants poured fuel on two tractors filled with bricks and set them on fire, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
12/05/2011: A 25kg improvised explosive device (IED) planted under a bridge on Panem Link Road near Kewat Tola, Amrapara, Jharkhand, India, was discovered by a joint team of police and paramilitary officers after they received a tip alerting them that Maoists were leaving explosives in areas frequented by security forces. The security team was set to cross the bridge the previous evening, but their route was changed after the intelligence tip was received. The next morning, Sunday, they returned to the area and called in a bomb team to disarm the device. No group has claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
06/08/2011: On Wednesday morning around 0830, near the gate of old Sopore hospital in Sopore in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a police constable identified as Manzoor Ahmad Najar was shot at point blank range and killed by unidentified gunmen while he was waiting for a vehicle. No group claimed responsibility.
05/08/2011: On Sunday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of three related attacks, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) triggered a landmine blast in an effort to disrupt polling for the by-election to Bastar Lok Sabha constituency. The attack caused an unknown amount of damage but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/16/2011: On Monday, in Kawath, Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a civilian, identified as Abdul Gani, was abducted and beheaded by four Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) militants. The militants were identified as Abdul Jabbar, Habib Gujjar (Salman), Ishaq Ahmed and Khursheed Ahmed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and Abdul Jabbar was arrested in connection with the attack.
06/29/2011: On Wednesday evening, in Bemina, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and critically wounded a police officer. According to police, gunmen called inspector Shabir Ahmad out from his house and later fired at him six times at close range with a pistol. Ahmad was admitted to the hospital with three bullet wounds. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/25/2011: On Tuesday evening at 1930, in the Nengmandalgre village in East Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, three suspected militants of the Garo National Liberation Army shot and wounded a woman who was suspected of working with the police. The group lead by Jenny alias Ringrang went to the victim’s house of Rabilla Ch Marak and shot at her left arm and leg below the hips. A note was left behind accusing her of collaborating with the police. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault, but the Garo National Liberation Army was suspected.
02/02/2011: On Wednesday morning, in Sopore, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants lobbed two hand grenades towards the house of former Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Ghulam Rasool Kar. The grenade missed the intended target and exploded on the road side causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
02/10/2011: On Thursday night at 0200, at Rewaghat in Muzzaffarpur, Bihar, India, in one of three linked attacks, unidentified militants set ablaze a private bus. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and was said to be carried out in protest against the recent arrest of a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) commander, Nakulji. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
02/16/2011: On Wednesday, between Mahuapada and Nuagaon road in Sundargarh, Odisha, India, a joint security patrol of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Special Operations Group (SOG) recovered and defused a landmine weighing about 25 kilograms. The attack caused no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/20/2011: On Tuesday night, in Jhari village in Dhanora tehsil (revenue unit), Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres abducted Ranu (Kiran Pusali), and his wife Jaswanda (Devli), from a relative's house. The victims identified as former cadres of the outfit who laid down their arms on 05/17/2010, were later shot and killed. No group claimed responsibility, but the Maoists are suspected in the abduction.
03/10/2011: On Thursday night around 2300, at Ananda Singh Academy near Raj Bhavan in Manipur, India, a bomb detonated where President Pratibha Patil was staying, resulting in no casualties. The attack caused a two foot wide and six-seven inches deep crater about 20 feet south of the main gate of the school, and also caused damage to the school’s tin roof and window panes of nearby houses. Police suspect that the explosives were planted some time prior to the attack and were detonated remotely. Four dry cell batteries and a few meters long dual wire were recovered from the incident site. Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) claimed responsibility. A press release by the ‘Secretary’ of Military Affairs, Lanheiba Meitei, said that the blast was carried out by the outfit’s military wing, the Kangleipak Fingang Lanmee (KFL), 5th Lanjaba Unit (Special Demo Team) under the instruction of the ‘Central Security Council’. Meitei claimed that the attack was carried out to protest the visit of President of India, Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, to Manipur and also that it was carried out to expose alleged covert agenda of the Central Government to push in non-locals into Manipur. The release also stated that the outfit will carry on with the operation clear cut to drive away foreigners on schedule. The failure of the state to discuss the seriousness of the decision taken by the outfit may result in unwanted incidents, and the state government should also be held responsible for failure to carry out necessary actions.
05/31/2011: On Tuesday, in one of three related attacks, in an undisclosed village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to an unknown number of vehicles engaged in sinking ponds, causing an unknown amount of property damage, but resulting in no casualties. A total of 10 tractors and five other machines were set on fire by the militants, and since they were reported cumulatively, all 15 vehicles were captured in the previous attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/25/2011: On Sunday evening, in Binpur, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were shot and killed the secretary of Jharkhand Janamikti Morcha identified as Babu Bose. Bose was talking to some people at Dohijuri market when two individuals arrived on a motorcycle, shot at him four times, and fled. No group claimed responsibility, but the police suspected that the CPI-M group was suspected.
05/08/2011: On Sunday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of three related attacks, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) triggered a landmine blast in an effort to disrupt polling for the by-election to Bastar Lok Sabha constituency. The attack caused an unknown amount of damage but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/5/2011: A vehicle was set on fire by members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) near the village of Arauri in Bihar, India. The three-wheeler was burned because the owner was not observing the bandh (strike) that the group had declared. No injuries or deaths were reported.
12/16/2011: Three communication towers were damaged in Asurabandha, Odisha, India. A group of Maoists set the towers on fire in retaliation for the assassination of one of their leaders. No deaths or injuries reported. A bomb was also found, but it did not detonate.
09/02/2011: On Friday night, at Dhadhar Jor village in Katoria, Banka, Bihar, India, a group of about 35 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants carrying wooden sticks raided a Ghaghrizore Hamlet. During the raid (CPI-M) militants wounded Sunil Mandal. The specific motive for the attack is unknown, but reports indicate that the militants beat him to death when he refused to join them. Another source indicates that Mandal was killed for being a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/02/2011: On Wednesday night, in Prithwipur village in Saran, Bihar, India, unidentified militants blew up a house with dynamite and set fire to a vehicle outside the house. The owner of the house was identified as Bharat Singh. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the house and vehicle, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
12/15/2011: A bridge was damaged by explosives in the Latehar district of Jharkhand, India. It is believed that Maoists are responsible. No deaths or injuries were reported.
06/16/2011: On Thursday, in one of four related attacks, at Imamganj bazaar in Gaya, Bihar, India, around 70 Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) destroyed two mobile towers using improvised explosive devices. The attack resulted in no casualties and was carried out during a 24 hour shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the arrest of a CPI-M leader identified as Jagdish Master (Jagdish Yadav) in Gaya. Members of the CPI-M distributed leaflets and pamphlets and declared to avenge the arrest of Jagdish.
01/15/2011: On Saturday, on the state highway in Yerkad village, in the Dhanora area of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants triggered a low-intensity landmine blast, damaging a police jeep and injuring the driver, Prashant Muktavaram. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
10/18/2011: On Tuesday, in Nengmaldalgre village, East Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, a Garo National Liberation Army commander identified as Dilseng alias Bashish was killed during an armed assault with Combat Battalion for Resolute Action and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commandos. SWAT also recovered an Kalashnikov rifle, a pistol, three magazines, 120 rounds of ammunition, high frequency wireless set and the identity card of the deceased militant. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault but the Garo National Liberation Army was suspected.
06/29/2011: On Wednesday night, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade at the residence of an executive engineer identified as Thokchom Kesho. The grenade failed to detonate resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
03/30/2011: On Wednesday evening around 2000, at Tral in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, three militants dragged a ruling National Conference (NC) activist, Ghulam Mohi Din, from his house and shot and killed him. The victim’s wife, Hassena Mohiudin, was also shot and seriously injured in the attack. According to police, highly reliable sources indicate that Din was killed by Sajad Ahmad (Bale Bale) the divisional commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) outfit in Kashmir and two of his associates. One HM associate was identified as Shabir Ahmad. No group claimed responsibility.
05/27/2011: On Friday night, in Koten village, Nuapada, Odisha, India, in one of two related attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) killed a suspected police informer, Nageswar Majhi, in front of villagers. It is unclear whether or not the victim was shot and killed or beaten to death. Police denied that the civilian was a police informer. The Maoists claiming responsibility, pasted posters near the incident site claiming that the victim was killed for being a suspected police informer and for having applied for Special Police Officer positions.
10/26/2011: On Wednesday evening at 2000, on the staircase of Indian Overseas Bank in Imphal, Manipur, India, four civilians were wounded when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device. The collapsible doors of the Indian Overseas Bank were damaged by the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
06/05/2011: On Sunday night, in Yedaskuhi village, Kurkeda, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) abducted and later shot and killed a civilian identified as Bajirao Madavi believed to be a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/11/2011: On Friday evening at 2100, in East Khasi hills, Shillong, Meghalaya, India, an unidentified militant threw a petrol bomb inside the office of Nongsain Hima, a Khasi daily, a prominent newspaper. A computer operator sustained minor injuries, while two computer sets and a scanner were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/01/2011 (Default date): On Thursday, in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist group (CPI-M) planted a 25 kilogram roadside improvised explosive device targeting police on patrol. Police defused the IED on 09/22/2011 resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/31/2011: On Monday, near Khatkor village in Gumla, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants set fire to a passenger bus, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The militants asked all the passengers to exit the bus before it was set on fire, causing no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) called for a shutdown in five districts. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that PLFI militants were responsible.
06/01/2011: On Wednesday, in the outskirts of Gaya District, Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) organized a 'Kangaroo Court' and beat up two people with heavy wooden sticks, Shyam Sundar Yadav and Vinod Yadav, suspected of leaking vital information about the Maoists to the local police. Shyam Sundar Radav, pleading for mercy, promised not to leak information and is willing to abide my Maoist rules and regulations. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
07/27/2011: On Wednesday afternoon at 1515, in Dibrugarh, Assam, India, suspected Anti-Talks Faction of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA-ATF) militants exploded a grenade near DDR College at Chabua. Four shops were partially damaged, but there were no casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but ULFA-ATF was suspected.
02/01/2011: On Tuesday, in Jagdishpur-Kodari village in Jamui, Bihar, India, over 200 militants raided the village, fired several rounds, injuring three villagers. The specific motive for the attack; however, police suspect that the attack was carried out to protest the killing of eight militants in an encounter with the police and locals on 01/30/2011. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
05/08/2011: On Sunday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) destroyed a 33 KVA electricity transformer when they detonated an improvised explosive device, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The attack resulted in no casualties, but power was disrupted in the Kuakonda, Sukma, Konta and Chintagarh Development blocks in the District. The specific motive for the attack was unknown; however, the Maoists had called a boycott to the elections in the area. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/05/2011: On Saturday evening around 2000, in Koil village in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and injured an activist of ruling National Conference (NC), identified as Farooq Ahmad Sheikh. Sheikh received a bullet injury to the shoulder while coming out of a mosque after offering evening prayers. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/10/2011: A police officer was shot and killed by armed militants in an ambush in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Police had received information that men wanted in connection with an earlier attack were in there area. Upon their arrival, the police officers were ambushed and one was killed. No claim of responsibility was reported.
10/31/2011: Approximately 15 assailants forcefully entered an office of a private construction company and abducted 15 employees by gun-point near Balthar Ghat, Jamui, Bihar, India. According to police, the hostages were taken to a 7-8 kilometer stretch of mountainous terrain between Jamui and Giridih in Jharkhand. The hostages were released on November 5, 2011. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that the attack was carried out by the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
02/05/2011: On Saturday, in an area between Bhamragarh and Laheri in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants set ablaze a road construction vehicle, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
08/25/2011: On Thursday, in the Madanwada area of Karekatta village in Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, a grain trader was shot and killed while he was on his way to a local market. The victim was identified as Vineet Jain (Binu Jain). He was travelling with two teachers and a shoe seller when three Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres intercepted his vehicle. The Maoists are reported to have hijacked Jain's vehicle, asked his companions to leave, and then shot him two times before setting his car on fire. The attack resulted in an unknown amount of property damage to the car and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/30/2011: On Thursday morning, in Puhimal village, Gariaband, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) ambushed a joint team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and District Police. One unidentified militant was killed in retaliatory fire. Four rifles were recovered from the incident site and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. One other militants was arrested nearby following the attack.
04/17/2011: On Sunday night, in Lawadi village, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, militants abducted two people identified as Bishwanath Yadav and Ajay Thakur. On 04/19/2011, the militants shot and killed the two men. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) literature found at the incident site claimed responsibility, saying that the victims were supporters of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a breakaway faction of the Maoists and also that two men were police informers.
01/31/2011: On Monday, at Jhumra Hill in Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants used unknown explosives to blow up a water tank, a pump and a generator meant to supply water to the Central Reserve Police Force, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
05/18/2011: On Wednesday, at a market in Chhindgarh village, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, around 12 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) fired on a Special Police Officer (SPO), Markam Kosa, three times, killing him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/9/2011: Suspected members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) detonated a landmine in Lakkavarapupet, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The blast was targeting a Greyhound security team consisting of 40 members; no was injured in the small blast. The assailants fled following the explosion.
02/12/2011: On Saturday, on Mahipani-Jareikela road in Rangdhipa village, Sundargarh, Odisha, India, militants killed Kandri Lohar, a former Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadre and present day police home guard, and her son. According to police, Kandri was shot three times and her son’s throat was slit. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, police suspect that the attack was carried out in revenge for the killing of three cadres in Saranda forest in Sundargarh. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
07/30/2011: On Saturday evening at 2000, in Rohtas, Bihar, India, over 100 heavily-armed suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist) entered the Banda village and fired at random, killing three people. The Maoists carried out the operation in apparent retaliation to the killing of their top leader and self-styled commander Brinder Rana Yadav recently. No group has claimed responsibility.
01/25/2011: On Tuesday around 1200 noon, in an area between Lumding and Badarpur in Dima Hasao in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, unidentified militants detonated a powerful bomb on a rail bridge near Lower Haflong Bridge. A portion of the tracks was damaged and a goods train was derailed. The specific motive for the attack is unknown, however, the attack occurred on the eve of Republic Day. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
01/30/2011: On Sunday night, at a residence in Chitragadia village in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, more than 15 unidentified militants shot and killed a quarry owner, identified as Baburam Kisku, and injured his sister-in-law. The militants also set fire to a jeep and a bulldozer parked near his home, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The Communist Party of India-Maoists claimed responsibility. Leaflets left at the incident site warned people of similar consequences if they indulged in anti-Maoist campaigns and also cautioned police not to implicate innocent people in false cases.
02/10/2011: On Thursday night around 0200, at Tengrari village in Muzzaffarpur, Bihar, India, in one of three linked attacks, unidentified militants set two trucks on fire. One of the trucks was loaded with paddy while the other was empty. The attack partially damaged both trucks and was said to be carried out in protest against the recent arrest of a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) commander, Nakulji. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
07/20/2011: On Wednesday evening, in Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Maoist rebels attacked a convoy of an approximately 25 vehicles with Congress Party workers. In the attack seven India Congress Party workers were killed and four were wounded. Some of the vehicles were blown up in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. The Communist Party of India (CPI) was suspected of being responsible for the attack.
12/21/2011: Businessman Ratan Saha was kidnapped by suspected members of Adivasi Cobra Militants of Assam (ACMA) in Kokrajhar, Assam, India. In response, locals violently protested the kidnapping and demanded that Saha be released in 24 hours. There were no reports of the outcome of the kidnapping.
04/30/2011: On Saturday night, near the Thummalagudem forest area at Anamtharam village in Pinapaka Mandal, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) Praja Pratighatana faction was killed and two others injured by police during an exchange of fire. The injured militants were identified as P Seshagiri Rao and Seetarama Chary. Reportedly, after receiving information of ten militants holding a meeting in the area; a police party reached the area and asked them to surrender. The militants opened fire on the police leading to an exchange of fire. Police seized two pistols and a country made weapon with seven rounds of ammunition from the incident site. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/11/2011: On Tuesday morning, near Odiapentha village in Narayanpatna block of Koraput, Odisha, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine targeting a vehicle, partially damaging the vehicle. Three civilians, including two officials of the State Agricultural Department, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/12/2011: On Tuesday, in Pilpra village, Palamu, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated an improvised explosive device at the house of a Maoist dissenter, former General Commander Upendra Rai, in order to take revenge of the cadres who disassociated themselves from the group. Reportedly, due to a disagreement with amendments brought to the principles of CPI-M, several Maoists had decided to move out and start their own outfits or join another group. The attack caused damage to the road and an unknown amount of damage to the house. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/24/2011: On Saturday, in Gonahatapadar village, Nabarangpur, Odisha, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants attacked and killed a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) identified as Jagabandhu Maihi and his security officer Prasanta Kumar Patra. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/20/2011: On Monday afternoon, in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) abducted three villagers at gunpoint, identified as Poonam Doga, Hemla Gudia and Semal Laxman. Reportedly, the victims were fishing at a pond two kilometers from the Nayapara Relief Camp near the Raipur District Headquarters when they were taken. No casualties were reported and the status of the hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/14/2011: On Tuesday night, in Chhotebedma village, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, over 100 suspected Communist Part of India-Maoists (CPI-M) raided the house of Communist Party of India (CPI) leader, Mudararam Sodhi, and shot and killed him for being a suspected police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/08/2011: On Sunday, in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, incidents of random firing took place by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) in an effort to disrupt polling for the by-election to Bastar Lok Sabha constituency. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2011: On Friday, in Bandarchua village in Simdega, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants set fire to five JCB machines involved in road construction, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack may have been the result of not paying a levy demanded. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/20/2011: On Wednesday, in Nawada, Bihar, India, a bomb was detonated by unidentified assailants during the first phase of the Bihar panchayat polls. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, and no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/27/2011: On Wednesday, in Rayagada, Odisha, India, two civilians were abducted by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres. The hostages were identified as Dadhi Sikaka, and his brother Lakshman Sikaka. Dadhi was subsequently killed, and Lakshman was severely beaten and released. According to sources, Maoists termed Dadhi an agent of Police and Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL). No group claimed responsibility, although CPI-Maoists are suspected.
05/06/2011: On Friday, at Gomphagunda in Kalimela, Malkangiri, Odisha, India, over 100 suspected members of the Community Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) attacked and ransacked the residence of Special Police Officer (SPO) Sukdev Madi. It is unknown if the attack caused any damages, but resulted in no casualties. The militants looted all the household goods, electronic gadgets and valuables and all the food grains. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Madi had been threatened by the Maoists to quit his job. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/18/2011: On Tuesday evening around 2100, in the Jhapra village of the Belatikri area near Lalgarh in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, in one of two related attacks, around 50 militants using single barrel guns raided the village and forced several villagers out of their homes at gunpoint to march around the village for 10 to 15 minutes and shout militant slogans. Villagers who hesitated were brutally beaten. The militants threatened villagers not to join the Communist Party of India-Marxist rallies. A CRPF patrol responding to the attack ran into an improvised explosive device set by the Maoists and retreated, fearing they were being led into an ambush. At least 17 people were injured in the attack and no damage was reported. In the related attack militants kidnapped and later killed one civilian from a nearby village. The Communist Party of India-Maoist claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/5/2011: Approximately 400 members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) attacked the Hariharganj police station in Palamau, Jharkhand, India. The firefight lasted two hours; there were no reported injuries or casualties.
03/17/2011: On Thursday morning at 1045, on the Balumath-Panki route at the Taal village in Palamu, Jharkhand, India, unidentified armed men used the diesel from a passenger bus to set the bus on fire. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, but resulted in no casualties. The People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) claimed responsibility. A hand written note left at the incident site stated that the bus was targeted because it had run during a 24 hour shutdown. The claim has not been confirmed; however, because it was reported that there was no shutdown called Panki.
11/16/2011: Suspected Maoists killed a village leader in Bhubanpalli village, Malkangiri district, Orissa State, India. Rama Kunja's throat was slit and his body was left within the vicinity of the village. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown; however, the incident occurred on the first day of bandh, which called for the withdrawal of security forces from the region.
08/28/2011: On Sunday night around 0240, in Udalguri, Assam, India, two unidentified militants on a motorcycle fired at the security guard, Bhaben Kalita, at the residence of Rihon Daimari. Daimari is the sitting Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Udalguri constituency. The security guard escaped unhurt in the attack and no other casualties or damages were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/17/2011: On Thursday, in Bodhibigha village in Gaya, Bihar, India, at least 100 unidentified armed militants assaulted and broke the limbs of Janardan Rai, a close political aid of State Legislative Assembly Speaker Udai Narain Chaudhary. Accusing him of being a Police informer, the militants looted the victim's movable belongings, including household utensils, a jeep and a motorcycle, and then demolished the house using explosives. The jeep and motorcycle were subsequently set on fire about six kilometers away, near the Bihar-Jharkhand border. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicles and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
01/08/2011: On Saturday night, in Garra village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants dragged a villager out of his house and shot and killed him. The victim was identified as Jamil Soren who was a former member of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM). Soren had recently joined the Maoist-backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA). No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
06/08/2011: On Wednesday morning around 0930, at Lilong Turel Ahanbi in Thoubal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade at the residence of Mohammad Sanajaoba (Jalil), a senior accountant of the DIC Thoubal. The grenade was later picked up by police resulting in no casualties or damages. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack may have been carried out in connection with monetary demands. No group claimed responsibility.
06/05/2011 (Default date): On Sunday, near Kushaboni forest in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) killed a civilian suspected of being a police informer. Police said both hands of the body, which has yet to be identified, were tied and it bore cut marks around the neck. A poster was recovered from the incident site saying that the killing was in retaliation to the killing of Sashadhar Mahato and that they would not spare anyone involved in the killing of Mahato, be it the Police, Security Force personnel or informers.
05/31/2011: On Tuesday, in Parchha village, Rohtas, Bihar, India, over 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated an improvised explosive device at a government primary school, destroying three out of the seven rooms. The attack resulted in no casualties and after triggering the blast, the Maoists shouted slogans against the Government machinery for using the school buildings and other installations to house Security Forces for anti-Maoist operations. Ajit Mishra, a government school teacher posted at the school, was arrested by police on 06/01/2011 on suspicion of supplying the Maoists with explosives, remote control devices, fuse wire and other equipment used in several explosions in Rohtas and neighboring districts.
05/08/2011: On Sunday, in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, incidents of random firing took place by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) in an effort to disrupt polling for the by-election to Bastar Lok Sabha constituency. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/13/2011: On Tuesday, in Chhattisgarh, Bijapur, India, the head of the village local self-Government institution of Potampalli was abducted by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) and later killed with an unspecified sharp weapon for allegedly being a police informer. The victim was identified as G Surraiyya and his body was recovered on 09/14/2011, on a forest road about 500 kilometers from Raipur. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/02/2011: On Wednesday morning, in a forested stretch near Toanar village in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants shot and hacked to death Nohar Singh, a Salwa Judum (an anti-Maoist vigilante group) leader. The assailants reportedly shot and then chased the wounded leader and hacked him to death with an axe. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
11/2/2011: Members of National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) kidnapped two civilians, including one headmaster from a Government Middle School, in Deomali, Arunachal Pradesh state, India. The two abductees were rescued from Bogapani village jungle on November 4, 2011. The motive behind the kidnapping is unknown.
08/05/2011: On Friday night, in Kedeg Village, Gumla, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) set fire to two unoccupied buses, causing an unknown amount of property damage but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/30/2011: On Sunday, near the Naditola district in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, an unidentified body of a civilian was found dead. The man's head had been crushed by a stone. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault, but Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were suspected.
10/30/2011: On Sunday morning at 0500, in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, Maoist militants beheaded a man in public at Kamaria Village. The man was identified as Sukram Munda. A note left beside the body said that the victim was involved in murder, rape and robbery in the area and that others like him would meet the same fate. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants claimed responsibility by leaving behind pamphlets acknowledging the killing and calling it "justice".
03/14/2011: On Monday evening, in remote Ultapani forest in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, unidentified militants ambushed a convoy of Border Security Force (BSF) personnel with automatic weapons, injuring eight BSF troopers. At least eight other BSF personnel, identified as Bikoy Kumar, S K Sharma, Arabinda Dere, Bolaram Lamba, Santa Ramthree, Naresh Kumar, Kuber Bora, and Hira Singh, were killed in the attack. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants were responsible.
12/4/2011: On the rail line connecting Gomia and Dumri ub Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, an explosive detonated, damaging the railroad. A pamphlet from the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was left at the scene. The attack was in retaliation for the assassination of the CPI-M leader, Kishan Da.
12/5/2011: Maoists set two mobile towers on fire in Ramban village, Jharkhand, India. There were no reported injuries.
02/03/2011: On Thursday, at a private residence in Giddhor in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, militants abducted and later killed a contractor, identified as Asraf Mian, by slitting his throat. The body of Mian was recovered by police from Muhuatand. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibly for this incident. A Maoist pamphlet left at the scene of the incident stated that the contractor was a “pimp” for the government.
03/22/2011: On Tuesday night, at Puri Tola in Marpa village in East Champaran, Bihar, India, over 24 unidentified militants set fire to an Airtel mobile tower, causing an unknown amount of property damage, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility; however, the assailants raised slogans to justify their ideology before escaping. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were suspected as being responsible.
08/15/2011: On Monday, in Mumgaon at Dhanora taluka (administrative unit) in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a teenage boy, identified as Vishnu Amarsingh Dhanliya from Belgaon village, was injured when he tried pulling down a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) banner, triggering an explosion.  The attack resulted in an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, the banner belonged to the Maoists.
12/27/2011: A group of individuals from the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) stormed a police station that was under construction in Geedam, Chhattisgarh, India. After storming the building, they then set off high powered explosives and damaged the station. There were no reports of injuries or deaths.
07/27/2011: On Wednesday, in Golaghat, Assam, India, two supervisors of Diphu-based Macro Construction Company were kidnapped by unidentified militants. The hostages were identified as Hari Barman and Montu Barman. No casualties were reported, and the hostages were released on 07/31/2011. No group claimed responsibility for the hostage taking.
01/21/2011: On Friday night, at Saluka village in Lalgarh, West Bengal, India, militants abducted a Communist Party of India-Marxist youth wing leader, identified as Rabi Mahato, from a football game. Reportedly, Mahato had gone to Saluka village to hand over a football trophy and was taken away by militants. His body was found on the Tentultala Bridge the next morning on 01/22/2011 with his hands and feet bound, his throat cut and three bullet wounds. The Communist Party of India-Maoists claimed responsibility. Maoist posters left at the incident site claimed Mahato was a police informer.
08/18/2011: On Thursday night, in one of two related attacks in Bordanga village, Nayagram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a group of 15-20 suspected Communist Party of India Maoist group (CPI-M) militants attacked the home of Timir Dandapath, a Trinamool Congress (TC) political activist. Reportedly, the militants beat up and shot at the activist and his family members. The militants also went to the home of another TC activist and did the same to his family. It is unknown if the attacks caused any property damage and at least seven people were injured and treated at the hospital. It is unknown how many people were injured in each individual attack and no group claimed responsibility. Police arrested Rajani Barik, a local Communist Party of India-Maoist-(CPI-M) backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) leader, when local TC leader Ujjal Dutta accused the PCPA being behind the attack.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in Dayaldih village in Jamui, Bihar, India, unidentified militants on motorcycles set fire to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Reliance towers, causing an unknown amount of property damage. A villager, identified as Bhim Thakur, raised an alarm and was shot and killed by the militants. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/19/2011: On Tuesday night, in East Chawmanu, Dhalai, Tripura, India, 11 militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) abducted 12 tribal villagers, including two Communist Party if India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders Arun Chakma and Ganja Chakma. Later four kidnapped villagers escaped. Police suspected that the militants took the villagers and traveled to Bangladesh to avoid the police. The militant Atharababu Halam was suspected of leading the militants who kidnapped the villagers. Biswamohan faction of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT-BM) set a ransom notice of $22,300 USD (one million Indian rupees) for the release of eight tribal villagers on 07/20/2011. No casualties were reported. The status of the hostages is currently unknown.
11/27/2011: Approximately 30 members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) attacked a mobile phone tower in Chandauli village, Gaya district, Bihar state, India. The assailants stormed the village, told the guard at the tower to leave site, and destroyed the tower by unknown means, before fleeing into the surrounding forest. Mobile phone service was interrupted in the area. Specific motive is unknown; however, sources indicate that the operator of the tower failed to pay funds to the Maoists.
08/18/2011: On Thursday night, in one of two related attacks in Bordanga village, Nayagram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a group of 15-20 suspected Communist Party of India Maoist group (CPI-M) militants attacked the home of Bhabani Bhaduk, a Trinamool Congress (TC) political activist. Reportedly, the militants beat up and shot at the activist and his family members. The militants also went to the home of another TC activist and did the same to his family. It is unknown if the attacks caused any property damage and at least seven people were injured and treated at the hospital. It is unknown how many people were injured in each individual attack and no group claimed responsibility. Police arrested Rajani Barik, a local Communist Party of India-Maoist-(CPI-M) backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) leader, when local TC leader Ujjal Dutta accused the PCPA being behind the attack.
11/27/2011: Suspected Maoists attacked two young men in Kampumanapakala village, Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The assailants abducted the two youth, accusing them of being police informants, and hacked them to death. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/17/2011: On Saturday afternoon around 1745, in the waiting room of Jai Hospital in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, at least 15 people were injured in an improvised explosive device attack by unidentified assailants. The explosive was a low intensity blast believed to be black in color that was placed in a bag under a bench in front of the reception counter. Forensic experts recovered pieces of battery and wire from the incident site. The windowpanes were damaged in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
05/27/2011: On Friday night, in Kalamidadar village, Nuapada, Odisha, India, in one of two related attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) killed a suspected police informer, Parasaram Majhi, in front of villagers. It is unclear whether or not the victim was shot and killed or beaten to death. Police denied that the civilian was a police informer. The Maoists claiming responsibility, pasted posters near the incident site claiming that the victim was killed for being a suspected police informer and for having applied for Special Police Officer positions.
09/16/2011: On Friday morning, at a police camp at Pamalwaya in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants carried out a flash attack on police, killing Armed Force Constable, P. C. Khalko, who was on duty just outside the camp. Police retaliated from inside the camp, but the Maoists managed to escape. It is unknown if the attack caused any damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/2/2011: In Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a leader of the National Conference was critically injured after being shot by gunmen. The Islamic Movement of Kashmir claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/08/2011: On Sunday, at a temporary gravel mixing plant near Peda Bandirevu village in Dummegedem, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of 30 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants set fire to two hydraulic excavators and a tipper lorry, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The plant was working on road construction for the Bhadrachalam-Venkatapuram main road in Peda Bandirevu. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility; however, the police suspected that Maoists were responsible.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, near a relief camp in the Miratpur area of Mirtur, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, more than a dozen unidentified militants shot and killed a villager, identified as Chugadu, and a former village chief (sarpanch), identified as Chandru. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/15/2011: On Tuesday morning, in the Chauparan area of Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants set fire to ten private vehicles, including three trucks and a bus. The militants also fired at a truck, injuring one driver. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicles and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
12/0/2011: On or around December 7, 2011, a truck was torched by roughly 100 Maoists. The vehicle was traveling towards Bargarh, Odisha, India, when the driver was forced to stop because of a blockade in the road. The driver and his helper were asked to leave the vehicle by the Maoists, and then the truck was set on fire.
11/21/2011: Several heavily armed members of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) abducted the Block Development Officer of West Garo Hills, Prafulla Kumar Boro, at gunpoint from his office in the village of Dadenggre in Meghalaya, India. The group took Boro to an undisclosed location and demanded the removal of government forces from Garo Hills in exchange for his release. The captors gave officials ten days to comply with their demands, but the state government refused. At 9:00am on December 24, 2011, Boro was released unharmed. No ransom was paid to the group and none of the perpetrators were captured.
10/26/2011: On Wednesday, in Churachandpur, Manipur, India, Arun Kumar Jain, 30, was abducted by unknown militants while he was on his way home from his shop to celebrate Diwali. The family received a telephone call demanding a ransom of $29,755 USD (INR 1.5 million) was paid to the abductors, and then Arun would be released from the captors. The family paid the ransom at an undisclosed place at Kanglatongbi. Arun's body was recovered at Heingken village on 10/29/2011. No group has claimed responsibility.
01/27/2011: On Thursday, in the Kothari forest of Chatra, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants planted a roadside improvised explosive device targeting security forces’ vehicles. The 40-kilogram cylinder bomb was defused, causing no casualties or damages. In addition, four landmines weighing 20 kilograms, 35-90 meters of wire and four detonators were also recovered. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/04/2011: On Monday, in Sundargarh, Odisha, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) triggered two improvised explosive devices, blowing up railway tracks between the Rengada and Roxy stations. There were no casualties reported and the extents of the damages are unknown. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack took place during a 24 hour shutdown called by Maoists to protest the arrest of cadres from Saranda forest a week earlier. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/14/2011: Maoists shot and killed Krushna Punji, a tribal ward member of Khuripani village, Odisha State, India. Approximately 25 male and female Maoists came to Punji's house in Khuripani, took him to the outskirts of the village where approximately 100 more Maoists were waiting, and shot him dead. A note was left with the body stating that Punji was exploiting and abusing women and that he was a police informer.
03/04/2011: On Friday night, in Raghuvi village in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, over 50 unidentified armed militants attacked a private construction firm and assaulted the laborers, which included pouring kerosene over the construction supervisor, Pankaj Kumar. The militants also set fire to a tractor, two JCB bulldozers, a pump and a generator, causing an unknown amount of property damage. One thousand bags of cement were also destroyed. An employee of the construction firm identified as Uday Kumar said that the Maoists collected the mobile phones and locked the employees in one room before setting ablaze the machines and vehicles. Reportedly, the attack was carried out in retaliation for the construction firm not paying a levy of INR 10 million (224,265 USD) to the militants. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/28/2011: On Wednesday afternoon, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, a police head constable, Ghulam Mohammad, was shot an killed by unidentified militants. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/07/2011: On Thursday night, in the Peepli-Boorgi village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) killed two people by unknown means on suspicion of being police informers. The victims were identified as Rakesh Goya and Dalsu Pada. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/5/2011:  Rakesh Madavi, a local contractor, was kidnapped from Perivalli village, Maharashtra state, India. Madavi's body was found the next day in a forest near the village. Naxalites are believed responsible; they suspected that Madavi was a police informant, although police deny that Madavi supplied them with any information.
10/17/2011: On Monday, in Sangkai village, Ukhrul, Manipur, India, three Assam Rifles personnel were wounded when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device. The three wounded military personnel were identified as Sudhir, W. Mayunao and Ashini. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
08/15/2011: On Monday morning, at Rania village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) attacked a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp resulting in an exchange of fire. Four Maoists were allegedly injured and taken away by retreating associates. No CRPF personnel casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/01/2011 (Default date): On Thursday, in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, two youths were abducted by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The hostages were taken to the dense forests of Garu in the adjoining Latehar District, where a Jan Adalat (kangaroo Court) was held which declared them guilty of extorting under the name of the CPI-Maoists. On the night of 09/04/2011, the bodies of the youths were found near Baresand bus-stand along the Garu-Mahuatand road. A note was left beside their bodies by CPI-Maoists, claiming the two were found guilty of their crimes.
11/6/2011: Suspected Maoists fired at Trinamool Congress members holding a rally-related meeting in Masangdihi village, West Bengal state, India. One party worker, Rupchand Soren, was shot and injured in the attack. Police were not able to find the assailants; however, they did find several weapons and Maoist posters in the area from where they believed the shots were fired.
02/01/2011: On Tuesday evening, in Sapdhara village in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants abducted a ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) supporter at gunpoint and subsequently killed him later that night. The victim was identified as Baria Soren. Police recovered Soren’s body the next morning with two bullet injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
01/25/2011: On Tuesday, in an unspecified location in Chhattisgarh province, India, militants stopped a bus traveling to Narayanpur and kidnapped a civilian and five policemen of the Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF). On 01/31/2011, the civilian identified as Gulchand was released. According to police, the militants sent a list of demands in exchange for the release of the abducted policemen including suspending their 24-hour operation in the area where the hostages would be released. On 02/11/2011, the policemen were released to social activists of Swami Agnivesh in the forests of Dhoudai in Narayanpur District in the night. No casualties were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoists claimed responsibility.
05/05/2011: On Thursday afternoon, on the State Highway number seven near Tavitola village, Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra, India, militants triggered a landmine blast as a civilian family was travelling from Rajnandgaon District in Chhattisgarh to Chandrapur District for a wedding, on Gadchiroli-Rajnandgaon road. The militants also opened fire on the victims. The deceased were identified as Tarulata Sarkar (70), Pushplata Verma (42), Santosh Verma (45), Aakash Verma (5), Shankari Biswas (30) and driver Rais (28) while the four injured persons were identified as Ishika Das (11), Mita Biswas (40), Mrs. Rai (45), and Manoram Sarkar (28). The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicle and a six foot diameter crater in the road. No group claimed responsibility, but it is suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist) were responsible. According to sources, police recovered Maoist pamphlets from Chhattisgarh indicating that the militants would be targeting civilians in order to obliterate the police force.
03/14/2011: On Monday around 0000 midnight, in Gaya, Bihar, India, in one of three related attacks, over 50 militants set ablaze a generator room of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) private telecom firm after blowing up two mobile towers of two separate firms. Sherghati SDPO Mahindra Prasad Dhanwantri claimed that attack caused no damage to the BSNL generator room. No casualties were reported and the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants claimed responsibility. A note left at the incident site asked the Bihar government to stop the “undeclared execution of the Operation Green Hunt” and “killing innocent Dalits” by naming them as Maoists.
05/23/2011: On Monday evening, in the forests of Sonabed, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, nearly 250 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) ambushed a police patrol, killing nine policemen and causing an unknown amount of property damage. Reportedly, a 10-member police team lead by additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Pawar was attacked while on its way to village Sosing after being informed about militant movement there. Pawar was among the nine officers killed. The specific method of attack is unknown; however some sources indicated that a landmine was used in the attack, while other sources indicate that the militants used firearms and sharp weapons in the ambush. It is possible that the last police officer left alive was taken hostage by the militants during the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday, in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) leader, Mangal Singh Korchami (Diwakar), was allegedly killed by unknown means by suspected Maoists. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, and police are verifying the incident but have not confirmed the attack.
12/17/2011: Members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) destroyed a school by first detonating explosive devices, then using construction machines to demolish the rest in Sarkanta, Bihar, India. The perpetrators were protesting activity by government security forces in the area. No deaths or injuries were reported.
01/09/2011: On Sunday night around 0200, at the Bandamunda railway station in Sundargarh, Odisha, India, 50-60 armed men and women blew up a cabin signal point. Twelve employees who were on duty at the time were detained by the militants and later released after receiving threats. No casualties were reported, but the ASM room was damaged, causing the railway service to be disrupted. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack. Maoist posters left at the incident site opposed the anti-Maoist Operation Green Hunt and the harassment of innocent tribals. The Maoists also demanded the release of Dr Binayak Sen. Six suspected Maoists, including one woman, were arrested from Bisra and Bandamunda in connection with the attack.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in Bandirevu village in Dummugudem, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, around 30 militants blew up the battery room of a Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) cell phone tower. No casualties were reported, but vital equipment in the battery room, including panel boards, were damaged. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
06/24/2011: On Friday night, in Koraput, Odisha, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) abducted four civilians. Three were later released and one, a civilian identified as Sapaura Sirika from Jidipadar village, was killed by having his throat slit. The body of Sirika was recovered on 06/25/2011 at Kalam-Jhadipada chowk, about 90 kilometers Koraput. A Maoist letter recovered from the incident site claimed that Sirika was punished at a ‘Kangaroo court’ for being a police informer.
12/6/2011: A telecommunications tower was set on fire by suspected Maoists in Maduaha, Bihar, India. No deaths or injuries were reported. No claim of responsibility was reported.
12/6/2011: A bridge was destroyed by suspected Maoists using some form of explosives in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, India. The bridge was on National Highway 30 and its destruction caused traffic problems on the important highway. No deaths, injuries or claims of responsibility were reported.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, at Nadal village in Burdwan, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants beat up two Trinamool Congress (TC) activists identified as Nikhil Ghosh and Haripad Ghosh, while they were campaigning for local TC candidates. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/30/2011: On Wednesday night, in Nehalkal village in Korchi, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants kidnapped a civilian, identified as Budharam Pudo, a suspected police informer. The militants took Pudo from his home to a nearby forest where they slit his throat. The body of Pudo was recovered by police on 03/31/3011 along the road, one-and a half kilometers away from the Kotgul police outpost. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/13/2011: On Tuesday morning around 0545, in Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device at the Autonomous District Council (ADC) office located in Sangakpham Bazaar. The attack caused damage to the fencing wall and shattered the window panes of the building, but resulted in no casualties or extensive damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/07/2011: On Monday evening around 2100, at Soothoo near Nowgam railway station in Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants blew up a portion of a railway track. Two meters of the track were damaged, but the attack resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
01/24/2011: On Monday, near Barada village in the Baragada area of Ganjam, Odisha, India, unidentified militants planted 50 kilograms of explosives near a bridge. A bomb squad defused the three landmines, causing no casualties or damages and recovered 25 detonators. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
05/08/2011: On Sunday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, in one of three related attacks, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) triggered a landmine blast in an effort to disrupt polling for the by-election to Bastar Lok Sabha constituency. The attack caused an unknown amount of damage but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/20/2011: On Wednesday, in the Ramsinghdih area of Jamui, Bihar, India, an improvised explosive device was detonated at the house of a village chief, causing an unknown amount of property damage but resulted in no casualties. The attack took place during a protest against polling called by militants. No group claimed responsibility, but it is suspected that the Communist Party of India Maoist (CPI-M) are responsible.
07/27/2011: On Wednesday, in Koraput, Odisha, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-Maoist) planted 25 kilograms of explosives. The explosives were placed in a steel container in a bush apparently targeting security forces. The explosive filled container was found close to the local court and a border security force camp. The explosives did not detonate, and were recovered by security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing, but CPI-Maoist militants are suspected.
06/29/2011: On Wednesday, in Kolambi-Dipatoli village, Gumla, Jharkhand, India, suspected armed men of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) shot and killed Chhotka Gop, a commander of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI). No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in Taal village in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, around 25 militants stopped a jeep carrying contractors and workers and asked them to exit the vehicle before using its fuel to set it on fire. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the jeep, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) militants were responsible.
04/20/2011: On Wednesday morning before 0630, in Lilong Chajing Awang Leikai, Chandel, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a grenade at the residence of superintendent of Chandel District Hospital, Khagembam Radheshyam. The grenade failed to explode and was later defused, causing no casualties or damages. According to family sources, some militants claiming to be Kangleipak Communist Party-Khaba Metei (KCP-KM) faction demanded a payment of $ 22,524 (RS 10 lakh) a few weeks ago. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/03/2011: On Thursday morning, in Dima Hasao (formerly North Cachar Hills), Assam, India, a grenade was recovered from the residence of Mayanon Kemprai, Executive Member of the Dima Hasao Autonomous Council (DHAC). The grenade was successfully defused causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/24/2011 (Default Date): On Sunday, in the Dharmapur Char area near Barpeta, Assam, India, unknown militants detonated an improvised explosive device in the home of a teacher, Abdul Jalil. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, but resulted in no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Jalil received an extortion demand from National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants of $11,262 (Rs 5 lakh). No group has claimed responsibility.
05/08/2011: On Sunday morning, at Khutepal near Bhusaras in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) attacked personnel deployed to provide security during the elections. Security forces returned fire, leading to an encounter in which Special Police Officer (SPO) Ishwar Lal was killed. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/12/2011: On Friday morning, at Hatimura village in Goalpara, Assam, India, a gift wrapped improvised explosive device weighing about three kilograms was recovered from the house of Dhula Ram Rabha. According to police, Rabha is suspected to have links with Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) and Rabha Viper Army (RVA). The attack resulted in no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/16/2011: On Thursday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, around 100 suspected Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) attacked the Kothi Police Station firing at least 500 rounds at the officers. The police officers retaliated firing at least 150 rounds at the rebels. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage but resulted in no casualties. The attack was carried out during a 24 hour shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the arrest of a CPI-M leader identified as Jagdish Master (Jagdish Yadav) in Gaya. Members of the CPI-M distributed leaflets and pamphlets and declared to avenge the arrest of Jagdish.
08/10/2011: On Wednesday, on National Highway 31 at Alomganj village in Dhubri, Assam, India, acting on a tip-off, Border Security Forces (BSF) recovered two three-kilogram improvised explosive devices, one 3.38 revolver and a nine millimeter pistol with seven rounds of ammunition from the Goalpara-bound bus. A hand-written note was also recovered which said these were being sent on an important mission and its success would be good for “us”. The attack resulted in no casualties or damages and the group that claimed responsibility is suspected of being the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). The driver and conductor of the bus were taken into custody in connection with the attack.
12/5/2011: At least 30 Maoists set fire to a communications tower in the district of Malkangiri in Odisha, India. No deaths or injuries were reported, but the tower was destroyed. The tower belonged to a private company and had been destroyed twice in the past.
06/08/2011: On Wednesday, in Kalyan Singh village, Dhalai, Tripura, India, suspected militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) abducted eight tribal villagers. Reportedly, the villagers were abducted while they were working in a field on a hill top and were suspected to have been taken to Bangladesh. No casualties were reported and no demands were given. Three of the captives were later released at an unspecified date and the status of the other hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility.
02/17/2011: On Thursday, in Tilaiya Khurd village in Gaya, Bihar, India, unidentified militants planted an improvised explosive device and attempted to bomb a middle school building. However, the device failed to explode, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
05/04/2011: On Wednesday, in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, 50 militants stormed into the Niliguda area and triggered landmines targeting a gram panchayat (local self-government) office building. There were no casualties, but the ceiling of the two-storied building caved in and the structure suffered extensive damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
12/4/2011: Members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) triggered a landmine on a railroad track between Burwadih and Chhipadohar in Latehar, Jharkhand, India. The explosion damaged twelve feet of track and left a crater five feet deep. There were no reports of injury or death.
06/01/2011: On Wednesday morning, in Lohardaga, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to ten vehicles, including a Bolero, three trucks and two construction machines. The vehicles belonged to Atul Agarwal, who had a contract with HINDALCO to do mining work at the Pakhar Bauxite Mining. The motive for the attack is unknown and the contractor and his staff denied receiving any extortion demands. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the construction vehicles, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/26/2011: On Wednesday morning, at Chadara village in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, around 50-60 militants blew up a middle school using dynamite. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible. One suspected militant, Ram Bali Mehra, was arrested in connection with the attack.
12/23/2011: A local bus was attacked by Maoists in the Palamu district of Jkarkhand, India. Almost all of the passengers were killed. There are no reports on the exact number or the number of wounded.
06/01/2011: On Wednesday afternoon, in Pararia Village, Rohtas District, Bihar, India, heavily armed Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) kidnapped two villagers, Shatrughan Mahato and Shashi Mahato, because they believed that the villagers were passing information about the group's and activities to the police. According to police, the militants killed Satrughan Mahato and released Sashi Mahato on 06/02/2011. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/22/2011: On Friday, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a grenade at the residence of Tera Khuraijam Leirak, a Manipur government official. The grenade failed to detonate, resulting in no casualties or damages. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, sources believe that extortion could be the reason for the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
01/16/2011: On Sunday night, in Dibibaksol village in the Jhargram area of Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants set fire to a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) party office. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
12/5/2011: In the village of Tandwa in the district of Aurangabad, Bihar, India, the police station was attacked by armed members of the Communist Part of India - Maoist (CPI-M). The attack was in retaliation for the assassination of the group's leader. No deaths were reported.
09/20/2011: On Tuesday morning, in Pakuria, Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a local leader of the Trinamool Congress (TC), identified as Lalmohan Mahato, was shot and killed by Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-M) in front of his house. Maoist posters were recovered from near Mahato's body.
06/16/2011: On Thursday morning, in the Duppatota village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, over 150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) carrying rifles kidnapped 100 tribal members from their homes and marched them into the forest. The Maoists also threatened their family members against following them. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Maoists have in the past kidnapped civilians on the pretext of being police informers and killing some of them. No casualties were reported and the status of the hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/18/2011: On Friday night, in Chitwan village in Saran, Bihar, India, over 50 armed militants blew up the house of Pushpapal, a former village sarpanch (President of village level local self-government institution). The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the house, and no casualties because the house was empty at the time of the attack. Police also recovered three landmines from near the house. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
12/4/2011: In Palamu, Jharkhand, India, members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) triggered two landmines, virtually destroying the Hariharganj block office. There were no reports of deaths or injuries, but there was extensive damage to the building and the property inside.
02/23/2011: On Wednesday night, in Dhanghori village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants triggered a landmine at a panchayat (village level local self-government institution) office. The first-floor balcony of the two storey building collapsed in the attack and the structure of the entire building suffered slight damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. According to police, Maoists targeted this same building two months ago.
04/20/2011: On Wednesday night, at Upa-Adhyaksa in Thoubal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a grenade at the residence of the Thoubal Jila Parishad (local level legislative assembly), Phuritsabam Jiten. The grenade failed to explode and was later defused, causing no casualties or damages. The specific motive for the attack was unknown; however, it was suspected the attack may have been carried out for monetary reasons. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/08/2011: On Saturday, at Khordak Iron Bridge in Bishenpur, Manipur, India, unidentified militants placed a seven kilogram improvised explosive device (IED) in a thermos flask on a bridge. The IED was defused before it could detonate, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/9/2011: Unnamed suspects threw grenades at the home of district Congress committee president in Imphal, Manipur, India. While the explosion from the grenade did destroy part of the house, no deaths or injuries were reported. The attack occurred just after a similar attack on the home of the president of the Manipur People's Party. No claim of responsibility was reported.
08/02/2011: On Tuesday morning, in Saranda forests in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, during a routine patrol, two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel identified as Ganesh Kumar Mahato and Shrikant Barik, were injured during an encounter with Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The police claimed that some Maoists also sustained injuries during the encounter, but they did not give a specific number. One source indicates that at least two militants may have been killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/04/2011: On Friday afternoon, at a bus stop in Nayagram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, four unidentified armed militants shot and killed the clerk of Chamarbandh High School and a local leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), identified as Baidyanath Jana. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/01/2011: On Tuesday night, in Mahugayen village in Sonu, Jamui, Bihar, India, in one of two related attacks, around 50 armed unidentified militants blew up the control room of telecom facility using dynamite. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the control room, but resulted in no casualties. It was believed the bombing was in protest against the killing of six Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres on 02/26/2011. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that Maoists were responsible.
04/17/2011: On Sunday night, in Bandra village, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in one of two related attacks, suspected People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) cadres abducted Balram Singh from his house and subsequently fired on and killed him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/17/2011: On Monday, near Barha village in Gaya, Bihar, India, unidentified militants triggered three powerful landmines in quick succession. One Central Reserve Police Force constable, identified as Sanjeev Kumar Singh, was killed and two others were injured. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
05/31/2011: On Tuesday, in one of three related attacks, in an undisclosed village in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to an unknown number of vehicles engaged in sinking ponds, causing an unknown amount of property damage, but resulting in no casualties. A total of 10 tractors and five other machines were set on fire by the militants, and since they were reported cumulatively, all 15 vehicles were captured in the previous attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/30/2011: On Thursday, in Naga United village, Dimapur, Nagaland, India, two people were killed and two others injured and at least 35 thatched houses were damaged in an attack by unidentified gunmen. Reportedly, masked gunmen shot and killed a village council member and one other person before setting fire to 35-50 houses. The militants also beat up several villagers, leaving two others injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/02/2011: On Saturday morning around 0530, on an unspecified road near Gerulia village in Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, four militants on two motorcycles shot and killed a teacher and former supporter of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), identified as Prabodh Mahato. According to police, Mahato was beaten first and then fired on twice at close range. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the Jhargram Squad of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/24/2011: On Sunday morning at 1130, at a residence in the neighborhood of Malanchapally in Malda (formerly English Bazaar), West Bengal, India, a teacher, Aparna Biswas, was seriously injured and later succumbed to her injuries when a parcel improvised explosive device detonated. Reportedly, she received a letter that had “urgent” written on it from an unidentified youth which contained the explosive device. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/05/2011: On Saturday around 0000 midnight, near a house in Peruru village in Vajedu, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, four to six militants hacked to death a Krishnapuram Village Revenue Officer (VRO) identified as Alam Krishaiah. Reportedly, the assailants called him out of his house and stabbed him to death on the outskirts of the village. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
11/14/2011: Suspected Maoists raided a village in Purulia district, West Bengal state, India. The assailants brought two Trinamool Congress workers, Ajit Singh Sardar and Baku Singh Sardar (father and son) to the jungle and shot and killed them. The specific motive behind the incident are unknown.
08/03/2011: On Wednesday night, in Jamui, Bihar, India, in one of two related attacks in Bariarpur village in Jamui, Bihar, India, around 40 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) blew up the private residence of the village chief, identified as Sumitra Devi, damaging a part of it. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/25/2011: On Thursday, in Imphal West, Manipur, India, a hand grenade was lobbed inside the office complex of Planning and Development Authority, located near the gate of 2nd Manipur Rifles at Kabow Leikai. The grenade was defused before it detonated resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/25/2011: On Friday night, in Tilaiya Khurd village under Barachatti police station in Gaya, Bihar, India, in one of two related attacks, around 50 unidentified militants blew up a state-run primary school building using dynamite. No casualties were reported, but three rooms were badly damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. The militants fled the incident site shouting pro-Maoist slogans.
08/29/2011: On Monday, in Kiphire, Nagaland, India, 25-30 members calling themselves the Yimchunger Liberation Front (YLF) kidnapped four Tikhir tribesmen as they were on their way to the Tikhir Tribal Council (TTC) meeting at Kiusum. Reportedly, the tribesmen were abducted from High Bridge between Sikur and Lasukiur when the assailants detained the men traveling in a gypsy (NL-03-1456) and were identified as Kiusum Village Council chairman WK Merenba, L. Mongtsiu, P Yamliu and the driver Venthong. Merenba and Venthong were released that same day at 1630, while Mogtsiu and Yamliu remained in the custody of the abductors. The assailants had blindfolded them and beat them. The Yimchunger Tribal Council has denied any knowledge of the YLFs existence. The status of the remaining two hostages is unknown.
02/03/2011: On Thursday afternoon at 1545, at Kamo Chingjin in Lamlai, Manipur, India, two unidentified armed militants set a passenger vehicle ablaze. The militants hired the Tata Magic vehicle claiming it was needed to transport rice; however, the driver of the vehicle was forced, by gunpoint, to stop and exit the vehicle. The militants fired upon the driver as he ran for his life but he managed to make it to a nearby village unharmed. When the driver, along with villagers, came back to the scene, the militants had fled leaving the burning vehicle. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
01/17/2011: On Monday, at Barada village in the Sorada block in Ganjam, Odisha, India, around 15 militants set fire to four vehicles being used for road construction under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no casualties were reported. The militants also stole a motorcycle from the incident site. The Communist Party of India-Maoist militants claimed responsibility for the attack. Maoist posters recovered from the Barada and nearby Merikote villages threatened the contractor to stop using machines in the construction work. They also demanded that the contractor pay INR 200 (4.50 USD) per day as wages to both male and female workers.
03/07/2011: On Monday, in the Siribala village in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, joint district Special Police Party (SPO) and Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) defused nine improvised claymore mines planted by unidentified militants, causing no casualties or damages. The target of the attack is unknown and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
07/08/2011: On Friday night around 2200, in Chichoda Village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) militants killed a farmer who they suspected of being a police informer. The victim, 34 year old Raju Usendi, was dragged out of his house by at least 15 militants, beaten and then shot at point blank in front of several villagers. No group claimed responsibility.
06/16/2011: On Thursday, in one of four related attacks, at Tilaiya village under Banke bazaar in Gaya, Bihar, India, around 70 Communist Party of India -Maoists (CPI-M) destroyed a mobile tower using an improvised explosive device. The attack resulted in no casualties and was carried out during a 24 hour shutdown called by the Maoists to protest the arrest of a CPI-M leader identified as Jagdish Master (Jagdish Yadav) in Gaya. Members of the CPI-M distributed leaflets and pamphlets and declared to avenge the arrest of Jagdish.
02/14/2011: On Monday, in Gondpalli village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants using bladed weapons killed Munnalal Markam, a Special Police Officer (SPO). No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/30/2011: On Wednesday evening around 1930, near Yairipok Bazar in Thoubal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants using AK47 rifles, opened fire at the residence of Manipur People’s Party (MPP) President, Nimaichand Luwang. The attack caused minor damage to the main gate of the house, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
10/18/2011: On Tuesday, in the Banksole forest in Midnapore, West Bengal, India, members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) group attacked police forces with firearms. No casualties were reported in the armed assault. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault, but the CPI-M was suspected.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in Bendi forest near the Hazaribagh-Chatra Road on the outskirts of Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants planted three can bombs to target police. However, the bombs were defused, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
10/30/2011: On Sunday evening, in the Marangada village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, three masked militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) barged into the house of an alleged police informer, Iswari Tuti, and shot him dead. No group claimed responsibility for the armed assault, although CPI-Maoist militants were suspected.
12/02/2011: A BSNL and an Aircel tower were damaged in Kalia Attala, Odisha, India, when Maoists set them on fire. No official claim of responsibility was reported. There were no deaths or injuries.
03/14/2011: On Monday night, in Kolsegudum village of Aheri taluka in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants stabbed to death the deputy Sarpanch of Repanpalli, identified as Sadashiy Lengure. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
10/16/2011: On Sunday, in Gaijen village of North Cachar, Assam, India, in one of two related attacks, about 30 armed Hill Tiger Force (HTF) militants opened indiscriminate fire on villagers before setting 16 of their houses on fire. A 99-year-old man, Thaishring Daulagupu, was killed in the firing, while three others including a woman were injured. The same armed group also set fire to three more houses in Ziri village later the same day. The HTF claimed responsibility for the attacks.
03/21/2011: On Monday night, in Umarpal village in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, militants shot and killed a civilian identified as Mochi Ram Kureti. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) pamphlets found near the incident site claimed that Kureti was killed because he was seeking people’s support to restart an iron ore mine.
06/04/2011: On Saturday night, at a residence in Burgi village, Etapalli, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) using an unidentified sharp weapon abducted and later killed a civilian identified as Gilla Gawade that they suspected to be a police informer. No group claimed responsibility.
09/27/2011: On Tuesday, in Jhumra hills, Gomja block, Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants ambushed a group of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) soldiers. Two soldiers were killed and four others were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/12/2011: On Friday morning around 0720, at Keirao Litan Mahkong in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified assailants lobbed a hand grenade that was later recovered and defused from the private residential compound of Muhammad Gul (Laija Naha). The attack resulted in no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/30/2011: On Thursday night around 0100, at Thangmeiband Hijam Dewan Leikai in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified assailants threw a Chinese hand grenade at the residence of a businessman identified as Longjam Jibankumar. The grenade failed to detonate resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2011: On Friday night, in one of two related attack, in Silwalia village, Gaya, Bihar, India, over 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) raided the Siwalia and Bela villages and abducted three suspected police informers, identified as Shohail Ansari, Nehal Ansari, and Nagvir Yadav. It is unclear how many hostages were taken from each village. The militants also beat up an undetermined number of villagers during the attack when they resisted. One of the villagers identified only as Ansari was later released and the status of the other two hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/06/2011: On Sunday morning, on Highway Nine in Kalaboni, Jhargram, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants set a truck carrying sponge iron on fire. The militants also dug up and blocked the road with trees. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicle and road, but caused no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it is suspected that the Peoples’ Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) was responsible.
06/27/2011: On Monday around 0000 midnight, at Rangamati village in Dhabatand, Giridih, Jharkhand, India, around 12 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to two tractors and a bulldozer belonging to a Kolkata-based construction company. According to police, the attack was carried out because the construction company refused to pay extortion money demanded by militants. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage but it is estimated that the attack resulted in $ 111,501 (Rs 50 lakh) in damages. The militants also beat up the local laborers and construction workers. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/02/2011: On Saturday night, near the Doipang Railway Station in Udalguri, Assam, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device on railroad tracks, causing ten wagons of a goods train to derail and badly damaging eight wagons. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/8/2011: An explosion did damage to a water tank outside of a government building in Wokha, Nagaland, India. The building held the offices of a number of government officials. No deaths, injuries or claim of responsibility was reported.
12/4/2011: Ten police officers and a civilian were killed when a landmine detonated under/near a passing convoy in Latehar, Jharkhand, India. While the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the attack, it denies that it was targeting Member of Parliament Inder Singh Namdhari's convoy. The CPI-M stated that the attack was in retaliation for the assassination of its leader, Kishan Da.
10/16/2011: On Sunday, in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed a civilian after accusing him of being a police informer. The victim's hands were tied at the back and his throat was slit. A Maoist poster found near the body described him as a 'police informer'. The body was disposed in the area near a railway cabin. No groups claimed responsibility
05/03/2011: On Tuesday night, in East Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, three suspected militants of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) abducted a trader at gunpoint, identified as Kanella Sani. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and the status of the hostage is unknown.
06/04/2011: On Saturday, in an unspecified location in Nagaland, India, a National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) militant identified as Nechizo of the armed wing was killed by a Naga National Council (NNC) member. No group claimed responsibility.
05/02/2011: On Monday, in Ramnagar village, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) detonated a landmine targeting a jeep full of police officers, causing an unknown amount of property damage. Three policemen were injured in the blast and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/07/2011: On Thursday night, in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, militants of the Communist Party of India- Maoists (CPI-M) kidnapped two civilians from their village. The two civilians have been identified as Dileep Singh and Bittu Singh. The militants thought the two people were police informers and brought them before a Jan Adalat' (people's court), where they were sentenced to death. Militants then slit the throats of two civilians three days later on 07/10/2011. No group claimed responsibility.
07/07/2011: On Thursday night, at Topasil village in Rayagada, Odisha, India, in one of two related attacks, 50 armed Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoists) abducted a former local government employee who worked for the Kashipur Block identified as Sashi Majhi from his home. Majhi was later stabbed to death and his body was recovered the next morning close to Basangmali forest. Maoist posters left at the incident site claimed that the victim was killed for being a police informer. Maoists of the Kashipur-Niyamgiri Area Committee are believed to be responsible for the attack.
08/03/2011: On Wednesday night, in one of two related attacks in Bariarpur village in Jamui, Bihar, India, around 40 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) blew up the residence of a villager identified as Ashok Yadav, destroying the house. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/21/2011: On Wednesday morning, in the forests of Aamed in Raipur District, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) ambushed a police search team returning from its patrol. CPI-Maoists reportedly knew about their return route, and fired on the policemen. Two officers were injured as a result. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/08/2011: On Sunday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) attempted to blow up an undetermined number of vehicles in an effort to disrupt polling for the by-election to Bastar Lok Sabha constituency. It is unknown if the attack caused any damages, but the attack resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/20/2011: On Thursday, on the outskirts of Badejharkatta village in Badhgaon area in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, militants killed a villager, identified as Ramsu. The Communist Party of India-Maoists claimed responsibility. A poster stuck to his clothes accused him of being a police informer. The Maoists also threatened villagers with similar consequences if they supported the administration.
07/06/2011: On Wednesday morning, in Pardhiyapali village, Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh, India, around 30 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants attacked a police team conducting a combing operation near the village. No police casualties were reported, but an unknown amount of militants were wounded in retaliatory fire. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Police recovered an  SLR rifle from the incident site.
08/16/2011: On Tuesday, at Ghodai Marg in Tirkanar forest in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) opened indiscriminate fire on a contingent of state policemen and Special Task Force (STF) personnel who were on anti-Maoist operation in Tirkanar. One STF member and four Maoists were killed, and it is possible that a few other STF members were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/18/2011: On Friday, in Mogahataburu village in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants blew up a water pump, causing an unknown amount of property damage but resulting in no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it was believed the bombing was to protest the ongoing operation against militants in Saranda forest. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
10/07/2011: On Friday, in Bastar region, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants placed a landmine that detonated and killed four paramilitary troops traveling on the road to Jagdalpur town. Several troops were also injured and their vehicle was badly damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the CPI-M was suspected.
08/01/2011: On Monday morning around 0500, in one of two related attacks, near railway bridge pillar number 228/1 between Salakati and Kokrajhar, Assam, India, a railway patrolling party detected a 1.5 meter long damaged piece of railway tracks by suspected Pro-Talks Faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-PTF) militants using a gas cutter. Primary investigations revealed that railway tracks measuring about two meters were removed from the tracks. The attack took place during a 48-hour general strike called by NDFB-PTF seeking the Centre's discussion with the outfit for the creation of Bodoland. The attack resulted in no casualties or damages to any trains and no group claimed responsibility for the event, but NDFB-PTF militants are suspected.
11/1/2011: Six Maoists set fire to a cell tower belonging to BSNL in Lammasingi, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The control box was damaged and service was interrupted as a result of the fire. The assailants left leaflets the area, calling on the people to fight against the state for bauxite mining. There were no reported injuries as a result of the incident.
11/3/2011: Suspected members of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) kidnapped Alom Hussain, an engineer, as he was traveling between Karigaon and Gourang, Assam state, India. Two assailants on a motorcycle stopped the car carrying Alom Hussain and another man, kidnapped Alom Hussain, leaving the other man behind. Specific motive is unknown; there were no demands made for his safe return.
08/24/2011: On Wednesday morning, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, four suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres killed a congress leader and Janpad (administrative division) member, identified as Bhima Ram Madkam, at his residence in Neelavaram village. Bhima was on the Maoist hit-list. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/27/2011: On Tuesday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants blew up a section of railway tracks. No casualties were reported and the attack caused an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/27/2011: On Saturday morning, under a bridge on a road near Pilpilo More in Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, police recovered five landmines weighing about five kilograms each planted by suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M). A bomb disposal squad later destroyed the explosives resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/27/2011: On Wednesday, in Saran, Bihar, India, a group of armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) blasted a tower and control room of a private telecom operator. Around 20 Maoists surrounded the tower, held the private security guard captive and triggered a dynamite blast to blow up the tower and control room. No group has claimed responsibility, but CIP-Maoists are suspected.
01/21/2011: On Friday night around 2200, in the Telipati area of Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated a powerful bomb, damaging eight houses and injuring one woman. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Kangleipak Communist Party-Lalheiba (KCP-L) militants were responsible. Seven KCP-L activists were arrested in connection with the blast. Two of the suspected militants were identified as Th Arun and Ksh Asalata Devi.
02/06/2011: On Sunday, in the Bagmara area of Kokrajhar, Assam, India, unidentified militants killed a National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militant, identified as B Thukang. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
05/05/2011: On Thursday evening 1940, in Imphal West District, Manipur, India, unidentified gunmen fired two to three rounds at the gate of the Canchipur Catholic School. There were no casualties or damages reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/14/2011: On Monday afternoon around 1500, in the Morpalli forests of Bastar, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, two Koya Commandos (Chhattisgarh Police Unit) and a Chhattisgarh Police Constable were killed and seven others were injured in an encounter with suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants. At least one militant was killed and police reported injuring at least 30 others. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
02/16/2011: On Wednesday afternoon, in K Gumma block in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, militants kidnapped R. Veenil Krishna, District Collector of Malkangiri District. On 02/24/2011, Krishna was released unharmed in exchange for the release of at least five imprisoned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible.
02/05/2011: On Saturday evening, at the Piperkhari-Gauritola Road under construction in Piperkhari village, Deori, Gondia, Maharashtra, India, 30 to 40 unidentified militants set ablaze a road construction vehicle. The militants broke the fuel tank of the vehicles and set it on fire after pouring the diesel on it, causing an unknown amount of property damage but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
09/05/2011: On Monday night, in Jatindra Roajapara in Dhalai, Tripura, India, suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) kidnapped two people, identified as Birkumar Reang and Pranay Tripura, at gunpoint. According to police, the militants issued extortion notices to the villagers a few days ago. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and the status of the hostages is unknown.
05/17/2011: On Tuesday, in Rairda forest at Burudih village in Saraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand, India, members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) opened fire on security forces patrolling in the area. The Maoists retreated when security forces returned fire. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/05/2011: On Monday night, near Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) attacked a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp and set it on fire using Kerosene. The structure of the camp was destroyed and the loss was estimated to be around $104,913 (INR 5 million), but it resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/8/2011: Approximately 300 Maoists attacked a security forces camp in Cone village, Jharkhand state, India. The temporary camp, housing approximately 100 CRPF members, Jharkhand Jaguars and District Armed Police, had been set up the day previous in an old primary school building. The assailants attacked with automatic rifles and landmines; the ensuing firefight lasted for four hours. Seven security personnel were wounded in the attack; there were no reported injuries or casualties amongst the Maoists.
02/21/2011: On Monday night, in Nungthar village in Ukhrul district, Manipur, India, unidentified militants from a suspected rival group detonated a bomb, injuring two suspected National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) cadres. One of the two injured in the blast was identified as Philip, a resident of Lungphu village in Ukhrul district while the other’s identity could not be ascertained. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday morning, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants entered the office of the Youth Affairs and Sports Department at Khuman Lampak stadium and set fire to work, training and financial documents in the Establishment Section and the accounts department. The militants also set fire to two Bolero jeeps that were parked in the Youth Affairs and Sports Department garage. An unknown amount of material damage was inflicted on the office and the two jeeps in the attack, but resulted in no casualties. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/16/2011: On Wednesday, between Raidihi and Nuagaon in Sundargarh, Odisha (formerly Orissa), India, a joint security patrol of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Special Operations Group (SOG) recovered and defused two landmines weighing about 10 kilograms each. The attack caused no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
06/30/2011: On Thursday evening 2130, at Rambhadrapara village in Natunbazar, Tripura, India, five suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants abducted six people. It is suspected that the hostages were taken into Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh; however, this information has not been confirmed. Reportedly, heavily armed militants raided the residence of Kulednra Reang, a government employee and former All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) militant, and abducted Reang and four others identified as Khagendra Reang, Bipadjoy Reang, Karanjoy Reang and Nabajoy Reang. The militants later abducted Golamani Chakma while the militants retreated. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, according to police, the NLFT served the villagers a “tax” notice in which they refused to pay. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. The status of the hostages is unknown.
04/20/2011: On Wednesday, in Katihar, Bihar, India, one Mukhiya candidate was shot and killed by unidentified militants. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/08/2011: On Friday, on National Highway 37 in Sivasagar, Assam, India, acting on a tip-off, police recovered from the Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) bus bound for Jorhat. The improvised explosive device, weighing two kilograms, was recovered from an unclaimed school bag. The attack resulted in no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility. Police detained the driver and conductor of the bus in connection with the attack.
02/01/2011: On Tuesday, at the Kshetri Bengoon residential compound in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade at the residential complex of a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, A.R. Khan. The grenade was successfully defused causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
10/20/2011: On Thursday, in Banghugaon, Koraput, Odisha, India, a group of armed suspected Maoists abducted Krishna Pidika. Pidika was a supporter of CMAS. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the hostage taking, but the Communist Party of India-Maoist group was suspected of being responsible. The status of the hostage is unknown.
04/15/2011: On Friday afternoon at 1430, on the Imphal-Ukhrul road near Rehang village in Ukhrul, Manipur, India, unidentified militants ambushed a convoy belonging to Wungnaoshang Keishing, a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Phungyar Constituency. Six police officers and one civilian were killed and six others were injured. Keishing escaped unhurt. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants were responsible.
06/24/2011: On Friday night, at Upadli village in Dhanora, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a civilian identified as Shrikant Telange was abducted and later shot and killed by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) for allegedly being a suspected police informer. The body of Telange was recovered near Malewada on 06/26/2011. A Maoist note was recovered from the incident site claiming that the victim was a police informer.
02/12/2011: On Saturday night, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, a group of eight to 10 armed militants abducted a local leader of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), identified as Rameshwar Bag, from his house. The militants later shot and killed Bag in a forest a few meters away from his house in Beliabera village, Jhargram. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) posters left at the incident site claimed responsibility, stating that the victim was given capital punishment for acting as a police informer.
05/17/2011: On Tuesday morning around 1000, at Tujjar Sharief in Sopore, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified assailants attacked and killed a police officer on leave, identified as Mohammad Shafi Dar. Reportedly, Dar was fired on while he was waiting for a bus, sustaining an injury to his leg. When Dar tried to escape, a militant chased him and shot him at close range, killing him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/24/2011: On Wednesday evening around 2000, in Dhangri village in Jhargram, Medinipur, West Bengal, India, 10-12 cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) shot point blank range and killed political activist of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TC) party, identified as Rabindranath Mishra. This is the first time, after Mamata Banergee's government came to power in the state on 05/20/2011, that a TC activist was killed by the Maoist. The Maoist had alleged that the Janajagaran Manch, an anti-Maoist platform set up by the TC, has been thwarting the democratic rights of the tribes.
05/17/2011: On Tuesday afternoon around 1700, at Hajam Mohalla in Wadoora, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and injured an electoral candidate, Mohammad Maqbool Bhat. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2011: On Friday night, at Dalia village in Medininagar, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants kidnapped a teacher, identified as Ismail Ansari, and four other villagers. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Maoists were responsible. The status of the hostages is unknown.
03/19/2011: On Saturday night, in Kanaudha village in Gaya, Bihar, India, unidentified militants kidnapped three civilians. On 03/20/2011, the bodies of two of the abducted victims, including the son of a village panchayat (local level government) leader, were recovered near a drain in the village bearing multiple bullet wounds. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible. Maoist literature was also recovered from the incident site. The status of the third hostage is unknown.
01/10/2011: On Monday night, at Adaba in Gajapati, Odisha, India, unidentified militants set a truck on fire causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/14/2011: On Monday, at the Mosanga village in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in a series of encounters lasting until 1630, a small group of eight to 12 suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) led by Kundan Pahan of Platoon 39 fired on security forces. No casualties were reported. Reportedly, a group of 50 militants fled to the Mosanga village after attacking security forces in the Jorabeda forest, where more security forces were waiting for them. After another two hour encounter ensued, the militants split up into groups of eight to 12 in which three more encounters ensued. According to sources, over 1, 500 rounds were fired by security forces and over 50 explosives were detonated by the militants in total. The encounter caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
09/19/2011: On Monday, in Gopnar village in Bhamragad tehsil (revenue unit), Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, a civilian, suspected to be a police informer, was abducted and shot by the Maoists. The victim was identified as Borra Vidpi. No groups claimed responsibility, but the Maoists are suspected in the abduction.
07/23/2011: On Saturday night, in Narayanpana, Koraput, Odisha, India, suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI) group killed a tribal youth that was suspected of being a police informer. The victim was identified as Suka Nachika. Nachika was tied up and his throat was slit with a bladed weapon. No group claimed responsibility, but the Communist Party of India was suspected.
03/14/2011: On Monday morning around 0645, in the Jorabeda forest in Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in one of six related attacks, unidentified militants fired upon Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, injuring two. The encounter lasted for nearly two hours before the militants disappeared in the forests towards the nearby Mosanga village. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants led by Kundan Pahan of the Jharkhand Regional Military Commission (Platoon 39) were responsible.
12/18/2011: A bomb detonated inside the Congress Youth Forum in interior Thoubal district, damaging the building. The district is in Manipur, India. No deaths, injuries or claims of responsibility were reported.
02/22/2011: On Tuesday, at Chatti village in Chintur, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, unidentified militants set ablaze a thatched hut store room at a stone crushing plant, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/14/2011: On Thursday evening at 2030, in Salpara area in East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, India, suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebels threw an improvised explosive device at a petrol pump. The explosion damaged the window pane of the petrol pump cash counter, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
05/03/2011: On Tuesday, in the Sataki forest area near Silli in Ranchi District, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) ambushed security forces on a search patrol and injured one Deputy Superintendent of Police identified as Ananad Joseph Tigga. No group claimed responsibility.
08/01/2011: On Monday night, in Banka, Bihar, India, 10-12 Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-Maoist) kidnapped five people from a paddy field at Phulhara village, adjacent to the dense Karmatand-Hathia Jharna forest area. The Maoists released three of the hostages before killing the remaining two. The bodies of Lekhu Yadav, a former Maoist, and his nephew Manoj Yadav were recovered on 08/02/2011. Lekhu’s throat had been cut and his nephew’s body bore bullet wounds. Reportedly, Lekhu left the outfit nearly three years ago and the Maoists suspected that Lekhu was working as a Police informer and held him responsible for the arrest of some of their comrades in the past. A handwritten leaflet left at the incident site claimed responsibility for the attack, accusing both of the deceased as being police informers.
10/16/2011: On Sunday, in Ziri village of North Cachar, Assam, India, in one of two related attacks, about 30 armed Hill Tiger Force (HTF) militants set fire to three houses. This attack came after an earlier attack the same day in the Gaijen village where the same armed group set fire to 16 houses and opened indiscriminate fire on villagers. The HTF claimed responsibility for the attacks.
08/01/2011: On Monday, near a barber shop in Sanghakpam Bazaar in Imphal East, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device attached to a scooter at a busy market, killing five people and injuring eight others. Four of the victims were identified as Jawahir Thakur from Bihar, his son, Muna and Th Neha and Philaso, both locals. The barber who was killed is yet to be identified. Several booths in the market place, including a barber shop, were damaged in the powerful blast. The chief minister of Manipur, Okram Ibobi Singh, stated on 08/26/2011 that the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) was responsible for the attack; however, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) denied responsibility for the attack.
09/27/2011: On Tuesday, in South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, heavily armed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants ambushed a police patrol. The ambush led to a heavy exchange of fire, but no casualties were reported. Police were conducting a road opening and area dominance operation against militants when the incident occurred. While fleeing, the GNLA militants lobbed an improvised explosive device at police which failed to explode. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, the group was reportedly led by GNLA area commander Baichung Momin and his deputy Eudo Ch Momin (Cellopa).
11/16/2011: Members of Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) triggered a landmine in Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The explosion was targeting a tractor transporting a generator and water tank to Saryu picket for Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. The tractor driver was injured in the explosion and the tractor and generator were badly damaged. CRPF personnel following the tractor briefly engaged in a firefight with the assailants; there were no reported injuries.
06/27/2011: On Monday morning, on Srinagar-Leh National Highway in the Najwan forest area of Kangan, Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and killed Mohammad Yaqoob Kasana, an employee of Irrigation and Flood Control Department (IFCD). No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/20/2011: On Sunday, in Kodakhori village in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, three armed militants entered into a house and shot and killed Sampat Vyas, a local trader. He was killed after being accused of being a police informer. Police recovered leaflets left at the incident site by Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claiming responsibility.
03/21/2011: On Monday night, in the Gariaband forested area in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants killed a Forest Department Deputy Ranger, identified as Madhusudan Patil. Reportedly, three to four militants took Patil from his residence and shot him at a culvert a half a kilometer from his house. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/15/2011: On Friday night, at Karpora in Pakherpora, Charar-e-Sharief, Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a woman candidate for Panchayat (local level self-government institution), identified as Hasina Begum. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
08/17/2011: On Wednesday morning, at Mamang Leikai under Lamlai Police Station in Imphal, Manipur, India, police recovered a bomb from inside the gate Mongjam Poireilemba. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, Mongaim may have been a political candidate, therefore the attack could have been politically motivated. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/26/2011: On Wednesday night, at Jihuli panchayat (village level local self-government institution) in East Champaran, Bihar, India, a group of six unidentified militants raided a farm house and shot and killed a village sarpanch (president/head of gram panchayat). The victim was identified as Shivji Singh alias Shivchandra Prasad Singh. The militants also assaulted Singh’s nephew and some other unidentified people who were at the house. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
05/25/2011: Maoists detonated explosives at a government-run school in Tilaiya Khurd village, Gaya, Bihar, India. The blast destroyed the building. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
05/17/2011: On Tuesday night, at Bandipore in Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified gunmen using automatic weapons fired on the residential guard post of former Bandipora Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) and ex-Minister, Usman Majeed. A brief gun-battle ensued, resulting in an unknown amount of property damage and no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/10/2011: On Tuesday afternoon, in Sopore, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified gunmen using a pistol shot and wounded a Sarpanch candidate in the leg. The victim, identified as Ghulam Mohiuddin Chopan, was fired on at close range near his house at Machipora in Zainageer. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/09/2011: On Monday, in Sohdag village, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, about 20 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) using petrol set fire to four tractors to protest the arrest of three group leaders in Bihar. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/11/2011: On Monday evening at 2000, on the Pratappur-Bourasharif main road in Chatra, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) dug seven huge ditches in a one kilometer radius and destroyed two major roads. The incident lasted four hours and according to police, four ditches were created between Rajpur-Nawadih village, two between Satbahini and Naini and one at Madhania village. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/7/2011: A group of Maoists attacked a road building site near Valajangi village, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The assailants set fire to a large earth-moving machine that had been used for laying the road. The contractor of the building site had been warned by the Maoists to halt the project; when he refused to do so, they attacked the equipment.
05/29/2011: On Sunday, in Kitatsoti village, Garhwa, Jharkhand, India, suspected Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) militants set fire to a truck, causing an unknown amount of property damage to the truck. According to police, the militants also beat up the driver of the truck. No group claimed responsibility.
06/24/2011: On Friday night, in Bedlangmari village, Kokrajhar, Assam, India, two suspected militants of the anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were shot and killed by security forces during an exchange of fire. No security forces were wounded in the attack and one of the ultras has been identified as Sanjib Basumatary. Two nine millimeter pistols, four magazines, 14 live rounds, fired cases and a grenade were recovered from the encounter site. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/02/2011: On Saturday, near Rongshuli village in East Guwahati, Assam, India, unidentified militants using automatic weapons killed three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and injured four others in an ambush. The deceased personnel were identified as Havaldar Devendra Shah, Mithu Singh and a constable Dilip Kumar. No property damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident, but it was suspected that Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers (KPLT) militants were responsible.
10/07/2011: On Friday, in Subung village, in the Tamenglong district of Manipur, India, seven militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah were killed and six others wounded when a group of Zeliangrong United Front militants ambushed them. The Zeliangrong United Front claimed responsibility for the attack in a report to local media.
06/28/2011: On Tuesday morning, at Madhuban More between Giridih-Dumri Road in Giridih, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) shot killed Sunil Munda, a former highly ranked Tritya Prastuti Committee (TPC) militant of the Maoist firing squad led by Suresh. According to some police sources, Munda wanted to leave the group following a dispute over distribution of extortion money among the ranks. However, other police sources said that pamphlets recovered from the incident sight claimed that Munda was a police informer.
04/16/2011: On Saturday shortly after 0000 midnight, between the Peddamusaleru and Kurnapalli villages in Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants sabotaged local transport infrastructure by digging up a section of newly-laid road, causing an unreported amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack coincided with the second day of a 48-hour shutdown called by the Maoists. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
05/03/2011: On Tuesday night, in Monger village, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, suspected members of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) on three motorcycles opened fire on police. Reportedly, upon information that TPC militants were in the area and planning an attack, police conducted a raid in which the suspected cadres opened fire on the police personnel, resulting in no casualties. Four TPC cadres, Sukhdev Bhagat, Indradev Ganju, Khusihal Lohra of and Sanjay Oram were arrested during the raid and one rifle, one carbine, 11 live cartridges, and three mobile phones were recovered from the incident site. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/7/2011: A civilian was injured when unknown militants threw a grenade at passing security forces on the highway in Bijehara, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The militants missed their target and the grenade blew up on the roadside, injuring the one civilian. No claim of responsibility was reported.
05/25/2011: On Wednesday afternoon at 1320, in New Delhi, Delhi, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device near the car of Rajat Jain at gate number seven outside the Delhi High Court, damaging the vehicle and at least two other nearby vehicles. The attack resulted in no casualties and no group claimed responsibility.
01/16/2011: On Sunday, in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants kidnapped a newly elected member of Taal panchayat (village level local self government institution) from his home. The victim was identified as Kishore Singh. No casualties were reported and the status of the hostage is unknown. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
12/8/2011: Six civilians were wounded when they were attacked by men with sharp weapons in Jagun, Assam, India. The perpetrators claimed to be members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). No deaths were reported.
01/17/2011: On Monday night, at Khaerboni village in Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants detonated two landmines at a building housing a self-help group, destroying the two-story building. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist militants were responsible.
08/01/2011: On Monday morning around 0930, in Kesamundi forest of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, at least two suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants were killed in retaliatory fire when a group of militants ambushed joint combing team of the District Force (DF), Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) and the Special Task Force (STF). The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the militants have called for a shutdown to protest police offensives against them and they have also opposed the establishment of an army training camp in the Bastar region. No security force casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
09/27/2011: On Tuesday night, in Koraput, Odisha, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants killed a civilian. The victim was identified as Mishra Khosia, and he was found lying in a pool of blood with his throat slit. The victim was a suspected police informer. The militants also set fire to two four-wheelers resulting in no additional casualties and no damages. CPI-Maoists left a letter near the body claiming responsibility for the attack and warning other police informers that they would meet a similar fate.
04/17/2011: On Sunday evening at 1815, in Thangmeiband area in Imphal West district, Manipur, India, a hand grenade exploded at the residence of the Superintendent Engineer of the Irrigation and Flood Control Department (IFCD), Soibam Dhanabir Singh, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/26/2011: On Wednesday night at 2230, in Imphal, Manipur, India, an unidentified person launched a hand grenade at the Canchipur residence of Public Work Department (PWD) Chief Engineer, M. Lokendra Singh. One 7th Manipur Rifles battalion personnel and a driver sustained injuries in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
03/30/2011: On Wednesday evening around 1800, at Kwakeithel Thiyam Awang Leikai in Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade at the house of a Primary School headmaster, Laishram Ratan. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the house, but the headmaster was injured. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
03/01/2011: On Tuesday evening around 2030, in Garhi village in Jamui, Bihar, India, in one of three linked attacks, over 100 militants set ablaze three jeeps of the irrigation department and demolished the office building of the irrigation department with bulldozers. Reportedly, the militants brought four JCB bulldozers from a private road construction firm and bulldozed three government buildings, including the irrigation office, a two-storey school building and an inspection bungalow of the water resources department. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the jeeps, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
08/16/2011: On Tuesday evening at 1930, at Naranseina under Moirang Police Station in Bishenpur, Manipur, India, unidentified armed assailants detonated a hand grenade near the house of Meisnam Shamu, resulting in an unknown amount of property damage but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/1/2011: Approximately 50 Maoists stormed the offices of a construction company in Balthara village, Bihar province, India. The assailants abducted 15 people, including laborers, employees of the firm, and villagers. The captives were released on November 5, 2011; there were no demands made.
12/17/2011: Suspected members of the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) fired on the local Autonomous District Council's office in Kangpokpi, Manipur, India, while the chief minister was inside. It is believed that they were protesting the fact that a Sadar Hills district had not been created. No one was killed or injured in the attack.
03/21/2011: On Monday around 1200 noon, in the Williamnagar area of East Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, more than five unidentified militants using automatic weapons opened fire on a police convoy, causing an unreported amount of damage, but resulted in no casualties. The police convoy was escorting Resubelpara Civil Sub Divisional Officer, Ram Singh, who was investigating the alleged fake encounter in which a villager, Washington Marak, was killed at Rongrekgre village in East Garo Hills. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants were responsible.
12/16/2011: Two road construction vehicles were damaged in an attack by suspected members of Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) near the village of Alubaka, Andhra, India. The perpetrators used gasoline to set the tipper truck and hydraulic excavator on fire. They also left a note demanding that all construction stop immediately. No deaths or injuries were reported.
07/07/2011: On Thursday night, at Sanmaturu village in Rayagada, Odisha, India, in one of two related attacks, 50 armed Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoists) abducted a former local government employee who worked for the Kashipur Block identified as Kailash Majhi from his home. Majhi was later stabbed to death and his body was recovered the next morning close to Basangmali forest. Maoist posters left at the incident site claimed that the victim was killed for being a police informer. Maoists of the Kashipur-Niyamgiri Area Committee are believed to be responsible for the attack.
04/07/2011: On Thursday around 0030 midnight, on the Sankh River near Mariumtoli in Gumla, Jharkhand, India, a group of 20-25 militants set fire to seven machines including five water pump machines a backhoe loader and a tractor, used for bridge construction. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the machinery, but resulted in no casualties. Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) left behind a note protesting against the provincial government's construction work in the area and took responsibility for the attack. The militants also threatened to kill the workers if they informed police of the attack.
03/12/2011: On Saturday night, in the jungles of Wangezari phata in Etapalli tehsil, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a civilian, identified as Santosh Gulab Mishra. According to police, Mishra was a mentally challenged person that had been missing from his home in Sonai village in Madhubani, Bihar, for the last five months and had been roaming in Etapalli tehsil. Police sources said that the militants tortured Mishra and chopped off his hands before shooting him. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
03/02/2011: On Wednesday evening, in Dima Hasao (formerly North Cachar Hills), Assam, India, unidentified militants hurled a grenade at the residence of Subrata Hojai, the Executive Member of Dima Hasao Autonomous Council (DHAC). The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the residence, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
03/12/2011: On Saturday, in Bara village in Palamu, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants attacked a group of Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TCP) militants. A child student, identified as Ajay Yadav, was killed by a stray bullet while standing at the doorsteps of his home. No other casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/13/2011: On Tuesday night around 2300, in the Shiekhpura market in East Champaran District, India, around 12 Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) raided the clinic of Rajesh Kumar while he was sleeping and dragged him to a nearby paddy where he was shot at point-blank range. The specific motive for the attack is unknown for according to police, Kumar was a confidante of the Maoists and had been their attending doctor for several years. Some police sources however suspect that the attack was carried out over extortion demands; while the North Bihar West Zonal Committee of the CPI-M claimed responsibility, alleging that the doctor was a police informer.
07/31/2011: On Sunday, in Kandhamal, Odisha, India, a civilian was abducted and subsequently beheaded by suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants. The victim was identified as Dakasa Majhi. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but CPI-Maoists are suspected.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in Dolangi village in Ramchandrapur, Surguja, Chhattisgarh, India, around 100-150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants assaulted two laborers of a road construction firm after setting fire to a Josephy Cyril Bamford (JCB) machine, two generators, two mixture machines, two tractors, one operating machine, and more than half a dozen other machinery parts and motor spare parts. The Maoists had reportedly demanded $111,334 (INR five million) as levy along with other demands. The damage was estimated at the worth of $334,002 (INR 15 million). No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/07/2011: On Thursday, in Baridih Jungle 40 kilometers from Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, a 30 kilogram landmine was recovered during an anti-Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) operation. A bomb disposal squad defused the landmine, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
12/27/2011: Over 25 Maoists burned a pressure roller in Parta, Bihar, India. The individuals stormed into offices of a private road construction company, Ajay Engineering Company, and set fire to the construction equipment. No motive for the attack was stated.
05/17/2011: On Tuesday morning at 0530, near Sagolband Bijoy-govinda temple in Imphal, Manipur, India, police recovered an unexploded grenade from the residential house of RK Ratan. The grenade failed to explode resulting in no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
05/10/2011: On Tuesday evening at 1830, on Alapalli-Etapalli Road in Tondel village, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated an improvised explosive device and opened fire on a police patrol party. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
10/15/2011: On Saturday, in Tura, West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India, 15 suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants kidnapped three police officers, identified as William Maiong, Sambu Dalu and Naik Grejilstone Momin. The abduction was allegedly led by ‘southern commander’ Baichung Momin. Maiong was shot and killed and his body discovered by the police on 10/16/2011. The other two policemen were tortured and asked about police activities in the area before being released. No group claimed responsibility for the hostage taking, but the Garo National Liberation Army was suspected.
03/03/2011: On Thursday evening, in Beliabera, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, five unidentified armed militants on three motorcycles kidnapped Sarkar Hembram, a constable posted in Puruliya, and his father in-law, Khelaram Tudu. Khelaram was released around 2000 that same evening. On 03/19/2011, the body of the police constable was recovered in Chotajammal village. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible. According to security sources, information on the exact location of the body of Hembram was obtained during the interrogation of an alleged CPI-M commander, identified only as Debdulal, who had been detained by police on 03/18/2011.
08/01/2011: On Monday morning at 0720, in one of two related attacks, at Chachapani near Paroura village in Kokrajhar, Assam, India, suspected Pro-Talks Faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-PTF) militants using a gas cutter, damaged portions of railway tracks resulting in the derailment of 11 wagons of a Guwahati-bound goods train. Primary investigations revealed that railway tracks measuring about two meters were removed from the tracks. The incident occurred between Kokrajhar and Fakiragram during a 48-hour general strike called by NDFB-PTF seeking the Centre's discussion with the outfit for the creation of Bodoland. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the tracks and the 11 wagons, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the event, but NDFB-PTF militants are suspected.
02/02/2011: On Wednesday, in Sopore, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade towards a roadside bunker of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The grenade missed its intended target, causing no damages or casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/02/2011: On Saturday, at Naguluru village under Kalimela block in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, unidentified militants shot and killed two men, identified as Sanyasi Barge and Tapel Gangeya. Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) held a 'praja court' (People’s Court) and charged the two men with being police informers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/09/2011: On Thursday morning at 0600, near a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) camp on Narayanpur-Orchha road in Jharaghati village in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) shot and killed four security forces and wounded one other who later succumbed to his injuries. The victims were identified as head constable Santosh Sahare, constables Chandan Singh, Tarachand, Rajendra Diwan and Santosh Kumar Yadav. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/27/2011: On Sunday afternoon around 1530, at Lamphel near Imphal West, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade at the official quarters of the Imphal West I Block Development Officer (BDO) Keisham Rajendra. The grenade failed to explode and was successfully defused by police causing no casualties or damages. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is suspected that the attack was carried out for monetary reasons. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
05/02/2011: On Monday evening around 1900, at Nalkhamra village in Udalguri, Assam, India, a suspected gunman of the Anti-Talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) shot and killed Manjit Rabha of the Pro-Talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). Rabha was shot at close range with an Ak-47 rifle while on his way to Kolaigaon. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/10/2011: On Tuesday night, at Danchabar village in Bishrampur, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) using dynamite blew up the vacant ancestral residence of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Member of Parliament (MP) Kameshwar Baitha, destroying the residence. The attack caused an unknown amount of damage but resulted in no casualties. Baitha, who was arrested on charges of 50-Maoist related cases, had obtained bail from the Patna High Court on 05/07/2011. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/01/2011: On Sunday night, in the Kurab village in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, unidentified militants physically assaulted and then killed Penta Majhi (24), son of Ganga Majhi, a village sarpanch (president or chief of gram panchayat (village level local self-Government institution). According to police, Majhi was set on fire when he reportedly refused to join the militant outfit. No group claimed responsibility, but it is suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible for the attack.
11/26/2011: Approximately 25 Maoists attacked a bridge construction site near Sarnadih village in Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The assailants set several pieces of machinery on fire, including generators, drilling machines, a mixing machine and a water pump. There were no reported injuries or casualties. The assailants left pamphlets at the site stating that the contractor had failed to get the Maoists' permission to build the bridge and had failed to pay a levy.
08/11/2011: On Thursday, in Bhopapatnam, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) abducted and killed an unidentified civilian who they suspected was a police informer. When the civilian was kidnapped the victim was struck with a sharp object on the head. Police later recovered the body on National Highway 16 in Bijapur district and a Maoist note left by the body stated he was killed because he was a suspected police informer.
07/05/2011: On Tuesday night, in Potteru village, Malkangiri, Odisha, India, suspected Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) militants kidnapped six civilians at gun point. The militants accused the civilians of being police informers. On 07/08/2011, four of the hostages were released and another hostage identified as Subas Bandami was killed. Bandami, a former CPI- Maoist militant was planning on surrendering to the police. The status of the last remaining hostage, identified as a contractor, Suresh Bandami, is unknown. A Maoist poster was recovered from the body of Suma saying that he was killed for being a police informer.
08/12/2011: On Friday morning, at Panchratna station in Goalpara, Assam, India, acting on a tip-off, police recovered and defused an improvised explosive device from a militant on the Kamakhya-Puri Express passenger train. Kumud Goyari, a militant of the Ranjan Daimary faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) NDFB, was carrying a five kilogram device concealed in a bag which was supposed to be delivered to Robin Narzary at Bongaigaon. The attack resulted in no casualties or damages, and the reason Narzary was targeted is unknown. A handwritten note was also recovered which said the militant was being sent on an important mission and its success would be good for “us”.  The militant was arrested.
03/28/2011: On Monday night, in Piprahighat, Sitamarhi, Bihar, India, over 25 unidentified militants assaulted laborers of the Bihar State Bridge Corporation (BSBC) when they resisted the militants spraying kerosene and gasoline and trying to set fire to a dump truck. The dump truck was destroyed in the attack. The attack caused an unknown amount of casualties and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
05/25/2011: On Wednesday, in Rauna village, Belaganj, Gaya, Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set an excavator on fire, causing an unknown amount of property damage but resulting in no casualties. The attack was carried out because Baijnath Prasad, the machine owner, had refused to pay levy demanded by the militants. A note and red cloth left by the Maoists at the incident site claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/25/2011: On Wednesday night, on the Medininagar-Aurangabad Highway near Nava village in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, 40 armed suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set seven vehicles on fire, causing an unknown amount of property damage. The attack resulted in no casualties and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/02/2011: On Monday night, at Lamdeng in Imphal, Manipur, India, militants of the Kangleipak Communist Party-Maoist (KCP-M) group threw a grenade at the residence of Thobam Nobin, a supporter of the Brajabidhu Singh Legislative Assembly (MLA). The grenade failed to explode causing no damages or casualties. The assistant publicity secretary of the KCP-M, Nonglen Meitei, in a press release claimed responsibility, saying that the attack was carried out to show that the workers of the MLA Brajabidhu could be targeted at anytime and that if the misconducts of his party workers continue, that he could not guarantee that future attacks will not occur.
04/10/2011: On Sunday night at 2200, at Lilong bazaar in Imphal West District, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated a hand grenade at the residence of a primary school teacher, Muhammad Nashir, who works at Tamenglong. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2011: On Friday around 1230 noon, at a mosque in Maisuma, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device on a bicycle near the rear entrance of the mosque. Jamiat-e-Ahli Hadees, a leading separatist and chief Moulvi Showkat Ahmad Shah was killed in the blast and a civilian, Munir Ahmad Mir, was injured. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
03/03/2011: On Thursday evening around 2000, from a residence at Talap tea estate, Tinsukia, Assam, India, four to five unidentified militants kidnapped a trader identified as Kailesh Verma. On 03/09/2011, around 2030, Verma was rescued by police at Kachijan Reserved Forest under Kakopathar during a search operation which resulted in an exchange of fire between the assailants and police. Verma was treated for an injured hand, but no other casualties were reported. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, a family member has claimed that a caller had assured that Verma would be released within 24 hours, but made no ransom demands. No group claimed responsibility for this incident, but it was suspected that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was responsible.
08/11/2011: On Thursday morning, in Lakshmanpur forest in Salboni, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol party and injured three paramilitary members. Four to five militants were also wounded in retaliatory fire. No group claimed responsibility, but the CPI-M was suspected of being responsible for the attack.
07/22/2011: On Friday, in Ganjinar village, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, three suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) group attacked and killed Laxman Markam, the brother of a former CPI-M militant. Markam was killed with a pistol. No group claimed responsibility, but police suspected that the CPI-M group was responsible.
12/16/2011: Two communication tower were damaged in Gajalbadi, Odisha, India. A group of Maoists set the towers on fire in retaliation for the assassination of one of their leaders. No deaths or injuries reported.
02/16/2011: On Wednesday night, in the Narayanpatna Block in Dandabadi village, Koraput, Odisha, India, 20 militants dragged Wadeka Nasanna from his house and slit his throat, killing him. A handwritten letter left by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres claimed responsibility, saying that the victim was killed for being opposed to the activities of Maoists and controversial Chasi Mulia Adivasai Sangh (CMAS) in the area. According to police, the militants may have killed Nasanna for refusing to meet the demands of Maoists and that the incident was used to create panic.
08/12/2011: On Thursday night, in Ramban village in Sheohar, Bihar, India, heavily-armed suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set ablaze the house of a village head, identified as Subodh Rai. The village head was not present at his house at the time of the arson, and the attack caused an unknown amount of property damage but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/25/2011: Unidentified gunmen shot and injured Abdul Salam in Tral, Pulwama district, Kashmir state, India. Salam was a recently-elected sarpanch or village head in Poonzo village. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and specific motive is unknown.
12/01/2011: Approximately 5 masked men on two motorbikes hurled a bomb at two individuals, including a local Jubo League leader, Reza Farazai, as they were dining at a hotel in the upazila of Abhaynagar, Jessore district, Khulna, Bangladesh. Both individuals were critically injured in the attack, and third man was hurt when he was struck by one of the assailants' motorbikes. Police arrested two individuals, Jacob Mandes and Abdul Gaffar, in connection with the assault. A motive for the attack is not known, but police speculated that it may have been a part of a larger attempt by the perpetrators to establish dominance in the area.
10/14/2011: On Friday, in Korma village, Latehar, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants killed a panchayat ward member and his wife identified, as Naresh Musi and Sarita Devi, by slitting their throats. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/22/2011: On Tuesday at 0000 midnight, in Ganganametta village in Chintur, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, unidentified armed militants set ablaze a stone crusher, damaging a conveyer belt and some other equipment. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is believed that the attack was carried out in an attempt to scare away contractors and to thwart the attempts by the government agencies to take up road construction under the integrated development plan for Left wing extremism-affected areas. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
07/22/2011: On Friday, in Madded village, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected militants of the Communist Party of India-Maoists group (CPI-M) killed a Special Police Officer (SPO). The Suspected militants attacked Subba Satyam with an axe. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the CPI-M was suspected.
12/1/2011: A police officer and his daughter were shot at in their home in the village of Rimrangpara in Meghalaya, India. Suspected members of the Garo National Liberation Army arrived at the house of Constable Goelson Marak and demanded that he come out. When the constable refused the armed militants opened fire, wounding the constable and his young daughter. Authorities suspect that militants were at the home to kidnap, torture and kill the constable.
05/10/2011: On Tuesday, at Konekode village in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) detonated a landmine, wounding the driver and a police officer and damaging the police van. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the van was carrying police personnel from Antagarh and Kodagaon to provide security for the Bastar polls. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/11/2011: On Thursday afternoon, in Dhalai, Tripura, India, near Khagendra Roaja Para of Ambassa, police foiled an attempted bombing by a group of about nine or 10 militants from National Liberation Front of Tripura (NFLT), led by Athara Babu Halam. Reportedly, the militants were planning to plant explosives on National Highway 44 on or before Independence Day and acting on a tip-off; police raided the Khagendra Roaja Para area. The attack resulted in no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
08/24/2011: On Wednesday, in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and injured a Special Police Officer (SPO), Javaid Ahmed Lone, of Logripora Bomai Sopore, in his home. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/17/2011: On Tuesday, in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India, around 50 Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) set fire to at least eight construction vehicles including two tractors, a roller, three water tanks and diesel pumps. The militants threatened the contractor of the construction company, which was engaged in road work at Pidhapal, of dire consequences if he did not stop the construction. The attack caused and unknown amount of property damage but resulted in no casualties. Maoist posters recovered from the incident site called for a shutdown in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh for 05/21/2011 and 05/22/2011 and also criticized the recent arrest of three central committee members in Bihar.
06/03/2011: On Friday night, in one of two related attack, in Bela village, Gaya, Bihar, India, over 50 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) raided the Siwalia and Bela villages and abducted three suspected police informers, identified as Shohail Ansari, Nehal Ansari, and Nagvir Yadav. It is unclear how many hostages were taken from each village. The militants also beat up an undetermined number of villagers during the attack when they resisted. One of the villagers identified only as Ansari was later released and the status of the other two hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/17/2011: On Tuesday evening at 2100, on National Highway 221 near Borguda village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, unidentified militants detonated a landmine targeting a convoy of three vehicles, killing seven Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers and wounding two others. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the convoy. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is suspected that the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) were responsible.
12/7/2011: A time-bomb was discovered inside a tiffin box, within an abandoned bag, under a seat on a bus in Mokkampatti Village, Madurai District, Tamil Nadu State, India. A passenger alerted the bus driver, who tossed the bomb onto the side of the road as the bus was evacuated. Police officers were able to defuse the bomb later. Two youths are suspected of planting the bomb, but are still at-large.
08/02/2012: Gunmen opened fire on a civilian in his home in Darimgre village, Meghalaya state, India. The civilian was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), who may have shot the civilian because they suspected him to be a police informer.
09/08/2012: An assailant threw a grenade at Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers waiting to board a train near Guwahati Railway Station, Guwahati city, Assam state, India. One officer was killed and 12 injured in the attack. The Paresh Barua Faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/06/2012: Members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) kidnapped Assistant Sub-Inspector Nilesh Pandey as he traveled on a bus in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. The police official's body was found the next day in a forested area near Chinger Nala. The specific motive behind the incident is unknown; however, the kidnapping occurred the night before a regional visit by President Pranab Mukherjee, an event the Maoists had asked the public to boycott.
09/05/2012: An explosive device detonated near a patrol of Assam Rifles in Kangsoibi Khongbal area, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. Two Rifles were injured in the blast. The United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility, attributing the incident to its military wing, the Manipur People's Army (MPA).
05/30/2012: Three assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in Rainawari area, Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Seven CPRF personnel were injured in the attack. The Islamic Front claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on and torched vehicles in Murhu district, Jharkhand state, India. Several vehicles were damaged in the attack, but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources attributed it to the People's Liberation Front of India.
08/07/2012: Assailants kidnapped Raiman Singh in Jholaro, Gariaband district, Chhattisgarh, India. Singh, a teacher, was killed and his body was discovered dumped on a road on August 14, 2012. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that they believed the victim was a police informant.
09/08/2012: A remote-controlled explosive device detonated near an Assam Rifles patrol near the Imphal airport, Manipur state, India. Two people, a civilian and a soldier, were injured in the blast. The People's Liberation Army (PLA), the armed wing of the Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/16/2012: Police officers discovered three tiffin bombs that were planted in the Kotagad area of Odisha state, India. The devices weighed approximately 40 kilograms. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident; however, Maoists are believed to be involved.
08/05/2012: Security forces recovered a powerful explosive device on the National Highway near Jawhar Tunnel, Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. There were no casualties or property damage in this attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
01/03/2012: Assailants set fire to three cell phone towers near Baragada district, Odisha state, India. The outcome of the attack is unknown. No group claimed responsibility, but police attributed the incident to Maoists, who left posters at the scene stating that they were against the anti-Maoist operations being conducted in the state.
11/16/2012: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at a government bus near the Periyar bus station in Madurai, Tamil Nadu state, India. The incendiary device exploded on the roof, damaging the bus; however, there were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/28/2012: At least 15 assailants set construction equipment on fire at a site near Malkangiri Pottery village in Kalimela area, Odisha state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, a large amount of heavy machinery and other construction equipment was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/11/2012: An explosive device detonated on a bridge near Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no casualties, but the bridge was destroyed in the blast. This was one of two attacks on police targets in Chhattisgarh on this day, both of which sources attributed to Maoists.
07/18/2012: Assailants kidnapped a person from Kamlapur village, Maharashtra state, India. The target was suspected to be a police informant. The kidnappers killed the victim and dumped his body near the village on July 20, 2012. Maoists claimed responsibility for the abduction.
05/16/2012: Assailants planted an explosive device made of gelatin sticks near a bridge in Tellapur town, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The device failed to detonate. Telangana separatists claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that they were attempting to attract media attention to the cause of a free and independent Telangana state.
09/12/2012: A grenade was thrown into a parking area near the Old Secretariat in the South Block of Manipur Secretariat, Imphal city, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. The grenade failed to explode. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the People's Liberation Army (India).
07/16/2012: Assailants kidnapped the Mongkot Chepu village chief at gunpoint from his home in Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. Police rescued the chief and arrested his four attackers later that evening. The Kuki National Liberation Front (KNLF) claimed responsibility for the abduction.
10/03/2012: Assailants kidnapped Ngumkhulum Tuboi, a village chief, from Chasang village, Manipur state, India. Authorities rescued Tuboi on November 5, 2012 in Churachandpur district. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Kuki tribal members.
05/19/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a police station in Batamaloo neighborhood, Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. There were no reported casualties or damage in the attack, as the grenade missed the intended target and exploded on the roadside. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/15/2012: Assailants set fire to a truck owned by the Jaya Construction company in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. The truck was set on fire to attract police officers. Once the officers arrived in the area, the assailants detonated explosive devices and opened fire. Four police officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists, stating that it could have been in response to an expanding road construction program.
08/13/2012: Assailants armed with knives assaulted a village guard at his residence in Bhuliabandh village, Bargarh district, Odisha state, India. The guard was killed in the attack. The Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they believed the guard was a police informant.
05/20/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a house belonging to Soubam Dhanabir, a superintendent engineer of the irrigation and flood control department, in Imphal city, Manipur state, India. Dhanabir was uninjured in the blast; however, his son was wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/27/2012: Assailants attacked a polling station in Konkan area, Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers were killed and oneinjured in the attack. The attackers also stole a police rifle. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted that the area had been rife with voter intimidation and violence during the state election process.
07/27/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the Cherapur Moirang Palli bazaar in Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/17/2012: Assailants threw two grenades at the Udalguri Block Development office in Udalguri town, Assam state, India. Both grenades failed to detonate, and there was no reported damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/04/2012: Assailants detonated two explosive devices and opened fire on the convoy of the superintendent of police, Elangbam Priokumar Singh, in Khudengthabi village, Manipur state, India. Seven police officers were injured in the attack. The People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/03/2012: Maoists attacked and killed Murali Meher, a liquor trader, in Rengali village, Odisha state, India. The assailants left pamphlets at the scene stating that Meher was a police informer. They also warned others that they would be killed if they became police informers.
07/20/2012: Assailants set a road construction vehicle on fire in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. No casualties were reported in the attack. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/16/2012: Assailants detonated a landmine and then opened fire on police in Chindgarh village, Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. A civilian was killed in the blast, and eight police officers were injured. No group claimed responsibility; however, a police spokesperson attributed the attack to Maoists.
12/31/2012: Assailants abducted a civilian from Kasthiniya village, Gaya district, Bihar state, India. The victim's body was discovered the following day; he had been shot several times. A spokesperson for the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the killing, stating that the victim was killed because he was a police informer.
08/01/2012: An explosive device detonated in the parking lot of Dena Bank on Jangali Majaraj Road in Pune, Maharashtra, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of six attacks in Pune on the same day. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility and stated that the incidents were carried out in retaliation for the death of an Indian Mujahideen affiliate, Qatil Siddiqi, at Yerawada Jail.
10/07/2012: Gunmen broke into the residence of the principal of Saint Peter English School in Langol Game village, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. The principal, P. Sounglianlal, was unharmed, as he was not present at the time of the attack; however, his wife and son were injured. The Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/06/2012: An explosive device was discovered on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway near Qazigund town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/15/2012: Assailants attacked a former member of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) in Garo Hills, Meghalaya state, India. Sonaram Sangma was shot and killed in his house. The GNLA claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that Sangma was killed for leaving the group.
10/20/2012: Assailants kidnapped Daya Chalan from Sandural village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. Chalan's brother was working as a gram rakhi (village guard). The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
06/11/2012: Two assailants opened fire on a civil contractor in Gadchiroli area, Maharashtra state, India. The victim, who worked on road construction projects, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists, who often oppose road construction.
05/02/2012: Assailants kidnapped two agricultural government officials, Faizul Islam and Gadapani Pathak, near Boitamari area, Bongaigaon district, Assam state, India. Pathak was killed, and Islam was released on May 28, 2012. The kidnappers had demanded $184,230 (USD) in ransom money. No group claimed responsibility; however, officials suspected the attack was carried out by the Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO). A KLO member was later arrested in suspicion of being connected with the kidnapping.
05/19/2012: Assailants abducted three people from Murumgaon village, Maharashtra state, India. Among those kidnapped were two village heads and a former vice president of Kulbhatti. Two of the hostages were released on an unspecified date, while the fate of the third hostage is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, a source suspected Maoists from Tippagarh Dalam.
06/28/2012: Assailants attacked a panchayat (village council) building in the Pachra area of Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties, as the building was empty at the time of the attack; however, the building was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed it to the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
11/03/2012: Three explosive devices were discovered and defused in West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities suspect that the Garo National Liberation Army was behind the attack.
10/04/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the headquarters of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Baramulla city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Three police officers were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to separatists.
05/11/2012: Assailants stabbed and killed a supervising contractor in Narayanpatna, Odisha, India. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack and left a letter stating the victim was killed for his role in setting up police camps.
04/25/2012: Assailants opened fire in an attempt to stop a vehicle in Sibbari area, Meghalaya state, India. An unknown number of passengers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
12/27/2012: A landmine detonated targeting a Special Operations Group (SOG) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in Kalyansinghpur village, Odisha state, India. One SOG soldier was injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
05/09/2012: Assailants with firearms, petrol bombs, and rocket launchers attacked the Kukrajhar police station in Kukrajhar city, Assam state, India. No one was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, police attributed it to Maoists.
10/07/2012: An explosive device detonated in Synod area, Haflong town, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two attacks in the area on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials attributed it to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM).
09/26/2012: An explosive device hidden in a parcel exploded in Howrah district, West Bengal state, India. One person was killed and one injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/02/2012: At least four assailants shot at Bharat Singh at his office in Najafgarh area, Delhi state, India. Singh, a member of Independent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), and another person were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/01/2012: An assailant lobbed a hand grenade at the private residence of Saleng A. Sangma in Ringreygittim, West Garo Hills District, Meghalaya state, India. Sangma, the Minister of Meghalaya Community and Rural Development, was unharmed; however, his residence was damaged in the blast. June P. Sangma, a Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) member, was arrested in connection to the incident.
01/05/2012: Assailants detonated a remote-controlled landmine near a police vehicle in Badarpanga area, Odisha state, India. The police officers were on their way to investigate a bombing that had occurred the previous day. Three officers were killed and three were wounded. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist). .
07/13/2012: Assailants attacked a construction firm's camp in Bodocheka village, Odisha state, India. Two workers were injured in the attack. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack, stating in leaflets left at the scene that they opposed the road construction work.
08/13/2012: Assailants attacked a PSA company construction site in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no casualties, but one truck, one excavator, and one road roller were set on fire and destroyed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists.
11/09/2012: Approximately 20 Maoists attacked a prison transport vehicle in Giridh town, Jharkhand state, India. Three police officers and one prisoner were killed in the attack and six police officers were injured; numerous other prisoners escaped, including at least seven Maoists. Officials believe that the attack was designed to aid in prisoner escape.
05/07/2012: Armed assailants kidnapped four tribal farmers in Gandacherra area, Tripura state, India. One hostage was released the same day while the others were released in Bangladesh on May 30, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police attributed it to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
03/20/2012: Assailants set fire to the Block Development Office in Bishnupur town, Manipur state, India. The building was damaged, but there were no casualties. No further information is available.
12/08/2012: Assailants abducted Harish Gota in the Kuprel area of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Harish Gota was the son of a prominent Salwa Judum leader, Chinna Gota, who was shot and killed by Maoists the previous day. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
10/26/2012: Approximately 50 assailants attacked Pandu Madkami at his residence in Parasanapalli village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. Madkami, the head of the village, was kidnapped, taken to the edge of the village, and then killed. According to a pamphlet found at the scene of the killing, Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they targeted Madkami because he was a police informant.
01/10/2012: Attackers threw a grenade at Md Ali, an Indian National Congress candidate, in Yairipok, Manipur state, India. The grenade did not explode. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, and the specific motive is unknown; however, several grenades had been thrown at Congress candidates since the election date was announced. Police stated that the Congress parties were opposing banned groups' movements.
11/21/2012: At least three assailants abducted Gobin Goswami, the headmaster of Kuwoni Lower Primary School in Golaghat district, Assam state, India. Specific motive and the outcome of the kidnapping is unknown; however, Adivasi National Liberation Army (ANLA) is responsible for the incident.
11/07/2012: Members of the Assam Rifles discovered an explosive device in Wangbal village, Manipur state, India. The device was removed and control-detonated without injury. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/03/2012: Assailants planted an explosive device at the home of a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Moirang Purel village, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. Neighbors reported the device to local police, who removed and defused it. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/27/2012: Maoists opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol near Bhamragarh, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. The police returned fire, leading to a gunfight. There were no reported casualties.
06/11/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in the Khaprakhol area of Balangir district, Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, though the warehouse was damaged. This was one of three attacks on warehouses in the same area on the same day. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a rise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
07/28/2012: Assailants threw a grenade into a tourist's vehicle in Bijbehara town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Four tourists were killed and four others injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/02/2012: Assailants attacked a police station in Lumdiengiri area, Meghalaya state, India. One person sustained injuries in the attack. The Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) claimed responsibility for the incident on a social networking website.
04/17/2012: An explosive device detonated at a subdivision office in Cuttack, Odisha, India. There were no reported injuries of damages in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police camp in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Two civilians were killed in the attack. This was one of two attacks on police targets in Chhattisgarh on this day, both of which sources attributed to Maoists.
12/27/2012: Assailants opened fire and threw incendiary devices at police and civilian vehicles on a highway in Chandil city, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, at least three trucks were damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the assailants shouted Maoist slogans calling for an end to Operation Anakonda-II.
02/20/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at Zadibal police station in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The device exploded near the station's gate; however, there were no casualties or property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a shop near Omporar Railway Station in Ompora area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The shopowner and his son were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/08/2012: Assailants threw four incendiary devices at the Gorkha Higher Secondary School in Shillong city, Meghalaya state, India. The devices missed the school and landed on a pile of trash, resulting in a fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/18/2012: Maoists attacked a joint police and military combing operation in Malnar village, Kondagaon district, Chhattisgarh state, India. A firefight ensued, during which a head officer was shot and killed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2012: Assailants kidnapped two villagers from Munger district, Bihar state, India. The victims were suspected of being police informers and were killed following the abduction. No group claimed responsibility, but officials attributed the incident to Maoists.
01/04/2012: Assailants set off a landmine in Srirampur village, Kandhamal district, Odisha state, India. No one was injured in the blast. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, leaving a poster at the site saying that they opposed the anti-Maoist military operations in the state.
02/25/2012: Assailants threw a petrol bomb in Rajabagan village, Ri-Bhoi district, Meghalaya state, India. At least 87 shops, 15 houses, and several motorcycles were damaged, but there were no human casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/15/2012: Assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on Abdul Rehman Ganai in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Ganai was an office bearer for the National Conference (NC); he was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/14/2012: Assailants abducted two Italian tourists and two Indian citizens in Daringbadi area, Odisha state, India. The Indians were released the following day, one Italian was released on or around March 25, 2012, and the other Italian was released on April 11, 2012. Maoists claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, and demanded, among other things, a ban on tourists in tribal areas and the release of jailed Maoist leaders.
05/02/2012: Gunmen attacked a police patrol vehicle in Bacheli village, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Two police officers were killed and four wounded in the assault. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/22/2012: Assailants exploded an explosive device outside the house of I. Hemachandra, the assembly speaker for Manipur, in Singjamei neighborhood, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. One passerby was killed and three wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted that earlier, seven outlawed groups had called for a ban on all campaigning by Indian National Congress candidates in the state.
06/11/2012: At least 10 assailants slit the throat of a local villager from the Narayanpatna area of Koraput district, Odisha state, India. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident and left posters with the body stating that the victim was a police informer.
08/01/2012: An explosive device detonated near Garware College in Pune, Maharashtra, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of six attacks in Pune on the same day. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility and stated that the incidents were carried out in retaliation for the death of an Indian Mujahideen affiliate, Qatil Siddiqi, at Yerawada Jail.
01/10/2012: A tanker for the Guwahati Oil Refinery exploded and caught fire in Noonmati suburb, Assam state, India. Seven workers were wounded in the explosion. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in retaliation for the exploitation of Assam's natural resources by the Indian government. However, refinery authorities said the blast was a result of an accident.
01/11/2012: An assailant threw two explosive devices at a migrant worker near Meppedu Irula settlement, Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu state, India. The explosive devices were of low intensity, thus causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/11/2012: Police found two explosive devices on the Korkatti-Kodarnullah road near the Maharashtra border in Chhattisgarh state, India. They then detonated the devices. There were no casualties in the operation. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/06/2012: A five-kilogram tiffin bomb was discovered near Koilibeda village, Chhattisgarh state, India. Police personnel removed the device without reported injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/01/2012: A grenade was thrown outside the house of the health minister of Manipur in Imphal West district, Manipur, India. A civilian was injured and a car damaged by the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/10/2012: Attackers threw a grenade at Th Dhanasyam, an Indian National Congress worker, in Lamlai area, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. Dhanasyam was not hurt in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, and the specific motive is unknown; however, several grenades had been thrown at Congress candidates since the election date was announced. Police stated that the Congress parties were opposing banned groups' movements.
06/11/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in the Khaprakhol area of Balangir district, Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, though the warehouse was damaged. This was one of three attacks on warehouses in the same area on the same day. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a rise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
03/05/2012: Assailants set a number of vehicles on fire at the Central Coalfield Limited Ashoka Coal Project site in Chatra district, Jharkhand state, India. Four attackers were killed when security guards shot at them. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
03/15/2012: An explosive device detonated at the house of a Manipur Rifles officer in Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. One child was killed and five other people injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
11/26/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the home of a contractor in Pukhri Mapal, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the blast, although three houses were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/16/2012: Assailants planted an explosive device on a roadway near the Maipak Junior High School in Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/20/2012: Assailants attacked a joint force of district police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) members in Dhanora tehsil, Madhya Pradesh state, India. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to Maoists.
05/23/2012: Assailants attacked the residence of Lahari Bagaranga, the local village head, in Hanumantpur village, Rayagada district, Odisha state, India. Bagaranga was unharmed; however, her husband, Deba Bagaranga, was killed in the village after the attackers asked that he accompany them out of the house. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, as indicated by several posters and banners left at the scene.
10/13/2012: An explosive device was discovered in Hunterganj town, Chatra district, Jharkhand state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
06/07/2012: An explosive device hidden in a shoebox detonated in Allahabad city, Uttar Pradesh state, India. Five children were in the area at the time of the blast; all five were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/01/2012: Assailants opened fire and threw a grenade at a group of police near the Government Blind School in Imphal city, Manipur state, India. One assailant was killed when police returned fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/21/2012: Assailants abducted four people in Garhwa district, Jharkhand, India. One of the individuals was Communist Party of India (ML-Liberation) leader Akhtar Ansari. The kidnappers demanded the destruction of the Kone, Oreya, and Saryu police checkpoints in Latehar district. They also demanded the withdrawal of security members engaged in anti-Maoist operations in Jharkhand. The resolution of the kidnapping is unknown. This was one of two related attacks in Garhwa district on this day. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/24/2012: An explosive device detonated near the home of the Executive Engineer of Minor Irrigation in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. Two people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
10/03/2012: Three explosive devices were discovered near Saint Francis School in Deoghar city, Jharkhand state, India. Authorities defused the devices before they could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/20/2012: Assailants kidnapped two liquor salespeople from Tulsa village, Koraput district, Odisha state, India. One victim was released on October 21, 2012; the whereabouts of the second victim are unknown. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
10/01/2012: Assailants attacked a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Goaltore town, West Bengal state, India. Two CRPF personnel were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists.
08/01/2012: An explosive device detonated near the Balgandharva Theatre on Jangali Maharaj Road in Pune, Maharashtra, India. At least one person was injured in the blast. This was one of six attacks in Pune on the same day. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility and stated that the incidents were carried out in retaliation for the death of an Indian Mujahideen affiliate, Qatil Siddiqi, at Yerawada Jail.
03/03/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the home of Indian National Congress candidate Elangbam Chand Singh in Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. There were no casualties in the attack. The Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/17/2012: Assailants on a scooter threw a hand grenade into a hardware store in the Hatta Golapati area of Imphal city, Manipur state, India. The owner and two employees were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/29/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol outside Chilpara village, South Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. One police officer was killed and three others wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
05/02/2012: Assailants attacked a paramilitary patrol in Patimahal-Kulna Palmar area, Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One soldier was killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, police suspected Hizbul Mujihadeen (HM).
09/07/2012: Two landmines hidden in tiffin boxes were found and defused by police between Kotagad and Srirampur, Kandhamal district, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for planting the devices; however, police suspected Maoists.
06/26/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in the Chanakhan area of Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Three people, including an Indian paramilitary trooper and two civilians, were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/10/2012: Assailants hiding in a forest opened fire on police officers in a market place in Nongalbibra, South Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. Three people were killed and another five were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Garo National Liberation Army is believed to be involved.
06/02/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the house of a retired engineer in Imphal area, Manipur state, India. The device failed to detonated and was discovered and removed by security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident.
06/02/2012: Assailants kidnapped three people in Bhagalpur city, Bihar state, India. The bodies of the three victims were discovered on June 5, 2012; their throats had been slit. A Maoist commander reported the next night that the abductees had been killed as a punishment for cooperating with the police.
08/28/2012: Assailants attacked Qutub-ud-din Shah at his residence in the Gulab Bagh garden, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Shah, a local village head, was seriously injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/28/2012: Assailants threw a grenade from a moving vehicle in Ganeshguri area, Guwahati city, Assam state, India. Two civilians were wounded. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/01/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused near Axis Bank on Jangali Maharaj Road in Pune, Maharashtra, India. This was one of six attacks in Pune on the same day. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility and stated that the incidents were carried out in retaliation for the death of an Indian Mujahideen affiliate, Qatil Siddiqi, at Yerawada Jail.
10/07/2012: An explosive device detonated in Sarkaribagan area, Haflong town, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two attacks in the area on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials attributed it to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM).
06/11/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in the Khaprakhol area of Balangir district, Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, though the warehouse was damaged. This was one of three attacks on warehouses in the same area on the same day. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a rise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
05/14/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused in the Waka Singthong area, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. Officials suspected the assailants were targeting security or police personnel. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/25/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the residence of Puyam Birendra Singh in the Singjamei Mayenbam Leikai area of Imphal city, Manipur state, India. Singh, a government engineer, escaped the attack unharmed; however, Singh's vehicle was partially damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that it stemmed from Singh's refusal to accede to an extortion demand.
11/11/2012: Assailants on motorcycles threw explosive devices at the Port & Dock Mazdoor Union office in Paradip, Odisha state, India. The attack occurred while union members were meeting; however, no one was injured in the attack, although the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/23/2012: Two teachers from Don Bosco Institute were kidnapped in Kokrajhar city, Assam state, India. The hostages were rescued on February 25, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
06/20/2012: Assailants abducted Vijay Kumar and two others at the Ghorparan Halt station located in Bihar state, India. Kumar, the station's manager, and the two other victims were released following a search operation later the same day in the neighboring Simultala forest. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
07/20/2012: Assailants shot and killed a teacher believed to be a police informant in East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, source suspect that the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) was behind the attack.
10/06/2012: Assailants kidnapped a former Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) member and her sister from Khammam district, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The CPI-M member was killed and her sister beaten and released after a couple of hours. The CPI-M claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the former member was killed because she was a police informant.
01/21/2012: Four assailants opened fire on a marketplace in Williamnagar area, East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. One person was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but police sources attributed the incident to Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) members.
09/27/2012: An explosive device left on a passenger bus was found and defused by police near Bhatiapar area, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/16/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the entrance of a police station in Srinnagar city, Jammu and Kashmir province, India. There were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/23/2012: The auditor and assistant general manager of the State Bank of India was kidnapped in East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. His fate is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources suspected the Rabha Viper Army, part of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
06/15/2012: Assailants opened fire on Sengkan Sangma near Mendipathar, Meghalaya state, India. Sangma, the Village Defense Party (VDP) secretary, was killed in the attack. The Garo National Liberation Army left a note with the body claiming responsibility for the incident and stating that the victim was a police informer and dacoit.
11/21/2012: Assailants ambushed a military convoy in Impui Basti village, Dima Hasao district, Assam state, India. The attackers detonated an explosive device and then opened fire; one soldier was killed and another six were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspected that National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) was involved. One member of the NSCN-IM was taken into custody in connection with the ambush several days later.
10/31/2012: An explosive device discovered alongside a road was defused near Soni village, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
01/07/2012: Six assailants attacked a police armored van with rifles in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One person was killed and five injured in the attack. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Sopore on this date. The attacks came one day after the 19th anniversary of a massacre in the city perpetrated by border guards. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the incident to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
11/09/2012: Gunmen opened fire on a civilian house in Williamnagar town, Meghalaya state, India. The house belonged to the mother of Jerry Marak, the police superintendent of East Garo Hills. No one was injured in the shooting; however, the house was damaged. This was one of two incidents at the same house that night; the shooting was followed by a failed bombing. Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) claimed responsibility for both incidents, stating the events were in retaliation for a raid conducted on the GNLA commander-in-chief several days earlier.
08/01/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a house belonging to Mutum Kameshor, a panchayat poll contestant, in Bhashikhong town, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. The house was undamaged in the attack because the grenade failed to detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/24/2012: Assailants opened fire on Indian security forces in Nabokgre village, East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. A Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) official was killed and a constable injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
05/02/2012: Assailants threw two grenades at a market in Shillong village, West Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. Two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspected it was carried out by the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
09/09/2012: An explosive device detonated near a patrol of Assam Rifles soldiers engaged in their morning exercise near Kumbi town, Bishnupur district, Manipur state, India. One soldier died and 10 others were injured in the blast. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/10/2012: Assailants opened fire on security forces in Patung, West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, India. A clash ensued, though there were no casualties. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/29/2012: An explosive device was discovered on the Rajouri-Poonch highway near Dalagra village, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. There were no reported casualties, as the Indian army successfully defused the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/06/2012: A grenade was discovered near the Minuthong transit camp in Imphal district, Manipur state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. The People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) claimed responsibility for the incident in a note left at the scene.
02/25/2012: Assailants set a house on fire in Thunku village, Khunti district, Jharkhand state, India. Two residents were killed in the attack. The People's Liberation Front of India claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/18/2012: Three explosive devices targeting security forces were discovered and defused in Dharambandha area, Nuapada district, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, a police source attributed it to Maoists.
08/01/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of a McDonald's restaurant on Jangali Maharaj Road in Pune, Maharashtra, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of six attacks in Pune on the same day. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility and stated that the incidents were carried out in retaliation for the death of an Indian Mujahideen affiliate, Qatil Siddiqi, at Yerawada Jail.
06/25/2012: Assailants set fire to a kendu leaf warehouse at the Khaprakhol block of Balangir district, Odisha province, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
02/07/2012: Assailants attacked employees of a construction company and set four construction vehicles on fire in a forested area in Awapalli, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, India. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/27/2012: A grenade was thrown at the home of an Indian National Congress worker in Khangabok village, Manipur state, India. Nobody was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/11/2012: An attacker threw a grenade toward a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) checkpost under Bir Chilarai overpass, Bongaigaon city, Assam state, India. One person was killed and four injured by the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
08/08/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at Pattan police station in Pattan, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The blast injured seven people, including four police officers and three civilians. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, police attributed it to separatists.
06/12/2012: An explosive device detonated in Madhuban area, Giridih district, Jharkhand state, India. One civilian was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/07/2012: Assailants killed a "peon" laborer at a local school in Amapani area, Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. According to a pamphlet found at the scene of the attack, Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the victim was killed because he was a police informant.
11/09/2012: A landmine was found buried outside of a civilian house in Williamnagar town, Meghalaya state, India. The house belonged to the mother of Jerry Marak, the police superintendent of East Garo Hills. This was one of two incidents at the same house that day; assailants had opened fire on the house several hours earlier. Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) claimed responsibility for both incidents, stating the events were in retaliation for a raid conducted on the GNLA commander-in-chief several days earlier.
04/07/2012: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused in Tamulpur area, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for this attempted attack; however, officials attributed the incident to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
10/10/2012: An explosive device fitted with a timer was discovered on a passenger bus in Alipurduar city, Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal state, India. The device was successfully defused. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/07/2012: Assailants opened fire on a village head's private residence in Gaffabal area, Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat, the village head, was not injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/07/2012: Three grenades detonated in Haflong town, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/00/2012: Sometime between May 1, 2012 and May 31, 2012, assailants attacked police officers guarding a village in Pulwama dstrict, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No casualties were reported in the attack, though weapons were stolen. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
08/21/2012: An explosive device detonated at the Gyan Bharati school in the Shanti Nagar area of Etah city, Uttar Pradesh state, India. There were no reported casualties or damages in the blast. Eight other explosive devices were also discovered by police and successfully defused at the same location. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/22/2012: Gunmen opened fire on a team of district Voluntary Force (DVF) members in Kalimela area, Odisha state, India. The DVF police were returning after a search operation. In the ensuing gunfight, one DVF member was injured. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
05/20/2012: An explosive device detonated in Nabadwip, West Bengal, India. Four children were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/28/2012: An explosive device was found and defused at a polling station in Sawombung High School, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources noted that the device was found on the same day as the statewide elections.
09/19/2012: Assailants armed with knives attacked Satar Khan, a grocery shop owner, near Sinapali town, Odisha state, India. Khan was stabbed to death. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, alleging that Khan was sharing information about their movements to police.
05/02/2012: Armed assailants kidnapped, shot, and killed a villager in Tentuligumma village, Koraput district, Odisha state, India. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack, stating they killed the villager because he was a police informer.
09/27/2012: An explosive device was found and defused at Gossaigaon railroad station in Gossaigaon town, Kokrajhar district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/29/2012: Gunmen attacked a Special Police Officer patrol at a market in Podia city, Odisha state, India. One officer was killed and one wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists.
03/22/2012: Assailants detonated explosive devices at a bridge in Jamui city, Bihar state, India. There were no reported casualties. This was one of three attacks in this area on this day, all of which were claimed by Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
10/26/2012: Two assailants threw a grenade at the Babina Diagnostics collection center of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences in the Porompat area of Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. At least four people, including a customer and three staff members, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on a group of laborers in Dadgiri village, Chirang district, Assam state, India. One laborer was killed and two wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
01/26/2012: An explosive device detonated near Shamashakhi school area, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted that the blast occurred after a committee of dissatisfied groups called for a boycott of the 63rd Republic Day celebrations.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
09/23/2012: Gunmen shot and killed Mohammad Shafi Teli, a village sarpanch, in Nowpora area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/18/2012: At least 60 assailants attacked a construction site near Badbara village, Giridih district, Jharkhand state, India. The assailants set four vehicles on fire and abducted six workers. The workers were released unharmed on February 21, 2012. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/28/2012: A civilian was shot and killed in Metala forest, West Medinipur district, West Bengal state, India. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/04/2012: A boy struck an explosive device while digging in Gauripur town, North 24 Parganas district, Assam state, India. The boy was severely wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/10/2012: Abhay Tyagi, a committee member of Uttar Pradesh Congress, was shot and wounded in Muradnagar town, Uttar Pradesh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/26/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device targeting an Assam Rifles convoy on National Highway Two in the Wangjing area of Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/21/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the home of Thokchom Meinya Singh, a member of the lower house of parliament (Lok Sahba), near Khumbong area, Manipur state, India. The grenade failed to detonated. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/24/2012: Two assailants on motorcycles threw an explosive device at a cyber cafe in Beleswar town, Baleswar district, Odisha state, India. The cafe's owner was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/29/2012: Assailants abducted an Indian National Congress worker in Chingai city, Manipur state, India. The abductors then shot the Congress worker, injuring him. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the attack to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM).
07/23/2012: Assailants ambushed members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Bokob village, Khunti district, Jharkhand state, India. Two police officers died and five other people were injured in the attack. This was one of two similar attacks in the area occurring within a few hours. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but authorities attributed it to the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
08/04/2012: Assailants attacked security forces personnel in a market in Orchha village, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One security official was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists.
09/19/2012: Assailants shot at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) helipad in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One officer was killed in the attack, and two were injured. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
10/20/2012: Assailants kidnapped three engineers from the Dambu Aga Reserve Forest in East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. The three victims worked for B. Seenaiah and Company, a road construction company. They were released on October 23, 2012., following a ransom payment of 10 lakh rupees ($18,702 USD). No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
11/03/2012: Members of the Assam Rifles discovered an explosive device on Uningkhong road in Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. The bomb was safely control-detonated with no reported injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/11/2012: Assailants attacked the home of a leader of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) political party in Sanaguchibhata village, Odisha state, India. The assailants tied the son of the leader to a pole, beat him with the butts of their guns, and then stabbed with a bayonet. He died in the attack. The Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the victim had exploited them and misused their name.
06/11/2012: An explosive device detonated outside the house of a Member of Parliament (MP) in Munger district, Bihar state, India. Monazir Hassan was not home at the time of the blast, and no one else was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Maoists.
07/01/2012: An explosive device detonated prematurely near a transportation station in Tral township, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Twenty-five people sustained injuries in the attack, but there were no reported deaths. Police arrested the bomb-maker, who was a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT); he confessed to details of the crime during interrogation.
09/23/2012: Maoists stormed Badtunda village and attempted to locate Md. Rice, a contractor, in Badtunda village, Bargarh district, Odisha state, India. When they could not find Rice, they burned two vehicles and threatened the rest of his family. No one was injured in the attack.
03/24/2012: Assailants abducted a member of the Orissa state assembly, his driver, and his bodyguard from an unknown location in Odisha state, India. The driver and the bodyguard were released on the same day, while the legislator, Jhina Hikaka, was not released until April 26, 2012. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
03/16/2012: Assailants attacked Director of Information Farooq Renzu at the Satigir Sahib shrine in Srinigar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Renzu was injured. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
01/10/2012: Four people slit the throat of Pasupathi Pandian in Nandhavanappatty area, Tamil Nadu state, India. Pandian was the founder of the Devendra Kula Velalar Kootamaippu Federation. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Pandian was known to feud with the Pannaiyar group, which is comprised of influential members of the Nadar community. The Pannaiyar group had threatened Pandian's life on previous occasions.
05/19/2012: Three assailants shot and killed a contractor, Budra Dhangada Majhi, in Khairaput village, Odisha state, India. A Maoist subgroup, Andhra-Odisha Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBSZC), claimed responsibility for the attack, stating Majhi had been killed because he was a police informer and was mistreating his employees.
06/05/2012: Assailants shot Chika Mazi in Gangapur village, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Mazi was a Salwa Judum leader; he was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
02/23/2012: Assailants attacked a police station in Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. One villager was killed. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/03/2012: Two people were arrested as they attempted to plant an explosive device outside the house of Indian National Congress candidate Bijoy Koijam in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources suspected the Coordination Committee (CORCOM).
07/23/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the home of a government contractor in Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. The wife of the contractor, Sorojini Devi, was a candidate for local elections and was thought to have been the target of the attack. The grenade failed to detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/28/2012: Ten assailants opened fire on Sub-Divisional Police Officer Sacheng R. Marak's vehicle on Ramdapara area, West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. A clash ensued, but there were no casualties. The Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) claimed responsibility for the incident; sources noted that they had been fighting for a Garoland state to be created from three districts in Meghalaya.
08/21/2012: Police discovered and successfully removed an explosive device from a drain in Samba district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/03/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the home of Yambem Ninghtem in Imphal area, Manipur state, India. Ninghtem was the managing director of the Manipur Development Society (MDS); he was not injured in the attack, although three other people were wounded. No group claimed responsibility; however, one person affiliated with the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) was taken into custody in connection with the incident.
08/23/2012: An explosive device detonated near an electric transformer in Wangjing Cherapur area, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the electric transformer was destroyed in the blast, disrupting service. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/12/2012: An explosive device placed inside of a tiffin box was discovered in Hadmamund village, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists.
03/10/2012: Gunmen shot and wounded Abdul Ahad Rather, a Peoples Democratic Party activist and sarpanch (elected official) of Village Dadsura, in Tral town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
08/09/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device near two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicles in Khardong area, Goalpara district, Assam state, India. There were no reports of injuries or property damages. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, police suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
10/17/2012: Assailants kidnapped a village guard from Baipariguda area, Odisha state, India. Bhagaban Nayak, a local village guard, was found on October 18, 2012 shot dead in a forest near the village of Majhiguda. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that Nayak was a police informant and worked with authorities to conduct anti-Maoist operations.
08/28/2012: Assailants kidnapped the son of a coal exporter in Chokpot area, Meghalaya state, India. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army.
02/09/2012: A village head, and National Conference leader, was shot dead near his home in Qoimoh, Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Another man was also wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the National Conference asserted that it was motivated by political rivalry.
12/21/2012: Police discovered and defused four explosives devices that had been planted along a road in the Gumia area of Jharkhand state, India. Authorities believe that the devices were meant to target security force members who frequently use the road for construction operations. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/27/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police vehicle in Topchanchi town, Dhanbad district, Jharkhand state, India. One police official was killed and another 15 injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed it to Maoists.
09/21/2012: A landmine planted near Bhagwantrao High School was found in Kamlapur village, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. A police officer was injured when the mine exploded as he tried to defuse it. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police attributed it to Communist Party of India (Maoist) members.
03/20/2012: Assailants abducted three people, including Haokholal Hangshing, from his residence in Imphal, Manipur, India. Hangshing, the Sadar Hills Autonomous District Council vice chair, was free as of March 25, 2017. The fate of the remaining two hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kuki National Front (Presidium) (KNF-Presidium).
05/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on a unit of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) near Kirandul city, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Seven people, including one civilian driver, were killed in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officers blamed Maoists.
06/18/2012: Assailants on motorcycles opened fire on Zahid Hasan Rana in Meerut city, Uttar Pradesh state, India. Rana, a candidate for the municipal corporation elections, was critically wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
10/09/2012: A roadside bomb detonated near a Border Security Force convoy in Koirengei city, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. Lima Tensing Ao, the Deputy Commandant for the Border Security Force of the 15th Battalion, and two others were injured in the blast. The People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/21/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the residence of Soiraisam Binarani in the Thangmeiband area of Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. Binarani, the municipal commissioner, was unharmed, as the grenade failed to detonate and was subsequently defused by police officials. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/11/2012: Four assailants set a BSNL telephone exchange and a cellular network tower on fire in the village of Ankadeli, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
03/25/2012: Gunmen kidnapped six employees of the Anupam Bricks and Concrete Industries (ABCI) from their camp in Mauzam area, Mizoram state, India. The workers were released on May 2, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
10/06/2012: Assailants attacked a Gorkha Rifles (GR) patrol in Kheljang village, Churachandpur district, Manipur state, India. Two soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Zeliangrong United Front.
04/12/2012: A grenade detonated at a market in Bordumsa town, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/02/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device targeting a police transport vehicle in Bhanpuri town, Chhattisgarh state, India. The vehicle was carrying 26 people, including prisoners and police officers. One person was killed and the remaining 25 passengers injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but officials attributed the attack to Maoists.
03/22/2012: Three gunmen shot and killed a sub-inspector in Khairiput area, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
12/07/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Qazigund town, Anantang district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/06/2012: Assailants opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) base in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Security forces returned fire, leading to a gunfight. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
06/15/2012: Three assailants opened fire on Motilal Dangi's vehicle in Shiva Park area of Damanjodi town, Odisha state, India. Dangi was a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader; he was not injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/14/2012: Approximately 25 Maoists stopped a vehicle transporting groceries for school children in the Palnar area of Bacheli, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. The assailants took the food and torched the truck, insisting that the groceries were destined for police camps. They released the driver and warned him not to transport supplies for the police again.
10/17/2012: An explosive device was discovered at the Barpeta Road Railway Station in Barpeta district, Assam state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. Bengali Sangram Mukti Bahini claimed responsibility for the incident in a letter found at the scene.
02/17/2012: Two gunmen killed a Congress leader in Betul district, Madhya Pradesh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/02/2012: Assailants opened fire on Ishtiyaq Ahmad Poswal in Vishroo area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Poswal, a sarpanch, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/02/2012: An explosive device detonated inside the party offices of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Sankrail town, West Bengal state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the building was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police suspected Maoists.
03/18/2012: Assailants attacked a popular Sufi leader in Srinigar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Jalaluddin Bangroo, the leader, was attacked outside of the Sheikh Dawoodsahib shrine. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
08/29/2012: An explosive device was discovered at the residence of Ashok Kumar Khumanthem in Imphal district, Manipur state, India. Khumanthem, the additional chief engineer of the Manipur government's Irrigation and Flood Control department, and his family were unharmed, as bomb experts safely detonated the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/16/2012: An explosive device detonated near the railway station in Umaria district, Madhya Pradesh state, India. There were no reported casualties in from the blast other than a stray dog. Two more explosive devices were found at the same site and safely defused. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/30/2012: Gunmen attacked security personnel in Dabinggre village, North Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. No casualties were reported among the police forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
01/10/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the home of Trinamul Congress candidate K. Joykishen in Imphal city, Manipur state, India. Seven people were injured in the attack. People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) claimed responsibility for the incident. Joykishen was a former member of PREPAK who had disobeyed the mandate of the group that no former member was allowed to contest elections.
03/03/2012: Assailants attacked a canal extension building site in Baleshbahali village, Odisha state, India. Fifteen vehicles, including dumpers and tractors, were set on fire. The Communist Party of India (Maoist) (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack via notes left on the scene, which also included statements protesting workers' low wages.
08/01/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused outside City Shoes in Pune, Maharashtra, India. This was one of six attacks in Pune on the same day. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility and stated that the incidents were carried out in retaliation for the death of an Indian Mujahideen affiliate, Qatil Siddiqi, at Yerawada Jail.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
05/00/2012: Sometime between May 1, 2012 and May 31, 2012, Assailants attacked police officers guarding a village in Shopian dstrict, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No casualties were reported in the attack, though weapons were stolen. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: Gunmen opened fired on a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) near Damanjodi town, Odisha state, India. Two CISF personnel were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
12/28/2012: Assailants attacked and killed two Tangkhul tribal hunters in Kongkan village, Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. The United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility for the incident and apologized for killing the two hunters, stating that they mistook them for Assam Rifles (AR) soldiers.
12/16/2012: At least 35 assailants stormed a Triveni Construction Company campsite in Goilkera town, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the assailants set fire to at least 14 vehicles during the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
09/28/2012: Several explosive devices went off along a road near a group of Assam Rifles in Kwatha Lamkhai near the border with Myanmar, Manipur state, India. Three people, including a civilian, were killed and six injured in the blast. The United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/09/2012: Assailants attacked a vehicle carrying police officers by detonating an explosive device, then opening fire, in Pollampalli, Sukma district, Chhattisgarh, India. Two police officers were killed and two more wounded. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/21/2012: An explosive device detonated near a convoy of police officers in the Shalo jungle between Bhandaria and Bargarh in Garhwa district, Jharkhand, India. Following the blast, the assailants then opened fire on the surviving officers. At least 13 officers were killed in the attack. This was one of two related incidents in Garhwa district on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
06/10/2012: Assailants set fire to a road roller used for construction in Jaram village, Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported injuries in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
07/04/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a shop in Bishenpur district, Manipur state, India. The grenade failed to detonate and was defused by police. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but family members suspected that the Nongdrenkhomba faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) was involved.
05/14/2012: Assailants abducted Bharatiya Janata Party Sukma District Committee Secretary Mochaki Joga in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Joga, a suspected police informer, was later killed by the assailants; his body was found on May 20, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, police attributed it to Maoists.
01/28/2012: Assailants burned down the house of Andreas Momin in Bokkingre billage, East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. Momin was a former member of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) who had turned in his weapons to police. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities attributed the attack to the GNLA, noting that the assailants had given Momin a week to refund them the value of the weapons.
08/13/2012: An explosive device was discovered under a bridge in Padmabil village, Kokrajhar district, Assam state, India. The device was found before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/29/2012: Gunmen attacked police officers in a market in Podia city, Odisha state, India. One officer was killed and another wounded in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
07/02/2012: An explosive device detonated in a field in Araria district, Bihar state, India. A woman sustained injuries in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/18/2012: A roadside explosive device detonated in a forest in Dumaria area, Bihar state, India. The explosion targeted a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) anti-mine vehicle, killing seven CRPF personnel and injuring nine other people. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
01/09/2012: Assailants attacked a convoy carrying Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Gurusaran Nayak in Harta area, Jharkhand state, India. Nayak was able to escape the assassination attempt. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
03/30/2012: Assailants abducted Animul Haque, a village employment council secretary, in Sesela area, Meghalaya state, India. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA). The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown.
03/30/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a convoy of Border Security Force (BSF) vehicles near the Assam-Meghalaya border in Goalpara district, Assam state, India. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
09/25/2012: An attacker carrying an explosive device died when it prematurely detonated in the Market area of Umrangso town, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/15/2012: An explosive device detonated at a fairground in Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. Four people were injured in the blast. This was one of three attacks occurring within a few hours in Manipur state on this day. The Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks, stating that they were part of the group's protest against the Independence Day celebrations.
08/23/2012: Approximately 50 assailants attacked a civilian's residence in Tambda village, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. Two villagers were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
05/24/2012: Two assailants on bicycles threw a hand grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Kurushnar village, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties, as the grenade failed to detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/20/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the home of a driver in the state veterinary department, Mutum Manitomba, in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the attack; however, two cars were destroyed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/27/2012: An explosive device detonated near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) bus in Gadchirol town, Maharashtra state, India. At least 12 officers were killed and 28 wounded. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
10/08/2012: An explosive device detonated near an Assam Rifles patrol Khumbong village, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/04/2012: Maoists opened fire on a Central Industrial Security Force checkpost in an ore mining area in Akash Nagar, Chhattisgarh state, India. Two police officers were killed and one was injured in the attack; the assailants also stole several weapons before fleeing.
09/20/2012: Assailants abducted nine people, including several village guards and sarpanches, near the Balimela reservoir in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. On September 24, 2012, two village guards who refused to quit their jobs had their throats slit and were killed. On September 25, 2012, five others were released after having been beaten. The whereabouts of the other two captives are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to Maoists.
05/13/2012: Gunmen shot Suklal Sarkar, a contractor, at his office in Pankhajur area, Chhattisgarh state, India. Sarkar was injured in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attributed the attack to Maoists.
08/06/2012: An explosive device was found and defused in an empty building in Raxual town, Champaran district, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
05/18/2012: An explosive device detonated in Chak Mangu village, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The device was targeting flood lighting along the India-Pakistan border; however, there were no casualties or damage in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/22/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused on a road in Dhanora tehsil, Maharashtra state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated at a power transformer in Jorhat city, Assam state, India. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/21/2012: Explosive devices destroyed a building being constructed in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. There were no casualties, largely because attackers cleared out the building before detonating the explosives. The Malkangiri Zilla Committee of Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident on a poster left at the scene.
04/18/2012: Two explosive devices were thrown into the office of the water resources department in Chuttack district, Odisha state, India. One person was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/29/2012: Gunmen attacked a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) police camp in Timmalwada area, Chhattisgarh state, India. Two police officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials attributed it to Maoists.
09/14/2012: An explosive device detonated near a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol in Heirok town, Manipur state, India. One soldier and one civilian were injured in the attack. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/07/2012: A fire broke out at the Numaligarh refinery in Numaligarh town, Assam state, India. There were no casualties reported, but the refinery was damaged. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that it was part of a larger campaign to protest the Indian government's exploitation of Assam.
03/03/2012: Gunmen lit a rice-laden truck on fire and shot and injured the driver near the Saranda Forest in Sundargarh district, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources suspected the Jharkhand Liberation Tigers (JLT).
10/15/2012: Assailants attacked a construction site in Gumia town, Jharkhand state, India. They assaulted the workers and set fire to a construction machine. The number of workers injured in the violence is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to Maoists.
03/03/2012: Assailants abducted two traders from a local market in Jangrapara village, Meghalaya state, India. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown, and while no group claimed responsibility for the attack, sources suspected the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
11/25/2012: Assailants kidnapped three civilians, including two timber traders, in Rajiv Nagar village in Mamit district, Mizoram state, India. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspected that National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was involved.
04/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on a senior National Congress Party (NCP) leader in Gadchirol district, Maharashtra state, India. The leader, Kewal Atkamwar, was killed and two others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
09/19/2012: Maoists attacked police on routine patrol in Khaira area, Bihar state, India. The Maoists hid on top of a hill and shot at the patrol on the road below. One officer was killed and two were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/09/2012: Gunmen shot and wounded Constable Afraz Hussain outside a shrine in Srinigar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Hussain had been acting as a private security guard for a government official at the time. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
01/16/2012: A remote-controlled explosive device went off near the house of P. Premananda, a Trinamool Congress candidate, in Kongba riverbank, Naharup area, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted that Congress members had been continuously attacked leading up to the January 28, 2012 elections.
05/14/2012: Assailants set fire to a forest depot and abducted three people near Jambulghata village, Maharashtra state, India. The three villagers were released on May 18, 2012; property was also damaged in the fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Maoists. The Maoists also left behind a poster at a panchayat office asking people to observe their bandh.
04/24/2012: Assailants attacked a deputy sarpanch in Todgatta village, Maharashtra state, India. The deputy, Rainu Juru Kowse, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/24/2012: Assailants attacked a construction site camp in Gaighat district, Madhya Pradesh state, India. A construction machine was set on fire and destroyed. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the contractor at the site was a police informant.
01/26/2012: An explosive device was discovered underneath a high school's flag pole in Sonari town, Sivsagar district, Assam state, India. The school was the site of a Republic Day celebration. The explosive device was defused by an expert team. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/23/2012: An explosive device detonated on the road to Imphal airport in Kwakeithel area, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. The target of the blast might have been a troop of Assam Rifles passing by. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police believed that it was part of a series of attacks targeting the military co-perpetrated by the military wing of the People's Liberation Army (The Revolutionary People's Front) and the United National Liberation Front (UNLF).
08/01/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at Channapora bridge in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The grenade was meant to target Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers, but no casualties resulted from the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/29/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the home of an engineer in Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. The target, an assistant engineer for zonal education, was unhurt by the blast, and there was no reported damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/26/2012: Assailants tried to storm a house in Chatargach area, Kishanganj district, Bihar state, India. When they met with resistance, they threw explosive devices into the house, injuring three people. Among the injured were a trader and a journalist. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/07/2012: Two explosive devices detonated in rapid succession in Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. The blasts were targeting military forces; however, there were no reported injuries or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/24/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the residence of Chinglen Leitanthem, a junior engineer for the Public Health Engineering Department, in Nongren area, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties or damages in the blast. This was one of two similar hand grenade attacks against government engineers in Manipur state on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
07/03/2012: Assailants ambushed Assam Rifles soldiers in Sita Khunjao area, Manipur state, India. Two soldiers sustained injuries in the attack. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/26/2012: Six explosives hidden in a plastic bucket were found near a bus stand in Nadapuram constituency, Kerala state, India. The devices were successfully defused. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/07/2012: An explosive device detonated in the Ghari area near the Imphal airport, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. The device exploded as a military convoy was passing by; two of the convoy vehicles were hit with the blast, as was a passing school bus. Two soldiers and three civilians, including a student, were injured in the explosion. People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/06/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device at the residence of election candidate Wahengbam Brajabidhu in Ghari village, Manipur state, India. Four people were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/26/2012: Assailants dragged two civilians from their home and killed them in Markegaon village, Maharashtra state, India. The two victims were both former Maoists. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the authorities attributed it to Maoists.
10/13/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused by authorities in Wakha village, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/13/2012: An explosive device was discovered by authorities in Ushoipokpi village, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/23/2012: Assailants opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force (CPRF) patrol in Chowka area, Seraikela-Kharsawan district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two similar attacks in the area occurring within a few hours. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed it to the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
08/25/2012: Two explosive devices were discovered and defused near Ramatandi village, Ghatshila town, Jharkhand state, India. Officials believed that the devices were planted in order to target security personnel. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
03/24/2012: Assailants burned down a country liquor manufacturing unit in Turekela area, Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries or casualties. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack in a note left at the scene, warning villagers against setting up another unit in that location.
05/05/2012: Assailants threw an explosive device at a store in the Wangkhem market complex in Manipur state, India. The assailants targeted a shop owned by Kadamjit, a previous Trinamool Congress nominee in the Manipur Assembly election. The blast damaged the walls of the shop, but no one was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/20/2012: Assailants stormed a private residence and opened fire in Makarpur village, Bihar state, India. One person was killed in the attack. Maoists left pamphlets with the body, claiming responsibility and stating that the victim was a police informer.
11/15/2012: Gunmen opened fire on employees at a liquor store in the government-owned Heemal Hotel near Dal Lake, Nehru Park, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One salesperson was killed and four more were injured in the attack. Junaidul Islam, the assailant who claimed responsibility, stated that the government was spreading immorality and undermining the Islamic nature of the country through the establishment of liquor stores. He also claimed to be a member of Hizb Mujahideen, although the group denied his claim.
07/11/2012: An explosive device was found near a tunnel between Binihal and Qazigund towns, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The Jawahar tunnel connects Kashmir to the rest of India. Authorities defused the device before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/02/2012: Assailants launched a rocket at the Golapalli police station in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties, as the projectile missed its intended target. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
01/28/2012: An explosive device was found and defused at a polling station at Khomidok area, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources noted that the device was found on the same day as the statewide elections.
05/13/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused next to a bridge connecting Dhamnitola and Istari villages, Maharashtra state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, officials attributed it to Maoists.
01/28/2012: An explosive device was found and defused at a polling station at Naoremthong High School, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources noted that the device was found on the same day as the statewide elections.
06/17/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Sopore city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Five CRPF personnel were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/01/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a house belonging to Sarpanch Mohammad Rustum Dar in Nagari Malpora village, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No one was injured in the attack; however, the blast damaged glass panes of the house. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/30/2012: Assailants planted two explosive devices on the roof of a Vaishnavite temple in Tamil Nadu city, Tamil Nadu state, India. The devices were noticed by temple workers and successfully defused by bomb disposal squad members. No group claimed responsibility for this attempted attack.
11/23/2012: An explosive device detonated in an undefined location in Manipur state, India. No further information is available.
05/04/2012: Assailants with knives slit the throat of a contractor in Kalimela village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police blamed Maoists, stating that they attacked the contractor because he ignored their warning to ask the group's permission before conducting repair work in the area.
08/08/2012: Police discovered and defused three mines planted under a tree near Sikpali weekly market in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists.
06/07/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at a teacher's residence in Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. Two civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/07/2012: Gunmen shot at soldiers in Kadalbal town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One soldier died and another suffered injuries in the shooting. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/29/2012: Assailants abducted five Jaypee employees from Ladmawreng village, Meghalaya state, India. Police officers intercepted the assailants and rescued the employees. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
05/25/2012: An explosive device detonated prematurely as an assailant was planting it outside an Indian National Congress (INC) leader's residence in the Philobari area of Tinsukia district, Assam state, India. The assailant was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials indicated that the deceased attacker, identified as Indrajit Moran, was an activist for the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). Sources also note that ULFA had called for a general strike to protest the INC's president's trip to Guwahati city. Two people were also arrested in connection with the incident.
05/14/2012: Assailants set fire to the sub-registrar's office and a district supply office in Sangli district, Maharashtra state, India. No one was injured in the attack; however, parts of the offices were damaged. Shiv Sena claimed responsibility for the incident, which they likely perpetrated in response to the government not taking enough action to relieve drought in the area.
01/16/2012: Armed people attacked a unit of the Assam Rifles in Jhoukhonom area, Churachandpur district, Manipur state, India. The attackers killed two Rifles, injured two, and stole a rifle. A joint committee, including The People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), People's Liberation Army (India), and the Revolutionary People's Front, claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/22/2012: An explosive device was discovered near a private school in Khongjom, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. The powerful device, which officials believed was intended to target security forces, was safely control-detonated without injury. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident.
02/09/2012: Assailants burned down the home of a former Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) member in Bokkingre, Meghalaya, India. The assailants then chased his relatives away. The GNLA claimed responsibility for the attack, which came after GNLA leaders set a seven-day deadline for surrendered members to refund the costs of weapons turned over to the police.
09/08/2012: Gunmen confronted a Special Police Officer (SPO) and an ex-servicemember in Gundbrouth area, Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The gunmen asked for their identification and then opened fire, killing the SPO and injuring the servicemember. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/20/2012: Assailants shot at student leaders of the All Bodoland Minority Students Union (ABMSU) in Magurbari village, Assam state, India. Two people, including the president of the ABMSU, were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/19/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a police station in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. As a result of the explosion, three police officers and seven civilians were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, three people were arrested in connection with the case that were members of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
01/07/2012: Attackers threw a grenade at an Indian National Congress office in Nambol Assembly, Bishnupur district, West Bengal state, India. The grenade failed to explode. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/13/2012: An explosive device detonated near the RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) office in Lamphelpat area, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the attack; however, some damage was done to the surrounding area. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident, alleging that the RAW office helped to locate and capture members of their group.
03/22/2012: Assailants used dynamite to blow up the Khaira block office in Jamui city, Bihar state, India. No casualties were reported. This was one of three attacks in this area on this day, all of which were claimed by the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
10/30/2012: A group of assailants threw incendiary devices at a passenger van carrying participants of Pasumpon village's Muthuramalinga Thevar Guru Pooja as they were traveling near Avaniyapuram municipality, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu state, India. At least seven people were killed and another 14 injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the police arrested 10 individuals, who stated that they carried out the attack to "intimidate" the Pooja participants.
02/26/2012: A kerosene bomb was thrown at the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Sandarpuram city, Tamil Nadu state, India. There were no human casualties, but a party banner was burnt. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however authorities suspected extremists trying to re-establish their presence in the city.
11/28/2012: An assailant threw a hand grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in a market in Bijbehara town, Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two CRPF officers and one civilian were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/29/2012: Assailants planted a grenade in the newly constructed area of the Regional Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) hospital in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. The grenade was successfully defused, and there were no casualties. In a note left at the scene, the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak: Progressive (PREPAK-P) claimed responsibility for the attack and demanded the immediate halt to construction of a new building in the psychiatry department.
07/31/2012: An explosive device detonated as an army convoy passed by in Bamunghopa area, Goalpara district, Assam state, India. One soldiers was killed and six injured in the blast. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the attack was part of a regular protest against Indian security forces.
03/18/2012: Attackers detonated explosive devices at the Mudulipada Panchyat office in Malkangiri town, Odisha state, India. There were no reported casualties. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they were protesting what they called the "anti-people policy of the government," as well as raids conducted by the police.
07/31/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the Sopore police station in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/15/2012: An explosive device targeting an Assam Rifles patrol detonated in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. Two Assam Rifles personnel were injured in the blast. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the Assam Rifles were targeted because they did not heed a call to strike and suspend all activities in the region.
10/29/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device targeting Indian security forces near Erakonda village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed it to Maoists.
08/04/2012: Authorities discovered and defused 130 landmines on the Tata-Ranchi highway in Seraikela-Kharswan district, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected Maoists.
05/21/2012: Four assailants riding on two motorbikes shot at Yudhisthir Swain, chair of Pipili block for Biju Janata Dal (BJD), in Pipili town, Puri district, Odisha state, India. Swain was injured in the gunfire. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/13/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Puthimari Nagaon village, Tripura state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/27/2012: Two assailants on a motorbike threw a grenade at the Demow police station in Sibsagar district, Assam state, India. There were no casualties, but the building was damaged. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/10/2012: Assailants attacked two cellular phone towers in Aurangabad area, Maharashtra state, India. The attackers damaged the towers and set fire to the generator room; however, there were no reported injuries. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
09/04/2012: An explosive device was found and defused by security forces between Tholkabad and Baliba in West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources suspected the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) and that the target was Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrols.
01/28/2012: An explosive device was found and defused at a polling station in Khurai Chingangbam area, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources noted that the device was found on the same day as the statewide elections.
04/05/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the police headquarters in Hyderpora area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The were no reported casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/21/2012: Assailants attacked a private security company in Bagund village, Jharkhand state, India. Ten vehicles were set on fire, and at least three employees were held hostage for a few hours. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, witnesses and authorities attributed it to Maoists.
01/26/2012: Gunmen attacked Indian National Congress employees in Namtaolong area, Tamenglong district, Manipur state, India. One person was killed and one injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the attack to Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) members, noting that it occurred two days before the statewide Congress elections.
05/08/2012: Assailants attacked a water tanker in Dharmabandha village, Nuapada district, Odisha state, India. The perpetrators kidnapped a police officer and burned the tanker in the attack. The assailants then killed the police officer two hours later. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police sources blamed Maoists.
04/22/2012: Assailants abducted a politician from Maharashtra state, India. The victim, Chamur Joi of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was then shot and killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/14/2012: Assailants threw explosive devices at a home in Parakkadavu village, Kerala state, India. This was one of three attacks on homes in this area, across which two people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents.
09/14/2012: An explosive device was placed at the home of a Border Road Taskforce (BRTF) commander in Lamphelpat area, Manipur state, India. The device was reported to police, who removed it from the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/16/2012: Assailants kidnapped three civilians from Kalimela town, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. One of the kidnapped victims was freed on October 17, 2012 after the assailants determined that he was a student. The two other victims, Kunjami Singh and Lacha Padiami, who worked as labor contractors, were the assailants' specific targets. The outcome for these two victims is unknown. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that Singh and Padiami were kidnapped because they had sent workers on job contracts and did not pay them after the projects were completed. Maoists demanded that the debts to the workers be paid in exchange for the release of the two contractors.
08/09/2012: Assailants remotely detonated an explosive device targeting Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) members trying to remove a dead body from the road in Sibsagar district, Assam state, India. There were no casualties or property damage in this attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, a source attributed it to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
08/26/2012: Assailants detonated a grenade at a public playground in the Nongren area of Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/01/2012: Approximately 100 assailants kidnapped a Banswara legislator, Arjun Singh Bamnia, from Banswara city, Rajasthan state, India. The kidnappers held and beat Bamnia until he signed a statement promising to oppose a nuclear power plant plan for the area. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but intelligence officials suspected Maoists.
07/05/2012: Assailants abducted a former sarpanch, Ganggadhar Chalana, in Madakapodur area of Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. The attackers took Chalana from his home before slitting his throat and shooting him. Chalana's body was found on July 6, 2012. Maoists left a note with the body, stating that they targeted Chalana because they suspected him of being a police informant.
02/01/2012: Three police officers were killed and four more were wounded when Maoists detonated a land mine near a construction site in Latehar district, Chetag village, Jharkhand state, India. The Maoists opened fire on the police immediately after the explosion, in which a police jeep was destroyed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol in Chokpot area, Meghalaya state, India. A police officer and a civilian were injured. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
05/14/2012: Gunmen took control of a train, threatened its passengers, and then planted an explosive device on the engine in Posotia village, Jharkhand state, India. Officials defused the device, and no one was injured in the attack. The Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility, leaving posters at the scene of the incident urging a general strike to protest police atrocities and anti-Maoist activities, as well as demanding an end to Operation Green Hunt.
05/07/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the house of Shadi Lal in the Sounder area, Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Lal, a Special Police Officer (SPO), was not injured, but his son was killed and three others injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/20/2012: Assailants kidnapped a gram rakhi (village guard) in Badural village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
06/07/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Danapur area, Patna district, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident.
05/23/2012: A number of landmines were discovered along the Manipur-Chandrapur road in Lekhepal, Utter Pradesh, India. The mines were successfully defused by Rajnandgaon police on May 24, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a police official attributed it to Maoists.
05/14/2012: Assailants killed a civilian in Salai village, Chhota Nagra town, Jharkhand state, India. The Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they targeted Kayam because he was a police informer.
09/29/2012: An explosive device was found and defused at a crowded road in Singjamei market, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. The targets of the explosive device were security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/19/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused on a railway underpass in the vicinity of Tellapur village, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The device was meant to target the Hyderabad-Mumbai rail line. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities suspected Maoists were behind the attack.
01/12/2012: Assailants kidnapped Dharmendra Yadav in Natun Haza area, Dima Hasao district, Assam state, India. Yadav was a construction worker for Triveni Construction, who was completing a project in the area. He was released nine days later because of the pressure put on by the ongoing police and army operation. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted that there had been a rash of recent kidnappings of construction company members, either for ransom or to disrupt the peace process in Dima Hasao.
03/22/2012: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated as it passed by a police station in Bijbehara town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Two assailants were killed and 20 others were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, police attributed it to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
03/22/2012: Assailants set fire to 12 sand-laden trucks in Jamui city, Bihar state, India. There were no casualties reported. This was one of three attacks in this area on this day, all of which were claimed by Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
01/07/2012: Six assailants threw a grenade near a bus stand in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One person was injured in the attack. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Sopore on this date. The attacks came one day after the 19th anniversary of a massacre in the city perpetrated by border guards. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the incident to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
01/07/2012: Six assailants attacked a police station with grenades and rifles in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The police returned fire, killing one attacker. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Sopore on this date. The attacks came one day after the 19th anniversary of a massacre in the city perpetrated by border guards. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the incident to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
02/26/2012: Three explosives were thrown at a residence in Mathamangalam area, Kerala state, India. Three people were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
12/19/2012: Two roadside bombs detonated moments after a police convoy had passed by in Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. The blast struck a water tanker, injuring the civilian driver. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/31/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the house of a village headman in Haflong town, Assam state, India. The house was damaged, but the village head and his family were unharmed. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
03/13/2012: Remote-controlled landmines detonated simultaneously in Tailyadeeh Mor area, Jharkhand state, India. The explosives detonated as an Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) vehicle passed by. None of the passengers were injured, but the vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, police officials suspected Maoists.
12/04/2012: Assailants opened fire on a special action police patrol in Hikker forests in Gadchirol district, Maharashtra state, India. Police returned fire, killing one of the attackers. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attribute the attack to Maoists.
08/02/2012: Assailants threw three grenades at a police post in Sopore town, Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Three people were injured and several shops damaged by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities detained two minors and identified that they had been paid by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to throw the grenades.
07/18/2012: Assailants fired a grenade at the civil secretariat in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The grenade failed to detonate after landing inside the complex. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/08/2012: Assailants opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Golawand village, Chhattisgarh state, India. The attackers shot and killed a laborer whom they mistook for a police officer; there were no other reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
12/11/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused along a road in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/23/2012: Assailants detonated eight explosive devices at buildings in Telibagh village, Jharkhand state, India. The buildings were to be part of a security forces complex but were under construction at the time of the blasts. Two workers, who were asleep in the building, were killed and seven others injured during the attack. The Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident in pamphlets left at the scene, stating that they had carried it out in retribution for the government's seizure of land.
10/21/2012: Assailants attacked Gumpha Kadraka on Bandhugaon-Rayagada Road near Nilabadi in Koraput district, Odisha state, India. Kadraka, a tribal civilian, was killed in the assault. According to letters found at the scene of the killing, Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they attacked Kadraka because they believed that he was a police informant.
04/20/2012: A landmine detonated near Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) district politicians in Madded area, Chhattisgarh state, India. Three people were killed and one wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
06/08/2012: Assailants abducted a man from his house in Bandhugaon area, Koraput district, Odisha state, India. His body was found the next morning; his throat had been slit. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind a handwritten poster stating that the victim was a police informer.
10/02/2012: Gunmen opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in Basaguda village, Chhattisgarh state, India. One of the assailants was killed when police returned fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
08/15/2012: An explosive device was discovered under an anti-Independence day banner in Etapalli tehsil, Maharashtra state, India. Police defused the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police sources attributed it to Maoists.
09/22/2012: A grenade was thrown at the house of Loitongbam Keisho, a Planning and Development Authority (PDA) executive engineer, in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the explosion; however, the property sustained slight damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/11/2012: Assailants attacked the sarpanch of Khairaputi panchayat and his assistant in Bhanjanagar area, Odisha state, India. The assailants opened fire and detonated explosive devices, killing both victims. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/01/2012: Responding to an anonymous tip, police discovered an explosive device on top of Tirupparankundram hill, near Madurai city, Tamil Nadu province, India. The device, set to detonate that night, was safely removed and defused. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/17/2012: An assailant threw a grenade at a liquor store in Bala area south of Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One person was killed and five more were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/14/2012: A grenade exploded in the pocket of an assailant in Digboi town, Assam state, India. One person was killed and four injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
11/27/2012: An explosive device detonated as three Assam Rifles vehicles were passing by in the Chairen area, Manipur state, India. One civilian farmer who was in the vicinity was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/28/2012: At least one assailant attacked a polling station in Thangpi village, Chandel district, Manipur state, India. The attacker was posing as a voter in line, demanded that polling be stopped and, when it was not, opened fire. Five people were killed, and one of the attackers was injured. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities attributed the incident to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM).
01/08/2012: Assailants opened fire on an Indian National Congress meeting in Charangpat area, Thoubal district, Manipur province, India. One person was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/03/2012: Assailants threw grenades into panchayat candidates' houses near Lamshang town, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. The grenades failed to explode, so no damage was done. This was one of two grenade attacks on panchayat candidates' homes in Manipur on September 3, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/11/2012: A crude bomb exploded in Mrigi village, West Bengal state, India. One boy was killed and two people injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/07/2012: Assailants opened fire on Chinna Gota in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Gota, an anti-Maoist or Salwa Judum movement leader, and one of his bodyguards were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
09/03/2012: An explosive device detonated, targeting security personnel in Nongpok Keithelmanbi area, Yairipok town, Manipur state, India. A civilian was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/10/2012: Assailants attacked a police vehicle transporting prisoners in Jhajjar district, Haryana state, India. The attackers killed three prisoners and wounded two police officers. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
01/25/2012: Two explosive devices detonated in Imphal city, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the attack. The Manipur People's Army (MPA) faction of the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that they were trying to disrupt the Republic Day festivities.
07/31/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Three people, including one police officer, were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
05/29/2012: An explosive device was discovered by a villager in Goalpara district, Assam state, India. The device was defused by the Indian Army. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a police source suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
09/29/2012: An explosive device was found under a culvert and defused in Chandrapura town, Jharkhand state, India. The device was posited to have been targeting police forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police suspected Maoists because they had planted bombs with a similar target in the past.
09/20/2012: Assailants attacked Rohidas Gondo, a ward member, in Rajpur village, Odisha state, India. The assailants tied Gondo's hands behind him and shot him. The Communist Party of India (Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident by leaving a poster at the scene, alleging that Gondo was a police informer.
05/21/2012: A grenade was discovered and defused at MM Higher Secondary School in Wangkhei neighborhood, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, authorities noted that a large payment had been demanded from the school by a suspected banned group.
07/07/2012: Assailants set fire to the Communist Party of India: Marxist (CPI-M) local office in the Avarampalayam area of Coimbatore city, Tamil Nadu state, India. The amount of damage done to the building during the attack is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/04/2012: Assailants shot at the motorcycle of a police assistant sub-inspector in Khariaguda city, Odisha state, India. The police officer and his son sustained injuries in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to Maoists.
07/04/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the residence of a Manipur government official in Deulahland area, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. One worker sustained injuries in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/24/2012: A landmine was discovered on the Gajwa-Moniya Road in Chatra district, Jharkhand state, India. The device, which was meant to target police patrols, was safely removed following its discovery. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists after a tip from a recently arrested member of a Maoist organization led police to the device's location.
07/12/2012: Assailants attacked a construction company's camp in Bodocheka village, Odisha state, India. The assailants beat and injured two workers and set an excavator on fire. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack on posters left at the scene citing their opposition to road construction in the area. Police believed that the Maoists opposed roadwork because it would facilitate the movement of security forces.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
01/14/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the house of an Indian National Congress candidate in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. The candidate was not hurt by the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, seven major opposition groups had issued a threat saying they would target Congress candidates for opposing their ideals.
06/09/2012: Four explosive devices were discovered and defused in Islampur village, Bhagalpur town, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident.
12/18/2012: Two explosive devices were discovered and defused in Vajantipur village, Hailakandi district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/26/2012: An explosive device detonated near a group of civilians in Parsauni area, Bihar state, India. Six civilians were injured by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/11/2012: Two landmines were discovered and defused under a bridge near the Gala river in Letehar district, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident.
07/15/2012: Gunmen shot at a journalist in Itanagar city, Arunachal Pradesh state, India. The journalist targeted was the president of the local Union of Working Journalists. She was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/26/2012: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused in Philobari district, Assam state, India. The device had been hidden in a shop. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/10/2012: Gunmen on motorcycles shot Arpan Mukhopadhyay in Asansol town, Burdwan district, West Bengal state, India. Mukhopadhyay, the son of a former mayor and member of parliament, was killed in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/04/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu state, India. The device was sent to Umar Farooq, a former activist of the Al-Umma group. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/02/2012: Security forces discovered 21 landmines planted in Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. No further information is available.
10/08/2012: An explosive device was discovered in Dornapal village, Chhattisgarh state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists.
01/02/2012: A hand grenade was tossed into a market in Tinsukia district, Assam, India. Three people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
05/12/2012: An explosive device targeting security forces was discovered and defused on a bridge near Damra village, Goalpara district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, officials suspected the device was planted by the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
09/03/2012: Assailants threw grenades into panchayat candidates' houses near Yairipok Top area, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. The grenades failed to explode, so no damage was done. This was one of two grenade attacks on panchayat candidates' homes in Manipur on September 3, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/30/2012: Police officers found and defused three explosive devices on railroad tracks near Tatanagar railway station in Baridih village, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand state, India. Authorities suspected that the devices were targeting a passenger train. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but police suspected the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
11/28/2012: Assailants opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Bemina, Srinagar area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One CRPF officer was killed in the attack. Jamiat ul-Mujahedin (JuM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/15/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a group of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers in Srinigar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Two officers were injured. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
11/12/2012: Children discovered an explosive device near an electrical transformer in Lilong area, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. The device was equipped a remote detonator and may have been intended for security forces. Police safely removed and detonated the device without injury. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident.
04/23/2012: A grenade was discovered and defused inside the Regional Institute of Medical Services (RIMS) administration office in Imphal West city, Manipur state, India. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/21/2012: Assailants attacked workers of the Royal Construction Company in Lohardaga town, Jharkhand state, India. Five workers were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, the source attributed it to Jharkhand Janmukti Parishad (JJP), a Maoist splinter group.
08/01/2012: An explosive device detonated near a border security forces checkpoint in Lakhpat village, Gujarat state, India. Five cattle herders in the area were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/29/2012: An explosive device detonated outside a Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) store in Theni district, Tamil Nadu state, India. One person was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
11/24/2012: Members of a police patrol were ambushed as they were taking a break near a park in Lunkhuk village, Haflong, Dima Hasao district, Assam state, India. One officer was killed in the attack, although none were reported injured. Officials suspected the involvement of National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and one member was taken into custody two days later in connection with the incident.
07/06/2012: Assailants shot a senior leader of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in Bhanga town, Karimganj district, Assam state, India. The leader, Tofail Ahmed, died in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police believed that the same group that killed Ahmed's son last November was also involved in this assassination.
05/14/2012: Two explosive devices were discovered and defused at an Oil India Limited (OIL) pipeline in Tengakhat area, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, officials suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
11/08/2012: Security personnel discovered and defused three buried explosive devices in the Sonwar forest, Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The devices were targeting a police patrol. No group claimed responsibility; however, Maoists are believed to be involved.
11/08/2012: A landmine detonated targeting the convoy of a Congress leader near Faraspal village, Chhattisgarh state, India. Assailants opened fire on the convoy following the blast. Mahendra Karma, a congressperson, was unharmed; however, four people other people, including the driver and guards, were injured. Officials suspected that the Maoists are responsible for the attack; Mahendra Karma used to lead an anti-Maoist movement.
05/27/2012: Assailants detonated a landmine and then opened fire on a Special Operation Group (SOG) vehicle in Kanaguda village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. Three police officers were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, government sources attributed it to Maoists.
12/19/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the residence of a government contractor in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. One laborer was killed and another two were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/25/2012: An explosive device was found and defused 13 kilometers southwest of Imphal in Moidangpok area, Manipur state, India. This was one of three attacks in Manipur on September 25, 2012. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/26/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Chokpot area, Meghalaya state, India. There were no casualties or damages reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
09/20/2012: A petrol bomb was thrown into the Abdulkhader Alim Mosque in Bharathinagar area, Tamil Nadu state, India. The mosque was slightly damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/19/2012: A pro-Indian party panch was shot at and wounded in Tral town, Palwama district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/20/2012: Two explosive devices contained in a steel container were found and safely detonated on Jeypore-Malkangiri road near Tanginiguda area, Odisha state, India. The target was thought to be patrolling security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/31/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused on railway tracks along the Muzaffarpur-Motihari route, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, police sources attributed the incident to the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
06/27/2012: Assailants opened fire on an auto-rickshaw in Nathbalwa village, Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. Three passengers were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
08/10/2012: Four landmines were discovered and defused in Malkangiri town, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
02/24/2012: An explosive device detonated in Jisugittam village, South Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. There were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
08/24/2012: Assailants attacked the residence of Tarpon Leishangthem, a panchayat pradhan or community leader, in Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: Assailants threw explosive devices at a home in Parakkadavu village, Kerala state, India. This was one of three attacks on homes in this area, across which two people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents.
02/29/2012: Two members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were arrested in New Delhi city, Delhi state, India. The two were on the way to carry out one or more attacks in the city.
06/10/2012: Assailants attacked the Bhansi railway station in Kirandul area, Chhattisgarh state, India. The attackers temporarily detained railway staff while they detonated an explosive device, damaging a portion of the railway track. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspected the involvement of Maoists.
08/07/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused by security officials near Haldapara village, Goalpara district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
01/09/2012: Three explosive devices detonated outside a Communist Party of India (CPI) rallying venue in Lamlai area, Manipur state, India. Three other explosive devices were found and defused. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but the CPI candidate blamed rival political factions for the attack, not the committee of banned groups that had formed to protest the election.
08/06/2012: An explosive device targeting a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Mine Protected Vehicle (MPV) detonated in Marande Village, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One CRPF trooper was killed and five others wounded in this attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, police officials attributed it to Maoists.
11/20/2012: Assailants opened fire on the parked vehicle of Iran Shah, a National Conference (NC) political leader, in Baramulla city, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Shah was in a shop at the time of the attack and was not harmed; however, his private police guard was shot and killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/29/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused by authorities in Rangia city, Assam state, India. The intended target of the explosive is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
05/22/2012: An explosive device detonated in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One police officer was killed and another injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, police sources attributed it to Maoists.
08/29/2012: Assailants opened fire on a panchayat officer in Malkangiri town, Chhattisgarh state, India. The officer was killed and his two companions were critically injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
08/15/2012: An explosive device detonated in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of three coordinated blasts occurring within a few hours in Manipur state on this day. The Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks, stating that they were part of the group's protest against the Independence Day celebrations.
06/19/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused near an engineer's residence in the Pishumthong area of Imphal city, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on a state armed forces camp in the Kukrajhar camp in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India. One police officer was killed while attempting to defuse a tiffin bomb recovered after the attackers had fled. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a police official attributed it to Maoists.
11/20/2012: Between 15 to 20 suspected Maoists attacked a village sarpanch or leader in Tekda Motla village, Maharashtra state, India. The assailants dragged Narayan Shankar Sirangi from his home to a public road and shot him before fleeing. Specific motive is unknown; however, sources suggest Sirangi was targeted for engaging in corrupt practices.
08/20/2012: Assailants detonated two explosive devices and opened fire at a farm in Lamlai town, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported injuries or damages in the attack. The Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it was an unsuccessful attempt to provoke a response from security forces.
09/24/2012: An explosive device attached to a bicycle detonated in Sibsagar Central market, Assam state, India. One person died and at least seven were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspected Paresh Barua, a subgroup of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
09/25/2012: An explosive device detonated near an outpost of the Gorkha Rifles in Bishnupur district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the blast. This was one of three attacks targeting the army in Manipur on September 25, 2012. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
11/26/2012: Approximately thirty Maoists attacked a construction site operated by a private company in Usuruia village, Jharkhand state, India. The assailants set six large construction vehicles on fire, destroying them; however, they left the company employees unharmed. The attackers belonged to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M).
09/03/2012: An explosive device was found and defused under a bridge in Tumargunda jungle, Bhamragad subdivision, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. No group claimed responsibility for planting the device; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
03/26/2012: Gunmen fired upon and wounded two security officers in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. The two officers were members of the District Voluntary Force (DVF) and were traveling from Markapadar to Gobindpalli. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
11/12/2012: A roadside bomb detonated near the entrance to Imphal College on the outskirts of Imphal city, Manipur state, India. One person was killed and another was injured in the blast. People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) claimed responsibility for the incident and apologized to the citizenry, stating that the device had detonated prematurely and had targeted the wrong people.
06/28/2012: An explosive device inside a discarded suitcase was discovered and defused near a gas station in the Ranbir Singh Pora area of Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/14/2012: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of Biren Singh in Lamlai town, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. No casualties were reported, as Singh, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), was not home at the time of the attack. However, the residence was partially damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated on a railroad track in Bhojo area, Assam state, India. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspect that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was responsible.
05/27/2012: Ten detonators were discovered on a railway track near Nashkal Station in Medak's Tellapur village, Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The detonators were defused by police. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/07/2012: An explosive device detonated near a Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) vehicle in Rajpeta, Chhattisgarh, India. At least two soldiers were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
01/19/2012: Assailants murdered a school teacher and two others in East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the attack to members of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA). The GNLA had accused the people of spying for the police.
08/26/2012: Assailants detonated a grenade at the residence of Ibochou Singh in the Thangmeiband area of Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. Singh, an assistant engineer for the Public Health Engineering Department, escaped the attack unharmed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/28/2012: Assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades targeting security forces at a military camp in Batmaloo area, Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. There were no reported casualties, as the grenades exploded in midair. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed it to separatists.
05/27/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Jaranga village, Kunti district, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/29/2012: Assailants threw two grenades into a crowded market in Uldaguri town, Uldaguri district, Assam state, India. Only one of the two grenades detonated. One person was killed and another five injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials suspected a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
09/01/2012: A remote-controlled landmine detonated while Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were clearing a road near Potamunda area, Odisha state, India. One BSF member was killed and one injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
10/07/2012: An explosive device planted along a road detonated in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/21/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police convoy in East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, India. There were no casualties. The Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/05/2012: Assailants opened fire on a passenger train in Dima Hasao district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the train sustained minor damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but police suspected the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM).
06/10/2012: Approximately 10 assailants kidnapped 16 dam workers in the Lunglit area of Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. The kidnappers arrived at the Lungnit Hydro Electric Project site and forced the workers to leave with them. Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT) claimed responsibility for the incident, demanding ransom in return for the safe release of the hostages. Two were released on July 5, 2012; the company had paid a ransom for them. The fate of the remaining hostages is unknown.
07/10/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) picket in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The grenade missed the target and exploded in the road, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/22/2012: A grenade was discovered and defused near a police vehicle in Langate town, Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2012: Assailants threw explosive devices at a home in Parakkadavu village, Kerala state, India. This was one of three attacks on homes in this area, across which two people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents.
11/27/2012: Police discovered an explosive device planted under a bridge in the Nai Basti area of Tral, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The device was safely defused by experts without injury. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident.
11/11/2012: Maoists ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in the Jarawandi jungles near Etapalli tehsil, Maharashtra state, India. Three CRPF personnel were injured in the attack before the Maoists retreated. It is unknown if the assailants suffered any injury.
07/30/2012: Police officers discovered an explosive device near Kathpulia railway crossing in Chandwa community development block Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/24/2012: Assailants kidnapped a tribal villager from his residence in the Manikpur area of Dhalai district, Tripura state, India. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials attributed it to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and claimed that the villager was kidnapped after he had refused to provide shelter for the assailants.
10/22/2012: Assailants attacked an army patrol in Chatergam village, Badgam district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. At least three Indian soldiers were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/08/2012: A hand grenade was thrown at the residence of the Manipur Assembly Speaker, TH Lokeshore Singh, in Sagolmang Mamang Leikai village, Manipur state, India. The grenade failed to explode, and the speaker was not at home at the time of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/15/2012: An explosive device detonated near Jalan Tea Factory in Bengenakhowa area, Assam state, India. No one was injured in the attack; however, slight damage was done to the factory. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
03/31/2012: An explosive device hidden in a tiffin lunch box detonated in the main market of Doom Dooma town, Assam state, India. The device detonated while police officers were attempting to remove it. Three police officers were wounded. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating it was part of the group's armed revolution against "colonial Indian rulers."
03/04/2012: Assailants threw explosive devices at the home of Indian National Congress candidate RK Anand in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported injuries or casualties. The Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/23/2012: Two roadside bombs detonated in the vicinity of a military foot patrol in Khonthoujam village, Imphal West, Manipur state, India. Two soldiers and a bomb-sniffing dog were injured in the blast. United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/05/2012: Assailants abducted a Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) youth leader and a village leader from their homes in Kuitopa village, Jharkhand state, India. The victims were shot and their throats were slit. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident and left pamphlets with the bodies, stating that they had been killed because they were police informers.
05/04/2012: Assailants threw explosive devices at the motorcycle of a former Communist Party of India (CPM) leader, TP Chandrasekharan, in Kozhikode district, Kerala state, India. When he fell off the motorcycle, the assailants hacked Chandrasekharan to death. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/19/2012: An explosive device detonated in an office building in Howrah city, West Bengal state, India. No casualties were reported; however, the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: Assailants attacked a police patrol in Dadengre area, Meghalaya state, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, authorities attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
07/21/2012: Gunmen fired on a marketplace in East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. One person died and two others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
12/05/2012: Police discovered and defused explosives hidden near banners displayed along a road in the Hindwada forest area of Gadchirol district, Maharashtra, India. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/24/2012: Assailants detonated a remote-controlled explosive device, targeting an approaching police patrol party in Kamu Maring Village, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the blast; however, a police vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to the People's Liberation Army (India).
04/21/2012: Assailants attacked a district collector in Sukma town, Chhattisgarh state, India. The collector was kidnapped, and two of his guards were killed in the assault. He was released on May 3, 2012. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that Alex Paul Menon was targeted for his alleged silence regarding the mistreatment of tribal members in the area. The group also demanded the release of 17 Maoists held in prison.
01/24/2012: Assailants kidnapped three Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited engineers from their living quarters in Rongkhon area, Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. One was released the same day, and the two others were released on February 4, 2012. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA). The hostages were released once the government ensured that the three districts primarily lived in by the GNLA would receive electricity.
08/15/2012: An explosive device detonated in Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of three coordinated blasts occurring within a few hours in Manipur state on this day. The Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks, stating that they were part of the group's protest against the Independence Day celebrations.
11/19/2012: Assailants shot and killed a farmer in Sesaput, Odisha, India. The assailants called the victim out of his house and dragged him down to the village square, where they cut his throat and then shot him. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
06/24/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the residence of Okram Megha in Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. Megha, a special contractor, escaped the attack unharmed; however, three police vehicles were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
08/31/2012: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused on Basaguda road, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
05/16/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device on tracks of the East Central Railway near the Gurpa station in Bihar state, India. No one was injured, but the tracks were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, police blamed the incident on Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M).
09/10/2012: A National Conference sarpanch, Ghulam Mohammed Yatoo, was shot and killed in Pattam area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, Mohammad Altaf Ganie alias Cheema, a member of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), was apprehended in connection with the incident on December 22, 2012.
07/30/2012: Ten assailants attacked the residential compound of a sub-inspector in Onakkunu village, Kannur district, Kerala state, India. No casualties were reported; however, assailants destroyed agricultural crops located within the compound. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected Communist Party of India: Marxist (CPM).
07/09/2012: An explosive device was found near Daliam village, Jharkhand state, India. Authorities destroyed the device before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but authorities suspected that Maoists were involved.
05/01/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of an auditorium near Lord Ram temple in Madurai city, Tamil Nadu state, India. There were no injuries or property damage as a result of the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/10/2012: A landmine detonated, targeting Central Reserve Police Force personnel in Dumaria area, Gaya district, Bihar state, India. Assailants and police also engaged in a firefight following the explosion. Two police officers and two assailants were killed in the attack, and another nine people were injured. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
10/28/2012: An explosive device detonated at Mamudpur in Boran village, Naihati city, West Bengal state, India. A civilian was injured in the blast. Police found eight other explosive devices at the scene of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials suspected that the injured civilian was attempting to hide the explosives when the detonation occurred.
10/24/2012: Assailants in a vehicle threw two grenades at a crowd of Durga Puja participants near the railway crossing in the Basugaon area of Chirang district, Assam state, India. One of the two grenades failed to detonate and was subsequently defused by police officials upon its discovery. One person was killed and another three injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
02/10/2012: An explosive device detonated targeting a passing Border Security Forces (BSF) vehicle in Janiguda, Malkangiri district, Odisha, India. Assailants also opened fire following the blast. Four BSF officers were killed in the attack, and another two were injured. This was one of two related attacks in Odisha on this day. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/13/2012: Assailants planted an explosive device on the vehicle of Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua Koren in New Delhi city, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India. Two people, including the diplomat and the driver, were injured in the blast. This was one of two coordinated incidents targeting Israeli officials on the same day; the other incident took place in Georgia. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, five assailants were later identified in connection with the attack, including a journalist and members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, and one assailant was taken into custody.
01/27/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at an army convoy on the Baramulla-Handwara road, Azad Gunj area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One civilian was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/08/2012: Assailants threw an explosive device at the house of a Gram Panchayat pradhan in Laishram Leikai village, Manipur state, India. At least three relatives of the pradhan suffered injuries in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/29/2012: Maoists attacked the office of a private construction company in Jemini village, Dumka district, Jharkhand state, India. The assailants set ten vehicles on fire before fleeing. Police arrested three people in connection with the incident a week later.
02/26/2012: Two gunmen shot and killed a former police constable in Bansamawe village, East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. The Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they suspected the victim of being a police informer. However, the police denied this.
01/06/2012: Police found a crude explosive device at the panchayat office in Kozhikode city, Kerala state, India. The police defused the explosive device successfully. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/03/2012: Three explosive devices were discovered on a motorcycle abandoned in Mathiya, Uttar Pradesh state, India. Police were called in to defuse the devices. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that Maoists were carrying the bombs to be used in a near-by village.
08/07/2012: Gunmen opened fire on a group of police in the high security Reserve Police Line in Dantewada district, southern Chhattisgarh state, India. One police officer was killed and one wounded. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, police sources attributed it to Maoists.
11/03/2012: At least 20 Maoists attacked a road-building site at Kalimunda village, Odisha state, India. The assailants set five tractors and a JCB machine on fire. They also left pamphlets behind calling on the public to join their bandh (strike).
04/21/2012: Assailants set fire to a telephone exchange and destroyed a mobile phone tower in Bandhugaon area, Odisha state, India. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
03/02/2012: Assailants ambushed joint Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) and police forces in Arengdo, Meghalaya, India. There were no reported casualties in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
04/05/2012: Four assailants attacked a hospital construction site and abducted nine construction workers in Rongbong Ghat area, Assam state, India. The workers were released on April 12, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources attributed it to the Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT).
07/05/2012: Gunmen attacked the press secretary of the Nagaland Chief Minister in Kohima town, Nagaland state, India. The individual escaped injury from gunfire as he sought safety inside of his house. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/08/2012: An explosive device was found in Goreswar town, Assam state, India. Security forces defused the device before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/27/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol on Grand Trunk Road in Topchanchi town, Dhanbad district, Jharkhand state, India. One police officer was killed and another 13 injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) and suspected that they executed the attack as part of their protest against the anti-Maoist paramilitary campaign, Operation Green Hunt.
05/13/2012: Assailants shot Dilip Kumar Sinha, an assistant sub-inspector, in Bande area, Chhattisgarh state, India. Sinha was killed in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police attributed the attack to Maoists.
11/24/2012: An explosive device detonated in Tonsen Phura Makhong area, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties or damages. No further information is available.
02/10/2012: Assailants opened fire on a vehicle transporting Potteru Irrigation Project officials in Malkangiri district, Odisha, India. Two officials were injured in the attack. This was one of two related attacks in Odisha on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspected Maoists.
11/23/2012: Maoists shot and killed a village guard after dragging him out of a temple in Dasmantpur town, Odisha state, India. The assailants left posters and a letter with the body stating he was a police informer.
05/04/2012: A crude explosive device detonated in Purushottampur village, Ganjam district, Odisha state, India. Two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/01/2012: Three tiffin box explosive devices were found on Gangalur road in Tikler area, Chhattisgarh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for planting the devices.
10/19/2012: Assailants opened fire on an Indian army convoy near Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No casualties or damages were reported. Following the assault on the convoy, the assailants walked into the nearby Hotel Silver Stars and opened fire. One hotel employee was killed and two more injured. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/20/2012: Gunmen attacked a work site of Pradhan Mantri Gram Yojana (PMGSY) in Pendajam area, Odisha state, India. No casualties were reported, but several construction vehicles were burned. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
10/08/2012: An explosive device was discovered in Luwangsangbam area, Manipur state, India. The device was defused before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/18/2012: A landmine detonated in the Lahanthan forests near Kothilwa village, Bihar state, India. The blast was targeting jawans; however, the explosion struck civilians instead. Two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
05/25/2012: Assailants detonated explosives at Lagadpati Rajagopal's farmhouse near the Kondapur area of Ranga Reddy district, Andhra Pradesh state, India. Rajagopal, a parliamentarian for the Vijaywada constituency, was not present at the time of the incident; however, the building suffered minor damage. According to pamphlets found at the scene, the perpetrators stated that they carried out the attack to honor Telangana martyrs.
01/24/2012: Attackers shot and killed a local businessman in his house in Shubdani-Newa area, Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but investigations revealed that Rehman Brai, a top commander in Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT), was killed in a gunfight with government forces at the businessman's home the previous October. Sources believed that the attack was in revenge for Brai's death.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
11/24/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the home of a former government teacher in Khagempalli area, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. No further information is available.
01/27/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device at the house of a former Manipur congress worker in Thangmeiband area, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. The explosive device injured his wife. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/19/2012: Assailants held four Forest Department employees hostage in Markatlola village, Chhattisgarh, India. The assailants also set fire to trucks containing tendu leaves, which were destroyed. The hostages were released the following morning on May 20, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
09/25/2012: An explosive device detonated near Sector M of the Tactical Headquarters Army post in Imphal district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the blast. This was one of three attacks targeting the army in Manipur on September 25, 2012. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
09/28/2012: A group of people stormed the home of the Patepur deputy chief, slit his and his son's throat, abducted his daughter-in-law and grandson, and blew the house up in Sukki area, Bihar state, India. The whereabouts of the kidnapped victims are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, a source attributed it to the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
07/10/2012: Assailants set construction vehicles on fire in Balimela town, Odisha state, India. No casualties were reported, as the assailants evacuated the workers prior to the attack; however, at least three vehicles were set ablaze and badly damaged. Maoists left behind a number of leaflets and posters at the site of the arson, which stated that a recent alleged tribal massacre by police in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh state was the reason for the attack.
03/18/2012: Assailants shot and killed a contractor in Patrapali area, Odisha state, India. The victim was taken from a contracting site and held for a few hours by members of the Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M), who accused the victim of being a police informer and taking land prohibited by CPI-M.
06/01/2012: Six assailants shot and killed Brahmeshwar Singh in Arrah city, Bihar state, India. Singh was the leader of the Ranbir Sena, an outlawed militia group populated by upper-class landowning individuals. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/22/2012: Assailants threw a grenade in the Lumding Reserve Forest in Nadgaon village, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra state, India. Two woodcutters were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/26/2012: At least ten assailants on motorcycles set two earthmovers on fire at a road construction site in Garhwa district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties resulting from the arson attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
01/24/2012: Ten assailants broke into a house where four Indian National Congress workers were staying and shot them in Noney area, Manipur state, India. The three workers were injured in the attack. One worker was kidnapped as well; the outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility, but sources attributed the attack to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM). A Coordinating Committee of seven groups had previously banned the Congress Party and launched attacks on Congress workers and candidates.
11/22/2012: An explosive device detonated near an Assam Rifles checkpost in Singjamei area, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. One passer-by civilian was injured in the unclaimed blast.
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
11/25/2012: Approximately ten armed assailants began shooting in the air at a public sports function in Rongrenggiri village, Meghalaya state, India. The function was attended by Deborah C. Marak, the president of Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC); the assailants informed her that there would be no political organizing in the area. No one was injured in the incident. Officials believe that the attack was organized by an unnamed breakaway faction of the Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC).
06/09/2012: Assailants set fire to a government-run tendu leaf warehouse in Odisha state, India. There were no reported injuries in the incident, although the warehouse was damaged. This was one of 13 similar attacks on warehouses in a 24-hour period in Singhbahali, Bharuamunda and Badtia villages, located in Balangir and Nuapada districts. Communist Party of India: Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident; they left behind pamphlets listing eight demands, including a raise in the price of kendu leaves and higher compensation for leaf harvesters.
08/10/2012: Gunmen opened fire on the retired deputy superintendent of police in Batamaloo area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The victim, Abdul Hamid Bhat, was killed in the attack. The Islamic Movement of Kashmir claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/13/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused on a private passenger bus in Morena district, Madhya Pradesh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/24/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the residence of Ibochouba Konthoujam, a junior engineer for the Public Health Engineering Department, in Manipur state, India. The grenade failed to detonate. This was one of two similar hand grenade attacks against government engineers in Manipur state on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/16/2012: Gunmen shot a sarpanch in Barari village, Bihar state, India. The victim died in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/17/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle was discovered and defused in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, officials later determined that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was responsible and arrested five members in connection with the incident.
06/25/2012: Assailants attacked the residence of Pidika Sarbo in the Gumudaguoda village of the Bandhugaon area, Odisha state, India. Sarbo, a former tribal ward member, was killed after the attackers cut his throat. Maoists claimed responsibility and left a note with the body; they stated that Sarbo had been targeted because he was a police informant and was involved in the liquor trade.
01/08/2012: An explosive device was found near the house of Dr. L. Ibetomi, the head of the Women Commission and mother of an Indian National Congress candidate, in Singjamei area, Imphal district, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/04/2012: Police officers on patrol found a landmine planted in Kaniyaaluka village, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand state, India. They recovered and defused the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to Maoists.
08/02/2012: Eight explosive devices were discovered by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) members in Taal area, Panki village, Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. As CRPF forces were defusing the devices, assailants opened fire on them. At least one CRPF officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Maoists.
08/11/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the house of A. Mobi Singh, a journalist, in Thongju Part II area, Manipur state, India. The victim was also the president of All Manipur Working Journalists but was not injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
07/16/2012: Assailants attacked a Shiv Sena political party leader near Pune city, Maharashtra state, India. The party leader was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/13/2012: Assailants threw grenades and opened fire on a police station in Jhara town, Bihar state, India. Police returned fire, causing the assailants to flee. There were no reported injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/17/2012: Assailants kidnapped four residents from Nibaranpara village, Korbok area, Tripura state, India. The victims were released on February 1, 2013, after a ransom was paid. The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/04/2012: Police officers on patrol found a landmine planted in Ghagara village, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand state, India. They recovered and defused the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources attributed it to Maoists.
03/03/2012: Assailants abducted two supporters of independent candidate Olis from the Chanel district of Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, and the outcome of the kidnapping is unknown.
09/17/2012: Security forces found and defused 125 explosive devices under the road in Khunti district, Jharkhand state, India. A Maoist member revealed the location of the devices during interrogation.
04/20/2012: Gunmen attacked a police sub inspector in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The inspector, Sukhpal Singh, was killed in the attack. Both the Islamic Front and Jamait-ul-Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/04/2012: Assailants attacked a journalist in Golla Damodarpalli village, Ganjam district, Odisha state, India. The victim was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/17/2012: Assailants on bikes opened fire on the home of Lata Usendi, the Chhattisgarh women and child development minister, in Kondagaon district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Usendi was not injured, but a security guard was killed in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attributed it to the East Bastar Divisional Committee, a Maoist subgroup.
09/06/2012: A grenade was thrown near a police patrol close to a department store in Doom Dooma town, Assam state, India. At least 11 people were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police suspected the non-talk faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
03/31/2012: Gunmen attacked 14 coal trucks in Wageasi town, Meghalaya state, India. The gunmen shot the tires of the trucks to immobilize them before gutting them and setting them on fire. No casualties were reported, and while no group claimed responsibility for the attack, sources attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
08/24/2012: A landmine detonated, targeting a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol in the Kalimela area, Odisha state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
08/26/2012: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the residence of Ashem Kumarjit in Singjamei Naorem Leikai area, Manipur state, India. Kumarjit, the executive engineer for the Lokta Lake Development Authority, was unharmed, as the grenade failed to explode. The grenade was subsequently defused by bomb disposal experts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/04/2012: Assailants attacked an Assam Rifles battalion in the Sita Hill area of Chandel district, Manipur state, India. There was an exchange of gunfire that lasted several hours, resulting in the injury of at least three people. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/05/2012: Assailants threw two grenades at a residential area in Lokaichar area, Meghalaya state, India. One civilian was killed in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
03/01/2012: An unidentified assailant threw an explosive device from a road over a bridge into a train station in Mithapur town, Bihar state, India. The device fell into the room where train drivers rest and injured a Kosi Express driver. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/05/2012: Assailants abducted six employees from the Heningson coal export company in Gasuapara area, Meghalaya state, India. The employees were released two days later on April 7, 2012. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, officials attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
08/19/2012: Two assailants on a motorcycle threw a grenade at a place of worship in Majdia village, Baska district, Assam state, India. The grenade failed to detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/14/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused in the backyard of a private residence in Sonari area, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident; however, officials suspected the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
05/17/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused near a gas pipeline in the Sonari area, Sibsagar district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, officials suspected the device was planted by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
05/14/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at an army patrol in Bijbehara town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The grenade missed the patrol and exploded along the roadside instead; four nearby civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/21/2012: An explosive device detonated along a highway in Awang Khunnou Salang Sabal area, Manipur state, India. The explosion targeted two Assam Rifles vehicles but caused no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but sources suspected the People's Liberation Army (India).
12/09/2012: An explosive device detonated along a highway in Senapati district, Manipur state, India. The blast struck Border Security Forces (BSF), injuring two soldiers and damaging several vehicles. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/26/2012: Assailants detonated a grenade at the residence of C. Hangsing in Churachandpur town, Manipur state, India. Hangsing, the executive director for the Rural Development Department, was unharmed; however, Hangsing's brother and grandchild, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/08/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the residence of an Indian National Congress Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Lamshang constituency, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. The grenade failed to explode. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/23/2013: Perpetrators threw at least one grenade at Kakopathar Police Station in Kakopathar, Tinsukia district, Assam state, India. The grenade failed to explode because the safety pin was still on it. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, news sources attributed the attack to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
11/02/2013: Assailants attacked a former village sarpanch at his house in Vyara village, Gujarat state, India. The sarpanch, Kanti Vasava, was attacked with a knife before being shot and injured by the assailants. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/23/2013: Assailants threw a grenade in the Court Road area of Lakhimpur town, Assam state, India. This was one of three grenade attacks in the town within an hour, across which at least five people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials speculated that the attack was carried out by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
02/24/2013: Assailants shot and killed sarpanch Javid Amed Khan in an unknown location in Jammu and Kashmir state, India. This was one of two attacks on sarpanches in this district on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/20/2013: An explosive device was discovered strapped to a bicycle near a mosque in Bijni town, Chirang district, Assam state, India. The device was diffused by police. This was one of three attempted bombings in Assam state on this day. The National Liberation Front of Bengalis (NLFB), has claimed responsibility for the coordinated incidents.
09/26/2013: Assailants shot and killed Nirmal Sangma in Awek village, Meghalaya state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
11/20/2013: Two assailants attempted to kidnap a businessperson in Boldak Ading village, Meghalaya state, India. The individuals were arrested before they could carry out the abduction. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army.
02/11/2013: One person, Tenbirth Tangma, was captured and arrested when trying to throw a 300 gram bomb in Rongkhon market, West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, India. No injuries or casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted attack; however, police said the individual was a member of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
02/11/2013: Gunmen attacked a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in Pendri, Sirpur, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. No CRPF members and two attackers were injured in the ensuing gunfight. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, security forces attributed the attack to Maoists.
08/08/2013: Assailants attacked a police outpost with firearms and grenades in Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no injuries reported in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however; authorities attributed the incident to the Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT).
04/23/2013: Assailants abducted four tunnel construction workers in Thingtupung, Manipur state, India. The workers were taken from a Coastal Projects Limited camp; they were released six days later. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
11/11/2013: Two explosive devices were discovered and safely defused outside of polling booths in Orchha area of Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. This was one of 10 attacks on this day revolving around the upcoming elections in Chhattisgarh state. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
02/06/2013: An explosive device hidden in a pile of rocks was found and defused in Manipur state, India. The device was thought to have been targeting Assam Rifles troops. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/14/2013: An explosive device detonated on a footpath in front of the City Convention Centre and near the house of the Manipur Chief Minister in Babupara area, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the blast. Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/03/2013: Assailants attacked the Pakistani High Commission First Trade Secretary in New Delhi city, Delhi state, India. The secretary and his driver were injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/04/2013: Nine gunmen attacked a police patrol at a market in Chainpur village, Gumla district, Jharkhand state, India. Five police officers died in the fighting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities believed that the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) had been involved in the attack.
07/23/2013: Assailants threw a grenade in the Chouldhuwa area of Lakhimpur town, Assam state, India. This grenade was discovered and safely defused. This was one of three grenade attacks in the town within an hour, across which at least five people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials speculated that the attack was carried out by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
02/20/2013: An explosive device detonated near a Border Security Force (BSF) fooT patrol in Koreingei, Manipur state, India. There were no injuries or casualties reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed it to the Manipur People's Army (NPA), which is the military wing of the United National Liberation Front (UNLF).
04/03/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device near a police station in Pamed town, Chhattisgarh state, India. No injuries or damages were reported. This was one of two attacks in this town on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the blast; however, the media attributed the attack to Maoists.
12/14/2013: Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a contractor outside his house in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. The contractor, identified as Gobinda Saha, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
12/27/2013: Assailants attacked a residential school run by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Heera Singh, in Borfa village, Meerut area, Uttar Pradesh state, India. The assailants stormed the building, set fire to a guard, killing him, and abducted Singh's daughter, Devki Singh. The victim's whereabouts are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/08/2013: Assailants opened fire on a Jammu and Kashmir (JAK) Rifles patrol in Uri town, Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One JAK Rifles soldier, Yam Bahadur, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/22/2013: Approximately 50 assailants entered a village, gathered the citizens, and separated out three people in Murkinar village, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. The attackers hanged one of the victims in public and beat the other two individuals after having placed them on trial. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the police attributed the attack to Maoists.
02/24/2013: Assailants shot and killed a sarpanch in Kalantra, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. This was one of two attacks on sarpanches in this district on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/06/2013: An explosive device hidden in a bag was discovered by police officers in Dabnahi area, Chhattisgarh state, India. The officers were responding to an earlier blast in the area that injured several officers. The device was safely defused without injury. This was one of two incidents in this area on this day. Officials attribute the incident to Maoists.
08/23/2013: Assailants on a motorcycle fired at Rakesh Sharma in Bakewar town, Uttar Pradesh state, India. Sharma, a local journalist for Hindi Daily, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/06/2013: Assailants kidnapped Naresh Dhali from Bejangiwada area, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. Dhali, a village farmer and former political candidate, was found shot to death with his limbs severed and dumped in front of the local gram panchayat office. This was one of two village farmers kidnapped and dumped in front of the panchayat office. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists and stated that Kabasi was targeted because the assailants believed that he was a police informant.
11/12/2013: Authorities discovered and defused an unknown number of explosive devices at or around polling stations in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the planting of the devices to Maoists.
05/23/2013: Gunmen shot Seikhopao Kipgen, a leader of Kuki National Front-President (KNF-P), in Senapati district, Manipur state, India. The leader was killed and two bodyguards were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/06/2013: Assailants kidnapped Ramesh Kabasi from Bapanpalli village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. Kabasi, a village head and farmer, was found shot to death with his limbs severed and dumped in front of the local gram panchayat office. This was one of two village farmers kidnapped and dumped in front of the panchayat office. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists and stated that Kabasi was targeted because the assailants believed that he was a police informant.
08/02/2013: An explosive device detonated on a railway track between Paraiya and Guraru villages in Bihar state, India. No one was injured, but a train was damaged in the blast. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating they had carried out the attack to protest police brutality.
10/25/2013: Gunmen opened fire on Debasish Saha in a market in Bhaoraguri town, Assam state, India. Saha, a businessman, was killed in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected the attack was carried out by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
04/02/2013: Twenty-five assailants shot and killed a tribal leader in Kurmanur village, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the inicdent; however, police blamed Maoists for the attack.
06/24/2013: Assailants disguised in police uniforms opened fire in Muzaffarpur city, Bihar state, India. The assailants targeted the family of Pradeep Rai, the Chairman of Primary Agriculture Credit Society (PACS). Two people were killed and one person was injured. Maoists claimed responsibility for this attack, stating that Rai was targeted because he exploited poor people in the area.
06/17/2013: Assailants hurled a grenade and opened fire at a police team in Rangdapara area, West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. The grenade failed to detonate and there were no reports of injuries or property damage in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
08/26/2013: Gunmen opened fire on Salamatullah Khan, a Special Operations Group (SOG) police officer, at a market in Arwani village, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Khan was killed and a civilian was injured in the attack. This was one of two attacks in close proximity on police targets on this day. Hizbul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police stated that the claim was an attempt at distraction and attributed the attack to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
11/01/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a Territorial Army (TA) camp in Surankot village, Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/02/2013: An explosive device detonated near a temple at Thangal Bazaar in Imphal city, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties or injuries. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/14/2013: Assailants threw a grenade under a bridge in Dumgaon village, Chirang district, Assam state, India. This was one of three grenade attacks in Chirang district on this day. There were no reported casualties or damage in this explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks; however, sources attributed the attack to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
10/27/2013: An explosive device detonated near Udyog Bhawan in Patna city, Bihar state, India. The blast was targeting spectators at the Narendra Modi political rally. This was one of seven attacks targeting the rally within the span of a few hours. At least seven people were killed and 81 others were injured in the blasts surrounding Gandhi Maidan. Indian Muhajedeen claimed responsibility for the incidents, stating that the goal was to create a stampede in retaliation for the Muzaffarnagar riot in August 2013.
11/23/2013: Assailants stabbed an individual to death in his private residence in Thethaitangar village, Simdega district, Jharkhand state, India. This was one of two attacks committed by the same assailants in Simdega district on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to People's Liberation Front of India.
11/10/2013: Assailants opened fire on Sanjay Yadav during a cultural festival in Aamkola village, Gaya district, Bihar state, India. At least three people, including Yadav, the chief of Shashastra People's Morcha, a breakaway faction of the CPI(Maoist), were killed and two others were injured in the assault. . Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that Yadav was targeted because he was a police informer.
04/01/2013: At least 25 assailants threw explosives while storming a liquor store in Dangia village, Odisha state, India. No injuries were reported. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the incident, demanding the closure of all liquor-making establishments.
04/03/2013: Assailants opened fire on a police station in Pamed town, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two attacks in this town on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the media attributed the attack to Maoists.
11/12/2013: A landmine detonated while para-military Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were passing through in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Three BSF personnel were killed and at least one was wounded in the blast. No group has claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
12/27/2013: Assailants opened fire on a bus near Pakuahat town, West Bengal state, India. At least three people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO).
06/28/2013: An assailant planted a grenade at the Kulgam District Hospital in Kulgam town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The grenade was safely recovered by security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/14/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a gas agency in Batabori village, Bijn town, Chirang district, Assam state, India. This was one of three grenade attacks in Chirang district on this day. There were no reported casualties or damage in this explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks; however, a source attributed the attack to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
12/04/2013: Assailants abducted three people in Gumphakonda area, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. One of the victims was Padia Madi, the son of a village sarpanch of Gamphakunda. One of the three captives escaped on December 5, 2013 and the two remaining victims were released on December 7, 2013. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
10/06/2013: Assailants attacked Kameshwar Bhuiya in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India. Bhuiya, a local villager, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
11/02/2013: Gunmen opened fire in the Saiko market in Khunti district, Jharkhand state, India. Three were killed and two others were wounded in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the People's Liberation Front of India was involved.
03/04/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at the home of the former Inspector General of Police in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No injuries were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/15/2013: Assailants opened fire on police and security personnel in Manmaru, West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, India. The security team was trying to collect the bodies of six villagers kidnapped and killed by the assailants two days earlier. No one was injured in the attack. The police blamed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M).
08/13/2013: Gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on Ashok Ghosh in Nadia district, West Bengal state, India. Ghosh, a Trinamool Congress leader, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police later arrested two suspects in connection with the assault.
10/17/2013: Assailants detonated a landmine targeting an Indian Police Service (IPS) in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. Following the explosion, the assailants opened fire on the targeted police patrol. Three police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Indian officials attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
11/10/2013: Several explosive devices were planted at a polling booth in Gudabeda village, Kankar district, Chhattisgarh state, India. The five devices were defused without injury or damage to property. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the planting of the devices to Maoists.
04/04/2013: Gunmen attacked a police patrol near Bhatpar village, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. Five of the assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
05/12/2013: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Handwara town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/01/2013: Approximately 10 assailants abducted seven people, including two senior Department of Irrigation and Flood Control engineers, from Dolaithabi village, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. The seven abductees were released unharmed on August 4, 2013. The People's United Liberation Front (PULF) claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/12/2013: Assailants opened fire on officers from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), who were part of a road opening party team, in the Dornapal area, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One CRPF deputy commander was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
01/04/2013: Two explosive devices were discovered at an oil collection center in Assam state, India. The devices were recovered without causing any reported injuries or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspect that the Paresh Barua subgroup of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was involved.
07/09/2013: An explosive device detonated near an Assam Rifles patrol in Behiang village, Manipur state, India. The number of casualties is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/02/2013: Assailants detonated three explosive devices near an office building in Seeram village, Lohardagga district, Jharkhand state, India. No injuries were reported, but the building was destroyed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected that the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) was involved.
05/30/2013: An explosive device was thrown in the Batasha Bazaar in Kosi Kalan town, Uttar Pradesh state, India. This was one of four attacks in Kosi Kalan on this day. Five people were injured across all of the attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the attack was attributed to Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
07/09/2013: Gunmen opened fire on an Assam Rifles security post in Aigejang town, Chandel district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the ensuing gun battle. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/14/2013: Gunmen attacked a police patrol conducting combing operations in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Two people were killed and one injured in the ensuing crossfire. The attack was attributed to Maoists by police forces.
11/20/2013: A low-intensity explosive device planted in the car of advocate M Akbar Ali detonated in the Nelpettai area of Madurai city, Tamil Nadu state, India. There were no reported injuries and the car suffered slight damage. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/05/2013: Assailants kidnapped two civilians from Samanda Megapgre village, Meghalaya state, India. The victims' bodies were discovered nearby on December 7, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army.
07/29/2013: An explosive device was discovered by military personnel near Chushul valley, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The device detonated as it was being examined. One soldier was killed and six were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/23/2013: Assailants threw two petrol bombs at the Idhayathull Muslim Sunnath Jamaath Mosque in Thudiyalur, Tamil Nadu state, India. No injuries were reported, but property was damaged in the fire. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/13/2013: Gunmen shot and killed Dilip Narote, a former Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer, in Yerkad village, Dhanora town, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. The attackers suspected Narote, who had just participated in a police recruiting campaign, was a police informer. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/08/2013: A remote-controlled explosive device targeting security personnel was discovered and defused in Khangabok village, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/20/2013: A timed explosive device was discovered at the entrance to an ongoing cultural festival in Kokrajhar district, Assam state, India. The device was later safely detonated without causing any injury or property damages. This was one of three attempted bombings in Assam state on this day. The National Liberation Front of Bengalis (NLFB), has claimed responsibility for the coordinated incidents.
11/11/2013: Assailants abducted three traders (Dulal Roy, Manik Roy, and Abdullah Ali) at gunpoint at a market in Tebrongre village, West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. The whereabouts of the traders are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but police suspect the Garo National Liberation Army.
05/05/2013: Two explosive devices were found and defused outside of the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) office in Bijni town, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/29/2013: Assailants shot and killed a former member of the local government in the Malkangiri District of Badapada, Odisha, India. Assailants accused the victim of being a police informer. There was no claim of responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
06/03/2013: An explosive device detonated near the police station in Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. The explosion resulted in no injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/06/2013: An explosive device detonated at the Jiribam-Tupul railway construction site near Kambiron village, Manipur state, India. At least eight workers of the North Eastern Frontier Railway company were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/11/2013: Assailants abducted Kalyan Kundu in Bengtol town, Assam state, India. Kundu, a supervisor for UC Consultation, was released unharmed on May 16, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/27/2013: Gunmen shot and killed a journalist in Jharkhand state, India. The People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/10/2013: An explosive device detonated near the main entrance gate of the bungalow home belonging to Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh in Babupara village, Imphal city, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the blast; however, part of the structure was damaged. The People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak-Progressive (PREPAK-P) Special Force 2 claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/11/2013: An assailant opened fire on Habibullah Mir in Goripora village, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The victim, a sarpanch or village head, was killed in the attack. Officials attribute the incident to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
11/07/2013: An explosive device was discovered inside a tourist bus and safely defused in Imphal city, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/22/2013: A roadside bomb exploded in the Yairipok Heidroipokpi area of Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. One person was killed and one member of the 15th Assam Rifles battalion was injured in the explosion. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, officials attributed it to the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
09/28/2013: Two assailants opened fire on an Indian army patrol in Sanat Nagar neighborhood, Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. At least one civilian was injured in the attack. Al-Shuda Brigade claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/07/2013: Assailants set fire to a Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) warehouse in Shillong town, Meghalaya state, India. The warehouse was damaged in the fire; there were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/03/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a group of migrant workers playing cards in Gendabari village, Goalpara district, Assam state, India. Seven people were killed and nine others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; police attributed the attack United Achik Liberation Army (UALA).
01/12/2013: Six explosive devices were discovered in Gulab Singh Bowli neighborhood, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. The device was safely defused without causing injury. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/20/2013: Assailants opened fire on a Special Task Force (STF) patrol party in Jamui district, Bihar state, India. At least one soldier was killed and two others were injured in the assault. This was one of two related incidents that occurred in Jamui district on the same day; the soldiers were attacked as they were responding to an earlier incident in Parasi village. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attacks to Maoists.
06/29/2013: A grenade was thrown into the Progressive School in Wangjing village, Manipur state, India. The grenade failed to detonate and was recovered by security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/21/2013: Assailants attacked a Border Security Force (BSF) convoy in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One BSF solider was killed and two others were injured in the attack. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Jamiat ul-Mujahedin (JuM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/01/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a bakery in Kangjabi Leirak area, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the targeted bakery sustained minor damage in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/24/2013: Two female assailants left three explosive devices which were later discovered and defused on a bus in Jalukbari town, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/05/2013: Assailants threw an explosive device at a minority education institution in Hassanganj area, Lucknow city, Uttar Pradesh state, India. No information with regards to casualties or damages is available. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/19/2013: Three assailants opened fire on Sarvesh Singh in Jiyanpur town, Uttar Pradesh state, India. At least two people, including Singh, a former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) with the Bahujan Samaj Party, and one of his guards, were killed in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/14/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a police post in Chapaguri Chowk, Chirang district, Assam state, India. This was one of three grenade attacks in Chirang district on this day. There were no reported casualties or damage in this explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks; however, sources attributed the attack to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
02/20/2013: An explosive device detonated at a flyover near the Dimapur Railway Station in Dimapur city, Nagaland state, India. One person was killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/04/2013: An explosive device detonated at Solomon Ningshen's compound in Hamleikhong village, Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. Ningshen, the former president of the Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL), was not injured and there were no other casualties reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/26/2013: Assailants opened fire on a vehicle carrying police in Multijhara town, Assam state, India. At least two police officers were killed and four others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the incident to the Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
06/02/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a police station in Anantnag city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No one was injured in the blast. Police arrested four suspects and, during questioning, Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) members claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/15/2013: An explosive device detonated at the Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL) office in Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the building was damaged in the blast. The Manipur Naga People's Army (MNPA) claimed responsibility and said that the bomb attack was carried out to demonstrate MNPF's disapproval of the TNL president, stating that his presidentship was never the wish of the public in general.
01/31/2013: Two assailants on a motorcycle opened fire and injured on Lalbir Gautam in Narnaund town, Haryana, India. Gautum was a reporter with Dainik Bhaskar. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/29/2013: An explosive device attached to a bicycle detonated in Alipurduar, West Bengal, India. The blast occurred while police officers were attempting to defuse the device. One officer was killed, and at least one other officer was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO).
10/03/2013: Approximately 24 explosive devices were discovered and defused in Kolkata city, West Bengal state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/26/2013: Three gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on Bhola Singh, a Janata Dal United (JD(U)) leader in Muzaffarpur district, Bihar state, India. Singh was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
03/20/2013: Assailants attacked Dr. Rajkumar Patil with a baseball bat in Gol Masjid area, Mumbai city, Maharashtra state, India. Dr. Patil, the joint director of the Bombay Hospital, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/04/2013: An explosive device detonated at a government building that was under construction in Makhan village, Manipur state, India. The building, which was under construction, was expected to house the regional center for the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/27/2013: Assailants ambushed police forces on a search operation in Bastar district, Chhattisgarh state, India. At least two security officers and two assailants were killed in the ensuing clash while an unknown number of assailants were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
01/28/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device at an Indian Oil Corporation Limited pipeline in West Mamoroni, Assam, India. There were no casualties, but the pipe was severely damaged. The Paresh Baruah faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/22/2013: Assailants kidnapped four Power Grid Corporation of India Limited employees in Chirang district, Assam state, India. Three of the employees were released shortly after the abduction, and the fourth victim, an engineer, was released on December 31, 2013. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
11/12/2013: A landmine targeting three buses carrying Border Security Force (BSF) personnel returning from poll areas detonated in Gundahur village, Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One BSF officer was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
02/20/2013: Assailants abducted five wildlife sanctuary officials in West Phaileng, Mizoram state, India. The attackers then crossed into Bangladesh and the captives were released on March 28, 2014. There was no claim of responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Biswa Mohan faction of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
03/02/2013: Perpetrators shot two members of the Indian Reserve Police (IRP) at a bus stop in Handwara town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Both victims died in the shooting. Jamiat ul-Mujahedin (JuM) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that the organization was taking revenge for police harassment of the area's youth.
05/03/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at ST Mixer bakery in Chingmeirong town, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. Five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/07/2013: A group of more than 30 assailants attacked the telephone exchange in the village of Kumbhariput, Koraput district, Odisha state, India. The assailants ransacked the exchange and assaulted the exchange's guard. This was one of three attacks committed in Kumbhariput on this day. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/02/2013: An explosived device detonated in the backyard of an anti-Posco steel plant protestor's house in Patana village, Jagatsinghpur district, Odisha state, India. Three people died in the attack and another person was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/29/2013: Assailants set fire to a church in Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/22/2013: Assailants abducted seven construction workers from Budhaniya village, Jharkhand state, India. All seven workers were rescued by police forces on December 31, 2013. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
11/23/2013: Assailants opened fire on individuals in Simdega district, Jharkhand state, India. At least two people were killed in the assault. This was one of two attacks committed by the same assailants in Simdega district on this day. The People's Liberation Front of India claimed responsibility, stating that the individuals were targeted because they were working against the organization and assisting the police.
08/04/2013: A roadside bomb targeting the 6th Dorga Regiment military patrol detonated in Khoibu Khunou village, Chandel district, Manipur state, India. One soldier and one civilian were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/20/2013: Assailants kidnapped Karramal Village Panchayat secretary Lakpati Dansena, dragged him into the forest, and beat him until he died in Karramal village, Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh state, India. His body was not found until the next day. The Bargarh Zonal Committee, a part of the Communist Party of India- Maoist(CPI-M), left pamphlets at the scene warning against helping the police and advocating for higher wages for tendu leaf pluckers.
02/26/2013: A grenade was thrown at the Deputy Commissioner's office in Phek district, Nagaland state, India. The office held voting machines that were set to be counted as part of the state election process. One Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) member was injured in the attack and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/16/2013: An explosive device detonated in T. Minou village, Manipur state, India. The blast targeted Assam Rifles troops escorting a water tanker to a nearby village. No casualties were reported, but the water tanker was damaged. The Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/21/2013: Assailants opened fire on Lalu Pradhan in Gumla, Jharkhand, India. Pradhan, a former member of an anti-Maoist activist group, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2013: Assailants abducted Tulasi Behera in Chintanwada village, Odisha state, India. Behera, a ward member, was killed and his body was found on December 14, 2013. This was one of two abductions carried out by the same group in this area on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to Maoists.
05/09/2013: Four assailants on motorcycles opened fire on a labor camp in Bouserkuti area, Assam state, India. This was one of two attacks on labor camps on the same day. One person was killed and one person was injured across the two attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, officials suspected the attacks were carried out by the Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO).
11/20/2013: Assailants abducted Rashidul Haque, a senior government official, in West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, India. Haque escaped from the attackers on November 21, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, authorities suspected the kidnapping was ordered by the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
11/11/2013: Assailants opened fire on police protecting a polling station in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. They also attempted to set fire to the polling station. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of 10 attacks on this day revolving around the upcoming elections in Chhattisgarh state. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
07/23/2013: Assailants threw a grenade in the Jail Road area of Lakhimpur town, Assam state, India. This was one of three grenade attacks in the town within an hour, across which at least five people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials speculated the attack was carried out by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
12/21/2013: Assailants opened fire on Pandharinath Satkar at a hotel restaurant in Kamshet town, Maharashtra state, India. Satkar, president of Mathadi Kamgar Sanghanta, was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/02/2013: Assailants attacked two Students' Federation of India (SFI) secretaries at the University of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala state, India. Both civilians were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
07/01/2013: Assailants attacked S. Vellaiyappan in Vellore city, Tamil Nadu state, India. Vellaiyappan, the Tamil Nadu State Secretary of Hindu Munnani, was hacked and beaten to death. Three members of Al Ummah claimed responsibility for committing the attack.
11/14/2013: Assailants kidnapped Dilip Dutta Medhi from Dudhnoi area, Assam state, India. Medhi, a sericulture development officer, was rescued by security forces on November 24, 2013. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, source attributed the attack to both the Garo National Liberation Army and the Rabha National Security Force.
11/10/2013: An explosive device detonated near Baldongri village, Rajnandgaon district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Two Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officers were injured by the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Maoists.
10/19/2013: An explosive device detonated near a statue of Gandhiji in Ukhrul town, Manipur state, India. No injuries were reported, but a nearby store was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
03/13/2013: Assailants abducted the headmaster of Nambor Middle English School, Lebi Tete, from his house in Paharline Kuani village in Bogijan, Golaghat district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/25/2013: An explosive device detonated outside of the district headquarters in Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. There were no reports of casualties or property damage resulting from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/23/2013: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
11/20/2013: Assailants attacked workers enroute to a forest to cut bamboo shoots in Hailakandi district, Assam, India. One worker was kidnapped; the outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources speculated that the United Liberation Democratic Army (UDLA) was responsible for the incident.
03/19/2013: Assailants opened fire on a civilian at a mosque in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The victim was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attribute the attack to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The victim had been organizing a military-sponsored sporting event and officials believe he was targeted because of his interactions with the military.
04/23/2013: Assailants abducted two villagers in Nauguda, Odisha, India. On April 24th, on hostage was set free and the other hostage was killed along with another villager in Kiang. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that the two victims were accused of being police informants.
12/27/2013: Assailants attacked Khoaani village, Assam state, India. At least four civilians were killed and several houses damaged in the attack; two assailants were also killed in a counterattack by the Naga Rengma Hills Protection Force (NRHPF). The Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT) claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/23/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at the Little Master English School in Samurou village, Manipur state, India. The device failed to detonate and no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/04/2013: An explosive device believed to be targeting security personnel was discovered and defused in Litan village, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/03/2013: Assailants set fire to a Public Distribution System (PDS) outlet in Annasagaram village, Tamil Nadu state, India. There were no reported casualties resulting from the fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, three members of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) were arrested in connection with the incident.
07/17/2013: Assailants opened fire on Balaram Dalai in Kumbhariput village, Odisha state, India. Dalai, a contractor, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the incident to the Maoists and stated that Dalai was targeted because the assailants believed him to be a police informer.
07/28/2013: Two assailants on motorcycles threw a grenade at a police checkpoint in Guwahati city, Assam state, India. At least one person was killed and 15 people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, officials attributed the incident to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
07/01/2013: Assailants abducted Arjun Madavi from Kaller village, Maharashtra state, India. Madavi was accused of being a police informant and was shot dead. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
06/28/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) picket in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One CRPF officer was injured in the explosion. The Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/24/2013: An explosive device detonated near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in the Naoremthong area, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. Three civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/22/2013: An assailant threw a grenade into a police complex in Mangaldai town, Assam state, India. At least five people, including three police officers, one journalist, and a child, were injured in the explosion. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
01/21/2013: Gunmen opened fire on Darbha police station in Darbha, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One police officer was injured in the gunfire as were an unknown number of attackers. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police sources attribute the attack to Maoists.
11/09/2013: Assailants set fire to a van and shed belonging to Ramachandra Bhat in Kudler village, Karnataka state, India. Bhat, a former panchayat member, was not injured, but the van was damaged in the incident. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating they targeted Bhat because he was helping the government relocate tribal people.
02/21/2013: An explosive device detonated in a crowded area during rush hour in the Dilsukh Nagar suburb of Hyderabad city, Andhra Pradesh state, India. This was one of two explosions, across which 16 people were killed and over 100 were injured. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources indicate that the Indian Mujahideen was also suspected.
04/14/2013: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused near a police station and a camp of the Assam Rifles in Lilong Heinoumakhong village, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. This was one of three related attacks in Manipur on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/28/2013: Assailants opened fire on an Assam Rifles post in Komkang village, Manipur state, India. At least one soldier was injured in the assault. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/08/2013: Assailants attacked a remote border outpost in Bagli village, Meghalaya state, India. Two Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, Sashit Biswa and Pappu Kumar Yadav, were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC-B). ANVC-B refuted the accusation and said that the Garo National Liberation Army was responsible for the incident.
09/21/2013: Assailants threw an explosive device at and opened fire on two civilians near Khan Nagar, Karnataka state, India. Both civilians, including a lawyer, were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/06/2013: Two remote-controlled explosive devices were detonated next to shacks in which migrant workers were sleeping in Pallel area, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. One person was killed and six others were injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/27/2013: Assailants ambushed a Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) road opening party in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. After detonating an explosive device, the attackers opened fire. At least four CRPF personnel were killed and three more were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
07/01/2013: Assailants opened fire on police officers in Tral town, Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One police officer was killed and three others were wounded in the attack. Three assailants were also killed when police returned fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and stated that it was likely an act of revenge for the killing of the group's members by army personnel in May 2013.
11/11/2013: Gunmen attacked members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) as they were escorting a polling team in Nayanar village, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One CRPF member, VC Joseph, was killed in the attack. This was one of 10 attacks on this day revolving around the upcoming elections in Chhattisgarh state. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
12/29/2013: Assailants set a home on fire in the Rengma Nagas community of Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: Assailants attacked and kidnapped several Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) troops on the Maklang river in Manipur state, India. Two people were killed and seven other soldiers were abducted. No information is available with regards to an outcome for the kidnapping. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/08/2013: Gunmen attacked a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) party leader in Kultali village, West Bengal state, India. Bharat Naskar was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/12/2013: Assailants opened fire on Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) members guarding the Doordarshan Television Broadcast Tower in Marenga area, Chhattisgarh state, India. At least three officers were killed and one officer was injured in the assault. This was one of two attacks targeting CAF officers in Chhattisgarh on the same day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M).
01/24/2013: An explosive device hidden in a gunny sack was found and defused near Sadar police station in Karimganj district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/14/2013: Two explosive devices were discovered and defused in Saranda forest in Sundargarh district, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/16/2013: Assailants poured gasoline on and set fire to a tea vendor at his stall in in Bishnupur town, Meghalaya state, India. Two people were injured and the business owner was killed in the fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Lawsohtun unit of the Khasi Students Union.
01/25/2013: A bomb exploded near the gate to Raja Dumbra Singh High School, East Imphal district, Manipur, India. This was one of four bombings on the same day. No casualties were reported. Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it was part of a boycott of Republic Day.
11/05/2013: Twenty assailants threw grenades and opened fire on a police escort transporting a prisoner in Bangjakona village, Gasuapara area, Meghalaya state, India. Five police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, police officials attributed the incident to the Garo National Liberation Army.
01/12/2013: Assailants opened fire on the Satbarwa police post in Jharkhand, India. There were no reported casualties resulting from the ensuing firefight. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attribute the incident to Maoists.
07/02/2013: Gunmen from across the border opened fire on police officers collecting a body in Poonch town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/22/2013: An explosive device, possibly meant to target an Assam Rifles convoy, was discovered and defused in Thamnapokpi town, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/09/2013: Three landmines detonated near two vehicles carrying police officers in Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties from this blast. This was one of two attacks on police in the area; the second attack targeted police responding to this first attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, the source attributed the incident to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
05/20/2013: An explosive device detonated near the police commando complex in Pallel town, Manipur state, India. No one was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/24/2013: Around 30 assailants set fire to a cellphone tower in Mathili, Odisha, India. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, police attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M).
11/24/2013: Assailants abducted a businessperson in Bijni town, Assam state, India. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities suspect that the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was behind the attack.
01/25/2013: An explosive device was discovered and safely recovered from Sivsagar, Assam, India. No further information is available.
07/12/2013: Two explosive devices detonated near the Myanmar border in T Minou village, Chandel district, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties or injuries resulting from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/18/2013: An explosive device detonated on a bus in Barobisha town, West Bengal state, India. At least eight civilians were injured in the explosion. The National Liberation Force of Bengalis (Bangali Janamukti Bahini) claimed responsibility for the attack.
11/24/2013: Assailants threw multiple explosive devices at the private residence of Sanal Kumar in Kannur district, Kerala state, India. Kumar, a Kannur Town Police house sub-inspector, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/07/2013: Assailants detonated explosives outside of the Block Development Office in Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the office was damaged. This was one of three related attacks early in the morning in Jharkhand on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
02/10/2013: Perpetrators set the Damara LP school on fire in Goalpara district, Assam state, India. The school building was damaged in the fire. This was one of five schools burned in coordinated attacks. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
04/11/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device in Bigha area, Bihar state, India. The device targeted a building in the Irrigation department's residential colony in which the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was to be housed. There were no casualties; however, seven buildings were destroyed. This was one of eight coordinated explosions at the governmental colony on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
01/08/2013: An explosive device detonated near a community outreach venue in Menda village, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra, India. No further information is available.
07/03/2013: Gunmen opened fire on the Noney Bazar in Tamenglong district, Manipur state, India. There were no reports of injuries or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspected the attack was carried out by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K).
02/21/2013: An explosive device detonated in a crowded area during rush hour in the Dilsukh Nagar suburb of Hyderabad city, Andhra Pradesh state, India. This was one of two explosions, across which 16 people were killed and over 100 were injured. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources indicate that the Indian Mujahideen was also suspected.
04/04/2013: Assailants abducted Houmei Khangba from his home in Tumnoupokpi area, Manipur state, India. Khangba, the village chief and President of Thangal Union, was released on April 6, 2013 after the assailants realized that they had kidnapped the wrong person. The National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the victim's relatives did not believe the claim to be genuine.
09/20/2013: Assailants detonated explosives at a Public Works Department (PWD) building in Parasi village, Bihar state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the targeted building was damaged in the attack. This was one of two related incidents that occurred in Jamui district on the same day. This incident drew Special Task Force (STF) first responders to the scene, where they were then attacked. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attacks to Maoists.
12/14/2013: Assailants attacked a camp of ECI Company construction workers in Thingou village, Manipur state, India. No injuries were reported, but some construction equipment was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/14/2013: Two explosive devices were discovered and defused in Udalguri district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/09/2013: Assailants shot and killed a village elder, Simon Ch Marak, in Koksi Nengsat village, East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attribute the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), saying it killed Marak because he was a police informer.
07/27/2013: Assailants kidnapped three State Bank of India employees, Pramod Kumar Singh, Angila Kerketta, Anup Kumar Lal, from the Panki-Balumath state highway in Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. Singh escaped from custody on July 27, 2013 while Kerketta and Lal were released July 31, 2013. No ransom was paid. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the incident to the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI).
01/26/2013: An explosive device detonated in a market in Airkata, Dhubri district, Assam, India. There were no reported injuries resulting from the blast. This was one of nine explosive devices that detonated in less than two hours across two districts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspect that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) perpetrated the attacks as part of a Republic Day boycott.
12/29/2013: Assailants set a home on fire in the Rengma Nagas community of Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/01/2013: A suicide bomber's explosive vest detonated prematurely near an Indian army post along the Line of Control in Saujian village, Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The assailant was the only casualty. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/06/2013: An explosive device detonated in Kondong Leirembi area, Chandel district, Manipur state, India. One civilian was killed in the blast, although officials believe that the device was intended for security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/29/2013: Assailants set a home on fire in the Rengma Nagas community of Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/07/2013: Assailants destroyed a power substation in Jamui city, Bihar state, India. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
12/29/2013: Assailants set a home on fire in the Rengma Nagas community of Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
06/10/2013: Gunmen fired upon Special Operations Group (SOG) state police officers conducting a patrol in Neloura village, Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Two police officers were wounded and one gunman was killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities identified the deceased gunman as a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) member.
07/21/2013: Assailants planted an explosive device under the seat of a minibus in Gambhira Ghat, Assam state, India. The device was safely defused without causing injury or damage. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
05/18/2013: Assailants attacked an Indian army patrol along the Pakistan-Indian border in Machil area, Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The assailants came from Pakistan and killed one soldier, while injuring a second soldier during the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/23/2013: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Dudhnoi town, Assam state, India. This was one of two explosive devices discovered in Dudhnoi town on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the coordinated incidents.
12/25/2013: Approximately 50 assailants stormed and detonated explosives at a block office in Padia village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. Although there were no reported casualties, the targeted block office was completely destroyed in the blast. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the attack was in retaliation for ongoing police operations in the area and, more specifically, for an incident on September 13, 2013 in Silakota, which left 13 Maoists dead.
11/25/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at Hero Motorcycle Showroom in Bongaigaon city, Assam state, India. At least one person was killed and four others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, officials attributed the attack to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
11/11/2013: A ten-kilogram pipe bomb was discovered and defused in Murkinar village, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. This was one of 10 attacks on this day revolving around the upcoming elections in Chhattisgarh state. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, media sources attributed the failed attack to Maoists.
11/22/2013: Six armed assailants attempted to abduct Jakir Hussain in the Chirang district, Assam state, India. The assailants kidnapped two people to help them look for Hussain. Hussain was not found and the two captives escaped when the attackers fled. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/07/2013: Assailants tossed a grenade at a joint local police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol standing outside a hospital in Pulwama town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. At least 15 people, including 12 police officers, were injured by the blast. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/07/2013: An explosive device was found and defused on the train tracks in Chegro village, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/28/2013: An explosive device detonated during a combing operation in Chindpal area, Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One officer was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/02/2013: Assailants set fire to a mobile phone tower in Bandhugaon, Odisha state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the telecommunication system was disrupted in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
09/19/2013: A roadside bomb was discovered in Imphal district, Manipur state, India. Security personnel were able to successfully defuse the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to the People's Liberation Army (India).
07/19/2013: Eleven assailants with sharp weapons and guns attacked Abdul Mannan in Gulalkandi, Assam state, India. Mannan, a gram panchayat president, was not injured, but at least two guards were wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
02/19/2013: Assailants shot and killed three tribal members near Lakkavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
06/27/2013: Assailants attacked a police outpost in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra state, India. The police returned fire, causing the assailants to flee. No casualties were reported from either side. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attribute the attack to Maoists.
11/18/2013: Approximately four assailants attacked an Indian Forest Service checkpost in Sunkadamakki, Karnataka state, India. The assailants fired rounds into the air and then damaged the checkpost. They also destroyed surveillance cameras at the post. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack, condemning the evacuation of "forest dwellers" in the area.
05/12/2013: Assailants opened fire on a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) camp in Temelwada village, Chhattisgarh state, India. At least one police officer was killed in the assault. This was one of two attacks targeting CAF officers in Chhattisgarh on the same day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attribute the incidents to Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M).
12/28/2013: Assailants detonated explosives at a bridge in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. No casualties were reported; however, the bridge was damaged in the blast. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that it was carried out in retaliation for intensified police operations in the area.
07/19/2013: An explosive device detonated in Bodai, West Bengal state, India. One member of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/07/2013: Assailants opened fire on a police station in Chainpur city, Gumla district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of three related attacks early in the morning in Jharkhand on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
02/16/2013: Gunmen using automatic weapons and grenades opened fire on cars on National Highway 37 near Kazirnaga National Park, Assam state, India. Two people were injured and two vehicles were damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, a police official said preliminary investigation pointed toward the Karbi People's Liberation Tiger (KPLT), who were attempting to establish their presence in the area.
09/27/2013: Assailants with knives attacked K. Sukumar near Adukkamparai village, Tamil Nadu state, India. Sukumar, a councilor with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party (AIADMK), was injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the stabbing.
07/03/2013: Gunmen shot and killed a former Maoist in Vijaypuri Colony, Venkatapuram, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the victim had been a police informant.
09/26/2013: Approximately 10 assailants abducted Nazrul Islam from Bariabhi village, Hailakandi district, Assam state, India. Islam, a daily wage laborer, was released on September 28, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspect that the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) was behind the kidnapping.
09/10/2013: Assailants forced Ishwar Chandra Sodi out of his house and opened fire on him in Kottamateru village, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. Sodi, the village head, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists and speculated that the assailants believed Sodi was a police informer.
05/30/2013: An explosive device was thrown in Kosi Kalan town, Uttar Pradesh state, India. This was one of four attacks in Kosi Kalan on this day. Five people were injured across all of the attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the attack was attributed to Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
01/13/2013: Approximately 40 assailants attacked an Ingoley Patil Company construction site in Menda village, Maharashtra state, India. The attackers cleared the site of people then set fire to 27 vehicles. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attribute the incident to Maoists.
05/07/2013: Assailants detonated landmines inside of an empty government building in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack, although the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
01/18/2013: Assailants ambushed a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) police party while it was on a road-opening operation near Sukma district in Temelwada village, Chhattisgarh state, India. A head constable was killed and one other officer was injured in the attack. This was one of two attacks on the police and first responders on January 18th, 2013. While no group claimed responsibility, police attribute the attack to Maoists.
08/19/2013: Assailants abducted Kapishwar Sahu from his house in Masurtoli village, Jharkhand state, India. Sahu, a village head, was killed and his body was discovered the next day. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack in a pamphlet left at the scene, stating that individuals involved in atrocities and corruption would receive a similar fate.
09/21/2013: Gunmen on motorcycles abducted Anil Kumar Agarwal in Charduar, Assam state, India. Agarwal, a general manager for the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), was rescued on November 11, 2013. The Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/22/2013: Assailants attacked a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces camp in Minpa village, Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. This was one of two attacks on police camps in the district this day. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, they were attributed to Maoists.
04/21/2013: Four can bombs exploded in a community center in Nawa Toli village, Lohardaga district, Jharkhand state, India. The building was partially damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, officials attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M).
01/26/2013: An explosive device detonated in a market in Moriakichi, Goalpara district, Assam, India. There were no reported injuries resulting from the blast. This was one of nine explosive devices that detonated in less than two hours across two districts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspect that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) perpetrated the attacks as part of a Republic Day boycott.
06/25/2013: Three assailants threw an explosive device into a bus stand in Gazole administrative division, West Bengal state, India. The device detonated, killing one person and wounding 11 others. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials indicated that the Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) may have been responsible.
11/26/2013: Assailants threw a grenade in a bazaar near Bishnupur town, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/26/2013: An explosive device detonated in a market in Chirakhuti, Dhubri district, Assam, India. There were no reported injuries resulting from the blast. This was one of nine explosive devices that detonated in less than two hours across two districts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspect that the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) perpetrated the attacks as part of a Republic Day boycott.
01/12/2013: Assailants opened fire on Zoona Begum at her private residence in Hardshiva village, Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Begum, a panchayat or village head, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/11/2013: Assailants attacked a patrol of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers in Nowgam area, Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One officer was killed and another was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspect the involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
09/05/2013: Assailants threw a grenade into the market in Garo Hills, Megahalaya, India. No casualties were reported as the grenade failed to detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/29/2013: Assailants set a home on fire in the Rengma Nagas community of Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/26/2013: An explosive device in a culvert targeted a group of soldiers in Churachandpur district, Manipur state, India. One soldier was killed and two others were wounded. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) claimed responsibility for the attack in a press release.
01/25/2013: Assailants set fire to at least three construction vehicles in Manhe Mahugaon village, Lohardaga district, Jharkhand, India. No one was injured in the attack; however, the construction vehicles were destroyed, costing approximately $102,000. No group claimed responsibility; however, the police confirmed that Maoists were involved.
07/01/2013: An explosive device detonated inside of a classroom in Ayatpur High School in Ayatpur, Odisha state, India. At least 19 students were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
11/10/2013: Two explosive devices were discovered outside of polling booths in Mangnar village, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. The devices were defused and there were no injuries or property damage in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
11/02/2013: An explosive device detonated while jawans were on patrol in the Fukrogora village, Jharkhand state, India. One police officer was killed and another person was injured in the blast. No group has claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
02/25/2013: About 12 assailants attacked an Indian Oil gas station and set off an explosive device in Aurangabad district, Bihar state, India. The assailants held some employees hostage before detonating the device. The explosion did not injure anyone; however, it caused significant damage. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, sources stated that Maoists attacked the gas station because the owner had not paid them taxes.
09/03/2013: Assailants threw grenade at a government school teacher's residence in Yairipok area, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. There were no casualties or property damage in this attack as the device failed to explode due to a lack of detonator. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
11/26/2013: An explosive device detonated on the Manipur Assam Highway Bridge in Chiripar village, Assam state, India. The bridge was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
08/15/2013: An explosive device detonated in Porompat area, Imphal East district, Manipur state, India. The blast occurred as an Independence Day function was ready to begin. This was one of two such attacks on this day. The Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
03/26/2013: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Imphal, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident and the intended target is unknown.
11/28/2013: Three assailants stopped a public bus and kidnapped the driver in Viswema, Nagaland, India. The driver was released on December 2, 2013. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Naga National Council (NNC).
12/04/2013: Assailants hijacked a school van in Simaluguri town, Sivsagar district, Assam state, India. Ten students and the bus driver were kidnapped during the assault. The driver convinced the assailants to release the 10 students and then was released himself the following day, on December 5, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
05/06/2013: Assailants detonated explosive devices at Mahendra Singh's guest house in Munger district, Bihar state, India. Singh, who had recently donated land to the government to build a police camp, was not injured in the blast. This was one of two bombings near Singh's guest house. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, police attribute the attacks to Maoists.
09/17/2013: Assailants attacked the village of Garobadha in Meghalaya state, India. At least two people were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed the incident to the Garo National Liberation Army.
06/24/2013: Two assailants attacked a Rashtriya Rifles convoy in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. As the assailants escaped, they threw grenades and opened fire at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) checkpost nearby. Overall, eight soldiers and CRPF officers were killed and 14 other people were injured. Five assailants were also injured. The Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) claimed responsibility for the incident; however, intelligence agencies speculated that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) may have been involved.
06/26/2013: An explosive device detonated during a defusing operation in Ajgari, Bihar state, India. The blast, which occurred near the Pakaridayal Police Station, resulted in no reported casualties or injuries. An arrested member of the Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/09/2013: Assailants opened fire on police responding to a previous attack on a road in Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. This was one of two related attacks in the area on this day. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
09/11/2013: Authorities discovered and defused an explosive device at the Government Middle School Katlang, in the Kotkai area of Katlang village, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/18/2013: Assailants opened fire on a Special Auxiliary Police (SAP) patrol in Amarut village, Bihar state, India. Two SAP officers were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
10/24/2013: Assailants kidnapped Soumendra Beti from his home in Jhiliguda town, Odisha state, India. Beti, a sarpanch, was shot and killed; his body was discovered on the morning of October 25, 2013. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they targeted Beti because he was a police informer.
04/11/2013: Assailants planted a bomb near a residential colony for the irrigation department in Bihar state, India. The bomb failed to detonate, but police suspected that it had been placed on the scene to detonate upon the arrival of the authorities. This was one of eight coordinated explosions at the governmental residences on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/11/2013: Assailants damaged the Panchayat Bhawan government building with construction vehicles in Jamui district, Bihar state, India. This was one of two coordinated attacks on two government buildings. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
07/17/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a police vehicle in Batmaloo market in Srinagar district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Shakeel Ahmad Kasana, a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) prisoner who was being transported to a jail, was killed and at least four police officers and a nearby civilian were injured by the blast. The Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front claimed responsibility for the attack.
06/26/2013: Two assailants attacked a social activist in Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The activist, Kifayat Hussain, was killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police attributed it to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
02/15/2013: Two roadside bombs targeting a patrol of the 10 Assam Rifles detonated nearly simultaneously on Uripok-Kangchup road in Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. One soldier suffered minor injures after being struck in the face by shrapnel from one of the explosive devices. In a statement to the press, the Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) claimed that the group's armed wing, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), was responsible for carrying out the attack because they disapproved of the Assam Rifles' attempts to negotiate with separatist groups.
12/07/2013: Approximately 30 assailants armed with sharp weapons entered Kumbhariput village, Koraput district, Odisha state, India. The assailants dragged Bandhu Saraka and Das Huika out of their homes and killed them by slitting their throats. The two had been accused of being police informants. This was one of three attacks committed in Kumbhariput on this day. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that they carried out the attack because they believed the victims were police informants.
01/26/2013: An explosive device detonated near the camp of the 3rd India Reserve Battalion in Wangbal, Manipur, India. There were no reported casualties; however, surrounding buildings were damaged. The Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the bombing in a press release and stated that the attack was part of an organized boycott by multiple revolutionary groups of Republic Day celebrations. Sources note that revolutionary groups had also called for a general strike on January 26th in response to Republic Day celebrations.
06/27/2013: An assailant threw a grenade at a house in Imphal city, Manipur state, India. Two people were killed and four others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
10/12/2013: Assailants attempted to attack a police post in Koil village, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Police officers overpowered the assailants before they could fire their weapons, thereby foiling the attack. There were no reported casualties, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/30/2013: An explosive device detonated at the Yaiskul Bus Stop in western Imphal city, Manipur state, India. At least three people were killed and six others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/30/2013: An explosive device was thrown in Kosi Kalan town, Uttar Pradesh state, India. This was one of four attacks in Kosi Kalan on this day. Five people were injured across all of the attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the attack was attributed to Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
01/18/2013: Assailants opened fire on an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter between Jagdalpur and Sukra in Chhattisgarh state. The pilot was injured in the attack. This was one of two attacks on police and first responders on January 18th, 2013; the helicopter was flying to rescue members of the Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) who had been injured in a previous attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police attribute the attack to Maoists.
11/16/2013: Assailants riding a motorbike threw a grenade at the home of a business owner in Haoreibi, Manipur state, India. One person was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/16/2013: Assailants set fire to a junior high school in Yairipok area, Thoubal district, Manipur, India. There were no reported injuries resulting from the fire, although the building was destroyed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/12/2013: Assailants stormed the Ramaguda village in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. The assailants abducted six people in the attack. Three of the six abducted from Ramaguda were released on December 13, 2013, two others were released on December 14, 2013, and the final hostage was found dead in the Bejangwada area on December 14, 2013. This was one of two related attacks in which civilians were kidnapped in the area on this day. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, saying one of the hostages was a police informer.
09/27/2013: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at the home of B.R. Rana in Laban town, Meghalaya state, India. Neither Rana, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), nor any others were injured; however, one vehicle was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/30/2013: An explosive device was discovered and defused on a highway in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Officials suspected the detonator on the bomb malfunctioned, and that it was meant to target Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's convoy. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
10/08/2013: An explosive device detonated near a police convoy on a bridge near Chisobibra village, East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. No one was injured, but several vehicles were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA). The GNLA had earlier stated that it would retaliate for the killing of one of its top leaders.
01/09/2013: An explosive device was discovered near Salani Bridge and a police checkpoint in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The device was safely defused without causing injury. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful incident.
07/23/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a tax office in Dainadubi area, Meghalaya state, India. There were no reported injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/25/2013: An explosive device detonated on the grounds of the 1st Manipur Rifles battalion headquarters in Imphal, West Imphal, Manipur state, India. This was one of four bombings on the same day. No casualties were reported. Coordination Committee (CORCOM) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it was part of a boycott of Republic Day.
02/26/2013: Assailants planted an explosive device at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) oil refinery's main gate in Noonmati area, Assam state, India. The device was successfully defused by a bomb squad. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful attack.
01/24/2013: An explosive device was found and defused near the Darrang Police Station in Mangaldai, Darrang district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, police suspect a hard-line faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
04/02/2013: Assailants opened fire on the residence of Bhagyarani Tripura in Malda Kumar Roajapara village, Tripura state, India. At least five people, including Bhagyarani, a village chairperson, were kidnapped and several other people were injured in the assault. Two of the hostages escaped on May 21, 2013 while the fate of the remaining three hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attributed the kidnapping to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
08/20/2013: Assailants attacked Dr. Narendra Dabholkar in Pune city, Maharashtra state, India. Dr. Dabholkar, the founder of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (Committee for the Eradication of Blind Faith), was killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Sanatan Sanstha.
05/14/2013: Assailants set two cement mixers, several other vehicles, and construction workers' private residences on fire in Rajnandgaon district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack, although the machinery was damaged. No group claimed responsibility; however, officials attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/07/2013: Assailants attacked a mobile tower in Aurangabad district, Bihar, India. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
05/05/2013: Police discovered and defused five explosive devices buried under a road in Lenjua village, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attribute the attack to Maoists.
06/21/2013: A landmine blast targeted a police patrol in Nerli, Chhattisgarh state, India. A firefight ensued, but no injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a police spokesperson attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/29/2013: An explosive device detonated near a sewer drain in Guwahati, Assam state, India. No injuries or casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/11/2013: Assailants attacked a petrol pump of the Indian Oil Corporation with firearms and grenades in Chasingre town, West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. Two employees of the company were injured in the attack. This was one of three attacks perpetrated by the same assailants in this area on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
09/06/2013: Assailants attacked Sohan Mandavi near Burgum village, Chhattisgarh state, India. Mandavi, a former deputy sarpanch, was killed in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, authorities attributed the incident to Maoists.
12/15/2013: Assailants attempted to detonate an explosive device at a mobile phone tower in Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. No casualties or damages were reported. This was one of two attacks on mobile phone towers in India on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, police attributed the attacks to Maoists.
09/17/2013: Assailants opened fire on police officers in Mariwada village, Chhattisgarh state, India. One police officer and one assailant were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
12/11/2013: Assailants hurled grenades and opened fire on the Meghalaya Police Radio Organization (MPRO) in Chasingre town, West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. There were no casualties in the incident; however, the station's communication equipment was damaged in the attack. This was one of three attacks perpetrated by the same assailants in this area on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
12/26/2013: Armed assailants raided a road construction site in Nepa village, Gaya district, Bihar state, India. The attackers locked construction workers in a room, stole their cell phones, and set fire to construction equipment. No one was injured; however, four construction vehicles were destroyed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police claim that members of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) are responsible for the incident.
07/31/2013: Assailants abducted Sumat Usendi, cousin of the Chhattisgarh Forests Minister, from his home in Sulangi, India. The attackers shot and killed the victim shortly after his abduction. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident, claiming in a note left at the scene that Usendi was a police informer.
10/17/2013: A landmine detonated targeting the vehicle of Sushil Pandey in Pathara village, Bihar state, India. Pandey, the husband of district board member Usha Devi, and his six aides were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials attributed the attack to Maoists.
01/06/2013: Assailants disfigured a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) member in Latehar district, Jharkhand, India. The assailants cut out the victim's eyes and tongue before killing him. Officials attribute the incident to Maoists.
06/09/2013: Four assailants shot and killed former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) legislator, Dilip Sarkar, in the Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/09/2013: An explosive device hidden in a tiffin box was found and defused underneath a bridge in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
09/18/2013: Assailants attacked an army convoy in Hyderpora, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No injuries were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
08/26/2013: Gunmen opened fire on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers who were parking a vehicle in Awanera village, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The officers were providing protection for Shoukat Gania, a National Conference (NC) party leader and Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council member. One CRPF officer was killed and one was injured in the attack. This was one of two attacks on police targets in close proximity on this day. Hizbul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police stated that the claim was an attempt at distraction and attributed the attack to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
04/11/2013: Assailants damaged government buildings with construction vehicles in Jamui district, Bihar state, India. This was one of two coordinated attacks on government buildings on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
10/25/2013: Assailants abducted four individuals from Gatibeda town, Odisha state, India. One of the victims, Bishnu Meher, was killed by his captors on October 28, 2013, while another, Karna Meher, managed to escape. The status of the remaining two victims are unknown. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident in posters left near the body of Meher, stating that victims were targeted for being police informers.
10/18/2013: An explosive device detonated near the police station in downtown Imphal city, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties resulting from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/25/2013: Unidentified assailants abducted a polling agent in Amaluma village, Nagaland state, India. The victim was critically injured and was released by the assailants. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
09/23/2013: Assailants opened fire on two Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officers in Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir, India. One officer was killed and the other was injured in the shooting. Baleeguddin, a spokesperson for Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was in retaliation for recent killings in Shopian.
02/15/2013: Perpetrators kidnapped Chintala Paidi Raju, an engineer working for BSC C&C Construction Limited, in Betagaon, Baksa district, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the incident to the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB)'s Songbijit faction. They speculated that the kidnapping may have been in response to a failure to pay extortion money. The victim was released on February 27th, 2013 and seven people were arrested in connection with the kidnapping.
12/06/2013: Assailants abducted a coal trader in Baghmara town, Meghalaya state, India. The victim's whereabouts are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Garo National Liberation Army.
11/09/2013: Assailants set the Husdoba panchayat office on fire in Lakhipur town, Cachar district, Assam state, India. No casualties were reported, but the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/08/2013: An explosive device detonated near a convoy of army porters in Kanga Gali area, Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The blast killed one porter, Javaid Iqbal, and injured three people. This was one of two coordinated attacks; this first explosion was designed to draw first responders to the area. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
12/19/2013: An explosive device was discovered and defused near a petrol pump in Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
12/29/2013: Assailants set a home on fire in the Rengma Nagas community of Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
12/29/2013: Assailants set a home on fire in the Rengma Nagas community of Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/13/2013: Assailants opened fire on Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) officers in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. One COBRA officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
12/29/2013: Assailants set a home on fire in the Rengma Nagas community of Balichanda village, Karbi Anglong district, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, the house was damaged by the fire. This was one of 11 buildings set on fire by the same assailant in Balichanda village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/25/2013: An explosive device detonated in Keishampat neighborhood, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. At least one Assam Rifles soldier was killed and one civilian was wounded in the attack. The United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility, stating that the attack was retaliation for the killing of civilians by the Assam Rifles.
10/06/2013: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) stockyard in Mawlai town, Meghalaya state, India. The fire caused significant damage to the property. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
11/07/2013: Approximately 100 assailants attacked a campsite of a construction company in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand state, India. Four construction workers were injured, while equipment and vehicles were set on fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
04/30/2013: Assailants threw a grenade and opened fire on a vehicle in Kuiva Kazo, Manipur state, India. The vehicle belonged to Preshow Shimray, a member of the legislative assembly (MLA). Security forces returned fire but no one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources speculated that the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) was involved.
06/06/2013: Assailants kidnapped three construction workers in Kaziranga National Park, Assam state, India. One of the construction workers was able to escape. The whereabouts of the other two are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the attack was attributed to the Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT).
01/06/2013: An explosive device hidden in a bag was discovered by police officers in Dabnahi area, Chhattisgarh state, India. The device detonated as the officers were opening the bag; a superintendent and two constables were injured in the blast. This was one of two bag bombs discovered in the same area. Officials attribute the incidents to Maoists.
07/07/2013: Assailants detonated two explosive devices at the entrance of the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya religious site, Bihar state, India. No one was injured in the blast, but furniture was damaged. This was one of five coordinated bombings against Buddhist targets in town. The Indian Mujahideen and the Jamat al-Tawhid wal-Qisas claimed responsibility for the attacks.
12/10/2013: Assailants abducted two laborers from a construction site in Tuisenphai village, Senapati district, Manipur state, India. The two hostages, identified as Sanasam Tomba and Amom Doren, were released on December 24, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Kuki National Front (KNF) Nehlun sub-group.
06/13/2013: One hundred assailants opened fire on the 13331 Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express train in Kundar village, Jamui district, Bihar state, India. Three people, including a Railway Protection Force (RPF) officer, were killed and at least five others were injured. Police suggest the assailants attacked the train in order to loot weapons. However, a spokesman for the Community Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the attack, citing recent arrests of group members as the cause.
03/06/2013: Two explosive devices planted along a road were discovered in Yelamanda village, Andhra Pradesh, India. The devices were safely defused before they could detonate. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Maoists had been involved.
04/29/2013: Armed assailants shot and killed a party leader in Kawad, Chhattisgarh state, India. Shivdayal Tomar was a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
12/23/2013: Assailants abducted three people in Simdega district, Jharkhand state, India. The dead bodies of all three individuals were discovered the next morning, December 24, 2013, near Kuladrum village in the district. The People's Liberation Front of India claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that the victims had been killed because they were police informers.
12/11/2013: Three assailants threw a grenade at a army patrol in Chirang district, Assam state, India. Two assailants were killed and one wounded when security personnel returned fire. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). However, local residents claimed that the boys were students and that they were sleeping when the soldiers opened fire on them.
11/23/2013: Assailants abducted and tortured three people in Damparengpui village, Mizoram state, India. Two of the captives were released on January 21, 2014; the third captive was released on March 23, 2014. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the Bru Democratic Front of Mizoram (BDFM).
08/15/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at a mini bus stand in Kokrajhar district, Assam state, India. The location was believed to be targeted since it was near a venue hosting Independence Day celebrations. This was one of three grenade attacks in Assam on this day. As a result of this explosion, one civilian was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks; however, sources attributed the attack to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
01/07/2013: Approximately 200 assailants opened fire on a police patrol in Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The police returned fire, leading to an extended firefight. At least 15 people were killed in the attack, including members of the Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF), the Jharkhand Jaguars, and civilians; another 14 people were injured. Officials attribute the incident to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M).
12/02/2013: Gunmen opened fire on police who were patrolling a market in Chadoora town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One police officer and a shopkeeper were killed and two officers were wounded in the attack. Al-Nasireen Group claimed responsibility for the incident.
01/08/2013: Following an attack on Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) and Jharkhand Jaguars members, assailants planted explosive devices in the bodies of at least two victims in Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. One device detonated as civilians began clearing the bodies and a second device was defused. At least one person was killed and two more were injured in the attack. Officials attribute the incident to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M).
08/22/2013: An assailant tossed a grenade at a passing army vehicle in Imam Sahib area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. At least one Rashtriya Rifles officer was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/30/2013: Assailants tossed two pipe bombs at a police vehicle in Kinatintavida town, Kerala state, India. When the vehicle stopped, four more pipe bombs were thrown at the vehicle; five of the bombs detonated. There were no reported casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
05/22/2013: Assailants attacked a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces camp in Burkapal village, Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. This was one of two attacks on police camps in the district this day. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, they were attributed to Maoists.
11/18/2013: A remote-controlled device detonated targeting a Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) truck in Harkhui village, Manipur state, India. At least eight people were wounded in the blast. The People's Liberation Army (India) claimed responsibility for the incident.
07/21/2013: Assailants attacked two Trinamool Congress members in Raidighi town, West Bengal state, India. The Congress members were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the Trinamool Congress officials attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India- Marxist.
10/27/2013: An explosive device detonated in the washroom of a train station in Patna city, Bihar state, India. The blast was targeting trains arriving with spectators for the Narendra Modi political rally. At least one assailant was killed in the explosion. This was one of seven attacks targeting the rally within the span of a few hours. Indian Muhajedeen claimed responsibility for the incidents, stating that the goal was to create a stampede in retaliation for the Muzaffarnagar riot in August 2013.
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated in front of a passenger bus in Pungera village, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists, who detonated the device to discourage buses from catering to Indian soldiers.
10/14/2013: Assailants attacked villagers in Senapati district, Manipur state, India. There were no reports of injuries or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed the incident to the Kuki National Front (KNF).
08/23/2013: Assailants kidnapped and murdered a journalist in the Chola area, Uttar Pradesh state, India. The victim's body was discovered on August 26, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device in Bigha area, Bihar state, India. The device targeted a building in the Irrigation department's residential colony in which the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was to be housed. There were no casualties; however, seven buildings were destroyed. This was one of eight coordinated explosions at the governmental colony on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
09/02/2013: An explosive device was found and defused in Koraput district, Odisha state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
02/10/2013: Perpetrators set the Goroimari LP School on fire in Goalpara district, Assam state, India. The school building was damaged in the fire. This was one of five schools burned in coordinated attacks. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
12/06/2013: Gunmen shot and killed a civilian in Oragitok village, Meghalaya state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army.
02/27/2013: A remote triggered landmine targeted a police vehicle on Barsroor road in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. A police inspector and three officers were wounded/ No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
07/07/2013: A gas cylinder bomb was discovered and defused in a village near the Bodh Gaya religious site, in Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
10/06/2013: Assailants threw grenades and opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in the Main Chowk area of Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.