MAOIST REBEL KILLED BY POLICE IN INDIA’S EASTERN JHARKHAND
By ANITuesday, June 15, 2010
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Maoist rebel killed by police in India’s eastern Jharkhand.
Indian police shot Sakal Gop, a rebel of the Maoist group ‘People’s Liberation Front of India’, in a gun battle in Gumla district of eastern Jharkhand state.
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GUMLA, JHARKHAND, INDIA (JUNE 14, 2010) (ANI- NO ACCESS BBC)
1. POLICE CAR ARRIVING AT THE GUN BATTLE SITE
2. POLICE OFFICIALS LOOKING AT THE MAOIST REBEL’S BODY
3. BODY OF SAKAL GOP, SUB-ZONAL COMMANDER OF MAOIST GROUP ‘PEOPLE’S LIBERATION FRONT OF INDIA’, LYING ON THE GROUND (TWO SHOTS)
4. PISTOL AND BULLETS LYING ON THE GROUND
5. GOP’S BODY AND THE BULLET ON THE GROUND
6. PEOPLE GATHERED AT THE GUN BATTLE SITE
7. POLICE PERSONNEL CARRYING AWAY THE BODY
8. POLICE PERSONNEL PUTTING THE BODY IN A JEEP
9. PEOPLE LOOKING AT THE POLICE PERSONNEL
10. POLICE PERSONNEL STANDING AT THE POLICE STATION
11. POLICE PERSONNEL TALKING
12. POLICE OFFICIAL STANDING NEXT TO A CAR
13. POLICE CAR
14. N.K SINGH, SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, TALKING ON THE PHONE (TWO SHOTS)
15. (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) N.K. SINGH, SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, SAYING: “Within 15 days we have caught 24 criminals and sent them to prison. In the gun battle today PLFI (People’s Liberation Front of India) sub-zonal commander Sakal Gop was killed. This was possible because of the independent group working under the President’s rule (in the state). We are working with precision and seriousness. We are also carrying out our strategy properly and there is no pressure. We are receiving the full support from our seniors and our district police is successful in the work.”
16. SINGH TALKING
STORY: Indian police shot Sakal Gop, a rebel of the Maoist group ‘People’s Liberation Front of India’, in eastern Jharkhand state on Monday (June 14).
The gun battle took place in Ratnamsera village of Gumla district.
An official said that Gop was wanted in about 15 cases including murder and kidnapping.
“Within 15 days we have caught 24 criminals and sent them to prison. In the gun battle today PLFI (People’s Liberation Front of India) sub-zonal commander Sakal Gop was killed. This was possible because of the independent group working under the President’s rule (in the state). We are working with precision and seriousness. We are also carrying out our strategy properly and there is no pressure. We are receiving the full support from our seniors and our district police is successful in the work,” said N.K Singh, Superintendent of Police.
Singh added that some of his accomplices, who might have been wounded, escaped and a manhunt has been launched.
Maoist rebels in recent months have stepped up attacks in response to a government security offensive to clear them out of their jungle bases.
The Maoists say they are crusading against the prevailing political system and in cause of the poor and marginal farmers and landless labourers.
They have spread into rural pockets in 20 of India’s 28 states and the movement has upset business prospects worth billions of dollars in mining industries in central and eastern India.
