Operation Octopu News Today

Ranchi: The Union home ministry has announced ‘Union Home Minister Special Operation Medal’ for 51 CRPF personnel for anti-extremist operations namely.

Ranchi: Sixteen police personnel of Jharkhand, including seven IPS officers, have been chosen for the ‘Union Home Minister’s Special Operations Medal’.

A huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered in a joint operation conducted by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and Assam Police in Assams Nalbari area.

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and Jharkhand Police recovered arms and ammunition on Friday after they nabbed a Naxal bunker in the Burha Pahar area.

Water scarcity would be a major challenge for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jharkhand Jaguar police in the next two-three months on Burha Pahar naxal bastion- a 55 square km hilly range which was captured by the forces in September this year for the first time in 32 decades.

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Commandant MK Khan on Saturday said that Operation Sweep Clean, launched by security forces at Naxals bastion of Burha Pahar in Jharkhand was called off due to heavy rainfall before launching operation Octopus, which successfully overpowered Naxalites citadel.

Operation Octopus - the joint operation launched by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jharkhand Jaguar in September this year to capture the heavily mined Burha Pahar hilly range in Garhwa district of Jharkhand seems to have started yielding positive results.

Ahead of the ban, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had led a pan-India crackdown titled Operation Octopus on PFI members and their residences.

The National President of the SDPI called the BJP governments decision to ban PFI a

Central Reserve Police Force has declared Bihar free of Maoists and said there is no area in the state where the Naxal group is in a position to dominate