Chhattisgarh

Four policemen were injured in an attack by Naxals, who first triggered a landmine blast and then opened fire at them in Sukma district in Bastar region during their 'Bharat Bandh' on Wednesday, police said.

A day after six CISF jawans and a civilian driver were killed in the Naxal attack in Dantewada district, police on Monday intensified combing operation in the region.

A local court on Friday turned down the bail pleas of two women Maoists who figured among eight rebels, the ultras wanted to be set free in exchange for the release of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon.

A local court on Friday turned down the the bail pleas of two women Maoists who figured among eight rebels, the ultras wanted to be set free in exchange for the release of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon.

In the wake of the 12-day hostage crisis that ended after the release of Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh here on Friday sought a national policy to deal with such situations.

Freed by Naxals after 12 days in captivity, Collector Alex Paul Menon on Friday reached his home in Sukma.

Even as efforts are on for the release of the kidnapped Sukma district collector, four police personnel were injured on Wednesday when a group of Maoists allegedly opened fire at a police van in the neighbouring Dantewada district. One of the injured is reported to be critical.

Maoists on Friday asked Chhattisgarh Government to clarify its stand on their demands for release of abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon, and expressed their inability to extend the deadline without receiving a clarification in this regard.

Mediators of the Chhattisgarh government and Maoists on Thursday held inconclusive talks after they met for the first time in a bid to end the six-day-old hostage crisis involving abducted Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon.

Even as efforts are on to secure the release of kidnapped Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, a page created on the 32-year-old officer by his family and friends, on social networking site Facebook has become a big hit.