Director General of Police, Jharkhand, Anurag Gupta chaired a comprehensive review meeting on Naxal eradication related issues in the Police Headquarters Auditorium on Wednesday.

In the course of this meeting related to the Maoists’ scenario, the compliance of the instructions given earlier was extensively reviewed and for the complete elimination of extremism, the following instructions were given to strengthen the intelligence system along with taking other desired action for the complete elimination of Maoist / other extremist organizations / Splinter Groups / criminal groups:-

All SPs will review all such cases that have happened in their district in the past and will also ensure that whatever information is given by the victim regarding threats by Maoists / Splinter Groups / criminal groups. FIR should be registered in it.

All SPs, especially in Naxal-affected districts, will specially review the registered cases related to arson/sabotage by Maoists/Splinter Groups/criminal groups and ensure desired action as soon as possible. The concerned Regional IGs/Regional DIGs will ensure compliance of this under their supervision.

Effective attachment and confiscation action should be taken against all the accused of Maoists/Splinter Groups/criminal groups who are absconding in various cases.

Action for attachment and confiscation of movable and immovable property of absconding Naxalites/criminals will be ensured as soon as possible.

All SPs will ensure desired action by identifying the properties acquired through crime and updating its documentation.

All SPs will ensure to make their subordinate officers and personnel aware on the basis of "know your enemy/ know your friend" by creating a profile of each member of Naxal/ Splinter Groups/ criminal gang so that the police officers and personnel posted/ deputed in the police station/ police picket established in the districts are able to know well which Naxal/ Splinter Groups/ criminal gangs are active in their area, so that desired action can be taken against them. All Superintendents of Police (especially those of Naxal-affected areas) will ensure to take desired action as soon as possible by quickly verifying the intelligence received from the unit of the state.

For the arrest of absconding Naxalites, they will ensure to submit proposals for reward against them through proper means.

To make the campaign being run against Naxalites and the surrender policy more effective, positive efforts should be made to bring more and more people into the mainstream by widely publicizing it.

After the surrender of Naxalites under the rehabilitation scheme being run by the government, it should be reviewed whether the surrendered Naxalites are getting all the benefits given under the rehabilitation scheme or not. If the surrendered Naxalites are deprived of any benefit, then ensure that the desired action is taken in this regard as soon as possible.

In addition to DGP, Anurag Gupta; Akhilesh Jha, IG, Ranchi, AV Homkar, IG, Operations, Anup Birthare, IG, STF, Utkrisht Prasun, Joint Assistant Director, IB, Indrajit Mahatha, DIG, Jharkhand Jaguar, Satish Linda, DIG, CRPF, Chandan Jha, DIG, SIB, Nathu Singh Meena, SP, SIB, Colonel K.A. Khan, Supervisor, CIATS and Amit Renu, SP, Operations and other police officers were present physically and IGs of Bokaro and Palamu, DIGs of Ranchi / Bokaro / Hazaribagh / Chaibasa and Palamu and all SPs especially from Chaibasa / Saraikela Kharsawan / Khunti / Gumla / Latehar / Garhwa / Palamu / Chatra / Hazaribagh / Ramgarh / Simdega / Bokaro / Giridih and Lohardaga were present through video conferencing.