Alert sounded in 3 naxalits infested districts in UP after Chhattisgarh naxalite ambush Uttar Pradesh government has sounded a high alert in the naxal infested Sonebhadra,Mirzapur and Chandauli districts in view of the naxalite attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh on Saturday.
Additional Director General of Police (law and Order) Arun Kumar, on Sunday, informed that an alert has been issued to Police chiefs, especially, of three districts- Sonebhadra, Mirzapur and Chandauli have been asked to intensify patrolling in sensitive pockets.
'' Police pickets in bordering areas with Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Jharkhand in these three districts of UP have been directed tomonitor intruders and people crossing over to the state,'' he said.
Kumar said that though there was no naxalite attack incident in theUP for the past several years but still all precautions were being taken in view of the Chhattisgarh incident.
It may be mentioned that around 27 Congress leaders and security men were killed and several others were injured during a naxalit attack in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh yesterday.
Meanwhile Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Nirmal Khatri condemned the incident of Chhattisgarh and termed it as a 'cowardly' act by the anti-national activists.
Khatri also blamed the Raman Singh government for the death of the Congress leaders, as the BJP government failed to providesecurity to the 'Parivartan Yatra' of the Congress.