Amid rising clout of the terror outfit Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in jungles of Chhattisgarh, the State Government on Saturday extended ban on the terror outfit and its six frontal organisations for one more year, informed a notification issued here by the home department.
The terror group, CPI-Maoist, was first banned along with its affiliates in Chhattisgarh in 2006 under section three of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005 and since then the state government has been extending the ban every year.
The six frontal organisations which are banned along with their parent organisation, are Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh, Krantikari Adivasi Balak Sangh, Krantikari Kisan Committee, Mahila Mukti Manch and Jantana Sarkar.
The CPI-Maoist, formed with the merger of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and People's War Group (PWG), commands a massive interior forested belt in the state's southern mineral rich Bastar region, which is made up of seven districts- Dantewada, Bijapur, Bastar, Kanker, Narayanpur, Kondagaon and Sukma.
The Bastar region is spread out in about 40,000 sq km areas where Maoists run a de facto government since late 1980s.
Officials at the police headquarters here said that hundreds of police and civilians have been killed in Maoist violence in the state since it came into existence in November 2000 after splitting from Madhya Pradesh.