States facing incidents of Naxal violence on Wednesday renewed their pledge to fight the outlawed Maoists with coordinated efforts and planning. Jharkhand DGP DK Pandey said that since Maoists did not follow borders, security forces will also have to ignore it and work together with the bordering States to drag them out from the region.
Pandey was speaking at Police Headquarters in Ranchi after attending Inter State Co-ordination Meeting of four states — Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
“Naxals do not have borders...they act wherever they find loopholes. The Police too will have to forget borders and work together and move forward accordingly. We are working out how to move forward together,” said the DGP.
Discussions took place on all issues related to the four states and a consensus has been reached to work together to drag out Naxals from the area, he added.
Earlier before the meeting, police officials paid homage to jawans who got killed in Naxal attack at the borders of Gaya and Aurangabad in Bihar.
Stressing on implementing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mission of ‘One police, One order’ in the Country, Pandey said that there was a need to organise regular inter-state, inter-region and inter-district meetings so that a solution to inter-state problems could be chalked out together.
“Steps must be taken together to root out Naxalism and Terrorism from the Country,” said Pandey.
Mutual coordination of interstate forces in joint operation is a must so that problems could be solved by strategic deputation of forces, added the DGP. Active Inter-State coordination is important along with integrated command, he said.
ADG Operations SN Pradhan, Joint Director (IB) Praveen Kumar, Joint Deputy Director (IB) Don K Jose and IB Jharkhand also presented a presentation on terror module in the region during the meeting. Other Senior Police officials coming from all the four states also gave their presentation on terrorism.
During this meeting a discussion took place between senior officials of all the four states on the opearations being undertaken by them to root out Naxals from the region. The four states also stressed on preparing a joint strategy to drag out Maoists from the region.
Intelligence Bureau, New Delhi, officials especially took part in the meeting along with senior police officials of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal while senior officials of Jharkhand Police Headquarters and officials of Special Branch and Crime Investigation Department represented also took part in it.
IG (West) Rourkela RK Sharma, IG (Sarguja) Chhattisgarh Himanshu Gupta, Regional DIG (Kolhan) Akhilesh Jha, DIG Palamu Ajay Kumar Nand, IG (CIF) West Bengal Ajay Kumar, IG (SSB) Rajiv Rai, DIG Bokaro Saket Kumar Singh, DIG (CRPF) Jharkhand Sector Rajiv Rai were also present during the meeting.