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| India-Pakistan |
| Border barrier lifted in WB, J'khand to nab Maoists |
| 2007-12-30 |
| West Bengal and Jharkhand police have decided to get rid of the barrier of jurisdiction in adjoining Maoist-hit areas to take faster action against the Maoists. In the Maoist affected belt of six districts of the tow States -- Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Sareikela-Kharsawan of Jharkhand and West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia of West Bengal -- policemen can now move freely into each other's territory, West Midnapore Superintendent of Police R Rajsekharan, who attended the meeting said on Friday. After launching an attack in one state, Maoist ultras usually flee to another through the forest covered border and the police fail to chase them due to the jurisdiction barrier. But now, if a police station of West Bengal has some information on a Maoist activity, it could directly tip-off the respective police station in Jharkhand instead of informing Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Rajsekharan said. The existing rule was that, only a DIG level officer could pass on such information to another DIG level officer. But, by the time the information reaches from a police station to the DIG's office of one State and from the DIG's office to the police station concerned in the other, precious time gets lost and the ultras escape easily, police sources added. The new system would reduce the time delay significantly, the sources said after the joint meeting of the DIG of Kolhan range of Jharkhand and his Midnapore range counterpart in West Bengal at Kharagpur on Friday. |
| Posted by:john frum |