CRPF to appeal Dantewada attack
4 March 2013 2:32 AM GMT
The CRPF has decided to contest the acquittal of 10 arrested accused in the 2010 Tadmetla Maoist attack case in which 76 security personnel were killed in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.
Three years after the central paramilitary lost 75 of its men, the force has written to the Chhattisgarh government with a request to appeal against the 7 Jan verdict of a local court. A Chhattisgarh policeman was also killed in the attack.
‘We have written to the state government. We certainly want the verdict to be challenged and see that the perpetrators are brought to justice,’ CRPF chief Pranay Sahay said.
Senior officials in Raipur said the CRPF has also approached local police, probing the case, and offered them help in gathering evidence and bringing on record witnesses for the incident that occurred in the wee hours of 6 April. Ten accused were recently acquitted by the court of Additional District Judge Anita Dahariya.
The CRPF, the mainstay for anti-Naxal operations in the country with more than 80,000 personnel deployed for the task, suffered a huge setback in the deadly Maoist ambush.
The court acquitted the suspects, arrested from nearby areas of Chintalnar in Dantewada within a month of the Naxal attack, as there was no evidence.
Three years after the central paramilitary lost 75 of its men, the force has written to the Chhattisgarh government with a request to appeal against the 7 Jan verdict of a local court. A Chhattisgarh policeman was also killed in the attack.
‘We have written to the state government. We certainly want the verdict to be challenged and see that the perpetrators are brought to justice,’ CRPF chief Pranay Sahay said.
Senior officials in Raipur said the CRPF has also approached local police, probing the case, and offered them help in gathering evidence and bringing on record witnesses for the incident that occurred in the wee hours of 6 April. Ten accused were recently acquitted by the court of Additional District Judge Anita Dahariya.
The CRPF, the mainstay for anti-Naxal operations in the country with more than 80,000 personnel deployed for the task, suffered a huge setback in the deadly Maoist ambush.
The court acquitted the suspects, arrested from nearby areas of Chintalnar in Dantewada within a month of the Naxal attack, as there was no evidence.
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