Volume 1, No. 5, July 2000

 

Some of the Armed Actions Carried out by People’s War Guerrillas from September 1999 to April 2000 in the North Telangana Guerrilla Zone

— Our NT Correspondent

 

* September 1999: Guerrillas raided a police station in Papannapet in Medak district and carried away 15 weapons. The action was carried out by the guerrilla squads of neighbouring Nizamabad.

* September 1999: A big landlord who was also the sitting MLA from Sirpur constituency in Adilabad — Palvai Purushotham Rao — was annihilated along with three of his gunmen in the TDP office. Two stens were seized from them by a special guerrilla squad.

* September 1999: One Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police along with three constables were wiped out in an ambush by the guerrillas in the third week, in Dobbalapadu village in Mahadevpur mandal in Karimnagar district.

* November 1999: A seven-member special guerrilla squad carried out an ambush on a police party near Sonala village in Boath mandal of Adilabad on second November. One policeman was killed and seven others, including an SI, were seriously injured when the jeep in which they were travelling hit a land mine triggered off by the guerrillas. One .303 rifle was seized in the ambush.

* December 1999: two constables and a sub inspector of police of Khanapur PS were wiped out in a land mine blast set off by a special guerrilla squad on December 4th on the outskirts of Khanapur town in Adilabad district. The CI and ten other policemen sustained serious injuries.

* December 1999: on December 6th, a police jeep was ambushed by a 15-member special guerrilla squad in Etur Nagaram mandal centre in Warangal district. The five member police batch was on its way to remove the placards put up by CPI (ML)[PW] in Etur Nagaram town calling upon the people to observe December 6 as anti communal day in protest against the pulling down of the Babri Masjid by the Hindu fascist forces in 1992. The ambush took place just one km away from the police station. Three SLRs and a .303 rifle were captured by the guerrillas.

* December 1999: An ambush was carried out by the guerrillas on December 19th near Kuntala Manepalli on a 30-member police party coming on foot. A constable of the APSP was killed on the spot and several others were injured, when they were checking for a landmine at a culvert.

* December 1999: Guerrillas attacked the Warangal district secretary of the TDP in the first week of December in Warangal city. Two gunmen were killed while the TDP leader was hospitalised. A sten gun and a revolver were seized in the action.

* December 1999: A head-constable was annihilated in Parkal town and an AK-47 was snatched in the first week of December.

* January 2000: A CRPF head-constable was annihilated near Srirampur camp in Peddapalli centre in Karimnagar district in the last week of January and a sten gun was seized.

* January 2000: A notorious constable was wiped out near Veenavanka Police Station in Huzurabad centre in Karimnagar district.

* January 2000: A major raid was carried out by a 40-member guerrilla force on the DySP guard room in Kagaznagar town in Adilabad district on January 14. Two policemen were killed and two SLRs were seized. The office was blown up with dynamite. The office was located just 200 yards from the Police Station that housed 60 policemen but none of them came to the site of the raid.

* February 2000: A policeman was injured in the raid on Karepalli PS in Khammam on February 8.

* March 2000: A major raid was carried out on Asaralli PS in Gadchiroli district of neighbouring Maharashtra by the platoons of North Telangana. A total of 26 weapons (20 SLRs, five .303 and one revolver) were seized along with ammunition. Ten policemen who were injured in the attack surrendered to the guerrillas. One guerrilla — Comrade Satheesh — died in the initial exchange of fire. Another guerrilla — Comrade Prathap — was killed when the mine that he was carrying went off accidentally.

* April 2000: One police constable and one guerrilla squad member died in an exchange of fire in the second week of April near Mallaram village in Manthani centre in Karimnagar district. The incident occurred when a large force of the police sat in ambush to eliminate the PW squad.

 

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