April 13, 2010 8:19 PM

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Centre to deploy 6000 CRPF personnel in naxal affected States

Government will send around 6,000 CRPF personnel to naxal-affected states of the country. The six battalions of the CRPF to be sent for anti-Maoist operations will be drawn from units which have recently finished training and are scheduled to go for deployment. Quoting official sources, our corresopndent reports the positioning of these battalions will be made in a time-bound manner in various states hit by Left wing extremism, to assist the state police in carrying out operations. The government has already sent almost 60,000 central para-military personnel drawn from CRPF, ITBP and BSF for anti-naxal duties. The fresh deployment comes in the wake of the April six naxal attack on a police company in Dantewada which killed 75 CRPF men and a head constable of Chhattisgarh police.<br/>

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