From India Today
Ranchi, October 23, 2011
Three days after a Dhruv helicopter carrying BSF personnel crashed near Ranchi killing all three on board, Maoists have claimed to have shot it down.
In an SMS sent to the media, undersigned by the head of its South Chotanagpur zonal committee head Kundan Pahan, the Maoists have claimed responsibility for the incident, which occurred in a rebel stronghold.
The message read: "Helicopter ko Maowadi Jan Mukti Chapamaar Sena ke veer jawanon ne maar giraya - Kundan Pahan" (The helicopter was shot down by the brave soldiers of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army).
The PLGA is the armed wing of the CPI (Maoist) and Pahan has been heading it for the last five years.
Jharkhand DGP G. S. Rath, however, felt the SMS was a hoax. "We have initiated an enquiry into the SMS. We will soon know who has sent it," Rath said.
So far the police have ruled out any possibility of Maoist involvement in the crash. A senior police officer though said the SMS had been well-planned.
"The location, language and number all point towards the involvement of the notorious Pahan. Everything looks well-calculated. But about his involvement in the accident there is no proof," the officer said. State police spokesperson R. K. Mallick termed the SMS as rubbish. "They cooked things up to take credit. If they had initiated the matter, they would have claimed it earlier," Mallick said.
Ranchi, October 23, 2011
Three days after a Dhruv helicopter carrying BSF personnel crashed near Ranchi killing all three on board, Maoists have claimed to have shot it down.
In an SMS sent to the media, undersigned by the head of its South Chotanagpur zonal committee head Kundan Pahan, the Maoists have claimed responsibility for the incident, which occurred in a rebel stronghold.
The message read: "Helicopter ko Maowadi Jan Mukti Chapamaar Sena ke veer jawanon ne maar giraya - Kundan Pahan" (The helicopter was shot down by the brave soldiers of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army).
The PLGA is the armed wing of the CPI (Maoist) and Pahan has been heading it for the last five years.
Jharkhand DGP G. S. Rath, however, felt the SMS was a hoax. "We have initiated an enquiry into the SMS. We will soon know who has sent it," Rath said.
So far the police have ruled out any possibility of Maoist involvement in the crash. A senior police officer though said the SMS had been well-planned.
"The location, language and number all point towards the involvement of the notorious Pahan. Everything looks well-calculated. But about his involvement in the accident there is no proof," the officer said. State police spokesperson R. K. Mallick termed the SMS as rubbish. "They cooked things up to take credit. If they had initiated the matter, they would have claimed it earlier," Mallick said.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maoists-claim-responsibility-for-bsf-chopper-crash/1/157252.html
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