Incidents in Puruliya, West Bengal, India

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Event ID Date Country Event
67009-136793-347061 12/20/2013 India Former civic Police constable, Dilip Pramanik, an active member of Jungalmahal Unnayan Birodhi Protirodh Committee (Committee against Anti-Jungalmahal Development Forces) that is backed by the Trinamool Congress (TMC), was injured on December 19 when Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres tried to abduct him from Tilai village under Balampur Police Station area in Purulia District, reports The Times of India.
47374-92000-231328 12/18/2010 India The Hindu reports that the cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed seven Forward Bloc party workers, identified as Chapala Garai, Tapan Singh Sardar, Kinkar Singh, Rajesh Singh, Gopeswar Mahato, Gobardhan Singh and Arjun Singh Mura at Baghbinda village of Jhalda in Purulia District on December 17.
47277-91835-230894 12/13/2010 India Meanwhile, a plot to blow up the railway station in Purulia District by suspected Maoists was foiled with the seizure of high-intensity explosives, with train services being suspended immediately.
46852-91069-228897 11/13/2010 India Sify.com reports that two cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were shot dead by the Security Forces at Bamni village in Ayodhya Hills in Purulia District on November 12. Inspector General of Police (Western Range) Zulfikar Hassan said: 'We have recovered two bodies of the Maoists cadres from the camp.
46577-90541-227483 10/24/2010 India Meanwhile, the Maoists abducted an intelligence branch inspector, Partha Biswas, and an NGO worker, Samarjit Basu, from a place four kilometres west of Barabhum in Ayodhya area of Purulia District.
45628-88505-222252 8/24/2010 India Indian Express reports that about 10-12 armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed Nandalal Besra (52), a supporter of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and abducted his niece identified as Anima Besra (32), who works with the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) project, from Letham village at Bandwan in Purulia late in the night of August 22.

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