Information About Incident 38106-72624-174256 in Satna India

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According to Times of India, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has attacked mobile telephone communication systems in six States, particularly in the last three years.

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• Meta Location: States
• Matched District: Satna
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: the Communist Party of India - Maoist ( CPI-M aoist )
• Subject: mobile telephone communication systems

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According to Times of India, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has attacked mobile telephone communication systems in six States, particularly in the last three years. During this period, the Maoists have blown up as many as 62 mobile telephone towers in six Maoist-affected States. Sources in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the highest number of towers, 20, was destroyed by the Maoists in Chhattisgarh where during 2008 alone 14 mobile telephone towers of both private and Government networks were attacked by the insurgents. In Bihar, the Maoists blew up 14 towers in 2008. Four other States which faced Maoists attacks on mobile telephone towers are Orissa, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Maoists believe many police informers use mobile network to inform security forces about their movement and activities which resulted arrest of several of their leaders and that is why they try to target the towers, an unnamed official said. Jharkhand, which did not see any attack on mobile towers till 2007, saw nine such attacks which disrupted the communication network in several Maoists-affected regions. In 2005, the Maoists had blown up eight mobile towers while in 2006, they targeted just five. Further, in 2007, the Maoists destroyed six mobile towers and in 2008, 43 towers were attacked.

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