Terrorist Incidents in Chandigarh, India

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Event ID Date State Event
67604-138309-351087 1/27/2014 Chandigarh Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader and spokesperson of Dandakaranya special zonal committee' GVK Prasad alias Gudsa Usendi has identified the attackers who carried out the Darbha massacre on May 25, 2013, killing the top Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, reports The Times of India on January 25.
67396-137801-349759 1/14/2014 Chandigarh The Cabinet cleared the three-year old proposal to set up mobile towers at a cost of about INR 30.46 billion in Naxal-affected States in June, following an attack that killed 27 people, including senior Congress leaders, in Chhattisgarh in May.
64628-130638-331262 8/1/2013 Chandigarh Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director General (DG) Pranay Sahay who retired on July 31 after heading the CRPF for more than 10 months said on July 30 that it is no more possible for the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) to ambush and attack Security Forces (SFs) like the 2010 Dantewada District ambush in Chhattisgarh as the SFs are now familiar with the terrain and are better trained, reports Zee News.
63742-128535-325885 6/12/2013 Chandigarh A day after an all-party resolution failed to term Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres as terrorists due to left's opposition, the Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on June 11 said Maoists were indeed terrorists and underlined that the way the Maoists had killed innocent people in Chhattisgarh on May 25 showed the terror face of the Maoist movement, reports The Times of India.
60491-120926-306709 11/24/2011 Chandigarh Deaths due to landmine and other blasts triggered by the Maoists were recorded the maximum29 in Maoist-hit Chhattisgarh during the same period.
44663-86299-216085 7/2/2010 Chandigarh 75 CRPF personnel and a Chhattisgarh Policeman were killed by Maoists in the attack.

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The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.