Army tip: Ask IPS officers to fight Maoists

July 09, 2012 11:48

Update on the Naxal killings in Chhattisgarh...

The Union ministry of home affairs is back to the drawing board on its counter-Maoist strategy, consulting military experts and comparing experiences since the June 28-29 shooting in Chhattisgarh in which an estimated 22 villagers were killed. In one of a series of meetings, a senior officer from the Army Headquarters gave blunt advice to Union home secretary R.K. Singh: "Get your IPS officers to command battalions and lead from the front instead of making them babus behind desks.'

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