CRPF, which lost 25 jawans, is without a full-time chief

April 25, 2017 09:17

The Central Reserve Police Force that leads anti-Maoist operations across the country has been headless for almost two months.

The paramilitary wing lost more than two dozen of its men on Monday to an ambush by the communist guerillas in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district- the second attack on the CRPF in the area within 40 days.

"Why is a force of 300,000 personnel headless for two months?" asked Prakash Singh, former director general of BSF. "Where is the leadership for the force? When this government took over, (home minister) Rajnath Singh made a grand announcement about a policy to deal with the situation.

Three years later, where is that policy?" The patrol team of 99 personnel was on a road-sanitisation operation. "The CRPF party had left their camp around 5.30am. While patrolling the road they took a break around 10.30am. That's the time they noticed some villagers approach them. The villagers had cattle with them and soon moved away. It now appears they were a Maoist patrolling party to assess the number of CRPF personnel and their weapons,'' top sources in the ministry of home affairs said.

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