S ALERT 0 COMMENTS 0 0 Three days after the gory Maoist attack on Congress convoy at Darbha, the state government

on Tuesday evening has suspended Jagdalpur superintendent of police, Mayank Shrivastava and attached him to police headquarters. Ajay Yadav will replace him as district police chief. The Bastar inspector gener al of police Himanshu Gupta too has been transferred. The state government has asked the director general of police Ramniwas to look a fter and monitor the VIP security personally. The DGP would be assisted by the R aipur range inspector general of police GP Singh and DIG (special intelligence b ureau) Deepanshu Kabra. The death toll in Saturday s audacious Maoist strike on a Congress convoy in Chhat tisgarh s Bastar division rose to 27 after bullet-riddled bodies of state party ch ief, his son and eight others were found on Sunday morning as reports emerged th at the state was warned of a possible strike by the rebels. related story Bastar attack aimed at punishing Karma, Nand Patel: Maoists Experts see insider hand in Maoists' Bastar strike Centre sends 2,000 paramilitary personnel to Chhattisgarh The bodies of Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh and eight others, most of them se curitymen, were recovered from Jiram Ghat in Sukma district of Bastar division, police said. Former union minister VC Shukla, among the 32 injured, was airlifted to Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon earlier in the day. The 84-year-old, who suffered bullet inj uries, was critical but stable. Maoist violence is a serious challenge to Indian democracy, Prime Minister Manmoha n Singh said while visiting the injured in the state capital Raipur. The killings took place at a time when 5,000 police personnel were camping in Su kma for anti-Naxal operations. Two specific intelligence inputs about the presen ce of 60 Maoists in a Darbha village was sent on March 13. Darbha is in Sukma di strict. DARBHA MAOIST ATTACK JAGDALPUR MAYANK SHRIVASTAVA DEEPANSHU KABRA also see Pressure mounts on state government over strike Pressure is mounting on Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh regarding securi ty lapses for Saturday's Parivartan rally in Bastar's Darbha ghat. With the rall y coming under Maoist attack in which 27 people, including senior Congress leade rs, died NIA begins probe into Chhattisgarh Naxal attack Chhattisgarh attack: Maoists danced on Karma's body after killing him, say ... 'Devastated' Cong might fall back on old guard Chhattisgarh Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel killed by Maoists Maoist attack on Congress rally: How it happened top stories

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