Rajnath Singh – Chattisgarh to get combat unit ‘Black Panther’

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh says Chattisgarh to get specialized combat unit ‘Black Panther’ on the lines of the Greyhound Unit. Singh was addressing media persons after chairing a meeting on Left-Wing Extremism.

As reported by PTI, Without giving much about the details, Singh said, “Chhattisgarh will have a new force on the lines of the Greyhounds. It will be called Black Panther. Training (for the personnel who will be part of it) is being imparted and it would be launched soon,”.

The Greyhounds are a special force in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh that specialise in anti-insurgency operations against Naxalites and Maoists.

The Union minister said the government was keeping an eye on money stashed by Maoists. “We have information that they have made assets to the tune of crores. It also cannot be ruled out that their money is stashed abroad.”

He also said the government would make all efforts to choke the resource flow to the Maoists, including by seizing illegally amassed properties after they are identified.

On yesterday’s Maoist attack in Dantewada, in which seven police personnel were killed, Singh said the ultras were on the back foot and they cannot face security forces in a straight fight so they were employing IEDs to target them, he said. This is also a reason why the number of encounters had come down lately, he said.

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