Naxals succeed due to forces' failure to adhere to SoPs

The government today admitted that the recent attacks carried out by Naxals could be successful due to security forces' failure to adhere to basic policing tactics.
"An analysis of recent Naxal attacks disclose that the attacks could succeed mainly due to failure of adherence to basic policing tactics and practices by some of the state police forces," Minister of State for Home RPN Singh told Rajya Sabha.
Singh said in the left wing extremism theatre, there are certain standard practices taken by the Naxals which can be easily anticipated, and counter measures by security forces should be in place for such cases.

For example, he said, the CPI(Maoist) always target and kill leaders of mainstream political parties whenever they get an opportunity. Similarly, they will kill security forces and loot their weapons as part of their professed guerrilla tactic.
"The security forces need to be alert in Naxal affected areas even when elaborate intelligence inputs are not available. The conditioning of the security forces should be such that counter-measures against such attacks should be built into normal policing functions.
"However, as evident in some of the recent attacks, there was a failure to anticipate events and put counter-measures in place," Singh said.

The Minister said for the Jiram Ghati incident in Chhattisgarh on May 25 in which Congress leaders and workers as well as a large number of civilians were killed by the Naxals, the Chhattisgarh government has instituted a judicial inquiry into the security lapses to the attack.
There were 285 incidents of Naxal violence in the country in just three months -- May to July 2013 -- in which 117 people lost their lives. Of the deceased, 47 were killed in Chhattisgarh, 37 were killed in Jharkhand and 15 in Bihar.