Will need time to bust Maoists in Kerala: IG purohit

Kozhikode: Kannur Range IG Suresh Raj Purohit who recently took over ‘Thunderbolt’, the anti-Maoist operations in the State, by the special commando force, said it was beyond any doubt that there was a meticulously woven Maoist network in the jungle zones of the state.

Talking to DC on the imminent threat in the offing along the borders, he said the people of the State had always been complacent, living under    the belief that such things would not happen. “But it is a fact that it is here and we should make plans to face it”, he said.

Purohit said the jungle was vast and a mechanism to break into the Maoist network was yet to be evolved. “No one knows when and where they appear and where they vanish to”, he said.

“We have no magic wand to catch them instantly and resolve the problem overnight. It is not a cat and mouse game.”