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Naxal strength reduced by more than half: DGP

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HYDERABAD: The strength of armed naxalites moving in the State has gone down from 850 last year to 400 in 2007, according to Director General of Police S.S.P. Yadav.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Mr. Yadav said 2007 also saw a 42 per cent decline in naxalite violence over last year.

In fact, the violence was the lowest in the last four years in terms of number of offences committed by the extremists and exchange of fire with the police.

Mr. Yadav said 43 naxalites were killed, again the lowest in last four years, in exchange of fire with the police in 2007. Their casualty was 163 and 139 in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

He also said there was a marginal increase in cognisable offences but the road accidents were the highest in last four years.

The deaths in accidents during 2007 were 13,715 as against 12,606 in 2006, 11,098 in 2005 and 10,621 in 2004.

The DGP added that a significant progress was achieved in investigation of the three bomb blasts in Hyderabad during the year but he could not share the information as the culprits were still at large.

Administrative issues

Discussing administrative issues, he said the department was finalising the list of Inspectors who were due to be promoted as Deputy Superintendents of Police.

The exercise was taken up after the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal recently disposed of a writ petition.

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