Summary:
The ‘Urban Naxals are spreading their tentacles across the country thick and fast and crackdown against them is necessary,” he said in an interview conducted by a Marathi TV channel recently. The activists of such organisations included the five ‘human rights’ activists arrested by Pune police from different parts of India. Nagpur: Former Director General of Police (DGP) of Maharashtra Pravin Dixit strongly defended Pune police action of arresting five ‘human rights’ activists saying the menace of ‘Urban Naxals’ is growing alarmingly in the country. “The highly educated urban Naxals or Maoist sympathisers oppose the development works initiated by local authorities and democratically elected representatives in rural areas and provoke the Naxal activities. Since rural areas are no more ‘safe havens’ for the Maoists mainly due to awareness, the highly educated Maoist sympathisers, in the cover of human rights activists, are spreading their activities..