Chennai, April 10 -- A Joint Combing Operation (JCO) was conducted by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force (STF) along the Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka forest tri-junction areas on Thursday to monitor movement of armed terrorist activities linked to the Maoist movement, if any overtly.
However, no suspect movement of Maoists were found during the three-day operation.
An official release here this evening said their activities were first detected in the early part of 2013
in the tri-junction forest areas of Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu (KKT) States.
Subsequently, in a high-level coordination meeting of senior police officers from the three States held in November 2013, it was decided to initiate joint efforts to counter Left Wing E...