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Special Operation Group (Odisha)
The Special Operation Group (SOG) is an Indian elite paramilitary unit operating under the Odisha Police (OP). The force specializes in neutralizing terrorists, insurgents and extremists. They are trained to execute rapid action under any circumstance; these are highly trained for field craft and jungle warfare as well. Mission The Special Operation Group (SOG) was formed in August 2004, under the Home Department of the Government of Odisha with the main objective of neutralizing any terrorist, insurgent, extremist groups operating in Odisha. Organisation Headquarters *Odisha State Police Headquarters, Cuttack *Odisha Special Intelligence Wing (SIW), Bhubaneswar The Special Operation Group, initially in 2004, had 543 active posts, but by 2009 it had grown to 1,370 personnel. In 2018, former Director General of Police (Odisha) Sanjeev Marik disclosed that the force consisted of 3000 active personnel. Training They receive training at SOG Training Centre in Chandaka, Bhubanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odisha Police
The Odisha Police abbreviated as either OP or OPS, is the law enforcement agency for the state of Odisha in India. It is headquartered in Cuttack, the former capital of Odisha. The Odisha Police is headed by a Director General of Police, currently Sunil Kumar Bansal, IPS and falls under the purview of the state's Home Department of the Government of Odisha. The sanctioned personnel strength of Odisha Police is 72,145; comprising women as one-third of it total sanctioned strength in the directly recruited posts of civil constable, sub-inspector and deputy superintendent of police. This feat makes it one of the foremost in that aspect among the police services of India. History Along with the formation of Odisha, the "Orissa Police" was established on April 1, 1936. The department was a force comprising 4000 trained men of all ranks. The Orissa Police Manual Rules (OPMR) was unveiled in 1940 which boasted rules and regulations of the powers, functions and duties of the police dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pramod Kumar Satapathy
Assistant Commandant Pramod Kumar Satapathy, AC was a Police Officer of the Special Operation Group of Odisha Special Armed Police, which comes under India's Odisha Police who was awarded India's highest peace time gallantry award Ashoka Chakra. On the night of 15 February 2008, about 500 armed naxalites attacked the police at various locations in and around Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India. On hearing this news, Shri Satapathy along with just 20 available police personnel reached inside the jungle in Nayagarh and launched an assault on the hiding militants. In the ensuing encounter, Shri Satapathy bravely led the operations but ultimately got killed in action. Ashoka Chakra awardee For this act of courage, the President of India posthumously awarded him with the Ashok Chakra on Republic Day, 2009. The official citation for the Ashoka Chakra Award The Ashoka Chakra (alternative spelling: Ashok Chakra) is India's highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valor, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency
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Andhra Pradesh Police
The Andhra Pradesh Police is the law enforcement agency of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Public order and police being a state subject in India, the police force is headed by the Director general of police, Kasireddy Rajendranadh Reddy History The Madras Act XXIV of 1859 which marked the beginning of the Madras Police and shortly later, the Police Act of 1861 instituted the system of police which forms the foundation of modern-day police in India. The "Ceded Areas" of Andhra, as they were popularly known, continued as a part of the Madras Police and it was only in October 1953, after the birth of a separate Andhra State, that the Andhra State Police gained individual existence. Finally with the formation of the Andhra Pradesh on 1 November 1956 integrating the Telugu areas of the erstwhile Hyderabad state with the Andhra State, the modern day Andhra Pradesh Police came into existence. After the bifurcation of the state in 2014, the police force once again bifurcated. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greyhounds (Police)
Greyhounds is a police special forces unit of the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Police departments in India. Greyhounds specialises in counter-insurgency operations against Naxalite and Maoist terrorists. Several Indian paramilitary and police officers have described the Greyhounds as among the best anti-insurgency forces that specialises in anti-Maoist operations and as experts in jungle warfare. History Greyhounds was raised in 1989 by Indian Police Service officer K. S. Vyas. Directly as a consequence of founding the unit, Vyas became the top target on the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War's hit list. Although he eventually was moved out of the Greyhounds, he continued to consult regularly on operations. Vyas was assassinated at gun point by Mohammed Nayeemuddin, and four other members of the CPI (M–L) People's War, on 27 January 1993 while taking an evening jog at Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium in Hyderabad. Greyhounds commandos of Telangana Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal Police
The West Bengal Police is one of the two police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. The other being the Kolkata Police, which has a separate jurisdiction across Kolkata. The West Bengal Police was reorganized under provisions of the Police Act 1861 during the British Raj. It is headed by an officer designated as the Director General of Police who reports to the State Government through the Home (Police) Department. Shri Manoj Malaviya, an IPS officer of the 1986 batch is the DG & IGP of West Bengal Police since December 28, 2021. The West Bengal Police has jurisdiction concurrent with the twenty-two revenue districts of the State (excluding the metropolitan city of Kolkata) which comprises one of the two general police districts of West Bengal under the Police Act 1861. The other general police district consists of the major portions of the metropolitan area of Kolkata, and has a separate police force ( Kolkata Police Commissionerate) constituted and administered under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counter Insurgency Force
Counter Insurgency Force or (CIF) A Police tactical unit of West Bengal Police with headquarters in Garia, West Bengal was created by the West Bengal state government in 2010 on the lines of Greyhounds in Andhra Pradesh to combat proscribed Naxalites/Maoists in the state. At least 1000 personnel from the state armed forces have been given commando training prior to inclusion in the CIF. The training center itself is located in Salua, and further field training is given at Salboni, both in West Bengal Midnapore district. Now it shifted to Durgapur. Trainees are shortlisted from common recruitment procedures. IGP (Armed Police) Vivek Sahay was given additional charge as IGP (Operations) in the force, while Assistant Director of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy Ajoy Nanda has taken over as DIG (Training and Operations). Anil Kumar, IPS is a part of the endeavor in the specific capacity of Spl IGP (Operations). CIF is headed by Ajay Kumar Nand, IPS (IGP, CIF, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudhir Kumar Tudu
Sudhir is an Indian masculine given name. The Sanskrit word ' means "very wise", "resolute". Notable people with the name include: *Sudhir (Pakistani actor) (1922–1997), Pakistani actor *Sudhir (Hindi actor) (1944–2014), Bollywood actor *Sudhir, Indian Para Powerlifter *Sudhir Chaudhary (journalist), Indian journalist *Sudhir Dalvi (born 1939), Indian actor *Sudhir Joshi (1948–2005), Indian Marathi actor and comedian *Sudhir Kakar (born 1938), Freudian psychoanalyst and writer * Sudhir Kumar Baliyan, Indian politician * Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary (born 1983), fan of the Indian cricket team *Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga, Indian weightlifter *Sudhir Kumar Giri, Indian politician *Sudhir Kumar Saxena, Tabla artist and professor *Sudhir Mishra, Indian film director and screenwriter *Sudhir Naik (born 1945), Indian cricketer *Sudhir Pandey, Indian film and serial television actor *Sudhir Phadke (1919–2002), Marathi singer-composer from India *Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar (1934–2009), Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independence Day (India)
Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947, the day when the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, which transferred legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly, came into effect. India retained King George VI as head of state until its transition to a republic, when the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950 (celebrated as Indian Republic Day) and replaced the dominion prefix, Dominion of India, with the enactment of the sovereign law Constitution of India. India attained independence following the independence movement noted for largely non-violent resistance and civil disobedience. Independence coincided with the partition of India, in which British India was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan; the partition was accompanied by violent riots and mass casualties, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaurya Chakra Ribbon
''Shaurya'' (English: ''Gallantry'') is a 2008 courtroom drama film directed by Samar Khan, starring Kay Kay Menon, Rahul Bose, Javed Jaffrey, Deepak Dobriyal and Minissha Lamba. The film is inspired by the Hindi play '' Court Martial '' by Swadesh Deepak and is loosely based on the 1992 courtroom drama ''A Few Good Men''. Plot Set in the context of the Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, The film presents a fictional storyline which revolves around the court-martial of an Indian Army officer Javed Khan for shooting dead his superior officer. During the court-martial, the circumstances leading up to the fratricidal murder are gradually revealed. The film opens with a sequence where a group of Indian Army Soldiers cordons off a Village; as a part of Counter-Insurgency Operation; in the Punj Area of Pulwama Dist in Kashmir Valley. After numerous chase sequences, the shot ends with an army officer being shot by his colleague. The offending officer instead of escaping promptly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaurya Chakra
The Shaurya Chakra is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice while not engaged in direct action with the enemy. It may be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, sometimes posthumously. It is third in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards and comes after the Ashoka Chakra and the Kirti Chakra. It precedes the Yudh Seva Medal. otal recipients 2094 otal awarded posthumously is 677 History Established as the "Ashoka Chakra, Class III" by the President of India, 4 January 1952 (with effect from 15 August 1947). The statutes were revised and the decoration renamed on 27 January 1967. Before 1967, the award was known as the ''Ashoka Chakra, Class III.'' Subsequent awards of the Shaurya Chakra are recognized by a bar to the medal ribbon (to date five have been awarded). It is possible for a recipient to be awarded the Ashoka Chakra or Kirti Chakra in addition for separate acts of gallantry. Since July 1999, it al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debashish Sethy
Constable Debashish Sethy, SC was an Indian Police Constable of the Odisha Police's Special Operations Group (SOG) who was posthumously conferred India's third highest peacetime gallantry award, the Shaurya Chakra. Career Debashish began his career with the Odisha Police Department as a constable before joining the SOG in 2016. He was from Angul district. The Commando was killed in action in the deep forest near Sirki village in Kalahandi district on September 9, 2020, while in combat with members of the left wing extremism group during an anti-Maoist operation. Five terrorists were killed as a result of the operation. Shaurya Chakra awardee The President of India posthumously awarded him the Shaurya Chakra, which was presented to his family by Angul Angul (also known as Anugul) is a town and a municipality and the headquarters of Angul district in the state of Odisha, India. Angul has an average elevation of above sea level. The total geographical area of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
