Maoists in India using FM radio to intercept the messages of security forces
Media Release
Jul. 1, 2006

While the Jharkhand police are going hi-tech to deal with Maoist guerrillas, the rebels are getting even with the same technology to track their movements.

Shayam Sinku, a hardcore activist of Communist Party of India-Maoist who was arrested in Jamshedpur last month, admitted to using FM radio to intercept the messages of security forces.

The police had been suspecting such a move by the rebels for a long time.

"The high capacity radios can intercept messages. FM radio is now available in remote areas and this may be helping Maoists to trap the messages," a police official involved in anti-extremist operations said.

He said: "Taking into consideration leakage of our messages, we have adopted a coding system. We keep changing our code and frequency to dodge the Maoists."

The police headquarters has also alerted Maoist-dominated districts of Jharkhand to keep their frequencies changing and be on high alert while passing messages on wireless sets.

Besides, the Maoists are in possession of more than a dozen wireless sets belonging to the police, which they have acquired through ambushes.

The police, however, say they use the leakage in their favour. "Sometime we pass wrong messages to trap the Maoists. They prepare for ambush whenever they get our information, and we use fake messages to invite them," said the police official.

He added that the police department was undergoing a makeover with modern gadgets, and new wireless sets with high frequency had been purchased.

Maoists are active in 16 of the 22 districts of Jharkhand.

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