Though 16 PCAPA supporters were later released, two of them were still in the police custody. A CPM worker - Sisir Jana from Dharampur village - was shot dead by the suspected ultras on Friday ...

The PCAPA is made up of people of these villages. But that doesn’t make them Maoists. Another basis of this accusation could be that we are not the Maoists’ target.

The PCAPA secretary didn't think it was necessary to visit polling centres, unlike other party leaders. Nor did he ask other PCAPA members to come and brief him.

The PCAPA was formed on November 8, 2008 after the mine blast attack on West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee?s convoy in Salboni and the police action that followed in the villages in Lalgarh.

When around 5,000 PCAPA supporters proceeded near the office of the sub-divisional police officer, Jhargram, the joint security force personnel suddenly chased and canned them. Some women ...

A member of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) was killed in a gunfight with the security forces on Sunday. Around 38 were taken into custody. HT Image ...

By Nisha Biswas 16 May, 2015 Countercurrents.org Mamata with PCAPA’s Chhatradhar Mahato in Lalgarh, Feb 4, ’09 Photo Courtesy: Outlook India ...

Above all, Mr Mahato wants the local police, who in recent months have ceded a vast area covering some 2,000 villages to a joint force of PCAPA and Maoist guerrillas, to atone for their abuses by ...

Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) has called an indefinite bandh from Wednesday in three Maoist-hit districts of West Bengal to protest the alleged illegal ...

pcapa promises justice names 9 cpm leaders as culpritsImage Source : INDIATV PTI Published: June 19, 2010 11:57 IST, Updated: June 19, 2010 11:57 IST ...

The PCAPA and the Maoists had since last November established virtual control over 42 villages in Lalgarh and surrounding areas where hundreds of Maoist extremists had virtually taken over the ...