Wednesday, March 22 2006 15:40 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Ranchi: Jharkhand assembly today (Mar 22 2006) praised the police for keeping naxalites on toes with successive raids and successful results.

The house adopted a unanimous resolution congratulating the security forces for their offensive against the Maoists during the last couple of days resulting in huge successes.

The resolution was taken up after BJP MLA and former minister Ravindra Rai suggested that if the members could express concern over the growing extremism repeatedly in the house "why don't we appreciate the recent achievements of the police through a house resolution."

In a show of rare unanimity, all members in the house nodded in affirmative when speaker Inder Singh Namdhari asked whether the house supported Rai's suggestion.

In multi-pronged raids against ultra leftist activists to push them into the deep forests, security forces broke Naxal assemblage at Hazaribag and Garwah, resulting in fierce encounters.

During the encounters, bodies of four naxalites were recovered and the police seized sophisticated weapons from one of the encounter spots.