The State police headquarters has decided to form Special Operation Groups (SOG) to combat outlawed outfits like the Peoples War Group (PWG) and MCC.
The SOG would be a composite group comprising 60 to 70 men drawn from the local district police, Bihar military police, paramilitary police and the special task force (Cheetah). Efforts are on to include some personnel from the State intelligence agency too.
The main thrust behind constituting these groups similar to those operational in Jammu and Kashmir, is to remove the barriers of jurisdiction.
To begin with, four teams of SOG are being set up in Masaurhi and Paliganj areas of Patna rural, which have contiguous borders with Arwal and Jehanabad police districts. This region is considered to be a den of PWG extremists.
Source- Bihar Times, Sep-25,2006
