Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed three persons in two separate incidents
in Bolangir and
Koraput Districts,
the Police said
on May 3, reports
The Times of
India.
In the first incident, two villagers, identified as Gobardhan
Pande (20) and Kailash
Agrawal (31), were
killed at Luhasingha
village near Patnagarh
in Bolangir District
in the night of
May 2. Police said
Kailash was the
owner of a Mahua
flower godown where
Gobardhan was working
as a night watchman.
After killing the
duo, the Maoists
took away around
hundred bags of
chahar (minor
forest produce)
from the godown.
In the other attack, a group of armed Maoists killed Balaram
Naik (35), a marginal
farmer at Tentuligumma,
suspecting him to
be a Police informer
at Tentuligumma
under Boipariguda
block (administrative
division) in Koraput
District. "The
Maoists took Naik
with them in the
night and on the
day after, locals
spotted the bullet-riddled
body of Naik lying
in a pool of blood,
about 2 km from
the village,"
a source at Boipariguda
said. A letter recovered
from the incident
site stated that
Naik was ‘punished’
as he was working
as a Police informer
and was passing
information to Police
regarding the movement
of the Maoists in
the area. However,
Sub-Divisional Police
Officer (SDPO) of
Jeypore Utkal Ranjan
Das said, "The
victim was neither
our informer nor
we have ever received
any information
from him. Most of
the time the Maoists
kill civilians to
settle scores and
label them as Police
informers to escape
the ire of villagers." |
