A group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres abducted parents of a Policeman in Gumiyapal village in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh on July 6, reports The Times of India. Later on, July 7, they were, however, rescued by the villagers who went after the Maoists into the forest. The Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhishek Pallava said, the Maoists barged into the house of District Reserve Guard (DRG) Constable Ajay Telam in the said village and abducted his father Lachhu Telam (64) and mother Vijjo Telam (62). They also injured Telam’s sister and snatched her mobile phone before fleeing the spot.
Outraged by the incident, about 150 villagers entered the forest on July 7, to negotiate with the Maoists for their release. The SP said that the villagers walked through rough hilly terrain until they reached the rebels’ lair deep in the forest. “This is a unique case where villagers managed to argue with the Maoist fiercely at a ‘Jan Adalat’ (People's/Kangaroo Court organised by the Maoists) to release someone branded a ‘Police informer’. They argued that the elderly parents do not use mobile phones, nor do they know how to access it. They have no means to contact Police,” the SP added.