Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed a youth at a ‘Praja court’ (people’s/ Kangaroo Court hold by the Maoist rebels), on suspicion of being ‘police informer’ at Tashrim village in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh, reports Orissa Post on September 22. The youth was identified as Ramesh Kunjam, a class X student of Ashram School in Tashrim in the District. According to the Superintendent of Police (SP), Divyang Patel, the Maoists abducted Ramesh on September 16, and kept him on hostage for two days before they produced him in a ‘Praja court’ where they killed him on charges of being a ‘police informer’.
Meanwhile, Security Forces (SFs) recovered explosives in containers including sixty packets of firecracker bombs, five detonators, five bundles of electric wire, 13 pressure cookers, 5 kilograms of iron splinters and Naxal [Left Wing Extremism, LWE] literature from a Maoist hideout from the forest of Dhumachhapar village under Taregaon Police Station limits in Kawardha municipality in Kabirdham District of Chhattisgarh on September 21, reports Telangana Today. “Based on specific inputs that Maoists have concealed explosive materials in Dhumachhapar area, a Police team launched an operation. We found three big plastic containers buried in the forest,” the SP, Lal Umed Singh said.