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RAIPUR: Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to address an election rally in the insurgency-hit Kanker district of the Bastar region in Chhattisgarh, Maoists killed three villagers, accusing them of working as informers for the neighboring Maharashtra police on Thursday.
Videos of visibly shocked and expressionless women and children carrying dead bodies rolled in mats on a tractor are in circulation.The incident took place in Kanker district’s Chotebethiya region, close to Chhattisgarh’s inter-state border with Maharashtra’s Naxal-affected Gadchiroli area.
A statement issued by Chhattisgarh police said that the police were gathering details of the incident and initiated an investigation soon after the matter came to light. Leaflets found at the scene show Maoists claiming the murder of three men, citing reasons that they were working as informers for C-60, the anti-Naxalite force of the Maharashtra police.
Locals said that three villagers were approached by unidentified persons who asked them to show them the way to an address on the evening of November 1. The victims went with them to show them the direction and never returned. After some time, the alleged accused people came back to inform the families that the bodies of three men were lying on the outskirts of the village.
Family members and locals went to the spot and transported the bodies back to the village on a tractor on Thursday.
Kanker SP Divyang Patel told reporters that a police team has gone to the village to probe the matter. Those killed were identified as Kulle Katlam, 35, Manoj Kovachi, 22, and Dugge Kovachi, 27, all residents of Chotebethiya in Pakhanjur.
Security in and around the region has been under tight scrutiny for the past few days, with the Kanker region going for polls in the first phase on November 7, and also due to the PM’s visit. Such incidents often do not come to light due to the Naxal threat, and villagers refrain from reporting the case to the police.
On Wednesday, a 40-year-old man was killed by Naxals in the Bijapur district of Bastar division, accusing him of being a police informer. The deceased, Muchaki Linga, was strangled to death on the intervening night of Wednesday, and the Naxals dumped his body on the road in Galgam village.
Maoists, in a leaflet, stated that Linga was giving inputs about their movement to security personnel that led to anti-Naxal operations in the region.
The Maoists of the West Bastar Division Committee on Wednesday issued a statement warning polling parties not to visit polling booths in Bijapur district along with security forces, as it would be life-threatening for them. Bijapur has 245 polling stations, and keeping your safety in mind, we request you not to come, said the Maoists.
The Naxalites have been issuing statements, leaflets, banners, and posters marking their objection to elections and have called for a poll boycott in several areas of Bastar.
Bastar range inspector general of police P Sundarraj said that security arrangements were tightened up in the region for peaceful polling.
Videos of visibly shocked and expressionless women and children carrying dead bodies rolled in mats on a tractor are in circulation.The incident took place in Kanker district’s Chotebethiya region, close to Chhattisgarh’s inter-state border with Maharashtra’s Naxal-affected Gadchiroli area.
A statement issued by Chhattisgarh police said that the police were gathering details of the incident and initiated an investigation soon after the matter came to light. Leaflets found at the scene show Maoists claiming the murder of three men, citing reasons that they were working as informers for C-60, the anti-Naxalite force of the Maharashtra police.
Locals said that three villagers were approached by unidentified persons who asked them to show them the way to an address on the evening of November 1. The victims went with them to show them the direction and never returned. After some time, the alleged accused people came back to inform the families that the bodies of three men were lying on the outskirts of the village.
Family members and locals went to the spot and transported the bodies back to the village on a tractor on Thursday.
Kanker SP Divyang Patel told reporters that a police team has gone to the village to probe the matter. Those killed were identified as Kulle Katlam, 35, Manoj Kovachi, 22, and Dugge Kovachi, 27, all residents of Chotebethiya in Pakhanjur.
Security in and around the region has been under tight scrutiny for the past few days, with the Kanker region going for polls in the first phase on November 7, and also due to the PM’s visit. Such incidents often do not come to light due to the Naxal threat, and villagers refrain from reporting the case to the police.
On Wednesday, a 40-year-old man was killed by Naxals in the Bijapur district of Bastar division, accusing him of being a police informer. The deceased, Muchaki Linga, was strangled to death on the intervening night of Wednesday, and the Naxals dumped his body on the road in Galgam village.
Maoists, in a leaflet, stated that Linga was giving inputs about their movement to security personnel that led to anti-Naxal operations in the region.
The Maoists of the West Bastar Division Committee on Wednesday issued a statement warning polling parties not to visit polling booths in Bijapur district along with security forces, as it would be life-threatening for them. Bijapur has 245 polling stations, and keeping your safety in mind, we request you not to come, said the Maoists.
The Naxalites have been issuing statements, leaflets, banners, and posters marking their objection to elections and have called for a poll boycott in several areas of Bastar.
Bastar range inspector general of police P Sundarraj said that security arrangements were tightened up in the region for peaceful polling.
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