Team News Riveting
Jagdalpur, February 5
Outlawed Maoists cadre had issued warning to 19 people including 15 journalists discharging their duties in the restive pockets infected by Left-wing extremism.
Besides journalists, four BJP leaders have been issued warnings. The act of Maoists has been severely castigated by Sunil Dutt, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and Superintendent of Police (Bhadradri Kothagudem) in Telangana.
“We condemn the threats issued and cowardly attempts to attack Journalists, Adivasis by the banned Maoist Party,” Dutt said in a statement. “We learnt that one hard working journalist died in an IED explosion hidden under Maoist pamphlets,” he said, adding that last year one poor Adivasi civilian got injured in a similar incident in charla.
Maoists have been planting IEDs under pamphlets and on forest tracks, which has killed and injured many adivasis and their cattle.
The IPS officer said Maoist party had always worked against the interest of Adivasis and had been keeping them under fear. They do not allow developmental works, schools, roads, hospitals to come up in interior areas. They fear education, health, and communication will make Adivasis revolt against the oppressive Maoist party and its extortionist leaders, Dutt added.
“We are with all the hardworking journalists of the Bhadradri Kothagudem, Sukma, Bijapur, Gadchiroli, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand and other Maoist affected areas who take life risk to bring out Maoist atrocities on Adivasis. We appeal to all Adivasis to throw away these extortionist Maoist leaders and their armed teams, who constantly issue threats to poor Adivasi villagers and kill them,” Bhadradri Kothagudem police chief said.
