Team News Riveting
Jagdalpur, March 5
The extremists of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) killed a villager in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district after branding him as a police informer.
The fresh incident is part of rebels’ escalating terror among the villagers at the barrel of a gun, probably losing its sway among the common man. In the past fortnight, Maoists had killed a couple of villagers on the same charges.
According to police sources, armed rebels struck at Tumdiwal village under Pungarpal police station in Kondagaon district on Saturday and picked up about a dozen villagers. The villagers were engaged in a religious function when the Maoists raided.
They took the villagers inside the forests and probably interrogated them to ascertain whether they were working for the police and passing on the information about their movement. The rebels freed four villagers on Saturday evening and detained the two.
Sources said one person somehow managed to escape from their custody. The Maoists brutally killed the other and left the body near the residence of a former sarpanch of the village.
Receiving the information, a police party reached the spot and recovered the body.
