Maoists kill villager in Telangana’s Mulugu district
[ad_1]
The incident sparked panic in Telangana’s distant tribal belt, adjoining Maoist hotbed of south Bastar division in Chhattisgarh
Maoists unleashed voilence in Bhadrachalam Agency by killing a villager from Mulugu district suspecting him to be a police informer at Gorukonda village in Charla mandal near Telangana’s border with Chhattisgarh in the early hours of Sunday.
The incident sparked panic in Telangana’s distant tribal belt, adjoining Maoist hotbed of south Bastar division in Chhattisgarh. The deceased was recognized as N. Eshwar of Mallampalli in the tribal dominated Mulugu district. His physique was discovered mendacity on the roadside between Gorukonda and Chennapuram villages close to the restive Telangana-Chhattisgarh border on Sunday morning. Sources mentioned that the rebels left behind a letter beside the physique terming the deceased as a “police informant” engaged in a “covert operation.”
Quoting the members of the family of the deceased, the police mentioned Eshwar had been working as a courier of Maoist leaders of the State committee for the previous few years.
In an announcement, Superintendent of Police Sunil Dutt mentioned the Maoist leaders “tortured’ Eshwar for nearly ten days pressuring him to work for the outlawed outfit before “strangling him to loss of life” today. They killed him on false charges of being a “police informer” to cowl up their errors and create worry amongst bizarre individuals, the SP mentioned.
A case has been registered beneath the related sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the IPC at Charla police station and additional investigation is underway.
A letter from the Editor
Dear subscriber,
Thank you!
Your help for our journalism is invaluable. It’s a help for reality and equity in journalism. It has helped us hold apace with occasions and happenings.
The Hindu has all the time stood for journalism that’s in the general public curiosity. At this troublesome time, it turns into much more vital that now we have entry to data that has a bearing on our well being and well-being, our lives, and livelihoods. As a subscriber, you aren’t solely a beneficiary of our work but in addition its enabler.
We additionally reiterate right here the promise that our crew of reporters, copy editors, fact-checkers, designers, and photographers will ship high quality journalism that stays away from vested curiosity and political propaganda.
Suresh Nambath
[ad_2]
