Nearly 200 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres held a ‘janata darbar’ at Dadapur in Gadchiroli District before planting the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that claimed 16 lives in the District on May 1, investigating officers said, reports The Hindu on May 3.The sequence of events, as pieced together by the Police, indicates that around 11 p.m. on April 30, nearly 200 armed Maoists entered Dadapur village and went to the site of the National Highway being constructed through the village.“The Maoists were mostly in the age group of 20 to 25, and a majority of them were women. They rounded up all the labourers at the site, woke up a local small-time grocer, took biscuits and water bottles from him and then took the labourers to the temporary structure that acts as a site office, where they held a ‘janata darbar’.Subsequently, they set 26 vehicles on fire, including a 50-litre diesel tanker, which caused a large explosion,” an officer, who is part of the investigating team, said.