Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres have allegedly killed two villagers on the suspicion of them being ‘Police informer’s, in two separate incidents of Maoist violence reported from Gadchiroli District in Maharashtra on May 6, reports The Hans India. In one incident, the victim identified as Sudhir Sarkar Mandal (42), was abducted by Maoists from Bande village in Etapalli Tehsil (revenue unit) in Gadchiroli District on May 5 evening. The body was found late in the night in a forest near the village, Police said. In another incident, one civilian was killed by Maoists in Bhamragad area in Gadchiroli District, on suspicion that he was a ‘Police informer’, the Police said on May 6. The victim has not been identified yet by the Police.
Meanwhile, top functionaries of the CPI-Maoist and at least 120 others have been named in the Police case registered in connection with the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra on May 1 that killed 15 Policemen and a driver, reports NDTV. The case has been registered at Purada Police Station in Gadchiroli District, an official said. CPI-Maoist former ‘general secretary’ Muppala Lakshman Rao alias Ganapathy, current ‘chief’ Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavraj, who was earlier head of the Maoists ‘Central Military Commission, CMC’, are the top functionaries of the CPI-Maoist named in the FIR. The others include Mallojula alias Venugopal Rao alias Bhupathi who is in-charge of the Maoist centered around Lalgarh in West Midnapore District of West Bengal, an official said. Top Maoist operatives like Katakam Sudarshan alias Anand, Satyanarayan Reddy, Milind Teltumbde, Bhaskar Rao Hichkani have also been named as accused, he added. The others are Pulluri Prasad Rao alias Chandranna, Lokati Chandran Rao, Gokul Madavi, Navluram Tulavi, Dinkar Gotta, Vilas Kolla, Jagdish Tekam, Madhu Mansing Tekam, Umesh Waddo, Maini Bogga, Vinod Bogga, Kedar Pijjo, all operating at different levels of the Maoist hierarchy, the official said. Pulluri, Madhu and Maini are the women cadre, he informed. The Maoists have been charged under sections 302 (murder), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 143 (member of an unlawful assembly), 147 (common intention), 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code besides sections 5 and 28 of the Arms Act and under provisions of the Maharashtra Police Act. Sections 16, 18, 20, 23 of the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) have also been invoked against them in the case.