In Chhattisgarh’s Bastar, the killing of civilians by Maoists has been a regular occurrence in conflict-ridden regions. In the latest, a youth of the Jaigur village of Bijapur district has met a similar fate at the hands of Maoists.
According to the media reports, Situ Mandavi, a resident of Bhairamgarh was kidnapped and produced before a Jan Adalat, a self-styled court of the extremists on Sunday, where the Maoists while alleging him for spying announced a capital punishment for him.
The outlaws kept Mandavi as a hostage after which his body was recovered at outskirts of Jaigur forest on Monday. The extremists have also issued a note claiming responsibility for Mandavi’s murder citing that he was killed for espionage activities.
Earlier the outlaws had also killed an elderly citizen labelling similar charges on him on the intervening night of August 23-24. The deceased was identified as Lancha Punem, a resident of Pusnaar village under Gangloor police station limits of Bijapur.
It must be noted that the state’s home minister, Vijay Sharma informed that a total of 34 civilians in the state have so far been killed in incidents linked to Maoists as of June 2024.
The minister informed while replying to a query in the state assembly, ’24 out of 34 civilian killed were executed on alleged charges of espionage while one civilian was killed in firing by the outlaws, four of the civilians were executed after being produced before the Jan Adalat’.
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