Maoists burn down a dozen vehicles constructing roads in Chhattisgarh’s Abujhmad

On February 19, a mixer truck and a JCB machine being used for road construction were torched in the Partapur area of the Kanker district.

A police team was sent to the spot this morning, he said, adding that security personnel have launched a search operation in the area. (Representative photo)

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In the second incident in less than a month, Maoists put on fire a dozen vehicles being used in the construction of roads in Chhattisgarh’s Abujhmad region on the interstate border of the state’s Kanker and Narayanpur districts.

On February 19, a mixer truck and a JCB machine being used for road construction were torched in the Partapur area of the Kanker district.

On Sunday night, a few cadres of the North Bastar Division of the banned Communist Party of India(Maoist) burnt down eight tractors and four JCB/porclain machines in Alparas-Gundul village, located around 20 km south of Koylibeda police station under the Kanker district.

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Most of the tractors were owned by nearby villagers and hired by a contractor of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).

“This location was deep south of the newly established Chilparas camp and along the Narayanpur-Kanker interdistrict border area of Abujhmad region,” said a police official.

Another police official said, “No one was injured in the incident. The contractor should have informed us before going there, so we could have provided adequate security. The area is Naxal affected and we will need time to reach the spot to do panchnama. No complaint has been received yet from the contractors.”

The Abujmad region is an unsurveyed land, which is larger than Goa in area, and the Narayan district administration is presently trying to survey it. According to security forces, the area has a high concentration of Maoists.

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