We attacked Kerala resort, claim Maoists

The resort is owned by Sebastian Joseph, a senior journalist with Kerala’s leading daily Malayala Manorama.

The CPI (Maoist) has claimed responsibility for the attack on a private resort at North Kerala’s hill district Wayanad. The resort named Agraharam, located at Thirunelli, was ransacked on November 18 by a four-member gang.

The resort is owned by Sebastian Joseph, a senior journalist with Kerala’s leading daily Malayala Manorama. The gang entered the resort in the early on November 18 and smashed the windows and furniture. They left behind pro-Maoist pamphlets.

On Saturday, media offices in Palakkad district got a press release believed to be from the Western Ghat Zonal Committee of the CPI (Maoist) saying that its cadres had attacked the resort. It said the attack was a warning against unbridled encroachment of the real estate-tourism mafia in Wayanad district, which was once a land of paddy fields. Policed sources said they were probing the case.

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