Maoists murder Chhattisgarh woman, claim she tipped off Telangana forces who killed 7 Naxals last week
She was the second woman to be killed in 2 days in Bijapur after being labelled ‘police informer’
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The Maoists claimed that she supplied information about their movement, which led Telangana's Greyhound forces to conduct an anti-Naxal operation on the Bijapur-Telangana border, during which seven Maoists were killed on December 1. (Express Photo)Two women were murdered in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday, allegedly by Maoists, who accused them of being police informers.
On Saturday night, 40-year-old Yalam Sukra from village Lodedh, under the the jurisdiction of Madded police station in Bijapur, was allegedly abducted by a small team of Maoists and taken three kilometers away to a hill in a jungle where they slit her throat. Her body was found early on Sunday.
The Madded area committee of the Maoists claimed the murder by dropping a note on her body written in red ink, saying that she was a police mukhbir (informer) and that a people’s court had sentenced her to death on Friday.
The Maoists claimed that she supplied information about their movement, which led Telangana’s Greyhound forces to conduct an anti-Naxal operation on the Bijapur-Telangana border, during which seven Maoists were killed on December 1.
On the previous night, another woman, identified as 45-year-old Laxmi Padam of Timapur village, was murdered. Padam was an anganwadi worker and lived with her husband and their three children.
A group of Maoists allegedly dragged her out of her house on Friday night in the presence of her family and strangled her to death.
“Her family members, including children, tried to stop the Maoists but they were assaulted and pushed away,” said a police source. The Maoists, from the Madded area committee, had labelled her a police informer.
This takes the number of people killed in Maoist-linked violence in the district in one week to five. In the Bastar region, which includes Bijapur, at least 64 civilians have been killed in Maoist violence this year. In the same time period, 210 Maoists and 18 security personnel have also been killed.
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