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Chhattisgarh Police has maintained that it is too early to say whether Maoists were involved in the killing of CRPF driver constable Kanhaiyalal Yadav,whose headless body was found in the outskirts of Jagdalpur,the divisional headquarters of Bastar,on Independence Day.
Its too early to conclude about the involvement of Naxalites. Police is on the job. We are hoping to get a clear picture by late evening, Bastar Range Inspector General of Police T J Longkumer said.
Some investigating officers the death said that while they were probing Naxal involvement,they were also paying attention to other angles because the killing did not fall into the usual pattern of the Maoists.
Naxalites have never tried to conceal the identity of their victim by taking away the severed head. The head is still missing. No Naxal leaflet or material was found in Bakawand on the Jagdalpur-Mazgaon road, they said.
Kanhiyalal Yadav,a constable driver belonging to the 204 battalion special action force which was earlier known as CoBRA battalion was returning from his home town Gazhirpur in UP to rejoin his unit.
Even as police did not comment on the hand behind the brutal killing,sources in the CRPF suspect involvement of Maoists as CRPF men have been targeted by the rebels in the past few months. CRPF men going on leave and returning without weapons or adequate escort are considered soft targets by Naxals, a CRPF official said in Raipur.
