RAIPUR: The Maoists killed four villagers on suspicion of being a police informer in two separate cases in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar. Three civilians were killed in Bijapur district and one villager murdered in a neighbouring Dantewada in two days.
According to the Bijapur police, two villagers were put to death by Maoists in their jan-adalat (Kangaroo court) while Mukesh Hemla, who was a political worker and a contractor, was abducted from a weekly market and later hacked to death by a sharp-edged weapon. The families performed the last rite without informing the police about the incident.
This year, 70 civilians have been killed by Maoists in Bastar division with around a dozen in the strife-torn Bijapur alone. This this the Bastar region has witnessed killing of over 70 civilians have been
Left-Wing Extremists facing a terrible setback in the ongoing anti-Maoist operations have begun targeting the innocent civilians out of desperation and annoyance, police said.