Naxals bury village head alive in Chhattisgarh
Suspected Naxals on Saturday buried alive a village head (sarpanch) at Kosnar under Gangalur police limits in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district for guiding a team of state government officials to his village for enumeration of farmers, police said.
Kosnar sarpanch Kutem Siku, 58, and his wife Gudri Bai, 51, were abducted from their village early on Saturday morning and later produced before a kangaroo court set up by the rebel in the nearby forest. The court indicted them for helping the officials and ordered execution of the sarpanch and thrashing of his wife.
“The Naxals first hanged my husband from a tree. The rebels later buried him alive when they found him still breathing after he was lowered to the ground”, Gudri, who was mercilessly beaten by the ultras, told before the police later while narrating the gory incident.
“The sarpanch’s wife told that the rebels buried her husband alive in front of her. She was let off after a good thrashing”, local sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) A.K.Singh told this newspaper.
Police sources said the couple had incurred the Naxals’ wrath after their daughter Basanti, commander of Indravati National Park dalam, active in Dharamgarh area under Indravati Tiger Reserve in Bijapur district, raised a rebellion against the local rebel leaders over sharing of booty. Basanti had reportedly attacked the rival Naxal group in the locality a month back following the dispute.
In a separate incident, bodies of two homeguards, who were abducted by suspected Naxals on February 2 from Tumnar village in the same district, were recovered near the CRPF camp at Chirpal on Saturday morning.
Police said they were killed by sharp weapons after they were produced before a jan adalat (people’s court) set up by the rebels in the nearby forest.
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