Naxals hounded out a tribal, took away his daughter and later brutally killed him by burying him alive in front of his wife for defaulting on a loan taken by him from a “janata sarkar”, or local government run by Maoists in panchayats, in a Chhattisgarh village.
The brutality on the tribal family by Naxals came to light when the victim’s widow narrated the gory incident before the police in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district on Wednesday.
According to her, misfortune befell on Kutem Siku, 58, former sarpanch of Kosnar in Bijapur district, when he borrowed a loan of `50,000 at the interest rate of four per cent from the local janata sarkar to establish a small rice mill in his village in 2003.