A remote village in Chhattisgarh witnessed a heartening incident of a Naxal victim’s brother being forced to turn his motorcycle into a bier to carry the body to the local police station from the nearby jungle, where the kin was killed, after the forces allegedly refused to accompany him fearing attack by Maoists, official reports reaching here on Thursday said.
Rup Singh Dhrub tied the body of his brother Rahman (42), killed by Naxals on August 14 by slitting his throat, in the wooden planks and fixed them in the back of his bike to carry the mortal remains from Jholaraw jungles to Sobha police station, in Gariabandh district to help police conduct post-mortem on it.
The body was handed over to Rup Singh by the police after the post-mortem for performing last rites.
“The post-mortem was conducted in Sobha police station. Rup Singh carried the body to his village of Cholaram to perform the last rites on August 14,” a senior district police officer said, privately confiding that the police was not willing to recover the body from Jholaraw jungle fearing that the ultras might have laid a trap for them there.
The incident, however, triggered a public outrage with people here demanding action against the police officers concerned for having failed to come to the rescue of the deceased’s family members.
However, Nitin Upadhyaya, inspector-in-charge of Sobha police station claimed that by the time the police learnt about the killing, the body was already retrieved by the victim’s brother.
Rahman Singh Dhrub, who was serving as a teacher in the nearby Gorgaon primary school, was abducted by a group of armed guerrillas from his home on August 7 for allowing forces to spend a night in his school last month.