A Naxal commander, arrested by security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, has made a shocking confession before the police narrating how minor tribal girls have been forcibly separated from their respective parents and later reduced as sex slaves of senior Maoist leaders.
“I used to move village to village in Maded area in Bijapur district in search of young tribal girls aged above 11-12 to offer them to senior Maoist leaders for their sexual pleasure. I must have arranged no less than a dozen minor girls in these tribal villages in recent times. I had also sexually exploited at least 10 of them before handing them over to senior leaders,” Maded area jan militia (armed rebels) commander Kudiya Gujja said in his reported confession before the local police.
The Naxal leader, who joined the rebel cadre in 2000 and grew in the outlawed organisation to become the commander of Maded area jan militia, also narrated before the local media how the innocent tribal girls were forced to satisfy the sexual hunger of senior red leaders.
“Gujja confessed before us that he used to lift minor girls from the tribal families in the villages coming under his area of operation. The hapless girls were used as objects of sexual pleasure by the Naxal leaders,” additional superintendent of police (ASP) (Naxal operation) of the district Ashok Singh told this newspaper on Friday.
Gujja, who carried a reward of `10,000 on his head, faces 14 serious cases in various police stations, including murders and sexual exploitation of girls.