A day after killing two CPI(M) activists in Jangalmahal, the Maoists shot dead four villagers, including a woman to death in two separate incidents at Jhargram in West Midnapore.
The murders took place during the rebels’ 24-hour-bandh in protest against the US President Barack Obama’s visit to India.
The four victims — Rashbehari Mahato, 45, Sheikh Wajed Ali, 55, Kanai Roy, 55, and Sandhya Rani Mahato, 52 — were CPI(M) activists.
Rashbehari was an expert of Chhou dance and a local committee member of the CPI(M). Wajed was a Group D employee of the Jhargram block development office and Kanai was a former panchayat pradhan of the CPI(M).
According to the police, a gang of seven armed rebels kidnapped Rashbehari, Wajed and Sandhya from their respective houses at Kismat Ganak Kata village on Sunday evening.
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Chief secys of four states summoned
Age correspondent
New Delhi
Nov. 8: Taking serious view of almost all the states indulging in “paper implementation” of its verdict on police reforms and actually doing nothing on the ground level, the Supreme Court on Monday sought presence of the chief secretaries of four major states to “show cause” why its order was not implemented.
In a strongly worded order, a bench, headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapaidia directed that the chief secretaries of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Maharashtra should appear on December 6 with their affidavits explaining the reasons for not implementing the September 22, 2006 order on six-point reforms in the police establishments in their states. The four states were taken up as “test case” by Justice K.T. Thomas committee. The panel in its final report stated the implementation was “dismal” in almost all the states, as they had indulged only in “paper implementation”.
While issuing “show cause” notices to the chief secretaries of the four states, the top court also directed that the other states should be represented by their lawyers on December 6.