Maoists have also torched his motor bike and left a letter at the body of the deceased man

By | Published: 8:09 pm

Kothagudem: Maoists have killed a supervisor of a construction company at Katgaon in the forests of Koyalbed in Kanker district in Chhattisgarh state on Friday.

According to the police, the company was constructing a road between Partapur and Koyalbed under the limits of Partapur police station. Armed naxals have first beaten up the supervisor called as a middle aged Jaggu Mandal and later murdered him.

The Maoists have also torched his motor bike and left a letter at the body of the deceased man. In the latter they warned the contractors those engaged road and bridge works in the region of serious consequences. They told the contractors not to become enemies of people.

The Chhattisgarh police who launched operation ‘Prahar’, an anti-Maoist operation on Tuesday night have claimed over six naxals were dead in the operation and nearly a dozen were injured seriously. The claim was based on the reports of funerals of dead naxals conducted in the forests.

The operation executed from the borders areas of Telangana, Maharashtra and Odisha in Sukma, Narayanpur, Bijapur, and Dantewada district by jawans of Special Task Force (STF), District Reserve Guard (DRG), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

Maoists using bullet proof jackets?

In startling and first of its revelation the security forces have reportedly found the Maoists using high tech bullet proof jackets and helmets. Sukma ASP Siddarth Tiwari was said to have revealed this during in interaction with media at Sukma.

It was said that during an exchange of team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) and naxals in the forests of Tondamadka and Chintagup that lasted nearly two hours on Feb 19 the security personnel found the Maoists wearing bullet jackets.

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