The Maoists are as usual unregretful when they beat a 45 year old trekker of the tiger reserve Palamu Dev Kumar Prajapati to death at village Douna branding him as a police mole. 

Sources close to the Maoists said the 'boot policy' of the Maoists is necessary where police informers are to be eliminated. There may be more such acts of the Maoists as the Maoists believe villagers passing information about them has caused immense damages to them said sources. 

The Maoists are determined to revive its targeted killing just accusing its victim or victims to be a police's eye. 

Zonal IG of police Palamu R K Lakra and SP Latehar Anjani Anjan recently visited the village Douna.

Sources said the villagers, around 150 households, were first reluctant to meet the IG and the SP Latehar for the obvious reasons of again incurring the wrath of the Maoists who on their retreat after beating Prajapati to death, had warned the villagers not to meet police and any defiance of it will mean more such deadly thrashing by them. The Maoists' threat is on the back of the minds of the people here. 

Such was the dread of the warning of the Maoists that no family there was ready or willing to offer chairs and khatia (cot) for the IG and the SP. The IG and the SP did the talking standing.

Villagers immediately bring in chairs and cot for the civil and police officials on their visit to their villages but here everyone was trying to remain as aloof to the IG and the SP Latehar as possible just not to incur the revenge of the Maoists. No villager was willing to be seen as any soft pedalling to the police here after Prajapati's killing. 

SP Latehar Anjani Anjan said, "The villagers were definitely indifferent and aloof to our visit to their village Douna in the beginning. It took us some time to connect to them. Women came in good numbers, more than men."

Anjan said "The Maoists had really told them that police would come to them and if any of the villagers  would be bending too forward to the police or whispering into their ears then the villagers would be ready to have the rain of the  lathi blows."

"Police told the villagers not to be so scared and shaken.Administration will take care of them. They should visit civil and police establishments like PDS, school, aangan badi kendra, block office  police station for their needs etc," added the SP. 

The Douna villagers has one demand. It is in regard to the police station. Their police station is Netarhat. It is around 55 kms away from their village Douna. 

The Douna villagers want to be brought under the nearest police station Bareysanr which is around 18 kms only. 

Anjan said, "I have asked the villagers of Douna to register their complaint with the Bareysarn police station. The Bareysanr police station will prepare zero FIR and then it will be forwarded to the Netarhat police station. The villagers will not have to run any far. Police will reach them."

Sources said the IG of police Palamu range and SP Latehar were to Douna village just to break the ice between the villagers and the police.