Chhattisgarh’s Opposition Congress on Sunday strongly protested the killing of eight villagers, including three innocent children, in an alleged fake encounter in a jungle pocket under Gangaloor police station area in Bijapur district on Friday night.
In a press statement jointly issued by State Congress president Nandkumar Patel and opposition leader Ravindra Choubey, alleged that the BJP Government has become cruel and inhuman.
``How long such manslaughter of innocent villagers would be taken place in the name of fake encounter in the reign of the BJP Government,'' the leader duo questioned.
They said that this affair of killing the innocents in Bastar should be stopped. They demanded from the State Government to initiate a CBI probe into this encounter, so that strict action could be taken against the guilty.
According to the press statement, the villagers were preparing for celebrating Bijak festival a Devagudi, when the police personnel showered bullets on them, in which 10-year-old Guddu Karam, Abodh Bahadur (12) and Punem lakham (14) were killed.
The Congress leaders said, now the BJP Government was trying to prove them as Maoists. Along with these children, five more persons were killed in the encounter. So far, 22 persons were missing from this village and it was doubted that they might have also become the victims of police bullets, they added.
According to CPCC media department president Shilesh Nitin Trivedi, State Congress president Nandkumar Patel has formed a five-member committee to probe into the Ahedsmetta incident.
State Congress vice-president and MlA from Konta Kawasi lakhma will be the coordinator of the committee, while district panchayat member Nina Rawatiya, PCC member Sakni Chanderiya, Ajay Singh and Vichhem Pondi will be the members.
The committee was told to submit its report to the State Congress committee after visiting the place of the incident and having talks with the kin of the deceased and local villagers.