After a few days of lull, Maoists have again made their presence felt in Malkangiri district by killing two people, as usual dubbing them as police informers.
In one incident on Friday, the Red rebels called a villager from his house at Cheliamunda under MV-79 and shot him dead. The deceased was identified as Raghu Hentala.
A poster left behind by the ultras near the deceased’s body stated that the villager was killed for being a police informer.
In a second incident, in the wee hours of Saturday, Maoists bludgeoned to death a village guard of Jantapei in the cutoff region of the district. The deceased, identified as Jaga Rao, was killed on suspicion of being a police informer, said sources.
Senior police officials said security forces have managed to inflict considerable damage on the Maoists. For that, the rebels are committing this type of incidents to trigger fear among people.
Besides, police said that due to the demonetisation, the Maoists’ financial backbone has been broken; and now by indulging in such kind of violence they want send a message to industrialists and businessmen that they still mean their business of terror so that it would be easy for them to collect extortion money.