Maoists have expelled 13 families of Annaram village under Talraguda thana area on the suspicion of being police informer. The uprooted families have taken shelter in district headquarters at Bijapur. They have requested for help after meeting the district collector Mohammad Quiser Abdul Haque.
Notably, the Maoists had earlier killed a person, Kursam Rosanna, of the same village by slitting his throat accusing him of being a police informer and had also asked the 13 families to leave the village threatening that if they failed to obey the diktat, they would be killed. After that incident villagers are living in terror and are taking shelter at their relatives houses leaving behind their houses, land and properties.
The uprooted villagers alleged that some time back the insurgents had abducted five persons of Annaram village and taken them to jungle. The rebels killed one of the abducted villager Kursam Rosanna while released four others on the condition that they would leave the village forever. The Maoist had also asked 13 families, whose family members are in police, to leave the village accusing them of being police informers.
Fearing for their lives, 49 people of the 13 families migrated to Andhra Pradesh but when they did not get any assistance from the Government, they returned to Bijapur and are now taking shelter at the houses of their relatives. Since the Maoists issued threat to them they are hiding here and there to save their lives. They are all farmers by profession bur due to Maoists threat they are forced to flee leaving their land and property behind. They urged the collector to provide appropriate assistance to them.
Meanwhile, collector of Bijapur said members of some uprooted families had called on him. The district administration was making arrangement for these families as arrangements of lodging and food for them would be done by the administration till they return to their village, he added.