Some unidentified armed Maoists ultra murdered a Salwa Judum activist by slitting his throat with some sharp edge weapon in Bijapur district 162 km from Jagdalpur, police said on Monday. In another incident police nabbed a Maoist with muzzle gun.
According to police sources on Sunday night more than 12 armed Maoists in uniform reached Farsegarh village in the house of deceased Banshilal Gota. The armed Maoists then abducted Banshilal from his home on gun point. His body was later found on Monday morning about half-a-kilometre away from the village near Sankanpali square. Banshilal was murdered by brutally slitting his throat from a sharp weapon. Multiple bruised marks on his body shows that he was tortured before being killed, police said.
Notably, Salwa Judum was a Government funded movement made up of local villagers to fight against Naxals. Victim Bansilal was a farmer by profession was a brother of local BJP leader Chinnaram Gota. Chinnaram was also shot dead last year by Maoist ultras. Banshilal had participated in Salwa Judum movement against Maoists and since then his name was inducted in hit list of Maoists.
In a separate incident Bijapur police nabbed an ultra from the dense forested pocket of Chhote Alvada under Farsegah police station of the district. Police claimed on Monday that a muzzle gun was also recovered from
his possession.
As per official information received from the office of Superintendent of Police Bijapur, Prashant Agrawal a team of CRPF and District Force had started on a
searching operation in the jungles of Chhote Alvada.
During the operation they arrested Arjun Sodhi (20) resident of Chhote Alvada. During interrogation it was found that he was a member of the Naxal National Park area committee.
later, on his instance a muzzle gun was also found from the jungles. Police said that Arjun was involved in serious criminal offences like murder and attempt to murder and cases against him were
registered with Farsegadh
police station.