In yet another heartrending incident, Maoists subjected a local villager and his son in a remote village in Giridih’s conflict zone of Pirtard, to inhuman torture for supporting tiger force of Baghmara MLA Dhulu Mahto here on Wednesday night and set fire to their vehicle at Badgawa forest area, sources said.
In the latest incident a group of 50 to 60 armed Maoists stormed the village of Rajpura under the Khukhra police station in Giridih district in the dead of the night of December 26 looking for Mukhiya, Shankar Mahto and his son Om Prakash Mahto, said SDPO, Niraj Kumar of Dumari.
The rebels got infuriated when they could find Shankar Mahto and his son Om Prakash in the village. They then asked both of them his parents to be present in the jan adalat, the kangaroo court, set up by them, police sources said on Thursday. The Naxal court held the both of them who guilty of joining in the Tiger force of Baghmara MLA Dhulu Mahto and ordered their thrashing whole night. “We were beaten black and blue with bamboo sticks and shoes by the ultras whole night. We had begged for mercy citing our old age, but in vain. We were let off with a warning not to enter the village again,” the couple in their FIR filed in the Khukhra police station on Thursday and Naxals on Wednesday set on fire their Bolero jeep, a police official said.
The couple later walked around few km to reach Khukhra police station on Thursday to file FIR. Security forces were sent to the spot and more details were awaited, police added.
According to preliminary information, a group of armed miscreants stormed at Rajapura village and threatened the local mukhiya Shankar Mahto and his son Om Prakash Mahto to region from Tiger force and set on fire their jeep. It may be some local political persons who involved in the incident.