SI offering worship at temple shot at

By Our Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR, SEPT. 23. In a bizarre incident, the outlawed People's War Group of naxalites shot at an APSP Armed Reserve Sub-Inspector and a constable on the Kaleshwaram temple premises under Mahadevpur police station limits this morning when they went to the temple to offer prayers to Lord Shiva.

The Godavarikhani DSP, Mr. M Ramesh, told The Hindu that the Sub- Inspector, Mr. Muniratnam, and the constable, Mr Paidi Raju, went to the temple to offer prayers. The two local guerilla squad naxalites who noticed the police in the temple whipped out short weapons and opened fire at the SI injuring him in the abdomen region. The constable escaped unhurt. Immediately, the SI was shifted to the MGM Hospital at Warangal where he was stated to be out of danger.

The Superintendent of Police, Mr. Nalin Prabhat, at a press conference here in the evening condemned the naxalite attack on the unarmed policemen. The police never kill any unarmed person, and whenever they come under fire police retaliate to protect themselves, he said. ``The PWG has exhibited its impotence by resorting to attack on unarmed policemen at the temple,'' he added.

He also called upon the naxalites who attacked the policemen at Kaleshwaram to surrender or face the consequences.

In another incident, CPI-ML Janashakthi naxalites shot dead a villager, Palli Narayan Goud at Nimmanapalli village of Konaraopeta mandal last night branding him a police informer.

The armed naxalites, said to be three, went to the house of Narayan Goud and took him to the village centre and beat him black and blue and later shot him dead from a close range. Earlier also the naxalites had thrashed him over some issue.

The SP said that Narayan Goud was not a police informer. He said the naxalites were resorting to these acts to make their presence felt.

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Naxals blast TDP leader's house

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD, SEPT. 23. Suspected naxalites of the People's War Group on Saturday blasted the house of a TDP leader in Ruyyadi village under Talamadugu police station limits of Adilabad district.

According to reports, six armed extremists of the Talamadugu local guerrilla squad went to the house of Goka Ganesh Reddy, a TDP leader and former village sarpanch and asked the inmates to come out. After the inmates came out, the naxals planted detonators and triggered the blast. Only the TDP leader's servant and his family were in the house at the time.

Ganesh Reddy, along with his family had shifted to Adilabad town, 15 km away, a few years ago. The entire house was razed to the ground in the impact of that blast. The naxals left behind a note stating the blasting was in retaliation for the killing of the District committee secretary, Suryam, in an exchange of fire recently.

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