Naxalites create terror in village

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD, MAY 30. Suspected People's War Group naxalites played havoc in the remote Rahatnagar village of Bheemgal police station limits, late last night by assaulting local villagers and killing the husband of the village sarpanch, branding him police informant.

The PWG naxals created terror in the village by mercilessly beating up the villagers who resisted their attempts to whisk away three persons.

According to reports reaching here, 15 members of the PWG, led by the district committee member, Dayanand and Virjanadi squad area commander, Ganganna, split into two teams and came to the village.

One team went to the house of Vittal, husband of the village sarpanch, Gangu, and asked him to come with them while the other team was stationed on the outskirts of the village. The naxals took him to the gram panchayat office, along with two others - upasarpanch, Sangya Naik and Lacchu alias Laxman, where they were severely assaulted.

Accusing the sarpanch's husband of being responsible for the April 18 encounter in which three members of People's Guerrilla Army were killed, the naxals mercilessly assaulted Vittal. Over 200 villagers, alerted by the commotion, gathered at the gram panchayat office, where Vittal and two others were tied up with ropes.

The villagers protested against the treatment being meted out to the three and said that Vittal had done yeoman service to the remote hamlet by providing basic amenities and pleaded with the naxals to spare the lives of the three.

The agitated villagers refused to leave the place unless the three were released. The naxals, sensing trouble, drew a line near the gram panchayat office and warned the villagers against crossing the line. They started beating up the villagers who resisted their attempts.

The naxals then forcibly took away Vittal to the local school, where he was shot dead from point blank range.

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