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Ghatsila bandh in Jharkhand evokes spontaneous response

Jamshedpur: A dawn-to-dusk “Ghatsila sub-division bandh” called by Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) in protest against the gunning down of its leader Dhanai Kisku by Maoists evoked spontaneous response on Tuesday.

The streets of the sub-division headquarter, Ghatsila, wore a deserted look as almost all shops and markets, business establishments downed their shutter in protest against the killing of Kisku, who was the general secretary of anti-Naxal Nagarik Suraksha Samity (NSS), police said.

Road traffic was badly hit with auto-rickshaws, commercial vehicles and long-distance buses remaining off the road. The bandh supporters put up road blockade at several places demanding arrest of the culprits involved in the killing of Kisku, a East Singhbhum district president of JVM’s ST/SC cell.

Meanwhile, a large number of JVM workers and supporters accompanied Kisku’s body from here to his native village in Musaboni. His body would be cremated at Janegora village under Ghatsila sub-division, JVM sources said. Kisku was gunned down by CPI(Maoists) when he went to a tea shop to have a cup of tea near his house in Copper township of Musabani on Monday.

Two others, who sustained bullet injuries in the shootout, were undergoing treatment at Tata Main Hospital here.

Meanwhile, defying the security arrangement made by the administration, the Naxal outfits have pasted posters at several places in the sub-division owning the responsibility for Kisku’s killing.- PTI

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