[Reader-list] Another barbaric beheading by Maoists

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

*Another barbaric beheading by Maoists*  8 Oct 2009, 2048 hrs IST

Link - http://www.timesnow.tv/articleshow/4329220.cms
   There have been reports of another barbaric beheading by the Maoists. The
district Collector has confirmed to TIMES NOW that there is a beheading of a
suspected local police informer at Irupdhodri village, Kurkeda taluk in
Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra.

Francis Induwar, police inspector of Jharkhand, was kidnapped on September
30 by the Maoists from Hembrom Bazaar in Khunti district, about 70 km from
Ranchi. But days later he was killed by Maoists who demanded release of
their three arrested leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, in exchange for the
officer.

The body of Induwar, who was promoted to inspector rank in March this year,
was thrown by Maoists near Raisha Ghati near Ranchi in Khunti district on
October 7. Police said a poster pasted on a tree on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur
highway under the Bundu police station stated that the body was that of the
police officer.

Induwar has become the 339th policeman to be killed in Naxal violence in
Jharkhand between January 2003 and October this year. The state's 20 of the
24 districts are Maoist-infested.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that there had been no demand from
the Maoists for any swap of the arrested Naxalites, but termed the beheading
as not acceptable. "The cold blooded murder is simply not acceptable. I
condemn it," he said.

Maoist leader Ghandy was arrested by Delhi Police on September 21 and is
presently in police custody, while Chhatradhar Mahato, a Maoist-backed
tribal leader, was nabbed by West Bengal CID sleuths from Lalgarh on
September 26.

Another Maoist leader Bhushan Yadav, facing several Naxal-related cases, was
arrested by the West Bengal police on October 2 from Chinsura in Hooghly
district and has since been handed over to the Jharkhand police.