[Reader-list] On Anti-Naxal Operations

[A. Mani]

http://www.pragoti.in/node/4653

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nylon sack filled with four steel bowls, a few steel plates, one steel
glass and knife, sugar and tea packets (200 gm each), a coffee packet
(100 gm), a pair of binoculars, a modest stack of newspaper clippings
of news items related to Maoist operations, three handbills that talk
about “boycotting elections” and”tribal rights” , a torch and a book
on Bhagat Singh. The First Information Report and three successive
documents submitted to a civil court seeking judicial custody, and
then extension, all present this 'loot' as “evidence” that Vittala (a
21-year-old journalism student), his father Linganna Malekudiya (53),
and his brother Purushottam (21), were part of the banned militant
outfit, the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

Adding colour to this ill-spun yarn are additional details that
successive documents furnish, say on the colour of the torch –
predictably, red – the binoculars, which not only have a sickle and
harmer and a gun drawn on its body, but more incriminatingly, have the
term 'Made in Russia' etched on the lens. The utensils and groceries,
including two toothbrushes, were “stocks” being kept aside for the
naxals.


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