“Quit or face the bullet,” the CPI(Maoist) have issued a warning to policemen in Chhattisgarh threatening that the ‘’entire village will be targeted if the police personnel or their relatives continued to reside there.’’ The threat comes days after the controversial killing of 19 people in an encounter with security forces in the Naxal-infested state. Documenting for the first time that villages in Chattisgarh are directly under threat of the CPI(Maoist), an Intelligence Bureau report submitted to the Prime Ministers Office and the Union home ministry on Monday says that families of policemen have been forced to desert their homes and flee to district headquarters, as they are being targeted by the Maoists. The report has also been marked to National Security Adviser Shivshanker Menon, PMO, Cabinet secretariat and the MHA.
The report raises alarm over the continued visits of armed CPI (Maoist) extremists to villages in Naxal theatres spread across Chattisgarh with ‘’field inputs indicating unfettered movement of multiple armed Maoists contingents.’’
The outfit had also organised a large arms training camp this month near Semar village near Amabeda police station in Kanker district, says the IB report accessed by this newspaper.
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Girl, 13, dies in a bid to save brother
Gautam S. Mengle
Mumbai, July 17
A 13-year-old girl lost her life while trying to save her elder brother from being beaten up on Monday night. The police has arrested three young men for her murder and is conducting further inquiries into the incident.
According to the police, the incident occurred at around 9.30 pm on Monday. The victim, Julie Anthony, (13) used to stay withher two siblings and her grandmother in Unit 7, Aarey Colony.
“At around 9.30 pm, Julie heard her brother David (15) crying out for help and rushed out. She saw him being attacked by three men and ran forward to save him. She put herself between David and his attackers, and got stabbed in her thighs in the process,” said Uttam More, senior police inspector.