In a gruesome incident, Naxals brutally killed an elderly tribal man in a Chhattisgarh village by hanging him to death in public, the police said on Thursday.
Around 50 armed Maoists stormed Murkinar village under Bedre police station in Bijapur district late on Wednesday night and ordered all the villagers to assemble near a tree in the locality.
The ultras then pulled three old men — Guddi Marma (59), Ram Badeja (52) and Mangu Ram (53) — from the gathering to try them in the kangaroo court, set up by them in the village.
Later, the Maoists hanged Guddi on a tree in public view of the villagers till he died.
They also tortured the two others by beating them mercilessly for the whole night.
The police recovered Guddi’s body from the tree on Thursday morning and sent it for post-mortem, a senior district police officer said.
Meanwhile, four naxals, including a woman, on Thursday surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district.
“The cadres surrendered before Narayanpur superintendent of police Amit Kamble at Benur police station of the district,” additional SP N.K. Sahu told PTI over phone. Those arrested have been identified as — Ajay (21) and Bharat (22), the members of Kudur LOS (Local Operating Squad) of Maoist, Vinod (32) of Chinahri Sarkar Raksha Sakha and Sudha (23), a member of Kohkameta platoon. They all were involved in several cases of crime ranging from loot, arson and murder in the region, Sahu said, adding, that of them, Vinod was active for past several years. “Under pressure from security personnel and due to harsh forest life, he decided to join the mainstream,” the ASP said. They will be rehabilitated as per the government policies, he added.