Indian forces kill two more Adivasis in Chhattisgarh
Raipur: Indian forces’ personnel killed two more tribe members in disturbed Chhattisgarh state on Friday.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian forces of District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) during a cordon and search operation killed two Scheduled Tribes or Adivasis in Nendra and Punnur villages of Bijapur district of the state.
The Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar Yadav, talking to media men, claimed that the deceased were members of Communist Party of India-Maoist and were killed during anti-Maoists operation in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Friday
morning.
Earlier on Thursday, at least seven Scheduled Tribes or Adivasis naming them CPI-M in uniform were killed by the Indian forces in the inter-district borders of Narayanpur-Dantewada in Abujhmad area, south Chhattisgarh.
Further details are awaited as the search operation is still underway in the area, the officer said.
With this incident, bodies of 219 Maoists have been recovered so far this year following separate incidents of violence in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division comprising seven districts, including Bijapur, police said.
The Communist Party of India-Maoist and Naxalites in their statements said that the people are being killed in fake encounters and in custody by the Indian forces and police personnel during search and cordon operations on the order of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah.
Pertinently, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah scheduled to visit Bastar on a two-day trip from 15 December, had earlier announced ‘the fight against the Maoists is in its final stage’ while declaring that the country will be free from the Maoist and Naxals by March 2026 who are demanding end of Indian hegemony and injustice the tribal population was a separate home land.
