October 27, 2010
Pioneer News service
Maoists on Monday night shot dead an assistant (supervisor) of a contractor after branding him as police 'informer' at village Sambalpur near Kundei under Raighar block.
Gadadhar Singh Rajput, (32) was working as an assistant for a contractor Gulcha under Kundei police station. According to sources, Gadadhar who was residing at Kundei was dragged out of his house for about a km on Monday at about 8.45 pm by four Maoists. His family members searched for him frantically in the night but could not find him.
In the morning Gadadhar's body was found in front of a primary school at village Sambalpur with bullet injuries on his chest.
A poster found on the body accused Gadadhar of informing the police about their movements. He is survived by his wife and two teenaged sons and daughter. The police could reach the spot only 12 hours after the incident. This is the third such incident in the district since June 2010. Earlier two persons were killed after they were branded as fake Maoists. Later the Maoists had also attacked a police station. The district police seem to be totally unprepared and ill-equipped to combat the Maoist attack even though the police claim that forces are being deployed at strategic locations.
