A 16-year-old boy was allegedly overwhelmed to demise by Naxalites in Puarti village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district late Tuesday night.
In accordance with the police, Soyyam Shankar was killed on suspicion of being a police informer. Considerably, over a dozen civilians have been murdered in Naxalite violence in Sukma this yr. Puarti is a Naxal stronghold and residential to no less than two dreaded Naxal leaders — Barse Deva, chief of Folks’s Liberation Guerrilla Military (PLGA), and his predecessor Madvi Hidma, now the Maoist commander-in-chief for South Bastar.
Sukma Superintendent of Police Kira Chavan mentioned Soyyam was nonetheless sporting his college uniform when he was killed at round 8-9 pm Tuesday.
“His household had shifted to Palnar (within the neighbouring Dantewada) however he had gone to Puarti to satisfy his family members to mourn the demise of his sister-in-law,” Chavan mentioned. The scene of the alleged incident is barely 3 km away from a brand new police camp in Puarti. The camp was made in February after safety forces pushed a PLGA unit additional again into the dense Sukma forest.
Soyyam’s physique was delivered to Sukma district headquarters, the place a postmortem was performed on the district hospital. An FIR for homicide has been registered at Jagargunda police station, police mentioned.
Puarti is a number of kilometres from Tekulagudem, a web site of a number of Naxalite encounters. On January 31, two elite Commando Battalion for Resolute Motion (CoBRA) commandos and a Central Reserve Police Pressure (CRPF) jawan had been killed in a gun battle between safety forces and the PLGA in Tekulagudem.
In April 2021, 23 jawans had been killed in an encounter with Maoists in the identical forest.
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