Maoists kill two suspected police informers in Lakhisarai

PATNA: Suspected Maoists gunned down two persons with semi-automatic weapons in Lakhisarai district late Saturday night.
Police said Maoists armed with sophisticated weapons kidnapped Mughal Koda (50) from Baskund Korasi and Sanjay Koda (30) from its neighbouring Gobardaha village under Chanan police station area around 11pm on Saturday. Their bodies were found on the outskirts of their respective villages on Sunday morning.
While Mughal was shot by an SLR, Sanjay was gunned down by an AK-47 rifle.Chanan SHO Vaibhav Kumar said the used cartridges of AK-47 and SLR, both prohibited bore, had been recovered from the places where the bodies were found. Mughal had received two bullet injuries whereas Sanjay had multiple injuries.
“The postmortem will reveal how many shots were fired by the attackers to kill the two, who they described as police informers. The use of sophisticated weapons in the incident is a matter of concern. It shows that the group of the banned outfit involved in the killing possessed sophisticated weapons,” the SHO told this newspaper over phone.
The assailants had left pamphlets on the spot, warning local residents of meeting the same fate if they dared leak information about the activities of the outfit. The pamphlets revealed the names of four people who had been given death penalty earlier by the Kangaroo court held by the organization. Three of them have already been eliminated.
Lakhisarai SDPO Nurul Haq said raids were being conducted in the nearby forest to nab the culprits. “The search operation in the forest will continue,” he said, adding that patrolling has been intensified in the region to instill a sense of security among the residents, mostly belonging to tribal community. The police seized a large quantity of CPI-Maoist literature during the search operation.
Earlier, 40-year-old Gorelal Koda, stated to be an active member of the CPI-Maoist, was gunned down by armed Maoists at Kethia Balchand village under Piri Bazar police station area in Lakhisarai district in October as they suspected him to be a police informer. Besides, Madan Yadav, a former Maoist, was killed with an AK-47 under Chanan police station area of the district in August. The third one was Madan’s driver Chotu Kumar (30), who had later succumbed to bullet injuries.