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Naxals kill TDP leader

By Our Staff Reporter

NALGONDA NOV. 9. Naxalites of the People's War shot dead a TDP leader, Kotte Venkataiah (45) of Pata Kambalapally in Chandampet mandal, last night.

According to the police, 12 naxalites, including four women, belonging to the Krishnapatti squad, descended on the village and kidnapped Venkataiah, the village watershed committee chairman. Clad in Olive green uniform, some of them carrying weapons, the naxalites first raided the house of Venkataiah's paramour and asked about his whereabouts. At gunpoint, they ordered her to remain indoors till they leave the village. Later they attacked his new house in the village.

The TDP leader's wife tried to mislead them by saying that he had gone to Devarakonda last night to attend some work, but they searched the house and found him in a corner. Thy tied his hands and reportedly asked him as to why he had agreed to collaborate with two other TDP leaders to provide poison to Siraj, the `covert' who was killed by the PW two days ago. It may be recalled that Siraj told a group of reporters that the Nalgonda SP, V.C. Sajjanar and the OSD, P.Viswa Prasad, had asked him to collect poison from TDP leaders to wipe out the top brass of the PW in a covert operation.

Though Venkataiah and his wife refuted the allegation, the naxalites dragged him into forest. When a group of villagers tried to prevent it, they unleashed a terror by thrashing five persons.

The naxalites shot him dead in front of his wife in the forest.

The villagers said that the naxalites also searched for Madhava Chary, a TDP leader. When his family members did not open the door fearing the attack, they broke it open with boulders. They found Shankara Chary, brother of Madhava Chary. He pleaded with the naxalites that he was not Madhava Chary. They let him off with a warning that his brother would be killed if he did not mend his ways.

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