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Naxals try to demoralise police: SP

BERHAMPUR: Maoists have started using family members of their slain compatriots as well as victims to raise vague allegations against the police force in Malkangiri district of Orissa.

It is an effort to demoralise the police force before the coming panchayat elections, alleged Malkangiri Superintendent of Police (SP), Satish Kumar Gajbhiye.

Recently family members of two naxal cadres killed in an encounter with police in Malkangiri district on May 16 alleged before the camera of a private TV channel that the slain persons were innocent and were missing from Tunkelguda village since May 16.

But the irony is that the naxals have already claimed these two as their own cadres and observed bandh in their memory in Malkangiri district.

Although the police is yet to ascertain the identity of these two persons as no one has come forward to identify them yet as per the allegations made recently, they were Madhi Bira and Madhi Bucha.

If it is their identity then they were naxals active in Chhattisgarh who had taken part in Nayagarh armory loot.

In another incident the wife of a person named Sayam Lachha has shown sudden changes in her attitude towards the murder of her husband.

Before his murder last month, Sayam had lodged a complaint at Motu police station in December last year alleging that nine persons with naxal affiliation were threatening to kill him. He was also compelled to pay a ransom amount to the naxals through the mediation of these nine persons and Prabir Mohanty, the lawyer recently killed by naxals.

These nine persons were prime accused in the Sayam murder case.

But suddenly the wife of deceased has come up with statements claiming the nine arrested persons to be innocents, which is suspected to have happened due to pressure of Maoists.

The former Sarpanch of Kondapalli, Jagabandhu Sunami was gunned down by naxals in July 2007 but recently his son and brother claimed that the deceased had died of prolonged illness.

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