As Bharat is celebrating its 78th independence day with a firm resolve for a developed nation by 2047, heart wrenching details have surfaced from the remote region of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar where suspected Maoists have killed a 16-year-old boy.
The fateful incident has taken place in Puverti village under Jagargunda police station limits of Sukma on Tuesday evening, August 13 where a school boy identified as Soyam Shankar was reportedly lynched to death by suspected communist terrorists. Shankar’s body was later recovered from the outskirts of the village.
The deceased boy was a student of a government school in Palnaar area of neighboring Dantewada district and was in his school uniforms when the Maoists thrashed him to death. He had arrived in the village only a week ago after demise of a lady of his family.
The development has occurred almost a week after Shankar’s elder brother Sitaram (19) was also killed by the members of the banned outfit in the same locality reportedly. It’s been learned that the family members had quietly arranged a funeral for Sitaram.
The back to back killing of Shankar and his brother Sitaram has terrified his family members in a way that they have now left the Puverty village, an erstwhile headquarter of the Maoists and moved to an unknown location.
The development has been confirmed by the police, who has now launched a probe into the matter. Although no handwritten note or pamphlet has been recovered from the spot, it is being speculated that the Maoists have executed the tribal brothers on suspicion of espionage given the modus operandi behind such killings by the outlaws.
Ironically, the banned outfit which draw its inspiration from the far left ideology has long been justifying the violence unleashed by them a must for allegedly safeguarding the Jal, Jungle, Jameen (Water, Forest and Land) of tribals.
However, in their unattainable pursuit they have executed hundreds of innocents civilians like Sitaram and Shankar along displacing thousands others in conflict ridden zone of Bastar.
