மாவோயிஸ்டுகள் சிபிஎம் தலைவரின் தலையை அறுத்து துண்டித்தனர்

சுசிர் சட்டர்ஜி என்ற 62 வயது முதியவரான சிபிஎம் தலைவரின் தலையை மாவோயிஸ்டு கம்யூனிஸ்டுகள் துண்டித்துள்ளனர்.



Maoists kill two CPM men in West Bengal
Wednesday, 02 January , 2008, 17:04

Kolkata: The New Year began on a violent note for the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) in West Bengal as suspected Maoists struck in two southern districts killing two party members.

The leftist guerrillas shot dead Pahalan Kumar Majhi in Purulia district. The headless body of Sisir Chatterjee, a CPM zonal committee member, was recovered from Burdwan. The Maoist link was being probed into the second incident too. Both incidents occurred on Tuesday.

Majhi, a CPM worker in Purulia's Balarampur area, was shot dead after the insurgents dragged him out of his home, the police said. The CPM has called a six-hour shutdown in the area to protest the killing.

In Burdwan a group of assailants, suspected of having connections with the Maoists, killed the 52-year-old Chatterjee on Tuesday afternoon in Mangalkot area.

Chatterjee, a primary schoolteacher, was on his way back from a party meeting in Koichor village, around 170 km from Kolkata, when he was attacked.

The group, reportedly armed with sharp weapons and rods, intercepted his cycle. They slashed Chatterjee's throat, possibly with a chopper and then beheaded him, according to the police.

The police have zeroed in on a few suspects and have detained four people in connection with the murder.

"We came to know that two of them (assailants) have a strong Maoist bent of mind," said Piyush Pande, superintendent of police in Burdwan.

"As we could not find the victim's head, we suspect the gang carried it with them," Pande said, adding that Sisir had set up a resistance group to prevent criminal activities in the area.

"Both the incidents trigger an alarm that the Maoist rebels are consolidating their attacks on the CPM men in the rural belts of West Bengal. We are conducting big drives in the areas where the incidents are taking place," Raj Kanojia, West Bengal inspector general of police (law and order), told IANS.

He said in December 2007 the State police conducted a massive search operation in Maoist-affected districts including Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore.

Reacting to the increasing incident of Maoist attacks on party workers, CPM central committee member Shyamal Chakraborty held the media responsible for the incidents.

"The media reports are constantly coming in favour of these Maoists. The media representatives don't want the CPM to be in power and thus they are supporting the Maoist rebels by not writing anything against them," Chakraborty told IANS.