04-03-2008, 10:05 AM
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Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) on Wednesday suffered yet another major blow when one of its central committee members was getting killed in an encounter with the police in Warangal district on Wednesday morning.
The Warangal district superintendent of police CV Sajjanar said two were killed in an encounter near Kuntanpally village under Eturunagaram mandal in early hours of Wednesday. Those killed were identified as G Saraiah alias Azad, the member of Maoist central committee and central military commission and his wife Padma.
This is the second major setback for the organisation with in a fortnight. <b>Seventeen of its members were killed on Andhra-Chhattisgarh border on March 18 </b>in a joint operation by the police of the two States.
The police said that the encounter took place during a routine combing operation by the Special Police Force Greyhounds in the area. They said that when asked to surrender, a group of Maoists opened fire at them and when the police returned fire, two of them died.
While police insisted that <b>the deaths were results of an encounter, a pro-Maoist poet Varavara Rao alleged that Azad and his wife were caught by the police elsewhere, but police dumped their bodies in Warangal after killing them</b>. "The presence of a central committee member of CPI Maoist in Warangal makes no sense," he said.
He told the media in Hyderabad that it was clearly a case of cold blooded murder. "The postmortem should be carried out only after the family members identify the victims", he said.
<b>Meanwhile Azad's son Naveen has also approached the district court in Warangal seeking the postmortem of the bodies at the MGM Hospital in Warangal. Azaad, who belongs to Warangal district, had started as a lower level activist in the People's War Group and went on to become one of its top leaders over a period of two and a half decades. </b>He was seen as a key figure in the organisation as he was part of the central commission which carries out major attacks against the targets of the organisation.
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Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) on Wednesday suffered yet another major blow when one of its central committee members was getting killed in an encounter with the police in Warangal district on Wednesday morning.
The Warangal district superintendent of police CV Sajjanar said two were killed in an encounter near Kuntanpally village under Eturunagaram mandal in early hours of Wednesday. Those killed were identified as G Saraiah alias Azad, the member of Maoist central committee and central military commission and his wife Padma.
This is the second major setback for the organisation with in a fortnight. <b>Seventeen of its members were killed on Andhra-Chhattisgarh border on March 18 </b>in a joint operation by the police of the two States.
The police said that the encounter took place during a routine combing operation by the Special Police Force Greyhounds in the area. They said that when asked to surrender, a group of Maoists opened fire at them and when the police returned fire, two of them died.
While police insisted that <b>the deaths were results of an encounter, a pro-Maoist poet Varavara Rao alleged that Azad and his wife were caught by the police elsewhere, but police dumped their bodies in Warangal after killing them</b>. "The presence of a central committee member of CPI Maoist in Warangal makes no sense," he said.
He told the media in Hyderabad that it was clearly a case of cold blooded murder. "The postmortem should be carried out only after the family members identify the victims", he said.
<b>Meanwhile Azad's son Naveen has also approached the district court in Warangal seeking the postmortem of the bodies at the MGM Hospital in Warangal. Azaad, who belongs to Warangal district, had started as a lower level activist in the People's War Group and went on to become one of its top leaders over a period of two and a half decades. </b>He was seen as a key figure in the organisation as he was part of the central commission which carries out major attacks against the targets of the organisation.
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