The body of a youth, abducted by Naxalites a day ago, was found on Thursday in a forest in the Naxal-infested Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh, along with a banner and two pamphlets accusing the Dr Mohan Yadav-led BJP state government.
According to Balaghat Anti-Naxal Operations Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Adarsh Kant Shukla, the youth, identified as Devendra Yadav (25) of Chauria village, was abducted by Naxalites. Police teams were in search of him and the Naxals who kidnapped him.
The official said that Devendra’s body was recovered today from the jungle at Chauria under the Lanji area.
Police also found a red banner and two pamphlets. In one of the pamphlets, it was written that the tribal and backward class youths are not safe in the Mohan Yadav government.
As per the banner and pamphlets, the Paraswada-Maljkhand Dalam of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has taken responsibility for the abduction and killing, accusing the deceased youth of being a police informer.
A ‘death sentence’ written note was also recovered from the spot. It stated that the police had deployed Devendra as an informer, and he used to provide information about the Naxal movement to police. It also said that Devendra used to supply milk and curd to cops posted at the Peetkona police post.
“This man, Devendra alias Dadhu, was a police informer. After checking and verifying his activities, he has been sentenced to death,” the handwritten note stated.
The Naxalites accused the government of ruining youth by recruiting them as informers. The Naxals’ message further accused the state government of making youths police informers under the guise of police recruitment, thereby defaming them.
It further read, ‘Whoever acts as a police informer, the responsibility for their life will lie with the government and Balaghat police’.