The family members accused the accused of arresting 12 villagers and taking them away with them | News India

Narayanpur, 1 September (HS). Security forces had launched a major operation against Naxalites in different villages of Abujhmad in the district on 29 August. During this operation, three female Naxalites carrying a bounty of 18 lakhs were killed by the security forces in an encounter and many weapons, explosives and Naxalite material were confiscated. On the other hand, the villagers have alleged that a total of 12 villagers including Bursu Padda, resident of Gram Panchayat Konge of Orchha block, Raghu and Rajesh Nuruti of village Markabeda, Sainu Padda, Chaitu Padda and Sannu Padda of Kodonar village and Ramji Padda, Kande Nuruti, Pandru Padda, Mooka Padda, Manku Padda, Sukdev Padda, residents of Aadnar village of Gram Panchayat Gomme, have been arrested and taken away by the security forces. Along with this, the villagers have also accused the soldiers of entering their houses and searching them and destroying their daily use items.

The villagers also say that when some women of the village chased the security forces during this time, they were threatened to stop them. But when this had no effect on the rural women, the soldiers fired bullets in the drain, due to which the women returned to their homes in fear. After this, the villagers traveled several kilometers on foot and contacted the Bechaghat Sangharsh Samiti in Chhote Bethiya area where the protest site of the villagers is and appealed to the government and administration through the media to release the captured villagers. The villagers have also claimed that among the 12 villagers who have been taken away by the police, some people are not in a good mental state.