Suspected Maoists abduct Orissa village council head
September 27th, 2010 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANSBhubaneswar, Sep 27 (IANS) Suspected Maoists have abducted a village council chief in Orissa’s Koraput district, police said Monday.
Four suspected rebels kidnapped Chingu Jani, the sarpanch of Dumuripadar panchayat, when he was standing near a tea stall with other people in Mathiliput village Sunday, a police officer said.
They whisked him away into a waiting Tata Sumo and disappeared, the officer told IANS. The rebels had threatened him in the past as well, accusing him of carrying out anti-people activities, he said.
Police Monday launched a search operation to locate the abducted village leader after it received a written complaint from a witness, he said.
Jani’s abduction comes a day after the rebels killed Babuli Panda, a local leader of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) at Ramgiri village in Koraput district. Panda was shot dead Saturday.
Koraput, some 500 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, is considered a Maoist stronghold. The rebels have killed at least seven people in different parts of the district in the past one month.
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