Maoist Pamphlets Claim Money Deal With Bihar BJP Leader After Notes Ban
PATNA, Dec 31: After Maoists shot dead the uncle of a BJP legislator in Bihar's Aurangabad and torched several vehicles on Saturday, pamphlets were left behind in the town, 148 km from Patna. The pamphlets had allegations that the politician and his cousin were paid a total ofRs. 7 crore after the notes ban two years ago to exchange banned notes and that they had not returned the money to the Maoists as promised.
On Saturday night, around 200 people attacked the home of Rajan Kumar Singh, a BJP member of Bihar Legislative Council, set a house and 10 vehicles on fire. His 55-year-old uncle, Narendra Singh, was shot dead.
After getting information about the Maoist attack, security forces reached the village and exchanged fire with the Maoists, who then escaped from the spot, police officer Satya Prakash said.
Pamphlets were left behind in Bihar's Aurangabad after the Maoist attack.
In Bihar and Jharkhand, Maoists often leave behind pamphlets giving reasons for a particular attack.
Rajan Kumar Singh called the allegations made by the banned CPI (Maoist) in the pamphlets baseless. But the police did not rule out the alleged link between the legislator and Maoists. In the pamphlets, the Maoists said they have nothing to do with the BJP and the Sangh Parivar, but mentioned Mr Singh.
The BJP leader had held the police and the state government "responsible" for the attack. "The Maoist attack in the village is the result of mistakes of both the administration and the state government. I had given an application to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the DGP for setting up a police station or at least a police outpost in the village but no action was taken. The administration and the state government are responsible for the incident," Mr Singh said.
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19-yr-old woman found hanging from tree in UP village; juvenile held
Lucknow/Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Police have apprehended a 16-year-old boy for his alleged involvement in the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in a village here, officials said on Monday.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, said that the body of a 19-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree in an orchard in the Manikpur police station area on Sunday morning. A post-mortem examination subsequently confirmed that she had been raped.
Police registered a case against unidentified persons under sections 103(1) (punishment for murder) and 70(1) (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and initiated an investigation.
During the course of the investigation, the police found that the deceased was in contact with a juvenile who was also her relative.
Acting on this information, during a joint checking operation, sub-inspector Amit Kumar Singh of Manikpur police station and SOG In-charge Amit Kumar Chaurasia, along with their team, apprehended the 16-year-old near the Lehdari Ganga River bridge.
The search for other accused persons is ongoing, police said.
According to the police, the woman had gone to sleep after dinner on Saturday night but was found hanging in an orchard nearly 400 metres away from her home the following morning.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, had earlier said that the circumstances suggest foul play.
"The victim's slippers and undergarments were recovered 50 metres away from the spot where the body was found. There are visible injury marks on her body," Rai said.
While locals have alleged that the woman was murdered after being raped, the ASP said that it is "prima facie a case of murder."
"Based on the complaint filed by the victim's brother, a case of murder has been registered against unidentified persons," the officer added.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, in a post on X in Hindi on Monday, said, "The news of the heinous murder of a Dalit daughter in Pratapgarh is deeply tragic and condemnable."
"The question remains: why does the spate of murders of 'PDA daughters' continue unabated in Uttar Pradesh? Are the BJP government's claims regarding women's safety merely hollow rhetoric, or is there, in fact, discrimination even in the provision of security for women?" he said.
"Whenever the 'wandering Honourable (ghumantu maananiye)' finds a moment of respite from election campaigning, he should cast a glance at the plight of the daughters of his own Uttar Pradesh. In any case, apart from injustice and oppression, no sister, daughter, or mother of this state holds any hope from you," Yadav added.
