Lakhhan Mahato, Darpari Mahato and Haripada Mahato were helplessly sitting at home on Friday morning. Lakhhan's boy is critically ill and admitted in Medinipur Govt. Hospital. The joint force did not allow them to go out of the village. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury
Soma Mahato, the wife of Kanchan Mahato, who has been arrested by the joint force on Friday walks past the personnel with her two-year old daughter at Burisole village in the morning. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury
Revolutionary writer and a personal friend of Kishenji, Varavara Rao, demanded that the guidelines laid down by the National Human Rights Commission that dictate that the body be preserved until a post-mortem is carried out and is properly identified be observed. Here, counter-insurgency force personnel are seen patrolling the villages on Friday. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury