Maoists gun down West Bengal CPI(M) leader

May 08, 2010 01:03 pm | Updated November 28, 2021 09:01 pm IST - JHARGRAM (West Bengal)

Security personnel inspecting the body of Jhargram Congress President Bikash Mahato killed by suspected Maoists near Lalgarh in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. File photo: PTI.

Security personnel inspecting the body of Jhargram Congress President Bikash Mahato killed by suspected Maoists near Lalgarh in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. File photo: PTI.

In a midnight attack, armed Maoists dragged out a local CPI(M) leader from his house and gunned him down at Lodhasoli in West Midnapore’s Jhargram area, police said today.

Sudhanshu Maiti (53), Lodhasoli local committee member of CPI(M), was asleep in his house at Nahoria village when an armed gang of about 25 Maoists broke open the door of his house last night.

They then dragged him down from his first floor bedroom to his courtyard and fired at him from a close range.

The bullets pierced his head and heart killing Maiti on the spot, police said.

Police, informed soon after incident, reached the spot this morning as crossing the forest during the night posed a threat to their personnel.

Joint force personnel were deployed in the area to track down the assailants and the body has been sent for post—mortem.

The killing took place just a day after the PCPA, frontal organisation of the Maoists, withdrew its month—long indefinite blockade demanding scrapping of the joint force operation and production of its arrested members in court.

The blockade was launched on April 5 and withdrawn on May 6 but life in the area was still to return to normal as vehicles carrying passengers and goods were keeping off the area.

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