The Hindu : STD booth operator shot dead by naxals

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Thursday, Nov 28, 2002

Southern States

Southern States - Andhra Pradesh

STD booth operator shot dead by naxals

By Our Staff Reporter

GUNTUR NOV. 27. Naxalites belonging to the People's War (PW) shot dead an STD booth operator, Atmakuri Punna Rao (45), at Karempudi village on Tuesday night, branding him a police informer.

According to information reaching the district headquarters, three naxalites went in an auto-rickshaw to the small grocery store being run by Punna Rao and called him out. As he came out, the naxals whisked him away to the fields near a culvert at Dogaramuduthanda and shot him dead. They reportedly left a letter in Punna Rao's pocket.

The naxalites reportedly mentioned in the letter that Punna Rao was a former courier of the PW. He earlier stayed in Macherla and later shifted to Karempudi. Later, he quit naxal activities and turned a police informer, they said. There were two more persons who would also be targeted, if they did not mend their ways, they said. The naxalites alleged in the letter that Punna Rao collected over Rs 70,000 from different people by using the name of the PW, but did not remit the amount to the party. They also alleged in the letter that Punna Rao took shelter in the house of a woman at Macherla and got her arrested later.

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