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NOVANEWS Sidhu Soren's family refuses to take body Rajeesh | July 28, 2010 at 9:06 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Rf NARESH JANA Sidhu Soren (top); Lakshmimoni, his mother, on Tuesday. (Samir Mondal) Goaltore, July 27: Sidhu Soren’s family has refused to take his body and claimed the leader of the Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities was a martyr “for his country” who was killed in sleep. “My son has laid down his life for his country. We will not take his body from the police. What will I do with a dead son?” asked Sidhu’s father Jamadar Baskey, shortly after turning away policemen who had gone to his the family’s house this morning and asked him to identify Sidhu’s body in the morgue of the Midnapore Medical Colle...

NOVANEWS PCPA militia leader, 5 others killed in Lalgarh shootout Rajeesh | July 27, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1QP GOALTORE (WEST MIDNAPORE): Security forces pulled off a major breakthrough in the dense forests of Lalgarh early on Monday by gunning down Maoist leader Sidhu Soren and five armed squad members, including a woman. A COBRA constable was killed while chasing the retreating rebels. Soren is the biggest kill in Jangalmahal since the start of the Maoist insurgency in Bengal. The 27-year-old was the secretary of the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) when it was set up in 2009. He went on to head the Sidhu Kanhu Mass Militia, the armed wing of the PCPA blamed for many murders and the Jnaneswari Express mass...

NOVANEWS Rajeesh July 25, 2010 Categories:  Uncategorized   http://wp.me/pglpM-1QD BASTAR (Chhattisgarh): On June 3, late at night, in a clearing where the fields of Murdunda village merge into the jungle, a patrol party of CRPF’s C168 battalion is fired on by the Maoists. The CRPF returns fire. The jawans see a figure emerge from the bushes and break into a run. They take aim and shoot. The figure is hit. It collapses. It turns out to be a young boy. Till this point, the narratives converge — that of the police and the dead boy’s family. But from here on, there are vastly different versions about what happened. The police say they found explosives near Lalu’s dead body. “He was a Sangham (group) member of CPI Maoist and was planting a bomb at the spot,” says Vijay Chauhan, of...

NOVANEWS  ‘Animal-like’ treatment of Maoists’ bodies: Govt report in 4 weeks Rajeesh | July 25, 2010 at 9:36 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Qz The bodies of the eight Maoists who were killed in an encounter with the joint forces in Salboni’s Ranja forest on June 16 are still lying in the morgue, Advocate General Balai Chandra Roy said during a hearing on a PIL filed by eminent writer and social activist Mahashewata Devi. He said that the state government would file a report on the encounter in four weeks. Mahashewata Devi filed a PIL last week, alleging that the security forces had carried the bodies of those killed in the encounter by tying them to bamboo posts in an animal-like posture . The bodies are yet to be handed over to the next of kin, she...