NUAPADA: Carrying forward their strategy of terrorising the villagers, about 10 armed Maoists swooped down on Koten village in Amanara gram panchayat under Nuapada police limits late on Thursday and killed two persons who they suspected to be Special Police Officers (SPOs). The two have been identified as Nagababu Majhi (25) and Parmeswar Majhi (30). Sources said the Maoists took Nagababu along with them on the plea that they have lost their way in the village. His body was found near Koten Primary School by villagers this morning. Maoists suspected Nagababu of being a police informer. They pasted posters warning the villagers not to join the police force and threatened them with similar fate if they did so. Before Nuapada police could complete Nagababu’s inquest, villagers informed the cops about the recovery of the body of Parmeswar Majhi in Kalmidadar village in Motanuapada panchayat, about 27 km from here. Sources said the Maoists came looking for Parmeswar on May 26 midnight but were unable to find him as he had gone to Nuapada. Luck ran out for Parmeswar the next morning when they revisited his place and took him along with them. His body, with face mutilated, was found in a farm land near Beherani hills. Parmeswar was reportedly crushed to death with a stone. Parmeswar was supposed to join as SPO. Nagababu is survived by wife Jayanti, an anganwadi worker, and two daughters. Parmeswar’s wife Mina Bai is also an anganwadi worker and they have two children. Nuapada SP Rajesh Pandit, however, denied that the two were supposed to join as SPO or were police informers. On May 23, nine police personnel, including an ASP of Chhattisgarh, were killed after being ambushed by Maoists on Orissa-Chhattisgarh border during a combing operation at Sunabeda sanctuary in Nuapada district. PTI reports security forces recovered 20-kg can bomb while a suspected Maoist was arrested in separate incidents in Khunti district of Jharkhand on Saturday.
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