RAIPUR: Armed Maoists gunned down Chinnaram Gota, a leader of the controversial anti-naxalite movement 'Salwa Judum', and one of his body guards at village Kuprel in Farsegarh area in tribal Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
Police said the incident took place when Chinnaram Gota, who had actively participated in the anti-naxalite movement which began in June 2005, went to his farm accompanied by two of his body guards. The rebels opened indiscriminate firing, killing Gota on the spot. His body guards returned fire but of them sustained serious bullet injures. One of the bodyguards later succumbed to his injuries.
Before fleeing from the spot, the rebels set ablaze the vehicle of the salwa judum leader and also took away three rifles.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident Maoists killed a peon, working in a local school, by slitting his throat at village Amapani in Kanker district. The rebels also left a pamphlet, stating that the person was being punished for being a police informer.
After the 'Salwa Judum', the anti-naxalite movement, the Maoists have been targeting all those who had actively participated in the movement. About a month ago, the rebels made a futile attempt on the life of senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma, a prominent anti-naxalite movement leader and former leader of the opposition in the assembly, by trying to blow up his vehicle in a landmine blast. However, Karma, who enjoys z plus security cover, had a narrow escape.
For the last couple of years, almost all leaders of the Salwa Judum are under tight security and the police had even advised them not to move out of their villages, without providing prior information to the security personnel.
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