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IANS
Gadchiroli (Maharashtra),
Residents of a village in this Maoist-affected Maharashtra district on Tuesday alleged that at least innocent eight youth, including five girls, may have been felled by police bullets in the country's biggest anti-Maoist operation here last month.
The villagers of Gattepalli have demanded a judicial probe into the April 22-23 operation and action against the commandos of the crack unit C-60 who had carried out the twin security operation killing 40 Maoists in the forests of Kasnasur.
In a memorandum to the Gadchiroli Collector, the villagers have said that the eight youth - aged between 15-25 - were among who had left Gattepalli for Kasnasur on April 21 to attend the wedding of Somu Rainu Madavi. While two of them - Gonglu Muka Gawde and Tulsi Chaitu Gawde - returned on Sunday (April 22), the remaining eight did not come back from the wedding festivities in Kasnasur, around 25 km from Gattepalli.
The following day (April 23), the families made frantic enquiries and even visited Kasnasur for their missing kin, but failed to trace them out.
The next day, on April 24, the distraught families finally lodged missing complaints with the local police, who took the families to morgues where bodies of 40 Maoists were kept.
