KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Dec 11: About half a dozen PLFI activists were suspected to have been lynched under the Gudri Thana area in the West Singhbhum district during the past one week triggering a sensation in the rebel-infested area.
Though the police are yet to confirm about the deaths, West Singhbhum SP Ashutosh Shekhar has pressed officers-in-charge of two police stations, including that of Gudri Thana to find the bodies.
Villagers mobilize against PLFI rebels
It is learned that residents of over 30 villages have mobilised together and are said to be on a killing spree.
The frenzied villagers are reportedly holding secret meetings in any of the villages and set out to search the PLFI rebels or their supporters before lynching them.
The first incident of the lynching, called ‘sendra’ in local language, was suspected to have taken place of a PLFI area commander who was allegedly responsible for the killing of two young men at Giru village under the Gudri Thana on the intervening night of November 24.
Ever since the killing of the area commander, the villagers have lynched six more rebels while carrying out the sendra.
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Police yet to confirm deaths
Subdivisional police officer, Chakradharpur, Nalin Marandih neither confirmed the deaths nor denied the report to be false.
“We can confirm any death after recovering the body only. But so far we have not got any body as such,” Marandih said while talking to The Jharkhand Story.
The SDPO pointed out the police have not only failed to trace the bodies but no one has lodged any missing person report so far.
“Probably, those rebels who are suspected to have been lynched by the villagers might have sneaked out of the rural areas as soon as the villagers had started mobilising against the rebels,” the senior police officer.
It may be mentioned that the two young men whose mutilated bodies were found lying at Giru village on November 24 were ex-PLFI rebels. Having abandoned the outlawed outfit, the duo had started running a business of sand-lifting and supply clandestinely, thus inviting the wrath of the PLFI boss.
