Ranchi, Sep 16 (Inditop.com) In two separate incidents, a Maoist rebel and two extortionists were lynched by villagers in Jharkhand Wednesday, police said.
According to police, two men were lynched by residents of Kinaropuria village under Itaki police station, some 60 km from Ranchi.
The two men arrived in the village and sought to extort money from the villagers. The villagers started beating them with iron rods and pelted stones at them. Both of them died on the spot, police said.
Police reached the village four hours after the incident. The bodies of both men have been sent for post mortem examination. Police seized a pistol and a motorcycle belonging to the deceased.
Police said they are trying to establish whether the two men had any links with any Maoist organisation. Villagers told police that both men used to come to the village and extort money from them.
In another incident, a Maoist guerrilla was Wednesday lynched when he and a colleague went to a village to extort money and threaten the residents, police said.
The incident in Segaisai village in West Singhbhum district, about 300 km from here, took place in the early hours of the morning when two members of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) went there to collect money and threaten the villagers against helping the police, officials said.
Members of the Village Defence Committee (VDC) caught both the guerrillas and started thrashing them. While one of them managed to escape, the other was beaten to death, police said.
VDCs have been formed by police to help in the fight against the rebels and to prevent them from spreading their ideology and terror.
Maoist guerrillas are active in 18 of Jharkhand’s 24 districts. Nearly 1,550 people have been killed in Maoist-related violence in the last eight years.
