Kothagudem: The CPI (Maoist) South Sub-Zonal Bureau (SSZB) has accused police of killing PLGA platoon commander Korsa Aithu alias Gangal (35) after picking him up from a hospital in Khammam. A statement from the Maoist Party on Sunday said: “Aithu is not dead. Covid-19 as stated by Kothagudem Superintendent of Police Sunil Dutt during a press conference on 27 May.
The Maoists said Aithu suffered from malaria and typhus and was rushed to Khammam Hospital in an emergency. Someone informed the police about his movements and the police arrested him on 24 May. Police deprived Aithu of treatment and tortured him for three days, they claimed, and rejected statements by Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Telangana police that many naksa were infected. coronavirus and died from it.
Neither Nakal cadres nor Adivasis are infected with Covid. In fact, Adivasis has demanded that the police stop their combing operations as it is the Covid distributors in tribal villages, but in vain, they claim. Dantewada police superintendent Abishek Pallav was spreading the Goebbels campaign to spread lies and accusing the Maoists of uplifting Covid vaccines, the statement claims.
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Source: Telangana Today