New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has expressed his outrage at the murder of a Jharkhand police officer by Maoists and vowed the rebels’ “scheme” will not succeed.
“I condemn this cold-blooded murder. The Naxal menace is a growing menace and this incident proves they kill in cold blood, Chidambaram told CNN-IBN.
Chidambaram was commenting on the murder of Jharkhand Police’s special branch officer Francis Induwar, who was abducted a week ago and was found dead on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway on Tuesday morning.
The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) left a pamphlet claiming it had killed the officer, a police official said. "Francis has been awarded death to protest the police repression," said a pamphlet left near Induwar’s body.
Chidambaram said the Naxalites were probably retaliating after the arrest of three of their leaders recently. “Naxalite threat is the gravest to internal security. Since we have arrested some leaders of the CPI-Maoist it is possible that they are using violence,” he said.
“Let me tell them that their scheme will not succeed,” said Chidambaram, who assured Induwar’s family compensation and support.
“I want to assure the special branch officers of Jharkhand that we deeply grieve for the family of the officer who has been killed.”
In an interview to CNN-IBN on September 28, Chidambaram had said he believed development is the best solution to the Naxal problem.
“The point is we believe that development is the ultimate answer to the problems that are espoused by the Naxal leaders on behalf of the poor people,” he had said.
A Reuters report earlier this year estimated that the Maoists have an estimated 22,000 combatants in more than 180 of the country's 630 districts. They operate across a "red corridor" stretching from Andhra Pradesh to Chhattisgarh and into West Bengal.
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