A top leader of an anti-extremist outfit was shot dead on Monday and two others were injured when suspected Maoists fired at them.
A top leader of an anti-extremist outfit was shot dead on Monday and two others were injured when suspected Maoists fired at them near his house at Musabani under Ghatsila sub-division of Jharkhand.
Following the incident, one person was lynched by the villagers at Telta village on the suspicion of being a Maoist, police said.
Dhanai Kisku, who was East Singhbhum district president of Jharkhand Vikash Morcha's (JVM) ST/SC cell, received five bullet shots to his stomach and face when three Maoists fired at him when he had gone to have tea at a shop near his house at Copper Township this morning.
Kisku succumbed to his injuries at Tata Main hospital here, deputy superintendent of police Madhusudan Bari said.
The bodyguards provided to Kisku by the district administration were not with him when the incident took place, he said.
A worker of the roadside tea shop and one of Kisku's supporters sustained bullet injury.
Kisku was on the hitlist of Maoists ever since Nagarik Suraksha Samity (NSS), an anti-extremist organisation floated by the villagers with the tacit support of the district police a few years ago, spearheaded a movement against the ultras and lynched 11 Maoists in Ghatsila sub-division of East Singhhum district four years ago.
A massive combing operation has been launched to track down the culprits who managed to escape.
Deputy superintendent of police Dinesh Oraon said that in the course of checking, the police tried to intercept a motorcyclist at Tetla village but he fled leaving behind his motorcycle and took shelter in a poultry firm.
The enraged villagers caught hold of him and thrashed him when he abused them and set the poultry firm on fire, police said adding the youth died even before the police could take him to hospital.
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