Dantewada: Officials on Thursday confirmed that suspected Naxalites brutally killed two men in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district after they were accused of acting as police informers. In the Wednesday evening attack, victims Baman Kashyap (29) and Anis Ram Poyam (38) were killed in the village of Todma, in the Barsoor police station limits.
Security personnel were quickly sent to the remote village in the remote forests along the Dantewada-Bijapur district border after the incident. More information regarding the killings is still being gathered by authorities.
Kashyap, one of the deceased, was employed as a ‘Shiksha doot’ (temporary visiting teacher) at a local government school. The Aaamdai Area Committee of the Maoists’ East Bastar division, allegedly recovered from the crime scene, accused him also of being a police informer. The leaflet also mentioned that Kashyap had informed security forces about the movement of Maoists before the Thulthuli encounter in October 2024.
On October 4, 2024, the Thulthuli encounter was a big security operation when 38 Naxalites were killed in dense forests between 2 villages, Thulthuli and Nendur of Abhujmaad. It was one of the biggest crackdowns in recent years on the Maoist insurgency.
There were seven attacks in 2025 in which Maoists killed people in the Bastar region, and the death toll rose to seven. On Feb 6, Naxalites killed a former sarpanch in Dantewada, and another was killed two days ago, and at least 18 people are still missing in the conflict zones. On February 4, a 30-year-old man was killed there in the Aranpur area, while two men, including an ex-Maoist, were killed the previous day in the neighbouring Bijapur district.
But Maoist activities continue to be a big threat in insurgency-hit regions of Chhattisgarh, and security forces are still on high alert.
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