Cong alleges innocents youthsslain in encounter

Tuesday, December 26, 2006, 17:38 [IST]

Jagdalpur, Dec 26 (UNI) The Congress has claimed that two tribal youths -- who hailed from Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated, naxalism-affected Kanker district and were killed in the December 22 encounter at Gadchiroli in neighbouring Maharashtra -- were innocent.

The deceased were identified as Pakhajoor's Sual and Renu, both aged 20.

Former Congress MLA Manturam Pawar led irate villagers who gheraoed the Pakhajoor Police station yesterday. A bandh was called in the area today.

''The duo were conveying a television and generator to a village when they were caught by a Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra joint patrol.

The youths were taken across the state border and shot,'' Mr Pawar alleged.

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