Bastar Police’s forced Cremation of Maoists illegal: Democratic Front Demands strict action against the Culprits

The Democratic Front against Operation Green Hunt, Punjab Dr Parminder Singh, State Committee leaders Yashpal jhbaal, Adv. Amarjit Bai and Sumeet Amritsar have strongly condemned the Chhattisgarh Police for forcibly and illegally cremating the bodies of CPI (Maoist) General Secretary Comrade Keshav Rao and seven other Maoists without handing them over to their families or obtaining their consent.They said that families from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh had been in Narayanpur for four days to claim the bodies of their relatives. Despite presenting legal identification and securing an order from the Andhra Pradesh High Court

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police officials repeatedly delayed the handover with false excuses. On 26 May, the police secretly and forcibly cremated the bodies, falsely claiming they were decomposing and unclaimed. This narrative, the Front stated, is completely fabricated—just like the police's earlier claim of a so-called “encounter.” Comrade Keshav Rao’s brother, Nambala Ram Prasad, along with relatives of other deceased Maoist