New Delhi: The banned CPI-Maoist on Tuesday claimed responsibility for gunning down JMM MP Sunil Mahato, saying he was shot dead to avenge the killing of 11 Naxalite cadres at Lango a few years ago.
The claim was made in posters put up by CPI-Maoist at villages in Hadia and Lango areas under the jurisdiction of Ghorabandh police station, Superintendent of Police Pankaj Darad said.
Mahato was shot dead in Ghatshila near Jamshedpur on Sunday. Ghatshila Sub Divisional Officer Ramesh Dubey said that about 15 Naxals came to the venue of a football the match at Bakuria in East Singhbhum district ten minutes before its end and moved near Mahato on the pretext of garlanding him before opening fire on him and his guards from point blank.
While Mahato, who represented Jamshedpur constituency, and his bodyguards died instantaneously, Prabhakar Mahato succumbed to injuries on way to Tata Main hospital in Jamshedpur.
The naxals torched the MP's vehicle before fleeing the scene taking advantage of the commotion set off by the attack.
The lawmaker, who was also JMM General Secretary, was killed on the spot.
East Singhbhum Superintendent of Police Pankaj Darad said that seven bullets were pumped into the body of Sunil Mahato.
Raju Giri, general secretary of JMM's central committee, said that two other bodyguards of the MP had been taken away by the Naxals.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who held a meeting with senior officials in Ranchi, ordered a CBI probe into the killing of the MP.
The Naxals looted the weapons held by Sunil Mahato's bodyguards before firing at them.
(With PTI inputs)
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