Midnapore(WB): Slain Maoist leader Kishenji’s body was identified by his niece Deepa Rao at a Midnapore hospital and was sent by an ambulance to Kolkata prior to being flown to Andhra Pradesh on Saturday.
The body in a coffin was sent with adequate security by road with a pilot car ahead after the the demand of Kishenji’s niece, revolutionary poet Varvara Rao and rights organisation Association for Protection of Democratic Rights to transport it to Andhra Pradesh at their own cost was rejected, police sources said.
APDR activists shouted ‘Amar Rahe Kishenji’, while hundreds of people who thronged the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital where the post mortem of the body was done counter shouted that Kishenji should not be given a matryr’s funeral. From Kolkata, the body would be flown to Hyderabad and from there to his home at Peddapalli in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, the sources said.
Kishenji’s niece told reporters that she had taken a snap on her cellphone of the body of Kishenji in the morgue during identification. “It is inhuman that his body has at least 20 marks of injuries with the cheek blown away,” she claimed showing the snap to reporters. Earlier, Kishenji’s body was brought to the Midnapore hospital from the police morgue at Jhargram where it was kept after Thursday’s encounter at the Burisole jungle. The joint forces were still searching for the woman Maoist leader Suchitra Mahato who had lived with Kishenji and had fled after the encounter along with other ultras. (PTI)