Maoist leader Azad raping women working in the party: SP Dutt 

Kothagudem: Superintendent of Police Sunil Dutt has accused the outlawed CPI (Maoist) Party leader Azad of molesting women working in the party. In a statement here on Thursday SP said it was a shame that Maoist party leaders who claim to be fighting for women’s rights were committing atrocities against women. Despite complaints by Azad’s victims, the top leadership had failed at least to reprimand him, he alleged in his statement.

Referring to a specific incident Dutt said police have credible information that Azad recently assaulted sexually a woman working in party when she went to take bath in the forests of Buttalanka-Yerrapalli on Telangana Chattisgarh borders. The victim, greatly pained at the incident, complained to the Maoist top leadership but no action was taken against Azad. Following that the woman went into a state of deep depression and confusion. It was unfortunate that no action was taken against him even after the woman complained about the incident and Azad continues to sexually harass innocent tribal women, Dutt remarked.

Innocent tribal women were forcibly recruited into the party by Maoist leaders for their survival and then they were being used for unscrupulous activities in the name of corrupt ideologies. How could the Maoists do justice to women when they harass the women in the Maoist party, SP sought to know.