Maoists hail Dantewada jailbreak

HYDERABAD: Maoists have termed as ‘heroic’ the recent jailbreak in Dantewada of Chhattisgarh and vowed to help prisoners in other jails to escape as they were “unjustly held captive.”

In a statement here on Saturday, the CPI (Maoist) central committee said the cadres, who escaped from the Dantewada prison after seizing the weapons from the jail armoury, had demonstrated that the “oppressed” people could defeat the “conspiracies” of the “reactionary” ruling classes and the might of the Indian State.

The statement signed by the central committee spokesman Azad said the jailbreak had only proved the “uselessness” of the security systems like the CCTVs. It said the Dantewada incident showed the “path of freedom” to lakhs of prisoners incarcerated in ‘sub-human’ conditions without trial or after being “unjustly convicted.”