Information About Incident 40495-77531-189967 in Lohardaga India

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Police said on October 20 that the man who killed businessman Mahendra Prasad Mittal in Lohardaga on October 19 was Manjitji, an area commander of the recently formed Chhattisgarh-Jharkhand Simant Committee (CJSC) - a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) - and a close aide of the CJSC chief Sanjay Yadav.

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• Meta Location: Lohardaga Chhattisgarh
• Matched District: Lohardaga
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: the man who
• Subject: businessman Mahendra Prasad Mittal

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A businessman, identified as Mahendra Prasad Mittal, was killed by a Naxalite (left wing extremist) leader in Lohardaga District on October 19, reports Times of India. Police said on October 20 that the man who killed businessman Mahendra Prasad Mittal in Lohardaga on October 19 was Manjitji, an area commander of the recently formed Chhattisgarh-Jharkhand Simant Committee (CJSC) - a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) - and a close aide of the CJSC chief Sanjay Yadav. Mittal was shot dead by Manjit at his office. His brother Narendra said he did not have any threat to his life. But investigation has revealed that Mittal had been threatened a number of times by Manjit and his group, said Subodh Prasad, Lohardaga Superintendent of Police, adding, that Mittal and his business associates had never taken Police into confidence on such issues.

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