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BASTAR (Chhattisgarh): On June 3, late at night, in a clearing where the fields of Murdunda village merge into the jungle, a patrol party of CRPF’s C168 battalion is fired on by the Maoists. The CRPF returns fire. The jawans see a figure emerge from the bushes and break into a run. They take aim and shoot. The figure is hit. It collapses. It turns out to be a young boy.

Till this point, the narratives converge — that of the police and the dead boy’s family. But from here on, there are vastly different versions about what happened. The police say they found explosives near Lalu’s dead body. “He was a Sangham (group) member of CPI Maoist and was planting a bomb at the spot,” says Vijay Chauhan, officer in-charge of the Awapalli police station.

But Lalu’s father, Unga Ooyam, says his 15-year-old son had gone to the fields that night simply to relieve himself. “He had gone to Awapalli to sell vegetables and buy rice. On the way back to our village Tekmetla, he stopped for the night at Murdunda. Past midnight, he woke up his cousin and asked him to accompany him to the fields. His cousin groggily refused, so Lalu stepped out alone. Next morning, townspeople alerted us that his corpse had been carried into the thana at Awapalli,” he says.

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