Kanpur ambush bears Maoist stamp of beheading, brutality
(WorldNews India)

Lucknow: Twenty-four hours after one of the bloodiest encounters in UP left eight policemen dead in Kanpur, the autopsy report revealed that the guerrilla-style attack on cops bore the Maoist signature of beheading and extreme brutality, which is not the hallmark of even the ironfisted mafiosi operating in UP`s badlands. While circle officer of DSP rank Devendra Mishra`s head and toes were severed with an axe and his body mutilated, a sub-inspector was riddled with bullets fired from point-blank range and a constable was gunned down with an AK-47, snatched from the police party. Investigators, forensic experts and STF units probing the encounter suggest that manner in which at least 60 men...