- On August 7, 2003, a local Village Resistance Group known as the Nagrik Suraksha Samiti (Citizens ProtectionCouncil) in Lango village under Dumaria police station in the east Singhbhum district of Jharkhand killed nineNaxalites of the People's War Group (PWG), including two women and an 'area commander'. Two other Naxaliteswere maimed in the incident.
The slain Naxalites included hardcore cadres of the PWG from Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa. The encounter wastriggered by a feud between the extremists and the villagers over the formation of the citizens protectiongroup, which had been set up by the Jharkhand Police to check the Naxalites.
Villagers also resented the PWG's efforts to stop them from farming their land. The PWG had also instructedvillagers not to accept seeds and other facilities from the Government. The victims of the lynching reportedlycame to the village to warn the villagers against tying up with the local administration against the Naxalites. - On August 8, an irate mob of villagers lynched a PWG rebel in Chirugoda village under Potka police station inthe East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. The Naxalite killed was among the 14-member armed squad that hadraided Lango on the previous day. The militant was caught when tribal men maintaining a night vigil gotinformation that a PWG activist had taken refuge at the home of one of his relatives in Chirugoda.
- On August 22, immediately after the Chief Minister's announcement of a Rs. 150 million development package forNaxalite-affected Dumaria block, the residents of Asthakuwale village of East Singhbhum district lynched oneNaxalite when a group of 20 extremists, including women, arrived at the village under Ghorabandha policestation and opened two rounds of fire when the residents refused to give in to their demand for food