MP deputy speaker Hina Kawre has close shave, cops probe Maoists

Bhopal | Tuesday | 15th January, 2019

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BHOPAL/JABALPUR: Four policemen in the escort car of Madhya Pradesh deputy speaker Hina Kawre were killed after a truck rammed into their vehicle on Sunday night at Saleteka village.Hina's driver swerved in the nick of time. It was the truck driver's fault," she told TOI.Hina's father, Likhiram Kawre, a minister in the Digvijaya Singh-led Congress government of MP, was killed by Maoists on December 16, 1999. His wife delivered a child past midnight.Hina, 34, was on her first visit to Balaghat, MP's only Maoist-affected district, after being elected as the deputy speaker. It was one of the most brutal murders of a politician in Indian history with the head of Likhiram sawed off and the body left in front of his residence. "We don't think there is any conspiracy angle to this..