Naxalites torch Reliance Jio’s mobile phone tower in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur

Bijapur: Naxalites set ablaze a mobile phone tower of a prominent telecom company in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, causing damage to its equipment, police said on Monday. The incident took place on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday in Mormed village under Toynar police station limits, a police official here said, adding that Naxalites committed the act out of frustration to oppose development works in the area.