A man was killed by Naxalites, suspected of being a police informer, officials said on Thursday. The incident was reported in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Wednesday night in Pujarikanker village. The deceased has been identified as Madkam Bheema, a police official said.
Initial probe into the matter revealed that a group of Maoists barged into the deceased’s home and dragged him outside. They then hacked him to death using a sharp-edged weapon after accusing him of being a police informer.
The police were alerted about the incident this morning.
Including Madkam, around 38 people have lost their lives in Maoist violence in the Bastar region, comprising seven districts, including Bijapur, so far this year.
In another incident, a 55-year-old man was murdered by unidentified persons on Wednesday night in Saltong village under Naxalite-hit Kistaram police station area in neighbouring Sukma district, another police official said. According to preliminary inputs, a group of unidentified persons called the victim, identified as Rava Sona, outside his house. They then brutally thrashed him using sticks and strangled him to death, he said.
No Maoist pamphlets were found at the spot, and the investigation is underway into all possible angles, including the Naxalite one, he added.
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