Maoists strike again, kill ‘suspected’ police informer in Koraput district
Narayanpatna: Maoist killed a 50-year-old tribal at a
remote village in the South Odisha's Koraput district suspecting him to
be a police informer, police said on Saturday.
The tribal's body was found today with his throat slit and a letter left near it said he was killed after being identified to be a police informer, said Y J Rao, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Laxmipur.
The victim, identified as a resident of Manasdapadar village, was
also accused of extorting money from people by posing to be a Maoist
agent.
A group of seven to eight armed cadres came to the village and forcibly took him away from his house while he was sleeping. His body was recovered this morning from a jungle about 50 meters from his house.
Rao has rejected the Maoist allegation that the man was a police informer. "There is no truth behind the allegation," he said.
Source: http://www.odishatoday.com/viewnews.php?news_id=3878
The tribal's body was found today with his throat slit and a letter left near it said he was killed after being identified to be a police informer, said Y J Rao, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Laxmipur.
A group of seven to eight armed cadres came to the village and forcibly took him away from his house while he was sleeping. His body was recovered this morning from a jungle about 50 meters from his house.
Rao has rejected the Maoist allegation that the man was a police informer. "There is no truth behind the allegation," he said.
Source: http://www.odishatoday.com/viewnews.php?news_id=3878
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