Odisha: Maoists kill 48-year-old man suspecting him to be a police informer

The deceased had allegedly killed Burja Majhi, his brother-in-law and father of Kuni Majhi, a Maoist cadre of Niyamgiri area committee under Bansadhara-Ghumsur-Nagabali division of CPI (Maoist) a year ago

Maoists on Thursday night killed a 48-year-old man in Odisha’s Kalahandi district suspecting him to be a police informer who had allegedly killed the father of a woman Maoist cadre a year ago, the police said.

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Lalbati Majhi, a resident of Panchkula village in Kalahandi district, was found lying in a pool of blood near his house on Thursday with his throat slit, Kalahandi SP Abilash G said. Though Maoists left a poster branding Majhi a ‘police informer’, the SP said there was a “strong revenge motive” behind the murder.

The deceased had allegedly killed Burja Majhi, his brother-in-law and father of Kuni Majhi, a Maoist cadre of Niyamgiri area committee under Bansadhara-Ghumsur-Nagabali division of CPI (Maoist) a year ago, the police said.

Earlier in August and October, two persons from Nuapara and Kandhamal districts were killed by Maoists on suspicions that they were police informers.