Modiam Somlu (50), an ex-memberof the erstwhile anti-Naxalite movementSalwaJudum, was fatally attacked by the ultras at Loharpara village in Bijapur early this morning, a district police official told PTI.
Somlu, a native of Pundri village, had gone to Loharpara, located around 400 km from Raipur, to fetch 'sulfi' (a popular drink among tribals prepared from sulfi plants) when a group of armed rebels stormed there.
The Naxals pumped bullets into him and also stabbed him with sharp-edged weapons, he said.
Police rushed to the spot on getting information about the incident and sent the body for postmortem, he said.
A manhunt has been launched to nab the attackers who escaped into the thick forest after committing the crime, the police official said.
SalwaJudum, an anti-Maoist civil militia, was disbanded in 2011 in Chhattisgarh following a Supreme Court order declaring as illegal and unconstitutional the deployment of tribal youth as special police officers in the fight against Maoist insurgency.
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