Maoists kill villager in Sukma

A 45-year-old villager was today hacked to death allegedly by Naxals on suspicion of being a "police informer"in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, police said.

The victim, Vanjami Sukda, was attacked in his field near Punpalli village under Dornapal police station limits this afternoon, a senior police official told PTI.

A group of naxals reached Sukda's farmland adjacent to a hill, around 3 kms away from Punpalli, and attacked him with sharp-edged weapons.

"They slit his throat which resulted into his death," he said.

After getting information about the incident, a police team rushed to the spot and brought the body to Dornapal for postmortem, he said.

A Maoist pamphlet was recovered from the spot in which the deceased was accused of being a police informer, the official said.

He clarified that Sukda had never worked with police.

"Recently, villagers in the region held a meeting and took a pledge to not allow naxal activities in their villages which might have frustrated ultras and they might have committed this act to create an atmosphere of fear. A combing operation was launched in the area to nab ultras," he added.