A group of Maoistsallegedly killeda 55-year-old man after accusing him of being a member of the erstwhile anti-Naxal movement SalwaJudum in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district today, police said.
"Budhram Mudma was killed this afternoon with sharp-edged weapons and sticks at his village Mandem under Farsegarh police station limits," a senior police official said.
Mudma's younger brother is the Sarpanch of the village.
A group of eight to ten ultras attacked him when he and his family members were working in their vegetable garden outside the house. Assailants later fled into the forest.
Security forces were rushed to the spot and Mudma's body was brought to Farsegarh for autopsy, the official told PTI.
Maoist pamphlets recovered from the spot claimed that Mudma was killed because he was involved with SalwaJudum in the pastand was responsible for thedeathsof innocent tribals in the area.
The pamphlets also accused him of being a police informer, the official said.
SalwaJudum, anti-Naxal militia, was disbanded in 2011 after Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.
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