Koraput: 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.
PTI
