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Maoists accused Yadav of working for the police, said officials, adding that a red banner and two pamphlets had been found at the scene of the crime.
Maoists abducted and killed a 25-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district after accusing him of being a police informer, officials said Thursday.
The victim, Devendra Yadav, was abducted on Tuesday night when he had gone to tend to his cattle. His body was recovered from the forests of Chauria, under Lanji police station limits, on Thursday morning, police said.
A senior police officer said that the Malajkhand unit of the Maoists’ Gondia-Rajnandgaon-Balaghat division claimed responsibility for the killing. An FIR has been lodged under murder charges.
Maoists accused Yadav of working for the police, said officials, adding that a red banner and two pamphlets had been found at the scene of the crime.
However, police said Yadav was not an informant. They said that he used to supply milk products to nearby areas, including some police checkposts, but never supplied any information.
Balaghat Additional Superintendent of Police (anti-Maoist operations) Adarsh Kant Shukla confirmed the recovery of Yadav’s body.
In the banner and pamphlets left behind by Maoists, they alleged that the Balaghat police were turning youths into informers, local residents said.
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