Bijapur: A 40-year-old woman, working as an Anganwadi worker was killed by Naxalites on suspicion of being a police informer in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said on Sunday. The Madded Area Committee of Naxalites has taken responsibility for the killing.
Chandrakant Govarna, Additional Superintendent of Police, Bijapur said that the Naxalites abducted Yalam Sukra from Laded village under Madded police station limits and took her to a nearby hill on Saturday where they strangled her and abandoned the body. The body of the woman has been recovered from the mountain at a distance of three kilometers from the village, the police officer said.
It is learnt that the police team recovered a pamphlet from the Madded area committee of Maoists at the spot. In the pamphlet, the Naxalites accused the woman of acting as a police informer since 2017. The Maoists also termed the killing as revenge for the November 18 operation when the Greyhound Force killed 7 Naxalites on the border adjoining Chhattisgarh Telangana border. A search operation has been launched to trace the assailants.
Officials said that the Maoists had also kidnapped the deceased's husband. After killing his wife in front of his eyes, the Naxalites released him later.
Four killings in three days: Maoists have killed four people within the last three days in Bijapur. These include two former sarpanches and two women on suspicion of being police informers.
In Bastar division, Naxalites have killed more than 60 people so far this year comprising seven districts, including Bijapur as per police.
On December 6, Naxalites killed a woman Anganwadi assistant in the Basaguda area of Bijapur, suspecting her of being a police informer, while two former sarpanchs (village panchayat heads) were killed in separate places in Bijapur on December 4. (With agency inputs)
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