Naxalites have killed a 40-year-old man in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, accusing him of being a police informer, warned election officials not to visit polling booths to conduct voting on November 7, an official said on November 2.
As per preliminary information, Naxalites strangled the man, Muchaki Linga, with a rope on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday and threw his body on the roadside between Galgam and Nadpalli villages in Bijapur district, he said.
They accused Linga, who was from Galgam, of acting as a police informer, he said, adding that security forces have launched a combing operation in the region to trace the Naxals.
