Days after a school teacher was killed by the Naxals in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, the rebels have issued a letter calling it a mistake, the police claimed Thursday.
Yogendra Meshram was killed because he was suspected to be a policeman but he was "innocent", the purported letter said.
Meshram, teacher at a municipal school at Korchi, was shot dead by Naxals at Kombda Bajar on March 12.
Local people had protested the killing vehemently, said Shailesh Balkawade, District Superintendent of Police,
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