A 55-year-old man was allegedly killed by Naxals at Lanji village in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra on the suspicion that he was a police informer, police said today.
The body of Katiya Peka Kumoti was found on the outskirts of Lanji today morning, Gadchiroli police said.
Around 10 to 15 armed Naxals came to Kumoti's farm at 10 on Wednesday night when he was guarding the crops alongwith his wife, son and daughter-in-law, and took him to a nearby forest where he was allegedly stoned to death, police said.
A letter left by the assailants in his shirt pocket said that Kumoti was killed on the suspicion of being a police informer, police said.
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