August 31, 2009 01:37 pm | Updated 01:37 pm IST - Midnapore (WB)
Suspected Maoists on Monday shot dead a CPI(M) leader on the suspicion that he was working as a police informer near Lalgarh in West Midnapore district.
A group of 10 armed Maoist cadre went to 40-year-old Sukdeb Mahato’s house in Manihada village and took him to the jungle to “try” him in a Kangaroo court there, police said.
He was shot from close range and the body was left there, they said.
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