Suspected Left wing extremists had on Monday killed a person, accusing him of being a police informer, in a hamlet of the Sunabeda-Patdarha plateau in Odisha’s Nuapada district.
The victim, identified as Gajapati Majhi (28), was kidnapped by the members of the CPI (Maoist) from his village Dhobghat on Sunday and gunned down in a ‘Praja Court’, self-styled court of rebels, on the following evening.
Dhobghat, a tribal hamlet of the Sunabeda-Patdarha plateau area, is surrounded by dense forest.
It can be reached by pedestrians only. Such topographical features provide ultras a safe haven for the Maoists.
According to sources, the Maoists had warned the victim not to cooperate with the police. After the warning, Gajapati had left the village and was staying at Boden, a nearby semi-urban centre. He had visited his village to attend a marriage on Sunday.
