Ex-Sarpanch killed by Maoists
The Hindu
Victim was branded a police informer
A 28-year-old former Sarpanch, identified as Korasa Ramesh of the remote K Kondapuram village in Mulugu district, was allegedly killed by Maoists in the Kottapalli forest area in neighbouring Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Tuesday night by branding him a ‘police informer’.
Ramesh and another tribal youth from Tippapuram of Venkatapuram mandal were allegedly detained by the ultras while they were heading to Bheemaram forest area in Chhattisgarh on a motorcycle on Monday.
They were allegedly summoned by a Chhattisgarh-based Divisional Committee Member of the outfit to the forest area.

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