Maoists again made their presence in the State felt by killing two villagers in the Belaghara police station area in Kandhamal district on Friday night.
The victims included the son of a Sarpanch. The ultras killed them branding them as ‘police informers’.
The bodies of the duo were found at separate places in the PS area on Saturday morning. One body was recovered near the Bhandarangi Panchayat office and the other near Guchaguda village.
Reportedly, the Maoists belonging to their Bansadhara-Ghumsar-Nagabali Division also put up a handwritten poster accusing the two deceased of providing information to police about five members of the banned outfit who had been killed in an encounter in September 2020.
In the posters, the Maoists warned other ‘informers’ to surrender before their Jan Adalat within 15 days or else, they w be sentenced to death. And the State Government, DGP Abhay and IG (Intelligence) RK Sharma would be held responsible for the loss of lives, the poster further read.The incident has triggered panic in the area.
