A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was killed by suspected Maoists in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Thursday.
The body of Kaka Arjun (52) was found on Wednesday evening on the Kongupalli-Ilmidi road, Bijapur Additional Superintendent of Police Chandrakant Governa said.
He was the Secretary of the BJP Bijapur district unit’s Scheduled Tribe wing, the party said.
Arjun, who was the sarpanch of Ilmidi village between 2016 and 2020, had gone to Semaldodi village with his wife on his motorcycle after being called by someone at around 10 am on Wednesday, the officer said.
After reaching there, he dropped his wife and went inside a forest along with five unidentified persons, dressed as civilians. Later, the body was found lying on the road.
A pamphlet issued in the name of the Madded area committee of Maoists claimed that Arjun was working against the Community Party of India (Maoist).
The pamphlet warned that others working against the CPI (Maoist) will meet a similar fate.