Maoists are gradually spreading their wings into areas where there presence till now was limited. In a glaring example, on Saturday night Red rebels killed a youth of Salepali village under the Paikmal police station in Bargarh district.
The deceased was identified as Bijay Sahu.
Sources said some armed rebels barged into Sahu’s house at around 8 pm and dragged him out. later, they abducted him to the nearby forest and killed him.
A Maoist poster was found near the body of Sahu in which the rebels have stated that Sahu was a police informer and was killed for passing information to police.
The poster also mentioned that Sahu had reported to the police about presence of some Maoists in the village in September 2017.
In the posters, the rebels have also threatened other locals that they would meet the same fate if they cooperate with the police or other security forces.