A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was killed by Maoists on Sunday in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh.
Neelkanth Kakkem, the BJP Mandal President of Usoor block, was attacked with sharp weapons when he had gone to attend a wedding in Penkaram village, Bijapur Additional Superintendent of Police Chandrkant Governa told The Pioneer.
The rebels stormed the BJP leader's in-laws’ house and forcibly took him out, he said.
They beat him and then attacked him with knives and axes, killing him on the spot.
A Maoist pamphlet, in the name of the Madded Area committee, claimed responsibility for the killing, the officer said.