Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed a former village headman branding him anti-poor and Adivasi-oppressive in West Champaran District of Bihar on August 12, reports The Telegraph. Police said around 70 Maoists, chanting slogans in praise of the outfit, laid siege to the house of former village headman Manoj Kumar of Champapur Ganauli Panchayat(village level local-self government institution) at his Malkauli village near Valmikinagar, about 360 kilometers north-west of Patna. "They killed Manoj and fled," Valmikinagar, Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OIC), Jai Prakash Singh said. In pamphlets the Maoists left behind, they dubbed him as anti-poor and oppressor of tribals and Dalits. "Manoj Singh was killed because he indulged in sexual exploitation of tribal women and was implicating people in false cases in connivance with police," the posters read. Manoj was village headman from 2011 to 2016.