Two villagers identified as – Ramsay Gadve (30) and Inder Sai Mandavi (75), were abducted and later killed by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres on suspicion of being ‘Police informers’ at the Kohka Police Station limits in Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh on January 26, reports The News Indian Express. Ramsay was picked up by the Maoists later found dead in the Merapani area in the District. The second victim, Mandavi was beaten to death. Earlier, the Maoists had thrown pamphlets to exert their ideology in the area and said that many of the villagers are their informers.
Suspected Maoists killed a contractor, identified as Dharmendra Garg, near Koter village in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh on January 25, reports Hindustan Times.
On January 24, a Deputy Sarpanch (head of the Panchayat, village level local self-Government institution), identified as Bajaram Korram, was killed by Maoists in Kermapal village in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh, reports Hindustan Times. Around a dozen Maoists reached the village, strangled him to death and fled into the forests.