CG-KILLING

A40-year-old villager was allegedly

killed bynaxalsin Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Kanker

districton suspicion of being a police informer, police said

Wednesday.

The body of the victim Suresh Hupendi was found dumped

on the outskirts of his village Niche Kamta under Amabeda

police station limits this morning, a senior police officer

told PTI.

As per preliminary information, a group of naxals

stormed into the house of Hupendi on Tuesday evening and

forcibly took him along with them, he said.

Hupendi was strangled to death by the ultras who

dumped his corpse on the outskirts of the village, he said.

Though police are investigating the exact cause behind

the murder, a Maoist banner recovered from the spot branded

the deceased as a "police informer", the officer said.

He, however, denied that Hupendi was associated with

police.

A search operation has been launched in the region, he

said.