By IANS,
Raipur : Maoist guerrillas killed a local trader in the interiors of Chhattisgarh, accusing him of being a police informer, officials said Tuesday.
The incident took place in Bhopalpattanam area, more than 500 km from state capital Raipur, in Bijapur district late Monday.
A local hosiery shop owner, Sheikh Ahmed, 44, was kidnapped early this month and his dead body was recovered alongside a road in Bhopalpattanam area, officials at the police headquarters here told IANS.
Police found some pamphlets at the site where the body was dumped, which stated the trader was acting as a police informer for several years. The deceased originally belonged to Sironcha locality in Maharashtra that shares a border with Bhopalpattanam.
Police claim that cases of civilians being killed by Maoists on charges of being police informers have been on the rise in Chhattisgarh in recent months.