BIJAPUR: Naxalites have killed a 41-year-old man in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, claiming he was leaking information about the outlawed movement, police said on Monday.As per preliminary information, unidentified Naxalites attacked Bhadru Sodhi, a resident of Keshamundi village under Bhairamgarh police station limits, with an axe at his house on Sunday evening following which he died on the spot, a police official here said. After being alerted, a police team rushed to the spot on Monday morning and the body was sent for post-mortem, he said.A pamphlet issued by the Bhairamgarh area committee of Maoists was found at the spot in which the deceased was accused of being a traitor, he said.The Maoists also claimed in the pamphlet that Sodhi was active in the anti-Maoist civil militia Salwa Judum movement, which was disbanded in 2011, and indulged in leaking information pertaining to the outlawed CPI (Maoist), the official said.A search operation has been launched in the area to trace the assailants, he added.12 Naxalites killed in encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district
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