Maoists kill former Naxalite

MAHADEVPUR (KARIMNAGAR): Maoists shot dead a former Naxalite at Sarvayipet village in Mahadevpur mandal in the early hours of Sunday, suspecting him to be a police informer.
More than 40 rebels came to the village around 2 am and enquired about former Pratighatana Naxalite Baburao. Learning that he was away in Hyderabad on some personal work, they beat up four family members including Gouthu Latchaiah, Baburao's brother-in-law, and left.
Sometime later, the Maoists returned to Baburao's house and called out for Latchaiah. They took him out and shot him from a close range. He died on the spot. He was 25. A former Naxalite, he surrendered before the police in 2006. Sources said the rebels held him responsible for passing on information to cops that they were looking out for Baburao.
On December 1 last year, a group of Maoists had entered the village and kidnapped a Girijan Kummari Satyam and shot him dead, by branding him as a police informer.
The villagers are gripped by fear as the Maoists have struck twice in a month by killing two persons. No police official visited the village.