Naxals kill villager in Chhattisgarh, warn election officials not to visit polling booths

Naxalites have killed a 40-year-old man in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, accusing him of being a police informer, and warned election officials not to visit polling booths to conduct voting on November 7, an official said on Thursday. As per preliminary information, Naxalites strangled the man, Muchaki Linga, with a rope on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday and threw his body on the roadside between Galgam and Nadpalli villages in Bijapur district, he said.