Naxalite Found Dead

A Naxalite carrying a reward of Rs 8 lakh on his head was found dead under mysterious circumstances with a firearm next to him in a forest of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Tuesday, police said.

Mahendra Karma, who was shot dead by suspected Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma region on May 25, had been on their hit-list for a long time. He was, after all, the architect of the Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Naxal vigilante movement that he founded in 2005.

A Naxalite carrying a reward of Rs 8 lakh on his head was found dead under mysterious circumstances with a firearm next to him in a forest of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Tuesday, police said.

Mahendra Karma, who was shot dead by suspected Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma region on May 25, had been on their hit-list for a long time. He was, after all, the architect of the Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Naxal vigilante movement that he founded in 2005.