Sarpanch of Balapam panchayat at Rallagedda village under Chintapalle police station limits in Vizag agency was killed by maoists of Korrukonda area committee in the wee hours on Tuesday.
The victim, Sindri Karli, 32year-old, was killed for contesting the panchayat elections that were held on January 18. Around 200 activists,which also includes a few armed Maoists and militia members entered Karli’s house at around 2 am on Tuesday and dragged him and his brother Sindrl Somaraju out of the house.
The Maoists later on unchained the brother but killed Karl’ with an axe alleging that he had be disloyaled to them in the polls.