Armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres allegedly abducted two villagers identified as Santosh Yadav (48) and Jagdish Yadav (45) and gunned them down on suspicion of being ‘police informers’ in Malikhedi village under Baihar Police Station limits in Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh early on November 13, reports The New Indian Express. The abduction and killing of the two villagers by the Maoists is possibly linked to the killing of Sharda, a wanted woman Maoist, by Police in the same forest in November 2020. Both Santosh and Jagdish were abducted from their houses by four masked Maoists, including two armed women, in Malkhedi village under Baihar Police Station area at around 7 pm on November 12, and their bodies were spotted by villagers the nest day morning. A handwritten note bearing the name of Khatiya Mochi Area Committee of CPI-Maoist was recovered by Police from the spot where the two abducted men were found killed. The note cautioned the villagers not to turn ‘police informers’, failing which they would face a similar fate. The note also warned the young Balaghat Superintendent of Police (SP), Abhishek Tiwari not to use villagers as ‘police informers’. While confirming the horrific killing of the two villagers by armed Maoist cadres, SP, Tiwari said, "The search operations have been intensified in the concerned area. The abduction and killing is possibly connected to last year's police operation in which a wanted Maoist was killed in the same jungles."