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Bankura SP Vishal Garg said though no posters were found, the police suspect Maoists behind the killing.
The victim, identified as Rameshwar Murmu (50), was a CPM branch committee secretary at Barikul.
He was at his home in Bhulagara village when armed Maoists, including women, raided around 9 pm. They beat him up before taking him away. They told his wife and son that Murmu deserved the treatment as he is a “police informer”, police said. Today, a villager spotted the body a few kilometres away from the village. It bore multiple injury marks and the throat was slit. Local CPM leaders said though there had been no major killings in Barikul of late, the slain leader had received threats from Maoists. Four political activists, three of them from CPM and one from Jharkhand Party (Aditya), were killed and another suffered bullet injury in Maoist attacks in neighbouring West Midnapore district earlier this week.
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