A BJP worker, Satyam Punem, was killed by Naxalites in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, after being accused of acting as a police informer. Maoist violence in the Bastar division has claimed nearly 40 lives so far this year.
The party worker Sunnam Mary of Mandalapalli village in Dammapet mandal in the district lodged the complaint with Kothagudem one-town police on Saturday.
A local BJP worker was arrested allegedly for posing as an officer on special duty of Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij and duping a person by promising him a job in the police department, police said on Saturday.
The victim has been identified as a 17-year-old student, studying at a Pre-University college. She died on Saturday in a hospital. She had written a suicide note before breathing last.
The victim told the police that four people abducted her from outside here home. She was kept at a farm house in Gadaghat for two days and allegedly drugged and gang-raped.
The man identified who himself as Srinu alias Sai, a resident of Yacharam mandal in Ranga Reddy district, came to the BJP office around noon and doused him with fuel and later lighted a matchstick and set himself ablaze.
