One villager among those held on hostage was killed by CPI (Maoists) in Sukma district.
About 300 villagers were rounded up by Maoists hours before PM Modi's visit to Dantewada allegedly in protest against continuing construction of a bridge at Marenga village.
Maoists had possibly taken villagers to forests for a meeting to boycott development work in the region.
IG Bastar range SRP Kalluri said, "Maoists had held jan adalat at Gaadem and Munga forests in Sukma district after taking villagers on hostage.
One villager of Marenga called Sadaram Nag has been killed by Maoists during Jan Adalat. Other villagers were released and were returning with the body.
"Sadaram was working as 'munshi' at construction of bridge on Baru river. He was progressive in nature and pro development oriented. However, nature of killing is not known till now." IG added.
Jan Adalat usually is convened with villagers amid tight Maoist dominance with heavy weapons surrounding the locals. Villagers fear and mostly surrender before their policies to withdraw their support from any development related work in the region.
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