Ranchi: Even as media reports claimed that the body of Sub-Inspector Abhay Kumar Yadav, whom the Maoists said they had killed, had been found, policemen said the corpse was not that of Abhay Yadav.
According to local news channels, Yadav's body was found near Simratali forest under Chanan police station in Lakhisarai.
The Maoists said Yadav was killed at around 4 p.m. Thursday, six hours after the expiry of their deadline of 10 a.m. The killing took place following a decision by a 'jan adalat' or kangaroo court, a Maoist spokesman had said.
Yadav was one of the four Bihar policemen kidnapped by Maoists after a six-hour gunfight in Lakhisarai district Sunday. The gunbattle left seven policemen dead and 10 injured. Maoists claimed the gunfight was in retaliation for the killing of their leader Azad and a journalist in Andhra Pradesh.
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