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- An NIA special court in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh, sentenced Peeluram Anchala alias Salik Ram (35) to life imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of a 19-year-old in 2019.
- Special Additional Sessions Judge Deepak K. Gupta pronounced the sentence on Wednesday under various IPC sections and the Arms Act.
- A group of 25–30 armed people dressed in Naxal uniform abducted Shyamnath Anchala from his home on August 26, 2019, and Peeluram was among them.
- The victim was shot dead after a 'meeting', and a note found at the spot said Shyamnath and his father Sunahar were police informers.
- The conviction shows courts are acting on Naxal-linked violence against suspected police informers, years after the crime.
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- Action against other accused arrested or still at large in the case
- Any appeal by the convict against the life sentence
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