For over eight years, 20-year-old Sanjeeta Kumari worked as a cook and then reportedly as a sharpshooter for a Maoist organisation operating in a remote and almost inaccessible village in Jharkhand's Gumla district. She was lured into the faction at the age of 12.A few months ago, she quit the life of a rebel and enrolled at a school away from her village, hoping to live a life of anonymity. Sanjeeta dared to dream of education and of a career away from violence. But this is probably what killed her last week.On Thursday, her body was found near her village. She had come to visit her family. Also found along was a handwritten note from the Maoists that said she was killed for being a police informer."On Wednesday early morning, three to four people came and took her away. They killed her in the evening I have been told," he father Fandu Munda said.The desperation in Mr Munda's voice was evident. His family of seven lives in a village where policing and government are almost absent. The area is under the control of Maoist organisations.A senior police officer from Gumla says the rebels had visited the girl's house earlier and threatened her family.

Out of 24 districts in Jharkhand, 22 are severely affected by Maoism.