Fifty-two-year-old John was brutally killed at Pachwara village in Jharkhand's Pakur district on Tuesday night. "We have detained seven persons on the suspicion of their complicity," Pakur SP Amarnath Khanna told PTI.
A resident of Kerala's Ernakulam district, she had been staying at Pachwara village for several years and spearheaded an anti-displacement movement against a coal firm in Pakur's Amrapara block.