The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)cadres damaged a telephone tower by blasting it under
Khaparakhol block
(administrative
division) in Bolangir
District of Odisha
on June 25, during
their 24-hour bandh
(shutdown strike),
reports The Hindu.
The Chhattisgarh-Odisha
State Committee
of the CPI-Maoist
on June 25 called
a 24-hour bandh
call demanding halt
to Operation
Green Hunt.
The bandh
affected normal
life in Bolangir,
Bargarh, Nuapada
and other western
Odisha Districts.
Separately, the Maoists also set ablaze Kendu leaf godown in
Khaparakhol block
during the bandh.
Meanwhile, a primary school teacher was arrested in Ganjam
District on June
23 for his alleged
links with Maoist
leaders, including
Sabyasachi Panda,
reports The Times
of India. The
arrestee was identified
as Jhikania Sabara
of Jharakona village
under Badagada Police
Station area in
the District. Police
have seized a Maoist
poster, two photo
identity cards of
his with different
father's names,
a VHF set, charger,
mobile set, several
other papers and
a new motorcycle
from him. Sabara
was working as a
teacher in Barada,
near his village,
since the past seven
years, the Police
said. He was working
as an over-ground
worker and transporter
for the Maoists
in Ganjam, Gajapati
and Kandhamal Districts
and was a courier
to top Maoist leader
Sabyasachi, the
Police said. Sabara
was working for
Maoists, including
supplying grocery
items and medicines
to them, for the
past three years,
the Police added.
"There is a sizeable incriminating evidence linking him
to Maoist activities
in the area. We
are planning to
interrogate him
further," said
Gajapati Superintendent
of Police Sarthak
Sarangi. "We
came to know during
preliminary interrogation
that Jhikania is
not his real name.
He was working as
a teacher in the
name of a person
who had died in
1994," the
Police said. His
real name is Alia
Sabara, the Police
said. |
