Police on Monday arrested a hardcore Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) sympathiser for his alleged involvement in a series of criminal cases in Malkangiri District of Odisha, report The Pioneer on June 4. The arrested cadre was identified as Trinath Bhumia of Kotepali village under the Mathili Police Station. According to Police, Bhumia was actively working for the CPI-Maoist outfit in Tulsi Hill range area under the Mathili Police Station. Bhumia is involved in many crimes carried out by Maoist rebels to trigger terror among the people. He is trained in planting Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), the Police added.
Meanwhile, panic gripped residents of several villages in Baliguda Block (administrative unit) of Kandhamal District of Odisha, after Maoist posters surfaced at various places, reports Orissa Post. To prove their active presence in the Block, the Maoists have pasted a poster on the wall of Public Works Department (PWD) bungalow under Baliguda Police Station. In the poster the Maoist alleged that the PWD’s Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO), Bhaskar Chandra Samantaray, has been involved in various corruption cases in the past 14 years. He has misappropriated more than INR 100 million of public funds from the department. The Maoist rebels threatened to kill the officer if no action was taken against him. The letter was mentioned to be written by Kutra Majhi, chief of Bansadhar Maoist division in Khamankholin Kandhamal District.