Friday, March 7, 2008

Three Maoists arrested

Malkanagiri (PTI): Four persons, including three Maoist ultras were arrested from Tankalguda and Billiguda in Orissa's Malkangiri district, police said on Friday.

The three ultras arrested on Thursday night were identified as Madhi Desa alias Rama alias Damodar, Madhi Lachha alias Nagraj, Madhi Dula alias Durga. The fourth person was identified as Madhi Kanta alias Kosa, district police superintendent Satish Kumar Gajbhiye told reporters here.

Madhi Desa was involved in the killing of former Motu police station in-charge, D Mishra and Kondapalli and Tankelaguda encounter.

Madhi Kanta is not a Maoist cadre but a member of its frontal organisation Sangam Party, the SP said adding Madhi Dasa and Madhi Lachha had completed training in various places on maoist activities.

A large number of Moist posters, literature, a manual displaying operation of rocket launcher, bomb, landmine.

An attendance register with daily routine work of Maoists was also seized from their possession, Gajbhiye said adding some primary school text books were also found in the Maoist camp.

Later the Maoists on interrogation said a commander of the outfit Ashok believed to have killed in the encounter with the security forces at Kondapalli on March 5 was alive. The man who was killed was identified as a person named Raja, he said.

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