--Sabyasachi calls Odisha bandh
on Nov 20
BHUBANESWAR/CUTTACK: The Odisha
police’s Bhaliagarh encounter and its operation Sabyasachi took a new angle on
Sunday as most wanted Maoist leader and Odisha Maobadi Party chief Sabyasachi
Panda revealed thorough an audio tape that he remained unharmed and none was
injured from his side in the gun battle though police was zeroing in on the
prized catch from Wednesday night believing his presence in the police
operation area.
In his audio tape, Panda stated
the Bhaliagarh encounter as massacre. None of his associates was injured in the
gun battle, but common people were killed by the police, he said, adding, “It
is a well planned cold-blooded murder.”
Condemning the police encounter, Panda
alleged that the police are killing the common people to throttle their voice
against the Government’s move to sale their water, land, mines and forests to
the industrialists and corporate houses. Protesting the police encounter, Panda
called peaceful Odisha bandh on November 20 and demanded the State Government
to declare Rs 10 lakh as compensation amount for the families of the deceased.
On the other hand, Director
General of Police Prakash Mishra said they would continue their combing
operation till Panda is caught. They have intensified the combing operation to
nab the Maoist leader in the tri-junction area of Ganjam, Gajapati and
Kandhamal district, he added.
“We have engaged our joint forces
in the search operation to nab Panda along with his aides from the jungle area.
It was a encounter and associates of Panda were killed in the encounter,” the
DGP clarified.
The Odisha police along with
joint forces on Saturday launched one of the biggest manhunts in the tri-junction
area to nab the dreaded Maoist leader. More than 300 police personnel were
deployed in the search operation and more CRPF Jawans would join with them
ahead, said a senior police official. Even Pawanhans helicopter has been used
in the operation, he informed.
Meanwhile, the police on the same
day released a wanted poster of Panda declaring cash reward in lieu of
information about him.
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