Man hunt for Maoist Sabyasachi intensified

-- Panda calls for Odisha bandh to protest Pradip’s killing

BHUBANESWAR: Following the death of Pradip Majhi, military in-charge and close aide of Odisha Maovadi Party chief Sabyasachi Panda, the police have started man hunt to nab Panda. They have intensified combing operations in the Ganjam-Gajapati border forests where Panda is suspected to be hiding, the police sources said.

The police believe that Panda might have hidden in the 2 km long Gudi Sahi jungle nearer to the Karanjadua forests of Gajapati district’s Mohana police limits where the police killed his aide on Monday.   

                                               

Panda on Tuesday released an audiotape in which he condemned the Odisha Police for killing Majhi in fake encounter. He also called for Odisha bandh on March 14 in protest of the killing of his aide in police encounter.

The Maoist leader once again rejected the call for surrender from police DG Prakash Mishra who had appealed to Panda to surrender and join the mainstream of society. “If he does not give up arms, he knows what consequence awaits him,” Mishra had said.

Panda’s wife Subhashree said that the Government is unnecessarily targeting such Maoists who are not indulged in violent activities.