PARLAKHEMUNDI: A senior cadre of
Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda’s Odisha Maovadi Party surrendered to the Gajapati
police, said DIG (South) Amitabh Thakur at a Press conference here on Monday.
He was identified as Naseeb Nayak
alias Pratap (22) from Aligonda under the Adaba police station in the district
involved in at least 14 criminal cases, the police said.
Nayak joined in the Maoist
activities in 2009 at the age of 18. He had worked with Bansadhara division of
the CPI (Maoist) led by Azad. He was working in the border areas of Rayagada,
Kandhamal and Gajapati district. Later he preferred to stay with Sabyasachi
Panda when he quit the party to form a rebel outfit called the Odisha Maovadi
Party in 2012.
Nayak was involved in eight
criminal cases in Gajapati district alone out of the total 14 cases. He confessed
before the police that he was upset over the activities of the Maoists in the zone.
Nayak was presented before the
media here this afternoon in presence of the SPs of Ganjam and Gajapati with the
DIG.
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