By Our Correspondent
KORAPUT/BHUBANESWAR: Koraput SP Abhinav Sonkar had formed a team comprising Nandapur SDPO, DVF, Padua IIC, Semiliguda IIC, Damanjodi IIC, to nab the 4 fake Maoists in the district. Basing on a written complaint at the Padua police station on April 1 , following which police registered a case (48/23) and started an investigation.
And SP Abhinav Sonkar’s strategy fetched results on ground with police have arrested four persons for allegedly extorting money from people posing as Maoists.
The police zeroed in on the accused while they were taking Rs 50,000 from the businessmen. Apart from this, a scooter, 4 smartphones and one keypad phone were seized from them, said Koraput SP Abhinav Sonkar.
The arrested fake Maoist have been identified as Rabindra Mahanandia (26) and Dhirendra Mahanandia (24) of OCC Colony within Damanjodi police station limits, Badal Mahanandia (19) and his elder sister Kajal Mahanandia (25). Both Badal and Kajal are the children of Sukhadev Mahanandia, who was caught by the Koraput’s Kakirigumma police for extorting money from people posing as Maoist. Sukhadev was arrested in Kakirigumma police in 2019. Sukhadev’s elder daughter, Kajal, followed in his footsteps and created this fake Maoist gang, when his father died after returning from jail.
