In the name of Maoist ...............

Sambalpur police busted a gang of 11 criminals including a news reporter on Saturday who were posing themselves red-rebel involved in as many 8 decoity incidents over the past 45 days putting the police force on their toes. Police also seized looted 2 mobile sets, huge quantity of gold and silver ornaments and country pistols from the criminals. Police also seized the Bolero that was used by the criminals.‘Maoist activity has come down in Sambalpur and Deogarh district in the recent past because of the heavy movement of the police force. But taking the benefit of the situation some local youths have formed a gang a gang to start decoity in the region. Posing themselves red-rebel members once they make villagers frightened, it becomes easy for them to rob the people’. IG of police (northern Division) YB Khurania told while briefing media persons on Saturday evening about the activity of the gang.

Police identified them as Pintu alias Mukesh Makar of Keseibahal, Balaram Rana of Kumbharpara, Sk. Sazid and Binod Sahu of Bamra, Amritlal Dung Dung of Mahulapali, Suresh Luha of Ulunda and Balaram Pradhan of sonepur and Manoj Sahara of BTM, Kartik Budek of Buromal, Rohit Kusum and Khirod Karali of Jharsuguda where police investigation revealed that Sk Sazid was the mastermind of the gang who claimed to be a news reporter working for a Rourkela based vernacular news paper. The gang was mainly active in Charmal (Sambalpur), Riamal (Deogarh) and Birmaharajpur and Sublaya (Sonepur) during last 45 days and involved in as many as 8 decoity cases in these areas. “The gang was active where mobile network does not work or low and because of it getting immediate information about decoity was not possible. We first could not understand but when they repeated their activities in same styles, we confirmed that it was not Maoist but fake one” Khurania told.

“It was a joint efforts of our forces, we use both technical and manual intelligence to trap the gang”, IG Khurania told. However he did not disclosed the worth of gold and silver ornament police seized from the gang.“We have to calculate it as we apprehend the gang sold few ornament before it come to out hand. We are trying the seized it from the receivers”, I G Khurania told. SP (sambalpur) Sanjay Kumar and other police officials were present on the occasion.

“We have to calculate it as we apprehend the gang sold few ornament before it come to out hand. We are trying the seized it from the receivers”, I G Khurania told. SP (sambalpur) Sanjay Kumar and other police officials were present on the occasion.