The Ganjam district BJP Yuva Morcha on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the State Governor through the RDC (Southern) demanding to hand over the case of top Maoist leader and hardcore criminal Sabyasachi Panda to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) instead of the Crime Branch of the State police.
Panda’s arrest is a stage-managed and pre-scripted drama as evident from the statement of CPI Maoist leader Ajoy, who too similarly dubbed Panda’s arrest, the memorandum said.
While the State Government is taking the credit of the so-called arrest of Panda, a number of Maoists from Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have consolidated their activities in the Malkanagiri and Bargrah regions of the State, the memorandum said.
Panda’s case cannot be treated as an ordinary one as he is the State’s main Maoist leader, who is responsible for a number of heinous crimes and involved with the brutal murders of hundreds of innocent people, policemen and, particularly, Swami laxmanananda, the memorandum said.
A free and fair inquiry of the case of this magnitude by the State police is remote, Yuva Morcha president Prabhat Kiran Sadangi said.
The memorandum alleged that there are a number of illegal financers and sympathisers of Panda and his associates.
Such financiers mostly include some private engineering colleges, contractors, narcotic cultivators, liquor mafias and mill owners, who are likely to influence the investigation process, the memorandum cautioned.
The BJP youth leaders said the most important reason for an NIA probe is that the huge quantities of arms and ammunitions looted by the Maoists are mostly from China and siphoned to somewhere else clearly proving their inter-State and international links, for which it is not possible for the State police to conduct an effective inquiry, the memorandum argued.